| 1800 | 1820 | 1830 | 1840 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population of the United States | 5,308,483 | 9,633,822 | 12,866,020 | 17,069,453 | ||||
| Cities | Aggregate Population | Per cent. to Total Population | Aggregate Population | Per cent. to Total Population | Aggregate Population | Per cent. to Total Population | Aggregate Population | Per cent. to Total Population |
| 10,000 to 49,999 | 161,134 | .03 | 214,270 | .021 | 316,360 | .025 | 461,671 | .027 |
| 50,000 to 99,999 | 24,945 | .0047 | 43,997 | .0046 | 83,960 | .0065 | 150,682 | .0088 |
| 100,000 to 499,999 | 60,989 | .011 | 186,293 | .019 | 278,067 | .021 | 504,016 | .029 |
| Over 500,000 | 104,113 | .019 | 194,683 | .02 | 289,980 | .0225 | 447,078 | .025 |
| Grand total | 351,181 | .068 | 639,243 | .069 | 968,367 | .075 | 1,563,487 | .091 |
| 1850 | 1860 | 1870 | 1880 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population of the United States | 23,191,876 | 31,433,321 | 38,558,783 | 50,155,783 | ||||
| Cities | Aggregate Population | Per cent. to Total Population | Aggregate Population | Per cent. to Total Population | Aggregate Population | Per cent. to Total Population | Aggregate Population | Per cent. to Total Population |
| 10,000 to 49,999 | 990,080 | .043 | 1,654,183 | .052 | 2,526,432 | .066 | 3,479,658 | .069 |
| 50,000 to 99,999 | 314,182 | .013 | 446,575 | .014 | 676,990 | .017 | 947,918 | .019 |
| 100,000 to 499,999 | 933,039 | .04 | 1,483,472 | .047 | 2,302,961 | .059 | 3,087,592 | .06 |
| Over 500,000 | 763,724 | .033 | 1,750,020 | .055 | 2,311,410 | .06 | 3,123,317 | .062 |
| Grand total | 3,001,025 | .13 | 5,334,250 | .17 | 7,817,793 | .20 | 10,638,485 | .21 |
The city is not only the growing centre of a growing nation—it is also the centre of all intellectual growth. The city is the home of the bar, the hospital, the press, the church, and the state. The city is the outcome of civilization, for it is the product of commerce and manufactures, and these mean civilization.
Then if any history be of value, if the record of the past be of any use in guiding the present and helping toward the future, surely the history of the city is the most important of all history.
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PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT.
A Short History Of Our Own Times. By Justin McCarthy, M.P. One volume, pp. 448. Harper and Brothers: New York. 1884.
The brilliant History of Our Own Times, in two volumes, by the same author, and published four years ago, has now been presented to the public in a reduced size. While it was necessary to leave out many of the striking and rhetorical passages in the process of condensation, which formed so pleasing a portion in the larger work, the strictly historical matter remains unchanged. His history, beginning with the accession of Queen Victoria, in 1837, and extending to the general election, in 1880, the date of the appointment of the Honorable W.E. Gladstone to the premiership of England, covers a period of intense interest, and with which every intelligent person should be familiar. Mr. McCarthy's work is destined to be, for some time to come, the standard account of English affairs for the last fifty years.