Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1859-01-06

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Abstract of the Governors
Message.
9he 9oycrn0rcaWaeness his message
bt an Illusion to tie past hisfoFy M
W pderful progress Of ono b. Hes
some Ethtisties derived Mom dc Sate
Cdhniskionesg >ItSapPsars 4hatoa
yqaff8sinetease OF population is 55, 900,
or half a million in ten years. The
population of the Stale is supposed to
be 9, 400, 600. ole notices, the, subject
of education, and pays a high compli-
ment to the labors of Mr.. BARNEY, the
late Democfitio State Superintendent Of
schools. The following figures Show
our cducation progress
The namberlof Common Schools in
1858 was 1881; in 1858, Il, 800; the
number ofyouths over five years of age
and ,unds tweptty7e9 e~nnmerated in
1858 was 806, 1872 /; in 1858, $40, $40
the youthlenrolled as attending school
IN 1858 we're 35S.41l7 in 1858, 500
343 the average number IN daiiy,, at
tendance il, 1853 was 271, 196 ; in 1858,
355. SG3 the number of teachers en-
ployed in1S53 was I 1858 in 1858,
1873; he, amount paid, teachers in
1853, $500, 145 IN 1858, 81 975 ,832:
the. npmhAr of school houses in, 1858
was 6,S5Qsin 1853, 10, 497; the. value
Of schoof-houses in 1858 was estimated
at $4,000, 900; in 1858, at S3,746,42o,"
He recommends the establishment Of
State Normal Schools, and the 0
agcmcnt of teachers in%stitutes. In or
der % remedy the evils Of abscntceism,
caused by parents not sending THEN
children to school, he makes the fol-
lowing excrutiating suggestion =:
II suggest, therefore, that he (thc
Commissioner be authorized to employ
one OF more competent agents to visit
every township, and urge upon parents,
teacherssE and children the duties essen
tial to the highest cficiancy of our
schools. This plan has been adopted
elsewhere with The happiest effect"
These COMPETENT agents" to talk to
the peaplc about education would talk
ten times asImuchg about the Republi-
-can@party as tifey@wouid about the
Schools The Object is to increase the
number Of Republican elcctioneers. 1t
wont do, Governor. lie estimates the
number Of insane Persons in The State
1T three thousand, and recommends the
enactment of q law for the establishment
and regulation of private asylams, in
which 4 large portion. of the insane
would be providcdofof BY their friends
without charge to the STATE 90, ] y; ,fE.
stnE he number ofpaupers aud criminals
in the State main sained by the public is
80, 400. This is one to every seventy
f;fe, of our population. In Massachu-
sets they have one to forty one and in
New York one to sixteen In relation
to crime The Governor says:
10 "The number of indictments for
crime during the past year wits about
5000; the number of police arrests for
crimes against the State not prosecuted
by indictment was aloIt 5000; the
number of arrests for offences against
police ordinances 1855 making the
humber Of arrests and indictments for
crimes and offences of lower grade II,
4S6. The convictions carried into
Judgment, upon indictment, were l,300.
The murders during the year were 50,
and suicides G5. The proportion of
crimes and ~ofFenses to- the population
was ono in POS; the proportion of Of
Tenders being, Of course, somewhat less.
The proportion of murders was one to
80, 900; that of suicide one to 36,923."
lie suggests that the law in relation
to capital punishment be so amended
that the courts can, at their discretion,
either condemn to the g%aliows or send
to the ,Pcpitentiary for life. He says
one half OF the crimes of violence have
their origin in intemperance, and four
ifths of all o,hor o~ffenses are owing to
that banefuI curse. He calls the attcn-
ton of the Legislature to the subject OF
intemIerance, and the duty of some
lie makes no suggestions
or recommendations, however, as to the
character of that legislation. The rea-
son of the omission is, lie fears that, if
he recommended a temperance law, 1t
would injure him politically. So he
avoids any direct recommendation, and
throws the whole responsibility upon
the Democratic Legislature. He eulo-
gfzes the elective Judiciary system, and,
in this connection, states that "thc mum
Der of civil suits last year was about
thirty thousand, in eighteen thousand
of which judgments were rendered.
The number of suits involving serious
controversy of law orffict borea small
proportion to the whole. Much the
larger number were prosecuted for the
collection Of claims. aud it is estimated
thataninc tenths in amount of the debts
unsecured ny mortgages or otherwise,
which class constituted three fourths Of
the whole, was recovered or is recover
ablr- This uestimata If at all reliable.