V. RHODE ISLAND. Settled in 1631. Capitals, Providence and Newport. Area, 1225 square miles. Population, 1860, 174,620. Government for the year ending last Tuesday in May, 1863. The Judges of the Supreme Court hold office | Court. The Associate Judges of the Supreme until they are removed by a resolution passed by both Houses of Assembly and voted for by a majority of the members elected to each House. The Court of Common Pleas in each of the five counties is held by a single judge of the Supreme Court divide this duty among themselves. County. Post-Office. Clerk of Supreme Court. Clerk of Common Pleas. Newport... John W. Davis..... Sheriff. David M. Coggesha!! Thomas Bateman * Resigned and elected United States Senator for the short term, vice James F. Simmons, resigned The State had no debt at the time of the break-, ing out of the rebellion. It has just authorized the issue of $1,800,000 in 6 per cent. bonds, payable in 20 years, to meet the expenses of organizing, equipping, and paying the bounty to its troops. Of these bonds $1,200,000 have been sold, and command a premium of 11 per cent. The Public Deposit Fund is $386,611 26; the Permanent School Fund, $243,100 12, besides an uninvested balance of $1,688 60, and the Touro Jewish Synagogue Fund, Providence Banks. Balance in Treasury, April 30, 1862.... 13,801 02 RAILROADS.-The following table shows the condition of the railroads of the State at the commence Totals.... 283.4 65 96 832 11.670,523 8,743,857 3,715,536 10,903,364 1.082,870 304.2 1,479,774 614.412 School for Idiotic Youth," in Boston. According to the census of 1860, there were in the State 62 deaf and dumb, 85 blind, and 101 idiotic. EDUCATION.-The State has one college, Brown | in Boston, and the idiotic (5) at the “ Massachusetts University, at Providence, founded in 1764. For statistics of this College see Table of Colleges, (pp. 644-45). The Friends have a boarding-school of high grade at Providence, in which instruction is given in most of the collegiate studies, but which does not confer degrees. There are also many academies and high schools of great reputation in the State. Public Schools.-The State has a permanent school fund of $243,100 12, actually invested, which yields an income of $14,442 per annum. The interest of the United States Deposit Fund, and the auctioneers' licenses, are also applied to the support of public schools, and the State grants annually the interest on these two funds, $19,996 86, for school purposes. The School Report for January, 1861, which is the latest published, gives the following items concerning the schools of the State. The annual appropriation from the State was $49,996 86; school tax raised by towns, $95,872 51; registry taxes, $11,538 59; rate-bills, $6,831 02; balance from previous year, $4,126 23; making the total resources for school purposes for the year $168,365 21, an increase of $5,678 03 on the previous year. The amount expended on school-houses was $34,727 38. The number of scholars in the summer schools was 24,726, a decrease of 850 from the previous year; the average attendance was 20,004, an increase of 1148 on the previous year; the number of scholars in the winter schools was 27,750, an increase of 874 on the previous year; and the average attendence was 21,691, more than one-eighth of the entire population, and an increase of 1494 on the average attendance of the previous year. The amount actually expended for instruction solely was $120,075 26. The number of male teachers in the summer schools was 100; female teachers, 470; the number of male teachers in the winter schools, 238; female teachers, 357. The average length of schools seems to have been about 8 months. The average wages of male and female teachers are not given for the State. In Providence and Newport, as well as in most of the other large towns in the State, the schools are thoroughly graded. There are two High Schools of Providence, one for each sex, which give a very thorough course of instruction in the higher studies. The Normal School was established at Providence in 1854. Joshua Kendall, A.M., is the Principal, and Miss Harriet W. Goodwin and Miss Ellen R. Luther, Assistants. The number of pupils in 1861 was 35, and the expenditure $1,944 20. The appropriation made in 1861 for the school was $2,404 68. The School has a library of about 2000 volumes. The Deaf and Dumb, Blind and Idiotic.-The sum of $3,772 18 was paid during the year ending April 30, 1862, for the instruction of the young of these classes. The deaf-mutes (15) are taught at the "American Asylum," Hartford, Connecticut, the blind (5) at the "Perkins Institution for the Blind," A portion of the indigent insane (28 in 1861) not accommodated at the Butler Hospital are supported by the State at the Insane Hospital at Brattleboro, Vermont. Providence Reform School.-Eleazar M. Cushman, Superintendent. This school was opened in November, 1850. From that date to November 30, 1861, there had been committed to the school 884 (678 boys and 206 girls). The number in the school December 1, 1861, was 127 (85 boys and 42 girls); 71⁄2 hours of each day except Sunday are devoted to labor, 5 to school exercises, 21⁄2 to meals and recreation, 1 to religious exercises, and 8 to sleep. Their labor is employed in the manufacture of articles needed in the institution, and in housework, in which the girls become well skilled. An arrangement is made by the State with this school by which all juvenile delinquents are sent to it. $9,046 70 was appropriated to it in 1861. Butler Hospital for the Insane, Providence.-Dr. Isaac Ray, Superintendent. On the 31st December, 1860, there were in the hospital 127 patients; admitted during the year, 53 (25 males, 28 females); whole number during the year, 180; discharged during the year, 45 (23 males, 22 females), leaving in the hospital, December 31, 1861, 135 patients. Of those discharged, 22 had recovered, 5 were improved, 4 unimproved, and 14 died. The amount collected for board of the patients was $26,190 02, and the total receipts (the remainder being from the endowment funds of the hospital) about $31,000. The expenditures were about the same amount. The minimum price of board for patients is $3 per week. On the admission of private patients into the hospital, the treasurer requires from the friends an obligation signed by two responsible persons for the quarterly payment of the board and other expenses, furnishing suitable clothing, &c. The hospital can accommodate about 150 patients. In 1861 the State made an appropriation of $8,455 51 to the hospital to aid in the expense of introducing a new heatIng-apparatus, and making other needed improvements. It also appropriates $1500 annually in aid of the indigent insane who are sent there by the towns. Since the opening of the institution in 1848, 1015 have been admitted and 880 discharged, of whom 340 were recovered, 261 improved, 70 unimproved, and 209 died. State Prison, Providence.-S. L. Blaisdell, Warden: salary, $1500. The number of prisoners on the 1st of January, 1861, was 67; committed to De cember 31, 1861, 39; whole number during the year, 106; average, 75, Discharged by expiration of sentence, 18; by pardon, 3; leaving in prison, December 31, 1861, 85. The prison is on the congre gated or Auburn plan. It somewhat more than supports itself. The Providence Jail is occupied in part by the State as a penitentiary, for the punishment of minor offences,-an average of 63 prisoners being confined there at the suit of the State. Vital Statistics.-According to the eighth Registration report for the year ending December 31, 1860, prepared by Dr. Edward A. Crane, of Providence, under the direction of the Secretary of State, the number of births in the State was 4493 (males, 2263, females, 2212, sex unknown, 18); 2147 were of American parentage, 1987 foreign, and 312 mixed. Number of marriages, 1748, of which 1059 were between Americans, 530 between foreigners, and 159 between Americans and foreigners. Whole number of deaths, 2686 (1295 males, and 1391 females), Of these, 1629 were Americans and 1035 foreigners. The average age of all the deaths was 29.64 years, of the males, 28.51 years, of the females, 30.70 years. Census Statistics.- Under the general tables of Census Statistics most of the particulars relative to the manufacturing industry and agriculture of Rhode Island will be found. Providence county, whose population is 107,799, has nearly 3 of the whole number of inhabitants in the State. Like most of the New England States, the number of females is considerably in excess of the males,-in the white population the number of females being 6064 more than the males, and the colored females being 290 in excess of the males. The State is largely engaged in manufactures, producing $117.845 in value of agricultural implements! $1,068,825 of steam-engines and machinery; $336,600 of iron; $205,262 of printing; $1,138,086 of clothing; $172,174 of sawed and planed lumber; $515,699 of flour and meal; $12,258,657 of cotton goods; $6,599,280 of woollen goods; $80,897 of leather; $315,959 of boots and shoes; $246,700 of India-rubber goods; $217,472 of furniture; $3,006,678 of jewelry, silver-ware, &c.; $197,735 of illuiminating gas; $107,332 of soap and candles; and $308,750 of products of the fisheries. Its aggregate annual manufacturing products were, in round numbers, $47,500,000; and, though the twentyninth State in population and the smallest in territory, it is tenth in rank in its products of industry, surpassing in that regard all the Southern States except Virginia, which it nearly equalled, and all the Western States except Ohio and Illinois. THE VOLUNTEER ARMY.-No State sprang to arms with more promptness and alacrity on the call of the President, April 15, 1861, than Rhode Island. On the 18th of April, three days after the call, Tompkins's battery of light artillery left, completely mounted and equipped, for Washington, via Easton, Pennsylvania; on the 20th of the month, only five days after the call, the first detachment of the First regiment, under the command of Col. (now MajorGeneral) A. E. Burnside; and on the 24th the remainder of the regiment, accompanied by the Governor in person, embarked for Washington. The returns of the militia of the State for the year 1861 show 219 commissioned officers, and 2120 non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, &c., belonging to the active militia, making in all 2339 active militia, and 17,944 enrolled militia. Of the active militia, 43 belong to the general staff, 77 to the cavalry, 423 to the artillery, 1574 to the infantry, and 222 to the riflemen. INDIANS.-A small remnant of the Narragansett tribe of Indians, containing, however, no fullblooded Indians and but few half-bloods, occupy some reservations in the town of Charlestown. They number about 200, and have in all about 900 acres of land; they do not generally cultivate their lands, but engage in other work, and for the most part live very comfortably. They have some funds invested, the income of which is applied to the support of the poor and infirm. They have a good stone church and a well-conducted school, Libraries. The principal public libraries are the Atheneum, in Providence, which contains 25,000 volumes; Brown University, about 40,000; the Franklin Lyceum, 6000; Young Men's Christian Association, 5000. These are all in Providence. In Newport is the Redwood Library, containing 10,000 volumes. In Providence there are, besides, many large and valuable private libraries. The most important of these is the collection of Mr. John Carter Brown, of books relating to America, which embraces upwards of 5000 separate works, and is pro nounced unequalled in this department in the world. The collection of the Hon. Albert C. Greene, in American poetry embraces upwards of 1200 volumes. There are in the State 22 Institutions for Savings having deposits, at the close of the year 1861, to the amount of $9,282,579, belonging to 34,807 dopositors. 1 VI-CONNECTICUT. First settlement, 1633. Capitals, Hartford and New Haven. Area, 4674 square miles. Population, 1860, 460,147. Government for the year ending 1st Wednesday in May, 1863. Commander-in-Chief.. Major-General.... William H. Russell, of New Haven........ Brigadier-General Joseph D. Williams, of Hartford...Adjutant-General..... 66 66 ·Quartermaster-General. Col. William Fitch, of New Haven..........................Paymaster-General...... Henry A. Grant, of Enfield.......................................................... The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, and Comptroller, are chosen by the people, and their term of service is one year. The Senate consists of 21 members, elected annually from Senatorial districts. The members of the House of Representatives are elected annually from the towns, all towns incorporated prior to the adoption of the State Constitution in 1818 ..Surgeon-General........... Salary. being entitled to two Representatives, and all organized since that time to but one. The number of members is not far from 250. The Commissioner of the School Fund, the Superintendent of Common Schools, and the State Librarian, as well as the Trustees of the State Normal School and the State Reform School, are elected by the Legislature. JUDICIARY. Supreme Court of Errors, and Superior Court. Salary. $2,000 Joel Hinman, of New Haven,........ |