The Portland daily press., 1870-05-26
DAILY PRESS.
thursday MOrnips Hay 2e, 1870.
The Ninth Gensu.
HOW 1T IS TO DE TAKEN AND VINO 1s To
TAETIT
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now 1T Is TO DE TAKEN AND WHO Is To
TAREIT
Notwithstanding our country has, since tbe
last census was taken, been ravaged by n
cruel, remorsele;s and devastating civil war.
every branch of industry, ruined our COM
merce and we'll nigh depleted our national
treasury, the ninth census will, without a
doubt, show that we have as a nation grown
faster in wealth, prosperity, industry and pop
ulation than in almost any preceding ten
years OF our history as nation. 1t will show
far greater development in our mineral re-
sources and our sources of communication
tnan perhaps any twenty years previous,
Whiie, save IN those States recently i'm rebel
lion, II Will present greater growth, a more
rapid expansion and a greater
IMPROVEMENT IN AGRICULTURE,
that great source OF a nations wealth, than
has ever been attained in a CORE spending
time In any nation ON the face OF the earth.
Considering these facts, greater importance
becomes attached to the proper and accurate
taxing OF THIS census than there did TO any of
the eight preceding.
by an act Of Congress passed Nav 23. 1880
the United States Marshals are charged with
the important duty of causing all the inhabi-
tants TO be enumerated, and 10 collect all 9th
er STATISTICAL information within their rcspec
tive districts, subject TO the instructions of
the Secretary of the Interior, and TO retl,ru
the same TO the said Secretary on or before
the 1st day OF November next ensuing. the
work to commence on the 1st of June. Be-
fore marshal enters upon this duty he must,
10 addition TO the oath taken when he enters
upon his duties as marshal, take and sub
scribe TO an oath that he will, to the test of
his ability, perform all duties required of him
In enumerating the inhabitants and collecting
statistics, DC. Each marshal is required 10
separate his district into sub divisions, con-
tanning not to exceed 10000 inhabitants each.
and to appoint to each subdivision so divided
an assistant, who must, before entering ueon
his duties, take ard subscribe to an oath sim-
lar to the one taken by the marshal. The as
sstants are to perform the service required of
them by
APERSoNAL yIsrrTO EACH DWELLING HOUSE
and to each family in the subdivision as
signed to him, and ascertain by inquiries made
OF some member of each family, if any one
can be found capable of giving the intorma-
ton; bat if not, then of the agent OF such
family, the name of each member thereof. the
age and place of birth of each, and all other
particulars required, and must, inj the rural
districts, visit personally the farms and mill
shops, mines and other places respecting
which information is required and must OBJ
tain all such information from the best and
most reliable sources.
The marshals will furnish to their assist
ants printed instructions issued by the De-
partment OF the Interior and all necessary
blanks, DC, and will, from time to time, give
them whatever information and directions
they may require to enable them to properly
discharge their duties. Each assistant is re-
quired TO furnish within one month alter the
time specified for the completion of the emu
meration the original census returns to the
clerk of the county court of their respective
counties, and two copies, duly compared and
corrected, to the marshal of the district. As
compensation for their labors the assistants
will receive two cents for each person emu
merated, and ten cents mile for necessary
travel, to be ascertained by multiplying the
square root of the number of dwelling
houses ih the division by the square root of
OF the number OF square miles in each div
ision, and the product will be taken as the
number of miles Travelled. There will also
be paid eight cents page for each copy of re-
turns made by the assistants. In addition to
the above there will be paid for each farm,
fnlly returned, ten cents; for each establish
ment OF productive industry, fully taken and
returned, fifteen cenls; for the social sta.is-
tics, two per cent. upon the amount allowed
for the enumeration of the population and
~ S~NiA AietAi4S VI uSNSstoSd pSloOu
two cents.
One thing worthy of the attention of the
public is that, when called upon by an asss-
tant marshal for information in regard to the
number, persons ages, &C., any head of a
family or agent of a family who shall refuse
to give such information becomes liable to
FINE OF THIRTY DOLLARS,
to be sued for and recovered in an action Of
debt 0y the assistant to the use of the United
States.
All marshals and assistants are allowed to
transmit any papers and documents relating
to the census through the Post Office free by
writing thereon "official business. Census"
ana subscribing the same, with addition to
his name OF marshal or assistant, as the case
may be.
When the work has all been properly per-
formed by the assistants and the returns
handed in to the marshal, the latter will en-
dolse them, certifying that the work has been
done to his satisfaction, and will also certify
the amount OF compensation to which the as
sstant is entitled, after which he will trans
Ter the returns to the Secretary of the Inter-
lor, who will there upon cause one-h half of the
sum due to be paid to the assistant, and when
the returns have been carefully examined for
classification, if found executed in a manner
satisfactory, he will cause the remaining half
- he paid.
MIR. LINCoLNp prIIeroN-Tbe statement
of Mr.. Herndon, /" former law partner OF MT.
Lincoln" that in religious sentiment our la
mented ex-President was skeptical and
gloomy Deist, who sometimes denied the ex-
istence ofa God, hasjust called out reply from
VIM. o. Stoddard, Mr.. Lincoln's private sec
retary. Mr.. Stoddard says that after being
with him daily for three years and a half, in
all the wonderful variety of circumstances
Which marked his first administration, he is
convinced that in the best and truest sense
Abraham Lincoln was Christian. He says:
That he had an abiding faith in the overru-
ing providence of God, in His active interier-
ence in the affairs of men and nations, is be-
pond possible question. From the hour when,
in parting from his friends in Springfield, he
asked them to spray for him." to the day
when he penned his last Thanksgiving Proc
lamation,"-aye, to the very day OF his death,
he never failed, privately or publicly, to ac-
knowledge our dependence on, and accounta-
bility to, our Heavenly Father; and his stead
fast endurance under defeat and calamity, his
unfinchiDg firmness in the darkest hours of
the nations agony, were due, more than any
and hope" which Mr.. Uerndon denies him.
that the God of Battles was on our side and
that he would give us the victory.
He read the Bible great DEAL and il was
probably in that much abused book that he
| discovered the Divine command which he
| strove to obey in his famous "Sunday order,"
| from which L quote as follows:
"The discipline and character OF the national
forces should not suffer, nor the cause they de-
fend be imperied, by the proclamation of the
day or name of the Most High"
A SHARP Misunderstanding Commissioner
Douglass of the Internal Revenue Department
has just administered the following scathing
rebuke to an underlipg at Albany, whose zeal
in administering the law was measured by his
cupidity:
SIR: L have received your 'etter of the I'd
inst, in which you state that upon the receipt
of my letter of February 8, you commenced Eve
suits against - for using half barrels for
putting up tobacco second and third time,
and that, after four hearings before the United
States Commissioner upon the recommenda-
tion of District Attorney -, these suits
were all dismissed, and you now write to In
quire if there is no way by which Mr.. -
can be arrested for the offence charged against
him. In reply, have to inform you, that
boweyer reluctant you may be TO give up this
case. and to fail in claiming your anticipated
moetes, am entirely satisfied with the de-
cision made by the Commissioner. From your