Bank Comptroller as a basis for banking in place of the depreciated bonds of the disloyal States, This offer was accepted, and, including the sale of some small bonds at par, the whole amount received from bonds sold up to Oct. 1, 1861, was $588,220, and $160,500 of the million authorized remained unsold. Valuation, Assessment, and Taxation.-The valuation of the State, according to the United States Census in 1860, was $273,671,668. The State valuation for assessment purposes in 1861 was $180,984,354 38. The total amount of State tax was $340,492 15. CONDITION OF THE BANKS OF WISCONSIN, JANUARY, 171,148 76 School Fund Income, Disbursements University Fund, Disbursements...... University Fund Income, Disbursements............. 171,527 14 13,919 55 1862. Resources. Swamp-Land Fund, Disbursements.. 28,704 32 Overdrafts.. 47.274 Swamp-Land Fund Income, Dis bursements................ 29,311 84 Promissory notes, &c..... 772.583 Deposit Account..................................... Drainage Fund... 978 57 Specie on hand, and cash items..... 365.926 957 82 Real estate..... 317,879 Drainage Fund Income, Disbursements...... 23,271 53 Bills of banks......... 693,245 Normal School Fund.... 5,037 50 464,069 State Debt.-Prior to May, 1861, the State debt was only $100,000, which was the extent which the Constitution permitted, except in case of invasion or for the suppression of rebellion, &c. This debt was in six per cent. bonds. At the extra session of the Legislature in May, 1861, a loan for war purposes of one million dollars more was authorized. Of this, $200,000 was to be negotiated by the Governor alone, and not below par. The remainder was to be negotiated by the Board of Loan Commissioners, consisting of the Governor, Secretary of State, and State Treasurer, on the best terms they could obtain. The condition of the banks at the time, and the general distrust of Western securities, together with some technical defects in the law, rendered the negotiation of these bonds in the Eastern money-markets impossible. Under these circumstances, the Wisconsin bankers came forward, and offered to take the $800,000 bonds, paying 70 per cent. of their face down (3 in specie or N.Y. Exchange, and 3 in their own bills), and the remaining 30 per cent. in instalments of one per cent. every six months, giving their corporate bonds as security for this payment, and to doposit the State bonds with the Total liabilities............................ $8,825,253 A very considerable number of the Wisconsin banks, which were all on the free-banking principle, had deposited as securities with the Comptroller stocks or bonds of the disloyal States, and, these depreciating in value after the commencement of the war, a panic ensued, and the banks owing the largest amount of these securities failed or wound up their business, involving the business of the State in serious losses and embarrassments. In May, 1862, there still remained in the State 70 banks, having a capital of $4,397,000, specie to the amount of $380,000, and an aggregate circulation of $1,600,000. INSURANCE COMPANTES.-There is one Life Insurance Company and nine Fire and Marine Companies in the State. The fire insurance companies have an aggregate capital of $300,000; capital and accumulation, $742.307 68; total assets, $773,164 89; total liabilities, $30,857 30; number of policies in force, 20,568; total receipts, $254,602 61; total losses. $55,282 93; total expenses, $42,527 55. The Life Insurance Company reports 185 policies in force, $56,981 20 total assets, $15,857 56 total receipts, $16,320 61 total expenditures. 41 fire and 9 life insurance companies from other States transacted business in Wisconsin. RAILROADS.-The railroads in the State, which had been fostered by liberal grants of lands and farm-mortgages, and were many of them in the hands of speculators who cared only for their own interest and emolument, were mostly brought to bankruptcy by the financial revulsions of 1857-58 and 1860-61, and many of them passed into the hands of the bondholders or receivers. Under their new organization they are generally progressing towards completion, and many of them show signs of returning prosperity. None of them have yet, we believe, declared a dividend; but several of the more important routes will soon be in a position to do so. The whole number of miles of railroad completed and in operation in the State is 1,157.15 miles,-an increase of nearly 300 miles within the past year. The following table exhibits the condition of the roads about January 1, 1862. apportioned during the year, $131,636 03; county tax for schools, $171,697 27; district tax for teachers' wages, $330,766 24; for school-houses, $173,356 09; for contingencies, $97,300 65; total amount raised from all sources and expended for schools, $854,766 28; number of stone and brick school-houses, 376, of frame ditto, 2478, of log ditto, 1357; total number of school-houses, 4211; number of sites containing less than one acre, 3230; number of sites unenclosed, 3037; total valuation of school-houses, $1,302,732; average valuation of school-houses, $309 50. School Fund.-The School Fund of the State is derived from the proceeds of the sale of the 16th 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. more 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., Sept. 30, 1861, was $2,458,351 49, and there remained unsold and forfeited 454,775 acres of 16thsection 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 16th-section and swamp-land, yet unsurveyed. The lands as yet unsold in the whole will exceed 1,500,000 acres. EDUCATION. There are in the State nine col- | female teachers, $14 62; amount of State funds leges. Of these the oldest is Beloit College, under the control of the Congregationalists, founded in 1847. The State University, at Madison, founded in 1849, has now an endowment from the University Lands Fund of about $248,000, besides buildings valued at $100,000, and besides land yet unsold of the estimated value of $91,366 39. Its income for the year ending Sept. 30, 1861, was $18,397 70Of the other colleges, one (at Milwaukee) is for females only, and two are under the direction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and one, each, controlled by the Baptists, Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians. Some of these, though possessing college charters, have as yet organized but little more than preparatory departments. There are three theological seminaries in the State,-Nashota, at Delafield, under the care of the Episcopal Church, the Seminary of the Norwegian Synod (Lutheran), at Half-way Creek, La Crosse co., and the Ecclesiastical Seminary of St. Francis of Sales (Catholic), at Nojoshing, Milwaukee co. There is a medical school, nominally connected with the State University, at Madison. There is no law school in the State. A fund (from one-fourth the income of the SwampLand Fund), whose revenue is from $4000 to $5000, is set apart for normal-school education, and was distributed in 1861 to aid fourteen institutions (colleges and academies) which maintained classes for normal instruction, and to assist teachers' institutes. 27 of these institutes have been held, varying in length from three days to two weeks; they have been attended by 1600 teachers. The classes connected with the fourteen institutions aided by the Normal Fund have numbered 342 members; 86 passed the very rigid and severe examination prescribed by the Board of Regents, and most of these are engaged in teaching. Common Schools.-The following are the statistics of the public schools for the year ending Oct. 1, 1861-whole number of districts in the State, 4558, of which 177 made no report; number of children between 4 and 20 years of age, 299,133, viz. males, 153,530, females, 145,603; number of children registered in the schools, 194,264, besides 2013 who were under 4 and 2166 over 20 years of age; whole number in attendance, 198,443; number estimated as in private schools, 8000; whole number in private and public schools, 206,443. The number actually registered are 65 per cent. of the whole number of persons of schoolage, and the regular attendance is 60 per cent. of the whole number registered. The average duration of the schools was 6 months; schools were taught by male teachers an average of 3.85 months, by female teachers an average of 4.00 months; the estimated number of male teachers was 2400, of female teachers, 3000; total estimated number of teachers, 6000; estimated total number engaged in teaching at the same time, 3500; average monthly wages of male teachers, $23, of Wisconsin Institute for the Education of the Blind, at Janesville, Thomas H. Little, Principal. This institution was incorporated in 1849, and opened in 1850. It had in Sept. 1861, 6 teachers and officers, 36 pupils; 9 had been admitted and 45 had been in attendance during the year, and 21 had graduated in all since opening the institution. There was a workshop for males, and another for females. The males were employed in broom-making, and the girls in knitting, netting, &c. The workshops showed a profit of $321 40 on their work for the year. Other branches of employment were to be introduced soon. The school course occupies four years, and does not advance, except in music, beyond that of ordinary English academies. The Superintendent recommends the admission of such blind students as may qualify themselves to the University. The receipts of the year were $11,077 71, and the expenditures $9,849 39, of which $8,340 24 was for current expenses, or $213 85 per pupil per annum. Wisconsin Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, at Dolavan, J. S. Officer, Prin cipal. This institution was incorporated in 1850, but was not opened till 1852. It had in the year ending Sept. 30, 1861, 86 pupils in attendance, and at the commencement of the autumn term, 71. There are six teachers, a steward and assistant steward, and a matron and assistant matron. The course of study is seven years, and comprises instruction in the general English studies, and the acquisition of a trade. Cabinet-making is the mechanical employment of the male pupils generally. The receipts of the year were $16,415 61, ail from the State; the expenditures were $15,761 07, of which $11,890 14 was for current penses, or $158 53 per pupil per annum. | part of the boys. The receipts of the year were $10,550, and the expenditures $8,412 12, of which $5,879 17 was for current expenses, or $146 98 per pupil per annum. Wisconsin State Prison, at Waupun, A. P. Hodges, Commissioner.-This prison had on the 1st of October, 1860, 170 convicts. There wero committed during the year 74, and recaptured 1, making the whole number in prison during the year 245. There were discharged during the year, by expiration of sentence, 45, by pardon, 26, on writ of habeas corpus, 1, removed to Insane Hosex-pital, 2, by reduction of term of sentence in consequence of good behavior, as per act of 1860, 34, leaving in prison, Sept. 30, 1861, 137 (125 males and 12 females). Since the organization of the prison there have been 704 prisoners, of whom 567 have been discharged,-326 by expiration of sentence, 188 by pardon, 5 by habeas corpus and order of court, 1 escaped without recapture, 2 removed to Insane Hospital, 7 died from natural causes, 1 committed suicide, and 37 were discharged on reduction of time (act of 1860). Of those in prison, Oct. 1, 1861, 74 were foreigners, 63 natives of the United States, 45 were convicted for crimes against the person, 83 for crimes against property, and 9 for crimes against society. The receipts of the prison from all sources were $37,228 30, of which $5,432 32 was from labor of prisoners (aside from a large amount of labor performed in erecting buildings, constructing drains, &c.). The expenditures were $37,948 01, of which $13,432 was for salaries and about $10,000 for support; the remainder was for buildings, drains, &c. WISCONSIN STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, near Madison, Dr. J. P. Clement, Superintendent.—This institution was opened for patients in July, 1860, and in the fifteen months from that time to Oct. 1, 1861, 145 patients were admitted (72 males and 73 females), 42 were discharged (21 males and 21 females), and 103 remained (51 males and 52 females). Of those discharged, 16 were recovered, 7 improved, 8 unimproved, and 11 died. Percentage of recoveries on admissions, 11.03; percentage of recoveries on number resident, 15.68; percentage of deaths on admissions, 7.50; on number resident, 10.78. Receipts during the year for all purposes, $18,600; expenditures, $12,227, of which $20,610 76 was for current expenses. A new wing for the accommodation of female patients was completed and occupied in 1862. CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS.-The State Reform School, at Waukesha, Dr. Moses Barrett, Superintendent. This institution was incorporated in 1859, and opened July 24, 1860. On the 30th Sept. 1860, there were in the school 40 pupils (33 boys and 7 girls); received during the year ending Sept. 30, 1861, 35 (28 boys and 7 girls); recommitted, 6 (boys); making the whole number received 81 (67 boys and 14 girls). There were discharged during the year, by expiration of sentence, 37 (31 boys and 6 girls); discharged on ticket of leave, 3 (1 boy and 2 girls); escaped, 1 (girl); remaining in school, Sept. 30, 1861, 40 (35 boys and 5 girls). 19 were committed during their minority, 37 for one year, and the remainder for an average period of less than 6 months. Vagrancy and larceny were the principal offences; but 3 were committed for assault and battery. The average age was 12 years; 18 were of foreign birth, and 57 born in the United States; 51 were of foreign parentage; 41 were orphans or half-orphans; and one or both of the parents of 64 were intemperate or vicious; 45 had themselves been addicted to the use of spirituous liquors, 64 were profane, and 69 addicted to lying. The boys are employed on the farm and in shoemaking, tailoring, and joiner-work, and the girls in knitting and housework. The shoe-shop showed a balance on the wrong side, the value of the work being less than the cost of material and wages of overseer. The farm will in future furnish employment for the greater Statistics of the State for 1861.-The State, by act of 1861, required the assessors to collect in their respective townships agricultural, mineral, and mining statistics; and the first returns were made in the autumn of 1861. They are incomplete, a few of the assessors making no report and others not reporting in full, but they show in most particulars a decided advance from the U.S. Census of the previous year. The following are the most important items:-apples, 194,983 bushels, valued at $153,031 90; wheat, 27.316,306.5 bushels, valued at $17,100,995 06; barley, 963,201 bushels, valued at $332,291; rye, 1,650,998 bushels, valued at $534.014; oats, 13,834,937.5 bushels, valued at $2171,292 52; buckwheat, 240,336 bushels, valued at $87,933; corn, 12,045,178 bushels, valued at $2,953,578; beans and pers, 176,766 bushels, valued at $99,027; clover-seed, 63,604 bushels, valued at $6,010 76; timothy-seed, 29,668 bushels. valued at $53,735; flax, 13,035 bushels, vaJued at $19 776 65; flax-seed. 18,063 bushels. valued at $12,678; hay, 692,872.5 tons, valued at $2,695,803; potatoes, 8,713,902 bushels. valued at $1.153,019; butter, 10.923,826 pounds, valued at $1,198,905; cheese, 1,176,816 pounds, valued at $112,139; sor ghum sugar, 3493 pounds, valued at $154; sorghum molasses, 51,085 gallons, valued at $22,009; maple molasses, 35,557.5 gallons, valued at $25,350; capital invested in all departments of productive industry), $3,645,109. Thirty-six county agricultural societies reported to the Secretary of State. Their receipts for the year from all sources had been $17,742 88, and their expenditures for premiums and expenses, $16,545 11. maple sugar, 825,391 pounds, valued at $103,897; | below the truth, though it does not refer to honey, 245,185 pounds, valued at $31,318; wine, 18,546 gallons, valued at $23,330; cattle and calves on hand, 554,903, valued at $6,227,158; slaughtered cattle and calves, 57,781, valued at $1,154,305; swine, 406,572, valued at $1,095,689; slaughtered hogs, 248,413, valued at $2 504,213; horses and mules, 127,837, valued at $6,226,079; sheep and lambs on hand, 422,599, valued at $624,888; slaughtered sheep and lambs, 34,772, valued at $83,720; wool, 915,073.5 pounds, valued at $331,148; woollen fabrics, 116,561.5 yards, valued at $76,458; leather, valued at $146,177; boots and shoes, 299,354 pairs, valued at $715,169; cotton goods, 34,406 yards, valued at $15,434; paper, 97,360 reams, valued at $143.565; linseed-oil, 5548 gallons, valued at $4841; whiskey, 1,275,888 gal lons, valued at $196,146; pig-iron, 381,000 pounds, valued at $35,500; lead smelted to the value of $188,880; lead raised, valued at $264,757; lead manufactured to the value of $34,459; earthenware, valued at $37,400; drain tile, to the value of $2290; agricultural implements and machinery, to the value of $590,269; sawed lumber and shingles, to the value of $3,497,393; cabinet-ware. valued at $102,326; 7454 wagons, valued at $449,410; wood and willow ware, valued at $329,755; total amount of products, $54,320,931. Capital invested in manufactories (this is undoubtedly far Contribution of Wisconsin to the Volunteer Army.-Wisconsin contributed her quota to the army at the commencement of the war with great promptness, although her finances were greatly embarrassed and it was with extreme difficulty that the necessary funds for equipping the men could be provided. The call of April 15, 1861, was for a single regiment of three-months men. This was furnished at once, but its departure was delayed for want of arms. It finally left the State. June 7, 1861, numbering 810 officers and Aside from this regiment, the State had sent into the field, prior to the 1st of July, 1862, 19 regiments of infantry, 3 regiments of cavalry, and 7 batteries of artillery, and 2 companies of sharpshooters, numbering in all 24,653 men. Under the call for 300,000 three-years men in July, 1862, six regiments (6000 men) were raised, and, under the call of August for 300,000 nine-months men, about 12,000 more, making the whole number raised by the State to Dec. 1862, aside from the three-months regiments, 42,557 men. men. XXXI. MINNESOTA. Organized as a Territory, 1849. Admitted into the Union, 1857. Capital, St. Paul. Area, 83,531 square miles. Population, 1860, 173,855. |