The Nevada journal., 1852-06-12

The UNITED STATES IN l950.-We
find an article under this title in Hunts
Merchants Magazine for April, con-
taining some interesting speculations
based on the report of the Superintcn-
dent of the Census, showing The pro-
gressivc increase Of population in The
United States, during the decennial
periods Of their existence, asan ipde-
pendent people, from the first .ser
in 1870 to the seventh in 1850.
result of the estimate is that in e.
year 1900 our population viii hay
reached 74.2l4.2ll; and that in 1850
will amount to 236,8l3, ,729.
The above estimate is made talsin
the natural increase from lS4o to 1856
or 26 IL per cent, the ratio Of ou. fu
ture advance. This result, it il aj,
mitted, is very improbable ysfious
causes will conspire to proven. sss io-
ture increase eqaalling the rapidity Of
our growth hitherto. Although the adj
ditions to our population in decennial
periods in coming years may greatly
exceed the increase in similar intervals
Of time in our past history, yet the per
centage Of increase in such accessions
must, almost Of necessity, be reduced.
In the course Of thirty or forty years,
foreign emigration, now 50 powerful an
auxiliary 10 swelling our numbers and
raising the ratio Of our progression, must
beco come n comparatively pnimportant
item in our periodical, advances.
The writer makes another estimate,
by which our population in 1850 is COM
puted at 64,SS9 246; and this, be thinks,
will fall short of the reality. He ven
lures the assertion that there are those
now living, who if internal disse nsions
and fratricidal quarrels do not previously
destroy our existence as nation, will
see us people Of more than 200, 900, 900
souls Our territory now embraces
3,l36,447 square miles, and its present
population amounts to but inhabitants
to the square mile. Should this vast
area, presenting every variety of eli
mate, and inexiiaustible fertility Of soil,
be as den>ely populated as Grea: Bri-
tain, which has 220 within the same
limits our number would reach 690,-
020, $40; and should it ever rival Holland
and Belgium in density Of population,
(2G7 to the square mile,) the result
would be the enormous amount Of s37,-
4340l9, equ,l to four-tifths of the pre-
sent estimated number of the human
lace.
1t would seem from the following pas.
sage, that the writer differs from Kos
suth in reference to the imminence OF
the danger we are in from foreign des-
pots -
Much has been said of late about the
manifest destiny" of the American
people. IIavo those who have talked
most and loudest upon this topic, looked
forward into the future to contemplate
what that destiny is to bei We have
sprung up like Jonah's gourd in night,
until our shadow is cast far over the
earth; it may be, that like that gourd,
we have the worm gnawing at our VI
tails, and that our downfall will bo as
swift and certain as our rise. Our ruin
must come upon US, if ever it come,
from our own suicidal hand; no foreign
influence will, if we remain united, ever
be able TO overthrow u.s. To sum up in
few words, we are destined to become
power for good or for evil, such rs the
world has never seen, in comparison
with which the storied grandeur OF the
Roman Empire will dwindle into insig-
| ni6cance.
OVERFLOW OF THE SAN Joaquin. "A
| flood now covers the banks and bottoms