Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-10-28
NEW IORh, ST. fETERSBURGH
AND CONSTANTINOPLE.


The Morning News in lis article on III,
recent census OF New York, and IN aIlu
ding to 81. Petersburgh, stated It's popula
Ton at 5.5 .G0). This is too high. The
population Of he province of ST. Peters
burgh in 1888. when The last census wa.
taken. is put down in McCulIoch's a, SIS,
600, which has probably caused the error
The population Of tie city of ST. Peters
burgh in 1888 was AGO. 72u. but this in
cludeS portion OF the imperial army
which is quattered there. McCulloch re.
marks .'Deducting military and strangers,
the permanent population Of the city of ST
Petersburgh does no, exceed $4,000 or
$50 900.
The News has also go, The population OF
Constaninople TOO high. $4,000. The
government Gever takes the census in Tur-
key. Such an estimate is therefore mere
guess work. The population Of all despo-
lie countri S is apt 10 be over rated. Ii is
possible when all The Turkish armies are
assembled at Consiantinope there may be
population of $4,000, bat such a CON-
pu,alioa is not considered fair estimate Of
the permanent population of city. Nc
CuIloch says, "PopClation uncertain, but
supposedto amount exclusive Of its sub
urbs abcut 40o,02O," and together with
them (Scuari excepied) TO perhaps 50O,-
900 or $50. COO" Were all the strangers
and sojourneis included in the census of
New-York cily,it would amount TO al least
400, 600, perhaps more, and if Brooklyn
and williamson gh, Jersey City and Hobo
ken too, the population would be 500,
600.
The tru h is, the late census shows New
York TO be the fourth instead Of the fifth
city in the civilized wor d. London. Paris
and ST. Petersburgh only be:Eg superior,
and in The course OF twenty years. with the
ratio of lis past increase, i; VII pass ST.
Petersburgh and rank as the third city.
Commerce alone has built up New York.
The politca! power of The nation has not
conferred there as IN London, Paris or ST.
Petersburgh; which alone blu Ids upa great
city. Is is simply the ebb and flow OF A
merican labor which is building up SO col
ossal 4 city on our continent, and fnere-
fore il must grow with the growth and ex-
pand with the strength ofth nation. On
ly seven states are formed in the western
domain. What must be The growth and
wealth and population Of New York when
those states expand into thirty containing
an active and industrious population Of one
hundred millions Of freeman, who respect
labor and who will therefore carry produc-
ton TO its highest limit?
The Annexation Of Texas must benefit
New York amazingly. From her position
she will be The Emporium of the vast pro-
ducts Of country seven times as large as
Ohio, which is capable from the eXtraor-
binary fertility Of its soil of producing al
most as much as the present states OF our
coniederacy. The wealth Of this splendid
region will be poured into the lap of New
York with steam yearly increasing for
the next hundred years.
We may also remark, with a natural
state pride, that New York is not only so
happily situated on the sea-board, midway
between the Moth and the South, but also
from the peculiar bend OF the North Amer.
lean continent, between the extreme East
and the West, that when her iron railways
are completed in all directions uniting with
the New England chain as well as The
Wesern the Southern and The Northern,
she must command not only the trade of the
South and Southwest, but the North, the
East and the North west. Then she must
assuredly fulfil her mighty commercial
destiny of being not only the great city OF
America but of the world. Some years
since, in the United States Senate chamber
it was the remark Of the Hon. ROBERT J.
WALKER, when enlargng upon the future
commercial power OF our country. tat in
the year 70 10, New York city would con,
tam , LOCO 900 Of people. I his seems as
tonishing, but the realities Of the Past in is
advance. are daily confirming what once
seemed the dreams of the imagination
Albany Argus.