The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-04-26
STATISTICS OF POPULATION

Tho progress OF the United States in wealth
and power is, perhapse, the most curious sub
ject that the history ofthe present century Of
| fers to the attention of the political economist
| Indeed it would not be cxaggernton to ssy
thai the annals If M ago exhibited so remar
kable an instance IF national devclopement as
that which il afforded by the American Repub-
lie. 1t was comparatively hut short time a.
go that a vast. unbroken Wilderness stretched
from the waters Of the St. Lawrence IN tho
tides Of the Mexican Gulf: and now thirry-ono
States, embracing n population of nearly as
many million nf inhabitants. and distinguished
by high degree IF advancement in civil, so-
cal and physical happiness, occupy all that cx-
tensve region Of territory designated. This
metamorphosis of a continent from the savage
wildness and stagnant wcste Of nature 20 the
refinement and cultivation Of civilized life. has
taken place with rapidity almost magical:
while everything around us indicates that the
process of change is still going on. with con-
stantly accelcrating speed. towards the cvolu-
tion of results in improvement and greatness
far more amazing than any yet disclosed.
One Of tho most interesting features visible
in the progressive movement of Ibis yet young
nation, is the growth and distribution Of popu-
lation. Within the last sixty years the increase
has been from less than four million to more
every successive docide the ratio of advance
has steadily augmented. Tho gain in tho ten
years, from 1870 to 1850. was a lit'le over six
millops; and calculating tho increase in the
naya ffty acc"r ling q the s,ms rate. we shall
millions. II ia. however IiiaraFceeding eighty
al total must be much grenter. An examina-
tion If the census tables embracing tho last
six dccnn'al enumerations. shows that ono and
onc-third may he taken rs tho standard Of IN
crease from one period to another: so that az
the beginning Of the next century ths United
States should contain over ninety millions of
souls.
An importnnt element in this rapid mnliip,i-
cation of inhabitants. il found in the yearly ar
rival on our shores of immense swarms Of per-
ns from the old world. The late census re-
ports exhibit tho actnal number Of foreigners
arrived in this country in the last sixty wears.
to have been two millions seven hundred and
fifty eigh, thousand. The total number of en-
igran's s'nce 1890. and their descendants in
1850. is stated ms being little more than four
md half millions. A recent editor Of the
Liverpool Times contains an article relative
10 emigration f~om that port alone from which
IL appears that tho aggrcgntc of passengers
who took shipping thence, for permanent re-
moyal to other countries. in 1852. surpassed
that OF any PREVIOUS year. havinr Amounted 70
two hundred and twrnty-nine thousand. or
these one hundred an1 eighty-seven thousand
nino hundred and sixty.two were destined 10
the ted States. The progress ofemigration
from Liverpool during the last twenty wears
is also shown. II IS said that from 1888 to
1910. the nrmAcr Of emigrarts varied from
ten thonsand eight hundred ard cighty-oight
in the frsf named voar t, over til -ty thousand
in tto sec nj. There was n steady incre Sc
J,,,.; n,,,t,. 10 int a1 70
46 the first year of the po,a,oc famine in Ire
land. tho number of cmigrants fr,m Liverpool
increaeed from forty eight thorsand 10 seventy
one thousand. Since 1915 tho increase has
bcen ve-y remarkable, rs will be seen from tho
following figures:
ls47, l3i,524 1850, 17+,1S6
lS4S, l3l.52i 1851, 206,0l5
Is49. i53,eo2 1852, 22so9o
The Times adds, "that in spite Of Australia
gold. and tho United States is still the coun-
try in which tho greater part Of emigrants seek
fur their new homes Nearly ell the Irish and
mos, Of tn" germans sailed for the destination.
lured by the trible advantages Of a short vny-
ago. small passage money. and n reunion,on
arrival mmon nnmhers of their fellow coun-
trvmcn" 1t il. further. remarked rs novel
and curious circrms'ancc in connection with
the emigration Of last ye1r. that about ihirtv-
cne thousand six hundred Germans sailed from
LiverIoo n Grercrclpcef. iH embarkiRg p! Ham
II is very evident that both from natnra' IN
crease Mt homo and occessions from abroad
the popu'ation of III" Union is nugmenten a.
nm amazing rate: and il is 40 little interest 70
;nonire how this vast rising tide of humanity
il flowing and disrosing itself. IL has bcen
been recently calculated that the centre ot,he
Ronublic. ms regards distribution of population
;s inst ives, If the Ohio river in Ohio. Forty
wears ago tho central point IVES sn| &c wash.
-, r,-.r Irutr tnn mcrldhno ol "hs"-
IImncrton. It subsequently shifted into thc edge
of Virginia, inclining towards tho sonth:i' nj
forwards passed m north into this Siat": in
ls4o il moved little cast of Marietta, ono;
and in 1850. slightly to tho west Of tho river
Ohio ns course is represented. bv those who
appear to have watched it carefully through
ia various changes, to he now setting towards
DAYTON. ultimately perhaps To he cs''hnshen
Gear tho mouth of the Missouri. Tho follow
ing table exhibits the comparative population
of tho Ohio Valley and tho LaSo Bosin:--
ONO VALLEY.