Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-07-16
j am, Sir, Your ob't. serv't
JOHN PEGRAM.
CIRCULAR.


SIR: herewith enclose Commission appointing
You Assistant Marshal for taking the Fifth Census
or Enumeration OF the Inhabitants in the of
in the STATE OF Virginia.
In order to facilitate the performance Of your duties
have transmitted the Act OF Congress prescribing
those duties, together with the necessary Forms and
strucons, which you 10 follow and carefully OBJ
serve.
You are required to commence this cnume ration on
the first day OF June, and TO complete IT, and make re
turn thereof TO me, before the first day Of De-
cember, In the present year.
In selecting you for this important duty Sir reIy
coniienty upon those Testimonials you have produced
TO ue OF your ability, integrity, and industry and of
your competency in accounts In addition 10 the hi n
obligation imposed upon you by your oath, to make thi,
enumeration with scrupuous diligence and fidelity,
you should also bear in mind the importance of i. 10
the political influence Of your State Before entering
on your dues you should study well their nature aud
become perfectly familiar with the modes, pointed
out by the forms. in which they are to be executed
Being deeply sensible OF my own responsibility, not
only to my official OATH but 10 the interests of my ma
tive State shall in all cases require the perfect
accuracy in the enumeration and returns of each OF nv
Assistants, before adopting aud certifying them the
Be ped'ed, forthwith, TO acknowledge the receipt OF
this communication and your acceptance OF aud quail
hca'ion TO your commission. Let all your communca.
ions 20 me on this subject he endorsed "CENsUs"
am, Sir, very respectfully your obedrnt servant
EXCHANGE AND THE TARIFF
The last NJ lntellgcncer contains the following para
graph:
'LNchange upon England is down TO per cent and
upon any large amount, would probably be found still
lower IL has not been so low for several years How
viii our Southern friends reconcile this fact with their
views Of the effect of the Tariff"
In these go for information TO the Merchants
and an intelligent gentleman of this description has
been good enough TO favour with the following nfor-
nation:
81 do not what is TO be inferred favorable or o.
thcrwse TO the views of "e Southern frends of the
effects OF the Tariff from the present state of exchange
III IS pretty generally understood that the IOtc rate
interest abroad, has induced the superabundant Capt.
tsls to invest rather freely than for some years
back their surplus means nAmercan Securities which
IS shewn by the very high rates at which Bank and o.
Their Stocks (Pennsylvania, Ohio Canal &c, &c.) are
now selling in the large markctsand the shipment of
FtOlT tins spring and the increased value of cur great
staple, Cotton this season, compared with the last has
also contributed TO bring exchange below the average
OF the last three years The InteIgencer docs not
perhaps recollcct that the sDccuotions in nnIand in
1879, reduced the rate from IL per cent in April In
about LIZ the first Of Jmg but do not think this
sudden variation was ever considered by any one as
having the slightest reference To any Tariff. An TN
favorable Harvest in England would, probably, for the
time, materially alter the rate Of Exchange; but lust
the same alteration might take place, should the rate Of
interest IN the TIVE countries vary 20 greater extent
Than was usual. Indeed, nothing he more complex
than the course OF Exchange, depending It does up.
on such multitude Of circumstances, and affecting all
countries with which iralc. The most experience
Ell merchants and dealers much less ssneune in the
truth OF ther opinions aud the certainty Of their cal
culaions, Than the far less informed politicians. and
hey would, thefecrf most unwilling 70 arritu.e In.