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MISSOURI. 



CENSUS OF 181Q-(Continued). 



Included in the census are 3 Chinese and 75 

 Indians. The true value of property was 

 $1,284,922,897. The public deht, county, city, 

 town, etc., amounted to $29,023,865. The 

 aggregate value of farm-products, including 

 betterments and additions to stock, was $103,- 

 035,759 ; 3,649,390 pounds of wool were raised ; 

 161,763 whites, and 60,622 colored persons, ten 

 years old and over, cannot write, of whom 

 105,765 are males, and 116,620 are females. 

 Of those twenty-one years old and over who 

 cannot write, 34,780 are white males. 



The mineral wealth of Missouri becomes 

 more and more apparent each year, and works 

 are gradually growing up for its complete de- 

 velopment. An official geological survey of 

 the State is going on, but the results have not 

 as yet been fully reported. 



The adjourned session of the Legislature 

 began on the 5th of December. The Governor 

 at once submitted a message, in which he re- 

 peated his recommendations concerning the 

 establishment of a board of railway commis- 

 sioners, and suggested a number of important 

 reforms in regard to the administration of 

 justice. He favored an increase of the number 

 of judges of the Supreme Court, the abolition 

 of the courts of Common Pleas, and an in- 

 crease of Circuit Courts to supply their place. 

 He also recommended measures to reduce the 

 costs in criminal suits, and a general reorgani- 

 zation of county courts, and suggested that 

 the grand-jury system needed reform. 



A large number of bills were introduced, 

 but none of importance had been passed when, 

 on the 21st, an adjournment was taken for two 



As there was not a general election this 



year, no important political movement was 

 made by either party until near its close, when 

 active preparations were made for the na- 

 tional campaign of 1872. The division of the 

 Republican party in 1870 had continued, and 

 an attempt made in October to effect a con- 

 solidation failed. The principles of the liberal 

 wing, which is now the dominant power in the 

 State, are set forth in the following resolutions 

 adopted by the Central Committee : 



Resolved, 1. That these are vital principles of the 

 Republican party : that no citizen shall be deprived 

 of his just share in the government which he helps 

 to support for the benefit of others, and that no man 

 shall be deprived of the earnings of his labor, or any 

 part thereof, for the benefit of any other man. 



2. That it is a violation of vital republican prin- 

 ciples to deprive any man, be he white or black, of 



and those who fought for enfranchisement in Mis- 

 souri in 1870, faithful to the same principles, still 

 demand the removal of all political disabilities from 

 white as well as from colored men throughout the 

 land. Pointing to the peace which enfranchisement 

 has given to this State, they still maintain that gen- 

 eral amnesty will do more to restore order at the 

 South than severe measures which confer despotic 



Sower, and set aside constitutional guarantees of 

 eedom. 



3. That the Eepublican party, as it fought against 

 slavery, which deprived a man of the whole of his 

 earnings for the benefit of another, so it now opposes 

 every form of taxation which deprives a man of any 

 share of his earnings for the benefit of others ; and 

 it is, therefore, unequivocally hostile to any tariff 

 which fosters one industry or interest at the expense 

 of another. Nor are those true to republican prin- 

 ciples who aid the election of Senators and .Represent- 

 atives known to favor this unequal and unjust system 

 of taxation. 



4. That the safety of republican institutions de- 

 mands a thorough reform of the civil service of the 

 Government, by which ability and moral worth shall 

 be established as the essential qualifications for office, 



