New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-11
THE CENSUS OF 1855.

The Census of 1910 gave 355, 900 as the pOpula-
ton of this City, Brooklyn and Williamsburgh,
and that of 1850 gave 642 OOO showing an increase
of 2s7 OOO. The increase of the State in that Pc
rod was g. 600, and thus we find that outside OF
our own immediate vicinity there had been an ad-
dition of $4,000 In the same period Buffalo
grew from eighteen to forty thousand and if we de.
duct these % 900 we obtain 361 600 as the amount
of increase in the interior towns and rural districts
of the State.
The year 1855 exhibits state of things widely
different. This City and it's vicinity have popu-
lation of 900, coo, and Buffalo has grown to near
$4,000, showing total increase of nearly 100000,
whereas of the interior towns many have ceased
altogether to grow, while others have grown in a
greatly diminished ratio, and many have actually
declined in numbers. The rural population has
largely diminished and the total result seems
clearly to establish the fact that outside Of the two
commercial capitals, this City and Buffalo, the
State has bee, me altogether stationary, prepar-
atory to large decrease that will probably make
itself visible in the Census Of 1860.
The facts thus recently brought to light have
attracted much attentions and, as might natur-
ally have been expected, the parties by whom
they have been treated differ widely in their
manner of accounting for them. What are our
own views en- the subject our readers already
know, but, desiring once again TO invite stten-
ton TO a state of things so remarkable and so
much opposed to what had generally been anti
cipated, We give in another column the views OF
one Of our most respectable cotem poraries
The Examiner, journal we'll kno IN as the or
gan of the Baptist persuasion, and remarkable
for the fairness and honesty with which It en-
beavers to find the truth.
The reasons here given for the state Of things We
now observe are-the disappearance ofbousehold
manufactures and the centralizing tendencies of
establishments like Lowell Manchester, and
LaFreIce; the growth flarge establishments for
the manufacture of nails, horse. shoes, clothing,
shoes, window. frames aud other commodities,
with corresponding diminution in the local de-
maid fer blacksmiths, tsilors, stOomakers,
carpenters and other mechanics; and the intro
duction Of moving and renpDg machines, fol
lowed by reduction in the demand for agricul.
tural lhbofers. Being thus a consequence of
indicated by tho Census i. regarded by our co.
temporary az On. that could mt have boon
avoided IN time past and hs. esnaoi Of course fail
~ be- exhibited Qua larger scale in time 10 ,ms
30 far As IL has advanced it's effects arc regarded
ss having been highly injurious. as " with the
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