Railroads and Canals.-The following table gives the most important particulars respecting the railroads employing steam power in the State, on the 1st January, 1862. Beside these, there are, in Jersey City, Hudson City, Newark, and perhaps some of the other cities of the State, city railroads, whose cars are drawn by horses. The only canals of the State are the Delaware and Raritan and the Morris Canal.

469,896 312,387 11 290,891 220,008

State Lunatic Asylum.-This institution is at Trenton, and under the superintendency of Dr. H A. Buttolph. The report of the superintendent and managers in January, 1862, furnishes the following statistics. Patients in the Asylum, January 1. 1so1, 310, of whom 154 were males and 156 females; received during the year, 178, viz. 94 males and 84 females; making the whole number under treatment during the year 1861, 488, of whom 248 were males and 240 females. There were discharged during the year 154 (83 males and 71 females), leaving in the Asylum, Jan. 1, 1862, 334 patients (165 males and 169 females), of which 272 were sent from the counties and 62 were private patients. Of those discharged during the year, 75 (44 males and 31 females) were recovered; 54 (22 males and 32 females) were improved 2 (1 male and 1 female) were unimproved; and 23 (16 males and 7 females) died. The whole number received since the opening of the Asylum, May 15, 1848, was 1915, viz. 924 males, 991 females; of whom 753 (364 males and 389 females) were discharged as recovered; 528 (230 males and 298 females) as improved; 42 (20 males and 22 females) as unimproved; 5 males escaped, and 1 was not insane; 252 (139 males and 113 females) died; and, as above, 334 remain. The accommodations of the Asylum are really sufficient for only 275 patients, and it was therefore unduly crowded during the year, having an average of 322 patients; but this difficulty would be remedied during the year 1862 by the completion of a new building, which was far advanced at the date of the report. The receipts of the year were: balance in Treasurer's hands, Jan. 1, 1861, $112 60; amount received from State for board of patients, $9,811 38; revenue account from Asylum, $45,977 98; total receipts, $55,901 96. Expenditures: steward's orders, $55,681 02; balance in treasurer's hands. The personal property of the institution, at the date of the report, amounted to $28,276 69. The amount of the Stats appropriation for the year 1861 (a part of it for building-purposes) was $22,400 88; $4300 of this sum was for salaries. Board of State patients, $2 per week, private patients, $3 50 or upwards, according to room, attendance, &c.

Deaf and Dumb, Blind, and Idiotic.-There is no institution for the instruction or training of these classes in the State; but provision is made by the State for the education of the children of the poor suffering from these infirmities, at the Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institutions of New York and Philadelphia, and the Training School for Idiotic Children at Media, Pennsylvania. The appropriations for the year ending Jan. 1, 1862, for these purposes, were, for deaf and dumb pupils, New York and Philadelphia, $3,940 66; for blind, New York and Philadelphia, $3,703 39; for idiotic children, Pennsylvania Training School, $2168 84. The number of the infirm classes in the State, according to the census of 1860, was 282 deaf and dumb; 208 blind; 589 insane; 365 idiotic.

These numbers are undoubtedly considerably below the truth.

State Prison, Trenton.-Tunis V. D. Hoagland, Keeper. The report of Jan. 1, 1862, furnishes the following statistics: number in confinement, Jan. 1, 1861, 401; received since that time, 236; total number in the prison during the year, 637; discharged during the year, by expiration of sentence, 208; pardoned on account of ill health, 7; pardoned one day, to retain citizenship, 5; pardoned for other reasons, 17; died, 9; making total discharged, 246; and leaving, Jan. 1, 1862, 391 still in confinement. The terms of sentence of those still in confinement were, for life, 3; 30 years, 1; 20 years, 6; 15 years, 8; 12 years, 1; 10 years, 15; 9 and under 10, 3; 8 years, 13; 7 and under 8, 15; 6 years, 16; 5 and under 6, 43; 4 and under 5, 11; 3 and under 4, 65; 2 and under 3, 88; less than two years, 93. The shortest sentence was for 6 months. Of those in confinement, 3 were committed for arson; 5 for murder; 5 for manslaughter; 13 for murder in the second degree; 71 for violent assaults; 15 for rape; 1 for attempt to kill by poison, and 1 for poisoning; 4 for riot; 1 for shooting; and 1 for bigamy; making a total of crimes against the person, of 120; for burglary, 29; house-breaking, 77; jail-breaking, 2 counterfeiting, and uttering counterfeit money, and forgery, 44; grand larceny and robbery, 50; petty larceny, picking pockets, &c., 32; perjury, 1; other crimes against property, 36; making a total of crimes against property of 271. Of the whole number, 295 were white males; 13 white females; 75 colored males; 8 colored females; 344 were committed for the first time, 33 for the second, 7 for the third, 6 for the fourth, and 1 for the sixth time: 129 were natives of New Jersey, 40 of Pennsylvania, 54 of New York, and 27 of other States of the Union; 141 were foreigners, of whom 76 were from Ireland, 33 from Germany, 12 from England, and 20 from other foreign countries. Of the whole number, 56 were under 20 years of age; 125 between 20 and 25; 73 between 25 and 30; 76 between 30 and 40; 37 between 40 and 50; 17 between 50 and 60; 5 between 60 and 70; and 2 between 70 and 80. The receipts of the year from the labor of prisoners (a considerable portion of them being unemployed, through failure of the contractors for about five months) were $13,116 61; the expenditures, $20,995 58; leaving a deficiency of $7,878 97. The personal property of the prison on the 1st Jan. 1862, after deducting all liabilities, was, according to inventory, $19,335 14. The judicial expenditure of the State, connected with the State Prison, was-for salaries of officers, per diem of inspectors, and prison repairs, and improvements, $18,886 12; taxed bills of costs of prosecution certified to by the keeper, $14,328 33; sheriffs for transportation of convicts, $2,096 85; total, $35,291 30. The prison was formerly on the separate, or, as it is usually called, the Philadelphia plan; but five years since this

Vital Statistics.-The Secretary of State, who by the law of the State is also Register, makes the following returns of marriages, births, and deaths of the State for the year ending Jan. 1, 1862. They are not quite complete. Marriages, 2682, six townships not reporting; births, 17,017, of whom 8587 were males, 8022 females, and 408 sex not reported; the fathers of 2946 were farmers; of 233, manufacturers; of 4953, mechanics; of 4491, laborers; of 992, merchants; of 393, professional men; while the occupation of the parents of 3114 was not stated; 44 townships made no returns of births. The whole number of deaths reported was 10,038, of which 5042 were malos, and 4632 females; and 364 sex not given. The cause of death was not reported in 2108 cases, 282 deaths were caused by casualties, and 291 are reported as having died of old age. The diseases which proved most mortal were consumption, of which 1447 died; scarlet fever, 718; diphtheria, 432; convulsions, 377; inflammation of the lungs, 320; dropsy, 311: croup, 278; cholera infantum, 248; inflammation of the brain, 246; dysentery, 204; typhus fever, 180; paralysis, 136; inflammation of the bowels, 131. Of 9404 cases in which there were returns of age, 4440 died under the age of 5 years; 694 between 5 and 10; 538 between 10 and 20; 2047 between 20 and 70; 482 between 70 and 80; 266 between 80 and 90; 60 between 90 and 100, and 3 over 100. There was no report of deaths from 51 townships of the State.

Troops furnished by the State to the United States Government.-At the time of the first call of the President for militia to aid in defence of the country, there was no efficient State military organization in New Jersey. The militia of the State consisted nominally of the active militia,composed of the few uniformed companies in the larger towns, which in the face of neglect and discouragement had maintained their organization, and had made some little proficiency in drill and the reserve militia, which, though enrolled, had no organization or preparation for military duty. The first requisition made was for a brigade of four regiments of militia to serve

were 3123. The existing companies filled up their ranks very rapidly, and within seven days after the acceptance of the first company the required brigade was organized, and fifteen days after the President's proclamation was issued it was ready for the defence of the capital. The brigade on leaving the State had 3075 men in its rank, and recruits subsequently forwarded made up the number to the maximum. It was commanded by Brigadier-General Theodore Runyon, and the regiments were known as the 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th New Jersey Militia. A call was made soon after for three-years volunteers, and three regiments, having each a maximum of 1046 officers and men, were assigned to New Jersey as her quota. On the 28th of June, these regiments, numbering in all 3120 officers and men, were forwarded to Washington. They were known as the 1st, 2d, and 3d regiments of New Jersey Volunteers. Under the Act of Congress of July, 1861, the Government called for five more regiments of three-years volunteers, the maximum number of officers and men to be 1046, and the minimum 866. These were promptly raised, the first of them, being the 4th regiment New Jersey Volunteers, with Hexamer's battery of six pieces, being forwarded on the 20th of August, 1861; the 5th regiment left on the 29th of August, the 6th on the 10th of September, the 7th on the 19th of September, and the 8th on the 1st of October. The first four regiments of volunteers formed the 1st New Jersey Brigade, under command of Brigadier-General Kearney; the next four regiments formed the 2d Brigade, and were commanded by Acting Brigadier-General Samuel H. Starr. Subsequently, a second company of artillery, and an additional regiment of riflemen, of 12 companies, and consisting of 1149 officers and men, was accepted, and constituted the 9th regiment of Volunteers. It left for the seat of war December 4, 1861. Aside from these, two regiments-one of them of cavalry-were raised by individuals under direct orders from the War Department, and were subsequently accepted by the State. The entire force then raised by the State of New Jersey for the war up to Jan. 1, 1862, was as follows:

one of cavalry, and two batteries. The expen diture for the organization and equipment of the four regiments of militia, nine regiments of volun. teer infantry and riflemen, two companies of artil

lery, and the regiment of cavalry, which, though, not raised by order of the Governor, was in part equipped by the State, was $302,027.20, of which the United States subsequently assumed $650,707.71, leaving a balance for the State to pay of $231,320.03.

Census Statistics.-Census of 1860. The assessed valuation of the real and personal property of the State in 1860, according to the reports of the assessors, was $296,682,442; but the Census returns make the amount much larger,-$467,918,324, an increase of 267 millions of dollars since 1860. In 1850, there were 4207 manufacturing establishments in the State, producing $500 and upwards annually, with an aggregate capital of $22,293,258, using raw material costing $22,011,871, employing 29,068 male and 8762 female operatives, paying $9,3€4,740 annually for wages, and producing $39,851,266 in value of manufactured products. In 1860, there were 4172 manufacturing establishments in the State, employing a capital of $38,430 373, using raw material of the value of $39,781,653, employing 42,294 male and 12,320 female operatives, and producing goods of the value of $75,471,550. The amount of wages paid monthly for male labor was $1.172.688; for female. labor, $129.974. The number of acres of improved lands in 1850 was 1,767,991, in 1860, 1,944,445; cash value of farms in 1850, $120,237,511, in 1860, $180,250,338; farming-implements, value in 1850, $4,425,503, in 1860, $5,746,567; number of horses in 1850, 63,955, in 1860, 79,507; asses and muies in 1850, 4089, în 1860, 6362; number of milchcows in 1850, 118,736, in 1860, 138 818; workingoxen have slightly decreased, the number in 1850 being 12,070, and in 1860 only 10,067; other cattle in 1850, 80.455, in 1860, 89.909; sheep in 1850, 160,485, in 1860, 135,223; swine în 1850, 250.370, in 1860, 236.089; value of live stock in 1850, $10,679,291, in 1860, $16,134,633. Wheat raised in 1850, 1,601,190 bushels, in 1860, 1,763,128; rye in 1850, 1,255,578 bushels, in 1860, 1,439,497 bushels; Indian corn in 1850, 8,759,704 bushels, in 1860, 9,723.336 bushels; oats in 1850, 3,378,063 bushels, in 1860, 4539,132 bushels; tobacco in 1850, 310 lbs., in 1860, 149,485 lbs.; wool in 1850, 375,396 lbs., in 1850, 349,250 lbs.; peas and beans in 1850, 14,174 bushels, in 1860, 27,765; Irish potatoes in 1850, 3,207.136 bushels, in 1860, 4,171,960; sweet potatoes in 1850, 508,015 bushels, in 1860, 1,034,832 bushels; barley in 1850, 6492 bushels, in 1860, 24.915 bushels; buckwheat in 1850, 878,934 bushels, in 1860, 877,386 bushels: orchard products in 1850 valued at $607.268, in 1860, $129.402; wine in 1850, 1811 gallons, in 1860, 21,083 gallons; market-garden products in 1850, valued at $475.242, in 1860, $1.542 155; butter in 1850, 9.487,210 lbs., in 1860, 10,714.447 lbs. ; cheese in 1850. 365.756lbs., în 1860, 182.172 lbs.; hay in 1850, 435.950 tons, in 1860, 508,729 tons; clover-seed in 1850, 28,280 bushels, in 1860, 39.208 bushels; grass-seed in 1850, 63,051 bushels, in 1860, 85,410 bushels; hemp in 1860, 430

tons; hops in 1850, 2133 lbs., in 1800, 3722 lbs.; flax in 1850, 182,965 lbs., in 1860, 48,651 lbs.; flaxseed in 1850, 16,525 bushels, in 1860, 3241 bushels; maple sugar in 1850, 2197 lbs., in 1860, 3455 lbs. Sorghum molasses in 1860, 360 gallons; maple molasses in 1860, 8088 gallons; beeswax and honey in 1850, 156,694 lbs.; beeswax in 1860, 8130 lbs., honey in 1860, 185,925 lbs.,-total beeswax and honey in 1860, 194.055 lbs; value of home-made manufactures in 1850, $112,781, in 1860, $27 588; value of slaughtered animals in 1850, $2,638,552, in 1860, $4,126,276. There were published in the State, in 1800, 79 political, 2 religious, 7 literary, and 2 miscellaneous newspapers and periodicals having an aggregate circulation of 12,801,412 copies.

The

The number of dwelling-houses in the State was 108 144; the number of families, 118.487, giving 1.09 families to a dwelling; and, comparing the number of families with the population, we find that the families average 5.7 persons. The number of white males in the State was 322.732; of white females, 323,966; total whites, 646 698: of free colored males, 12,313; of free colored females, 13,005; total free colored, 25,315; and there were in the State 6 male and 12 female slaves. aggregate population was 672,034, and the Federal representative population 672,027. The number of farms in cultivation was 27.220. The amount of real estate in the State, according to the census of 1860, was $151,161,941; the taxes paid that year were: county tax, $338.244.66; school tax, $247.017.50; the poor tax, $56.568.79; road tax, $151,388.62; all other taxes, $526,079.74, making the total amount raised by tax that year, $1.319,299.31. Of the deaf and dumb persons in the State. 28 were foreigners, and 254 natives; 10 were colored; 147 were males, 135 females; 22 were under 10 years of age; 114 under 30 years; 30 (17 whites and 13 colored) who were over 20 years of age could not read or write. Of the blind, 107 were males and 101 females; 196 whites and 12 colored; 174 natives and 34 foreigners; 5 were under 10 years of age, and 42 under 30, while 45 were over seventy. Of the insane. 279 were males, and 310 females: 574 whites and 15 colored; 406 natives and 133 foreigners; 5 were under 10 years of age and 36 under 20, while 64 were above 60. Of the idiotic. 221 were males, 144 females; 344 whites. 21 colored; 350 natives and 15 foreigners; 25 were under 10 years of age, and 90 under 20 years, while 37 were over 60. The whole number of paupers supported in the State within the year ending June 1, 1860, was 5235, of whom 2006 were natives, and 3289 foreigners. The number receiving aid on that day was 14~2, of whom 1057 were natives, and 435 foreigners; and the annual cost of their support was $123.269.82. The whole number of criminals convicted during the year was 1522, of whom 752 were natives, and 770 foreigners.