The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-02

eTATIsrICAL TABLES saowMe rHE NUNBER, Ynl
rsh cHSrA6s AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF TIM en-
NAN POPULATION IN THE SEVERAL STATES AND
THE PRINCIPAL CITIES OF THE uNIor, AccohDTr0
TO OFFICIAL CENsUsKs AND APPROxIhArIvB nsrI-
MATES, WITH ADDITIONAL TABLES SHOWING (NU-
hfRIcALLY) TIE IMPORTANCE OF THE GERMAN
ELxhESr AND TIE GERMAN IMMIGRATION IN DIF.
FKRESr SOCIAL AND POLITICAL RELATIONS, EsfE-
CIALLY IN THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
There no question In the science Il statistics bsght
with greater difficulties and with more snbarrassmssw,
IMAM NE esonoraphca Statistics Of esmtss, States or
cities In which the populat0a oonssos & mixed up coma
pound and gradual amalgamasOa II dt1srsn. AaonAh-
ties.
in country, ~ IN Osnada, Bohsnh, Belgium and
Great Britain, different nations occupy exclusively certain
dfrcm provinces cities the tables Of the ordinary,
regular census win be sufficient v establish with approx
msavs The number and the per centsse OF The
nations or tribes composing the total population.
But such no Tie case In the United States o. Ameri
ca Inc German, - well the Irish and French Gle
mens, 10 distributed pile mile the whole surface oil
me Union IN such manner and anagamsted with the
naive Country born) population In 20 many degrees,
that H. In instances, amsst impossible 70 e.
nbHrh ethnographical limits Therefore, also the fol-
loving tables bear the character Of spproximA-
tive estimates than Of Official, completely reliable cen
suess For these reasons 70 justify the numbers, the
per centages and the estimates contained in the following
tables, II necessary to point out in short expose the
sources 70 which were resored and the means BY which
me following statistical reviews were possible, and are
entitled 70 credit z1sss ts.Sa : -
The chief source 10 which was resortsd were the Of
fetal general Of the United States for the year
1880 and the different partial Of several states
and cities drawn up and pubshed for the years 1864,
1896, 1858 and 1859.
Besdes .hsee official documents, the great ethnogra-
nhic III ted nada
the personal ruperntendcnce OF Alex Humboldt and
pubMhed with ninety three brilliant maps) at the e.
pense Of The Prussian government, was used and re-
garced an . most reliable up 70 the year 1857
would occupy too much Of your valuable space, and
probably be tedious 70 the readers Of newspaper 70 ex
plain all the most Ingenious, and sometimes very coss,
means by which Dr. Berghaus, supported by the very
numerous personal American friends Of the greas Berlin
rsvsnt wss enabled To compose his statistical tables, biz
great map Of the distribution Of Germans in the Western
hemisphere, and hs synoptical ethnoersphich map Of
the United States.
We regret only, and oughto ny are assonished,
that this work Of Berghaus the most and the only worthy
supplement Of "Humbodts Cosmos, ID 20 scarcely known
in this country that in the great public libraries Of
the metropolis not copy ID 10 be found although it's
price is very moderate-s4o.
Other additional statistical dates fused for The approx
NATIVE computation OF theesmates are the Directories
OF the great Cities the estimates for certain States, coun
ties and Cities published In the respective local papers,
the number Of German in the poll lists Of severa,
municipal and State elections the statistical tables
Of INN aon published TO $780, by the Board OF the
Commissioners Of Emigration and the German Society
OF New York
Finally, we may adj that in the following tables The
number and the per centage Of German population may
In some instances, have been underraed but very sell
DOM and certainly only 10 triling amount overrated
and that, for the estimates, system Of mathematical
computs,ion-the "Approxmsuons Calculum"-was
adopted which allows only q minimum OF dlfere be
tween the calculated estins ate and the real numbers.
TABLE NO..
syHoPTIc TABLE, SHOWING THE PER CENrAGE AND
THE NUMBER OF THE GERMAN POPULATION IN TIE
United STATES IN 1850.