inhabitants, 751,110; of these, 16,310 are colored, 354 deaf and dumb, 233 blind, and 338 insane; the value of the real estate of the State is $262,785,750;* whole number of occupied farms, 62,722; number of acres improved, 3,421,120; acres unimproved, 3,589,442; cash value of farms, $162,713,267; value of farming implements and machinery, $5,799,744; number of horses, asses, and mules, 137,881; of milch cows, 180,441; of working oxen, 62,055; of other cattle, 240,428; of sheep, 1,266,680; of swine, 366,572; total value of live stock, $23,618,458; bushels of wheat produced, 8,171,688; of rye, 525,716; of Indian corn, 12,372,877; of oats, 4,063,528; of barley, 302,951; of buckwheat, 523,687; of potatoes, 5,258,628; pounds of wool, 3,929,113; value of orchard products, $1,116,219; pounds of butter, 15,498,047; of cheese, 1,610,097; tons of hay, 761,156; bushels of clover-seed, 50,079; pounds of maple sugar, 3,973,780; value of home-made manufactures, $144,758; number of flouring-mills, 309; capital employed, $2,951,336; barrels of flour made, 1,786,289; value of annual product, $8,989,824; number of saw-mills, 901; capital employed, $7,607,025; feet of lumber sawed, 795,606,698; value of produet, $6,891,769; aggregate of all kinds of manufactures, including mills, capital invested, $35,303,590; hands employed, male, 21,702, female, 1125; value of annual product, $33,068,071; number of mining companies, 39; hands employed, 3923; capital invested, $4,868,000; tons of copper raised, 5407; tons of iron, 138,800; value of products, $2,906,588; capital invested in fisheries, $178,375; number of barrels caught in 1860, 59,057; value, $395,636.† Immigration.-In 1857, the Legislature, with a view of encouraging immigration, offered to settlers upon its swamp-lands (which include some of the best lands of the State) 40 acres free to each immigrant who would settle upon and improve such ¡lands, and caused proclamation of this offer to be made in the other States and in Europe. In 1861 the law was amended, giving a license to the immigrant for 80 acres of land, and permitting him to purchase 80 acres more at $1 25 per acre, one-fourth only to be paid down. The deed of the land is not given to the settler till be has bestowed some labor upon the land in its improvement and reclamation. 40,147 acres were licensed to settlers under these laws in 1861. The Contributions of Michigan to the Volunteer | Army.—On the first call of the President for troops, on the 15th of April, 1861, one regiment was assigned as the quota of Michigan. The proclamation was published on the 16th of April, and on the 19th the regiment, numbering 780 men, was ready to be mustered into the service, fully armed and equipped. Owing to orders received from the War Department, they did not leave the State till May 13, and meantime a second regiment of threeyears men had been enlisted and fully equipped for service, being ready for marching-orders by the 29th of April. During the year 1861, there were raised in the State, and either sent into the field or awaiting marching-orders, 24,097 soldiers, embracing 18 regiments infantry, 1 regiment and 1 company engineers, 3 regiments cavalry, 6 companies sharpshooters, 1 company light and 6 companies heavy artillery, and 13 companies infantry and 2 squadrons cavalry enlisted in other States. Under the calls of 1862, the number sent into the field, or awaiting marching-orders on the 1st Dec. 1862, was sufficient to bring the whole force from Michigan up to about 48,000 men. The Michigan regiments in their physique and moral character have been equal to any regiments contributed to the service. Colonel (now General) Wilcox, who commanded the first regiment at Bull Run, was for more than a year a prisoner, and one of those whose manly and patriotic bearing most thoroughly vexed the Confederates; and another of her officers, the brave Major-General Israel B. Richardson, fell mortally wounded at Antietam. * This probably refers to the entire lands of the State sold and unsold. + Such of these items as are found in the table of the preliminary Census report differ slightly from the figures of that report, as is the case with all the State compilations of the Census. 1 XXVI. INDIANA. Settled in 1730. Capital, Indianapolis. Area, 33,809 square miles. Population, 1860, 1,350,428. S H. Buskirk........ Indianapolis.. Speaker of the House.............. Jan. 1865 $3 a day during session of Legislature. Jan. 1865 The judges of these courts receive a salary of $1500 per annum. Their term of office is six years. There is no 14th circuit. The 15th was so numbered by error, either in the draught of the bill establishing it, or of the engrossing clerk. Court of Common Pleas. By the act of March 1, 1859, the State was di- | Monday of every fourth month thereafter, unless vided by counties into 21 districts, in each of which, the Circuit Court be in session, and then on the in October, 1860, a judge and a prosecuting at- Monday succeeding the term of the Circuit Court. torney were elected. The judges are elected for The counties composing the several districts, and four years, and their salaries are $1000. Three the judges and prosecuting officers, are given terms of the court are held each year, beginning below. The statute above referred to does not on the first Monday in January, and on the first number the districts. Counties composing the District. Vigo, Parke, and Sullivan. Marion, Hendricks, and Boone..... Harrison, Floyd, Washington, Scott, and Clarke.... Hamilton, Tipton, Clinton, Howard, and Grant..... Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, Monroe, and Brown........ Cass, Miami, Fulton, Kosciusko, and Wabash....... Judges. Chambers T. Patterson... Fred. T. Brown R. A. Clements, Sr....... FINANCES. Receipts and Expenditures. Prosecuting Attorneys. John F. Scott. The receipts into the treasury for the year ending Oct. 31, 1862, from all sources were.... $3,486,304 55 Balance in treasury from previous year.. Total receipts........ 365,146 33 $3,851,450 88 The disbursements (including $1,979,248 36 of War expenses) were........... $2,974,976 46 State Debt.-The entire State Debt is as follows:- Total debt 876,474 42 -$3,851,450 88 $5,325,500 00 2,058,173 50 1,334,000 00 37,779 87 $8,755,453 37 The Auditor's report for the two years ending October 31, 1862, had not been published at the time of our going to press, and we are consequently compelled to omit a detailed statement of the items of receipt and expenditure. Valuation, Taxation, dr.-The valuation of the | Number of polls, 203,098. The national direct real and personal property of the State by the U.S. Marshals in 1860 was $528,835,371. The valuation by the State assessors the same year was $455.011,378. The ordinary ad valorem tax of the State is 20 cents on $100, and the State also levies a capitation-tax of 50 cents per head. tax of 1861, amounting, after the deduction of 15 per cent. for collection, to $765,144 03, was assumed by the State. The credit of the State has suffered somewhat from the fraudulent over-issues of its bonds by its agents in New York the past year. CANALS.-There are two canals in the State, viz. that portion of the Wabash and Erie Canal extending from Evansville, on the Ohio River, to the State line of Ohio, a distance of 379 miles; and the Whitewater Canal, extending from Laurenceburg, on the Ohio River, to Cambridge City, a dis tance of 74 miles. | statistics for the year 1861:-number of white males between 5 and 21 years, 270,073; number of white females between 5 and 21, 258,118; total number of persons between 5 and 21, 528,191. Number of children attending public schools during the year ending Dec. 31, 1861, 337,390; attending private schools, 18,270; total number attending school, 355,660. Number of school age, but not attending school, 163,231. Amount of school revenue for tuition collected for apportionment during the year, $661,379 64; amount appor tioned, $656,467 86; balance in the State treasury, Jan. 1, 1862, $4,911 78. The amount of Congres sional township revenue collected during the year was $168,375 15. The amount of apportionment per head from the school revenue was $1 28; from 476,989 the Congressional township revenue, 32 cts.; total, 579,328 $160 per head. $350,000 of the accumulated un2,657,413 3,007,371 apportioned school revenue had been borrowed CONDITION OF THE BANKS OF INDIANA IN 1861, 1862. The State Bank and its branches. In all, 21 banks. Loans... Real estate.... Eastern deposits. Other bank balances.. Gold and silver..... Miscellaneous Resources. July, 1861. March, 1862. 1,559,133 799,511 by the State prior to 1861, but the Legislature of Total resources... $10,437,956 $9,605,201 that year passed an act providing for the payment Liabilities. Capital stock........ Surplus fund...... Individual deposits Due other banks... of the amount in annual instalments of $50,000 each, commencing with April, 1862. During the July, 1861. March, 1862. year 1861 nearly one-fourth of the common $3,352,425 $3,354,200 schools of the State were not open. The average 1,050,616 945,436 length of schools was 4 months. The average 1,042,683 1,570.778 wages of teachers of common schools in 1861 is 4,931,676 3,562,744 not stated; in 1859 it was (excluding the high 60,556 172,043 schools) for male teachers, $22 60; for female Total liabilities... $10,437,956 $9,605,201 teachers, $17 20. The number of high schools was 73; of teachers of high schools, 113 (62 males and 51 females); of scholars, 5294. The number of select schools was 757. The Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Auditor, Attorney-General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction constitute the Board of Education. Besides the above, there were in the State on the 1st of May, 1862, 18 free banks, whose circulation, specie, and capital (invested mainly in State and U.S. stocks) were as follows:-Circulation, $1,108,000; specie, $171,000; capital, $1,203,454. In Dec. 1862, the total circulation of the banks of the State was $6,660,000, of which $1,100,000 was secured by deposit of stocks with the State Comptroller (free banks); $5,560,000 was the circulation of the State Bank and its branches; and the amount of specie reserve in all the banks was $3,520,000. EDUCATION.-There are thirteen incorporated colleges in Indiana. The State University at Bloomington has a property, including buildings, grounds, and endowment, of $110,000. Of the remaining twelve, one, and we believe two, receive pupils of both sexes. Three were founded by the Methodists, two by the Presbyterians, two by the Baptists, one, each, by the Disciples or Campbellites, United Brethren in Christ, Roman Catholics, and Lutherans, and of one (Whitewater College, at Centreville) the denomination which sustains it is not reported. There are three theological seminaries: a Lutheran, at Fort Wayne, a Catholic seminary, at Vincennes, and a Presbyterian, at South Hanover. The State University and Indiana Asbury University, at Greencastle, have each a law department. Common Schools.-The report of the Superintendent of Schools, Jan. 1862, gives the following School and other Educational Funds.-The educational funds of the State in 1857 amounted to the following sums:-productive, $2,$22.814 65; unproductive, $2,107,051 59; total, $4,929,866 24 The aggregate has not probably greatly increased since that time, but a considerable portion of the unproductive fund has become productive. By the State Constitution the school fund is made up of all funds heretofore appropriated to common schools, the surplus revenue, saline, bank tax, and seminary funds, all fines, forfeitures, and escheats, all grants of land not otherwise specially devoted, the net proceeds of the swamp-lands, unclaimed fees, and all taxes specially laid therefor. The income of the fund is apportioned to each county according to the enumeration of scholars therein. Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, Indianapolis.-This institution was founded in 1844. Its buildings and grounds cost $132,000. In 1860 it had 10 teachers, of whom 5 were deaf-mutes, and 192 pupils, all State beneficiaries. 291 had graduated since the opening of the institution. Its annual expenditures were about $30,000. The State had granted it a moderate endowment in lands. The charge to pupils from other States is $100 per annum for board and tuition. |