*This large amount consists principally of "Due Treasurer of the United States," reported by the New York City Banks. COMMON SCHOOLS. Statistics of the Common Schools in the State for the Fiscal Year ending September 30, 1862. The number of instructors and officers is 9. The number of pupils in 1863 was 140. One died during the year, and 16 removed. The receipts of the year were $22,570.58, of which $18,000 was the State appropriation, $1,154.05 was received from the counties for clothing State pupils, and $3,416.53 was received from friends of pay-pupils for board and clothing. The expenditure for the same period was $20,861.13. The average cost of supporting and educating each pupil was a little less than $150 per annum. Dis STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM AT UTICA.-This asylum was opened for the admission of patients the 16th of January, 1843. Dr. John P. Gray is the Superintendent. The number of patients at the commencement of the year (December 1, 1862), was 532; admitted during the year, 287,-165 males, 122 females; whole number treated during the year, 819,-444 males, 375 females. charged during the year, 305; remaining, Nov. 30, 1863, 514.-262 males, 252 females. Of those discharged, 106 were recovered, 51 were improved, 115 unimproved, 3 were not insane, and 30 died. Total admissions since asylum was opened, 6629. Discharged, 6115, of whom 2634 were recovered, 1023 improved, 1632 unimproved, and 774 died, and 52 were not insane. The form of mental disease of those admitted during the year was, mania 138, -70 males and 68 females; melancholia, 50,-28 males, 24 females; dementia, 50,-26 males, 24 females; general paresis, 7; not insane, 2. Of those admitted, 82 were housekeepers, 40 farmers, and farm-laborers, 16 laborers, 30 employed in housework, 6 soldiers, 3 carpenters, 8 merchants, 3 lawyers, and 5 teachers; 197 were natives of New York, 27 of other of the United States; 63 were of foreign birth, among whom were 29 natives of Ireland, 10 of England, and 13 of Germany. The receipts for the year were $127,473.86, and the expenditures $99,949,81. The asylum is the property of the State. It is self-sustaining in its operations, only receiving from the State treasury the salaries of its officers. Its revenue is derived from the board of patients, of whom there are two classes, the public and private,-the former supported by the counties sending them, the latter at private charge. The accommodations, treatment, &c., are the same for both classes. The charges for board are regulated from time to time according to exigencies by the Board of Managers, who are appointed by the Legislature of the State. The asylum has a farm of about 200 acres, the products of which during the past year are estimated at upwards of $8000. The American Journal of Insanity (Quarterly) is edited by the medical officers of the State Lunatic Asylum, and is now in the twentieth year of its existence. It was the first periodical devoted exclusively to the interests of psychological medicine ever published. Other Asylums.-The State of New York possesses an asylum for insane convicts at Auburn. This has been in successful operation several years, and has about 80 patients. Further provision for the insane is made at the Bloomingdale Asylum, near New York, at the New York City Asylum, Blackwell's Island, and at the Flatbush Asylum. A number of counties in the State have receptacles for the incurably insane poor: these are connected with the county-houses, and are under the control of the Superintendents of the Poor. Several private institutions for the insane exist in the State, the most prominent of which are Brigham Hall, Canandaigua, and Sandford Hall, Flushing. THE INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND, AT NEW YORK, -Wm. B. Wait, Superintendent.-This institution, founded in 1831, is one of the largest of its class in the world. The total number of pupils now in this institution is 151; of whom 144 are from this State and 7 from the State of New Jersey. Of the New York pupils, 73 are males and 71 females. There are employed in this institution as teachers of all kinds, 20, of whom 7 are in the literary, 3 in the mechanical, and 10 in the musical departments, 13 of whom are blind graduates. Twenty-one pupils have been received from this State, and 27 pupils have been discharged, during the past year. The age of the oldest female pupil is 30 years, and of the youngest 8 years. The age of the oldest male pupil is 30, and of the youngest 10. The Academic Department is divided into classes, which pursue the common English branches of education, together with the Natural Sciences, Algebra, and Geometry. The Musical Department is divided into vocal and instrumental. 91 pupils receive instruction in chorus singing, and in the cultivation of the voice. 85 pupils receive instruction on the organ and piano. A class in orchestral music will soon be established. In the Mechanical Department pupils are instructed in the manufacture of mats, brooms, and mattresses, which articles find a limited sale at generally unremunerative prices. This department is continued, however, as being a source of useful instruction in branches of industry which may afford the means of livelihood when the pupil shall have left the institution. THE NEW YORK INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB, WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, N.Y. CITY,-H. P. Peet, LL.D., President; I. Lewis Peet, A.M., VicePrincipal.-This institution is the largest for the instruction of deaf-mutes only, in its accommodations and number of pupils, in the world. It was founded in 1817. Number of teachers, Dec. 1863, 16, of whom 8 are deaf-mutes. Number of pupils, Dec. 1863, 332 (193 males, 139 females). Left during the year, 57; admitted during the year, 70; whole number under instruction during the year, 389; remaining Dec. 1863, 332 (193 males, 139 females); number who graduated in 1863, 41; number in the High Class, 26. Whole number of graduates since the organization of the institution, about 1300. Of the pupils remaining in the institution (1863), 257 are supported by the State of New York, 31 by the counties of New York, 33 by their friends, and 11 by New Jersey. The time of admission is the first Wednesday of September; the terms, $150 for each pupil, clothing and travelling expenses excepted, to be paid semiannually in advance, and satisfactory security for punctual payment of bills; and clothing which is desired is furnished by the institution at $30 per annum. INSTITUTIONS FOR REFORM.-Of these the State of New York has two. The Society for the Refor mation of Juvenile Delinquents has its institution on Randall's Island in the East River, and a capacity for receiving 750 boys and 250 girls in separate departments. It was incorporated March 29, 1824, and in 1851 purchased thirty-six acres, embracing the premises which it now occupies. It receives girls convicted of crime from every county of the State, and boys from the eastern and southern counties. On the 1st of January, 1863, there were 475 inmates; and during the year previous it received 290 boys and 116 girls. Of the older boys, 52 had enlisted in the army. It usually receives $24,000 from the State Treasury annually, and about $8000 from the city. In 1862, its income from labor of boys was $13,846.18, and from sources other than the above, $19,979.92. This establishment has recently been enlarged, and is now complete in all its parts and free of debt. Its affairs are managed by an incorporated society. The Western House of Refuge is located at Rochester, and receives boys only from the central and western counties. It was authorized by Chap. 143, Laws of 1846; and its buildings are It quite imposing, and well adapted for its use. has a farm and garden attached, and shops in which various mechanical trades are taught. A library of over 9000 volumes, and an excellent school, are connected, and in successful order. There were on the 1st of January, 18C3, 402 boys in the institution, of whom 170 were received during the previous year. Up to Dec. 1, 1863, 190 had been received and 147 discharged. Since its opening in 1849, 1320 boys had been discharged, and of these only 79, or 6 per cent., were returned. The expenses for the year ending Dec. 1, 1862, were $47,316.16. The average age of the boys was 12 years, 8 months, 7 days. Its affairs are managed by a Board of Trustees appointed by the Governor and Senate; and their trust has been discharged with much ability and success. NEW YORK STATE PRISONS.-The detailed reports from theso establishments having failed to come to hand, we can only give a general statement of the number of convicts in 1863, as compared with the corresponding statement for 1862. The results are as follow:-Whole number of convicts in confinement, September 30, 1863, 2081; whole number, September 30, 1862, 2410; decrease, 1863, 329. IMMIGRANTS INTO THE PORT OF NEW YORK, 1863, TO DECEMBER 31.-During the past year there was a very large increase in immigration from foreign countries to the port of New York, the number arrived being 156,843 against 76,306 in 1862. is the largest immigration, one year excepted, since 1855. Destination of Passengers arriving at New York from January 1 until November 30, 1863. This NEW YORK AND THE WAR.-Four days after the President's call of April 15, 1861, the 7th Regiment of New York Militia marched for Washington, followed on April 26 by the 6th, 12th, and 71st Regi ments. Since that time to Jan. 1, 1863, the State furnished to the United States armies in all 223,444 men, of whom 16,922 were for three months, 830 for nine months, 30,131 for two years, 144,561 for three years, and 31,000 recruits for organizations in the field. They were organized into 190 regiments and 9 companies of infantry, 12 regiments and 2 companies of cavalry, 10 regiments and 24 batteries of artillery, and I regiment of engineers. Since the tables of the cavalry, the artillery, and the engineer regiments to be found following, give their organization after Jan. 1, 1863, including new regiments and recruits sent on during 1863, we insert here a recapitulation of New York troops in the field, Jan. 1, 1863, taking the strength of the cavalry, the artillery, and the engineers from a minute analysis of the Adjutant-General's Report of Jan. 14, 1862, and Dec. 31, 1862: Militia for Pennsylvania campaign of 1863 (emergency men) Militia for frontier defence....... Add conscripts and substitutes (1863)....... 14,171 500 277,652 9,176 Total contributions of men to Jan. 1, 1864 286,828 These figures do not include the recent re-enlistments of veteran volunteers in the field, which Governor Seymour estimates at 10,000. Enrolment and Draft of 1863.-No statement of the aggregate number enrolled under the conscription act of 1863 is given by the Governor in his message of 1864, but the results of the draft are given as follows: Number of conscripts examined..... 77,802 53,109 14,073 6,619 2,557 Enrolment of Militia, 1862.-An enrolment of the militia was made in August and September, 1862, showing the following results:-Total number enrolled, 766,905; number of exempts, 177,366; leaving subject to draft, 589,539. The organized portion of the militia for the year 1862 comprised 22,154 officers and men, divided into 465 companies, 59 regiments, 26 brigades, and S divisions. Contributions of Money to the War. Appropriations by the State to Nov. 1, 1862...... Appropriations by the State to Dec. 1, 1863....... By State... Municipalities, villages, towns, and counties, for bounties, support of families of volunteers, &c. prior to Jan. 1, 1863 (exclusive of individual donations), estimated.... From Jan. 1, 1863, to Jan. 1, 1864, estimated... Total... $8,000,000 5,000,000 $13,000,000 17,000,000 25,000,000 $55,000,000 NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS. The following is a list of the militia regiments which served for three months in 1861, at the expiration of which time they returned and were discharged: 1,050 950 8,334 LIST of Volunteer Regiments of Infantry from the State of New York which served Two Years (their term of enlistment), at the expiration of which time they returned and were mustered out of service. Col. William H. Allen..... 66 Frederick Townsend.. 846 May 27, 1861. Samuel M. Alford. John D. McGregor. Col. J. Frederick Pierson. Sidney W. Park. 66 66 66 64 66 66 William Wilson.... 783 May 24, 804 June 3, 66 Waters W. McChesney. 713 June 5, 66 Elmer E. Ellsworth. 1,079 May 1, Isaac F. Quinby.. 66 James McQuade.. John McLeod Murphy. 44 Wm. A. Jackson.. 64 John S. Clark.... 66 Max Weber...... 44 66 46 46 46 Wm. F. Rogers.... "Henry W. Slocum... 800 June 19, " John E. Bendix. Disbanded before expiration of term of service. Col. Henry A. Weeks. 44 Elisha G. Marshal. Clinton G. Colgate. Henry S. Lansing. George R. Myers. Changed to 3d N. Y. S. V. Artillery, Col. Baron Ernst Von Vegesack. Wm. F. Rogers. Walter Phelps, Jr. 66 66 66 66 |