Rutland Herald

CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR 1840.

The 6th census of the U. States is to be taken the present year, (commencing June 1st,) and the interrogatories for the Assistants of Marshals, in the different States, have been already prepared at Washington. These, with the returns of the census, when taken, will be a lucrative job for the government printers.

The former censuses which have been taken by the United States authorities, viz. in 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820 and 1830, have been merely enumerations of the inhabitants classed by sexes, ages, and colors, freemen and slaves. By the late act of Congress for taking the census of 1840, the President of the United States was directed to cause the Statistics of the country, relating to Agriculture, Manufactures, Mines, Commerce, Fisheries, etc., to be taken, as well as the condition of the people with regard to Education.

Additional Interrogatories, to those formerly used, have therefore been prepared, to be put by the persons taking the census, for Statistical Tables, in relation to the following subjects, viz:

Education.—Number of white persons, over 20 years of age, who cannot read and write.

Number of students at universities, colleges, academies and schools.

Number of scholars at public charge.

Mines.—Statistics of iron, lead, gold and all other metals; coal, salt, granite, marble, &c.

Agriculture.—Number of horses, mules, cattle, sheep, swine, and value of poultry.

Bushels of wheat, barley, oats, rye, buckwheat, &c.
wheat. Indian corn and potatoes, raised in 1839

Quantity of wool, hops, wax, hay, hemp. flax, tobacco, rice, cotton, silk cocoons, sugar and vinegar

Value of the products of dairy, orchard. and homemade or family goods

Horticulture -Value of garden produce. nursery and green house, number of men employed, and amount of capital employed.

Commerce -Number of commercial houses commission houses, retail dry goods, grocery or other stores, lumber yards, butchers. pack. ers. Ac. Amount of capital invested in each.

Fisheries--Quantity of dried fish. pickled fish, spermaceti oil, whale and other fish oil, value of whalebone and other products of the fisheries. Amount of capital invested and number of men employed.

Products of the Forest.-Value or quantity of lumber. tar. pitch. turpentine. rosin. pot and pearl ashes, skins and furs, ginseng, &c. Number of men employed.

Manufactures.-Statistics of the following branches, including value of articles made in 1839. Amount of capital invested, and number of persons employed. Machinery. hardware, nails and cutlery, cannon, and small arms, gold, silver. &c., various metals. granite, marble, &c.,bricks and lime, wool, cotton, silk, flax, mixed manufactures. tobacco, hats, caps and bonnets, leather, tanneries, saddlery, shoe-makers. &c , soap and candles, liquors. (distilled and fermented.)gunpowder, drugs, medicines. paints and dyes, glass, earthen- ware, and potteries, sugar refineries, chocolate, confectionary, paper and paper hangings, printing, binding, newspapers and periodicals, cordage, wagons, &c, musical instruments, carriages, flouring mills, grist mills, saw mills, oil mills. ships and other vessels, furniture, brick, stone, frame, or wooden houses built in 1839.

Value of all other manufactures and mechanic arts not enumerated.

The above details. for which we are indebted to Mr Williams, compiler of the New York Annual Register, are sufficient to show that the next census of this great Republic, if faithfully taken, will contain a mass of statistics unequalled in value by any heretofore collected in any country. We hope the Marshals in each State, will be careful to select discreet. sober, and accurate men as assistants to take the census. The task is certainly one of great responsibility, and carelessness or incapacity will be inexcusable.-N. Y. Express.