Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-06-07
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products. This will be the first census
taken since the creation Of our State,
and comparatively little Is known,
at home or abroad, regarding
our people or u wealth. Taking the
census Is at once an important duty,
and a difficult and delicate task. It Is
important, because 1t furnishes stalls
tics ON which to base essential and In
telligent legislation. The task Is diff
cult, for the reason that all attempts
to procure accurate statistics by inquiry
from house to house IL beset with en-
barrassments, even In the hands Of the
most Intelligent persons; and 1t Is
peculiarly delicate in the matter OF the
census, Oh account Of the nature Of the
questions which are to be asked and
answered. For these reasons we be-
speak for the Assistant Marshals a
cheerful reception on the part Of
the citizens, and the families they
are obliged to visit, and a ready and
willing cooperation to facilitate them
In the discharge Of their duties.
In addition, We hope to find them pa
tient, good-tempered and courteous,
for these are important qualifications
for the duties they have to perform.
It may be well, perhaps, to remind
such of the public as pay but little at
tention to Government affairs, that the
visits of the Assistant Marshals in
taking the census, have nothing what
ever to do with taxes. The facts they
inquire about are for wholly different
purposes. They dare not divulge the
information they obtain to any reve-
nue. officer or any other person or per-
sons whatever except their official SUI
periors in the Census Bureau and the
Secretary of the Interior. They are
under instructions and under oath to
keep all information sacred and conf
dental, and it will be a grave offense
for any Assistant Marshal to disclose
any facts or information acquired In
the discharge of his duty. The sched'
ules, that Is, the printed blanks on
which the present census Is to be taken,
are five in number; No. l being the
schedule for population; No. 2, the
schedule for ~ascertaining the number
of deaths for the year ending June l,
1870; No. 8, the schedule for the pro
ducts of agriculture; No. 4, the SEIZED
ule for the products of industry; ant
No. ), the schedule for the return o
social statistics relating to taxation
wages, religion, p%auperism, crime, col
leges, academies schools, libraries
newspapers, periodicals, etc. As w
understand 1t, the first effort Of thu
Marshal and his Assistants will be'tt
take the censu Of population will
particulars embraced in schedule No
l, leaving the others for future action,
This first schedule requires the Assist.
ant Marshals to call personally at ev'
cry dwelling, and to see individually
the head of the house. They are also
required to ask and to record the
name, age, sex, color, trade, profes.
sion, occupation and place Of birth Of
every person residing In each family,
including domestlcs, on the first day o.
June, 1870. They are also obliged t.
ask and record. whether any members
Of the family own real or persona
estate, and If so, the value thereof
the place Of birth of the parents Of tn
heads of the family ; whether the chill
dren III any, in the family have attend
ed school during the year ending jun
LIST, 1870, or not whether each person
in the family, over ten years OF age
can read or write 4; whether the head
of the family, or any member Of II
then residing In the dwelling, have
been married during the year, and Il
so, the time of the marriage whether
any member Of the family residing
there, Is deaf, dumb, blind, insane OF
idiotlc; whether there r any males
In the family twenty-one years Of age,
and whether any of these, being citi,
zens, have had their right to vote de-
MED or abridged OH any other grounds
than rebellion or crime. The ques
tions, we may repeat, are in the frs
schedule only, relating to population
which, rs we understand, Is to be the
first one attended to. 1t will materi
ally facilitate the work Of the Marshall
If memoranda, giving the correct an
swers, should be made in advance. 1
would save time and ensure accuracy
Male heads Of families who r absen
during the day might prepare ant
leave such memoranda in charge 9
wife, daughter, son, or whoever ina.
have care of the house, to aid them Ii
giving full and correct answers whel
the Marshals call. With the foregoing
statements In advance, as to the char
acter Of the information required, sucl
answers might be made very nearl.
ready for the officers hands.
!. A BIRD, with u body no longe
than that Of a pigeon, but four fee
high, and four feet from tip to tip Q
Its wings, was caught near Bloomfield
/, Iowa, OH Wednesday Of last week.
Ar Augusta, Wisconsin, the clergy
: men have recommended the people :
regulate their private devotions b
"the blowing Of the half-past eleye
steam whistle ut the steam MILL"
Rev. WILLIAM PINKEY, has bee
elected Assistant Bishop Of the Pro
testant Episcopal diocese of Maryland