JOURNAL OF CONVICTS-Continued.

RECAPITULATION.

Number of prisoners in the penitentiary October 1, 1860....
Number of prisoners received during the year.............

163
73

236

Number of prisoners in the penitentiary September 30, 1861...............

158

236

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE BUILDING AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS CONSTITUTING THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR the Insane,

October 1, 1861.

SIR: At the second session of the last Congress eight thousand dollars ($8,000) were appropriated "for (1) repairs and painting of four western or first erected sections of the hospital edifice, including additions to the furniture, and also of the gardener's and farmer's houses and the out-buildings and fences thereof; (2) for ice-house, including preserving cellar; (3) for extension of stable for the storage of hay and other fodder, and shelter of farm wagons and carts; (4) enclosing two sides of farm-yard with brick wall; (5) improvement of the grounds; (6) forcing and green house, including heating apparatus; and (7) for fitting up two bowling alleys, one in the basement of each wing.

During the spring and summer, the 1st, 3d, 4th, and 5th improvements provided for have been in progress and are now completed, or carried as far as the appropriation contemplated; and the preservation, durability, beauty, produc tiveness, and convenience which, each in its place, are the result, fully justify the outlay.

. The stables and stable-yards are now complete, and are believed to be models in durability of construction, capacity in proportion to their cost, and in conveniences for the proper care of every domestic animal and bird.

The changes in the appearance of the grounds are most striking, though much has yet to be accomplished before full justice is done either to their extraordi nary susceptibility of ornamental and useful improvements or to benevolent objects of the institution. The brick kilns and lumber piles of eight years standing have been removed from the front of the hospital edifice; the grounds have, for the most part, been brought to a proper grade; some progress has been made in gravelling the walks and drives; a thousand trees have been planted and twentyfive acres have been fertilized, subsoiled, or underdrained, and sown with grass seed; and besides fine crops of grain earlier in the season, we are this autumn rewarded with a rich green landscape, which is grateful to the dullest sense in our whole household.

The ice-house will be built by the arrival of the winter solstice; the bowling alleys will afford employment in their construction, and amusement in their use in mid-winter when out-door labor or amusement is impracticable; and the forcing-house will be in readiness to anticipate the "annual miracle of nature" in the early spring.

For the year ending June 30, 1863, the following estimates are respectfully submitted:

1. For finishing, furnishing, heating, and lighting additional accommodations in the east wing, rendered necessary by the sudden increase of the insane of the army and navy by the war, $5,000.

2. For further improvements of the grounds about the hospital and of the farm, $2,000.

3. For continuing the stone and brick wall already forming the exterior of the boundary of the hospital grounds for a distance of 241.77 rods, in pursuance of the design of eventually enclosing the whole tract in the same way, $10,000.

4. For changing the location and grade of the public road leading past the hospital gate towards the city for a distance of about 150 rods, and building a substantial stone bridge over Stickfoot branch, $4,000.

The first estimate will barely meet wants that are pressing even to-day.