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Show THD VOTE OF UTAH. There lias bceu a great deal haid about non-naturalized aliens voting in this Territory, and several times attempts at-tempts have been made to impeach election return on this ground. It has beep alleged that the Territory could not havo sufficient legal voters to poll (he 23,100 cast at the lost election for delegate to congress; and this worn out string has bceu harped on till it has become be-come a nuisance. In view of the fact that another election is pending, we have taken lite trouble to make some researches, collate figures, and secure 1'aots as to the numerical vote of Utah; and with information thus obtained wo have no hesitation in saying that the full legal vote of this Territory has never yet been cast. This morning we shall content ourselves our-selves with drawing evidence from tho statistics furnished by tho last census returns. 13y them we lind that in 1S70 tho native born population of Utah was :'ii'i,0S4. Tho average of families in Ireland, life most prolific of European countries, is placed at live persons; but as Utah is acknowledged acknowl-edged to bo slightly ahead of most other communities in tho size of its families, wc aro willing to tako seven pcrs:ns as an average family; and this is undoubtedly high, for while thcro aro a largo number of families in which plural murriage prevailswith its aecom-pani aecom-pani ment of numerous children, there is undoubtedly a still larger number with ono wife to the household; and a moderate mod-erate percentage of bachelors and spinsters. spins-ters. Seven persons as an average family would give a total ol'over eight thousand i'amilics, native born; and beyond all dispulo three adults to a family is a low average. Where one wile is tho rule there muL be two heads to each family, and an average of one adult son or daughter, of twenty-one years of age, is certainly too low. This would give us over twenty-four thousand thous-and native born citizens in the Territory, Terri-tory, over twenty-one years of age, and consequently fully eatitled to vole. Objection may be made to this cal- culation on the ground that of the native na-tive born population a considerable percentage have foreign born parents, lint this percentage is not so large as many people imagine, for the entire native born population having foreign born parents was, in 1S70, acoording to the census, 2l,Go6. These include hundreds of men and women from twenty-one to sixty years of age, whose parents early emigrated to the United States, and many of whom could be pointed out by the score in this city as American born citizens of mature years. Of the same class a large part of the entire vole of the United States is composed. OP the 30,702 foreign born inhabitants of Utah, an average of one-tenth may be fairly es timated as having been natu- ralized, many of them having received their naturalization papers in the eastern States, years before a man's belief was made a test of refusing him American citizenship. This naturalized natural-ized vote added to the twenty-four thousand estimated from the native born population, would-give a vote of about.. twenty-seven thousand seven hundred. Take from this an equal ten per cent, for the twenty-one thousand six hundred of native born population having foreign born parents, as an offset off-set to their alien parentage, and wc have a total vote of twenty-five thousand thou-sand ono hundred, in round numbers; it being remembered that in this calculation calcu-lation only native born men and women, and naturalized men aro included, no j estimate being placed upon the foreign ! born children of naturalized parents, , nor upon foreign born women receiv ing eitizcn.-hip and the legal rilit to vote through coverture by marriage with citizens. Tins u a fair etim;iie of the vote of 170, bastd upon the census returns which were unquestionably too low, and as a re.-ult the estimate of the vote is loss thnn i: should be, and would be, had we the correct population returns. 'i:h the population in the Territory' to-d:iv, il e le;il vote of Utah c.ttinot fail tar, if anything, short of, thirtv thousand, ar.d we w-.uld count i " en ;h:tt number of Iegi! ballots being I ' i-ast were a contest to ari-e that would i call out the entire vo:ug strength of j the Territory. - I . Tins article may be sneered at, and an j attempt be mide to ridicule the ea!eji- J hti.-n presented in it, by the clique ) thit has so pen-intently" houted "ille-.j cai voting" while en ieavoiing to secure i votes by every p.s-ib-e illegal means; , b-jt ''facts are stubborn, things," and 1 ;he figures are in evii! ace mj cannot j be sneered away. CO.VDKXSKD MAIL NIC W8. The Wisconsin assembly have voted down the presidential one term constitutional consti-tutional amendment of Mr. Sumner. Ex U. S. senator Fowler of Tennessee Tennes-see advocates the sending of Kepubli-. can deiigaies to the Cincinnati couven-' tion. ) They have a spiritual photographer' in Bu.-itoD who has taken, or has for' sale, cartts de visile of the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. The N. Y. World scores judge Barnard Bar-nard and Cardoza unmercifully, and insists in-sists that they shall resign the otliees they have disgraced. Pi. II. Bayly a rich ui reliant of Or-laaus, Or-laaus, recently debased, left by will a legacy of $70,000 to endow a professor bhip of Washington college, Virginia. Suits have been commenced in the U. S. courts in New York, against i several national banks to recover the! penalty, $5,000, in each case, for making incorrect returns of their dividends divi-dends by substractiug tho amount of the municipal taxes from tho aggregate aggre-gate sums returned. The Missouri Jitul,ijun says uf the cool courage of Queen Victoria! when attacked by O'Counor, that il !was perfectly characteristic, and that "her family bus produced several scoundrels and some tools, but as far as history records, no coward." A bill to increase the clerical force in the laud office, at Washington, has received the approval of tho house committee. Wc hope it may become a law, as under the present regime it requires too much time to obtain a patent pa-tent even in cases where I here is no conflict con-flict of claims. Garibaldi .has written a letter in which he says that he publicly joined the Internationals in France during the war, and that he had previously joined them when in the service of the He-public He-public of Montevideo, lie further says that while he would have fought lor the Communists in France if he had expected ex-pected the insurrection, ho has no sympathy for those who purpose to war against capital. The bill before the N. Y. legislature to strike out the work "white" from the State military code will probably become a law. Well, wo can t imagine imag-ine the probability that in the event of war, tho negroes will be refused the privilege ol becoming' targets tor the enemies, bullets. This is one of the instances in which white soif preservation preserva-tion approves- the doctrine of human (equality without regard to color. A German of New York city named Adam Engel, called upon comptroller Green, and stated that he had been put upon the payroll of clerks of the board of assistant alderman, at 500 per annum, without his knowlcdge and that he wished his name erased, as he performed no service and did not want money which he had not earned This circumstance is encouraging as showing that there yet lives in New York some honest men. A bill has been introduced in congress con-gress which provides that any person i who will plant and koep in growing condition for five years 100 acres of timber on the public lands shall be entitled en-titled to a patent for the same, the trees to be planted not more than eight feet apart each way. The land can be entered on the payment of ten dollars-but dollars-but the patent pot to issue until five years after entry, and only rmc quarter of any single section can be thus entered. |