vice.

The present inmates are suffering from all kinds of disability. The loss of one leg or both, one arm or both, blindness, insanity, chronic disease, or acute disease if contracted in the service, ulcers and unhealed wounds, or any sort of affliction that deprives the sufferer of the ability to labor for his livelihood, entitles him to admission.

Admission is procured on a certificate of which blank forms are furnished, to every applicant, setting forth his enlistment, with date, rank, place of muster, and the company, regiment or other organization to which he belonged, and the date and cause of discharge; and that he is receiving a pension. His identity is set forth in the same certificate, and a surgeon's statement as to his disability and its nature.

A blank for this certificate, with full directions for making it out, and all the conditions of admission is forwarded to any person applying therefor in person, or by mail to Gen. JOHN WOOLEY, Deputy Governor of the Milwaukee Branch, or to Dr. E. B. WOLCOTT, Manager. The postoffice address of both these gentlemen is at Milwaukee.

Disabled soldiers, or their friends, county, city and town authorities, police officers, guardians of the poor and of almshouses, trustees of benevolent institutions and private or public hospitals throughout the State and country having knowledge of disabled soldiers, or such persons in their charge, are cordially invited to address either Gen. WOOLLEY or Dr. WOLCOTT, by whom the necessary blanks and instructions will be sent, by return mail. On the application and certificate thus made out, Dr. WOLCOTT endorses his order for the admission of the disabled person, and furnishes an order for free transportation by railroad to the Asylum.

How They Live.

Such inmates as are able to do so have the opportunity to practice various mechanical trades, or to work on the Asylum farm, for which they are paid a compensation of from $6 to $15 a month, averaging all around, about 40 cents a day. Skilled laborers earn more than these wages. The trades practiced, are boot and shoe making, carpenter and joiner work, tinsmithing, plastering and stone masonry, gas fitting, cigar making and broom making. Willow will be grown next year for basket making. A building 100 feet long by 40 feet wide, has just been completed for a workshop. A soap house is now in process of construction, in connection with the slaughter honse and piggery.

The operations of the farm the past year, were very successful. The profit upon its management exceeded $5,000, of which some $3,000 worth of supplies was turned in to the Quartermaster and Commissary Department, and over $2,000 were in cash sales of produce. All the labor of the Institution is done by the inmates. Steam power is used in all the shops.

Instruction and Amusement.

The library for the Institution contains 2,160 volumes, of which 710 were added the past year. These books are contributed by friends of the soldiers, all over the State and country. The reading room contains 27 daily newspapers, 130 weekly newspapers and 37 magazines, all of which are in constant

use and requisition by the inmates. High-toned newspapers of all political opinions are found side by side upon the files. Schools are taught, which have 133 attendants, who study the common branches of education, including bookkeeping, together with music, printing and telegraphy. Inmates are qualified in these schools to earn their own livelihood, at such pursuits as do not involve manual labor for which they are unfitted. Often teachers, telegraph operators and printers have gone out from these schools the past year, to follow their several professions.

The Asylum has two Temperance Societies and a Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. The inmates have a dramatic society and give entertainments of a high order. Friends of the institution give concerts and lectures in the chapel. They have a good brass band, and the grounds are a frequent resort in the summer season, for pic-nic parties, not only from the city, but from near and remote parts of the state on the lines of railroad. Billiards, croquet, chess, and other innocent games of skill and chance, are provided for all. Furloughs are granted for from one to ten days, and if an inmate recovers his health, or qualifies himself to earn a livelihood, he is honorably discharged.

Religious Services

Are held by the Chaplain, who is a Protestant. Catholic service is also held by the priests from the city and the vicinity whenever they desire or it is desired by the inmates of that faith. The funeral service is said by either Protestant or Catholic clergy, as the deceased may have expresssd his wishes, or according to his religious faith.

The following branches constitute the National Asylum:

Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio.

Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Eastern Branch, at Augusta, Maine.

Southern Branch, near Hampton, Virginia.

Its officers are as follows:

MANAGERS.

The President of the United States,

The Chief Justice.

The Secretary of War.

Ex-officio.

Maj. Gen. B. F. Butler, President, Lowell, Mass.

Maj. Gen. J. H. Martindale, 1st Vice President, Rochester N. Y.

ay Cooke, Esq., 2d Vice President, Philadelphia, Pa.

Hon. Lewis B. Gunckel, Secretary, Dayton, Ohio.

Gov. Frederick Smyth, Manchester, N. H.

Dr. Erastus B. Wolcott, Milwaukee, Wis.

Brig. Gen. John S. Cavender, St. Louis, Missouri.

Hon. Hugh L. Bond, Baltimore, Maryland.

Gen. Thomas O. Osborne, Chicago, Illinois.

The Northwestern Branch at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is officered as follows:

Deputy Governor-Gen. JOHN WOOLLEY.

Surgeon-Dr. S. K. TowLE.

Treasurer-O. H. CRANDALL.
Chaplain-Col. E. A. LUDWICK.

The Fund for the support of the Asylum consists of the forfeited pay, boun

ty and pensions of deserters and soldiers dishonorably discharged from the service. Vast contributions to it have been made by the forfeitures of bounty jumpers. It now amounts to nearly $1,000,000, and the income derived from it is nearly sufficient for the support of these various Branches. The expenditures of the Northwestern Branch, the past year, were $93,000.

GEN. WOOLLEY.

The compiler of this sketch is under obligations to Gen. WOOLLEY, for the materials of which it is composed, and the facilities for its preparation. His qualifications for the executive officer of the institution are excellent. He has firm administrative ability; he manages thriftily for the soldiers their munificent endowment; he is kind, considerate and patient with the afflicted persons in his charge; his manners are urbane, and he enforces discipline without rendering it obnoxious.

By law, enacted in 1851, Messrs. JOHN BULLEN, JOHN TAYLOR and A. W. WORTH were appointed commissioners to determine the best point in Wisconsin for the location of a State Prison. They examined Madison, Portland, Genesee, Horicon, Kaukauna and Waupun, and on the 4th of July, 1851, a ma jority of the Commissioners, Messrs. BULLEN and TAYLOR, decided to locate at Waupun, Mr. WORTH dissenting in favor of Madison. SEYMOUR WILCOX, Esq., of Waupun, donated twenty acres of land as a site for the prisor buildings. On the 21st of July, 1851, a contract was made with JAMES K. SMITH, for the construction of a main upright part of a temporary prison for $4,600. The Commissioners estimated the sum necessary to continue the erection of a State Prison, and pay indebtedness, at $25,000, and also recommended the purchase, for $800, of an additional twenty acres for the prison site, which recommendation, up to the present time, does not appear to have been acted on.

HENRY BROWN was the first State Prison Commissioner, and the first annual report is dated December 31, 1852. From April 1 to December 31, 1852, 31 convicts were imprisoned. In 1852, the Commissioner recommended the construction of a permanent stone wing to cost $12,624.00, and put the value of personal proper