1870 Census Notes from newspapers of the day:

From the Massillon Independent, (Massillon, OH), July 12, 1871: 

  "The last census places the population of New York city at 942,292 - 
lacking a little over 57,000 of being one million.  Massillon, at last
census, was put down at 5,180.   By this comparison, it will be seen 
that New York has people to fill up 182 Massillons.  It will require
several years for us to overtake that big town in numbers."

From the Lorain Constitutionalist, (Elyria, OH), October 18, 1871: 

  "Statistics at the Census Bureau show that of the population of 
Pittsburg, Pa., and its suburbs, 49,642 are foreign.  Of these 19,495
are Germans, 19,025 Irish, 4,621 English, 1,500 Welsh, 1,255 Scotch,
1,137 French and 979 Swiss."

From the Indiana Messenger, (Indiana, PA), December 20, 1871: 

  "STATISTICS OF AFFLICTION - The advance sheet of the census furnish
some interesting but melancholy statistics with reference to the num-
ber and whereabouts of the blind, deaf and dumb, idiotic and insane
in the United States.  From the returns it appears that there are 
20,320 blind persons in this country, of whom 11,343 are males, and 
16,966 are whites.  In the United States there are 141 blind persons 
who have lived more than a century.  Of these who are deaf and dumb
the census reports 16,215; of these 3,916 are males, and 14,907 are
whites.  From the returns it appears that the deaf and dumb do not
attain to great age that many of the blind seem to have reached.  The
whole number of insane persons is reported at 37,382; of this 18,174
are males and but 1,822 are whites.  Only 7 centenarians are found
among the insane in this country.  The census puts the number of
idiots at 24,527, of whom 14,425 are males.  The negroes have a much
larger representation in this class of unfortunates than any other;
of the aggregate 3,188 are blacks and mulattoes.  Only 324 are over
forty years old, and 5 in the United States have seen 100 unhappy 
years.  Of the blind, deaf and dumb, insane and idiotic, the net num-
ber is 98,454.  There are a few afflicted in more ways than one; 96
are blind and deaf and dumb; 75 of the blind are insane; 105 of the
idiots are blind, 7 poor wretches are blind, deaf, dumb and insane,
and 11 of the idiots are also blind, deaf and dumb."

From the Herald and Torch Light, (Hagerstown, MD), August 9, 1871: 

  "The census tables give the following interesting and suggestive
facts in regard to the population of New York city: Males over twenty-
one years of age, 184,607, of which only 71,342 are natives, and
113,265 are foreign born.  The whole population is 942,292, divided as
follows: Native born, 186,481; of foreign father, 23,038; of foreign
mother, 11,783; of both foreign parents, 720,990.  The preponderance
of persons of foreign birth or parentage is very much larger than 
would be credited were it not for the evidence given by the figures."

From the Fitchburg Sentinel, (Fitchburg, MA), August 5, 1871: 

  "THE CITIES OF NEW ENGLAND, Census office reports will show that
there are 134 cities in the United States having a population each of
10,000 or over.  Massachusetts has 11 of these cities.  Boston stands
fifth in the rank for the whole country; Worcester thirteenth, and
Lowell, thirty-first.  Maine has 4, Portland being forty-first. Conn-
ecticut has 5, New Haven holding the twenty-fifth place.  New Hamp-
shire has 3, Manchester being fifty-fifth.  Rhode Island has but one
city of over 10,000 inhabitants, and that is Providence, which is
twenty-first on the list and the second city in New England.  Vermont
has only Burlington, and that stands well toward the bottom of the
list, and is numbered the ninety-fourth.  The New England States have
25 of the 134 cities, almost one-sixth; New York alone has 18, and 
with New England, 43, or almost one-third.  Washington is the twelfth
city in the Union.  There are only 25 cities numbering over 50,000 
inhabitants each."

From the Coshocton Age, (Coshocton, OH), November 17, 1871: 

  "The national census shows that, for the one person who dies in
Tennessee and Georgia of consumption, thirteen die in Massachusetts,
and two in Minnesota."

From the Coshocton Age, (Coshocton, OH), August 25, 1871: 

  "The latest revised tables of the census office make the population
of the United States to be 38,519,987, as follows: _
White, 33,581,680; Colored, 4,879,323; Indian, 25,733; Chinese, 63,156;
Japanese, 55."

From the Coshocton Age, (Coshocton, OH), August 18, 1871: 

  "According to the census of 1870, there are 11,000,000 horses in the
United States.  The States having the greatest number are as follows:
Illinois, 1,340,000; Ohio, 1,200,000; Pennsylvania..."

From the Atlanta Constitution, (Atlanta, GA), September 27, 1871: 

  "A householder in Florida, in filling up his census schedule, under
the heading 'where born' described one of his children as 'born in the
parlor' and the other 'up stairs.'   A strict return."

From the Atlanta Constitution, (Atlanta, GA), August 30, 1871: 

  "The Census office furnishes the following statistics of homicides
for the year, ending May, 1870:  Alabama, 100; Arkansas, 76; Arizona, 44;
California, 45; Colorado, 47; Connecticut, 6; Delaware, 4; Dakota, 4;
District of Columbia, 13; Florida, 41; Georgia, 116;..."

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