. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . lation of New York into thescale to tip the beam the other way. Of the remainingStates, the population of two, and in some instancesthree, would have to be combined to equal the mark setup by the Iron City in Anno Domini 1900. The popu-lation of the then seventeen States was a little short of4,000,000; while now it is estimated at 76,000,000; ornineteen times greater. Pittsburgh in 1790, as nearly ascan be ascertained, had five hundred inhabitants: com-pared with the number now, what a stride has beentaken; a multiplier of twe
. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . lation of New York into thescale to tip the beam the other way. Of the remainingStates, the population of two, and in some instancesthree, would have to be combined to equal the mark setup by the Iron City in Anno Domini 1900. The popu-lation of the then seventeen States was a little short of4,000,000; while now it is estimated at 76,000,000; ornineteen times greater. Pittsburgh in 1790, as nearly ascan be ascertained, had five hundred inhabitants: com-pared with the number now, what a stride has beentaken; a multiplier of twelve hundred being not Tubal Cain to be proud of being Pittsburghspatron saint! The population of the United States in the year of mybirth, 1828, was less than 12,000,000. The vote cast atthe presidential election of that year was 1,156, were then but twenty-four States, and all except-ing Missouri and Louisiana were east of the vast territory beyond acquired from France, outof which was carved the two States just mentioned,. o o 00 (0 zo -JD(X o a 64 Population of 1828 and 1900 Compared. And now, using the figures just given, in comparisonwith those of the seventeen States of the Union in 1790,when the first census was taken, the following results areshown: they are over eighty per cent, of what then wasthe most populous State, Virginia, the only one out-numbering Pittsburgh of to-day. This fact presents arather different outcome than was expected by a promi-nent Virginian in 1784, when he said, The place, I be-lieve, will never be very considerable. The second State as to population was Pennsylvania;but so small were her figures then when placed alongsidethose of her second city in the closing year of the nine-teenth century, that it would be necessary to thrownearly one half of the population of New York into thescale to tip the beam the other way. Of the remainingStates, the population of two, and in some instancesthree, would have to
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