OCCUPATIONS OF THE MALE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES, OVER FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
Several hundred different occupations are given, and the number of persons engaged in each was ascertained as nearly as possible. The following table shows the number of persons engaged in the leading occupations. The figures include both white and free colored persons:— Farmers . . . 2,363,958 Physicians . . . 40,564
Laborers . . . 909,786 Coopers . . . 43,694
Carpenters . . . 184,671 Students . . . 42,159
Cordwainers . . . 130,473 Cabinet and Chair-makers . . . 37,359
Clerks . . . 101,325 Boatmen . . . 32,454
Merchants . . . 100,752 Clergymen . . . 26,842
Black and Whitesmiths . . . 99,703 Lawyers . . . 23,939
Miners . . . 77,410 Printers . . . 14,740
Mariners . . . 70,603 Editors . . . 1,372
Masons and plasterers . . . 63,392 Authors . . . 82 During the last decade, the percentage of those devoted to the learned professions has nearly trebled, and that of those engaged in commerce and manufactures has increased in about the same proportion. Of those occupied in agricultural pursuits, the proportion has slightly increased, and in navigation the percentage has doubled. The proportion of all those engaged in the various employments, as compared with the total population, seems to have about doubled within the last fifty years. We can only give a few of the results presented by Mr. DeBow, under the head of moral and Social Statistics. Viewed in connection with the other returns of the census, these statistics possess the highest interest, and should be carefully studied by all who have access to the Census Report. The following table gives a general view of the facts ascertained relative to