The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1849-12-07

means of comfort 10 the sick, By the erection
| of suitable Hospital for their use, and also to
Ipreserve the health of those convicts who oc-
cupy the proper prison cells, by providing adj
ditional means of ventilation.
| When the report is received it will doubt
less be laid before you, accompanied with
such suggestions as its Importance may merit.
| The report Of the Adiutant and Quarter
| Master Generals. present nothing which seems
TO require any legislative action; the business
in their respective Department has been reg
ularly and promptly attended to during the
Iyear.
The public mind seems to be awakened to
the necessity Of improving the channels Of in
recommendation in our State. and no public
seems TO commend itself 10 the
public with more favour than that of Plank
roads; so lar as experience teaches any thing
on this subject it is in favour of that charac-
ter Of improvements for the cheapness Of con-
struction and theability Of the agricultural por
ton Of the community to furnish within them
selves the means OF construction. They are
doubtless in Il few years to become the cGan
nels through which the surplus products Of
the country will find an outlet 10 the great
lthoroughftres of the Sta5e. such as railroads,
c5siiais and nayigahc rivers. The proprety
Iof granting liberal, yet safe charters to COM
paues desiring to construct this character OF
public Improvements is respectfully sugges-
ted
Some Of the States Of the Union have ex-
pressed an opinion favorable to the establish
ment of an Agricultural Bureau in the De
partment ofthe interior at Washington. whose
province it shall be to superintend and pro-
mote the great interests Of agricultural i'm
provement in the nation.
. ~
linucd at Washington would it not be proper
for the General Assembly to express an opin-
ion favorable to the erection oil this Bureau?
The proprlety of furnishing the Washing
ton National Monument Society with Il block
OF Indiana marble to aid in the erection Of Il
monument in that city to the memory OF the
Father Of his country is respectfully submit
ted to the patriotic consideration Of the mem
bers OF the General Assembly.
The Indiana Institute for the education of
the blind still continues to increase in useful
ness, under the superintendent Of its present
able head Mr. William II. Churchmaa; the
number of pupils now in Attendance is thirty
eight showing an increase Of ten, since last
years report. !; is truly gratifying 70 learn
that the excess OF the receipts, for work per
formed by the pupils over the cost ofthc raw
materials for the present year is five hundred
and fourteen dolIars-thc present buildings
are insufficient to accommodate TO advantage
the present increased and increasing num-
bers. | earnestly recommend 10 your iavOra-
bic action the suggestions contained in the
Third annual report OF the Trustees of this
institution upon this particular subject.
The Deafand Dumb Asylum has continued
70 increase in prosperity and usefulness, and
the same retrenchment in current expenses so
j. I H., l,-+
ace ofmy predecessor has continued. The
number OF pupils has reached 1872 The new
buildings are so far progressed that the walls
are completed and secured from injury by
roofs.
Owing to the careful management of the
current expenditures i! will not he necessary
10 increase the rate of taxation for this pur-
pose as it is supposed that the revenue Of 1919
and provided some means by which the Trus
tees may anticipate a part OF the revenue OIL
1S50-attcr that time It is believed that a ma
rertl reduction can be made in the assess
mcnt: considering the crowded state of the
present nconvenent rented buildings-the
amount paid for their use which is not less
than eleven hundred dollars per annum, and
the fact that the labor Of the pupils can now
be rendered but slightly profitable, there can
be no doubt of the propriety of providing lpr
the completion of the new Asylum during
the approaching season.
Under the superintendencN Of r. ]. Patter-
son. NJ. D., an able and experienced Physician
Il portion of the IGdiana Hospital for insane.
was opened for the reception of patients in
December last. Since that period more than
one hundred patents have been admitted to
lis wards and enjoyed the blessings Of sani-
tary treatment.
By the carefnl)and skiIllul treatment adopt
ed in this institution, twenty Of tins uniortn-
nate class of our race have already been re-
stored TO health and have gone forth, to
again Gil stations of usefulness In Society,"
Among the inmates of this institution are to
be found citizens from the various classes in
society afflicted with disease the severest
which the human family is subject, and which
seems to be TO respecter of persons That
portion of the Hospital buildings now com
pIeted. is crowded with inmates, and many
are still seeking adlitance but are for the
present denied place for the want of room.
Doubtless it was the intention Of the last
general Assembly to provide ample means
for the completion of The Hospital buildings
during the present year. A bill for that pur-
pose was reported which passed without OBJ
lection (as is bcIieved) through both branch
cs Of the Legislature, bat by accident was
lost or misaid, and consequently did not be-
come a law. BY reason of the failure of real
izing the benefit of this BILL the work has
been mostly suspended, and only such addI-
tonal apartments completed as were abso-
lutely demanded for the relief of some Of the
most DrpSsiptr .47,Tlioa rtc (or admission IT Is