CHARITABLE AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS. Provision has been made for the education of the Deaf and Dumb, and for the treatment of the Blind and Insane, in institutions established at the capital, placed under efficient superintendents, and conducted on liberal but economical principles. The Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb was established in 1844, its buildings and grounds costing $132,000. For the purposes of instruction, the pupils are divided into 8 classes, each consisting of from 18 to 24 pupils, classified according to attainment. Scientific instruction, illustrated with suitable apparatus, has been introduced into the highest class. The boys are taught trades, principally shoe making and cabinet making, and the girls are taught the use of the needle. The Institution for the Blind was opened in 1847, in buildings which cost about $100,000. In 1867 important repairs and improvements were made to the buildings, to the Astronomical and Philosophical apparatus, and to the Cabinet. Object teaching has been introduced and successfully prosecuted with the usual studies. In the Industrial Department, the boys are occupied in making brooms and brushes, and the girls in a variety of employments, the principal being the making of bead work. In both these institutions the board and tuition of pupils residing in the State are free; the annual charge to those from other States is $150. The Asylum for the Insane was opened in 1848, with a part of its buildings only completed. In 1865 an act was passed authorizing the enlargement of the Asylum, and the construction of the buildings was commenced, but further appropriations were needed for their completion. A temporary Soldiers' and Seamen's Home was opened in the city hospital building at Indianapolis, August 27, 1865. In 1866, the Board of Directors purchased the property known as the "Knightstown Springs," in Rush county, at a cost of $8,500, to which place the Home was removed on the 26th day of April. The farm consists of fifty-four acres of excellent land, thirty-five of which are under cultivation-the balance a grove of forest timber. The buildings are commodious, affording ample room for about 100 patients. There are two State Prisons, one styled the State Prison North, at Michigan City, and the other the State Prison South, at Jeffersonville. In the latter, the labor of the convicts is let out to contractors, who employ them in the manufacture of agricultural implements, stoves, buggies, harnesses, and shoes. All the convicts are employed. The price received for the labor is from 40 to 50 cents per day for each. Under this arrangement, the institution brings no profit to the State, but is about self-sustaining. The expenses for maintaining and guarding convicts, with other necessary expenses, are about fifty thousand dollars per annum. The Governor in his message in 1867, says: "The reports from the Boards of Trustees, and the Wardens of the Northern and Southern Prisons, and other information I have received, show that the Prisons have been well and economically conducted." The House of Refuge for Juvenile Offenders, was established by an act of the General Assembly, approved March 8, 1867, and placed under the charge of a Board of Control, consisting of three Commissioners appointed by the Governor. The institution was located near Plainfield, in Hendricks County, and is to be conducted on the family system, the plan contemplating one main building and ten family buildings, with necessary shops and other buildings to accommodate 500 boys. A portion of the buildings was completed, and a.few boys were received in 1868. Boys under 18 years of age may be committed for incorrigible or vicious conduct, vagrancy, want of a suitable home, or for the commission of any crime or misdemeanor. The expense of each State pupil is borne, one-half by the State and one-half by the county. Private pupils may be received on certain conditions, by the payment of expenses by parent or guardian. Indiana Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Indianapolis. THOMAS MCINTIRE, Superintendent. Number of pupils at commencement of year, 162; number received during the year, 30; number discharged, 22; died, 1. Whole number instructed during the year, 192; number remaining in the institution, October 31, 1867, 169. Expenditures for the year were-on account of current expenses, $34,212.41; furnishing goods, and repairs, $2,803.23; clothing for indigent pupils, $1,886.16. Paid over to the State, on account of shops, $3,477.12. Receipts from the State Treasury, $39,102.04. Indiana Institute for the Education of the Blind, Indianapolis. W. H. CHURCHMAN, Superintendent. Whole number of pupils during the year-males, 55; females, 68; total, 123. Number in attendance Nov. 1, 1867,-males, 42; females, 54; total, 96. Number of teachers-in literary department, 5; in music department, 3; instructors in handicraft, 2. Indiana Hospital for the Insane, Indianapolis. WILSON LOCKHART, Superintendent. Number of inmates September 1, 1868, 313. Income, $60,000 per annum from Legislature, and use of 160 acres of land. Soldiers' and Seamens' Home, Rush County. Number received to Nov. 30, 1866, 224. Discharged, 134; died, 14; remaining, 76. Expense, $17,060.84. Indiana State Prison-South, Jeffersonville. J. B. MERRIWETHER, Warden. Number of convicts, September, 1868-males, 368; females, 14; total, 382. POPULATION, WEALTH AND INDUSTRY. The following is the population as given by each census from 1800 to 1860, with ratio of increase for each decade: By the enumeration of 1866, the State had a population of 340,240 white males over the age of twenty-one, which number multiplied by the ratio usually adopted, would give a population of over 1,700,000. There were in 1860, 1,339,000 whites, and 11,428 blacks. 693,348 were males, 645,362 were females. Of this population, 1,232,244 were native born, and 118,184 foreign born. The following table shows the nativity and number of the principal portions of the foreign-born population: A very large proportion of the surface of Indiana, or nearly 20,000,000 acres is capable of cultivation, most of it very fertile. In 1860 there were 158,714 farmers in the State, and but 40,827 farm laborers, a large proportion of the tillers of the soil owning the land they cultivate. Corn and wheat are the staple products, the former yielding on the bottom lands, with good culture, from 100 to 125 bushels per acre. This State by the last census was the first in the Union in the number of swine raised, the third in the number of sheep, and the fourth in the number of horses. The whole value of live stock then returned was $50,116,964. The southern part of the State is adapted to the growth of the vine. The first successful wine manufactured in the United States was at Vevay, on the Ohio. In 1860, the leading articles of manufacture were flour, meal, and lumber; $300,000 were invested in forges and furnaces for working iron; about $105,000 worth of bar and other rolled iron; upwards of $400,000 worth of steamengines and machinery, and about $200,000 worth of iron castings were made. The whole number of manufacturing establishments in the State in 1860, was 5,120, employing 21,300 hands, and consuming raw material, inclusive of fuel, valued at $27,360,000, with a capital invested of $18,875,000, and producing an annual product of $43,250,000. The great coal field of Illinois extends into Indiana, covering in the western part an estimated area equal to 7,700 square miles, or more than one-fifth part of the whole surface. On White river the seams are upwards of six feet thick. In other localities seams of eight feet in thickness are found. Some of the coal measures, it is estimated, are capable of yielding 50,000,000 bushels to the square mile.. At Cannelton, on the Ohio, a bed of cannel coal is found from three to five feet in thickness, at an elevation of seventy feet above the river. Gold, copper, lead, and ooal-oil have been found, but not enough is yet known of them to judge of their paying qualities. The finest varieties of timber, such as oak, walnut, poplar, and cherry, abound in all parts of the state, and the annual shipments are very large. In Lawrence county, building stone, known as the "White River or Bedford stone," is found in large quantities, and shipped to St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, &c. There are over 2,500 miles of railroads, costing more than $90,000,000, and affording excellent facilities for a profitable traffic which is annually increasing. Value of Property and Products. In 1867, the value of lands and improvements was $256,689,312; value of town lots and improvements, $47,496,510; value of personal property, $155,095,015; total valuation, $459,348,322; valuation of property from which no reports had been received for 1867, as taken in 1866, $118,520,757, making the total valuation of real and personal property in the State in 1867, $577,869,079. The chief products in 1866, were-corn, 127,676,247 bushels, value $56,177,548; wheat, 9,114,562 bushels, value $21,966,094; rye, 345,144 bushels, value $355,498; oats, 10,158,562 bushels, value $3,555,497; barley, 339,474 bushels, value $363,237; buckwheat, 443,094 bushels, value $451,956; potatoes, 3,774,226 bushels, value $2,151,309; tobacco, 8,205,973 pounds, value $689,302; hay, 1,088,932 tons, value $10,279,518. Banks. There were, Sept. 30, 1868, 68 National Banks in operation, with a capital of $12,867,000. Three National Banks have been closed. 10. IOWA. Capital, Des Moines. Area, 55.045 square miles. Population, (1867), 902,040. Iowa originally formed a part of the territory purchased from France in 1803; and was successively connected with Missouri and Wisconsin territories. A settlement was made at Dubuque in 1778, by a colony from Prairie Du Chien, which remained over twenty years. Permanent settlements were commenced about 1830, at Burlington and Dubuque, by emigrants from Michigan and Illinois. It was organized as a territory by act of Congress in June, 1838, and admitted into the Union as a state, December 25, 1846. Adjutant and Inspector General.... NATHANIEL B. BAKER. Special Aides-de-Camp.. Lieut. Cols. WM. F. SAPP, S. L. GLASGOW, AND GEO. COWIE. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Superintendent of Public Instruction are chosen each odd year by the people, to serve two years, and until their successors are qualified. The Register of the State Land Office, Secretary of State, Auditor, and Treasurer are elected each even year, for the same period. They enter upon their duties in January after their election. The sessions of the Legislature are biennial. The Senators, 49 in number, are chosen for four years, one-half being elected every two years. The Representatives, 100 in number, are elected for two years. The number of senators cannot be less than one-third nor more than one-half the number of representatives. Every white male citizen who has been a resident of the state six months, and of the county 60 days is entitled to vote. Persons in the military, naval, or marine service of the United States, idiots, the insane, and those who have been convicted of infamous crimes are excluded. JUDICIARY. The Judicial power is vested in a Supreme Court, District Court, and such other courts as the General Assembly may establish. The Supreme Court, with appellate jurisdiction only in chancery, consists of four Judges, elected by the people for six years, the one having the shortest time to serve is Chief Justice. None of these Judges are eligible to any other state office until the time for which they were elected has expired. This court sits for the correction of errors in all cases at law, and in equity, in all cases tried by * An amendment to the constitution striking out the word white was ratified in 1868. the second method, embracing by statute, default cases, divorces, foreclosure of mortgages and tax titles, and other cases in equity by agreement of parties. It also exercises supervisory control over inferior judicial tribunals. The District Courts, 12 in number, exercise general original jurisdiction, civil and criminal, in chancery and at common law, where not otherwise provided by statute, and have supervision over inferior courts to prevent otherwise irremediable abuses. The General Assembly at its last session, (1868), established twenty-four circuits, in each of which a Circuit Judge was elected in November, for four years. These Judges enter upon their duties January 4, 1869. The District Judge, with the two Circuit Judges in the District, are to hold general term courts from two to four times a year. UNITED STATES COURTS. Circuit Judge, Samuel H. Miller. District Judge, James M. Love. District Attorney, M. D. Browning. Marshal, George W. Clarke. Clerk of Circuit Court, W. G. Woodward. Clerk of District Court, J. C. Burns. SUPREME COURT. Chief Justice, John F. Dillon, Davenport, Scott Co. Associate Justices, Chester C. Cole, Des Moines; George G. Wright, Des Moines; Joseph M. Beck, Fort Madison, Lee Co. Clerk, Charles Linderman, Page Co. Reporter, Edward H. Stiles, Wapello Co. Attorney General, Henry O'Connor, Muscatine Co. Salary of Judges, $2,300 each. DISTRICT COURTS. 1st District, Judge, Francis Springer, Louisa Co.; Attorney, Joshua Tracy, Des Moines Co. 2d District, Judge, Harvey Tannehill, Appanoose Co.; Attorney, James B. Weaver, Davis Co. 3d District, Judge, James G. Day, Fremont Co.; Attorney, Charles E. Millard, Mills Co. 4th District, Judge, Henry Ford, Harrison Co.; Attorney, Orson Rice, Dickinson Co. 5th District, Judge, Hugh W. Maxwell, Warren Co.; Attorney, Samuel D. Nichols, Guthrie Co. 6th District, Judge, Ezekiel S. Sampson, Keokuk Co.; Attorney, Moses M. McCoid, Jefferson Co. 7th District, Judge, J. Scott Richman, Muscatine Co.; Attorney, Lyman A. Ellis, Clinton Co. 8th District, Judge, James H. Rothrock, Cedar Co.; Attorney, C. R. Scott, Jones Co. 9th District, Judge, James Burt, Dubuque Co.; Attorney, Matthew M. Trumbull, Black Hawk Co. 10th District, Judge, Mile McGlathery, Fayette Co.; Attorney, L. O. Hatch, Allamakee Co. 11th District, Judge, Daniel D. Chase, Hamilton Co.; Attorney, John H. Bradley, Marshall Co. 12th District, Judge, William B. Fairfield, Floyd Co.; Attorney, John E. Burke, Bremen Co. Salaries of District Judges, $1,500 each; of District Attorneys, $800 each and fees. TERMS OF SUPREME COURT. Besides the regular General Terms of the Supreme Court, at Des Moines, beginning respectively on the first Mondays of June and December, for the convenience of the eastern counties, two Argument Terms are held at Davenport on the first Mondays respectively, of April and October. FINANCES. The reports of the Treasurer and Auditor are made biennially. The following account of the finances of the state is for the two years included in the last reports to the Governor and General Assembly, January, 1868. Balance in Treasury, November 5, 1865, exclusive of United States Treasury Notes belonging to Permanent School Fund, Receipts from Nov. 5, 1865, to Nov. 2, 1867, Total Receipts and Balance, Expenditures, Balance in Treasury, November 2, 1867, $358,243.50 1,355,565.50 $1,713,809.00 1,616,068.55 $97,740.45 |