LIBERTY LAWS.) This was the first instance among the Western States of the repeal of these obnoxious laws. At this same extra session resolutions were passed by a majority of fourteen which emphatically condemned all future anti-slavery agitation in the Northern States. On the 19th of April, Governor Harvey was drowned at Savannah, in Tennessee, whither he had gone with hospital stores for the soldiers of the State who were wounded at the battle of Shiloh. He was succeeded by the lieutenant governor, Edward Salomon, a German-born citizen. An election for six members of Congress took place on the first Thursday of November, when the votes were given as follows: Republican. Democratic. 10,077 12,598 10,974 1st District. 66 2d 13,107 The Democratic candidates were elected in the 1st, 4th and 5th districts, and Republican candidates in the 2d, 3d and 6th districts. The debt of the State previous to the war was $100,000. A loan for war purposes was authorized by the Legislature in extra session, May, 1861, of one million dollars. Of this loan $800,000 was taken by the bankers of the State, who paid 70 per cent. at once, and the balance in instalments of 1 per cent. every six months, giving their personal bonds as security for the payment, and depositing the State bonds with the Bank Comptroller as a basis for banking in place of the depreciated bonds of Southern States. The number of banks in the State in May, 1862, was seventy, whose capital was $4,397,000; specie, $380,000; circulation, $4,600,000. The length of the railroads in the State is 1,157 miles, cost $41,809,817. There are nine colleges in the State, three theological seminaries, and a medical school. The number of common school districts is 4,558, and the number of children in attendance at the schools is 198,443, besides 8,000 estimated to be in attendance at private schools. The school fund of the State is derived from the proceeds of the sale of the sixteenth section of each township and an additional grant by Congress of 500,000 acres of land; 25 per cent. of the proceeds of sale of swamp and overflowed lands, and lands selected in lieu thereof (25 per cent. goes to the Normal School Fund); 5 per cent. of the proceeds of sales of Government public lands in the State (this has been withheld in consequence of a claim of Government against the State); 5 per cent. penalty as forfeiture for non-payment of interest on school land certificates and school fund loans; and the clear proceeds of all fines collected in the several counties for penal offences and for trespasses on State lands. The productive fund from the sale of these lands, &c., September 30, 1861, was $2,458,351 49, and there remained unsold and forfeited 454,775 acres of sixteenth section lands; forfeited lands of 1861, 219,000 acres; 125,000 acres unsold swamp lands; 118,750 acres of forfeited swamp lands; and 39,500 acres of forfeited swamp lands of 1861. There are also 140,000 acres of land claimed from Government, and sixteenth section and swamp land, yet unsurveyed. The lands as yet unsold will exceed 1,500,000 acres. Previous to the 1st of July, 1862, the State had sent to the war nineteen regiments of infantry, three regiments of cavalry, and seven batteries of artillery and two companies of sharpshooters-numbering entire 24,653 men. Under the call for 300,000 men in July, six regiments were raised, and under the call for 300,000 nine months men about twelve regiments more. The attempts to complete the quota under the first call by drafting met with much opposition in some parts of the State. At Port Washington, in Ozaukee county, the commissioner was forced to flee for his life, the machinery for the draft was destroyed, and the houses of eight citizens who encouraged the draft were attacked and injured. A military detachment was sent to restore order. In Washington county serious disturbances occurred. WOLFF, JOSEPH, D. D. LL.D., a traveller, author and clergyman of the Church of England; born at Weilersback, near Bamberg, Germany, in 1795; died at the vicarage, Isle Brewers, Somersetshire, England, May 2, 1862. He was the son of a Jewish rabbi, named David, and received the name Wolff from his parents, to which he prefixed "Joseph" when he became a Christian. While yet a child he manifested so strong a predilection for Christianity that the Jewish neighbors called him "the little Nazarene." At the age of 17, through the influence of Count Stolberg and Bishop Zeiler, he embraced the Roman Catholic faith, and was baptized by Leopold Zolder, a Benedictine abbot, near Prague, September, 13, 1812. The next year he commenced the study of Arabic, Syriac and Chaldean, and the following year attended theological lectures in Vienna, enjoying the friendship of Profs. John, Friedrich, Von Schlegel, Werner, and Hofbaür, the General of the Redemptorist fathers. From 1814 to 1816 he studied at Tubingen, being supported by Prince Dalberg. His attention was here given to the study of the Oriental languages, for which he possessed a Jewish aptitude, together with ecclesiastical history and Biblical exegesis, under Professors Stendell, Schnurrer, and Flatt. He next travelled for a year in Switzerland and Italy, enjoying the society of Madame de Staël, Holstein, the historian, Niebuhr, Zschokke, Madame Kürdener and others. Toward the close of the same year, he was first received as a pupil of the Collegio Romano at Rome, and afterward transferred to the College of the Propaganda; but his spirit was too restless and dogmatic to accept without questioning all the teachings of the Propagandist fathers, and in 1818 his religious views were declared erroneous, and he was expelled from Rome. He returned to Vienna, where, after consultation with F. Von Schlegel, Dr. Emanuel Veit, and Hof baür, he entered the monastery of the Redemptorists at Val-Saint, near Fribourg; but his nature rebelled against unquestioning acquiescence in the theological dicta of the fathers, and after a few months he left Val-Saint and came to London, where he found the late Henry Drummond, M. P., whose acquaintance he had formed at Rome. He soon avowed his conversion to Protestantism, and, at Mr. Drummond's suggestion, went to Cambridge, and continued his Oriental studies under Prof. Lee, and also commenced a course of theological studies under the late Rev. Charles Simeon. In 1821, he set out for a tour in the East for the purpose of proclaiming the Gospel to Jews, Mohammedans, and Pagans, and ascertaining the condition of the Eastern Christians with a view to missionary labor among them. In this tour, which occupied him for five years, he visited Egypt, Mount Horeb, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem, distributing copies of the Scriptures, and in his peculiar way discussing the merits of the Scriptures with all controversialists. He was at first supported by some of the charitable societies, but as his erratic habits occasioned some faultfinding, his friend Drummond after a time sustained him at his own expense. In 1826 he returned to England, and formed the acquaintance of Lady Georgiana Mary Walpole, daughter of the second Earl of Orford, whom he married in 1827, and with whom he set out almost immediately on a second missionary tour, visiting Malta, where his wife remained awaiting his return from Smyrna, the Ionian Islands, and Jerusalem, where he was poisoned by some bigoted Jews, and nearly lost his life. He returned, on his recovery, to Constantinople, where his wife met him, and soon set out again from that city for Bokhara, to search for the remains of the ten tribes. On his route he encountered the plague, was taken prisoner and sold as a slave, but was redeemed by the Persian Minister, Abbas Mirza. He resided at Bokhara for three months, preaching to his countrymen, and then set out for India by way of Khorassan. On his route he fell into the hands of the Kharijee, a robber tribe, who stripped him of everything he possessed, and to escape from them he made his way on foot and nearly naked through the mountain passes to Cabool, a distance of 600 miles. Finding friends at Cabool, he went on through the Punjaub, Lahore, Loodiana, and Simlah to Calcutta, preaching on his way at 130 stations. At Calcutta he was the guest of the governor general. From Calcutta he went to Masulipatam and Madras, and near the latter city was seized with cholera. On his recovery he visited Pondicherry, Tinnevelly, Goa, and Cochin China, visiting the Jews of those regions, and Bombay, and sailed from thence for Arabia, whence he crossed into Abyssinia, acquired the Amharic language, and in 1834 returned to England via Malta. In January, 1836, he visited Abyssinia again, and finding Bishop Gobst sick at Axum, brought him to Jiddah, and returned to Abyssinia, where the natives worshipped him as their new abouna, or patriarch. Leaving them he crossed into Arabia, visited the Rechabites in Yemen, and met a party of Wahabites in the mountains of Arabia, who horse whipped him, because they could find nothing in the Arabic Bible, he had given them about Mohammed. Escaping from their hands, he sailed in the beginning of 1837 for Bombay, and thence for New York, where he arrived in August, 1837. While in the United States he was ordained deacon by Bishop Doane, visited the principal cities, preached before Congress, received the degree of D. D., and a January, 1838, sailed for England. He next visited Dublin, where he received priest's or ders from the Bishop of Dromore, and settled as curate first at Southwaite and afterward at High Hoyland, in Yorkshire. In 1843, the news of the imprisonment of Col. Stoddart and Capt. Conolly (the latter a personal friend of Wolff, and one who had rendered him great service in one of his tours) reached England and Dr. Wolff offered to attempt their release, or learn their fate. The British Government declined to send him officially, but individuals furnished the means, and he went out, passing through Persia in full clerical dress, with a Bible in his hand, and announcing himself as "Joseph Wolff, the grand dervish of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the whole of Erope and America," and reached Bokhara in safety, having learned, however, before arriv ing at that city that Stoddart and Conolly had been beheaded. At Bokhara he was made a prisoner by the emir who had put the English officers to death, and a day fixed for his exestion; but the Persian ambassador interfered, and he made his escape, and was enabled to avoid the assassins who were sent after him by the emir. On his return to England he was presented to the vicarage of Isle Brewers, where he resided till his death, and by his persistent efforts succeeded in erecting a neat and commodious church. Lady Georgiana died January 16, 1859, and in May, 1861, he married a second wife, who survives him. Wolff was the author of the following works: "Journal of Missionary Labors," 1839; " Mi« sion to Bokhara," 1846; "Missionary Labors and Researches," 1854; and Travels and Adventures of Rev. Joseph Wolff, D. D LL.D., 1860-61. INDEX OF CONTENTS. Africa, its political divisions, 1; explorations in, 2; affairs Agriculture.-Crops of the Northern States, 4; short crop of western Europe, 4; exports of grain from the United 8; cotton at Mobile in 1861-2, 8; mineral treasures, 9; Argentine Republic.-Situation, 10; boundaries, 10; gov. ernment, 10; parties, 10; political divisions of the coun- Arkansas.-Census statistics, 10; military movements in, 11; poisoning of wells, 11; appeal of the governor to the Army, Confederate.-White male population of the Confed- Army, United States.-Policy of the Government, 16; reg- ity, 20; proportion sick, 21; absentees, 21; orders to Army Operations.-Number and position of the Federal Reconnoissances in Kentucky, 28; plan of the cam- Expedition of Gen. Burnside, 38; sails from Fortress |