Year: 1870

THE NINTH CENSUS.


II is nearly settled that the total population
of the United States will be found, by the
Census now almost completed, to exceed
Forty-one Millions-a gain of fully Ten Mil
lions within the last ten years, though the
War must have cost us fully Half a Million
lives. As the victims of that War were mainly
men between 20 and 40 years old, their loss
will tell heavily on the increase of our num-
bers during the next two decades.


The population of the Union is quite as
large as was generally expected, but most of
orr cities had over-estimated their growth
respectively, and are impelled to find fault
with the census takers and their returns. This
City is not exempt from the prevalent foible
The Herald absurdiy says:


"The very selection of unsuitable time Tor taking
the census Summer, when the absentees from town
cannot be estimated at less than two hundred thousand
might warrant a pciOn that the leaders Of the radical
party have expressly availed themselves Of an oppor
tuny apparently corroborate their favorite assump
tion that city elections more votes are poled in
some of the wards than there voters, resi-
dents False census returns, it may be imagined, will
help them to diminish the strength Of their opponents at
the approaching elections. But there is to believe
that for once they have overshot their mark"


Surely, writer for the press ought to
know that the " time for taking the Census"
is fixed by law-that it is the same through
out the Union-the same this year as in 1860,
when it was taken by Democrats under a
Democratic Administration and Marshals-the
same that it has ever been, so far as our
knowledge extends. Is it not deplorable that
such trash as we have quoted above should be
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Five years ago, our last State Census was
taken, when the population returned for our
CITY was 726,3S6. Forthwith, a clamor was
raised that the Radicals" had purposey
failed TO include or return thousands with de-
liberate intent to rob our City of her due
weight in the Legislature The lion. Chauncey
NJ. Depew, then Secretary of State, was
widely denounced as the chief instrument
or manager of this iniquity, in defiance of
the fact that DR.. F. b. Hough was Super
intendent of this, as he had been 1--WE believe)
of the preceding State Census, and had
been nowise controlled in the premises
by his official superior, Secretary Depew. Ot
Dr. Hough's politics we know nothing; but he
has made reputation as statistician which
he would not sacrifice at the bidding of any
party. No intelligent citizen doubted that he
did his very best, and no man who knows Z.
NJ. Depew ever credited the charge that he
had allowed the Census to be falsifed to sub
serve a partisan end. Yet there must be
class so ignorant or so depraved as to credit
such calumnes else why are they uttered
and reiterated


Marshal Sharpe, we feel certain, will be salts
fed with nothing less than perfect Census
of itv Hn OF
culties to be overcome, and must have taken
measures to surmount them lie has not
ignored the fact that many thousands of our
City's habitual denizens are usually absent
and their houses shut up in Summer; and,
where the first returns were consequently I'M
perfect. he has of course provided for their
amendment. He will make the fullest and,
most perfect Census of our citizens ever taken
one that will put his traducers to shame
and confusion. But this is work OF Tune !;
and even the first returns of his Census
takers have not all been rendered yet Do MT
condemn his work till it is finished, and you
will probably have no reason or pretext left
for cOndemning it all.


The World says:


"Boston proper is wrapped in astonishment at the
grevous result Of the of that goodly town.
Nothing short OF souls an estimate had salts


fed the anticpaons of the people but here comes the
inexorabe census taker and alack and alas returns
only 253924 Hubbites all tod Some of the figures show
the progress Of the city The gain In RoxDury Is e,4o
The gain in Ward 70 is 640 but in Ward loss OF 2i93
is reported. The 12 original wards Of the city show
population Of gain since 1865 Of 1l2 But afer
all, what compensate for the 'demnition total
| Only 2559ei! ooh dear, what the matter be Z"
Why don't The World urge the chagrined
Hubbites to pitch into the U. S. Mar
shall for Massachusetts,, and accuse him of
seeking to belitte "liberal" Boston, so as to
exact and aggrandize "fanatical" " Abingdon
or Dennis Why is not this dodge as well
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