Normal Schools.-The State Legislature in 1857 passed a law dividing the State into twelve Normal School Districts of about 240,000 inhabitants each, and provision was made for establishing by private subscription a normal school in each. Several have been established, and two-that at Millersville, in the second district, and that at Edenboro, in the twelfth district-have received annual appropriations of $5000 each. The following are the statistics of these institutions for the year ending September 1, 1861:-MILLERSVILLE.-Cost of buildings, grounds, furniture, and apparatus, $60,650; debt, $20,300; income, including State appropriation ($15,826 68) $15,560 27; number of teachers, 14 (8 male and 6 female); whole number of students during the year, 563, of whom 120 were in the model school; number of graduates, 8; number of students, September 1, 1861, 200 in the Normal School and 60 in the Model School; cost of support and instruction per pupil per annum, $146. EDENBORO.-Cost of buildings, grounds, furniture, &c., $24,000; other assets, $6500; income, $1600; salaries and other expenditures, $6800; debt, $500; number of teachers, 8, viz. 6 male and 2 female; number of students, 137 (60 males, 77 females); in attendance, September 1, 1861, 52; in Model School, 110 (58 males, 52 females); cost of support and tuition, $98 per annum. poses for the year was $546,430 32. The Girls' High School has a normal department connected with it, and a school of practice for the pupil-teachers. Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Philadelphia, Abraham B. Hutton, Principal.This institution was founded in 1820. Its buildings and grounds in 1860 were estimated of the value of $120,000. The number of teachers in 1862 was 12, of whom 3 were deaf-mutes; the number of pupils remaining in the institution, Jan. 1, 1861, was 215,-113 boys and 102 girls; 26 were received during the year, 12 boys and 14 girls; 35 were discharged during the year, viz. 14 boys and 21 girls, leaving in the institution, Jan. 1, 1862, 206 pupils,-111 boys and 95 girls. Of these, 158 are supported by the State of Pennsylvania, 17 by Maryland, 9 by New Jersey, 4 by Delaware, 3 by the city of Philadelphia, and 15 by their friends; the States allow $140 for board and tuition, and the counties $30 for the clothing, of each pupil; 2 died during the year. Of the pupils admitted in 1861, 18 were born deaf, 4 lost their hearing from scarlet fever, 1 from erysipelas, 2 from colds, and 1 from sickness. The receipts of the year were $40,964 37, and the expenditure $37,965 10. Deducting expenditures not for support, we have a net expenditure for support of $30,361 26, or $145 27 per pupil. Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, Philadelphia, William Chapin, Principal.-This institution was founded in 1833, and the estimated value of its buildings and grounds in 1860 was $175,000. It has also an endowment of between $80,000 and $90,000 from a legacy. It is admirably managed, and has three departments, the Manufacturing Department, in which adults are employed and taught such handicrafts as will enable them to obtain a livelihood, and the "Home," intended for those blind persons, mostly females, who are homeless, and who are able in part to sustain themselves, but require some aid and a place where they may enjoy the comfort and society of home. The institution had in Jan. 1862, 16 teachers, of whom 8 were blind persons; there were remaining in December, 1860, 165 pupils, and during the year 1861 11 were discharged, 2 died, and 23 were admitted, leaving, January, 1862, 175 as inmates of the institution, of whom 22 contributed wholly or in part to their own support either as assistant teachers or by their industry; 9 were pay-pupils, either in full or at a reduced price, 16 were in the "Home," and 6 were The Schools of Philadelphia.-The city of Philadelphia has a school system of its own, and its schools are thoroughly graded from the lowest primary to the admirable High Schools which impart to the pupils who pass their examinations for admission, without cost, the advantages of a thorough collegiate course. The "Controllers of Public Schools of the First District of Pennsylva--the Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, nia" report the condition of the schools, January 1, 1862, as follows:-Whole number of schools, 347, viz.:-2 High Schools, 57 grammar schools, 48 unclassified schools, 59 secondary, and 181 primary schools. The number of teachers in the Boys' High School was 15; number of pupils, 525; average attendance, 510; the gross expenses of the school were $23,635 37, being $40 88 per pupil; 14 graduated B.A. at the commencement July 12, 1861, and 10 received certificates of having completed a partial course, and 24 graduated B.A. in Feb. 1862. The Girls' High and Normal School had 11 teachers and 336 pupils, with an average attendance of 303; 24 received diplomas at the June commencement, 1861, and 39 at the January one, 1862. The gross expenses of the school were $7,766 09, being $20 24 per pupil. The whole number of teachers in the grammar, unclassified, se-day-pupils; 153 were from Pennsylvania, 13 from condary, and primary schools is 1122, of whom 66 are males and 1056 females; the number of scholars is 67,095 (32,735 males, 34,360 females); and the supervision of them is confided to 25 controllers and 332 directors. The gross expenses of the schools (except the High Schools) are $504,678 04, making the average expense per scholar per annum $6 62. The entire expenditure for school pur New Jersey, 5 from Delaware, and 4 from all other places. Great attention is given to musical in. struction; the orchestra contains 30 performers on as many instruments, and the chorus 42 voices. The concerts or exhibitions of this orchestra and chorus, on Wednesday afternoons, are largely attended, and are regarded by musical connoisseurs as possessing high merit. The net receipts from the small admission-fee are from $850 to $1000 per annum, and furnish a fund from which deserving graduates receive an outfit on leaving the institution: $8450 has been thus paid. The principal in his report of January, 1862, gives some interesting statistics in regard to blind instruction in the United States, and especially in regard to the instruction of the adult blind in handicrafts. He also gives a table of the causes of blindness in 476 cases, from which it appears that it was congenital in only 46 cases, less than one-tenth; from accidents in 90 cases; ophthalmia in 114; amaurosis, 67; iritis, cataract, and other diseases of the eye, in 35 cases; small-pox, 21; scarlet fever, 14; and other diseases, 56. The receipts of the institution from all sources in the year ending December 1, 1861, were $44,346 73, and its expenditures $42,691 66. During the year a "Book of First Lessons in the Philadelphia Raised Letter for the Blind" was published. The previous year the "Dictionary for the Blind," in three volumes, in the raised letter was completed. Pennsylvania Training-School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children, at Media.-J. Parrish, M.D., Superintendent.-This institution was established in 1852, at Germantown, as a private corporation, but subsequently received State pupils to a limited extent. In 1857 a farm of 60 acres was purchased in Media, the county-seat of Delaware co., and a building erected there for the school, the State contributing in part the cost of the edifices. It was opened in September, 1859. The cost of the buildings and grounds was $100,000. The school had in January, 1862, 4 teachers and 108 pupils. The gross receipts for the year ending December, 1861, for current purposes was $53,368 91, of which $5.247 74 the State for board and tnition of pupils. The State also appropriated $7500 in 1861 for buildingpurposes. The expenditures were $200 for each State pupil. The number of idiotic persons in the State in 1860, according to the census, was 1842. These INSANE HOSPITALS.-There are six incorporated hospitals for the insane in the State, besides several private institutions for their treatment. are the Male Department of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, and the Female Department of the same Hospital,-both under the general superintendence of Thomas S. Kirkbride, M.D. These two hospitals, amply furnished with every appliance for "ministering to a mind diseased," have grown out of the Insane Department of the Pennsylvania Hospital, | founded in 1768. They are situated in Philadelphia. The Insane Department of Philadelphia Hospital, also in Philadelphia, is maintained by the city, and receives the pauper and indigent insane belonging to the city and county. Its superintendent is Dr. S. W. Butler. The "Asylum for Persons deprived of their Reason," at Frankford, is a small but admirably-conducted hospital, established by members of the Society of Friends in 1817. It is in charge of Dr. J. II. Worthington. The State maintains two Insane Hospitals,-the State Lunatic Hospital, at Harrisburg, Dr. John Curwen, Superintendent, and the Western Pennsylvania Insane Hospital, at Pittsburg, Dr. Joseph A. Reed, Superintendent. The last-named has a small general hospital connected with it, which had 12 patients in 1861. A farm of 100 acres has been purchased, and new hospital buildings are nearly completed, at Dixmont, on the Ohio River, 7 miles from Pittsburg. The following table gives the most important stainstitutions year 1861: was from tistics of these for the building west of Schuylkill was opened in 1834. * An Insane ward was first opened in the Old Almshouse, 11th and Spruce Sts., in 1803. The now † Estimated. CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS.-There are two Houses of Refuge in the State,-one at Philadelphia, founded in 1828, comprising two distinct departments, the white and colored, each with their superintendent and other officers, and each receiving children of both sexes; and the other, the House of Refuge of Western Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg, chartered in 1850 and opened in 1854. The Philadelphia House of Refuge, white department, has a tract of about 4 acres of land in the city of Philadelphia, and its buildings and grounds cost $380,000; the colored department has about 2 acres, and its buildings and site cost $103,000. The statistics of the two departments for the year ending Jan. 1, 1862, were as follows. Remaining in the white department, Jan. 1, 1861, 316 children (254 boys, 62 girls); in the colored department, 143 (102 boys and 41 girls); total in both departments, 459. Received during the year, in the white department, 329 (233 boys, 96 girls); in the colored department, 100 (68 boys and 32 girls); both, 429. Discharged from white department, 318 (240 boys, 78 girls); from colored department, 104 (76 boys, 28 girls); total discharged, 422. Died in white department, 1; in colored department, 3; total, 4. Remaining, Jan. 1, 1862, white department, 326 (246 boys, 80 girls); colored department, 136 (91 boys, 45 girls); total, 462. The average ages of the children admitted in 1861 was, white department, boys, 135; girls, 15 years; in colored department, boys 13; girls, 12 years. The average number of inmates in white department was 331; in colored, 140; the greatest number resident at one time, whites, 368; colored, 150. The boys in the white department are employed in manufacturing daguerreotype cases, brushes, shoes, boxes, chairs, and a few in blacksmith-work; the colored boys are employed in making umbrella-furniture, boxes, and shoes, and a few in the garden and boiler-house of the white department. Of the 329 admitted into the white department, 81 were of foreign birth and 248 born in the United States; 122 were children of American and 207 of foreign parents; 40 were orphans, and 149 half-orphans. Of the 319 discharged, 113 (81 boys, 32 girls) were indentured, the greater part to farmers, though some of both sexes to trades; 98 were returned to their friends, 84 discharged from expiration of sentence, 6 sent to the almshouse, 7 discharged by order of judges or court, 9 returned to court or magistrates, 1 sent to the Southern Home, and 1 died. The amount of labor performed by the white boys was $3,094 45; the money-value of the girls' labor, which consisted mostly in making and repairing clothing and bedding and doing housework, is not stated. Expenditures of the white department for the year were $26,253 16, or $79 31 per pupil. Of this sum the earnings of the boys amounted to $9 38 per head. In the colored department, of the 107 discharged, 55 were indentured, 27 returned to friends, 6 secured good homes for themselves, 5 were discharged from expiration of sentence, 4 eloped, 3 died, 3 were unfit subjects, 2 were sent to the almshouse and 1 to the hospital, and 1 discharged by examining judge. The expenditure for the colored department was $12 103 44, or $86 45 per head, of which the boys' earnings amounted to $10 82 per head. Of the Western House of Refuge, at Pittsburg, opened in 1850, we have no report later than that of 1860, at which time the number of inmates was pital, Pittsburg. 222,-164 boys and 58 girls. The whole number | under 21 years of age; 131 were either orphans or who had been committed was 638; the average half-orphans; 135 were employed in the prison, period of detention was 16 months; there had been 9 deaths, and 14 escapes since opening, of which 5 had occurred within the previous 12 months. The annual expenses were $14,442 67, or $64 25 per head. The children were employed in making chairs, shoes, &c. The land attached to the house was about 10 acres, and the cost of buildings and grounds $123,884. There are a number of other institutions for the care and reformation of truant and vicious children and youth, among which are the Northern and Southern Homes for Friendless Children in Philadelphia, the Rosine Asylum, &c., but they are tained by contributions, subscriptions, and legacies, rather than by the State. and 47 were without employment. The statistics of the physician in regard to the mental condition of the 646 who were in the prison during the year are somewhat remarkable. He reports that when committed 5 were insane; 2 occasionally insane; occasionally absent-minded, 4; of unsound mind, 7; of violent temper, 8; weak-minded, 79; dull, 107; doubtful, 8; good, 426 (only 65.24 per cent. of the whole). Treatment while in confinement he regards as having improved the mental condition of 40, or 6.19 per cent. The cost per head per annum of the support of prisoners (subsistence sus-only) is stated at $73. The expenses of the prison for the year were $31,831 54, and the earnings of the prisoners $15,066 66, leaving a deficiency of $16,764 88, aside from the salaries, which were $16,164 more. The inspectors charge a part of this deficiency to the difficulty of procuring work during the year for the prisoners, in consequence of the general financial depression. The prisoners are employed in weaving, chair-seating, umbrellamaking, cigar-making, &c. PRISONS.-There are two State or convict prisons, the Eastern Penitentiary, at Philadelphia, John S. Halloway, Warden, and the Western, at Alleghany City, John Birmingham, Warden. Both are on the separate or Philadelphia system,—the prisoners being confined to their separate cells and yards, never seeing each other, and holding no communication with any person except the officers of the prison. The Eastern Penitentiary had on the 1st of January, 1861, 464 prisoners; during the year, 182 were committed and 195 discharged, leaving, January 1, 1862, 451 persons in confinement. The whole prison population of the year was 646. Of the 451 remaining in prison, January 1, 1862, 371 were white, and 63 colored, males, and 15 white, and 2 colored, females; 160 were from the city, and 291 from the country; 104 were convicted of crimes against the person; 312 of crimes against property, 4 of crimes against society, and 1 was committed for safe keeping. The whole number received since the admission of the first convict, October 25, 1829, was 4595. Of these there were discharged by expiration of sentences, 3221; pardoned, 596; removed to almshouse, 2; to House of Refuge, 2; to County Prison, 15; to State Lunatic Hospital, 9; by revocation of sentence, 2; change of sentence, 1; writ of habeas corpus, 9; writ of error, 14; died, 260 (5.66 per cent.); committed suicide, 10; hanged, 1; escaped, 2; 3476, or 75.65 per cent,, were first convictions; 637, or 13.86 per cent., were second convictions, but first in that prison; 367 others were second convictions in that prison; 85 were third convictions, 21 were fourth convictions, and 11 from fifth to ninth convictions; in all, 1119 reconvictions, of which 478, or 10.40 per cent., were to that prison. Of the 646 who were in the prison during the year, 112 were entirely illiterate on admission, 106 could spell and read a little; 421 could read and write, but only 7 had a good English education; 245 were married, 12 divorced or separated, 363 single, 36 widowed; 274 were moderate drinkers, 267 more or less intemperate, and 105 temperate. Of the 182 convicted during the year, 154 were whites, and 28 colored; 34 were The Western Penitentiary, at Alleghany City, had, January 1, 1861, 311 prisoners,-302 males and 9 females; 113 were committed and 136 discharged during the year, leaving, Jan, 1, 1862, 288 in the prison. Of those discharged during the year, 119 were by expiration of sentence, 12 by pardon, and 5 by death. Of those received during the year, 100 were white and 3 colored males, and 8 white and 2 colored females; and of those remaining in the prison, Jan. 1, 1862, 249 were white and 24 colored males, and 13 white and 2 colored females; 137 were married, 145 single, and 6 widowed; 84 temperate, 7 moderate drinkers, and 197 intemperate; 75 were foreigners, 129 natives of Pennsylvania, 84 natives of other States; 236 were in prison for first offence, 39 for the second time, 10 for the third, and 3 for the fourth, making whole number of recommitments 52, or 18 per cent.; 234 were convicted of crimes against property, 50 of crimes against the person, and 4 of crimes against society. 18 were under 20 years of age, and 3 between 70 and 80. The amount expended for subsistence was $20,014 73; for salaries, $12,000; making a total of $32,014 73, and the earnings of the convicts were $16,523 55, leaving a deficiency of $15,491 18. The cost of the prisoners' support was $106 71, or for subsistence alone, $66 71. The Philadelphia County Prison, W. B. Perkins, Superintendent, is also to some extent a State institution, being the place of confinement for persons convicted of minor offences, as well as of those awaiting trial. 16,201 prisoners were committed to this prison during the year, of whom 4548 were for offences against property, 8312 for offences against the person, and 436 for offences against society; the remainder were lunatics, or persons awaiting judgment, &c. 10,467 were white males, 4207 white females, 869 colored males, and 658 colored females. The number remaining in prison, Jan. 1, 1862, was 581. The disposition made of the prisoners committed, and those in the prison, Jan. 1, 1861, was as follows; discharged from expiration of sentence, 3504; by magistrates, 5463; by inspectors, 5977; by Quarter Sessions' clerk, 302; bills ignored, 324; convicted, 361; acquitted, 257; discharged by writ of habeas corpus, 27; by City Solicitor, 36; by U.S. Marshal, 23; by sheriff, 12; died, 22; sent to House of Refuge, 9; discharged under $15 act, 93; sentence expired of convicts to hard labor, 465; executed, 1; suicide, 1; pardoned, 2. THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA TO THE VOLUNTEER ARMY.-On the call of the President for troops, April 15, 1861, Pennsylvania sent 600 men at once to Washington, who arrived at that city on the 19th, in advance of any other regiment. The quota of the State under the call for 75,000 men was 14 regiments; but 25 regiments were raised, organized, and sent into the field by the 29th of April. On the second call, in May, 1861, the quota of Pennsylvania was 10 regiments; but, as she had already furnished 25,-an excess over both calls, the General Government refused to receive any more. A corps of 15 regiments (13 infantry, 1 cavalry, and 1 artillery) was, however, raised by the State by act of May 15, 1861, and, under the title of the "Reserve Volunteer Corps of the Commonwealth," placed under the command of Gen. George A. McCall for organization and instruction. Two regiments of this corps were called into the service of Government on the 22d of June, and on the 22d of July a requisition was made for the remainder of the corps, which consisted of 15,856 men. Other regiments were called for during the summer and autumn, and on the 3d of January, 1862, there were in the field from Pennsylvania 93,577, and preparing for service 16,038 more, making in all 109,615 troops furnished by Pennsylvania. The calls for militia in April and May, 1862, and the two calls for 300,000 threeyears men and 300,000 nine-months troops, were promptly responded to by the State, which has now, December, 1862, 38 new regiments and 3 unattached companies of infantry, 5 regiments and 3 companies of cavalry, and 3 batteries of artillery in the field, as the result of these calls, with 4 regiments of infantry, 1 of cavalry, and 1 of artillery, in progress of formation, all as volunteers; besides about 50,000 volunteer militia, making an aggregate, including the three-months men of 1861, of over 200,000 men who were in service, or actually ready for it, under the call of September 11, 1862, at the time of the invasion of the State. This force, raised with extraordinary promptness, terrified the invaders, and occupied the exposed frontier of the State till the enemy retreated. to resort to a draft in some of the counties, though many had already exceeded their proportion. This draft was made on the 16th of October, and was very successful, no resistance or opposition being made, and the men thus drafted entering promptly upon the service, choosing their own officers, and being called a few weeks later into the field. CENSUS STATISTICS.-The general statistics of the agricultural and manufacturing productions of Pennsylvania are to be found in our tables of census statistics: but a few particulars of interest deduced from those and other tables may properly be inserted here. The number of the two sexes in the State was very nearly equal, the excess of white males (6626) in a population of 2,849,266 being very slight, and nearly balanced in the general aggregate by the excess of colored females (4103): so that the whole excess of males is only 2523, or about 0.08 per cent. In area, Pennsylvania ranks 18th; in population, 2d; in density of population, 7th; and in absolute increase of population within the last decade, 7th. In products of industry she ranks 2d, though but slightly in advance of Massachusetts. Her production of coal is stated in the census at $14,703, 433,—a sum notoriously much below its actual value; the production and manufacture of iron is set down at $36,292,305; flour and meal are produced to the value of $26,572,261; sawed and planed lumber, $11,311,149; cotton goods, $11,759,000; and woollen goods, $12,744,373. Leather is produced to the amount of $12,491,631, and boots and shoes-of which Philadelphia is one of the largest markets to the amount of $8,178,935, of which $5,329,887 are manufactured in Philadelphia. Jewelry, silver-ware, &c. are said to be produced to the amount of $4,132,130, which is undoubtedly an underesti mate, as these manufactures in Philadelphia alone produced $4,030,380, leaving but about $100,000 for the rest of the State. The amount of furniture produced is stated at $2,938,503. The census valuation of property in the State ($1,416,501,818) gives about $488 for each inhabitant, or about the same proportion with New York. In the cash value of its farms Ohio slightly surpasses it, and New York largely. In the value of live stock it ranks 4th, and in the production of wheat, 6th; in that of rye, 1st; and in oats and potatoes, 2d. In barley it ranks 3d, and in buckwheat 1st. In its hay crop and the production of butter it was second only to New York. In the production of maple sugar and molasses it ranks 5th, and in its crop of cloverseed it surpassed any other State. Mr. Lorin Blodget, the able Secretary of the Philadelphia Board of Trade, has compiled from the census returns (carefully collating them with the results of a local industrial census taken in 1861) the manufacturing statistics of the city of Phila For raising the State's quota of the 300,000 nine-delphia, and we give from his able report the folmonths men called for by the President's procla-lowing aggregates : mation of August 4, 1862, it was found necessary |