ALABAMA. 



the white schools was 84 days and in the col- 

 ored schools 76 days. The average monthly 

 pay of teachers in the white schools was $22.98 

 and in the colored schools was $23.15. It is 

 not likely that there will be any very large va- 

 riations from these statistics in the report for 

 18Sl-'82. 



From October, 1880, to October, 1882, there 

 were 75 pupils in the Deaf and Dumb and the 

 Blind Asylum at Talladega, of whom 14 were 

 discharged, leaving at the latter date 61 in the 

 institution, of whom 40 were mutes and 21 

 were blind. 



On September 30, 1880, there were 402 pa- 

 tients in the Hospital for the Insane, of whom 

 213 were men and 189 were women. During 

 the two years ending September 30, 1882, 188 

 patients were discharged, 57 died, and 260 

 were admitted, leaving under treatment 417 

 patients, of whom 209 were men and 208 were 

 women. Of these, 345 were white and 72 

 were colored. The causes of death were as 

 follows: Apoplexy, 2 ; Bright's disease, 2 ; cer- 

 ebral softening, 1 ; cerebral congestion, 2 ; 

 diarrhoea, 1 ; epilepsy, 3 ; fracture of skull, 1 ; 

 heart-disease, 2 ; maniacal exhaustion, 9 ; ma- 

 rasmus, 11 ; paresis, 6 ; pericarditis, 1 ; peri- 

 tonitis, 1; phthisis, 11; pneumonia, 3; and 

 syphilis, 1. Of the discharges, 126 had recov- 

 ered, 49 were improved, and 13 were un- 

 changed. In the two years, 155 applications 

 for admission were refused for want of room. 

 From the opening of the hospital in July, 1861, 

 to the date of the last report, 1,835 patients 

 had been admitted into it, of whom 671 had 

 been discharged recovered, 211 discharged im- 

 proved, 84 discharged unchanged, and 452 had 

 died. The cost of maintaining the hospital for 

 the two years was $140,003.50, of which $13,- 

 729.41 was for improvements and repairs. An 

 extension to the hospital building is in course 

 of construction. 



The effective militia of Alabama consists of 

 two regiments and a few unattached companies, 

 uniformed at their own expense, and armed 

 and equipped by the State. These organiza- 

 tions are numerically weak, numbering in all 

 less than one thousand men, and they are not all 

 as well drilled and disciplined as they should be. 



The Governor comments unfavorably upon 

 one feature of the penal law, as follows : 



Hard labor for the county, as an alternative for im- 

 prisonment in the penitentiary, is peculiar to Alabama. 

 It is unknown in other States. It confounds misde- 

 meanors and felonies. It unequally punishes ofifend- 

 era. The felon in the penitentiary escapes the severer 

 punishment of hard labor for the county, which must 

 M inflicted upon the misdemeanant. The convict to 

 the penitentiary has the benefit of State inspection, 

 which gives him some protection while serving out 

 his sentence, and secures his discharge at its expira- 

 tion. The convict to hard labor for the county is gen- 

 erally hired to work outside of the county, is sub- 

 jected to penitentiary discipline, is beyond the care of 

 those who should see that he is humanely treated, 

 and has no assurance of discharge at the expiration of 

 his sentence. 



The following is the record of the Alabama 

 Penitentiary for recent years : 



In 1872 only 10,000 tons of coal were mined 

 in Alabama. In 1879 were mined 290,000 

 tons; in 1880, 340,000 tons; in 1881, 400,000 

 tons. 



According to the census of 1880, the State 

 produced 699,654 bales of cotton, 25,451,278 

 bushels of corn, 3,039,639 of oats, and 1,529,657 

 of wheat. 



The following is the cotton statement of the 

 port of Mobile, August 81, 1882 : 



Bales. Bales. 



Stock ou hand September 1 , 1881 4,281 



Received this year 263,619 



Corrections 1,399 



Wagon-cotton 22265,040 



Received from Pensacola 2,096 



Total 271,417 



Exports to Great Britain 86,822 



" France 6,313 



" other foreign ports 3,231 



" United States ports 223,755 



Local consumption 1,099271,220 



Stock on hand this day 197 



Net receipts for the year 265, 040 



PROPORTION OF COTTON RECEIPTS AT MOBILE. 



WEIGHT AND VALUE OF COTTON EXPORTS TO FOREIGN 

 PORTS FROM MOBILE FOR THREE TEARS. 



By means of the improvement of Mobile Bay 

 which has just been completed by the United 

 States Government, a vessel drawing twenty- 

 three feet may now enter the lower bay and 

 find secure anchorage, and a vessel drawing 

 seventeen feet may pass from the lower bay di- 

 rect to the wharves of the city. 



The following table gives the population by 

 counties, distinguished as white and colored, 

 according to the census of 1880 : 



