Of those present in 1862, 155 were from Pennsylvania, 15 from New Jersey, and 10 from all other States. The revenue of the institution for 1862 was $61,427, including $24,750 appropriated by the State, and $11,184 from sales of merchandise manufactured by the blind inmates. The expenditures were $47,147. The report of the Board of Managers contains the following observations of general interest: The literary studies may be summarily stated as follows:-orthography, reading, writing, pintype, printing, dictionary, etymology, grammar, rhetoric, geography, with the globe and maps, physical geography, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, physiology, history, natural philosophy, natural history, astronomy, biblical and general literature, and physical training. The great cost of printing for the blind, owing to the small editions required, the bulk of the volumes, and expense of paper and binding, render it beyond the power of a single institution to furnish the books required, or at a price within the reach of the blind. The States themselves might possibly be disposed to aid, by special appropriations, any well-devised plan for printing a series of text and reading books in a uniform letter. No effort of the kind has ever been made. The institutions must first agree among themselves in favor of some common system. How long our institutions are to suffer under a privation so vital to their real efficiency, can only be solved by themselves. None outside can be expected to move in such a work. "The Home" contains, at present, seventeen members, graduates of our own institution. It is a department of industry in which the inmates contribute largely to their own support. It cannot, however, be greatly extended without the aid of liberal gifts or legacies. The number of blind persons in all the institutions for the blind in the United States, in 1861, including 82 in the workshops only, was 1,164. PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, PHILADELPHIA. From the report of Dr. Thomas S. Kirkbride, Physician and Superintendent, Jan. 1, 1863. -At the date of the last report, there were 255 patients in the institution, since which 194 have been admitted, and 164 have been discharged, or died, leaving 285, being an increase of 30, under care at the close of the year. The total number of patients in the hospital during the year was 449, and the average number under treatment during the whole period was 267. The number of males in the hospital during the year was 232, and the number of females was 217. At the beginning of the year, there were 128 males and 127 females. At this date, there are 143 males and 142 females. The number of males admitted during the year was 104, and the number of females 90. Of the patients discharged during the year 1862, there were Religious excitement... Stock speculations... Use of tobacco Use of quack medicines. Uncontrolled passion. Injuries of the head Exposure to direct rays of the sun..... Exposure to intense heat... Unascertained.. Exposure in army................................... 325 312 637 120 135 255 1 828 781 TABLE showing the Forms of Disease for which 3947 Patients were admitted. TABLE showing the State of 3662 Patients who have been discharged, or died-their Sex, and the Forms of Disease for which they were admitted. Monomania. Dementia. Delirium. HOUSE OF REFUGE (FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS), PHILADELPHIA, Superintendent, White Department, Jesse K. McKeever; Superintendent, Colored Department, J. Hood Laverty.-Statistics from the Report of the Board of Managers, February 9, 1863. Total. 462 Decrease of white boys, 25, of white girls, 15; increase of colored boys, 3, of colored girls, 5. The progress of the pupils was reported to be satisfactory; and the discipline of the institution as strictly parental, maintained rather by persuasion and rewards than by coercion and punishment. The average number of inmates during 1862 was 477. The revenue of the House for the year was $51,642, including $20,000 from the State and $22,000 from the city of Philadelphia. The labor of the boys produced $8270. The expenditures were $39,788 for maintenance, and $7229 for debts 494 paid; total, $47,017. Boys. Girls. Total. In the white department........... 271 366 95 colored 88 40 Totals...................... 359 135 128 STATE PENITENTIARY (EASTERN DISTRICT), PHILADELPHIA,-John Halloway, Warden.-Statistics from the Report of the Inspectors, March 13, 1863. Statement showing the Number of Prisoners Received, Discharged, and Remaining at the end of the Year, from 1856 to 1862. The number of commitments, it will be seen, is lower than in any year since 1855, the decrease from 1860 to 1862 being 124, or nearly 48 per cent. Of the 369 prisoners remaining at the end of 1862, 56 were under conviction for the crimes of murder and manslaughter. Of these, 27 were natives of the United States (including 6 colored) and 29 were of foreign birth; 46 were serving out sentences for burglary, of whom 35 were natives (including 6 colored) and 11 were of foreign birth; 20 were imprisoned for arson, of whom 20 were natives (including 1 colored) and 6 were of foreign Excess of cost of support over products of The other expenditures were $6,933 For salaries.. 16,388 Expirati'n. Thero were 6 deaths during the year, but little more than 1 per cent. of the population. Of the deaths, 4 were from pulmonary consumption, 1 from hæmorrhage of the lungs, and 1 from albumenaria. This penitentiary is conducted on the solitary or "Pennsylvania System." The report is enriched by copious tables illustrating the causes of crime, and the mental, moral, civil, and phyṣical condition of the prisoners before and after imprisonment. Inspectors.-Richard Vaux, President, Alexander Henry, Thomas H. Powers, Dr. Samuel Jones, Furman Sheppard, Treasurer. WESTERN PENITENTIARY OF PENNSYLVANIA, ALLEGHANY CITY, John Birmingham, Warden.-Statistice from the Warden's Report, dated Dec. 31, 1862. TABLE showing the Number of Prisoners Received and Discharged for ten Years. Received in following years. Received and Discharged during the following years. Pardoned. 1861... 113 1862... 90 1862..... 111 By the foregoing it will be seen that the number of commitments in 1862 (90) is 23 less than in the year 1861, 61 less than in 1860, and less than in any other year for five years. Deaths in the Penitentiary.-On the 1st of January, 1862, there were 288 prisoners in confinement; received throughout the year, 90; making in all 378,7 of whom died, making the ratio of mortality for the year 1ths per cent., 1 death in 54. PENNSYLVANIA AND THE WAR.-From the 19th of April, 1861, the day when the first 600 volun teers from Pennsylvania reached Washington, to the 1st of January, 1863, Pennsylvania had furnished to the armies of the Union 195,336 men. Of this number, 20,979 were for 3 months, 15,100 were for 9 months, and 159,257 for 3 years. 1. Colonel Henry McCormick, John L. Wright, Be 4 136 144 sides these, it is claimed, in the Adjutant-General's Report of Dec. 31, 1862, that 5000 citizens of Pennsylvania enlisted during that year in the organizations of other States. The volunteers embraced in the State organizations composed 153 regiments and 7 detached companies of infantry, 18 regiments and 10 detached companies of cavalry, and 3 regiments, 1 battalion, 3 batteries, and 10 detached companies of artillery. To these organizations there had been sent 9259 recruits down to Jan. 1, 1863. On the 11th of Sept., 1862, the militia of Pennsylvania were called out by the Governor to repel an invasion of the State by General Lee, and to co-operate with the National troops under Gen. McClellan in Maryland. 25 full regiments and 1 company of infantry, 11 companies of cavalry, and 4 batteries of artillery responded to this call, commanded as follows: 2. 19. 3. 12. 20. 4. 13. 66 21. 66 H. C. Longenecker, 14. R. B. McComb, 22. James Armstrong, Robert Galway, 23. N. B. Kneass, Alfred Day, Joseph Wilcox, William B. Thomas, Bounties to Volunteers.-No State bounty was paid, that being left to the counties and cities. More than a million of dollars were raised in Philadelphia, one-half of it by private contribution. No official reports have been made as to the action of the other cities and counties. Relief to Families of Volunteers.-This was also left to local management. In Philadelphia the relief was voted by the City Councils, and sums ranging from $4 to $12 per month, according to numbers in the family, have been continually paid to such families as claim it. The city had expended for this purpose to January, 1864, $1,625,803. Large sums have been expended in the interior for the same purpose, but there are no accessible official returns of the approximate amounts. Militia Enrolment.-Not reported for 1862. Quotas.-Not given in the Adjutant-General's Report for 1862. Adjutant-General's Report.-The Report of Adjutant-General Russell, dated Dec. 31, 1862, is a pamphlet of thirty-six pages. It contains a summary of the military operations of the State from April, 1861, down to date. The table annexed, compiled from the Report, gives some of the details we have presented for the other States, but it lacks the important features of the number of men in each organization, and the dates of muster. TABLE showing the Number of Troops furnished by the State of Pennsylvania to the 31st of December, 1862, the Term of Service of said Troops, the Arm of Service, the first Commanding Officers of the Regiments, dc., the Commanding Officer at the latest Reports in 1862, and the several requisitions under which the troops were furnished. Total 3 months men under call of April 15, 1861. 20,979| Four Independent Regiments under call of July 22, 1861. 3 y'rs. 26th Infantry.. A. Bushbeck............ J. W. Gearyt.. ..... J. K. Murphy.. 27th 26th Lieut.-Col. B. C. Tilghman. Col. A. Bushbeck. "G. De Korponay. Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, organized under act of Assembly of May 15, 1861, and transferred to the + Promoted or recommended for promotion. * Resigned. "W. W. Ricketts*........ 1 Col. Seneca G. Simmons, killed at Charles City Cross-Roads, Va., June 30, 1862. |