New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-03

These relations are emnenty adapted to exhibition,
by graphic delneation. 1t to be remarked that The
increase Of population in agricultural districts has
limit which is soon reached, and The surplus OF increase
by births must seek other pursuits for profitable en-
ployment countries, if they would cultivate
the SOIL Several of the interior and western counties
Of the State increased very rapidly during the hrst
twenty or thirty years Of their settlement but during
o. many of their later years have shown but little
growth. For example: In Tompkins County, to
every 900 persons now living there we're IN lSO 25
in 1910, 1854; in 1874 81 in 1920 1885, in 1873 sS1i
IN 1880, 994 in 1885, 1923: in ls4o l,O2f in !s45
C29 and in 1850 1857. The rapid increase Of this
county before 1926 and its almost stationary con-
ition since presents remarkable contrast with Kings
County which has acquired nearly two-thirds of its
population within the last ten years
While agriculture may have its limit for the employ
ment of human labor, manufactures and commerce
present q wide and diversified field of enterprise,
opening out into a multitude of inviting avenues to
wealth ard distinction promising unlimited success as
ness and aordipg to the multitudes who seek employ
ment in their various departments Of industry CON-
Portable subsistence and TO certain extent success
according to merit.
communication may render manufactures or commerce
profitable, we may expect to find communities whose
growth and prosperity are bounded only by the limit
which they may themselves assign to Their own ope,
rations, the general prosperity OF the nation to
whose wants they minister.
II is not my purpose to analyze the causes which
promote this Capitalization OF our population, nor to
consider the relative combined influences OF canals
railroads or steam power IN producing II.
Neither does it come within my province to notice
the natural advantages which have contributed to
make this city the commercial emporium and financial
center of the Union.
The extraordinary growth which we have witnessed
during the last years. and which have raised the
NJ pulation Of New.York and it's immediate dependen-
ces TO over million in number; the influences which
its wealth. its institutions and its press exert upon the
l,x,tA I,a hoD.n NINA nf 9th M
still hightier influences which it is destined to exert
upon the fortunes of the general commonwealth.
Classification by SeTcs.-Each census or this State
previous to 1850 has shown an excess Of males. Tho
National census has uniformly shown more males than
females in the general average, and in all OF the
States with the following exceptions: In Connecticut
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, the females have
uniformly suDunbered the males. In New-llamp-
shire since $780, in North Carolina since 1879 in Yer
mont in 1890 in Delaware in 1910, and in the District
of Columbia since 1870 the same has been observed.
In general the excess of males is greatest IN newly
settled States where the population is made up OF emil
grants from older States or foreign countries, among
whom the male sex uniformly predominates.
As emigration ceases and the surplus Of natural in
crease forced TO seek other quarters the dsprOpor
ton Of the sexes reversed, and We find as IN most
European countries, in and now IN this
State, a greater number OF females.
IL II generally conceded that there are born more
males than females: The extent OF thus Inference IN
our State remains to be asceiained by careful 'ys
TEN OF REGISTRATION Vi Duths.
The relative proportion Of the sexes is also observed
TO vary between different ages Before the age OF 10
we have ore males. Between Is and 80 we notice
marked excess of females, doubtless owing to the
gre ater number of youpg men who seek employment
or homes in the West Above the age OF ~ the pro.
portions change within moderate limits, with general
excess Of males, until the age of TO- above which the
chance Of life appears to be greater with the female
OF 81 persons reported in 1855 as 100 years OF age or
UPWARD Al were males and 30 females.
The following table exhibits the number OF Males
and Females in the City and State OF NewYolk be-
tro.r d;Aa,e,+ shown nv the Ceusus of lS1J