The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-23

Census returns IN Nelc York Change in the national
complexion Of doton toon Wards Hafters-Antc-
dote Of The Census Money Market and Stocks
Steamers Primary Election

dote of he Census Money Market and Stocks
Steamers-P Primary Election.
- New YoRK, Oct 81, 1850.
When the census returns of our city and its de-
Tendencies, which much part of New York
a mans feet arc a part of his body, are made
they will reveal good many startling facts and
curious items of statistical knowledge. Among
other wonderful things, the census returns will
show that New York is the second city of the chris
tsn world, in a commercial view, and the third in
respect TO population. But, by New York do not
mean the corporation proper of the city, but the
entire population that in fact composes the great
metropolis of the country. Brooklyn, Williams
burgh, Green Point, Jersey City, and Hoboken,
are all parts OF New York, and their population
should be subject to our city's law. A commission
10 now IN session, which was appointed by the last
Senate, to investigate the subject of uniting New
York and Brooklyn under one municipal govern
ment, and it is thought probable that report will
be made favorable to the proposition. But, whe-
Their il be done not is Of little moment; the
towns are, in fact, but one under separate govern
ments. The people of Brooklyn do their business
their shopping, their marketing, their pleasuring,
and many their worshipping, in New York. In
estimating the greatness of New York. therefore,
very imperfect idea would be formed of its
sources, unless the large towns lying on the oppo
cuded in the calculation. These parts Of New
York, which are only divided by river that is
crossed in three or four minutes, are Just much
New York, as Southwark Rotherhithe, &C., are
London 1t is supposed that the population of our
city proper will not fall much short Of 100000,
and it may exceed that amount. Brooklyn has
full 100000; Williamsburgh, 100000 Jersey City
$4,000; Hoboken, 5000; making gross population
of G53 000 There at least SO, 900 more persona
directly dependent upon this city, whose families
reside in Newark, Elizabethtown, Jamaica, Flush
ing, Astoria, New Rochelle, Staten Island, and
other places accessible by steamboat railroad in
an hour or two. Thirty years ago New York
exceed in population by at least twenty five Eu-
ropean cities, and by three on our own continent,
viz: Rio de Janeiro Mexico. and Lima. 1t ia now
second only to Paris in population, and infinitely
superior to that great city in wealth, commercial
resources, and all the elements Of political great
ness and social happiness, except in works of art
One Of the most interesting features Of the
report will be the classification of natives and for
egners, showing their relative numbers, and the
parts of the city which they inhabit. The first
ward of the city, which, until recently, has been
the strong hold of the descendants of the original
settlers of New York, is now almost wholly aban-
doncd to the Scandinavian and Germanic races.
The lower part of Greenwich street, from the Bat
terry up to Fulton, few years since was inhabited
chiefly by wealthy merchants and others who rank
among sour first men, there were neither board
g-hours nor shops in the entire district hch was
kind of Begravia; but now there is not New York
family left in all that portion Of the city Almost
every house is German beer house, Swiss
lodging house here and there is French pension,
or Dutch grocery; but the whole street literally
swarms with Bavarians, Hanoverians, Prussians,
Swedes, Austrians, and Norwegians. The original
inhabitants of the fine houses in this part of the city
have q heeted" uptown in the neighborhood of
Union square and the Fifth avenue, which form the
May fair Of our metropolis On the east side of the
town. In the neighborhood of the Dry Dock, there
are several streets inhabited almost entirely by
Germans, who have their dance houses, beer
houses, and houses of worship, all to themselves;
and but for the liberty they enjoy and the high
wages for their labor, might imagine themselves at
home in their fatherland.
A few days since one of the largest hat manu-
acturers of Broadway having refused to comply
with some trifiing request of his workmen touch
ing matter of etiquette, they left him in a body,
(about one hundred in number,) and the society to
which the hatters belong voted the shop of the
offending " Boss " foul" The effect of such a
vote is to prevent any halter entering the establish
ment 30 marked until concession is made to the
offended dignity of the journeymen, who have con-
ceived the idea that employers and capital should
be controlled by the employee. The business of the
manufacturer was thus arrested in the height OF
his fall trade; and apparently, he had other al
tentative but to submit to his journeymen, or be
ruined. Being man of nerve, he would not sub
NIT to the first; and being Yankee, il was, of
course, against his nature to to the other
alternative. sohe put an advertisement into one
of the German newspapers, stating that a number
of intelligent, ingenious and industrious Germans
wanted TO learn the art and mystery of hat
making The next day he was visited by army
of newly arrived Germans. answering his dcscrp-
ton, many of them we'll educated and capable; and
out of the thousand or two who presented them
sclves, he selected hundred, who, after a little
training, will fill the places of the rebellious "ours"
One of the census takers called at house in the
Fifteenth ward, and received by the house
keeper, a lady Of uncertain age, who answered all
the questions put, promptly and satisfactorily, I'M
til the census .taker touched in q tender place:
"And pray, what age shall put you DOWN"
said he.
Forty FIVE" said the lady, holding up her head
rather stiffiy
Come now" said the census taker, looking her
in the face, "you are older than that, know"
The lady bit her lip, TO control her Indignation
at such impertnenoe but, after moments hest
tation, added, you may make it fifty"
"'Twont do, yet" said the ungallant official.
Fifty five, heyf'
"Yes," said the housekceper, as che shut the door
in his face.
"Well, 10 be safe,' said the census-taker, as he
made the entry in his book, 81 guess I'll put II
down sixty" And he was not much over the
mark.
The Philadelphia arrived on Saturday with an
other load OF Californians. and nearly million of
goldj but the addition of the dust to our already
plcthoric money market has not had the tendency
to initiate prices. On the contrary, there was
slight decline in fancy stocks at the board this
morning. But the tendency is still upward in the
stock market, and must continue to be while money
remains 80 abundant.
The Arctic returned from her trial trip yestcr-
day; abe went about one hundred miles outside of
Sandy Hook, and worked To the entire satisfaction
of her owners and builders.
To morrow, at noon, will be launched an ocean
steamship of two tbousand tons, called the Win
field Scott, intended for the trade between Panama
and San Francisco, The w s. Ia n shin of the