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., 95,431 boxes, and 1,692,149 lbs. not otherwise packed; whiskey, 233,085 bbls.; lard, tierces, 135,932, kegs, 58,174; coffee, sacks, 122,013; molasses, bbls., 31,962; sugar, hhds., 32,147; tobacco, hhds., 26,738, boxes, 73,587; cheese, boxes, 68,652. Among the imports of the port the most important werepork and bacon, 12,245 hhds., 5535 tierces, 52,514 bbls., 4267 boxes, and 29,841,220 lbs. not otherwise packed; flour, 589,741 bbls.; wheat, 1,970,032 bushels; oats, 1,287,426 bushels; barley, 428,289 bushels; corn, 1,774,552 bushels; whiskey, 366,930 bbls.; lard, 96,916 tierces and 31,038 kegs; sugar, 25,925 hhds. and 90, 215 bbls.; tobacco, 30,605 hhds. and 38,900 boxes; cheese, 136,092 boxes. This immense traffic has grown up wholly within 25 years. In 1838 the exports of Chicago were 78 bushels of wheat, and no other grain was exported. In 1842 they had increased to 586,907 bushels of grain, in 1852 they were 5,873,141 bushels, and in 1862, 55,720,160 bushels,-an increase of nearly tenfold every ten years.

The Contribution of Illinois to the Volunteer

more promptly and earnestly to the President's proclamation than Illinois. An extra session of the Legislature was called on the 23d of April, 1861, and measures taken to bring out the force which was needed, fully armed and equipped for service. On the 21st of Nov. 1861, the State had in the field 53,000 troops, of whom 6 regiments and 2 squadrons were cavalry. On the 1st of Jan. 1862, 50 regiments of infantry, 10 of cavalry, and 1 of artillery, had been mustered into the service of the United States. On the 31st Dec, 1862, Illinois had sent 135,000 men into the field; 130 infantry regiments, of which 12 were threemonths men, 16 cavalry regiments, and 2 regiments and 7 batteries of artillery. The whole number called for under the proclamations of July and August were enlisted for three years, without drafting. Great attention has been paid, through the exertions of the patriotic Governor, to the sanitary condition of the Illinois troops. A State Sanitary Bureau has been established, and its labors have been of great benefit to the soldiers.

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 st Jefferson City in regular session, biennially, on the last Monday in December.

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 elected 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 1861 was $604,220 74, and of this amount $253,386 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

$55,000 would have to be issued. Of these, $96,775 | souri, St. Louis and Iron Mountain, and Cairo and

had been cancelled prior to June 1, 1862, and a considerable sum since that time.

State Debt.-The following is a statement of the debt of the State on the 1st of December, 1862. Miscellaneous debt, $602,000; Pacific Railroad bonds (main line), $7,000,000; Pacific Railroad bonds (S.W. Branch), $4,500,000; Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad bonds, $3,000,000; North Missouri, $3,600,000; Iron Mountain, $3,600.000; Cairo & Fulton, $650.000; Platte County, $700,000; Revenue bonds, $431,000; State Defence Warrants, $725,000; Arrears of interest due, $1,812,000. Total, $27,370,000. A small portion of this debt bears only 52 per cent. interest, and another, but inconsiderable amount, 7 per cent. The remainder are 6 per cent. bonds. The Pacific, North Mis

Fulton roads, do not meet the payment of the annual interest due on the bonds severally issued to them, and it is paid by the State. On the 1st of January, 1861, the State also held stocks in trust for the seminary fund, the State school fund, the sinking-fund, and State stock in bank, to the amount of $1,103,300.

Valuation and Taxation.-The valuation of the State, according to the Census of 1860, was $501,214,398. The State revenue is derived from licenses for merchants, money-brokers, foreign insurance companies, billiard-tables, dram-shops, ferries, &c., a capitation-tax, taxes on slaves, and a tax on real and other personal property. The State has a sinking-fund to provide for the reduction of its debt.

BANKS.-On the 1st of January, 1861, the following was the condition of the 42 banks of Mis.

In May, 1862, there were 44 banks in the State, | State, and the interest was required to be paid as having an aggregate capital of $13,884,383, a circulation of $8,000,000, and specie to the amount of $4,160,000. In December, 1862, the total circulation was reported at $4,520,000, of which $2,500,000 was secured by the deposit of stocks in the State Auditor's office, and $2,020,000 was not thus secured. The banks held at the same time $4,300,000 in specie.

it accumulated. The later loans of the State credit to the railroads were made on a somewhat different principle; for every $1000 of bona fide subscription by individuals, the State has issued its bonds for double the amount, payable in thirty years, with 6 per cent. interest. The State takes the roads, their franchises, lands, buildings, furniture, and equipment, as security, with the right to RAILROADS.-The State has extended its aid very take possession and sell in default of payment of liberally to the railroad enterprises of the State. the principal or interest of the loan. About The earlier loans to the roads were made in the $24,000,000 of its debt has thus been incurred following way. When the directors reported that Several of the railroads have been unable to pay $50,000 of bona fide subscriptions had been made the interest on these bonds, and the State has been by individuals, the State issued its bonds for a compelled to pay them. Several of these roads similar amount, and so on for each similar sub- have suffered heavy losses during the war from scription of $50,000, until the entire appropriation the destruction of their bridges, track, &c. by the was exhausted. To secure the State, the entire Confederates. The following table exhibits the franchise of the roads, their lands, buildings, fur-condition of the roads in 1862, so far as reported. niture, and equipment, were mortgaged to the

EDUCATION.-Missouri has a State University at Columbia, on the Missouri River, chartered in 1839, and opened for instruction in 1844. It has a fine edifice, erected at a cost of $85,000, and a fund of $133,000 well invested. It has as yet only an undergraduate course, though there is a medical department nominally connected with it at St. Louis. Each county in the State can have one student in the university, who is liable to no charge for tuition, &c., except a contingent fee of one dollar per session. Indigent students recommended by the Representative of their Congressional district are received on the same terms. To others tuition is $30 per annum. Besides the University, there are 13 other incorporated colleges in the State, one a Masonic College at Lexington, three Roman Catholic, two Baptist, two Methodist, and five the denomination of whose founders is not designated. Some of these have during the past year been closed in consequence of the war. There are three Roman Catholic and one Lutheran Theological Seminaries in the State, and three medical (one homeopathic) schools, all at St. Louis. The O'Fallon Polytechnic Institute, a department of Washington University at St. Louis, has a well-organized corps of professors in technological science.

Common Schools.-The occurrence of civil war during the past two years has materially interfered with the prosperity of the schools of the State, which had previously attained some reputation. The amount apportioned to the schools of the State from the school fund and the State treasury in 1858 was $248,207. There were the same year 3382 public schools, taught by 4397 teachers (3545 males and 852 females) and attended by about 150,000 scholars, and it was estimated that nearly as many more were taught in privat schools. The amount paid to teachers was a little more than $500,000, and about $135,000 was raised for the erection and repair of school-houses the same year. St. Louis has a school organization of its own, and its schools have for many years enjoyed a high reputation. They included in 1861 a normal school, a high school, and 26 public schools of lower grade. Aside from the city's proportion of the school fund and moneys, $78,463 were raised by direct tax for the support of these schools. Besides these schools, there were 35 schools, academies, and seminaries not under the charge of the Board of Education.

Philetus Fales, Principal.-This institution was opened in 1851. Its buildings and grounds cost $45,000. It had in 1861 4 teachers, one of them blind, and 32 pupils. Forty-three had graduated since the opening of the institution. The current expenses were about $9000.

Missouri Lunatic Asylum, at Fulton, Dr. T. R. H. Smith, Superintendent.-This institution was opened for patients in 1851. In 1862 it had 171 patients. The statistics for year ending Jan. 1861 were as follows:-Remaining at beginning of year, 135; admitted during the year, 122; discharged during the year, 86; remaining at close of the year, 171. Of those discharged during the year, 45 were cured, 19 not cured, and 22 died. Percentage of recoveries to number resident, 29.41; to admissions, 36.88; percentage of deaths to number resident, 14.37; expenditures of the year, $38,920.

State Prison, Jefferson City. We have no report of this prison later than that of 1859. The number in prison in Dec. 1858, was 388. During the two years previous, 340 had been received and 211 discharged. Of those discharged, 72 had been pardoned, 106 discharged by expiration of sentence, 19 had escaped, and 14 died. Of the 388 remaining in prison, 46 were committed for murder or assault with intent to kill, 8 for manslaughter, and 10 for other crimes against the person, 295 för crimes against property, and three for mail-robbery. 229 were Americans, 155 foreigners, and the nativity of 4 was unknown; 147 were sentenced for 5 or more years. The cost of food, clothing, and medicine per prisoner per annum, in 1857, was $45 63, in 1858 a trifle more.

Census Statistics.-In area Missouri occupies the 5th rank, only Texas, California, Oregon, and Minnesota being larger. In population she is 8th, in density of population 22d, having 17.54 inhabitants to the square mile; in absolute increase during the last decade she is 14th. The males are 62,390 (about one-eighth) in excess of the females in the population. The number of slaves at the taking of the census was 114,931. Gov. Gamble estimates that they do not NOW exceed 50,000. In valuation the State ranks 13th. It has considerable manufactures, but the most valuable and extensive of its manufacturing establishments are at St. Louis. The most important items are-flour and meal, $8,997,083; sawed and planed lumber, $3,702,992; iron-foundries, $1,041,520; bar iron, $535,000; pig iron, $575,000; steam-engines and machinery, $719,500; whiskey, $309,000; boots and shoes, $868,768; woollen goods, $425,319; cotton goods, $230,000; malt liquors, $1.143,450; soap and candles, $1,649,380; sugar refining, furniture, &c. &c. In the cash value of its farms and the value of its farming-implements, Missouri stands 9th; in the number of horses it is 6th; it is 7th in the number of its cattle and in the value of its live stock, while in the number of swine it is surpassed only by Indiana. Missouri Institution for the Blind, at St. Louis, Its staple crop is Indian corn, in the amount of

Missouri Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, at Fulton. This institution was opened for pupils in 1851. Its buildings and grounds cost $55,400. It had in 1860 5 teachers, 4 of them deaf-mutes, and 80 pupils, of whom 75 were State beneficiaries. Fifty-five pupils had graduated since the opening of the institution. The course of study was three years, but it was in contemplation to extend it to five. The expenditures were $11,750. Paying pupils were received, and board and tuition furnished for $100 per annum.