Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-09

IN the APPEAL OF yesterday We pun
lished complete returns of the population
of Shelby county, Memphis and West
Tennessee, furnished us from the official
census report on file in the Office of the
United states Marshal. They sustain the
position Memphis has claimed among the
most rapidly growing cities of the contl-
nent. They prove, as plain as figures can
prove anything, that Notwithstanding the
scourge of war, of disease, Of political
hate and malice, of passions that no wsr
nor troubles can subdue, in spite of an
accumulation OF drawbacks useless now
to discuss, the working, willing hearts
and hands of our city have been as diligert
in securing population, as busy as in OBJ
tanning the representative OF wealth itself.
L MISC twenty years sgo) The population
of Memphis was SS4l; in 1860 item years
later) it was 22,62S; now it is 1920, show
ing an increase of a fraction less than so
per cent. This increase has not been
surpassed By any other city IN tie
Union that we have heard of vel,
Milwaukee, whose increase has been
unusually rapid has not reached go per
cent. gain upon its population of 1861,
when the census gave it 1875 people,
where now it has Il ZOO. And yet, not
withstanding these figures Of our growth
are so large and 50 gratifying they might
have been made larger had it not BEEN
first, on account of the thousands who
were absent in pursuit of pleasure or
business when the census takers were
engaged collecting their statistics and
second, had it not been for the recent
amepdment of u city charter
which robb ed US of the Fifth, Four
| tesnth and Fifteenth Cyil Districts, WHOSE
population reaches an aggregate of 645l
persons. We are fully convinced that
our total Of population is 0 less than
$1,000, and that we are entitled to the
credit of more thar 100 per cent. increase.
In other words, we believe that our in
crease in population, since 1850, has been,
in round numbers, equal to that of the
whole population of Nashville, set down
as a few hundred more than 2 5000. We,
almost in same proportion, outstrip the
city of Louisville, whose press seems to
nave q profound conviction that we of
Memphis indulge ourselves more than
all other people in murder, assassination
and duelling. Neither Cincinnati, nor
st. Louis, nor Chicago have yet shown
anything to compare with our increase
in people; and when all the facts can be-
had we doubt that any of them can show
such an increase in and trade
Only in manufactures is Mem
phis less than her rivals. While
we can show some advance, even in
that important branch of industry, we
cannot, we regret to say, make the figures
as large as they should be. This is the les
son OF the eensus-to show US what We
are, by comparison with other cOmmuni-
ties, and suggest a way by which we may
successfully compete with than and sur
pass them in the future. All we need
to insure US even a larger increase
and growth in the years to come
is harmony and union-a long pull,
a strong pull, and a pun alto
gsther. We only need that what
ever n man or men can propose or em-
bark in that win be beneficial to the COM
munity Though it should tend largely to
their individual beneht) shall receive, in
stead of the execrations and maledictions
of those not directly engaged in it, all
the support that sound public policy and
the welfare OF the community may die
tate. We should stand as one man, and
be sctuated by but one motive and one
purpose. We should be for Memphis
against the world. aae1an