1860 Census Notes from newspapers of the day:

From the Davenport Daily Gazette, (Davenport, IA), March 29, 1862: 

  "THE RESULT OF EIGHT CENSUSES - We were favored recently by the 
Superintendent of the Census with a copy of a tabular statement, 
prepared in his bureau; which, from its comprehensiveness and con-
densation, deserves a passing notice.  The table comprises the
aggregate population of each State and Territory of the United 
States every tenth year, from 1790 to 1860 inclusive, classing in
separate column, at each period and in each State, the number of
"whites," "free colored," and "slaves," and we have all these
aggregates of eight different censuses in a table 36 inches by 12.
We presume that the reader could hardly, of himself, begin to 
estimate the amount of human labor that was expended in travel-
ing and obtaining and recording and reporting the details com-
pressed into this space of 36 inches by 12, or the weight in tons
of the vast volumes of manuscript returns from which this com-
pendium has been reduced.  Would the reader believe that these
masses of figures, in manuscript, of the eight censuses, would
load one hundred wagons?  Yet it is so, incredible as it may 
appear.   What a labor, then, the reduction of all this to one
sheet! - Washington Intelligencer

From the Davenport Daily Gazette, (Davenport, IA), December 27, 1862: 

  "SUPERABUNDANCE OF MEN - There is according to the census, an
excess of 723,258 males over females in the United States. This
fact is noteworthy, and ought to quiet the apprehensions of those
who feared the war would cause an undue preponderance of women
after peace was declared.  No matter how bloody the war may be,
or how long it lasts, it cannot make away with three-quarters of
a million of lives.  The waste of life may make the sexes near-
ly even; but even then we shall be better off than England, 
where the females are in excess nearly a million, and the social
problem of the day is how to provide them with husbands or 
occupations."

From the New York Times, April 6, 1862: 

  "The population of the United States by the census of the year
1860 was as follows:
 For the Free States...........................18,904,564
 For the fifteen Slave States (free)........... 8,280,545
 For the fifteen Slave States (slaves)......... 3,999,557

Total population of the United States 
 for the year 1860.............................31,184,666
 The production of sugar in Louisiana,
  Texas, and Florida, by the census of
  1860, was, lbs..............................255,115,750
 The importations (foreign sugars) for
  1860 were...................................692,944,872
                                              ___________
 Total production of, and importations
  into the United States, 1860, lbs...........948,060,622
 There was exported of domestic sugar,
  lbs..............................1,133,986
 And of foreign sugars............28,988,404 - 30,122,390
                                              ___________
 Total consumption of the United States
  for the year 1860, lbs......................917,938,232
 Deduct for 4,000,000 slaves, 10 lbs.
  each per annum...............................40,000,000
                                              ___________
 Consumption of 27,185,109 persons (white
  population of 1860), lbs....................877,938,232
 Equal to 32 1/2 lbs. each man, woman, and
  child per annum."

From the Berkshire County Eagle, February 20, 1862: 

  "We were led into error by the census last week, that work 
giving only one Elizabeth City - that in Virginia, that in 
North Carolina, being quite a different place.  Such an 
omission in a work like the census is very remarkable, to say
the least.  Elizabeth City in North Carolina, that taken by
our troops, has a population of about 2000, and is a place of
considerable wealth and importance, although not equal to 
that of its Virginia name-sake."

From the Berkshire County Eagle, April 24, 1862: 

  "BLUNDERS IN CENSUS RETURNS - It would seem that the govern-
ment ought to have something creditable to show for all its
expenditure of men and money in taking, preparing, and printing
the decennial census. - Especially does it seem that 
Massachusetts, the synonym for liberty and education, should
make her returns with great accuracy and precision.  But such
is not the fact, assuming the annual assessors returns in the
several cities and towns as correct.  There is a discrepancy
of more than four and a half millions of dollars in our state
valuation."

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