The New York herald., 1869-04-11


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Total for city.
or course. 1t is not claimed that these figures are
precise ana give the correct number OF the present
inhabitants OF the metropolis. But, barring a
variance OF rev thousand. at no rate higher than
the list Will be found tolerably good prediction OF
the number OF souls residing at present on this
island and that in al probability The oliical census
II may possibly be that the number OF Inhabitants
ascribed 10 the First, Second and Third wards is
taken somewhat too high; but whoever knows any
thing OF the crowded boarding houses on West and
Waslington and Greenwich and other streets
In THIS locality viii admit that the estl-
mate OF 2s,Ol5 Inhabitants for this portion
OF tAe island. bounded east west and south by the
ana Reade streets Is certainly not too much. though
the relative figures between the wards may be
wrong; yet the relative voting strength of THESE
three lower wards is about the same in proportion
as the population we have ascribed 70 them.
In regard to the Seventeenth ward, we have taken
the lowest estimate we could get hold Of for some
placed the population of this ward alone high
10000 and even 10000 souls 1t Is undoubtedly
true that this and the Eleventh and Eighteenth
wards, being contiguous and their population
tect to the same causes OF increase, which Is the
largely increa sed imm grafton from Germany have
advanced at larger rate than others OF the lower
wards OF the city, and the 20 5000 people, which our
table allows tnem together Il believed to be as near
the truth as any such calculation wen can be.
a careful study or the three tables OF the popula-
ton OF New YORK city VIII disclose the fact, physi-
Cay so evident 10 every observing eye, that the
buia OF our population Is gradually moving upward
Take the 1weilh ward Tor an example In 1850,
before the erection OF the Twentieth, Twenty-first
aad Twenty-second wards, and when the Twelfth
comprised within its limits nearly all the territory
now known as the Nineteenth and Twenty-second
wards. up to Iidr.em river and Spuyteu Duyvil, It's
entire population was 1881. Since then. and not
withstandins its soathernmost boundary was re-
moved up to Eghty5Xtb street, IL has Increased as
We estimate It, TO $4,000 and may possibly have
Inore--an advance OF about 800 per ceat in twenty
years. In spite OF reduction IN extent Of territory
OF nearly one-half.
CHARACTER AND NATIoSALrTIEs OF THE POPULATION.
1t is very difficult 20 make anything like an ap
prOXtmatiYey correct estimate OF the division
OF our metropolitan population into Its CON-
ponent parts III regard 10 their nationality. A
state OF the facts may be ventured, based upon
the relative proportion OF the several natlonalites
IN loo0 upon their ratio OF immigration and natural
increase. In 1900 the natives OF ireland resident In
tnis cits were 2iA per cent Of The whole number OF
| innaDh ants and the Germans lt1I per cent. But
We have already remarked that these lguges, taken
from the United States census returns or that year,
were not 9t al reliable In this respect the children
BORA mere oI ioIeiSn parents were generally counted
| among the native population. Nevertheless theC
| may tor the present purpose be used aS basis OF
calculation. IL Is well known that the rate OF natural
| increase Is about the same among both Of these
classes Of our population. Careful statis ticians in
Europe have established this. Bckes gives the annual
Increase Of the population Ia Germany from the
cess OF births over deaths at Lao per cent, Bcr
nOli estimates that OF ireland at 13 per cent, or very
near the same. rms rate we NAV safely accept as
| bein. exceeded in this country. for which we have
conclusive evidence In the statistical tables proving
! that ne general rae of Increase OF our pOpu alton
OF all classes exclusive o Immigration IL about q 25
per cent and with Immigration about $50 per cent.
rating the natural increase IN his city of the irish
and German inaabitant- according To the prevailing
rare IN Germany and Ireland the period of ten years
since lsoO would give us over 230O00 Irish ana about
lf-cOO Germ al residehts IN me city. catcullI0n
much nearer the trlith would be the rate prevailing
here since the rst census was taken IN l19J namely,
\ 20 per cent. winch would give between tnis ana
1870 very nearly 2J0.O0) residents of Irish Descent
| and about la6,oJO Germans, or descendants Of Ger
mans IN ths city. tdt we must not omit one I'M
| poriant fact IN this calculation. Our inhabitants
generally are more Of migratory Character than in
| tue Old WOrlj; and taxing th's tendency 10 cmi-
CRATE from the cty 20 other places, particularly TO
the Wet, into the account. come 10 tue cOnclu.
SION that The resident population OF these two na-
uO11ilie3 IN THIS ty ha increased IN the last ten
years, exclusive OF new arrivals, TO about the first
figures gwen, VIZ. 231Ol) Irish an1 iSl 900 Der.
mans; and this would he the ative proportion be-
| tween them had there been no immyra'ion.
But TIE increase to our population IRON this last
source has been immense Of late. While that from
| Ireland has falen or ~ ABOUT oncGfh of the mum.
Der landed. that IRON Germany has advanced 10 very
ing tle early years OF the late var, immigration was
at a low ebD. and tooS an Upward bound only from
lSj8 the relative prO9Or on Of tAe two nati)nalitles
sahout the sIme-l31.OJO 20 aOJ0-as last year or
about - 10 during the three years 1880, 1854 and
ielZtu tUJl llleu at tiS
three years together, Dut few thousand more than
arrived 10 the single year 1885, while IN 1865 the num-
Der suddenly increased TO 1884, and mas since
scaliY kept on increasing Taxing the whole list OF
nm gran arrivals at this port for the last ten years
wehavc the tremendous number OF over 200 001. Of
these II l. admitted about twO-nihs generally remain
either In hs city, the nelghbOring Cities the un-
try meliatey surrounding us or about $4,000, Oi
whom tWOthrds again or about 3I). 900, have taken
thCir abode IN this ciiy, TO which shO1l1 be added
the natural increase annually by births over deaths
| OF l.'J per cent. Without gong into any mathe-
maiicaly precise calculation, IL Is evident that the
| two principal nationate3 from which we draw our
Immigrant population, the IRISH and the Germans,
| divide themselves into this number Of new comcrs
| anl new settlers IN the city about as follows
| 10000 OF the former and 2il,0JO OF the latter
| Hence the resident population Of the city OF New
York or Irish ana Germans may be stated To be al
| present
lrsh.....s..... 1JOJV
or 6s2 900 souls together, making nearly 81 per cen
OF the eniirc number of the Inhabitants OF the mo
trOpOhs
Neither the English nor those rom British Amer
ica have Increased IN the same RATIO neither nave The
French nor other ma Onalii es, who altogether do
number over 7jCOJ souls. But assuming. for th
purposes OF argument, that they reach that fguc
" Is shown thai than sXtyei2ht per cent OF TN
| Guys population is either OF lOrei2n blrth or o
foreign descent no further back han 70 the sccOn'
! generations that tins population IL composed Of pcO
PIE OF all countries aud of all cmea, and that Ne'
lork has the fullest right to the distinction OF COS
ahl al natiOnalities, the customs, manners an
hdOi's Oi all people.
now THEsg PEOPLE LIVE.
- - sot Tue Intention OF this article 10 90 into an
hDie ueliils Than are necessary 10 show how thi
,scb,S '.uS ~ population, composed as u Is mostly