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Thf. Cknsub.—The narrow-minded instructions to the U. S. Marshal from the Superintendent of Census, materially obstruct our operations in endeavoring to obtain information for the public in relation to the Census.— Why the Western Marshals should be subject to such strict compliance with the letter of the Census law, and why Marshals in Eastern States should 1* allowed so much liberty, isincomprehensible to us. The only facts specially desired by the public are those relating to the actual enumeration of population and mortuary statistics, but it seem3 the Superintendent is jealous lest these meagre facts should be published in our Western papers before he has an opportunity to lay them before the world in a documentary form—which not one in 100,000 people will ever see. Col. Sif-ford manifests every disposition to oblige the press here, but his letters of instructions oblige him to withhold the few facts which the public would like to see, and we are constrainedto procure our information indirectly. SuchH3 we have already published, however, has been accurate, and we repeat that the Census for the Southern District of Ohio seems to have been very perfectly taken.The enumeration of the population has disappointed every one, but we are convinced that the returns—with here and there a slightexception, perhaps—are accurate. A morningcotemporary has been scolding in its weak way at the Census takers, since the first returns have been made, but we are satisfied the “journalists'1 who do the whining for that concern have not investigated the subject.— Yesterday morning, for instance, they exhibited a “mSre’s nest” which they supposed they discovered in our figures, but their quibbling did not affect the facts. We reported the Fourth Ward as “estimated” at 8*424 persons, but it was published 4,424. The sum total of the population, 102,000, however, included the correct figures, eight instead of four thousand. To-day, we are obliged by returns from the First M ard to cutdown the total another thousand.—But we hope the Fourth and Thirteenth Wards will exhibit a sufficient surplus over this deficit to restore the original figures.% The returns from the First Ward exhibit a population of 7,376 souls, which is 936 less than Col. Sifford’s estimate. Comparison between 1850 and 1860 cannot be instituted because the boundaries of the ward have been changed.— The Third, Fourth and Thirteenth Wards have not been returned. (Green Township contains a population of 4,427 persons, being an increase since 1850 of only 479.The population of Marietta is 4,330, being an increase of 1,155 since 1850.The population of Harmar, opposite to Marietta, is 1,206, being an increase of 196 since1880. i ':*/One of the census takers of Washington county says be recorded one family of twelve children, the eldest of whoti is but eighteen years old, and there are no couplets in the family. He also met with a family of eleven children, the oldest of whom is only fifteen years of age, and no couplets. Their parents are ‘“poor, but honest.” No wonder.Our little morning contemporary says it understands that one of the Census takers in the Northern part of the city cannot read nor write. Col, Sifford requests us to say that he will give $50 reward if any census taker can be found in the District who cannot read and write.In conclusion we remark that the U.S.Marshal has some doubts about the accuracy of the Second Ward, and proposes to enumerate it again. He also desires us to say that he desires all persons, who think their names have been omitted, to call at his office and report themselves*
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, Aug 21, 1860
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