Pauperism and Immigration.-The very large number of foreign paupers dependent upon the State led in 1854 to the organization of a "Board of Commissioners of Alien Passengers and Foreign Paupers," and to the establishment of four State Almshouses. Of these, one-the Rainsford Island Hospital-is used as a hospital for recently-arrived and other sick foreign paupers from Boston and vicinity; the almshouses at Tewksbury and Bridgewater are mainly occupied by adult paupers, the incurably insane, idiotic, and demented; and the almshouse at Monson receives most of the pauper children, and only a sufficient number of adults for the successful management of the establishment. The three almshouses have each farms of considerable extent attached to them, originally in each case of the most unpromising character, but by diligent and long-continued year ending Costs of year paid... labor transformed into productive and valuable grounds. The Board of Commissioners of Alien Passengers and Foreign Paupers have a supervision over these almshouses, and are required to carefully examine every applicant for admission, and if they have a permanent settlement in any town, they are remanded to that town for support, or the charges for their maintenance collected from them; if they have paid head-money in other States or countries, or are otherwise justly chargeable to such States or countries, they are returned to them, with due regard to the laws of humanity; and if they have friends who are capable of maintaining them, means are taken to compel them to assume their care. The results of the operations of this board, and the condition and statistics of the several almshouses, are set forth in the following table: of poor assisted in town or sent to State almshouses, who were foreigners, 24.815; number of The whole number of immigrants arriving in Boston from October 1, 1860, to September 30, 1861, was 12,099; of whom 9810 were British sub-insane poor supported in State lunatic hospitals, jects, 2793 of them from Ireland. The amount of commutation fees received for 5072 of these was $10,144. Bonds were required for 19 that they should not be chargeable to the State. Of the whole number, only 51 received aid from the State. 803 persons were found by the Commissioners to be chargeable to other States, or towns within the State, or friends, or to have funds applicable for their support, and were accordingly discharged or removed; 2052 were removed to the places whence they came, as not justly chargeable to the State, at an expense of $8405 61, of whom 301 were removed to places beyond sea at a cost of $1,230 70, and 113 to Canada. The Insane Hospitals contain 615 State insane paupers. The support of the poor who are natives of towns in the State, or have gained a settlement, devolves upon the towns. The following are the statistics of this class of paupers for 1861: Number of persons relieved or supported during the year, 52 847; number having a legal settlement in the town, 15,274; number of foreign-born, 24.917: number from Englund and Ireland, 22.484; number of State paupers sent to State almshouses, 5739; number 290; number of idiotic poor in State institution for idiots, S; number of almshouses, 219; number of acres of land attached to almshouses, 21,224; estimated value of almshouse establishments, real estate, $1,176,991 €9; personal estate, $275,630 93; number supported in almshouse during whole or part of the year, 974; average number supported in almshouse, 338%; average weekly cost of supporting each pauper in almshouse, $1 45; number of persons in almshouse unable to labor, 2150; value of labor performed by poor in almshouse, $23,074 50; number of persons, including families, supported out of almshouse during whole or part of the year, 19,930; average weekly cost of supporting each pauper out of almshouse, $1 21; number aided out of almshouse, C5,423; number supported or relieved who were insane, 740; number who were idiots, 243; number relieved or supported, made dependent by insanity or idiocy, 950; number of poor made dependent by intemperance in themselves, 2262; nuniber made dependent by intemperance in those who ought to have supported them, 2824; tot: 1 expense of supporting and relieving poor, including * Besides 300 examined at the Lunatic Hospitals, and 1421 at the office of the Commissioners, making 4445 in all. interest on almshouse establishment, $13,837 22; | Newbern, at Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, and the number supported in almshouse at present time, 3173; number supported out of almshouse, 1579; number assisted out of almshouse at present time, 9002; number of indigent children under 14 years of age supported at public charge, males, 785, females, 558; total, 1448 (sex of 105 not given). State Agency in Aid of Discharged Convicts.Dwight Graves, Agent. This agency is intended to find situations and render temporary aid to convicts after their discharge from the State prison. During the year ending September 30, 1861, 108 were aided in obtaining employment, received temporary assistance, or were conveyed to their friends; the amount expended was $1,380 20, of which $743 75 was for salary and penses of agent. The amount was covered by legislative appropriation. Seven Days' battles of the Peninsula, at James Island, at Fort Pulaski, at the capture of New Orleans, and at the battle of Baton Rouge, and above all at Cedar Mountain, Centreville, Gainesville, Chantilly, South Mountain, and Antietam, they were among the foremost in the fight, and the last to leave the field. On the 1st of January, 1862, Massachusetts had sent to the field (including 3736 three-months volunteers) 33,036 men, and had also contributed 11,000 men to the navy. The calls of July and August for three-years and nine-months men raised her required quota, including the filling up of the old regiments, to 72,107 land forces. These were all furnished ex-promptly by the 1st of November (nearly all, indeed, much earlier), and, with the exception of a few drafted in the city of Boston, without draft. The towns of the State vied with each other in offering bounties to volunteers, and in some cases as high a sum as $330 in the way of local bounties was paid. Constant additions were making meantime to the navy from the State, and the number furnished by the State to the war unquestionably exceeded on the 1st of December, 1862, 90,000 men, or about one to every 132% of its population. Indians.-There are small remnants of six Indian tribes who still have reservations in Massachusetts, and are under the protection of the State; they are the Chappequiddie, Christiantown, Dudley, Marshpee, Natick, and Troy Indians. They have tracts varying in extent from 1 to 500 acres, and some of them communal funds at interest, the result of the sale of part of their lands or the products of them. They also receive aid from the State treasury for the support of their schools and the maintenance of their paupers. The amounts received and expended for their benefit in the year ending September 30, 1861, were as follows: For the Chappequiddie and Receipts. Expenditures. $458 20 10,339 84 $144 54 2,616 34 577 33 Total receipts and expend's... $13,257 91 $1,398 75 The Contribution of Massachusetts to the Volunteer Army.-The honor of sending the first complate regiments to the war, as well as that of furnishing the first martyrs to the cause, belongs to Massachusetts. The President's proclamation was issued April 15, 1861; the quota of Massachusetts was assigned by telegraph on the 16th; on the evening of the 17th, two regiments, the third and fourth, left Boston for Fortress Monroe, and the sixth regiment, destined first to meet the enemy in deadly collision, started for Baltimore and Washington. On the 18th, the eighth regiment, Brig. Gen. Butler in command, left Boston. The State has never faltered in furnishing the force demanded from it throughout the war, and its regiments have partaken in every severe conflict in the Atlantic and Gulf States, and have been fearfully reduced in numbers by the severe battles in which they have participated. Hooker's "fighting brigado" contained two Massachusetts regiments; at Bull Run, at Ball's Bluff, at Roanoko Island, at Census Statistics.-Like most of the New England States, Massachusetts has a large excess of females in her population; the white inhabitants being 592,244 males to 629,220 females, and the colored, 4469 males to 5133 females, making a total excess of 37,640 females. The State is 30th in rank in area, 7th in population, 1st in density of population, and 1st in absolute increase of popu lation per square mile. It is essentially a manufacturing State, and stands 3d in the actual amount of its manufactures, New York and Pennsylvania alone surpassing it. The aggregate of its manufacturing products annually is reported at $260,000,000, of which cotton ($30,745,684) and woollen goods ($18,930,000), boots and shoes ($16,440,209), leather ($10,354,056), steam engines and machinery ($5,131,238), furniture ($3,3€5,415), jewelry ($2,648,611), sawed and planed luniber (32,288,419), musical instruments ($1,762,470), &c., are the most considerable items. The products of her fisheries are given as $0,300,442, which is unquestionably far below the truth. In the amount of her valuation of real and personal estate, she stands 5th in the census, and her own valuation is materially higher than that of the census. About two-thirds of the land in the State is improved. The cash value of farms in 1860 is stated at $123,255,948, ranking in this respect 20th among the States, though 30th in area. The value of her live stock was $12,737,744, and her investment in railroads within her own limits, $58,882,328, besides which she owns nearly as much more in railroads in other States. The rumb.r of newspapers and periodicals published in the State was 232, and their aggregate circulation was 102,000,700 copies. V. RHODE ISLAND. Settled in 1631. Capitals, Providence and Newport. Area, 1225 square miles. Population, 1860, 174,620. Government for the year ending last Tuesday in May, 1863. of the thirty-three towns in the State. The House of Representatives consists of seventy-two members. The Legislature holds its regular session at Newport on the last Tuesday of May, and a session, by adjournment, at Providence in January follow The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, and Attorney-General are elected annually on the first Wednesday of April, for the year commencing the last Tuesday of May. The Auditor is elected by the Assembly. The Commissioner of Schools is appointed by the Gov-ing. The pardoning power, except in cases of imernor, subject to confirmation by the Senate. The Senate consists of the Governor, who presides, the Lieutenant-Governor, and one Senator from each peachment, is taken from the Legislature, and vested exclusively in the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. County. Post-Office. Clerk of Supreme Court. Clerk of Common Pleas. Newport...... Newport...... John W. Davis.... John W. Davis..... Amasa S. Westcott Elisha C. Clarke.... Sheriff. David M. Coggeshall. *Resigned and elected United States Senator for the short term, vice James F. Simmons, resigned. The State had no debt at the time of the break-, ing out of the rebellion. It has just authorized the issue of $1,800,000 in 6 per cent. bonds, payable in 20 years, to meet the expenses of organizing, equipping, and paying the bounty to its troops. Of these bonds $1,200,000 have been sold, and command a premium of 11 per cent. The Public Deposit Fund is $386,611 26; the Permanent School Fund, $243,100 12, besides an uninvested balance of $4,688 60, and the Touro Jewish Synagogue Fund, Providence Banks. Balance in Treasury, April 30, 1862.... 13,801 02 RAILROADS. The following table shows the condition of the railroads of the State at the commencement of the year 1862. |