New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-11
THE STATE CENSUS.

ALREADY 7O3,SlO-PROBABLh lNShfASh VT
REPRESENTATION IN NEw-YoRK CIrY-THE
GROWTH OF CITIES.
IfRoM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBuNE.l
ALBANY Aug. 10.-Ihe census OF the State Is not
vet completed. No returns have been received from
seyeral counties. Those that have been received
remain uncounted, and great rows OF unopened
boxes containing the results of the enumeration oil
the corridors of the State Hall. The first box was
opened to-day and an extra force OF eight or Ten
clerks was put on duty TO look over 'ne
thirty or forty sheets that represent the enumera-
ton of Madison County. 1t is estimated that
with industry the extra clerical force VIII De aoie
20 verlfy, correct, revise, and foot up Madison
Comfy during the day. The occasion for this delay
il the absolute necessity of carefully revising the
slovenly work which the enumerators have almost
uniformly put OFF upon the Census Bureau here
either through ignorance, inaptitude for the bust
ness laziness, or wilful negligence. The complex
nature of the returns has been fruitful cause of
mistakes and errors while the inadequate pay ana
the quaspolitica character of the appointments OF
enumerators have resulted in too many instances In
securing persons 10 perform the important service OF
enumeration who could not comprehend that any
labor or care was required. These causes account
for the delay in the arrival of the returns here The
delay IN opening the boxes here has been due to the
necessity of comparing the returns with another,
Al OflleT 10 Crtut tS thc WIN P&ONNN"'
with the inmates of public asyums prisons due to
them For instance, of the TAI inmates OF the L'i-
matte Asylum in Utica, great proportion belong TO
other counties and have To be charged thereto al
thougb they are only enumerated at Utica. In con-
sequence of this necessity of balancing the returns
The final footing up here will not be completed prob
ablyunti very near the beginning of December, even
if so soon This is the likely from the fact that
Secretary Wiers has announced his determination to
have all the varied footings carefully and accurately
made and it must be remembered that these include
marriages deaths labor wages, Aliens children,
values of manufactures, Of agriculture, and of real
estate, and several other items. Under these cir
euinstances, the first full and positively accurate
report of the census may he looked for among the
messages 10 the Legislature.
In nearly all cases, however, the County Clerks,
to whom the returns in their respective counties are
submitted have caused footngs TO be made III Their
Offices before forwarding the returns to the Secrc-
tary of State. From these footings, so far as re-
ceved the following table has been compiled. The
returns are probably exact, except for the bal
ancDg referred to, the footngs to be made
hereafter at the office of the Secretary OF State and
although they cannot be called positively official
the Secretary of State himself is of the opinion that
they will not be changed very materially by his own
count. They represent the totals of population
compared with those of 1870 in forty counties of
The State and seventeen out of the twenty-four
cities, and may be taken a basis upon which TO
calculate the grand total.
IL will be observed in the table below that the
counties Of Chenango, Cortland, Delaware Jefier-
eOn, Livingston, st. Lawrence, Schohare. and
Tompkns have each suffered decrease. These are
al rural provinces of them except Jefferson and
St. Lawrence containing an incorporated city and
of the cities in these two counties Watertown and
t,a ulatio has sel than
that of the county has decreased showing very
positively the tendency of the inhabitants OF the
country 10 mi crate to the cities. WestchestCr Is also
among the counties suffering from decrease. The
Estimated population of the districts recently an
nexed to New-York City does not fully account for
the great decrease of 36,sS5. The returns for the
cities as given below, will further confirm the gre
earous tendencies of our State population. OF
these seventeen, all except YOnkers, of which
only the town count is given, have
gained out of all proportion to the ordinary increase
of population upon the basis OF previous eensuses
Annexation has aided the increase in many instances
NewYork City has gained 121 $50 lot which 1t Is
estimated about 30 900 are due TO annexatiOn upon
a previous enumeration of 942, 292. Rochester
gains IS 291 of which s. 1876 are due to annexation
mon a previous enumeration of G352s, and
Albany gains 1912, of which 6,794 are due
to annexation, upon previous enumeration
of S9,422. But the gains of cities with
out the aid of annexation III most Instances
very great and in some quite remarkable Buff
fao, the third city of the State. reports a gain of
1854 upon previous enumeration of l17,714, and
is apparently righteousy indignant at the inef-
fciency of the enumeTators, who should have given
her more Syracuse, Emira, Troy. Utica, Oswego,
Rome aud Lockport all report handsome gains. The
most remarkable evidence of prosperity is in the
case of CohOes, a purely manufacturing city, which
has made the unparalleled increase of 10,320 upon
an enumeration Of Is, 1877 and has stepped ahead of
Elmira, auburn, Oswego Poughkeepsie and
Yonkers-cites which five years ago far Outstripped
her in population and pretensions. POu9hkeepsie
accepts an increase of only H.
The grand total of the forty counties as given
below is 295, 79S, an increase upon the census of
the same counties in 1870 of 203, 2O1 The new APP
pOrtiOnment to be made by the Legislature next
Winter will be based upon the increase oyer the
population of 1868, when these same counties re-
turned total Of 1851 $50. The increase upon that
enumeration in these counties is therefore the large
figure of 7O3 SIG, which may reaso Daby be assumed
10 be increased in the twenty counties yet to hear
from by third, that is by 235,O0O making the
total increase over 1865 about $4,000. This in
crease will advance the unit of representation III the
Assembly to about $4,000 allowing for the con-
sttutional guarantee of one member to each county
except Hamilton. The unit Of Senatorial representa-
ton will be advanced 10 about 138 900. Upon these
bases New-York City will be entitled to seven
Senators and twenty nine Assembymen.
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