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COMMON SCHOOLS.-Report of the State Conimissioner for the year ended August 31, 1862.

Youth Enumerated, Enrolled, &c. Number of white youth in Ohio between 5 and 21 years of age.-Males, 464,190; females, 442,632; total white youth, 906,822.

Number of colored youth between 5 and 21 years of age.-Males, 7097; females, 6971; total colored youth, 14.068; grand total of white and colored youth, 920,890. This statement shows that there are in the State 21,684 more males than females between 5 and 21 years of age, or about 23 males to 22 females.

Number of youth enrolled in the schools during the year.-Common,-males, 365,925; females, 333,675; High,-males, 6325; females, 6681; German and English,-males, 2404; females, 2203; colored, -males, 3868; females, 3588; total males and females, 723,669.

Number of scholars in average daily attendance in school during the year.-Common, males, 117,136; females, 200,993; High,-males, 3194; females, 4139; German and English,-males, 1752; females, 1515; colored,-males, 2369; females, 2244; total males, 224,451; total females, 208,891; total males and females, 433,342.

Number of Schools.-Common, 14,728: High, 144; German and English, 108; colored, 172: total, 15,152. Number of teachers employed in the schools during the year.-Common,-males, 9996; females, 10,592; High,-males, 179; females, 90; German and Eng

lish,-males, 77; females, 16; colored,—males, 121; females, 53; private and select,-males, 86; females, 180; total males, 10,459; total females, 10,931; total males and females, 21,390.

Wages of teachers.-The wages paid teachers per

month show the following averages for all the schools-male teachers in the high school, $58.34, in the common schools, $26.35, in the German and English schools, $27.58, in the colored schools, $24.48, in the private and select schools, $36.39; female teachers in the high school, $34.04, in the common schools, $15.32, in the German and English schools, $26.25, in the colored schools, $19.45, in the private and select schools, $17.25. The whole number of school-houses in the State at the date of the report was 10,422, and their value was $1,649,903; average value per school-house, $450. Branches of study laught, and number of scholars in each branch.-Alphabet, 61,855; orthography, 468,024; reading, 490,496; penmanship, 323,066; mental arithmetic, 271,781; written arithmetic, 224,469; geography, 155,224; English grammar, 98,608; physiology, 3816; map-drawing, 9189; composition, 38,755; declamation, 50,863; drawing, 6901; vocal music, 71,459; history, 10,395; algebra, 14,661; geometry, 1794; trigonometry, 9; surveying, 31; natural philosophy, 4054; moral philosophy, 424; mental philosophy, 453; chemistry, 890; rhetoric, 1395; astronomy, 724; geology, 254; zoology, 155; Latin, 2236; Greek, 182; German, 9248; French, 284; botany, 33.

Ohio teachers in the army.-Returns from 47 counties in Ohio, in 1862, showed that 2466 teachers had entered the army; the same proportion for the other 41 counties, from which no returns were received, would have made a total of 4617 Ohio teachers in the military service of the United States. Among the teachers named by the School Commissioner are the following:-Major-General 0. M. Mitchel, formerly a teacher in Cincinnati, now deceased. Major-General J. D. Cox, formerly Superintendent of the Public Schools in Warren. Brigadier-General Jacob Ammen, Superintendent of the Public Schools in Ripley. Brigadier-General J. A. Garfield, Principal of the Western Reserve

Eclectic Institute at Hiram. Colonel Lorin Andrews, President of Kenyon College. He was ap pointed colonel of the 4th Ohio Regiment, and served with honor in Western Virginia, and died on the 18th of September, 1861. Colonel E. B. Andrews, Professor in Marietta College, colonel of the 36th Ohio Regiment. Colonel M. D. Leggett, Superintendent of Public Schools in Zanesville, colonel of the 78th Regiment, and commanding a brigade in Mississippi at the date of the Report. Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Young, of the 26th Regiment, was a Professor in the Ohio University at Athens. Lieutenant-Colonel Z. M. Chandler, of the 78th Regiment, was Superintendent of Public Schools in Putnam. Lieutenant-Colonel T. F. Wildes, of the 116th Regiment, was Superintendent of the Public Schools in Wooster. Major John McClenehan, of the 15th Regiment, was Superintendent of the Public Schools in Cambridge. Major D. F. De Wolf, of the 55th Regiment, was Superintendent of the Public Schools in Tiffin. Major M. W. Smith, of the 1st Ohio Cavalry, was formerly Superintendent of the Public Schools in Defiance. School Fund.-There is a Permanent State School Fund, amounting to $2,879,379, the annual interest of which is $173,712. Besides this, there was raised, in 1863, by State tax for school purposes, $1,155,221, and by local taxation for school purposes, $1,021,012. Including a balance on hand from the year previous, the moneys disposable for school purposes, in 1862, amounted to $3,554,376, and the expenditures for that year were $2,501,068.

COLLEGES.-Eleven colleges made reports to the Commissioner of Schools in 1862, showing the following aggregates for the whole number:-professors and tutors, 80; students, 1952; graduates in 1862, 151; graduates and under-graduates in the army, 824; value of college buildings and grounds, $932,000; value of apparatus, $46,300; value of endowments, $642,600.

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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There is ample evidence in the Report of the Commissioner that the discipline of the school wins the affections of the boys, and accomplishes effectual reform.

OHIO INSTITUTION FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE BLIND, COLUMBUS,-A. D. Lord, Superintendent. From 1838, when this institution was founded, to Dec. 1862, 432 persons were under its training, of

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

OHIO INSTITUTION FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB, COLUMBUS,-Collins Stone, Superintendent.-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.

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:

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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 cav alry: 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, 1864, 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.