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the same time he assisted Dr. Watkins in writ- 

 ing the "History of tin- Anu-rican Revolution, 

 liy I'iiul A ll>n." Admitted to the Maryland 

 Imr in 1819, he entered upon practice, but 

 continued his literary labors. Besides pre- 

 paring an index for " Niles's Register," then 

 amounting to upward of fifty volumes, ho 

 published in 1823 the novels " Seventy-six, a 

 Koraance of the Revolution," "Logan," ''Ran- 

 dolph," and u Errata." They were severally 

 written, according to his own account, in pe- 

 riods of from twenty-seven to thirty-nine days. 

 He went to England in January, 1824, and 

 wrote articles for various periodicals, including 

 " Sketches of the Five American Presidents and 

 the Five Candidates for the Presidency " for 

 Blackwood's Magazine. His literary efforts 

 attracted the notice of Jeremy Bentham, who 

 invited him to take up his residence in his 

 house, of which he remained an inmate during 

 a considerable portion of his stay in England. 

 In 1827 he returned to America, and settled 

 in Portland, where he employed himself in 

 practising law, writing, and lecturing; "and, 

 that no superfluous energy might run to waste, 

 established gymnasiums and gave lessons to 

 large classes in sparring and fencing." This 

 life he continued till 1850, when he gave up 

 his profession. He also published "Brother 

 Jonathan" (3 vols., London and Edinburgh, 

 1825); "Rachel Dyer" (Portland, 1828); 

 " Bentliam'o Morals and Legislation" (Boston, 

 1830) ; " Authorship, a Tale " (1833) ; " The 

 Down-Easters " (2 vols., New York, 1833); 

 " One Word More " (1854), essays of a reli- 

 gious character ; " True Womanhood, a Tale " 

 (Boston, 1859) ; " Wandering Recollections of 

 a Somewhat Busy Life" (1869); and "Port- 

 land Illustrated" (1874). 



NEBRASKA. The existing law in the State 

 of Nebraska requires an enumeration of the 

 inhabitants to be made every year by the pre- 

 cinct assessors, and returned to the county 



thereafter, and it is probable that the law will 

 be speedily changed to conform thereto, di- 

 pensing with the annual enumeration. Tin: 

 following table furnishes a comparison of the 

 last two censuses: 



STATE SEAL, OF NEBRASKA. 



clerks, by whom they are forwarded to the 

 Secretary of State. The now constitution pro- 

 vides for a census in 1885, and every ten years 



The valuation of property in the State in 

 1875 for purposes of taxation was $75,467,- 

 898.81, and for 1876 $74,178,645.48, a de- 

 crease of $1,288,753.33. The tax-levy for each 

 year was four mills on the dollar for the gen- 

 eral fund, one mill for the sinking-fund, one 

 mill for the common-school fund, one mill for 

 the penitentiary fund, one-quarter mill for the 

 university fund, and one-tenth mill for the State 

 bond fund, or 7jV mills in all. The aggregate 

 revenue to be obtained by this levy is $540,- 



