746 RICHARDSON", ISRAEL B. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



The Legislature, at its subsequent session, 

 elected Governor Sprague a senator in the Fed- 

 eral Congress. 



The debt of the State has been contracted 

 within the last two years to meet the expenses 

 of organizing, equipping, and paying the boun- 

 ty to its troops. Bonds to the amount of $1,- 

 800,000 at 6 per cent, were authorized to be 

 issued, of which $1,200,000 were sold at a pre- 

 mium of 11 per cent. 



The banking capital of the State amounts to 

 $20,862,979 divided among 88 banks. 



The length of the railroads of the State is 

 283 miles, costing $11,670,523. 



There is one college in the State, and a 

 Friends 1 boarding school of a high grade, and 

 many flourishing academies. The public school 

 fund amounts to $243,000, of which the income 

 is $14,442 per annum. The average attendance 

 on the schools exceeds 21,691. 



Under the calls for troops in 1862, the State 

 filled her quota without a resort to a draft, 

 making all the troops raised by her for the war 

 amount to thirteen regiments consisting of 

 14,326 officers and men. About 1,500 men 

 were also furnished by the State to the United 

 States navy. Of the troops sent to the war, 

 one regiment was light artillery and one 

 cavalry. 



The militia of the State is composed of 2,339 

 active militia and 17,944 enrolled militia. Of 

 the active militia, 43 belong to the general staff, 

 77 to the cavalry, 423 to the artillery, 1,574 to 

 the infantry, and 222 to the riflemen. 



An unsuccessful attempt was made by Gov. 

 Sprague to enlist a regiment of free colored 

 persons, for which he issued the following 

 order : 



STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLAN- 

 TATIONS, ADJ'T-GENEI-.AL'S OFFICE, 



PROVIDENCE, Aug. 4, 1862. 



General Orders No. 36. The Sixth Regiment, au- 

 thorized by the Secretary of War, under date Oct. 23, 

 1861, and orders issued therafor from this Department, 

 No. 103, Dec. 28, 1861, will consist entirely of colored 

 citizens. Enlistment will commence immediately. 

 Camp will be established under direction of Gen. Rob- 

 bins, who is directed to organize the regiment. 



The quartermaster-general will furnish rations and 

 equipments on requisition. 



Our colored fellow citizens are reminded that the 

 regiment from this State in the Revolution, consisting 

 entirely of colored persons, was pronounced by Wash- 

 ington equal, if not superior, to any in the service. 

 They constitute a part of the quota from this State, 

 and it is expected they will respond with zeal and 

 spirit to this call. 



The commander in-chief will lead them into the 



field, and will share with them, in common with the 



patriotic soldiers of the army of the republic, their 



trials and dangers, and will participate in the glories 



of their successes. 



By order of the Commander-in-Chief. 

 ) EDWARD C. MAURAN, Adjutant-General. 



The deposits in the savings institutions of 

 the State, at the beginning of 1862, amounted 

 to $9,282,879. 



RICHARDSON", ISRAEL B., a major-general 

 of volunteers in the United States service, born 

 at Burlington, Vt, in 1819, died at Sharpsburg, 



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Md., Nov. 3. 1862. He was a descendant of the 

 Revolutionary hero, Gen. Israel Putnam, grad- 

 uated at "West Point in 1841, was appointed 

 2d lieutenant in the 3d infantry, and 1st lieu- 

 tenant Sept. 21, 1846. He distinguished him- 

 self in nearly every important battle during the 

 Mexican war ; was brevetted captain for gal- 

 lant and meritorious conduct at Contreras and 

 Churubusco, and major for gallantry at Cha- 

 pul tepee and so distinguished himself for 

 Bravery that he was known in the army by the 

 sobriquet of " Fighting Dick." In March, 

 1851, he was promoted to a captaincy. In 1855, 

 he left the army and retired to private life in 

 Michigan. Upon the commencement of the 

 present war he promptly offered himself again 

 to the Government, organized a regiment, the 

 2d Michigan volunteers, of which he was made 

 colonel, and soon after was placed in command 

 of a brigade with which he covered the retreat 

 of the army at Bull Run. His commission aa 

 brigadier-general dated back to May 12, 1861. 

 At the battle of the Chickahominy he com- 

 manded a division of Gen. Sumner's corps and 

 won much honor upon that occasion. He re- 

 ceived his commission of major-general July 4, 

 1862, distinguished himself at the battles of 

 South Mountain and Antietam, in the latter of 

 which he received the wound causing his 

 death. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. At the 

 end of the year 1862 the Roman Catholic 

 church counted 902 dioceses with a population 

 of about 182,000,000 souls. They were distrib- 

 uted as follows : America had 148 dioceses, 

 and a Roman Catholic population of about 

 38,759,000 souls; Europe 603 dioceses, with 

 about 138,103,000 ; Asia (inclusive of the Ar- 

 chipelago) 102 dioceses, with about 4,167,000; 

 Africa 38 dioceses, with about 1,113,000; Aus- 

 tralasia and Polynesia 17 dioceses, with about 

 280,000 souls. 



In America, Central (2,227,000) and South 

 America (21,278,000), Mexico (7,660,000), the 

 French (301,000) and Spanish (2,032,000) pos- 

 sessions have an almost entirely Roman Cath- 

 olic population. British N"orth America has 

 19 dioceses, with about 2,590,000 Catholics. 

 The United States has 46 dioceses and 4 Apos- 

 tolic vicariates, divided into 7 provinces, Balti- 

 more, New York, New Orleans, Cincinnati, 

 St. Louis, Oregon City, and San Francisco, and 

 a Roman Catholic population estimated at from 

 three to'four millions. 



The statistics of the Roman Catholic popu- 

 lation in the countries of Europe was as fol- 

 lows : Italy, 263 dioceses, 24,000,000 Roman 

 Catholics; France, 81 dioceses, 35,734,000 Cath- 

 olics ; Austria (exclusive of Venetia),58 dioceses, 

 25,000,000 Catholics ; Spain, 58 dioceses, 16,- 

 550,000 Catholics ; Prussia and the other Ger- 

 man states, 24 dioceses, 12,450,000 Catholics; 

 Great-Britain, 45 dioceses, 6,000,000 Catholics ; 

 Russia, 16 dioceses, 7,020,000 Catholics; Bel- 

 gium, 6 dioceses, 4,600,000 Catholics; Portugal, 

 17 dioceses, 3,900,000 Catholics ; Turkey, 15 



