tumn of 1861, and held its session in January, 1862, but the Constitution prepared by the Convention was submitted to the popular vote in June, 1862, and rejected by a majority of 25,000 votes. Two articles, however, which were voted upon separately, one denying the right of suffrage to negroes, the other prohibiting them from settling in the State, received a majority of the votes cast, and have been incorporated in the old Constitution. The Congressional apportionment made by the Convention was also rejected. FINANCES.. The revenue for general purposes during the two years ending Nov. 30, 1862, was......$1,775,239 87 Moneys received for payment of interest on debt for two years....... Balance on hand, Dec. 1, 1860, and transfer from Revenue Fund........................................................................... Receipts on account of War Fund Proceeds of sale of $2,000,000 war bonds................ Reimbursed by United States................ Interest, &c........................................................... Total receipts to Dec. 1, 1862.. Expenditures. 1,153,419 36 545,717 05 Ordinary and contingent expenses for two years ending Nov. 30, 1862......... $864,007 04 Special appropriations....... Redemption of warrants.... Interest paid............ Auditor's warrants on the War Fund... Balance to credit of general revenue, Dec. 1, 1862.. There will be due, Jan. 1, 1863, $334,911 97 on interest account, and July 1, 1863, $410,164 92 Auditor's warrauts drawn on the War Fund yet outstanding amount to $313 616 52, to meet which $779,998 are due from the United States. From the executive contingent fund the Governor has expended for the benefit of the sick and wounded Illinois soldiers, $49,788 63. The reports of the Auditor and State Treasurer on the finances of the two years ending Nov. 30, 1862, which were to be made to the Legislature meeting in Jan. 1863, had not been published at the time of our going to press, and we are cousequently unable to give the sources of income and items of expenditure of the State in detail. State Debt-The total debt of the State, including $2,000,000 war bonds, is $12,337.381 37. This debt was mostly incurred for internal improve ments, and the payments of a percentage of their receipts by the Illinois Central Railroad in ordinary times nearly defray the interest. The State has assumed and paid to the General Government its proportion of the direct tax of 1861, amounting to $1.146,551, less the 15 per cent. allowed for collection, from the proceeds of the War Fund bonds, and thus saved to the State $171,983. The whole cost of the war to the State, aside from this tax, and exclusive of what is due from the General Government, to Dec. 1, 1862, is less than half a million of dollars. Valuation and Taxation. The Census valuation 531,271 82 5.263 81 1,338,153 41 3,595,095 26 374,697 19 360,980 00 15,101 33 .$7,085,169 87 $7,085,169 87 of the State in 1860 was $871,860,282. Governor Yates estimates it now as over a thousand millions of dollars. The tax collected in 1858 was $750,530 24. The Governor recommends in his message of January, 1863, a three-mill tax. BANKS.-The bank-note circulation of the State at the opening of the war was nearly or quite $12,000.000 (in October, 1860, it was $11,010.837), the specie in their vaults, $302,705, and they held stocks of the nominal value of $12,264,580. The banks of the State were all on the free-banking principle, and soon after the war commenced it was ascertained that the stocks on which their circulation was based were largely those of the disloyal States and had greatly depreciated in value. The Auditor of the State promptly required the banks (then 94 in number) to make up all deficiencies by depreciation, and on their failure to do so placed them in liquidation and sold their assets. On the 1st of May, 1862, the number of barks had been reduced to 15, their capital to $712,351, their circulation to $504,346, and their specie to $4040. In December, 1862, the number of banks was 18, their circulation, all fully secured. $600,000, and amount of specie, $50,000. It is believed that the banks of the State are now on a sound basis, and that the evils of a fluctuating currency, which have heretofore caused so much trouble and distress in the State, will not again recur. EDUCATION.-The State has 14 incorporated col- | leges and universities. The State University at Springfield is under the control of the Lutherans. The State Normal University at Bloomington, founded in 1857, is intended for the education of teachers of the public schools. It is well endowed, and its buildings have a capacity for 300 normal and 200 model school scholars. Of the other colleges, one (the North-Western Female College, at Evanston) receives female students only, another (Quincy College) is for both sexes. Four of the colleges were founded by the Methodists, two by Baptists, one, each, by Congregationalists, Presbyterians N. S., Presbyterians O. S., Episcopalians, Roman Catholics, and Lutherans. There are 9 theological seminaries in the State, of which 4 belong to the various Presbyterian bodies, 2 to the Lutherans, and one, each, to the Congregationalists, Baptists, and Methodists. Five of these are located at Chicago, and one in its immediate vicinity. There are two medical colleges, both at Chicago. An agricultural college will probably soon be established. Common Schools. We are in possession of no statistics of the public schools later than those of Dec. 1858. At that time the whole number of public schools was 10,238; whole number of scholars in attendance, 457,113 (males, 243,859; females, 213,254); number of white persons in the State under 21 years of age, 809,879; number between 5 and 21, 470,540; number of colored persons under 21, 2801; number between 5 and 21, 1714; number of male teachers, 7503; of female teachers, 5878; average monthly wages of male teachers, $29 66, the highest being $200 and the lowest $10; average do. of female teachers, $19 48, the highest being $60 and the lowest $5; number of school districts, $154; average number of months schools have been taught, 6.83; number of new school-houses erected during the two years preceding, 2401; number of teachers' institutes h ld during the year, 38; amount paid to lecturers and instructors of teachers' institutes, $910; number of school-district libraries purchased, 1850. The amount expended for schools during the year 1838 was as follows:-Two-mill tax, apportioned, $743,000; interest apportioned, $50,871 25; amount raised by tax to extend schools after public money was exhausted, $563,460; expended for school furniture, $31,810; for building, repairing, and renting school-houses, $$19,859; for school house lots, $38,627; for school-district libraries, $15,900. Total amount expended for school purposes, $2.705,052. The number of private schools reported was 530, with 18,571 scholars. There were reported also in the State 21 colleges and 53 academies and seminaries. School Fund.-The school fund in 1858 was thus made up:--School fund proper, being 3 per cent. net proceeds sales of public lands in the State, onesixth part excepted, $555,143 17; surplus revenue, $335,592 32; college fund, being one-sixth of 3 per cent. fund, $111,012 54; seminary fund, proceeds of sales of seminary lands, $50,838 72; township funds, $3,335,680; county funds, $218,653. Total school funds of the State, $4,606,919 75. Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, at Jacksonville, Philip G. Gillet, Principal.-This institution was founded in 1846, and had in 1860 10 instructors, of whom 4 were deafmutes, and 205 pupils, all supported by the State. The cost of buildings and grounds was $200,000, and the annual grant from the State treasury $27,000. 100 of its pupils had graduated since the opening of the institution. Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind, at Jacksonville, Joshua Rhoads, Principal. -This institution was founded in 1849; its buildings and grounds cost $80,000. It had in 1860 4 teachers and 50 pupils. The State appropriation, which covers all expenditures, is $8000 per annum. It had had, in 1860, 67 graduates. Illinois State Hospital for the Insane, at Jacksonville, Andrew McFarland, M.D., Superintendent.— This is a State institution, and was opened for patients in 1851. In Dec. 1860, its statistics were as follows:-Patients remaining Dec. 1859, 214; admitted during the year ending Dec. 1, 1860, 312; discharged during the year, 297; remaining at the end of the year, 229. Of those discharged, 164 were cured, 91 not cured, 42 died; percentage of recoveries on number resident, 73.87; on admis| sions, 52.50; percentage of deaths on number resident, 19.82. The appropriation of the State is $36,000 per annum. Additions are making to the hospital which, when completed, will give room for 500 patients. A firm of 160 acres is connected with the hospital. The buildings and grounds have been fitted up with great care. State Penitentiary, at Joliet, T. S. Rutherford, Superintendent.-This prison was completed in | 1963, and in December of that year there were about 700 prisoners there. It is on the Auburn or congregated system. Census and other Statistics.-In area Illinois occupies the 10th rank, in population the 4th, in density of population the 13th, having 30.90 inhabitants to the square mile; in absolute increase of population during the last decade, the 6th. There is a large excess of males over females in the population of the State, the white males outnumbering the white females by 93,581. The State is rich in mineral wealth, producing coal, lead, iron, and other minerals in vast quantities. The coal-bed underlying the county of Perry alone is estimated by geologists, at the low price of $1 50 per ton, to be worth $3,259,000,000. The shipments of breadstuffs from Chicago her great port, in 1862, were as follows:-Wheat, bushels, 13,145,155; corn, bushels, 29.761,026; oats, bushels, 2.987,260; barley, bushels, 789,231; rye, bushels, 279.878; flour, bbls., reduced to bushels of wheat, 8,757,610; total breadstuffs exported, 55,720,160 bushels. The receipts of breadstuffs at that port for the same time were $58,619,194. Other leading exports were-pork | Army.-No one of the Western States responded and bacon, 31,660 hhds., 39,560 tierces, 89,034 bbls., more promptly and earnestly to the President's 95,431 boxes, and 1,692,149 lbs. not otherwise proclamation than Illinois. An extra session of packed; whiskey, 233,0 5 bbls.; lard, tierces, 135,- the Legislature was called on the 23d of April, 932, kegs, 58,174; coffee, sacks, 122,013; molasses, 1861, and measures taken to bring out the force bbls., 31,962; sugar, hhds., 32,147; tobacco, hlids., which was needed, fully armed and equipped for 26,738, boxes, 73.587; cheese, boxes, 68,652. Among service. On the 21st of Nov. 18 1, the State had the imports of the port the most important were— in the field 53,000 troops, of whom 6 regiments pork and bacon, 12,245 hhds., 5535 tierces, 52,514 and 2 squadrons were cavalry. On the 1st of Jan. bbls., 4267 boxes, and 29,841,220 lbs. not otherwise 1862, 50 regiments of infantry, 10 of cavalry, and packed; flour, 589,741 bbls.; wheat, 1,970,032 1 of artillery, had been mustered into the bushels; oats, 1.287,426 bushels; barley, 428,289 service of the United States. On the 31st Dec, bushels; corn, 1,774,552 bushels; whiskey, 366,930 1862, Illinois had sent 135.000 men into the field; bbls.; lard, 96,916 tierces and 31,038 kegs; sugar, 130 infantry regiments, of which 12 were three25,925 hhds. and 90, 215 bbls.; tobacco, 30,605 hhds. months men, 16 cavalry regiments, and 2 regiments and 38.900 boxes; cheese, 136,092 boxes. This and 7 batteries of artillery. The whole number immense traffic has grown up wholly within 25 called for under the proclamations of July and years. In 1838 the exports of Chicago were 78 August were enlisted for three years, without draftbushels of wheat, and no other grain was exported. ing. Great attention has been paid, through the In 1842 they had increased to 586,907 bushels of exertions of the patriotic Governor, to the sanitary grain. in 1852 they were 5,873,141 bushels. and condition of the Illinois troops. A State Sanitary in 1862, 55,720,160 bushels,—an increase of nearly Bureau has been established, and its labors have tenfold every ten years. been of great benefit to the soldiers. The Contribution of Illinois to the Volunteer XXVIII. MISSOURI. Settled in 1763. Capital, Jefferson City. Area, 67,380 square miles. Population, 1,182,012, of whom 114,931 are slaves. Senators are The Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Trea- | of Representatives is the same. surer, Attorney-General, Register of Lands, and Superintendent of Common Schools are required to live during their term at Jefferson City. The Lieutenant-Governor is ex officio President of the Senate, and receives $7 a day while presiding, and mileage. The pay of the Speaker of the House chosen every fourth, and Representatives every second, year. Their pay is $5 a day during the session, and mileage. The Legislature meets at Jefferson City in regular session, biennially, on the last Monday in December. The above Supreme Judges were appointed by | Missouri, required of all civil officers by ordinance the Governor to fill out the vacancies of William of Missouri State Convention, passed October 16, Scott, W. B. Napton, and E. B. Ewing, former 1861. judges, whose seats were vacated by their failure to take and subscribe an oath of loyalty to the Government of the United States and State of The judges of the Supreme Court are elected by the people for six years. Two sessions are held annually, at Jefferson City and at St. Louis. Salary of judges, $1500 per annum. Term of office expires December, 1863. The names marked with a star (*) are judges who have been appointed by Governor Gamble in place of disloyal judges who refused to take the oath of loyalty under ordinance of Convention. The State Convention was organized February, were unwilling to subscribe to the oath of allegi1861, and was composed of 99 members, three-ance, and were compelled to vacate their offices. fourths of whom were loyal to the United States Government. It deposed Governor Jackson and the Secretary of State, B. F. Massey, for disloyalty, Sterling Price, its first Chairman, and several other members were also expelled upon the same ground,—and electe·l a new Provisional Governor and Secretary of State. It also passed an ordinance providing for the subscription by all voters, all persons holding any civil office or who might be elected to such office, all professors and teachers paid from the public funds, and all clergymen and professional men who should perform the marriage ceremony or do any other legal act, of a stringent oath of loyalty and allegiance, under penalty of prosecution and fine from $10 to $200. This ordinance occasioned numerous changes among the holders of offices in the State, as many FINANCES.-The State having been to a considerable extent the theatre of the war during 1861 and 1862, its finances are in a state of confusion, and it is impossible to state with accuracy its exact position with reference to receipts and expenditures. There are in the State 113 counties. Reports had been received from 41 of these up to June 1 1862; and the tax levied on them in 18C1 was $304 220 74, and of this amount $253,080 96 had been paid; there had also been received for Insurance Agency and Pawnshop Licenses, mostly from St. Louis county, $26 038 55. making the total receipts from taxes and licenses to Jan. 1, 1862, from these 41 counties, $279,425 51. Up to the same date, there had been issued $720,000 in Defence Warrants, and the Governor, in his message of December, 1862, states that a further sum of |