The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-01-17

experimental sentiment, under It's dtrectIOn,
IN part of the State reform farm. is recon.
mendcd. IL is also recommended that the
Board be- Represented in tho great London
exhibition. in May next,
The various benevolent institutions of
the State are in prosperous condition.
The number Of patients in tho Central,
Northern and Southern Lunatic Asylums,
at the end of tho Inst fiscal year, wore:
Central Lunatio Asylum, 252
Northern r. ... l4I
Southern ........ .. 1850
.
Total. $50
The expenditures Cor current and general
purposes. were:
Central Lunatic Asylum, &3s 47s "a
Northern 20 383 40
Southern 1924 A
Total, S92. .l56 67
Equal to Sl67 for each pationt
Ia the Blind Asylum. I2O
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 40
Idiot Asylum, a.
Total. tsr @s 304
The oxDend'tures during the year we're {:
For the Blind, $40 $50 90
For the Deaf and Dumb, 90 57S 90
For the Idiots, 1850 90
Total. S4s, ,20S 90
Equal to $l5S for each pupil.
This does not include Longview Lunatic
Asylum of Hamilton county. By the act of
March 10, 1857. the State agreed 10 pay tn
this Asylum q sum equal to the tax raised
in Hamilton county, for Lunatic Asylum
purposes. The amount thus appropriated
last year was Sl4,l48.
Number of patients, s57
Expenditures of past year, $50, ,O5O 20
Equal to Sl40 per patient.
The Governor regards these expenditures
as unnecessarily large.
The reform school has been unusually sue.
cessful. Tho average number of inmatrs
has beon l7S. and tho number released, II.
and two have escaped. Not case of sick.
ness bas occurreJ, requiring physician. Its
cost, in 1861. was SIS 344O 90. ....
The number of convicts in the Peniien-
tiary has diminished in the last year. The
average number during the year was 965.
while at the present time there is but 924.
The building has been so enlarged as to ac-
cOmmodste .050 convicts. The cash re.
coipts for the past year were $92 1928 IL,
and tho labor of convicts on new stroets
was 81 8 O56 80. The total expenses were
SlOO.l35 2S. In tho treatment of the
prisoners. kindness and religious instruction
are blended with regular but not oppressive
labor, and are producing results propitious
to morality and to virtuous sympathy
Your earnest interest is solicited for the
correction of whatever defects there may
be in our penitentiary system.
"Numerous applications have been mado
to me for the exercise of tho pardoninp
power, by the Judges by whom the cases
we're tried, upon tho grounds that the
periods of confinement were longer than
tho circumstances would Justify, and that
the sentences had been made so because
minimum periods had been fixed by law,
and no discretion. below those limits
left TO the Judge An examinat ion Of MANY
of the cases has satisfied me of tho force Of
these considerations. and the pardoning
powor has accordingly been exercised. Re.
Election upon the subject has brought mo
to the conclusion that it would be- best to
take away the minimum limit In all cases.
and leave tho Judge to FIX the time, below
maximum limit, as his Judgment. in view of
all tho circumstances OF each case, msy de-
termine.
"Punishments should be dealt out more
with reference to the reformation of the
offender than anything else" -....s
... THE NEW STATE HOUSE.
The total cost of the State House, thus
far, has been 81 ,359 l2l As; and &66, ,43l
will be required to complete ID.
STATE LIBRARY.
The State Library has been established
forty four years. In that time @43 963
have been expended for it's increase and
preservaiioD--not including sslaries--and
24074 volumes have been received in il,
by purchase and donation. and by means Of
exchanges with State and Society Libraries.
sag t FINANCES.
Tho disturbed condition Of the coun-
try has not prevented the State from
meeting its pecuniary obligations promptly.
The following Is summary Of the con-
dition OF the receipts and expenditures for
the year ending Nov. 18th. 1851;
Bal. in Treasury. Nov Is, 1850, a sc. .909, Is
Gen, Rev. from Tnxes.. 6e5 .029 ,l6 f'H'