The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-01
The Facts and Events or the Year 1857.


The year 1851 is now "with the years beyond tie
food" aad we are entered upon the year 1852. On
this, the first Cay of the new year. We publish some
valuable Statistics to which refer the reader for
information pen many points Of great interest to
the commun ~ st large. They present him with J
facts and fgl es, which iye "A accurate historyc
the year, and dictate with certainty the PROF. =
that has been made since the close of e'eS0
1850. The cpl one Of the events Of lSr ~ '0e.
in chronological der, will be found
unusually large number Of very .....s..;n" 60.
In adverting to the statistic Aso'vss'As a..
newspapers 1t is now :, 49, 49,. - s...
newspaper printed in -. 80. $3.50 80, 49,
NrAec The Rostc. ASAio" ""0 -~ 49, ~
pf''s' ,-os "A Nous Letter was frs: printed
Apfn N1Sn' - q The american JVtekly M, ssenger
was niss p .nted in Philadelphia, Dec. I'D, l7l9.
~ I'VE" ork the Ne,D York Gazette was first printed
oc'o' ser 10th, 1855. In Rhode Island, the Rhode
and Gazette, October, 1892. No paper was pub
lished in Connecticut till l755-nor in New Hamp-
shire till l756-nor in Kentucky till 1857; and in
Tennessee the 6rst paper was published in 1870.
Could the editor Of the Boston Netos Letter have be-
held in prophetic vision, the number Of newspapers
now published, and their vast circulation, what
would have been his establishment and delight!
We have now in this country $500 newspapers and
periodicals., averaging 7o5 numbers at each pull
LEGATION, and making an aggregate of .fue millions
Of numbers, While the yariy aggregate amounts 10
the enormous figure Of four hundred anil t,venyt,ro
millions stuen hundred thousand numbers,
In the course Of the last forty years. the ncrease
is wonderful. In the year 1910 there were printed
in all the States 364 newspapers, giving an aggre-
| gate Of the number Of sheets for the year of
25,222.2O0. The number is multiplied II times in
the year 1851 Even in twenty years the increase
of the circulation Of newspapers published in this
,ity is extraordinary. In 1880 the circulation of
the largest paper was only 5,OOO while the majority
| of the rest were about 1000. Now, the daily cir
culation Of the HERALD is between 35, 900 and
10000, and it is steadily increasing every day, as
we have recently shown. These are the most graf
! flying evidences of progress for the newspaper is
tie great instructor Of the people, and the more ex
tensve its circulation, the more secure are the
Liberties of the people against fraud, and their pro.
perty against plumber and speculation.
| The increase Of the influx of emigrants to this
port, for the last year, is very remarkable The
grand SOL ofwhich there are from Ireland
1926; Germany, 69,Ss3; and England, 2S,553.
The increase over the emigration for the year 1850
entire emigration to this country, during the year
that has now expired, is certainly over half
million, from the worn out countries Of Europe,
who have come here to seek civil and religious
liberty, subsistence, and home, where every man
may worship his God "under his own vine and fig
tree, none daring to make him afraid"
In the United States, the one hundred and forty
principal public libraries contain l,773,9O0 vo-
lumes, including the library Of Congress, recently
burned. The average number to each library is
1850 volumes. This estimate only embraces the
larger public libraries, and there are many private
ones that exceed the largest public libraries in thc
country. AS for The number Of private libraries
and their contents, possessed by q people among
whom education is SO universally difused, it is be-
yond calculation.
In the bill Of mortality there is q considerable
increase for the year that has passed. The total
deaths are 1850, together with l,25S set down
as still born The total in 1850 was l6, $50. This
is an increase of nearly 3,0o0 but it does not come
up to the mortality Of 1919, the year of the cho-
lers, VIXEN q, 773 humble ed with the dead of
whom the terrible proportion Of 1000 persisted from
cholera By reference to the tables, it will be seen
that oonsrmption the most fatal the diseases Of
this country Tie diseases fatal in the next degree
are of the bowels, and the diseases Of children,
which are far more mortal than in Europe The
whole mortality is very large, being about one
in twenty.seven OF the population, whereas in the
crowded, swarming city Of London, with the thou
sands pershing there from starvation, the NOR
tally is only about one in forty. Yet New York
ought to be healthier than London. Nature has
done fori but the city fathers have not aided
NATURE and the great metropolis is about the filth
est city in the world.
In great city like this, there is q progress 10
crime as well as in every thing else. But it is q
gratifying fact that for the last year there has
been no increase, but rather q decrease. The en-
tire number ofconvctons is 2, 49, aud among those,
we regret to say, there are eight for murder There
remaining in the city prison liz persons. There
were received during the year, 1892. There is
enc species Of crime, namely, stabbing that has in
creased consider ably during the year. and there is
enough Of crime Of every kind to stimulate the
clergy to greater exertiens at home instead iof
wasting their none, and energies, and compass
ing sea and land to make convert or two at the,
antipodes.
The fires for the year number 342, while the
false alarms were 2l5. The amount of property
destroyed is estimated at $l,l44,526.. This is
rather less than on the preceding year. when the
damage was about million and half Of dollars.
The total number Of FIRE, in 1850 was 1885, and of
false alarms 202.
We havethus given summary of the principal
statistics of this great metropolis, which we pub
lish for the year 1s5l-the empire city, which is
the mighty heart of the country that sends its pull.
sations through every vein and artery even to the
remotes extremities All that concerns it is, there
FORE deeply interesting, not only to its own inha.
bitants, but to the whole population Of the United
States. We ngratulate our readers on being en-
abed to furnish them, to day, in our double sneet
at the price Of two cents, mass of information
worth at least dollar We present it to them as
New Years gift, and wish them happy New
Year.