Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1851-12-24
Reputation of the united states. !

, The following table exhibits the ares
3 and population of the several States Of
? the Union. In regard to the area, it IL
, to be remarked that widely varying state.
: ments are made by geographers and 9th.
ers and the following from the Superin.
! tendent of the Census, is essentially diff.
: ferent from any former statement which
has met our eye. We are not aware that
the area Of the States has ever been ascer-
tanned by careful survey; and for that
reason we merely give the statement for
what it is worth, without YouclIing for its
correctness.
The population exhibits a ratio of In
crease for the ten years prior to 1850.
considerably greater than that of the pre-
ceding decennial period; and those esti-
mates of population which had been foun-
Ided upon uniform ratio Of increase. turn
out 10 be widest Of the truth. This re.
suits from an extraordinary influx of for
eigners, which has taken place within the
last five years. During that period, the
number of immigrants has been. equal TO
the fifteen preceding years; and the tide
still swells higher with every recurring
season. 1t is already sscertained that
about ESQ, 900 foreigners have landed at
New York alone during the first eleven
months of the present year, leaving little
doubt that by the LIST of January the
number will reach 500, oool For the 9TH
er ports, it will be within bounds to esti'
mate the arrivals at 100000 more, ma
king total of 400, 900 immigrants in one
year This is equivalent 10 adding sucha
State as Michigan with four Representa-
az. :, k,,,r Canaknre NOR annrp1n from
this source alone, besides one of equal
size from the natural increase of our Peo-
pie 1t may be safely estimated that five
millions of foreigners will have engratted
themselves upon our population in ten
years from 1850; and there is abundant
evidence that that number exceeds the
total amount of immigration to these
shores, from the first settlement at James.
town up to this time II is only within a
few years that our population has been
materially increased by Immigration
Prior to 1895, the number of immigrants
rarely, il ever, exceed FIVE thousand per
annum, while within the last two years.
fifteen thousand have arrived at Ne"
Y ork in week
The world has been wondering Tor
thirty years at the rapid settlement ana
growth of our frontier States /; but the
progress which has been witnessed in the
past is as nothing compared TO that which
is destined to exhibit itself in coming
years. When the State of Ohio common
ced its career, the population of the IN
ion was little more than four millions, and
the emigration from Europe was perhaps
FIVE thousand per annum yet, in the first
FIVE years of her existence, her popula-
ton rose to forty-fve thousand, and in
the next ten, to two hundred and thirty
thousand. 1t is to be remarked that at
that period Ohio formed the whole from.
tier Of the free States, which circumstances
concentrated the whole tide of emigration
upon that State. Whereas, at the pres
ent moment, that frontier extends from
the parallel Of 40 deg. to 40 deg. 81 min;
and west Of the Sta.e of Missouri, it will
come down to SO deg. 80 min. But not
withstanding this wide field which opens
before the tide of emigration, the immense
volume which it has acquired will fill up
Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, with
rapidly which has never been witnessed
in the history of the older States. Tho
progress Of Wisconsin in the last ten years
prior to the taking of the late census is
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1910, its population rose to three hundred
and five thousand in 1850; and it, like
Ohio in its early history, WisenRsip had
mo- TiysIs ga Sifor aOSorptton oil Northern
and European emigration, there is little
doubt that its population would now num-
Der million But Michigan. illinois, To-
wa. and Indiana, all equally rich and &C
cessible, have increased with nearly equal
rapidity and by spreading the population
over wider surface, broken into separate
State organizations, have prevented the.
exhibition of the sublime spectacle of
great compact and populous State, the
creation Of ten years
The true lover OF romance is he who
studies the history, resources, and prog
ress Of this great country in wealth, popu-
lation, and power. and from unquestiona-
BILE data estimates what that wealth and
power are to be in coming time. The
dreams of fiction are psltry and unsatis-
flying TO the Imagination. compared with
these great realities.
Table ofDe area, and he number of i,iA05i-
tants to lie square mile, Of each State and
Territory in The Union
Area in Population No Of in
State. 50. miles. in 1850. habitAnts
80