Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-01-28

ment Of thnt debt.
The receipts from the Ca
mails and Public Works
during the year ending
November Is l64S. were $773 55l 81
Ihe reee,I!s from The sane e :.
source during The year
ending November Is,
1s4e, are 731 I73 so
Making difference of $42. $50 VI
TINS decrease is not so great As was at
one time apprehended from he general
appearance Of business throughout the
whole country, produced by the prevailing
epidemic and by reason Of the very ex,en-
sive failure Of the wheat crop in the Stale.
Considering these two causes Of decrease,
the result shows the growing importance Of
our Public Works. and the generally in
creasng wealth and resources of the State.
Ii is round that the law Of the last ses-
sion. authorizing the exchange Of stocks
payable after the year 1860, for our stocks
redeemable after 1850, fails 10 enable the
Fund Commissioners 10 obtain the highest
amount of premium which our stock bear
in market, inasmuch as it only authorizes
an exchange but not a sale. | would there
fore recommend an amendment to that law.
so as to authorize the commissioners 10 sell
stocks redeemsble after the year 1860.
which now bear u high premium in the
market, aid apply the proceeds thus raised
to the redemption Of our bonds payable af
ter 1850 1t is believed that saving Of
a considerable amount, may thus be made
to the State.
As much general legislation and fire.
quent changes in general laws. is at best
OF doubtful policy, it would most condace
to the interests Of the people that but few
changes be made. and none but those of
immediate and evident necessity
1t is unnecessary for me 10 present or
guments to tie Representatives Of the peo-
pie of The Stale of Ohio, TO show the ne-
cessity of sustaining and encouraging a
uniform and genera! system of Common
School education. Its paramount impor-
tance is unifnrmly felt and acknowled ged
by all our citizens. Upon The righ, edu-
cation of the rising generation, and.the uni-
versal dissemination Of knowledge. mainly
depends the permanent existence Of our
Free Institutions.
| 1t is nearly twelve years since :he prin
| cipal law now in lorce on that subject was
enacted. L., like most important laws, had
its defects. and has since gone through such
a variety Of cha" ges and amendments, that
it requires more than ordinary skill to as.
certain what The law is upon any point
which may be brought in question. Many
portions Of it. and more particularly in thai
portion relating to the raising of taxes foI
various purposes and the supporting oI
schools hey ond The means supplied by the
various school funds is fruitful source oil
trouble in The districts and general cause
of complaint against the system. would
recommend TO our con sideration the pro-
priety of a thorough revision of all the laws
upon The subject.
BY its variety and fertility of soil, Ohio is
peculiarly adapted to that first and nobiess
occupation of man-agricullure, giving
employ ment 10 greater number OF our
citizens than any other branch OF industry;
furnishing from its products material for
manufactures, home consumption and COM
merce, to the value Of more than fifty mill
ions of dollars annually. Agriculture is,
and will ever be the great source Of wealth
to the people of the State, and therefore
merits aud should receive much attention
and encouragement from the Government.
In obedience TO resolution of the last
General Assembly have visited the seve-
ral Benevolent State Asylums, and mnde
an examination OF the books and the method
of keeping accounts, all of which appear
correctly kept, and III manner to secure
strict and rigid accountability of all those
having charge of the several departments
in these institutions. The number of off.
GERS, persons employed and salaries paid TO
each, except those whose salaries are pro-
| vided by law, will, as usual, be communi-
! Gated in the Annual Reports o[the Officers
of the several Institutions, 10 which refer
I Won for information on that subject.
On the appearance Of the Cholera in this
civ, the people in the Asyiums for the Ed
uca,ion of the Blind and Deaf and Dumb,
were dismissed for the time. that they
might. by beng taken to their several pla-
ces OF residence, avoid the danger which
would have been incurred by the fatal dis.
ease by remaining together. They have
again returned, and the present term OF both
institutions has commenced under favorable
auspices. and with more than usual pros
poets Of accomplishing the benevolent OBJ
iec,s for which they were designed.
The patients in the Lunatic Asylum
from the nature Of their complaints and tht
difficulty and costs Of removing them cou'e
not be dispersed. Much credit is due II
the officers and assistants for their exerlion
and care in the use of all the means belle
we'd 10 be beneficial as preventatives, a
well as much gratitude 10 that Being VIII
controls srhe destruction that waseth a
noon day." that this Asylum escaped un
touched by that disease, while others Of III
like kind were nearly destroyed by its ray
ages.
:, 1t is believed that this Institution has bee
as we'll and as successfully conducted asan
one known; but from the rapid increase {