* The salary of a Circuit Judge is $1800 per annum, and an Attorney is paid $500 besides his fees. In Kentucky, all judges are justices of the peace, and the principal court officers are elected by the people. The judges of the Court of Appeals are elected by districts for a term of eight years, one every second year, and the judge having the shortest term to serve is Chief-Justice. The Circuit Court Judges are elected by districts for six years, and justices of the peace for four years. The Court of Appeals is the Supreme Court of the State, and has appellate jurisdiction over the final orders and judgments of all other courts of the State in civil cases, except where the amount in controversy is less than fifty dollars, or in cases of judgment granting divorce, or on a judgment of an inferior court from which an appeal is given to the Quarterly or Circuit Court. It holds two terms annually, commencing on the first Mondays in June and December, continuing each term about seventy-five days. The Circuit Courts have original jurisdiction of all actions and proceedings for the enforcement, of civil rights or redress of civil wrongs, except where exclusive jurisdiction is given to other courts, where the amount in controversy is $50 and upwards; also appellate jurisdiction of the judgments and final orders of Quarterly and Justices' Courts, where the matter in controversy is of the value of twenty dollars or more, and of judgments and final orders of the County Courts in all probate business and other matters of local concern to the county, such as roads, passways, &c. There are also Quarterly Courts, which have jurisdiction of actions to recover money or personal property not exceeding $100 in value; and appellate jurisdiction from justices' courts where the matter in controversy is $5 and over. The County Courts have jurisdiction of the probate of wills, &c., guardians, settlements with fiduciaries, bastardy, division of lands and slaves, allot ment of dower, and of ferries and mills. Justices Courts have exclusive jurisdiction of actions for money or personal property not exceeding $50. The County Judge who holds the Quarterly Court is an ex-officio Justice, and hence his jurisdiction in cases not exceeding $50 is concurrent. Pleadings, dc.-In the Circuit Court, and in the Quarterly Court in cases of $50 and upwards, the pleadings are written, and, except in certain cases where action or defence is founded upon a writing, or for divorce, or damages, the pleadings must be sworn to. In such cases the process must be served ten days before court. In Quarterly and Justices' Courts where the amount is less than $50, the pleadings may be oral, and process may be served but five days before court. Criminal Jurisdiction.-The Court of Appeals has appellate jurisdiction, on questions of law, in prosecutions for felonies, and in penal actions and prosecutions, where the fine is $50, or over that amount. The Circuit Courts have general jurisdiction for the trial of all offences which may be prosecuted by indictment, and all prosecutions and penal actions, except where exclusive jurisdiction is given to other courts. The city and police courts have jurisdiction within corporate limits incident to such courts, concurrent with other courts, where the punishment of a free person is a fine not exceeding $100, or of a slave not exceeding thirty-nine stripes. The Justices' and Quarterly Courts have exclusive jurisdiction where the punishment of a free person does not exceed 810, or of a slave twenty stripes, and concurrent jurisdiction with Circuit Courts where the punishment of a free person is a fine not exceeding $100, or of a slave, not exceeding thirty-nine lashes. City courts of Lexington and Louisville have the larger jurisdiction suitable to the wants of cities. Balance, October 11, 1862, as stated above in the account for 1863...... $459,708 Amount of bond issued for balance due for interest on State Bond issued by the Governor for surplus due the several counties, dated Total State Dobt........ Assets and Sinking Fund. 1,326,770 01 42,894 72 12,167 30 $6,205,234 03 The State holds stock in various road and na- 7, 1863, speaks of the financial prosperity of Kenvigation improvements to the amount of $1,830,475. tucky in strong terms. Notwithstanding the fact A large number of items of revenue are set apart that many counties of the State have been overrun for the Sinking Fund, and from these there was by invaders, guerrillas, and marauders, the finances derived in 1862 the amount of 8535,574. are in a most gratifying condition, as will be seen Governor Bramlette, in his message of December ¦ by the following statement:— 46 Balance in the Treasury, Oct. 10, 1860.......$126,548 Repaid by the U. S........... $861,221 12 แ 1863...... 808,387 rect tax... .605,000 00 Total repayments and credits by VALUATION OF PROPERTY IN 1862 AND 1861. $1,466,221 12 730,390 71 TABLE showing the Valuation of Land, Town-Lots, Slaves, Horses, Mules, Cattle, and Stores, and the Numbers of each, in Kentucky, in the Years 1861 and 1862. TABLE showing the following particulars relating to Kentucky for the Years 1861-2,-the Number of Number of Acres of Land, and the gross Value, and Value per Acre in 1861-2. Total land lying in the State of Kentucky, and value (as per returns)...... 21,145,212 $174,187,963 Statistics from the Report of the Superintendent, R. Richardson, dated December 31, 1862. Of the one hundred and ten counties in Kentucky, one hundred and eight officially reported to the Superintendent for the school year ending December 31, 1862. The whole number of children living in districts in which common schools were duly taught three months and over, in conformity to the general law, for the year, was 158,989. This number embraces the children living in a few districts in which schools were taught for a period less than three months during the year 1862,-such schools having been broken up or discontinued in conseof the invasion of the State. The highest of children actually attending the district schools was 82,718. The lowest number at school The whole number of districts in which schools The whole number of children of the school age in the State, as reported to the Auditor, was 249,122. The number of children in the districts where schools were open, and the number attending during the seven years preceding 1863, are presented in the following exhibit: 1856. 1857. 1858. 1859. 1860. 1861. 1862 Number of children reported to 158,989 243,025 254,111 267,712 280,466 286,370 182,976 lowing table shows the duration of insanity prior to admission: Over 20 years, 2; over 10 years, 8; over 5 years, 1; over 1 year, 7; under 1 year, 17; unknown, 8. The average age at the time of admission was 39.62 years. In 8 cases insanity is attributed to the "war excitement." Civil Condition.-Married, 21; single, 16; widowers, 4; widows, 2. Amount and Condition of the School Fund.-The present resources of the Common School Fund (Jan. 1, 1863) consist in the interest and dividends due semi-annually on the amount of State bonds ($1,381,832.03, mostly bearing interest at the rate of five per cent.), and bank stock ($73,500), held by the Board of Education; in the amounts realized annually from a tax on the capital stock and surplus of the Farmers' Bank, Southern Bank of Kentucky, Commercial Bank, and Bank of Ashland; Occupation of Males.-Farmers, 14; Merchants, and in a tax of five cents on the one hundred dol-1; Gas-lighter, 1; Shoemakers, 5; Soldier, 1; Lalars' worth of taxable property in this Common- borer, 1; Saddler, 1; Boatman, 1; Theological Stuwealth, or one-sixth of the net revenue annually dent, 1. collected. A small amount also has been realized to the Educational Fund under the provisions of the act imposing penalties for betting on elections, and of the act by which all forfeitures to the Commonwealth in actions for the recovery of money lost at gaming are to be appropriated for the use and benefit of the Common School Fund. The amount per scholar, counting the whole number reported, allotted out of the treasury March 1, 1863, on account of schools taught during the year 1862, was one dollar and five cents, a larger amount than has been disbursed since March 1, 1860. The whole amount of funds in the treasury to the credit of common schools on the 1st of March, 1863, was $341,528.30; and, financially, the school system was then in better condition than at any previous time since the beginning of the rebellion. Form of Insanity.-Mania, 27; Melancholia, 6; The following tables refer to the deceased of the year: Causes of Death.-Exhaustion, 2: Phthisis pulmonalis, 10; Epilepsy, 3; Apoplexy, 1. The average age at the time of death was 43 62 years. Duration of Insanity prior to Death.-28 years, 1; over 24 years, 1; over 23 years, 1; over 14 years, 1; 12 years, 1; 11 years, 2; 10 years, 1; 9 years, 2; 8 years, 1; 7 years, 1; 6 years, 2; 3 years, 1; unknown, 1. WESTERN LUNATIC ASYLUM OF KENTUCKY, HOPKINSVILLE,—Dr. James Rodman, Superintendent.From a letter dated at this institution, December 1, 1863, we take the following: "Our last Report shows 135 inmates (72 males, 63 females). Our percentum of recoveries for seve ral years past is about 38 upon all admissions. Our Asylum is supported by the State, not relying upon private sources for any part of its support, although we occasionally receive pay-patients. Our Asylum-building was burnt November 30, 1861. It is being rebuilt, and will be occupied by December 15. It has accommodations for 325 patients." KENTUCKY AND THE WAR.-Governor Bramlette's Message to the Legislature of Kentucky, sent in to that body on the 7th of December, 1863, furnishes the following figures relating to the Kentucky volunteers. Whole number of men sent to the field for three years, 37,444; for one year, 11,911; for nine months, 413; for sixty days, 1770,-total, 51,538. Of these, the troops furnished prior to January 1, 1863, as set forth in detail in the subjoined table, were organ ized into 35 regiments and 2 battalions of infantry, 14 regiments of cavalry, and 2 companies of artillery. The organization of those placed in the field in 1863 had not been made public when this table was prepared (December 12, 1863). Enrolled Militia.-The number of enrolled militia in the Commonwealth is 119,577, as returned in 1863. Expenses on account of the War.-These are stated in the account of the finances of the State, ante. Adjutant-General's Report.-The Report of Adjutant-General John W. Finnell, dated December |