a small percentage of lead. Silver, copper, galena, and chloride of silver, are found; the last three kinds mentioned are rich in silver, and abundant. The ore assays from $50 to $2,500 per ton. The financial affairs of the State present no special change from the previous year. Politically the State officers belong to the Republican party, and a large majority of the Legislature is of the same party. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Agriculture is the predominant interest of this State. More capital is invested in it than in all other interests combined, and the great majority of the people are engaged in its pursuit. The improved lands of the State comprise upward of two millions of acres (and the unimproved a million and a quarter more), divided into 30,000 farms, averaging 123 acres each. The exhaustless water powers of the State, and her unlimited timber-lands, have dotted townships with some development of manufactures. Around these germs of industry population and trade have clustered, thus furnishing a ready market for the surplus products of the neighboring farms, and adding to the value and magnitude of domestic industries. The progress in manufactures has not, however, been commensurate with the natural resources and facilities of the State, and in consequence capital and enterprise have sought other localities, thus retarding the growth and development of the commonwealth. New Hampshire now ranks as the fourth State in New England in manufactures and mechanical products, while a proper use of her facilities would give her the first or second place. The Republican State Convention met at Concord, January 8th, to nominate a candidate for Governor. General Walter Harriman was unanimously chosen as the candidate for Governor. The following is an abstract of resolutions reported by the Committee on Resolu tions: The first renews the pledges of fidelity to the principles of liberty. The second compliments Congress. The third recognizes the struggle of Irishmen for liberty. The fourth notices the prostration of the Democratic party, and its causes. The fifth declares in favor of aiding disabled soldiers. The sixth recognizes the services of Governor Smythe. The seventh expresses confidence in the nominee. The resolutions were unanimously adopted. After the appointment of a State Central Committee, the convention adjourned. The Democratic State Convention also met at Concord, January 16th. Some 500 delegates were present. John G. Sinclair was renominated for Governor by acclamation, and the following series of resolutions reported and adopted: 1. That the Democracy of New Hampshire adhere to the time-honored principles of their party as taught by the fathers and approved by experience, that they insist that the powers of the Federal Government are limited by what is expressly granted to it in the Constitution, and that all other powers not so granted are reserved to the States and the people respectively. 2. That the regulation of the elective franchise in the States respectively belongs to them only, and any interference with the matter by the Federal Government is usurpation." 3. That all the States of the Union have a right to representation in Congress, and any attempt to deny such representation is revolution. 4. That the Supreme Court of the United States have manifested, by their recent decisions, a respect for the only authority which can give them or any er and thereby have shown a fearless regard for "conother department of the Government legitimate powstitutional law and right. 5. That we tender to President Johnson our ac knowledgments for his defence and support of constitutional rights and principles. 6. That an impartial imposition of the burden of taxation and strict economy in the pecuniary affairs of the State are imperatively demanded, and for a full and rigid investigation of the corrupt, reckless, and unparalleled expenditures in this State for the past five years, we pledge our earnest efforts. 7. That we approve the proposition for holding a National Convention, expressed by our brethren in Ohio and Connecticut in their recent State Conventions, and by other organizations and the Democratic press generally; and we recommend the holding of such convention at as early a period as practicable in the city of New York-a city eminently entitled to the gratitude of every Democrat for her unfaltering support of conservative principles and measures so often manifested in overwhelming preponderance by the suffrages of her citizens. 8. That one delegate and substitute from each county be selected by the State Committee to represent the Democracy of New Hampshire in such convention. 9. That all propositions which contemplate, directthe judicial branches of the Government, or the anly or indirectly, the subversion of the executive or nihilation of sovereign States, are revolutionary and treasonable, and ought to be resisted by all men who are true to the Union and the Constitution. 10. That we pledge to Hons. John G. Sinclair and George H. Pierce, the nominees of this convention, our full confidence in their integrity, ability, and fidelity to sound principles, and that we will omit no honorable efforts for their triumphant election. At the State election in March the vote for Governor was as follows, viz.: Harriman, Republican, 35,809; Sinclair, Democrat, 32,663. Three Republican members of Congress were also chosen. The Legislature met on the first Wednesday of June, and continued in session thirty-two days. Its action was confined to State and local matters. Among the most important acts passed, was one for the preservation of fish in the Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers, and other waters of the State; another appointing a Superintendent of Public Instruction, and one to codify and consolidate the General Statutes of the State. The bill providing for a State Normal School was indefinitely postponed, as were also the majority and minority reports of the Committee on National Affairs. The finances of the State are in a satisfactory condition. The receipts from all sources, for the year ending June 1st, were $3,093,813. 84. The disbursements for the same period amounted to $3,038,399.36, leaving a cash balance in the Treasury of $55,424.48. The total State debt is $3,747,776.95. The total expenditures of New Hampshire for war purposes amount to $6,852.678. Of this amount there has been paid for bounties, $2,389,025, for the reimbursement to towns of aid furnished families of soldiers, $1,835,985. There has been reimbursed to the State, by the General Government, for war expenses, $897,122, much of which has been obtained after repeated rejections. The expenses incurred by cities and towns on account of the war, including $965,512 United States bounties advanced, amount to $7,250,541. The amount which has been reimbursed by the United States, for bounties advanced, is $475,159. $410,107 has been paid to the towns to which it belonged, and $65,052 is now in the hands of the State Treasurer, having recently been received. The Legislature of 1866 passed a resolution, providing for the appointment of a commissioner to edit and publish such of the early provincial records and papers as should be deemed expedient. This is a matter of great importance to the future history of the State and country; and the example of New Hampshire in this respect, if generally followed, would lead to important results. In a very few years it may be difficult or impossible to obtain any reliable record of colonial times, and the future historian will seek in vain for material with which to furnish an authentic account of those early periods. Rev. Dr. Bouton, of Concord, was selected as the commissioner, and promptly began his labors. One volume, containing the earliest province papers, has been published, and it is estimated that the entire work will comprise seven octavos of six hundred pages each. Dr. Bouton does not expect to be able to issue more than one volume a year. The materials for the work have been gathered from the office of the Secretary of State, the library of the State Historical Society, the colonial records of Massachusetts, and the early records of the first settlements. When completed, it will prove of great interest and value. It was found that the system of county school commissioners did not meet the wants of the people, and the last Legislature created the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. The Superintendent is appointed by the Governor and council, and holds his office two years. He is ex officio a member and the secretary, of the Board of Education, and it is his duty to suggest improvements in the system of public schools; to visit different parts of the State for the purpose of awaking and of guiding public sentiment in relation to the practical interests of education; to collect in his office school-books, apparatus, maps, and charts; to receive and arrange the reports of the school committees; and distribute State documents in relation to the schools. The school committee of each town is required annually to report to the Superintendent relative to the appropriation of school money re ceived, the studies pursued in the schools, the methods of instruction and discipline adopted, the condition of school-houses, and any other subject relating to schools. A faithful discharge of these duties will leave little to be done for the cause of popular education in the State, and render it in future, as it has been in the past, the efficient handmaid of intelligence and progress. The obvious advantages of this organization are its economy, the superior efficiency of one controlling mind, wholly devoted to the work, and the opportunity it affords of readily obtaining and imparting those facts, methods, and ideas, which are essential to the higher development of the system of common schools. It was also proposed to establish a State Normal School, but certain facts indicating that the people at large were indifferent to the enterprise, it has been abandoned for the present, and its necessity in a great measure obviated by the appointment of a Superintendent of Instruction. To promote the interests of agriculture, terms of agreement, in accordance with legis lative action, have been effected for a union of a State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, with Dartmouth College. The course of instruction, which is intended to be liberal and thorough, is now open for pupils. The State institutions are well managed and in the main meet all reasonable requirements. The humane ministrations of the Asylum for the Insane, to the comfort and restoration of those in its care, are eminently successful. To meet the pressing demand for more accommodation, a new building is in course of erection, which when completed will be adequate for all immediate wants. The State prison is so well managed, that its net earnings for the year amounted to about ten thousand dollars. As the object of the State is to reform as well as to punish, means have been provided for the partial education of the younger portion of the prisoners. The reform school for the correction of juvenile offenders has more than justified the expectations formed of it. The State manifests a deep interest in its success and prosperity as a means of saving wayward youth from an untow ard end, and elevating them to the honorable walks of life, and, under the direction of a competent board of trustees and an efficient superintendent, the work accomplished is satisfactory to the philanthropist and creditable to the commonwealth. The buildings destroyed by fire in 1865 have been replaced in a thorough and substantial manner, and the educational department, which for a time was suspended for the want of proper facilities, is again performing its important functions. New Hampshire has no asylum for the deaf and dumb, or the blind, and unfortunates of those classes are sent to the institutions of other States for instruction. The subject of fish-culture has attracted a due share of attention in this State, and called forth legislative action. The entire feasibility of stocking the rivers with shad and salmon has been proved beyond a doubt, and the importance to the State of having an abundant supply of such an article of food admits of no question; but it is impossible to stock the streams unless some check be placed upon the indiscriminate destruction of the fish. To prevent such destruction, the Legislature passed an act imposing a fine of fifty dollars for each fish upon any person catching shad or salmon in the Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers. This act is to continue in force five years, and it is believed that, in consequence of its provisions, those rivers will soon abound with these valuable fish, which now are almost wholly driven from them. While the progress of New Hampshire in wealth and population is much less rapid than that of some other States, she possesses and gradually develops all the elements of public prosperity, and presents a record of which no State need be ashamed. The volunteer militia of the State now com prises twenty-six companies, thoroughly organized and equipped, and to a great extent composed of young men who served in the late war, and are already experienced soldiers. The historical record of New Hampshire in the war has been completed. The work comprises two volumes, is of great value, and reflects much credit on its authors. The Democratic State Convention met at Concord, November 14th, and was very large and harmonious. After organization, the convention proceeded to the choice of a candidate for Governor in 1868. On the second ballot John G. Sinclair received a majority of votes, when his nomination was made unanimous. The following resolutions were reported and adopted with hearty applause: Resolved, That it has ever been a cardinal doctrine of the Democracy of New Hampshire that fidelity to the Union and to the Constitution by which that Union was created is the paramount and indispensable duty of every citizen; that we have been true to this conviction always, and we will never abate our zeal in their behalf until the Union shall be restored and the Constitution respected and obeyed as the supreme law of the land. Resolved, That the practical effects of rigid sumptuary laws at all times and in all places have been to American citizens-to generate a disregard for law embarrass and abridge the liberty which belongs to among both officers and people, and to change the form without lessening the extent of the evils they seek to remedy, and that the late decisive verdict of with our own convictions, and suggests the impolicy Massachusetts against such legislation is in harmony of similar legislation here. Resolved, That we extend our hearty congratulations to our brethren of the centre and the West for the signal victories they have achieved in behalf of dially invite all conservative men of New Hampshire, the Constitution and the Union; and that we corwithout regard to past political designation, to unite with us in an honest and earnest effort to emulate these noble examples to achieve a victory not in the interest of any party, but in the name and behalf of a common country. New Jersey occupies a position of importance, NEW JERSEY. Though small in territory, and its rapid increase of material wealth, its generous support of worthy charities, and its steady progress in all that forms the glory of a ple. The fiscal year ends on the 30th of NoState, are matters of congratulation to its peo vember, and the financial condition of the State is, on the whole, satisfactory. The accounts viz.: State Fund, War Fund, School Fund, Agare designated by the following general heads, ricultural College Fund, State Library Fund, and Bank-Note Redemption Fund-of which each: The receipts of the State Fund were the following are condensed statements of $563,916.96, and the disbursements $599,056. 64, being an excess of $35,139.68 over the receipts, which is transferred from and due the War Fund. WAR FUND. The amount of the war debt on the 30th of November, 1867, was $3,295,600, being a decrease of $99,600 from the debt at the close of the last fiscal year. The receipts and disburse ments have been as follows: RECEIPTS. State Tax of 1866.. Balance in Bank December 1, .$280,000 00 $380,000 00 57,617 36 $437,617 36 The disbursements were $434,929.03, leaving an unexpended balance of $2,688.33. The State has a claim against the Government of the United States for advances made in arming, Resolved, That the congressional plan of reconstruction, as confessed by its framers, wholly outside the Constitution, is a revolutionary usurpation, and that the attempt by Congress to establish the practical supremacy of the negro race is a most atrocious crime against the principles of republican government and the civilization of the age, and deserves the severe and indignant denunciation of every true American citizen. Resolved, That the bitter fruits of legislation out-equipping, and transporting soldiers, amountside of the Constitution are seen in the practical disruption of the Union, the demoralization of the public conscience, the stagnation of all legitimate business, the depreciation of the public credit, the enormous and still increasing burdens of taxation, and the grave apprehensions of business men and statesmen that still greater calamities are impending over the country. Resolved, That we are in favor of equal taxation of all property of the State and nation so far as the result can be attained without a violation of the national faith, and with a scrupulous regard to the Constitution. ing to $677,516.76. Just after the close of the fiscal year $551,617.48 was paid, leaving a balance to be adjusted in the future. Income. SCHOOL FUND. Receipts. Bonds and Mortgages paid off.. Balance in Bank, December 1, 1866... $97,570 79 5,300 00 $102,870 79 172 53 $103,040 32 The State debt is $3,196,100, having been reduced during the year $99,500. A sinking fund has been provided, which will liquidate the entire debt in 1882. The subject of education attracts a large share of the public attention of the State. At the session of the Legislature, measures were adopted to meet the pressing wants of the people, and secure greater efficiency in superintending officers and teachers. The office of town superintendent was abolished, and the care of the schools was intrusted to county superintendents. The following table will exhibit the amount of money appropriated for the support of public education during the school year ending August 31, 1867: Amount appropriated by the State.......$100,000 00 Amount received from surplus revenue... 26,531 54 Amount received from township and city tax.... Amount received from district tax.. Amount appropriated for Normal School. Amount appropriated for Farnum School. 726,264 09 32,534 79 10,000 00 1,200 00 $896,530 42 The number of children in the State between five and eighteen years of age is 230,555. The school law calls for an annual appropriation of $100,000 from the State, $40,000 from the school fund, and $60,000 direct from the treasurer; but, as the interest from the school fund does not reach the sum required, the deficiency is met from the State fund. The amount of securities belonging to the school fund is $557,115.39. The State has a flourishing Normal School, the success of which, in the object for which it was established, has never been more marked than during this year. The whole number of pupils under instruction has been 216-sixteen being males, and 200 females. Number in the Farnum Preparatory School, Beverly, 281males 139, females 142. Number in the Model School, 525-mnales 215, females 310. The whole number of pupils that have been under instruction, for greater or less portions of the time, has been 1,022, of whom 370 were males, and 652 females. This shows an increase of 230, as compared with 1866. There is likewise a State Agricultural College, which is represented to be in a flourishing condition. It is connected with Rutgers College, and the instruction is by the example of the College Farm and the lectures of the Professor of Agriculture, delivered in all the counties of the State. The pupils must be citizens of the State, and are to be apportioned ratably among the several counties, each county being entitled to have in said school at the same time a number of pupils equal to its legislative representation. The scholarships are all filled in the counties nearest New Brunswick, and there are many other applicants. The present prison system of New Jersey admits of great improvement, and needs reform. The institution is by no means self-sustaining; the punishment inflicted upon convicts has often been unreasonable and cruel, while the constant changes of officers and regulations have had a baleful effect upon the successful workings and reformatory efforts of the prison. The plan of contracting out the labor of the prisoners has proved far from satisfac tory. The financial report of the prison-keeper gives the following statement of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year: Total receipts from convict labor and other sources, $31,733. 42; expenditures, $87,839.32; salaries and repairs, $43,754.12. The statistics of prisoners are as follows: Total number confined during the year... 395 516 34 550 Of the above prisoners, 106 are under twenty years of age. To provide for the correction and reformation of juvenile delinquents, a reform school affords excellent facilities. The principle upon which the school is adminis tered, and through which reformation is sought, is kindness, not punishment, and the success which has attended it is highly gratify ing. The whole number of boys committed was 26; amount expended, $80,092.99. The liberal spirit in which the State provides for the maintenance of her indigent deaf and dumb, blind, and feeble-minded, is a source of pride. Having no asylums for such unfortu nates, they are now sent to the institutions of other States. The total number of such bene ficiaries is 82; number of State beneficiaries in the Pennsylvania training school for feebleminded children, 16. The operations of the State Lunatic Asylum for the year have been conducted with more than usual success. Eighty-one more patients have been treated than in any previous year, and a new structure, authorized by law, has been nearly completed. Number under treatment during the year, 621; patients discharged, 171; total receipts, $111,231.28; payments, $109,187.70. Balance in hands of treasurer, $2,043.58. The Home for Disabled Soldiers, established by the munificence of the State, has been the source of great relief to the sick and wounded soldiers who have enjoyed its advantages. The inmates are carefully treated, and they there find a kind and friendly home. The whole number of persons who have participated in its advantages during the past year has been 202. The average number per day has been 144, and on the 30th of November the number in the institution was 157. The whole cost of the Home for the past year was $30,289.43, being about 56, cents per day for each beneficiary. An agreement has been made with the Board of Managers of the National Asylum for Disabled Soldiers by which certain payments are made toward its support, thereby reducing the cost of the Home to the State. A payment of $7,460 has already been made. A Home for the Children of Soldiers has likewise been established, and a suitable building erected for its accommodation. During the past year 151 children have been cared for and instructed in this institution. Eleven having left and one died, the whole number remaining in the Home December 1, 1867, was 130. The present strength of the enrolled militia of the State, uniformed and not uniformed, is: Commissioned officers in rifle corps..... 143 Commissioned officers in active militia.. 81 Enlisted men in rifle corps.. Total...... .2,177 902 224 3,079 .8,303 In his last message, the Governor thus recounts the natural resources of the State: The agriculture of our State is rapidly improving. The average crops per acre of the great staples wheat, corn, and potatoes-are among the largest, raised in the United States, and these are rising with the improved husbandry now coming into practice. New Jersey is the thirtieth State in size, and the twentieth in population; in 1860 it was the nineteenth in the amount of wheat raised, the twenty-second in the amount of corn, the eighth in potatoes, the twenty-third in value of live-stock, the seventeenth in value of slaughtered animals, the eighteenth in the value of its agricultural implements, the twelfth in the value of its farms, and the first in value per acre of its farm-lands. In the peculiar products which, both from soil and nearness to markets, we are best adapted to raise, we stand much higher, being only second in the value of market-garden products, and probably almost as high in the value of the small fruits which are the special objects of culture for a large body of our people. The importance of these comparisons will be better appreciated when it is remembered that, as a manufacturing State, New Jersey stands sixth in the amount of capital invested, and also in the annual value of its manufactured products. Its mines of iron and zinc are a source of wealth' to the State. More than 250,000 tons of the richest iron-ore have been mined in the State this year, which, at the mines, is worth a million of dollars.. The zinc-mines have yielded 24,000 tons of ore, all of which is manufactured into spelter or zinc oxide nearly, if not quite, a million of dollars more. within the State, and have yielded products worth product of zinc is more than half the yield of the United States, and is considerably more than is supplied from all the mines of Great Britain. This The report of the State geologist shows that there are 295,476 acres of tide-marshes in the State. In their natural condition they are of little value, from $2 to $20 an acre. About 20,000 acres of these have been banked in and so reclaimed from the action of the tide. These have cost from $5 to $20 ductive lands in the State, paying a fair profit of an acre to bring them in, and they are the most profrom $100 to $300 per acre. A very strenuous effort is now being made to reclaim the marsh between Passaic and Hackensack Rivers, and to carry the work of drainage considerably below low-water mark by means of pumps. The Legislature met in January, and its action was confined mainly to local matters. On the question of striking out the word "white" from the qualifications for voters, the Lower House, by a vote of 35 to 20, refused to make the change. A convention of the Republican party, to favor impartial suffrage, was held at Trenton, July 22d. The following resolutions were reported, and adopted by acclamation: Resolved, That the equality of all men before the law, without distinction of race or color, is recognized by the early doctrines of the republic, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Ordinance of 1787, and the political writings of Washington, Jefferson, and others of the founders, and was sanctioned by the old constitution of New Jersey, formed by the true men of the Revolution; that under the plausibly apparent necessity of tolerating slavery as a State right we have grievously departed from that standard, and that the insertion of the word "white" in the constitution of 1844 was a violation of the true principles of republican government. Resolved, That, pledging ourselves to the eradication of the word white" from the constitution of New Jersey by every legal and honorable means, we also call upon Congress to take measures to induce or compel all the States of the Union to establish a just and uniform rule of suffrage, excluding all distinctions of class, race, or color, so that the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States, and that the United States shall redeem its original promise to guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government." แ Resolved, That the doctrine of the absolute equality of all men before the law, of which impartial suffrage is a necessary corollary, is in strict accordance with that sublime declaration of the fathers of the republic, that "all men are created equal," which was and is the corner-stone of all our democratic institutions. Resolved, That by our action this day we intend heartily to indorse the votes of our Senators and Representatives in Congress in favor of securing impartial suffrage to all the people of the States lately in rebellion, and to repudiate the charge that we aro willing to impose upon others a fundamental princi |