"The average mortality for the last six years in Charleston for all ages is 1 in 51, including all classes. Blacks alone 1 in 44; whites alone, 1 in 58--a very remarkable result, certainly. This mortality is perhaps not an unfair test, as the population during the last six years has been undisturbed by emigration and acclimated in a greater proportion than at any former period." Numerous other authorities might be cited in proof of the general healthiness of the climate south of Mason and Dixon's line. Of 127 remarkable cases of American longevity, published in a recent edition of Blake's Biographical Dictionary, 68 deceased centenarians are credited to the Southern States, and 59 to the Northern--the list being headed with Betsey Trantham, of Tennessee--a white woman, who died in 1834, at the extraordinarily advanced age of 154 years. TABLE NO. LVII. NATIVES OF THE SLAVE STATES IN THE FREE STATES, AND NATIVES OF THE FREE STATES IN THE SLAVE STATES.--1850. --------------------------------------------------------------------- States. | Natives of the | States. | Natives of the | Slave States. | | Free States. ---------------|----------------|--------------------|--------------- California | 24,055 | Alabama | 4,947 Connecticut | 1,390 | Arkansas | 7,965 Illinois | 144,809 | Delaware | 6,996 Indiana | 176,581 | Florida | 1,718 Iowa | 31,392 | Georgia | 4,219 Maine | 458 | Kentucky | 31,340 Massachusetts | 2,980 | Louisiana | 14,567 Michigan | 3,634 | Maryland | 23,815 New-Hampshire | 215 | Mississippi | 4,517 New-Jersey | 4,110 | Missouri | 55,664 New-York | 12,625 | North Carolina | 2,167 Ohio | 152,319 | South Carolina | 2,427 Pennsylvania | 47,180 | Tennessee | 6,571 Rhode Island | 982 | Texas | 9,982 Vermont | 140 | Virginia | 28,999 Wisconsin | 6,353 | | |----------------| |--------------- | 609,223 | | 205,924 ---------------------------------------------------------------------