INDIANA. 



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The Report of the State Auditor for the year 

 1860 gives the following statement of the ag- 

 gregates of the assessment of real and personal 

 property in Indiana for the year 1860 : 



Number of acres 21,867,641 



Value of lands without improvements $219,661,783 



Value of improvements 155,491,249 



Value of lands and improvements $275,153.032 



Value of town lots and improvements $47,473,326 



Total value of railroad assessment $6,619.342 



Other corporation stocks $1.819,246 



Other personal propertv $122,944.432 



Total valuation:..!...: $455,011,378 



Number of poll* 203,098 



On the above-stated amount of property and 

 number of polls, there is levied the following 

 amount of taxes, which were collected in 1861 : 



SUtetex $659,159 12 



County tax 1,192.43795 



School tax. 536,04486 



Road tax 338,347 81 



Township tax 141,64121 



Sinkinz fund tax 88,73688 



Railroad tax 41,339 92 



Other corporation tax. 607,721 99 



Total amount of taxes on assessment of 1860. . . 3,76S,426 87 



Delinquent tax. 702,69964 



Total amount of taxes 4,471,126 51 



The banks of Indiana, on the 1st of January, 

 1861, were 39 in number, and reported their 

 condition as follows : Capital paid in, $4,744,- 

 570 ; loans and discounts, $8,158,038 ; stocks, 

 $1,297,828; real estate, $316,0245 other in- 

 vestments, $77,293 ; due by other banks, $1,- 

 198,961; notes of other banks, $355,025 ; cash 

 items, $105,875; specie, $2,296,648; circula- 

 tion, $5,755,201 ; deposits, $1,841,051 ; due to 

 other banks, $117,868 ; other liabilities, $152,- 

 650. At the time of the suspension of specie 

 payment by the banks generally throughout 

 the country in December, 1861, the banks of 

 Indiana refused to suspend, and have main- 

 tained their condition as specie-paying banks 

 up to the present time. The State debt in 

 1860 was $10,286,855 57. Besides this, the 

 State is holder for the canal stocks of the Wa- 

 bash and Erie Canal, $7,017,807 50 ; but the 

 interest and a portion of the principal of this are 

 paid from the canal revenues. 



According to the United States census of 

 1860, the products of Indiana in the summer 

 of that year were as follows : 



Lice Stock. Number of horses, 409,504; 

 asses and mules, 18,627; milch cows, 491,033; 

 working oxen, 95,982; other cattle, 582,990; 

 sheep, 2,157,375 ; swine, 2,498,528. Value of 

 live stock, $50,116,964. 



Product. Bushels of wheat, 15,219,120; 

 corn, 69,641,591; oats, 5,028,755; Irish po- 

 tatoes, 3,873,130 ; sweet potatoes, 284,304 ; 

 flax seed, 158,272. Pounds of rice, 1,219 ; 

 tobacco, 4,657,964; wool, 2,466,264; butter, 

 17,934,767; cheese, 569,574; flax, 17,112. 

 Tons of hay, 635,322. Value of home manu- 

 factures, $847,251 ; value of slaughtered ani- 

 mals, $9,592,322. 



The Report of the Superintendent of Public 

 Institutions, Professor Miles J. Fletcher, to the 

 Governor, on the 1st of January, 1862, presents 

 the following statistics in regard to the condi- 

 tion of popular education in the State : 



Number of Children at the Enumeration of 1861. 



Number of males. 270,078 



Number of females 258,118 



Whole number. 



625,151 



Number of children attending public schools 



during 1861 337,890 



Number attending private schools. ls,270 



Number attending schools of all kinds 355,660 



Number not attending schools of any kind 163,231 



Amount of school revenue for tuition, collected 

 and ready for apportionment in April, 1861 $555,196 82 



Amount collected and ready for apportionment 

 in October, 1861 106,182 82 



Total during the yew. $661,379 64 



Amount apportioned in April $553,577 66 



Amount apportioned in October.... 102,890 20 



Amount apportioned during the year. $656,467 S6 



Balance in State Treasury $4,911 78 



Amount of Congressional Township revenue col- 

 lected during the year $168,375 15 



The Spring apportionment was. $1 08 to the child. 



The Fall apportionment was. 20 " u 



Whole amount per child $1 28 



This is common school revenue. Congres- 

 sional township revenue of 1861, $168,175 16, 

 added to the common school reveune, gives a 

 total of $1 60 per child. 



There is now due the school revenue from 

 the State, $350,000. This amount was an un- 

 apportioned accumulation of said revenues, 

 which was drawn from the State Treasury 

 and " used for other purposes " prior to the 

 year 1861. The Legislature, at the last session, 

 made arrangements to repay it, at the rate of 

 $50,000 a year, commencing April, 1862. 



It may seem that the number of children 

 who did not attend school during the year is 

 remarkably large. But it should be remem- 

 bered that the enumeration includes all single 

 persons between the ages of five and twenty- 

 one years; that many of these are already 

 in the active pursuits of life ; that many par- 

 ents, convinced of the evil of sending children 

 to school at the tender age of five years, have 

 abandoned it, and that near one-fourth of the 

 schools have not been open during the year. 



Early in their session the Legislature ap- 

 pointed commissioners to the Peace Convention 

 held at "Washington on the 4th of February, a 

 decided majority being in favor of the move- 

 ment. When the call of the President for 

 troops was made, on the 15th of April, the Gov- 

 ernor and people of Indiana responded with the 

 utmost promptness to the summons. Within 

 one week after the call the six regiments asked 

 for were raised and mustered into the service, 

 and ready to march, and would have been on 

 their way to the field if they could have been 

 provided with arms. They received them and 

 were despatched to Western Virginia and other 

 points before the middle of May. 



The Legislature also authorized the raising 

 and arming of six regiments for one year for 

 home service, to be transferred to the Govern- 

 ment service at the discretion of the Governor. 



