The Secretary read as follows: ExECUTIvr. DEPT, Golor:NCCoiLtoyR, ADo TERRITORY November 10, i556. DEAR SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor, bearing date the 5th instant, in relation, to the censusreturns now on file in my of fice, and asking for a statement of the same if compatible with the public interest. In responding to, your desire for information on this subject, it would perhapsoto o: a."; genof the result, so far as received, they have been but not having immediate access to my official records, I can only furnish the total, footings of the 12 counties thus far reported. These exhibit a population of 22,000 souls. 6 of the most important in wealth and numbers excepting Gilpen and Arrapahoe are yet to be heard from. In this connection it may be well to state that many of the assessorswhile in the prosecution of their as sessmentswere entirely ignorant of the duties imposed by the law regulating censusreturns, copies of which, though promptly forwarded, failed to them in time to be of service. Others were norteach advised by any recognized authority that such a had been passed until after their assessmentrloalwls had been returned to the county clerks. I am also informed that in not a few localities no effort was made to record the non-tax paying residents, and that only such names were taken down orderly within their jurisdiction as assessors of taxablo property. In the 2nd largest and most populous mining county (Clear Creek) no censushas been made becauseof the refusal of the officer assigned to duty that to act for the sum specified in the law. I am further assuredby prominent citizens of Denver that a private census has been taken which places the population of that city alone at a greater number than county was returned by the assessor for, the entire The interest you have manifested in the may terial prosperity of our Territory induces me to present thesefacts in vindication of gross the people from the misstatements now in circulation throughout the eastern States, fulminated by disloyal politicians with the express design of defeating the admission of the State at the coming session of Congress. $ & Your obedient servant, FRANK HALL, Secretary and Acting Governor of Colorado. Hon. John EwANs, U.S. Senator electfor Colorado.