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The Central Asylum reports the following results for twenty-four years, from 1839 to 1863:—

OHIO REFORM SCHOOL, near LANCASTER, Fairfield county, Acting Commissioner George E. Howe.It is no misuse of terms to style this school a peculiar institution. Its design is to reform and educate juvenile offenders. The school is organized on a plan similar to that of the French Agricultural Colony at Mettray. The inmates are divided into four families, each under the care of a head, called the "Elder Brother." A large farm (1170 acres) is attached to the school. On this the boys labor during several hours each day, five hours being devoted to the school-room. The restraint imposed upon the boys is of the mildest type. There are no walls about the establishment to prevent escape; and yet very few escapes are attempted. The school had been five years in operation in January, 1863, and was regarded as a complete success.

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whom 25 were admitted in 1862. The expendi tures for the latter year were $15,294.

OHIO INSTITUTION FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB, COLUMBUS, Collins Stone, Super intendent.-The whole number of pupils on the 4th of November, 1862, was 150,-males, 88, females, 62. The receipts and expenditures for the year were as follow:- Receipts, $20,007; expenditures, $19,277.

OHIO STATE ASYLUM FOR IDIOTIC AND IMBECILE YOUTH, COLUMBUS,—Dr. G. A. Doren, Superintendent.-Fifty-seven children were under treatment in the year ended Nov. 1862. In many cases aimless and involuntary movements had been replaced by those in response to the will; and some had so far progressed as to be capable of productive labor in the garden, shop, and sewingroom. 28 of these children had been taught to read and write, of whom but 2 knew any thing of words as expressed by letters, when admitted, and 5 could not even talk. All have improved. The receipts and expenditures for the year 1862 were as follow:-Receipts, $8684; expenditures, $8434.

OHIO PENITENTIARY, COLUMBUS, Nathaniel Merion, Warden.-Statistics for the year ended Nov. 1, 1862. The number of prisoners remaining on the 1st of November, 1861, was 924, of whom 908 were males, and 16 were females. The number remaining on the 1st of November, 1862, was 768, of whom 18 were females. Decrease in 1862, 156. The number of prisoners committed to the Penitentiary in 1861 was 355; the number committed in 1862 was 237. Decrease in 1862, 118. An inspection of the following table will show that the commitments in 1862 were less in number than in any year since 1856.

TABLE showing the Number of Convictions in the Years 1850 to 1862, inclusive.

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The receipts and expenditures for the year were as follow:-Receipts, $73,072, of which $61,504 was from contractors for convict labor; expenditures, $93,444, of which $27,178 was for provisions, $18,299 for clothing, $5045 for officers' salaries, $27,937 for guards, and the balance for miscellaneous objects.

AGRICULTURE.-The copious and well-arranged reports of the public officers of Ohio furnish to the people of that State information relating to their agriculture as well as to their other affairs. Thus, they have in the Report of the Auditor of State for 1862, returns of their agriculture for 1861, two years later than that furnished by the United States Census. The following totals are taken from that Report:

1,931,002
MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS OF CHIO.
20,055,424
69,374 Crime. The following tabular statement, taken
779,829 from the Report of E. D. Mansfield, Esq., Com-
60,501 missioner of Statistics, shows the comparative
1,255,049 number of indictments for crime in Ohio for six
2,266,129 years, with their classification, and also the num-
74,858,378 ber of convictions for the same years :--

conclusion that the public and private debts of the State, counties, cities, associations, and individuals of Ohio, stood about as follow for the years named:-1859, $189,593,346; 1860, $169,070,527; 1861, $166,705,282.

OHIO AND THE WAR.-From the 17th of April,

1861, when the 1st and 2d Regiments left the State for Washington, to the close of 1862, Ohio sent to the field 182,704 men. Of these, 26,893 were for three months, 154,015 were for three years, and 1796 drafted men for nine months. They were organized into 146 regiments, 2 battalions, and 2 companies of infantry; 7 regiments, 1 battalion, 1 squadron, and 6 companies of cavalry; 1 regiment and 22 batteries of artillery; and 6 companies of sharpshooters. The details are given, with other particulars of interest, in the subjoined table, compiled from the Reports of the Adjutant-General of the State.

MILITARY OPERATIONS OF OHIO, 1863.-From Governor Tod's message of January 4, 1861, we extract the following:

"We have raised within the past year 15,060

troops. This, added to the number reported to the last General Assembly, swells the grand Union army from Ohio to 200,671.

TABLE showing the number of Soldiers sent to the field by the State of Ohio to the close of 1862; showing also the Term of Service, the Arm of Service, the Original Commanding Officer, the Number of Men in each Organization, the Date of their Departure, and the Commanding Officer, Dec. 31, 1862.