Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-10-03

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Ilor windwasd, as he is qsite disguised
with the conduct Of Bolivar"
From the n Slalond Compiler.
i CENSUS.
Niles Weekly Register presents Us
with views of The past and probable po'
lpulation of the United States.
According tothe Census Of
1890, we had 5929,s2e
1900, 5,s05,666
1910, 1855, sos
Mr.. N. calculates, that in 1920 we
shall probably have a population Of g
LOGS. i78 souls. The western states will
! Of course. increase much faster than those
Ion the sea board ; Kentucky tor IN.
stance) is calculated TO increase 90 pei
cent in ten years Tennessee, rs pei
cent Ohio. $50: Louisiana, 1875; lDdi
ANA. roo Mississippi Territory, ~
Illinois Territory, ESQ; Michigan Ierrl'
tory, 500; while of all tie ttlantic states
1.-The greatest increase is allowed to Penn
Isylyania. being but s5l-s per cent, VII.
sginia is estimated a; but IS.
According 10 thee datas, the states
Twill stand in the following order. as T.
their gross population: New York, Virgi'
In;a. PENNSYLVANIA. Kentucky, North Ca
1rol,na. Ohio Massachusetts, South Care.
lima, Tennessee, MARYLAND, Georgis,
Maine, New Jersey, Connecticut, Vet
inpnt. New Hampshire, Louisiana, Ind
lana, Missouri Mississippi, Rhode Island,
Delaware, lftihois
In gross numbers, Virginia now stands
IhFst, (being ga. 622)--New York aex'
being o59. O49)-- Penpsy lvanigs third
| (being $40, O9l,) Massachusetts, Inclusive
Of Maine, the fourth, viz l7C9, T45,) 60,
&c.
MIR. Niles has not calculated the rates
i6f actual increase on the tn. ee last cen
su. s--but the rates of the whole increase
may ae thus stated
incrca f ON 1890 to 1905 per cent.
1896 to I8l0-56n
Taking Sc per cent, therefore, as the
average OF eur Increase for every ten
years, these conclusions follow:
1st That the United States double
their population in twenty eight years :
9 nd. That, applying the same ratio of
the next census, we may be
Expected to humber in 1890, about 9 GAG
2e8 onlyll7, go souls less than Mr..
Me e's estimates.
Let us say then, in round numbers,
| that IN 1920, our population will amount
ITO ten millions of s0uIs-Where is the
limit to the astonishing extensiona
| Let US suppose, what will probably be
more correct, that our numbers Will not
iadvance every fen years as much as Sc
FER cent-but that they may increase a
beui 8 per cent less in that period, in o.
| ther wn,.ds, sLe. f---I,- Gao - eco iha
llAc else is only thirty tilree per cent, to
i840, SD per cent and 1850,27 per cent.
Making this allowance. that we may sin
Gu the safe side,) stili it follows that
In 1880 we shall have IS 100000
| 1910 IL 100000 ]
| 1850 81, 95S 500 /
By these estimates, the United States
will have in thiiy three years a popuIa
ltion Of nearly twenty two millions cou-
sideraby more than the population of
ateat Britain and lie and, and IN iaboui
ten years, more than the p lation Of
france.
shat an astonishing scenethus bursts
upon nesishf If the people Of the u
lnned States continue tn understand their
own interests, ii they silence the voice of
local preJadlces and personal passions !;
iii they preserve this free government,
lBequethed to US by the virtues of our ia
,hefs; AID guard the Union, as the best
security against the vaccinations Of TO-
selsn cneulies, or the turbulence of in
ltes,ipe contests; il they march ON for
the next thirty three years in thessame
track which they have pursued for thu
Iiast thirty years, who will dare to
calculate the prosperity Of this western
Iresioni We may say without vanity,
that we shall be the greatest people which
the sun ever shone on-lfuppler even
than the Archlses predicted the Roman
| pc pie would be for, the arts and sci
ences will advance at least as rapid
as oal power. We dare to hope, that in
statuary, in oratefy, and in Astronomy, j
I've Shall not tall so far behi nd our con
temporaries; that we shall not despisel
lthem as the ancient Romans did; but
tia, we may boast Of these arts also,I