The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-03

NEW YORK. HERALD,
sive strength Of the softs, a. Represented IN the
vote for Seymour. His vote was the popular
vote against the Liquor law, without reference
to his party or his principles upon other sub
State, who are now opposed to the administra-
tion, and to fusion with the party of Mr..
Pierce and bic master, Marcy, are quite as nu-
merous now as they were in '53.
We think il very likely, too, that this despe-
rate expedient Of the administration Albany
Junta to rope into their camp the rank and
file of the hard shells, by "a double delega
ton" will prove failure; that the hards will
wait the results of the soft convention Of the
goth, and then determine, in their own conven-
ventiOn Of the 9Th of September, their ticket,
their platform and their associates for the No
vember election. This is certainly their true
policy. If they have any sense Of self-respect
remaining, the least which they can do now is
to await the upshot of the Marcy spoils con-
vention of the goth, and shape their line Of &C.
tion accordingly. Let them not be deceived
by those private letters" to the administra-
tion Albany Junta, received from the federal
ofliceh0lders of /" all parts of the State"
Finally, let the hsrds remember the Short
Boys, and keep clear Of them and their amiable
friends Of the Custom House at Syracuse. Let
the inaex bles consult Mr.. Dickinson and Judge
Bronson, and 60 to work. Ii the democracy,
in o solid body, are to be carried over to Marcy,
there will be time enough for the projected fa-
sion in 1856. Await first the soft shell con-
vention, the results of the fall elections, and
the issues Of the next meeting of Congress.
This administration must be finished before
any thing definite can be done by our New
York democracy for the democratic succession.
New YORK CENSUS FOR 1855-DECaEAsE OUT
AMONG THE RURAL DIsTRIcTs-From the re-
turns Of the marshals engaged in the enumera-
ton Of the people of this commonwealth for
the census Of the present year, our readers will
have perceived that there has been rem1rka-
BILE decrease in some of the villages, townships,
and counties of the interior since 1850 and
that the aggregate increase since that year will
not be 60 large as was generally expected.
Among the purely agricultural counties
which have lost, are Cayuga, 2, 900; Herkimer,
600; Yates, 1000; Madison, 600; and the other
losses are limited almost exclusively to the in
side agricultural districts. The cities and
larger villages have all increased excepting
Schenectady, finished place." which, upon
a population Of 5000, has lost 600 since 1850.
The largest increase, of course, has been in this
city, which, upon an aggregate of 5000, has
gained forty per cent, more or less; but even
here the actual count has cut down the original
estimates very materially, the lowest Of which
were at least equal to fifty per cent increase
in five years. Had not the financial reaction
of the last summer, and the suspension of our
previously large business operations last fall,
and the famine prices for provisions, and the
lack Of employment last winter, interviewed;
or, in other words, had the bubble of
prosperity of 1853 continued initiating
till the present time, we should pro-
baby now have upon this little island a po-
pulation exceeding 100000. Bat considering
the drawba of diminished employment, re.
duced wages, extortionate rents and inordinate
prices for provisions, our city's progress, even
if our population for 1856 should only present
an increase Of forty per cent in five years, will
do very well.
1t was supposed, when our census marshals
set out upon their duties Of the present emu
meration, that the State would yield a total
population of at least four millions. From the
actual returns thus far reported, 1t will proba-
bly, not exceed 345O,OOo all told, or gain Of
about seven ard.a-half per cent in FIVE years,
which, considering the drawbacks before allud-
ed to, will suffice. Some Of our contemporaries
Of the interior are startled OF the decrease of
the people in many Of the rural districts" and
are Wondering what have been the causes tor
these unexpected reductions There is nothing
very wonderful about them. 1t is not the ca
nails, nor the Know Nothings, nor the Nebras-
Ina bill that has done it; but the simple causes
Of demand and supply, and the disposition
Of our people to better their worldly condi-
ton, whatever the perils Of removal
or the distance of some more tempting locality
for business, land and money. The city Of
New York absorbs thousands of our young men
and women from the interior; California has
drawn off thousands, aud other thousands have
sold out their little and comparatively unprodt-
able farms in this State for larger oaas Of bet
ter land in the rich Northwest. The late act Of
Congress reducing and graduating the prices OF
certain public lands to actual settlers, has
drawn many of our young farmers away, and
msny have gone off with soldiers bounty land
warrants in their pockets, upon speculation.
The chinks and holes ard corners of our cities
and villages, heretofore so literally supplied
by Irish grogshops and German groceries,
bakeries, &c afording no longer vacuum
these foreign elements of our increase in past
years have been thr own into the great Western
movement. The remarkable decrease Of our