NEW JERSEY. 



flciarios is 82 ; number of State beneficiaries in 

 tli.- IVniisUviiniii training school for feeble- 

 minded children, 1 1'-. 



Tin- operations of the State Lunatic A-yluni 



I'm- tin- year luive been conducted with more 



than tisii;i ! Kitfhty-one more patients 



ha\e !<e :i treate 1 than in any previous year, 



and a new struct mv, authori/cd hy law, has 



.iplcted. Number under treat- 



diirinu' the year, 621; patients discharged, 



171; total raoeipta, *l 1 l.i!:U.28; payments, 



$109,ls7.7n. IJalanue in hands of treasurer, 



The Hi. me for DiviliK-d Soldiers, established 

 hy tli" immilicence of the State, has been the 

 source of i:reat relief to the sick and wounded 

 soldiers who have enjoyed its advantages. The 

 inmates are carefully treated, and they there 

 find :i kind and friendly home. 



The whole number of persons who have par- 

 ticipated 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 T 7 ff cents per day for 

 each beneficiary. 



An agreement has been made with the Board 

 of Man;igers of the National Asylum for Dis- 

 al>led 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 estab- 

 lished, and a suitable building erected for its 

 uecominodati'on. 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 



224 



Enlisted men in rifle corpus 2,177 



Enlisted men in active militia 902 8,079 



Total 8,303 



In his last message, the Governor thus re- 

 counts 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, ana potatoes are among the largest 

 raised in the Uniteu 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 twen- 

 ty-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 tne first in value per acre 

 of its farm-lands. In the peculiar products which, 

 ' rom 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 aro the special object* of culture for 

 large body of our people. The importance of these 

 comparisons will be better appreciated when it is re- 

 membered that, as a manufacturing State, New Jersey 

 stands ni.\th in the amount of capital invested, and 

 also in tin- annual value of its manufactured products. 

 Its mim-s ( .f in.n and zinc are a source of wealth 

 to the State. More than 250,000 tons of the richest 

 iron-urn lia\i- l.ncn mined in the State this year, 

 wlii.-li. at the mines, is worth a million of dollars. 

 Tin- /mo-mines have yielded 24,000 tons of ore, all 

 of wh'u-h is manufactured into spelter or zinc oxide 

 within the State, and have yielded products worth 

 nearly, if not quite, a million of dollars more. This 

 product of zinc is more than half the yield of (he 

 United States, and is considerably more than is sup- 

 plied from all the mines of Great Britain. 



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 ac- 

 tion of the tide. These have cost from $5 to -$20 

 an acre to bring them in, and they are the most pro- 

 ductive lands in the State, paying a fair profit of 

 from $100 to $300 per acre. A very strenuous effort 

 is now being made to reclaim the marsh between Pas- 

 saio 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 ac- 

 tion 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 re- 

 ported, and adopted by acclamation : 



Jfcsolved, 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 Declara- 

 tion of Independence, the Constitution, the Ordi- 

 nance of 1787, and the political writings of Wash- 

 ington, 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. 



Jiesolved, That, pledging ourselves to the eradica- 

 tion 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 distinc- 

 tions of class, race, or color, so that the citizens of 

 each State shall be entitled to all privileges and im- 

 munities 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 republi- 

 can form of government." 



Jtesolved. 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 repub- 

 lic, that " all men are created equal," which was and 

 is the corner-stone of all our democratic institutions. 



fiesohed, That by our action this day we intend 

 heartily to indorse the votes of our Senators and 

 Representatives in Congress in favor of securing im- 

 partial suffrage to all the people of the States lately 

 in rebellion, and to repudiate the charge that we are 

 willing to impose upon others a fundamental princi- 



