State Prison Statistics

Th o third annnal report of the National Prison Aesociation, from the hand of the Secretary, Bev. Dr. E. C. Wines. is a document of muoh general interest to humanitarians and political economista. lts statistics ehow that tbere are in the United States forty-four State prisons, containing an aggregate of 1(5,125 colls, whose average cnbic coutents to each cell is 210 feet, or halt the health standard. The excess of expenses over earnings in thirty prisons duriiig 1873 was $545,744, the cost of a convict benig $172, and hia average earnings $121. The cost at Albany, N. Y., was $161 per prisoner; at Sing Sing (nial-) $274 ; Sing Sing (female), $242. The " contract" system of labor prevails in twenty prisona, the " Jcasing" system in six, State management in ten, and a mixed system in geven. One prisoner in 100 has a superior edneacatiou; fifty-one a tolerable common sohool education, and foity eight ure Iliterato. Tbree-fourths of the convicta had no 'rade, and of the remainder, one-half had acqtiired a trade but imperfoctly. The appendix to the report coutains an essay by a member of the Penitentiary Oomraittee of France, in which a particular irtdorECment of the "cellular," or individual treatme-ut, is givcn. Mr Henby E. JiïGATT, of Oxford, N. Y., hus a quarfc bottle of oïd Madeira vine in his possession which was put up and hermetioally sealed by Bobert Morti, of Bevolutionary treasury fame, j in 1774. Ho will have it on exhibition at the Ceutenuial Exhibition at Philai delphia in 1876.