Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-08-15

We publish the census returns Of Columbus,
from which i will be seen that tho population
OF the city proper numbers less than 10000
The census Of the Fihh Ward Is not vet com
pletedi but the estimate Of 5000 is near
correct one.
The contracted limits Of the corporation
measuring loss than | miles square. the mum.
Der OF business men residing nj their count. Y
seats, and the great number absent at the
White Sulphur aud other watering places
easily accounts for the low figure Of our sum
mer population Had we like Cleveland and
Dayton taken in all out doors in our city lin.
its or had we like the Clevelanders and Day.
tonians been too poor to get away any where,
we should doubtless have been classed ~ the
second city in the State; as Il is, we suppose
Cleveland with its wooden pavements, and
Dayton, on the canal, may probably beat us in
numbers few. We don't boast of numbers,
but when il comes 10 disinterested patriotism,
virtue benevolence, and all the christian gra-
ces, we're thar
The above which we clip from the Colum-
bus Gazette, contains more unmitigated impu-
dence aud bombast than we recolect ever TO
have found crowded into any paragraph Of
the same number Of lines The professional
eSaggeration common to politicians, rarely APP
proaches it One not knowing any better, would
be lefi to infer, that the Capitol of Ohio--of
but ordinary village dimensions--was very
Thebes, with plethoric Golfers, and citizens
burthened with opulence; whose palatial re-
treats and ample grounds dotted all over the
classic (9) fens and lowlands of the sluggish
Scioto.
But the facts are all against these spacious
preiensious. Columbus has not, nor never
had sufficient inherent resources and natural
advantages to make more than au ordinary
watering station for one-horse railroad; and
whatever Of "disinterested patriotism, virtue,
benevolence,, ,and christian: :graces," it enjoys
at this time it is indebted for them to its thriv
ing neighboring cities and villages It is re-
ally pensoner upon the State at large, and
bat for the annual contributions which we
make in the way Of support for its citizens,
and the healthy public sentiment which we
send them, there is no computing what their
financial, moral aud numerical status might
have been. But statistics begin TO develop
the fact which we long have feared, that all
our efforts to retain respectability at our State
Capital will prove unayailing. The idea for
ces itself home upon the convictions of every
careful observer, that Columbus is finished
and if there be any elements of thrift or
growth left in it, we much fear that they will
take the same direction as the caudal ex-
tremity Of that noble animal, for the preserya.
ton of which, a Capital delegation has made
a tour to the Orient to preserve.
The truth is, all communities States and
nations, must have their. .places oflsecurity for
the sioughs of society, and that community,
State, or nation is in healthy condition jusi
in proportion as these places rise in the scale
of moral, intellectual and financial respecta-
bility; and judging from the representations
of our Columbus neighbors, we are left to in
fer that Ohio is great State.
But we would not do or say any thing that
would disturb the turbulent spirits of our un-
fortunate citizens, and will therefore leave
them to the quiet contempations of their
1870 citizens, with the suggestion that in
1870, their deputy Marshals do not include
more than one political convention in their
returns. We will not object if they select the