Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-03-09
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
Increase Of Population.

Washington. Feb. 10, lS47.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
increase Of Population.
PoLIT ICAL lNFLuErcR IN THE WxsT.-
The Home Missicasry thus sums ziha.
/ growth Of the Western S,atsss
Ohio welcomed the first permanent set.
tl"r in 1888; now is occupied BY l.7S2.>
600 people.
Michigan, to Which the attention Of EN-
igrants was turrDd twelve or iourteea
years ago, now has 900. 900 people.
Indiana, admitted into the Union IL
1916, has received = population Of more
than half million since 1880, and now
numbers more than 9O9. 900 inh abisa ats.
Illinois was organized separate Ter.
ritory in 1910, and entered into the UnioA
as State in 1918. From that date its
population trsbled every ten years till tie
last census, and in the last five years hes
risen from 476. 900 to 100000.
Missouri, which in 1910 had only 20,
eco people, has now 100000, havinR in.
creased fifty per cent, il i've years.
Iowa was scarcely heard Of in the East
ten years sgos i is bst fourteen years
since the only white inhabitants, north cf
the Missouri line, were few Indian ira.
ders. M"re than 100, 900 now make that
beautiful land their homs-6e, 600 Of whom
have gone there during tho last four years.
Wisconsin was organized ten years ago;
the Marshals have just taken the census.
and from present appearances. the popuiss
ton will vary but little from 15O, 1000
being an increaBe Of l00, 0e0 in FIVE yeArs.
One portion OF the territory, thirty three
miles by thirty, which ten years ago was
an unbroken wilderness, now numbers
10000 inhabitants, and the emigratioA
TO that portion Of the west 10 greater thaa
ever.
Appended to the above is added the fol.
lowing pleasing remarks. As . conse.
quence Of this transfer Of population, there
is steady but rapid transfer Of political
influence. In che ten years, (from 1880
to 40 the East Test by the change Of the
ratio of representation, thirty.One MEM
bers Of Congress more than it gained By
the increase of population; while. in the
same period. the west gained by Increase
of population eleven more than it lost BY
change Of ratio, making difference Of
forty. two votes. / he seven new States
and territories above enumerated--to say
nothing OF the other Western and South.
Western States, and Texas, have incTeas.
ed since the las, adjustment Of the ratio.
more than million and halE-enouRhto
entitle them to sixteen more members il
our National Legislature. We repeat,ws
are pleased at this, because il foreshad.
ows the day when the West will have the
power to do itself Justice.
ANOTHER GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN
MECHANISM FOR SPEED IN PRINTING
Messrs. r. Hoe & Co. Of New York,
have been some months past manufacture
ing, to order, for the Public Ledger, .
printing machine, of different principle
from any press hitherto used, and calcula.
ted for rate of speed and rapidly Of Op.
Grafton entirely in advance of any press
yet invented for use OH American made
paper. The machine was invented by
Col. r. M. Hoe, the senior partner flhas
extensive manufacturing house, uadeF
whose care and supnrintendencs this ono,
the fist and only one yet manufactured, OF
even ordered. has been built. Il has bssa
completed, and we were called upoa last
week 10 60 to New York and view the
machine in operation before having il to.
ken down to be forwarded here. We have
done so, and had the pleasure Of seeing L
run at the rate of about ten thvasand inn
pressions per hour. The principle 10
such, that It can be carried up to twelvs,
fifteen, eighteen. and even twenty thou.
sand Impressions per hour.-PhiL Public
Ledger.
A Yorkshire gentleman driving homo
thu nfhar daN WAS ccoafed hx q TAI NJ kia