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Show NEARLY TEN MILLION NEGROES IN COUNTRY Washington, Aug. 27. A preliminary prelimi-nary statement showing by states the negro population in the United States andthe proportion of mulattos and fullblooded negroes has been Issued by the director of the ceusus. The total negro population ia placed at 9,827,763. Of this number. 2,050,686 are set down as mulattos. Tho negro population In 1S70 was -1,-880,000, with 584,049 mulattos. The percentage of mulattos In 1870 was 12 per cent of the whole and in the I census of 1910 it is set down as1 practically 21 per cent. The greaL increase is in the northern north-ern states. This, It is pointed out, hi not necessarily because of Intermarriages Inter-marriages between whites and nc-groeE, nc-groeE, but due lo tho natural m-creanes m-creanes that would come of the marriage mar-riage of full-blooded negToes to mulattos mu-lattos whose children aro mulattos. |