31 DECEMBER 1870, Page 3

The quinquennial census of the United States has just been

completed, and shows.that the Union contains a population of 39,000,000, or about one-fourth more than our own. It has in- creased 22 per cent, in the decade, and at the same rate will, in 1,900, reach 75,000,000. Of these, about one-tenth will be negroea, as they increase, notwithstanding the war, nearly as fast as the whites. The largest State, New York, now numbers 4,370,000, or a million more than the six New England States, which collectively number only 3,482,000, or a fourth of the popu- lation of "The West," now above twelve millions.