Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-03-26
CORRESPONDENTS.
CoLuN3Us. o.. March Is.

COkkESPONDENCEs
C~oLUM5Us. o., March 10, 1857.
MEssRs. EDIroRs:-Senate bill IIs passed
the house making certain officers, in whose
haEds certain moneys may have been placed,
to be expended for specified purposes, indiril-
uaLy responsible for all amounts or sums Of
money which they may contract or agree to
pay TO aay perso or persons, over and above
the amount appropriated or placed in their
hands 10 be expended, This will probably
put a stop to the practice which has been
found to exist in certain quarters viz:--that Of
Of running h~eadlOng into improvements. of va
riOus kinds. far n advance Of all means, and
and appropriations, in anticipation that all
will be well, that the State, that great State oil
Ohio. will not turn her back upon those off.
GERS and debts which they, as agents Of the
State, have contracted aud agreed should be
paid-they suppose that this would look too
much like reputation, but it is not well to
have a law of this kind to prevent this prac-
tice? most assuredly 1t is. II all men were
honest, we could do without it; but since We
see so much corruption, fraud and reckless.
ness amongst men, 1t is very difficult for the
people to know in whom to place confdenc,
and hence the necessity Of such a law. Make
officers responsible for those excuses of expen-
ditures, have them pay it out Of their own
pockets, and my word for it there will be but
light expenditures over the sums put at their
disposal,
A new bill has been introduced in the House
by the Standing Committee on the PeEilentia-
ry changing the principle upon which things
have been managed in that institution in for
mer times considerably. 1t is thought some
Of the alterations will work well,
A bill has passed the house having for its
objects the protecting of the purity Of Elections,
it will no doubt do much good in that way.
The house also passed a bill for the protec.
ton of fish, or in other words to preTent fish,
ing in certain ways, and at certain seasons of
the year, which no doubt is a measure of much
utility, since fish have become such an item Of
food for the human family, and not only so.
such an item Of trade, there is a vast deal
Of money made by our people in many por.
tons Of the State out Of fish, and then why not
upon the subject so as to protect them,
aud prevent their being destroyed or caught
at certain seasons, particularly during the
spawning season, at which time il you fish with
seines and draw netO you destroy the spawns
to an extent not TO be described.
The reform school bill was read the third
time to-day (lhe 10 in The house and passed by
vote Of " to 20.
A bill was read the third time to-day also,
in the house, its object was that Of organizing
companies whose duties il should be under
certain provisions OF law, to pursue and arrest
if possible any person who was suspicioned
within certain bounds for stealing property, mo-
neys &C., and TO secure the stolen property dc.
if within their power. However, this bill was
lost by a vote Of 50 10 80.
Our free soil democrats who voted for old
Buck, under pretencc that he was anti -%slavery
and that he, il successful would move
forward as an honest man, and a man
regarding freedom more than slavery, are now
down iG spirits and see that tha predictions Of
The Republicans are coming to pass as fast as
hey can; which was that he would favor sla-
very, and the carrying Of it into the terrific
les just as far as the south desired him 10 do
10. See what Gov. Geary says as to the pros
,ectS ofKansas being Il free State. He says it
s destined to be a slave State certain and he
las resigned and left. CANDoR.