Litchfield enquirer., 1867-05-30
WHOLE NO. 2243.
THE CENSUs-BUREAU OF STATES.
 TICS

WASHINGTON, May 2O.-The Bureau of Statistics is making preparations to take the census of 1870 through the Internal Revenue organization
 Director Delmar has been superintend- Ing series of statistical exercise-drills. The results of one of which affords remark able proof of the thorough organization of the various bureaus of the Treasury De partment He has taken a census of the number of the entire population of the country already, and that, too, without any expense whatever, except stationery.
 The census was quietly but thoroughly taken during six weeks of last November and December, and is in most cases the re- suit ot actual count in the Revenue dis trlct. The details will not be furnished to ehe public until they have undergone care iul revision and arrangement. The returns rom few of the remote mountain dis trlcts of the country are the only ones not deemed satisfactory.
 The present census shows the total pop- ulation of the thirty-seven states in No- vember and December last to have been 34, 100, 255, and of the States and Territo rles taken together, 34, 5O5, ,SS2 In most of the southern states there has been de- crease ill the population. In the eastern states small increase, and in the western states large increase. The results are supported ln every instance by the state census Of lS65 so far; and taken in com parison with the census of 1860, is as fol- lows:
 Thirty-seven states. few of which were then territories numbered 3l ,443, 32i. The total increment since 1860 has, therefore, been 3, ,062, 56l, which, in view of the late extended conflict, demonstrates the extra ordinary recuperative powers of the coun- try The population of the District of Columbia Is given at 1lS, ,967, with a major lty of several thousand females over males.
 We extract the following from the Hart- ford Posts resume of the Report of the State Librarian:
 MARRIAGES.
 No fewer than 4, 798 were celebrated du- ring 1866, 518 more than in 1865, and 871 more than in 1854, and certainly very re- markable number. But this increase is ex- elusive of the counties of Middlesex and Holland, neither of which came up to the mark of 1865. No marriage took place in Prospect during the year and but single one in Lisbon. Of the whole number of marriages, 2,95S were between native born citizens, 1, lO3 where both parties were of foreign birth, and 342 where one party twas native and the other foreign. The prepor- tion of marriages where both groom and bride were native Americans and those were one or both were foreigners is very nearly the same as in 1865. Of marriages between colored persons there were l22, or 3l more than in 1865. Hart ford county returns 29 of these; New Haven 44; New London, II; Fairfield, 19; Wind ham. 1; Litchfeld, 10: Middlesex, 3; and
 olland, ?. The registrars of Granby and Bethany failed to return the residence, and those of Hartland, Southbury, Easton, Weston, Warren and Somers, the nativity ofparties married in their respective towns. The librarian made the same complaint of the registrar of Somers last year,
 DIvoRCEs.
 The whole number procured was 489,- more by 84 than 1865, and more than in any of the five years proceeding 1865. Of 4O7 of these, which includes all except those obtained ill Fairfield county l48 were granted upon the petition of the husband, and 259 on that of the wife, as shown in the fOl1OUino tab1e.