The daily union., 1854-10-22
cOMpFNDIITM OF THE CENSUs

tory population white coored and slaye moral and
social condition. industry property and revenue the de
tailed statistics of cities towns and counties being COM
pendum of the seventh census to which added the re-
suits of every previous census beginning with 1890 in COM
paraye tables with explanatory and illustrative notes
based upon the schedules and other official of in
formation BY J. D. B. De Bow, Superintendent United
States Census, 1854.
This work of which 10000 copies ordered by the
present Congress is passing rapidly through the press
and WILL in the of three weeks be ready for
distribution II imbodes the results of the abors of the
present head of the Census Office, for many months to-
gether with small but efficient corps of subordinates
There in all but 400 octave pages but such is the ys
of arrangement and condensation that these pages by
the aid of very small yet neat and distinct type embrace
nearly everything that contained in the quarto volume
together with immense of information collected
for the first time from the marhas returns and other Off
cial sources
In his letter the Secretary, transmitting the volume
Mr.. DE Bow says:
In the volume which is handed you-though re-
striccd in by the order of Congresswl be found
very full compendium of the statistics of the United
States the earliest period together with all Of the tables
embraced the quarto publication of 1885, with the
ons noted below To these has been added large amount
collected for the first time from the returns and
from other official sources with illustrative notes and ratio
and comparative tables.
In lieu of classification of ages by counties and their
the births marriages. and deaths, the church
and school statistics by countless and the occupations by
States have inserted of wider interest county tables IN
the following particulars of population white free cooreu
and slave native and foreign male and female In lsoo with
the aggregate lsO and the changes OF county oganza
ton within that time of college, private school, ana puo-
c- scholars with the revenues appropriated 70 each
the total educational the terate the number OF
within the school age and the actual average oil
scholars year of the number OF farms and the cap
tai product and of labor in manufactures, mnng
and the mechanic The occupations and the number o
births marriages. and deaths given in States and IN great
sections of the Union and the SPECIFIC ages ana haVes IN
| all the leading cities.
The tables embraced the volume have been examined
revised involving most cases OF the
returns during which taken to exhaust by way o
illustration, for certain Cities countess or STATES every
source of information mboded in them This would have
been done for the whole Union had time and the at
disposition admitted As however, the time and labor
actually expended will, trust be amply repaid in the re-
suits Never before has large part of the census ma
teria collected by such expensive machinery been made
available by the government for popular use IN compact
systematic FORM.
The plan of arrangement is as follows:
/ Part /. Territory.
' ii. Population.
ILL., Moral and SOCIAL condition.
% lV. Industry.
" Property, revenue, taxation, etc.
VI Statistical detail of cities, towns and counties
Territory embracing comparison OF states WITH eaci
other with the Union the area OF the United states a.
the several census periods the geographical distribution
areas, etc.
H. Population considered white, free coored, slaves
| aggregate
The facts for the subdivisions chapters OF popu
aton whether considered native foreign born VIII pt
treated in the following order combined in each particular
with appropriate ratio and comparative tables:
L. Aggregate numbers O. families and dwellings; ., sex
L. age s. births marriages. and deaths t. deaf ana dumo
| blind, nsane &c. 7, occupations; s, nativities
The free colored and slaves wherever practicable VIII
separated intoIs blacks and I'd, mixed or mulao ane
table of Indian population at several periods w Dc ADDED
III, v, VI These heads sufficiently explain themselves
/ w. Industry including1, agriculture manufactures
i 8, commerce 4, internal improvements.
In his Introductory remarks Mr.. De Bow passes in re
view the statistical and census machinery of the severa
European nations and of the United States from the ear
est periods showing what the individual States and cte
of the Union have been and doing in the sam
particulars He compares the relative merits of the sew
erul enumeratons the extent of information embraced
and the expense which it obtained adding
full history of the of 1850 from the passage of thu
first in regard to it to the present time and submit
ting an outline for the next national census
Mr. De Bow argues that the never be taker
and published as be without entire change
cured in the enumeration which only be accomplished
through another mode of appointment There must alst
be some machinery at the seat of governmen
intrnsted with the entire duties of the "l is no
going too far to say matter of two hundred
Thousand dollars is the difference between the expense
q which census womb cost conducted by office which
has had the experience of previous enc even partly
entirely In new hands (which might often be desrable
since the machinery In other Offices would be kept mp
and an Office without such experience
What remains TO be published of the census are alone
the manufacturing and mortality statistics which IL
large at completed and will be ready for the press
without doubt soon sttr the meeting of Congress They
win make volume of about the came size as the present
q VIRGINIA DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
The democratic Central Committee of-yirgnia have
called the State convention 10 meet at stnton on th
3oth of November The call is as follows
DEMOCRATIC STATE ooNvENToN.-A meeting ot the Dem
ocrac State Central Committee of Virginia. held in the city
of Richmond the 4h nst in compliance with the express
e wishes the people in various counties OF the State fo
the purpose recommending time and place for genera
convention of the democratic party to make nominations o
candidates for governor lieutenant goyepor and aorne,
general of the Commonwealth at the next election OF ho
1 officers, it was
espcd Gas the opinion of the commitee) That be re
sncv recommended the democratic party of the State
bold their convention the aforesaid purpose in the tow
If sauDlcn on Thprsdoy, The 30h day Of November merit
Z 4, O'Clock. M JOHN RUTHERFOORD,
Chairman.
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