The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-03-25
TIE GROWTH OF CHARLESTON
The Twenty-sixih City In Amertca md
the Fourth City OF the South-Analy-
sfs OF Nntivities-CurIous and Sug-
gestIve Facts.

An inspection of the Federal census Of 1870
the first volume of which has just been re-
ceived from the census commissioner, gives
some figures of interest 10 Cnarlestonians-
some which will fatter their amour proprt
and some which remind them Of the discour.
aging facts In the face of which the City by
the Sea is manfully struggling 10 regain her
place of pride and power. Charleston, In point
of population, ls the twenty.slxth in the llsl
of American cities. Of the Southern cities
she Is only the fourth in point of numbers,
the only ones which surpass her in size being
New Orleans, with l9l, ,4lS Inhabitants; Louis.
Vile, with 100, 753. and Richmond, with 81 ,03s.
Charleston is said to contain 48,956 inhabi.
tants, (22,749 whites, 26,l73 colored, and "a
Indians,) which indicates an increase from
1869 when the Slate census gave us popu-
lalion of A, ,s52-of 4O04. At the same rate Of
Increase the population of Charleston in 1872
might safely be estimated at upwards of So, 900.
PIECE OF INJUSTICE.
It must also be remembered that
the Federal census was taken In
Charleston during the hottest months Of the
year 1870, while many Of it's residents we're
enjoying themselves in the cooler resorts OF
the North, and in view of this fact 1t Is emil
nently probable that recount, such as was
demanded and obtained in New York City
for similar reason, would have resulted, as
it did result In the case of New York, In the
addition Of thousands Of names and nearer
approach to an accurate statement OF the per-
manent population. Following In the wake
OF Charleston In the list of Southern cities
comes Memphis, with 40,226 Inhabitants,
Mobile. with 32,034, and Savannah, with 2s,-
235. In the classified list of the fifty largest
cities in the country the S:ulhern cities occu-
py respectively the following places: New Or
leans, No. 8; Louisville, No. IA; Richmond, No.
"a; Charleston, No. 26; Memphis, No. So;
Mobile, No. 80, and Savannah barely escapes
the oblivion of omission from the list by
coming in as No. 48.
LIST OF NArIvrI1Es.
An analysis of the population Of Charleston,
according to their places Of birth, is somewhat
suggestive. The vast majority of course are
natives of Charleston, and The proportion OF
inhabitants who are natives Of the city is
much larger than In any Of the Northern
cities, all Of which possess large floating or
cosmopolitan population. Next to the South
ern States, the Middle States are found 10 con-
tribute the largest number to the population
of the city, New England coming next, and
the Western States sending but few. OF the
foreign residents of the city the Germans and
Irish OF course predominate. England, Scot
land and France are also we'll represented,
and twenty-three Poles are found to have
Jumped out of The frylng-pau into the fire by
coming 10 this down-trodden Poand of Ameri-
ca. We have thirty-lour Indians, one Turk,
one Maltese, and (what is strange) one white
African, while there are three who can only
vaguely locate their place of birth ''at sea. )"
The following Is table which will show at
glance all these peculiarities Of Charlestons
population: