Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-11-03

RICHMOND NOYFNIF.R 3 Ig3o
IilE CrNsifS

RICHMOND NOVEMBER 3. 1870
THE CENSUS.
| The returns Of tie CrnS,fS are 10 br
made up by some day in the moniA of
Deceniber next We are somew hat an
prehensive. that as much attention il moi
paid TO this subject IN Virginia, as lis grea!
| importance demands. We have no doubt
mat there tsGS very great neglect in 1910
Indeed, we have heard Of sume very sin.
gnlar Instances OF inaitentioD and alrca-
dy The suspicion has gone oui, that HE
| same scene Is 10 be repeated daring The
present year. Nothing can excuse neg
leci Of this sort in the assisiar,s, Who
undertake the task Of numbering the peo
pie. 1h" Census is The hiHge around
which iuras our whole system of practi-
cal representation. Suppose that Trough
the neglect ui our assistants, We should
lose member III the Ii. of R.-and that
the Eastern assistants should by t!,eir SUI
periGr perseverance IL industry give their
people The full weight of their Numbers,
IN The National Councils, tbs is "A serious
irInsiice done 10 Virginia. Suppose
also, that some OF our assistants should
be industrious, While others are remis,,
some oi our own congressional districts
"'' bt 1GTntE IMAM
others and thus an injustice Is doae in
The diiiert MT districts o! The same stale.
We have already heard such fears ca
pressed. We have heard suspicious 10
which We do not conceive il our duty 20
give local habiaiio;i and a name" for,
alter all. the suspicion Itself NAV prove III
ten. uniouuded. Blu, NC thiuk ourselves
perfectly justified in calling upnn :be as
slsianls to remember the importance of
the ONCE whicl, they have undertaken :;
anu ~ calling ON Tie people themselves,
TO stimulate every assistant who seems to
be careless IN the discharge ol his duty.
~ the different Editors throughout The l..
Siaies would throw out an occasional hint
To brush up The memories OF the lisiess,
they might DO some service 10 the state"
Cropping IF ears The Lexington Mo.
niior OF the 10Th and 18th uli. asserts,
upon The authority of" Capt. NIECE, an
ofhcer OF high responsibility, who had
passed through ihai tow ii OH his va, fro
the Council Bluffs, where he has bern
Tor The last year, that 40 instance of crop
ping had taken place at that station du~
ring h's coninuance there thai Il e on
~ instance ke knew OF WAS at Belle Fem
tame In 1918, by order OF Il Couri Martial,
HE sentence ot which was approved by
General Smith and fiUfher, thai Col.
Chambers Was not al .he Council Bluffs
during the whole Of last winter"
Tie A6Hny " Statesman" had much 6fiier not
hare tonchrd The subject Of " brace oi Niigni-
aus ne las ripened our suspicjoRsfato certainty.
IAN zee doNOt jT0m the cYpirocgtipg language ot
the 'Nfdtesiadn, that hiS IrgiRiIR" at least d
an tmPosiOr-Some New YORK. CHHtoninn uh0
~cre ne mask ot0 tugihiaR 10 gire greatrr freight
10 TIE potHicat stattm1RtS he WiSitti To djSsIDi-
nate NE Statesman took up this matter at first
uth hiSh hdHd III charged rs ,cHh making lie
iberai IeDHrhS ;; and certainly expected that he
'cJud hare made some effort to prore his correSpOR
dcnt 10 bf a IirSinian and that had an this
poim Of rieT nude an unjust and Hiberai attack
40 S"ch thing In The entire column which ne
hsS derOed 10 this matter IRE see no such atteDipf ;
mt he orca admits for the SuIfc Of arsameni TIA,
ms cOrrespOnGtpt is rot jdginitp bit a NeiC
oTheT --dHd states he is no more cSHSnr0Lle for
Wf"IinS such mask than rGS Sir u irt for
assuming The name of The British Spy" is IL
theT There might hare bern SOElP resemblance,
"a real British SPY had assumed The name of Il
t"g'nien to Serre kis purposes If in Eng
land ioyal British subject had assumed the
signature Of an American to gire grcafer ,ceight
70 mas GtnHnci"fioHS against american poll
t,cs Tie mofire in thiS case tcopM be 20
ht!cai, and the nlnNqned TritGr wOHtd hare bren
nothing more nor less THIN an impostor Dir JPiTt
tcds sort ~ literary munaHrI tut IL deCcired no
one. IL kdd no po'Ricai affect IN rie,o But rcry
diBerrni IS The case Of this Ne,c Yorker for he
abuses pirstaia by dscribHg her political tricks
".hieh she Scorns to employ and for Tie purpose
etther et creating preindice against her IN The
eyes et NeU York or NJ imdWcing n. York to
resort to the S'nne maAog, p!eRt for the purpose
Of circnmrentirg FrgiAi.
The Statesman denies that " Il VirgiHian" is a
trnmpetcr IF His trceiieney De ~ 1T Clinton -
Uhefher C'S nnBie TdS mentioned ia these letters
o. not there U,N tie CimtOmidH Spirit Hpon the
reryl"ce IF fkem They came .tron the sumo sciool
Whch has dispatched political missionaries to oihe,
stairs Jor eteciiOneTiHg purposes Thich woritS
as ~Iy Ghe tie mole under The ground nBicts
principles Thith IL does not profess, and assumes
names 10 rhieh II has no Jprttnsion ne uiH
BRING fhts mattcv' Ia rery sItart issue Ne WU
Dc e"nttht tn confess our mistake MS to the IfidHg
p" tHginidH il Tie Statesman trW piedgc hiShO-
nor. that has correspondent is Il Iuginian not Il
NeU OIHer- nor one dtiOfed 10 Tie pOiiiicS Oj
Mr. Clinton. We Gull upOn him then to aas,rer
yea or nay.
ELECTIONS
OhiO-IhOnas Il. Ross, aud JOhu w. Camp
bell are reelected 10 Congress. Me- John &.
Wright has a majority OF % votes over NJ
Chambers. The other districts moi heard irom
tfrmont-Ihe mode OF election To Congress
has been recently changed from general
tick ~ In 4. y