New-York tribune., 1871-07-11
THE POPULATION or EEW- -YORK.

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published in The TRIBUNE to-day. give grand
total of 1920 "a the population of tins muni-
cipality. OF this number. 5iO,553 are white. OF
native birth 418G46 are white, OF foreign
birth, and 1908 are COloTed. Of this last
element in our population, only 4t5 are OF
foreign birth h Cursory examination into
tbese figures reveals some curious facts 4; Tor
instance, The proportion OF native Americans,
born outside the state of New York. is not 40
largo AZ may have generally been supposed,
all the reat of the Union furnishing only
81, BOT population 10 tho city against 4'5.jf6
born in this state Eew-Jcrsey. one OF our
nearest neighbOrs, sonds us The largest con-
tribution OF population. furnishing 7.46 against
prolific Massachusetts, 5,9f5. and Ponnsyva-
Mas 4,589. But the great State of Pennsyl-
vanis keeps her children at hone; even Con-
necticut sends more abroad. 4957 being set
down "a our quota from that Land of Steady
Habits The representatives of the other
States decrease IN volume Until we come to
somo of the later additions to the Republic,
and find that far-oif Alaska sends one native
white; there are 240 reported of California
birth, and one each from Colorado. Arizona.
and Dakota OF tho Southern or ex-Slaye
Der to the City's population. 1.262, and Arkan-
sas sends but 10, the smallest from the South
ern States. OF the Western States, Ohio has
the largest represen alton. claiming l.l36, and
Indiana has but II. II would be interesting
to know how large an clement IA of city birth.
and how much the city ha5 been replenished
by fresh reentorCements from tho country as
we'll az from other States,
OF tho 4i8,G46 persons Of foreign birth
(white), tho largest number is from Ireland,
that tight little island sending us POI 800 of
the total foreign element. We have 6O,49i
who como from Germany; but this was before
the consolidation of the German Empire was
complete. for VIC have 81, AGA from Prussia, to
say nothing of the immigrants from smaller
German States. We have A}93 of English
birth. and 75j1 from canny Scotland To
illustrate how thoroughly cosmopolitan is
tho population Of this city. it may be
noticed that every quarter Of the globe figures
in tho census In addition TO those who
port themselves only IA white natives of
Asia" we have whto residents from Arabia.
China, Japan. India and Persia The Canarics
Malta, Madeira Islands Atlantic Islands, and
Sandwich Islands. each send representatives,
and not less than 35 we're born At sea. Then
we have Mauritius, ewZealand, Isle of Man.
Gibraltar Bahamas and Australia in the list
aud 50 claim TO be of white African birth.
Outside Of New-YoIk State, Virginia has con-
tributed most largely to the native-boIn col
ored population of the City-92j of the whole
number claiming that State as their birth
place But nearly every State of the Union
is represented IN the long list the great State
of PennsYlvanl3 sending SIS. Of the cOlored
people of foreign birth the largest number are
from the West Indes-3J reporting themselves
somewhat indefinitely from thence but
In addition ID 81 born IN Cuba and
several iii tho smaller islands, curl
ously enough the large number of Ga
are reported of Irish birth. The Indian shUns
the town, now "a of old, and only four are
reported, one of whom is of New York birth,
and the other three from different parts of
the continent. The largest number of colOred
people is in the Seventh Ward; the
largest population of any Ward is that of the
Nineteenth which is 9J,494. The tables pre-
sented will yield many interesting compari-
sons 20 those who are curious i'll such matters
and glance must show how complex and
various are the interests, hopes, aims. views
of life, and occupations, of the population of
The great city.