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tenco, 2 ; on pardon, 15 ; died, 7 ; escaped, 6. 

 Total remaining, 589 ; decrease, 38. Average 

 expense of convicts per annum, $48.31 ; per 

 day, ISy'V cents. The sentences for the year 

 were for the following offences : Arson, 3 ; 

 adultery, 5 ; ahduction, 1 ; felonious attempts, 

 2 ; felonious assaults, 14 ; bigamy, 5 ; bur- 

 glary, 38; burning buildings to defraud in- 

 surance companies, 2; breaking jail, 1; em- 

 bezzlement, 2; forgery, 15; false pretences, 

 9 ; fraudulent disposition of property, 1 ; in- 

 cest, 2 ; larceny, 95 ; malicious trespass, 1 ; 

 manslaughter, 2 ; murder, 3 ; murder in second 

 degree, 4 ; rape, 4 ; receiving stolen property, 

 1 ; robbery, 6 ; resisting officer, 2 ; seduction, 

 3. Of the sentences, 54 were one year or 

 less, 55 were over one and not exceeding two, 

 52 were over two and not exceeding three, 31 

 were over three and not exceeding five, 9 were 

 over five and not exceeding eight, 8 were ten 

 years, 3 were fifteen years, 1 was seventeen 

 years, 2 were twenty years, 3 were twenty-five 

 years, 1 was thirty years, and 3 for life ; 23 

 were on second convictions, and one on a fifth 

 conviction. The agent reports general good 

 behavior among the convicts, with mild treat- 

 ment and few punishments. The convicts 

 have been encouraged to give up tobacco, and 

 accept popular magazines instead, and the 

 most of them have voluntarily done so. 



The regular session of the Legislature not 

 occurring this year, a special session was called 

 for the purposes of the congressional appoint- 

 ment. But little other legislation was had. 

 April llth, the Senate met as a court of im- 

 peachment to try Charles A. Edmonds, Com- 

 missioner of the State Land-Office, on articles 

 preferred by the House of Representatives. 

 The substance of the several articles was as 

 follows : 



ARTICLE 1. Corruptly withholding lands jfrom sale 

 for pecuniary considerations to himself, his deputy 

 and clerks. 



ART. 2. Corruptly, by himself and with Ms depu 

 and clerks, engaging in the purchase of lands fro 

 the State, contrary to law. 



ART. 3. Corruptly and for pecuniary gain to him- 

 self, his deputy and clerks, deciding that certain 

 licensed lands were subject to sale without the 

 proofs required by law, thereby perpetrating a 

 gross fraud upon the persons to whom licenses had 

 been issued. 



ART. 4. Unlawfully conspiring with certain per- 

 sons to withhold from sale, for the benefit of the 

 conspirators, and mark as sold, large quantities of 

 State lands. 



ART. 5. Engaging in the purchase and sale of 

 swamp-land scrip, to the prejudice of the primary 

 school fund. 



^ ART. 6. Appointing and keeping in office clerks of 

 dissolute habits and character, and allowing them, 

 in violation of law, to deal in State lands, and to have 

 advantages in his office over other purchasers. 



ART. 11. Eeceiving payment for State lands in 

 current money, and entering the lands on the books 

 of his office as paid for in depreciated scrip, and ac- 

 counting for the purchases accordingly. 



ART. 8. Publishing and circulating an obscene 

 paper, with criminal intent. 



ART. 9. Sending an obscene paper through the 

 mails, with like intent. 



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AHT. 10. Making himself intoxicated at the seat 

 of government and elsewhere. 

 ART. 11. Committing adultery. 



Ira E. Grosvenor, Lyman Cochrane, and B. 

 W. Huston, Jr., appeared as managers of the 

 impeachment on the part of the House, and 

 John B. Shipman and Jonas H. McGowan 

 acted as counsel for the defendant. The trial 

 lasted until the 24th day of May, when the 

 Senate proceeded to vote on the several arti- 

 cles with the following result : 



Article 1, guilty, 16 ; not guilty, 11. Art. 2, 

 guilty, 4 ; not guilty, 23. Art. 3, guilty, 12 ; 

 not guilty, 15. Art. 4, guilty, ; not guilty, 

 27. Art. 5, guilty, 8 ; not guilty, 19. Art. 6, 

 guilty, 16 ; not guilty, 11. Art. 7, guilty, 1 ; 

 not guilty, 26. Art. 8, guilty, 14 ; not guilty, 

 13. Art. 9, guilty, 8; not guilty, 19. Art. 10, 

 guilty, ; not guilty, 27. Art. 11, guilty, 1 ; 

 not guilty, 26. 



Two-thirds not having pronounced the re- 

 spondent guilty on any one of the charges, he 

 was declared acquitted on all, and the court 

 adjourned without day. 



According to the census of 1870, of the total 

 population (873,763) ten years old and over, 

 there were engaged in all classes of occupa- 

 tions, 404,164 persons, of whom 346,717 were 

 males, and 57,447 females. There were engaged 

 in agriculture, 187,211, including 187,036 males, 

 and 75 females ; in professional and personal 

 services, 104,728, including 52,754 males, and 

 51,974 females; in trade and transportation, 

 29,588, including 29,493 males, and 95 females ; 

 in manufactures, and mechanical and mining 

 industries, 82,637, including 77,434 males and 

 5,203 females. 



The State contained 5,096,939 acres of im- 

 proved land, 4,080,146 of woodland, and 842,- 

 057 of other unimproved land. The cash value 

 of farms was $398,240,578; of farming im- 

 plements and machinery, $13,711,979 ; total 

 amount of wages paid during the year, includ- 

 ing value of board, $8,421,161 ; total (esti- 

 mated) value of all farm-productions, including 

 betterments and additions to stock, $81,508,- 

 623; orchard-products, $3,447,985; produce 

 of market-gardens, $352,658 ; forest-products, 

 $2,559,682 ; value of home manufactures, $338,- 

 008 ; of animals slaughtered or sold for slaugh- 

 ter, $11,711,624; of all live-stock, $49,809,869. 

 There were 228,302 horses, 2,353 mules and 

 asses, 250,859 milch-cows, 36,499 working- 

 oxen, 260,171 other cattle, 1,985,906 sheep, 

 and 417,811 swine. The chief productions 

 were, 268,810 bushels of spring, and 35,996,963 

 of winter, wheat, 144,508 of rye, 14,086,238 of 

 Indian-corn, 8,954,466 of oats, 834,558 of bar- 

 ley, 436,755 of buckwheat, 5,385 pounds of 

 tobacco, 8,726,145 of wool, 349,365 bushels of 

 peas and beans, 10,318,799 of Irish, and 3,651 

 of sweet, potatoes, 21,832 gallons of wine, 24,- 

 400,185 pounds of butter, 670,804 of cheese, 

 15,284,057 gallons of milk sold, 597,455 tons 

 of hay, 252 bushels of clover-seed, 464 of grass 

 seed, 828,260 pounds of hops, 240,110 of flax, 



