Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-12-19

The House adjourn. Adopted. and the
House adjourned.
CENSUS IN THE UNITED STATEs.--In
1900 the Union consisted of seventeen
States, with population of 4,929,s27,
and 45l ,424 square miles of land, or
nine persons 10 square mile.
In 1900 there were twenty States.
with population of 5,3o5,o4o. and an
area of 572,O24 square miles, or eight
persons 10 square.
In 1910 there were twcnty-four
States, with population Of 7,239,4l4,
and an area of 7s2,544 square miles, or
nine persons to square mile.
In 1920 there were twenty. seven
States, with population of 9,733,l9l,
and an area of s49,3l4 square miles, or
10 persons TO square mile.
In 1880 there were twcniy.scvcn
States, with population ofl2, ,s6G, ,o20,
and an area of s49,3l4 square miles, or
thirteen person 10 a square mile.
In 1910 there were twenty. nine
States, with population of l7,05S, ,666,
and an area Of 9l7,344 square miles, or
fourteen persons to a square mile.
We have now lhirty.onc States, can
tanning a population 10y estimate) of
2l,6S6,000, and an area of l,9l3l25
square miles, or twelve persons to the
square mile.
Correspondence Of the Washington Republic.
New YoRK, Nov. 25.
Last night there was an exceedingly
pleasant reunion Of the prominent
Wings Of the city, a, the new Claren.
don Hotel, on the invitation of Mr.
Samuel B. Ruggles, to meet the Whi.
Governor elect, Washington Hunt
There were about two hundred gentle.
men present and all seemed lb be in the
very happicst humor, although il turned
out, before the company dispersed, that
they oil were not. The Clarendon Iio
tel is built upon the corner Of E,gh
| teenth street and Fourth Avenue, abouI
two miles above the Aslor House, ant
is one of the mos, striking evidence.
that could be given of the remakabl,
expansion of the city within the pas
ten years. The Astor House. IA, ,h,
time of its erection, was the ullimt
thule Of up town hotels; now, there arr
above it. since erected, the Irwin:
House, the Carleton House, the New
York Hotel, The Union Place Hotel, ant
Clarendon, which, in splendor, if no
in size, surpasses them all. Last nigh
the new hotel was illuminated, and III
public admitted for the first lime,
was most fttingly consecratcd by
hearty greeting TO the Governor cleo
of the State. The company assemble
in the parlors on the second floor, whic
were brilliantly Illuminated and pr'
sented very gay and cheerful aspec
After an interchange of congralulalior
among the guests, and greeting 10 Il
new Governor, the company were sur
. moned 10 the supper,room below, whe
an elegant collation. YVES spread. Coo
D eating is wonderful provocative
n good speaking and good listening, al
the health Of the honorble guest havir
!. been enthusiastically responded to, M
!. Hunt made a most admirable speech
J. reply, and, among other things, said:
There was never time, so far
IS principles are concerned, when the
was less reason-l might say. VIII
:. there was less excuse--for discord q
e division. Will any man tell me up
r. what we are divided SO as 10 mako
impossible to unite on our comm
Ie principles and for our common purP
,e sesl There is nothing, in my oPini'
s. which should prevent any Wing, at
ID North or South, from acting, amicat
and fraternally with every other VIII
Of Let US study, as members of the Wi
u. party of the Union, to MAINTAIN its
u. cendency and that of the Constitution
There certainly was nothing in n
20 Hunts speech which any Wing fr'
of any section Of the Union could ha
,e found fault with. In the course Of
evening, at the close of an eloqu,
he speech by Mr.. Maxwell, the Collector
m the Port proposed three cheers for n
ia lard Fillmore, which you may be 81
IN were most heartily given. o.,