Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1873 — The Official Census Figures. [ARTICLE]

The Official Census Figures.

The following table gives the population of the States in 1860 and 1870, with the changes in rank: . 1870- . 1860 . Stales. Papula. Rank. Papula. Rank. Alabama .. 996,‘192 16 664.201 13 Arkansas 484,471 26 f 435,450 25 California 560.247 24 379,904 26 Connecticut 537.454 25 460,147 24 Delaware, 125,015 34 112,216 32 Florida 187,748 33 140,124 31 Oeorgis- 1,184.109 12 1,057,286 11 Illinois.. ........ 2C5391891 4 i,711,961 —* Indiana 1,660,631 6 1,350.428 6 10wa... 1.194,029 11 674.913 *0 Kansas 364,399 29 107,206 33 Kentucky 1,321.011 8 1,156,684 9 Louisiana 726,914 21 708,002 17 Maine ~Y. 626,915 23 628,279 22 Maryland.... .1.. 780,894 20 687,049 19 Massachusetts... 1,457,351 7 1,231,066 7 Michigan 1,184,059 13 749.113 16 Minnesota... .. 439,706 28 172,028 80 Mississippi 827,922 18 791,306 14 Missouri.. 1,721.295 5 1,182,012 8 Nebraska 122,993 35 28,841 86 Nevada 42,491 37 6,867 37 New Hampshire 318,360 31 886,073 27 New Jertcy.... 906,096 17 672,035 21 New Y0rk...... 4,882,759 1 3,880,735 1 North Carolina. 1,011,361 14 992,622 12 Ohio 2,665,260 3 2,839,511 3 Oregon 90,923 86 52,646 84 Pennsylvania. . 8,52 .961 2 2,906,215 2 Khod" Island.. 217,353 32 174,620 29 South Carolina. 705,606 22 703.708 18 Tennessee 1,258,590 9 1,109,801 10 Wxas 818,579 19 604,815 28 Vermont ... ... 830,551 80 315,098 28 •Virginia 1,225,163 10 1,919,630 5 Wisconsin . .. 1,054,670 15 776.881 15 West Virginia., 441,814 *7 376,688 .. Total.. .38,115,641 81,18 <,744 Arizona.. ..... 9,658 6,488 Colorado 39,864 .. 34,277 Columbia 181.700 .. „ 75,080 Dakota 14,181 .. 4,867 Idaho 14,999 Montana 20,595 .. .... New Mexico... 91,874 87,05 t *.. Utah.. ......... 88,786 40,278 Washington,... 28,955 11AM Wyoming....... 9,118 To’l Territories. 442,730 259,577 Grand T0U1.,88,558,371 *1,448,881 •■ Vishnia and West Virginia were not divided in 1860. and together ranked at 5, as marked opposite Virginia. This is Mark Twain’s picture of Harris, the Hawaiian Prime Minister: “Harris, for instance. Harris is an American —a long-legged, vain, light-weight village lawyer from New Hampshire. If he had brains in proportion to his legs, he would make Solomon seem a failure; if his modesty equaled his ignorance, he would make a violet seem stuck up; if hit learning equaled his vanity, he would make Von Humboldt seem as unlettered as the backside of a tombstone; if his stature were proportioned to his conacienoe, he would be a gem for the microscope; if his ideas were as large as his words, it would take a man three months to,walk around one of them; if an audience were to contract to Hates as long as he would talk, that audience wouid die of old age; and if he were to talk until he said, something, he would still be on his hind legs when the last trump sounded. And he would have cheek enough to wait till the disturbance was over, and go on again.”

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

Thursday, January 23d, 1873.

Ail persons indebted to the firm of Alibett Bros- A Co., are notified to call and settle, cither with cash or bote. Potatoes retail in Rensselaer for 60 rent 9 a bushel,apples $1 to $1.20, beans $1.60 to SI.BO, green wood $8.26 a cord. Mr. Daniel Lamson, long a rosldettt of JaspW - county, died in RensselAbr yesterday morning, eged about fitly Tears. This Is the last publication Of the delinquent tax list Tor 1813. Next week we shall furnish our patrons from seven to "nine columns more of reading matter. * Five or six inches of snow on the ground makes good sleighing. Tins morning a high, blustering wind from the northeast is blowing down hiore snow and piling it up in drifts. Died. January 18th, 1873, Richard O. Howe, aged about 49 years. Mr. Howe had been au invalid for nearly fifteen years and almost a helpless cripple fV»rsix or seven years past.— He was buried with Masonic honors on Sunday. If the teacher of School No. l. Newton township will inform us of the number of pupils enrolled by her for the month ending January 10th, 1873, and the average daily attendance, we will publish her “perfect list” with pleasure, -■ ■

Johnny Hemphill has moved into Ihe room between Dwiggins & Co.’s law office and Mrs. Hemphill’s millinery store, where he will be pleased to receive all who delight in good cigars, tobacco or gentlemen’s furnishing goods. —— The Remington Journal says that a protracted meeting is in progress at the Methodist church in tiiat place, and tiiat the interest is quite encouraging. Several brick business houses are to be put up next - summer.. The corn Cracking machine is in operation giving general satisfaction, and a flouring mill is among the contemplated improvemen ts Tor nex t .spring, or any future period. Mr. Isaac V. AllCTTthe enterprising proprietor of Alters’ celebrated flouring mißs in Union township, seven miles north of Rensselaer, will attach a circular saw to his Hteam machinery and lie prepared to saw lumber about the Ist of March. We understand tiie project to start a sawmill in that neighborhood under the patronage of tiie Patrons of Husbandry lias been abandoned.

There w:is a sexagenarian wedding at the Austin House last Monday evening. The principals to the transaction were Mr. Win. Daugherty and Mrs. Cymanthia Snyder. This is the third venture of each in the grand lottery of Hymen, and everybody hopes that the dismal winter of their widowhood lias budded into a long and glorious summer of matrimony.— May a blessing similar to that vouchsafed to Abram and Sarai of old be added to solace the residue of their earthly pilgrimage. —— -—- The pewter pointed gimlet man is trying to find a name for a water tank and three whiskey saloons, on the prairie fifteen miles east of here. He suggests “Ceres” as short and easily written; but wouldn’t Bacchus better represent the worship there most popular? And then if the final syllable was given a rounder, fuller vowel pronunciation those famous dime epies of our vivisecting friend would be readily recognized as indigenous necessary exhalations peculiar to the locality. If an appropriate old heathen name is desired, incorporate those doggeries and call the place Bacchus.

Speaking of the credit system, an Illinois paper says: “It is a positive injury' to the debtor, by cultivating in him a' habit or tendency which induces recklessness or carelessness-in his mode of living, and often leads into extravagance which hiß income or means will not permit. It is said of some classes i n the community (farmers particularly) that they are not always provided with the ready cash with which to supply their current wants and necessities, that they must sell their wheat, or hogs, or cattle, in order to get money to meet their obligations, antj that in jthe meantime- they must have* credit. But we maintain that every man; 1 be he farmer or not, who has an income and desires to live within it, can, with ordinary prudence, care and forethought, so regulate his finances as to ‘pay as he goes.’ There Is no economy In it, [the credit system,] for if the merchant must carry the farmer through the year, he must be paid for it, and lie is paid for it, in the final settlement.”

In a letter to Win. Ashton, Esq., of Rochester, Col. Wm. H. Merritt, an officer in the Construction company which is building the Continental Railroad, says as follows, under date of January 13, 1873: ' * „ “ * * * The. road or company has paid its engineering expenses up to date, which amounts to nearly seventy thousand dollars; has paid several thousand dollars on grading' between Franceeville and Rensselaer; paid its October estimate of ties promptly and in full, and would have paid the November estimate had not the returns been delayed by the Engineer at my special request; and lias made a satisfactory settlement with the Ohio contractors. It is true that time drafts have been given for a portion of the Ohio estimates on grading, but this, to one who is familiar with the extreme and almost unexampled stringency of the money market in New York for the last six months, will not appear surprising. Many of the leading roads in the country, both constructed and in process of construction, have found it impossible to raise money without submitting to great sacrifices and in many instances ordering work stopped until the market eased up. “The time drafts given by President Wood have in several instances been cashed by Western bankers, evidencing a greater degree of confidence on the part of moneyed men that have no direct interest in the road, than seems to have characterized Qm investigations of others who ought to feel a warm solicitude for the success of this great enterprise. “I feel no hesitancy in assuring the people of Rochester that the company Uin a healthy financial condition, and that its tie and timber work will be actively prosecuted in Ohio this winter, and that the grading betweeh Tiffin and Chicago will be promptly and vigorously renewed as soon as the ground settles in the spring, the opinion of newspaper journalists-located on rival Hues of railroads to the contrary notwithstanding.” '

The Indianapolis Journal of Inst Saturday contains the following "personal: ” 1 *'A good natured county auditor, who w<te elected to office last fall, who iningihea tiiat, lie lias mastered all there is to be known of the details of the office, has resolved himself into a missionary board to visit all the unenlightened auditors and instruct them in tiie duties of the office. Yesterday he wandered into Frank Hamilton’s office, and inquired how long Trank had been in office. The latter said .about a year, when the tn. b. immediately sat down and gave instructions as to how the auditor should proceed about ills duties, prefacing his remarks by tiie statement that he supposed Mr. H. had Dot been in office long enough to acquire a full knowledge of them. After talking about an hour and a half, he suddenly quit, very much discouraged, by Frank telling him Bis conclusions had all been arrived at by his hearer some twenty-five years ago.” ; \ Tiiat is always the way -'let people run in the ruts for twenty or twentyfive years and when an ardent, progressive man recommends reform lie meets just such flings as the Journal flaunts at our county Auditor.

Hon. W./VV. Butterworth, member of the Lower House of the General Assembly from St. Joseph county, lias introduced a bill to compel parents nnd girardians to educate their ehildren or wards. This bill provides tiiat all children between the ages of eight and fourteen years shall be sent to school at least twelve weeks in each year, six weeks of which attendance shall be consecutive; provided the mental and physical condition of the children is not such as to incapacitate them from attendance, or tiiat no school is held within the distance of a mile and a half from their home. I .The. bill also provides that if the parent or guardian is not able to supply tiie child witli proper, clothing and books, then the township trustee, Upon proof of such fact, shall Supply the necessary books and clothing.— Children shall be exempted from compulsory attendance at the public schools upon proof that they receive instruction at home or in private schools in such brandies as are usually taught in the public schools, or that they have already acquired the same. The necessity for a law similar to the one proposed by Mr. Butterworth is ,-liown by the reports of teachers: in the publicsdiools—for instance those of Jasper county, (and ours are no worse than the balance, but compare favorably witli tfie State.) It is shown by the number of children that may be seen any day loafing about the streets and stores of every city, town and village during school hours. A law that will compel those who have tiie care of children to send them where they will receive instruction in practical knowledge, adapted to every day use, can do no harm, need work no hardships to any, but will beoftlie greatest advantage to the parent, the child and tiie state. To the parent by increasing his child’s entelligence and rendering it more useful, more beautiful and more loving and loveable.— To the child by enlarging its ideas, elevating its aspirations, humanizing its instincts, increasing its happiness and better fitting it to grapple with and triumph over the vicissitudes of life. And to tiie state by making better citizens who shall place wiser men in control of public affairs, by creating shrewder financiers and thereby increasing its wealth, by decreasing the number of paupers and criminals and in hundreds of ways that will suggest themselves upon a moment’s consideration. The tendencies of knowledge are all good. The perpetuity of our country as a unit with its free institutions unimpaired absolutely depends upon the intelligence of her children citizens, and it Is tiie mark of sound statesmanship to provide for their education. “The bird tiiat can sing and wont sing shouldbe made to sing. ” And if parents and guardians who are ignorant themselves will persist in keeping in ignorance the children over whom they have charge, by not permiting them to attend school, then the State in her sovereign capacity should step in and compel those parents and guardians to send them to school, as a means of perpetuating herself and in order to more effectually protect her citizens from the vices and crimes that ever consort with ignorance. ' —■< * • a a- ■— Norman Warner requests all who are indebted to him for blacksmithing to please call immediately and settle, and those who owe notes that have been due for sixty days or over To payythe same within ten days, or they will lj?e given to the proper officers for collection. From this date customers will come prepared to pay for work when they take it away, as no books will be kept and no credit work will be done this season.