WYOMING TERRITORY.-Delegate in Congress, 1878.

The Legislature of 1879-80, stands; Republicans, 90; Democrats, 36; National Greenback Party, 8-total, 133.

NUMBER OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS FROM EACH STATE,
From the Beginning of the Government in 1789 to 1879.

Morrison R. Waite, Chief-Justice of the U. S.
T.W. Ferry, President of the Senate, pro tem.
H. Hamlin, member of the Senate.
R. E. Withers, member of the Senate.
A. A. Sargent, member of the Senate.
Hiester Clymer, member of the House.
Alex. H. Stephens. member of the House.

James A. Garfield, member of the House.
John Maclean, Princeton, N. J.
Peter Parker, Washington, D. C.
Wm. T. Sherman, Washington, D. C.
Asa Gray, Cambridge, Mass.
Noah Porter, New Haven, Conn.
Henry Coppée, Bethlehem, Pa.

Agricultural Crops of 1878 in the United States.

[Estimate by the Department of Agriculture.]

.425,000.000 bushels. Potatoes..

Wheat.
Barley
Rye

Corn....
Oats..

Ilay.

129,000,000 bushels. .1,746,325,000

66

410,000,000

5,200,000 bales,

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Statistics of Schools for the Unfortunate Classes in the United States.

THE number of institutions for the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb in the United States for 1876 was 42, with 312 instructors, 5200 pupils, and $1,232,858 expenditure for the year.

The number of schools for the Blind in 1876 was 29, with 580 instructors and other employés, 2083 pupils; $736,559 expenditures.

The number of schools for Feeble-Minded Youth (idiots and imbeciles) was 11, having 318 instructors and other employés, 1560 inmates, at an expenditure of $302,686.

The number of Reform Schools in the United States was 51, all located in 19 Northern and Western States, and having 800 teachers, officers, and assistants, with 12,087 inmates, at an annual cost for instruction of $1,404,483, and annual earnings by the inmates of $174,119.

The number of Orphan Asylums in the United States, in 1876, was 188, in 29 States and 2 Territories, having 1530 officers and assistants, 18,759 inmates, maintained at an expenditure of $1,541,444. Of Soldiers' Orphan Homes, there were 20, with 366 officers, etc.; 4146 inmates, and an expenditure of $433,678 in 1876.

Of Industrial Schools there were 36, located in 17 States, employing 425 teachers and assistants, with 13,662 pupils, and an expenditure last year of $342,599.

Railroad Building in 1878.-The railroad construction of the year 1878, in the United States, is given by the Railroad Gazette (N. Y.) at 2,688 miles, distributed among thirty-five States and Territories. This is a larger number of miles of new railroad than have been constructed in any year since 1873.

Failures in 1878.-The records of failures in the United States during the whole year 1878, as tabulated by Dun, Barlow & Co., aggregate 10,478 failures, involving liabilities to the amount of $234,383,132; being an increase over the failures of 1877 of 1,606 in number of failures, and $43,713,196 in liabilities.

United States Bonds held by the Treasury to secure National Bank Circulation, and Interest received by the Banks thereon-1870-1879.

[Compiled from the Reports of the Comptroller of the Currency.]

NOTE. The Comptroller's Report states the average rate of State taxation on the capital of the National Banks at 2 per cent.; the U. S. tax on circulation at 1 per cent.; and the profit to the Banks on amount of circulation issuable on $349,408,900 Bonds deposited (being $314,468,010, less 5 per cent. redemption fund), at $8,961,519, or about 2 per cent. on the capital invested in the Bonds (on the basis of keeping their whole issues loaned), more than would be derived from loaning the whole capital at 8 per cent., without the privilege of circulating notes.

1 Natt Head, R., was elected Governor Nov. 5, 1878, for the first biennial term under the new constitu n, beginning June 4, 1879.