The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-01-29

The Washington correspondent of the Chicaco
JoTrhat, under date of the 2lst inst, gives the
following statistics of an inter eSting character.
Tue report Of the commissioner of Internal
Revenue, which WAS laid before Congress yes~
terJay, shows that there has been an assessor
and a collector in each Congressional District
in the loyal states. including two districts in
Virginia making IL all Cna hundred and eigh-
ty three. Ia these several distrt S there are en-
ployed, as deputy collectors. assistant assessoIs.
collectors, and assessors, 1922 officers. To
this number should be added aixty male and
eight femaie clerks employed III the office of In
ternal Revenue.
The commissioner estimate that there will
be received from all sources, except stamp
duties, during the current fiscal year, ending
on the Both of June next, the sum of SOL III
799, > and that the amount Of receipts from
stamp duties. for the same period, will be $15,
10000 making an aggregate revenue of So,
||I,|99.' 1t Is the opinion of the commission
er that the receipts for the year 1864 will
not be less than $3.50, 000, 900.
Inc estimated expenses, presumeing that
the salaries of assessors will be increased as
recommended, are as f~oliowes:
For expenses Of assessing the taxes (S2. 900 in
each ollectionsdistrict) Al $50 00O
For collecting the taxes(eight thousand dollars
in each distric) sl,4t4,0 900
For stationery T0000
For advertising by assessors and collectors. 49,. 10000
FOR salaries Of the Commissioners and clerks -. 120, GOO
5or ola9k books aud advertising. ............ 10, 900
For printing stamps. $1,000
For stamp agency at Philadelphia. .............7 1000
Markings total of............... 80. 81, 616, 800
In the collection ofthe details 10 be embodi-
ed in the Eight Census there have been ems
ployed Strty.tOur marshals, under whose di.
%recfion there have been employed 4,417 assis-
tants. To these officers there has been paid the
sum OF 8 ,045, 206 rs.
"l'iinOis presents the most wonderful exsm-
pie OF great, continuous, healthful increase.
In 1888 Illinois contained l57, 445 inhabitants;
in 1910, $40 1873; in 1850, 85I, 40; in 1860,
l,7I1.95l. The gain during the last decade
was, therefore, l0l. 06 PEI cent. So large a pop
ulafl0g; more than doubling itself in Ten veare,
by The regular course Of settlement, and nat
ural increase, is without a parallel. The con-
dltlon to which Illinois has attained under the
progress Of the last thirty years is a monument
OF Tue blessings of Industry, enterprise, peace
and free institutions.
The exces. Of males over femalesxfn Illinois
amounts to about 80, 900; aud in the United
States, 5000.
The estimated population of he United States
in
1870 will be ................ 40. 82$.s92 |
tS9o VII - 56,450,24l
t9So VIZ oe'. '....-............ 800. - n, 266I $50 |
i'VU WIZ D, ..-........... 100, 1855, SOP
While the Middle States have gained in den
atty only 70 per cent, the Northwestern group |
have gained 100 per cent
Inc hrst NEGRO slaves Were imported into
Virginia IN 1919, where they numbered Goa
N 1910 The first slave ship fitted out in the |
English colonies sailed Fl ON Boston in 1916.
Ia 1870 there was 700, 900 slaves in the Uni.
ted States. Ia 1859 there was 1000, 900.
Had slavery continued to expand in the Brita
ish, French, Spanish and Brazilian possessions
IN America as it has grown in the United States
IL Is oelieVed that there wonid at the present
tifqe De more than u ,00O,0O0 slaves here.
Between the 3Oth September, 1919, and the
3lst December, 1869, there has arrived in the
United States from foreign countries 2,s17 ,6O3
alien male and 2,035 $50 alien fem~ales-makine
total OF :, 062;4l4.