The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-02-02
POPULATION OF TIKI COUNTRY.
Important Facts and Statistfcs-Re-
port of the superintendent OF the
Ninth Census.

tendeDt of the Census till recently ap-
pointed Commissioner of Indian At
fairs, and Row Acting superintendent,
has submitted his report to the Score
tary of the Interior. 1t is comprised
in forty qrarto pages, and is intended
to preface the first, or population vol
ume of the ninth census, of which the
census office has all the tables compile
ted, except those few which involve
the tabulation of age and sex returns
in their preparation.
The report deals first with the great
central facts of the census, which af-
feet the constitutional population and
political representation of the country |
in the national legislature, and then
discusses the questions pertaining to
the true population as distinct from
the constitutional representative pop
ulation, and the causes which Lave
contributed to reduce this population
below the number which calculations,
based on the increase OF the people
heretofore, had led most persons 10 ex-
pect the census would exhibit.
The report opens with the following |
clear and brief statement of the causes
of delay in the publication of returns:
1.-The enumeration of inhabitants al |
the ninth census of the United States, |
which, by law, was commenced Oh
lst of June, 1870, was substantially
COMPLETED on the 9th of January, 1871. |
At that date returns had been received
covering IS, 333, ALI persons, leaving
ODD 666, as was subsequently, determin-
ed 10 he returned, more than one hal;
of whom is fair to assume, had thei
been enumerated. Yet for this ill.,
considerable fraction of the population
the country was Obliged to wait seven
aid a half months. On the 23d al
February returns had been receives
covering all but 81, 266 of the pOpula-
ton. The last returns from any OF
the former free States were received
April 3, 1871, comprising I'll name
to complete the township of Lodi,
Athens county, Ohio. On the 9th oi
June the humber of persons still to bt
returned was IL, COG. On the 231
Junesreturns Were received from To,
last county in Mississippi. On the
10Th of July returns were receives
from the last county of Texas. Oh
the 23d of August returns were re
ceived from the township of Bower
and Wharton's Creek, Madison coun-
~ ArEansa-. 1904 names completing
the enumeration.
Invae ueIaS,, most veXatlous an'
most ciscreditable in national wort
of such importance as the census I"
the United States, were, as you are
aware, absolutely unavoidable with ex
istiIyx census machinery. All the
authority ard all the resources which
the law iutrusts to this office and t.
the department were employed II
abundant season to have secured th'
completion of the entire work within
the time prescribed, but for the inerad
jcable defects of the act of 1891, undeI
which, with few and slight m"dIti-
cations, the census of the United
States continues to be taken. UDuI
the law shall vest in the department
the same control over Its agents OF The
census which is possessed by other de-
partments i'm respect to their agents,
and 10y this department in respect to
all other operations, it will never be
practicable to determine, within six
months, the period for the completion
of the census, nor to provide that,
when the work is supposed to be fin
isbed, some portion of the territory
Sfldil Dt lDuuu =" a. nv W
by the enumeration, and in which the
service must De organized at The las
moment, without the preparation,
and at great disadvantage. With
sincere Difference | submit that it Is not
worthy of a great nation that It's cen
sus should be so tardily and so loosely
taken as is inevitable in the United
States under existing provisions OF
law"
Here follows a statement of the
constitutional population of each Of
the thirty-iour States of the Union.
The whole constitutionalp population
of the United States Excluding, tia
is, Indians not taxed, and the in
habitants of the territories upon thu
LIST of June 1870, as finally determined
by the complete census, was 3S, 1l3, 253.
The positive increase during the decade
had been 6, 929, 100, a gain OF 22 % pc
cent. OF this aggregate OF 81 ll3, 2o3,
white population embraced 80 2O3, 1IO,
an increase of 6 500, $50 during the de-
cade, or "a. 80 per ceLt. Twenty-threc
of the States were found to contain
Chinese, which description for census
purposes were held to embrace Jap
anese (who are, however, distinguish
ed i'm the table of population), but to
exclude Hawaiians, The number re-
ported in each State WAS as follows !:
Arkansas, 9S; California, 1880 /;
Connecticut, 2: Georgia, l i; Illinois, l !;
Iowa, 8; Kentucky, /; Louisiana,
al; Maine. l; Maryland, Is; Missouri,
3; Nevada 4,l52; New Jersey, Is;
New York, %; ONO, l 4; Oregon, 1880;
Pennsylvania, IA; South Carolina, l {;
Texas, %; Virginia, A."
The Indians not taxed" excluded
by the constitution from the repre-
sentative population, has been ia
ken to mean those which still re-
tain their tribal relations. The broken
haDds and scattered remnants OF
tribes still found in many ofthe States,
being in such legal relations to the
States as to be liable 10 taxation if
property, have been enumerated
with the following results: Delaware
is the ONLY State in which no Indians
were found: Alabama 9S, Arkansas
50. California 7,24l, Connecticut 235,
Florida ., Georgia 40 Illinois 80 In
diana 2i0, Iowa IS, Kansas 9l4, Ken
tucky los, louisiana 500. Maine 400,
Maryland 4, Mississippi 500, Missouri
40, NSni1Sht %, ANSNdNa 3D. -NC"
HAMPSHIRE -, Now Jersey is, New
York 439, North Car, lima ,2il, Ohio
100, Oregon 3lS, Pennsylvania 30,
Rhode Island l54, South Carolina l24
Tennessee 20, Texas $40, Vermont IA,
Virgins 229, West Virginia l, Wis
Consin .2G6.
The effeat of emancipation las been
"to add . 90 per cent. ID the otherwise
representative population of the South
ern States and 60 per cent. of the
otherwise rep 'esentative population of
the United S.a;es.n The constitu-
tional population are, by the enamel
patton laws, for the first time in our
history, equal TO each other.
The true population OF the country,
as distinct from the constitutional
population, embraces, the popu-
iaiion of the territories, the popu alton
Of Alaska, and the number of In
diaus not taxed" These two vsst
elements aTt. estimated from The last
data To lee had, their determination
not being provided for 10y law. The
table of true population thus made mp
gives az aggregate of IS o., 2l0
to the whole country. Alaska is IS
timated Ia have a population o. 30 46l
and the q" Indians not taxed" are put
down at 367, $50. OF the probable
nopu,a;ian of the country but for the
war, on tie LIST of June, 1870, the re-
port contains the following decidedly
original statement.
"But for the war, and for causes
which, whether due to the war or