618 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



Illiterate 62 



Read only 24 



Read and write 203 



Good education 2 



The whole number of convicts received at 

 this prison is 5, 975. Of this number there have 

 been 



Of illiterate.. 1,210 



Of those who could read only 1,019 



Of those who could read and write 3,714 



Of those well instructed 32 



The normal school system of Pennsylvania 

 contemplates the ultimate establishment of 

 twelve institutions in different parts of the 

 State. Of these, four are already in operation 

 and two others have their buildings in process 

 of erection. The number of students at the 

 four schools already established was 2,121 dur- 

 ing the past year; 1,702 were in the normal 

 department and 419 in the model schools. The 

 number of graduates at all the schools was 77, 

 all of whom declared their intention to become 

 teachers in the common schools of the State. 

 The prosperous condition of these institutions 

 is shown by the fact that they expended $30,- 

 991.47 in improvements during the year. The 

 two schools not yet completed are at Blooms- 

 burg and California. 



The Agricultural College in Centre County, 

 which has been heretofore considered a com- 

 parative failure, has received the attention of 

 the Legislature, and is in a fair way to be put 

 on a basis which promises much for its future 

 usefulness. The interest upon a fund of $318,- 

 500 has been appropriated to the endowment 

 of this institution, and $43,886 have been de- 

 voted to the purchase of three model and ex- 

 perimental farms the largest at the college 

 in Centre County, one in Chester County, and 

 the other in Indiana County. The board of 

 trustees has reorganized the faculty, and re- 

 modelled the course of study, and the new or- 

 der of things is expected to go into full oper- 

 ation some time during the year 1869. 



There are several schools for the instruction 

 of soldiers' orphans, which are supported by 

 the State. The total expenditure for this pur- 

 pose, from the 1st of December, 1867, to the 

 31st of May, 1868, was $236,370.26, and the 

 total number of pupils in the schools was 

 3,431. At Media is a training-school for fee- 

 ble-minded children, where physical, mental, 

 and moral training is systematically applied to 

 those defective natures which develop only 

 under the most assiduous care. Since the 

 foundation of the institution in 1853, 501 in- 

 mates have been received, and, in most cases, 

 a very satisfactory degree of improvement has 

 been attained in the condition of those gener- 

 ally regarded as hopeless. This school is sup- 

 ported by funds established by the States of 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, and 

 by private benefactions. 



The Legislature of Pennsylvania meets on 

 the first Tuesday in January. The last ses- 

 sion continued until the early part of May, but 

 no laws of general interest were passed. An 



attempt was made to have the question of so 

 amending the constitution of the State as to 

 give the rights of suffrage to negroes, submit- 

 ted to a vote of the people, but the proposition 

 received only 13 votes in its favor in the House 

 of Representatives, while 73 were recorded 

 against it. 



The following resolution was introduced, and 

 referred to the Committee on Federal Eela- 

 tions : 



Resolved, That we, the representatives of the peo- 

 ple of Pennsylvania, urge upon the Secretary of State, 

 Hon. William H. Seward, the propriety and impor- 

 tance of instructing the United States Minister to de- 

 mand of the Britisn Government the immediate re- 

 lease of all American citizens imprisoned for alleged 

 political offences, and to insist upon the adoption of 

 some fixed policy that will insure to every American 

 citizen on British soil such immunities and protec- 

 tion as he is entitled to under the laws of a proud 

 republic. 



When Edwin M. Stanton (who was a citi- 

 zen of Pennsylvania), was removed from the 

 office of Secretary of War, by the President, 

 and restored to that position by the action 

 of Congress, the following joint resolution was 

 adopted by the Legislature and forwarded to 

 the Senate of the United States, where it was 

 allowed to lie on the table : 



1. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General 

 Assembly met, That the loyal men of this Common- 

 wealth nail with joy the restoration of Hon. Edwin 

 M. Stanton to the office from which he has been ille- 

 gally excluded, and that the thanks of the people of 

 Pennsylvania are hereby tendered to the Senators 

 who have by their action in this case vindicated a 

 meritorious officer and rebuked an apostate Presi- 

 dent. 



2. Resolved, That it is the universal wish of the 

 loyal men of Pennsylvania that Hon. Edwin M. Stan- 

 ton shall retain the office he now holds ; that he will 

 sink his personal wishes for the public good, and that 

 the country, more than ever requiring his services, 

 may again rest in security with the unflinching Sec- 

 retary at the head of military affairs. 



3. Resolved, That while the suspension of Mr. Stan- 

 ton for a time so unnecessarily and unjustly from the 

 War Office is lamented, it is cause of congratulation 

 to the country that the great leader of the Union 

 armies, General U. S. Grant, was the Secretary ad 

 interim, who brought to the administration of that 

 office that courage, energy, ability? and loyalty, that 

 delighted the heart of the nation in the darkness of 

 rebellion in the past, and directs it to him with hope 

 and confidence in future." 



4. Resolved, That the Governor of the Common- 

 wealth be requested to forward copies of these reso- 

 lutions to the Secretary of War and the Senate of the 

 United States. ELISHA W. DAVIS, 



Speaker of the House of Eepresentatives. 

 JAMES L. GRAHAM, 



Speaker of the Senate. 



Approved the llth day of February, A. D., 1868. 

 JOHN W. GEAKY. 



The following relates to the impeachment 

 of President Johnson : 



Whereas, Andrew Johnson, President of the 

 United States, in disregard of a law passed by the 

 constitutional majority of Congress over his veto, is- 

 sued an order to remove E. M. Stanton as Secretary 

 of War, and appointed Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant- 

 General of the United States Army, Secretary of War 

 ad interim; and whereas, E. M. Stanton has refused 



