The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1826-01-26
the number of females, in Nov. 1926, was

stCoHu tllhe, SiA tIiIIu, TWO ioufLn, anu
one a fifth.
In the State Prison in New York City, in
1890, out Of one hundred and ninety one
convicts received. forty four were commit
ted second time: and two third.
The whole number OF Tecommitments
to that prison for a second offence, is four
hundred and ninety four; for third or more
offences, sixty one; and the number par
doned, after having been convicted two,
three, or more times, is one hundred and
eight.
la the Philadelphia Pententiary, the
number of prisoners, August a, 1919, was
four hundred and sixteen; Of whom, sew
enty three had been twice convicted; twen-
ty five, three times; seven, four times; and
two, five times.
In the female department, the number Of
co;yicts was SIXTY three; of whom, seven
teen had been convicted twice, and two,
three times.
OF the whole number of convicts in this
prison, from 1910 to 1919, four huEslrcd
and nine had been convicted twice; fifty
four, three times; Gnd two, six times.
Of one hundred and eighty two discharg-
ed in 1920, eighteen were rccommltted the
same year; and Of one hundred and eighty
two discharged in 1921, twenty four were
recommtted the same year.
OF four hundred and fifty one conyicts in
this Penitentiary in 1917, one hundred and
sixty two had been before committed or
pardoned.
In the Massachusetts, Penitentiary, in
1917, out Of three hundred convcts, then
in prison, ninety were under commitment
for the second, third, or fourts time.
In view of these facts, the question ari-
ses, whence so great difference
In New Hampshire, the rccommitments
are less than to 20:
At Auburn, less than TO 90
In New York Pcuitentiary, almost | TO 9:
In the State Prison in New York City al
most TO 4:
In Philadelphia Penitentiary, in 1917.
more than to 3:
In Massachusetts Pententiary nearly
to 3.
Again then we ask, whence this differ
encc?
Without controversy, one great reason
is the difference in the night rooms.
Where the recommltments are numerous,
the night rooms are crowded; where the
are few, the night rooms
are not crowded.
GENERAL BARTON.-We have been !
favored with the following extract of let
ter, from n gentleman IN Work, Civ |
ing some account of this revolutionary ve-
teran, who was a short time since released !
from imprisonment by the munihceRt hand
of Lafayette.
"Tho day left Boston, December 10th,
| had tn" pleasure of finding General VIII
liam Barton in the stage coach, bound TO !
Providence to see his family and home at-
ter an absence OF IA years, during which |
time he had been confined for debt at Dan
vile, Vermont. A few days since he was
liberated by remittance from his old
in arms, the good Lafayette. |
General Barton was born at Warren, X, |
!. in the year l74S, and informed us that at
the commencement of the revolutionary |
war he shouldered his musket. In l777 !
he took General Prescott prisoner, on the
island of Rhode Island, ia the night time,
and conveyed-him safe to the American
camp. For this Congress voted him sword
which he carried with him in the stage-it
has a silver hilt embossed with gold, and Of
curious workmanship. 1t seemed to aston
ish the old General to see the great altera-
tons on the road as we approached Pfovi-
dence, and when he spoke of tire Marquis,
(as he always calls Lafayette, his eyes fill
ed with tears ofgratitude. lie has been
very powerful man, and retains now, in the
77th year of his age, much of the vigor of his
younger days. He would often sing few
lines of an .old revolutionary song, with a
clear and strong voice: when we had ar
rived near Providence, he sung,
".1nd since ire're here,
"With friends so dear,
"We'll drive dull care away"
But when the old General entered his an
cent home, and embraced the wife of his
youth, his children, and his children's chill
dren, and met his old black servant, it was
a scene which cannot attemptto describe;
they were all overjoyed and melted into
tears--it was long time before he could
believe it to be a reality Dos. Gaz.