The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-18

yield them $780, Here, then, is satisfactory
account of the inhabitants of this home.
| We open the schedule in which is written
down the products Of industry. We find that
| firm of two partners are broom makers. They
have $4,000 capital invested. They use fifty
two tons Of broom in each year, for which they
pay $4,000; and $4,000 handles, the value of
| which is ST. ITO! They also use wire and Irvine,
which cost them 81 40. Their work is per-
formed by hand. They have eight male OPP
eratives, to whom they pay $500 per month.
They produce sc, 900 brooms per year, the value
of which is $4,000 All this is given on three
| lines of one page. The families of these two
men are also given, with the sex, name, age,
and occupation Of each member, together with
their places of birth, and all other requisite par
tculars.
And we select at random third example
1t is that of a gentleman who has fourteen acres
of improved land within the ward we have
named. The value of that little farm is SIP 900,
and of his implements, $50 He has one horse,
three mich cows, and two hogs, all valued at
$l45. He has produced seventy five bushels of
wheat, ninety bushels of rye, and forty
bushels Of oats. BY tracing the finger along
single line these facts are learned at glance,
and all other particulars respecting the proprie-
tor and his family may be gathered with like
facility.
Respecting all these returns, we may further
rous errors are almost sure to be detected at
the census office in the work Of analysis. Be-
sides this means, a copy of the returns of each
county is deposited with the clerk of the county
court, for the inspection Of the people imme-
diately interested in its accuracy; and, more
over, while the mode in which the agent is paid
for taking the census makes it to his interest to
omit none, the necessity of numbering the fam
lilies and dwellings in the order of visitation,
and of naming each individual in each family,
renders the detection Of errors by the people of
every locality certain.
The returns are being made with great
promptness, and we have looked with aston
ishment and admiration upon the neat, clear,
and precise manner in which they have been
preserved and filled up. We have turned them
over leaf by leaf, and discovered scarcely even
the slightest blur upon score Of pages.
Such also are the arrangements of the Census
Office, that at any moment reply can be given
whether full or partial, from any district, SC
We were informed that some of the first re-
ceived were from the remote State of Wiscon-
SIM and we were permitted to peruse letters
from the agents at California and New Mexico
who make earnest promises of the speedy and
judicious execution of the trusts committed tc
them.
In this office there are forty persons EN-
ployed, and, novel as is the duty before them
we doubt that any department of the Govern.
ment can exhibit more systematic routine o.
operations. The work of analysing and com
pling for publication the information contained
in the returns is progressing well.
The first object to be effected is the ascer-
tainment of the population, the second the ar
rangement of the population into the respective
classes, to sex, age, color, place of nativity
&c. The social statistics is also feature t.
be elected at an early day, comprising as i
does an account Of the aggregate wealth, edu
cational religious and other institutions, with
the particulars fpauperism, crime and wages
subjects for the phianthropist, moralist, anc
Christian, TO dwell upon. The name of every
person who died within the year ending June
|, $780, is given, with the age, color, sex, occu-
patton, condition, place of birth, time afflicted
and name of disease.
In word, we look with pride and satisfac-
ton upon the intelligence, sagacity, and perse-
vering industry that has marked each step in
the progress Of this great work, and shall con.
template with high pleasure the general ap
proval that will be awarded to those by whom
; 1t has been 50 admirably contrived and con-
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