The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-15
Wei Yirxini. Peni,en,iary.

4 clear-headed correspondent of the
WrllS6urg Herald furnishes the follow
ing commentary upon the style in which
the Radical authorities are managing
affairs in connection with our State
Penitcntiary. As the Herald and its
correspondent are both of the opposite
party, neither can be accused of disloy-
atty in placing before the public the ar
ticle to which we call attention. While
adniring the boldness and ability with
which the author points out and de-
nonnccs the outrages to which Ne refers
We cannot understand why he and
lu lrco Of others of like superior in
J-' scn,e Ill support at the ballot-boX,
c., very men who are heaping up their
-Irat wrongs uIon themselves and the
country. ii the Radical leaders were
once given 10 understand that the sup
Ut of the thinking and well-m Gaming
portion of the party depended upon
rru lcuce and honesty in their manage
.eut Of public affairs, grea. reforma-
troa of long standing abuses would
speedily be effected:
EDITOR OF TIE HERALD: i see by the
Wheeling Inieligencer of the 5th inst,
that the Board which has charge Of the
Peni!entiary, after advertising IN that
paper alone, ! presume, as have seen 1t
IN no other for ten days only, for ''sealed
proposals," to furnish 10000 perch of
,tone-met on tho Sd of the present
month. and awarded the following con-
tracts, viz: to Edward Lewis, of Mar
shall county, 1900 perch, 300 rubble, ut
- per perch, and | 200 do, dimension, at
$3.50. ToJ. w. Hobbs & Co., Hancock
county. $1,000 perch, 375 rubble at -,
and .l25 do, dimension, at S9.4 pei
perch. Linle X Wilton, of Marshall
county, | 800 perch, 35 rubble, at s.,
and ,l25 do, dimension, Mt SS.S1 per
perch, amounting in all TO 5000 perch,
aud To cost S42, ,s26.l5, an average OF
s~15 per perch. 1t does not appear
IA the advertisement nor statement
"a the hieiiigcacT, whether the rub
bic stone is to he "eOursed' or "uncours-
ed." which, understand is material
difference, the former being guaged and
dressed with the hammer, while the lat
ter are neither assorted nor dressed. Ii
is stated in the same article in the IN
fclligencer that it is estimated chat 81
900 perch of stone will he required to
complete the building. which at like
rate will cost one hundred, fOrty-nine
thousand. four hundred dollars, nearly a
half a million for the stone alone, which
cannot constitute one-half ot the entire
cost of the penitentiary Our poor lit
tie S'ate, the child of the storm, rent
and impoverished rs she is, thus com
mences her career by putting one million
i'll an underlined and chaotic pile OF stone
at Weston, dignitied with the name %
az insane hospital; and another m'ttioL
in another pile equally underlined ano
indeterninate us to cost for aught that
appears at Moundsville to be dignlhed
with the name of Penitentiary! What
a future this portends for he three hun
dred and forty thousand inhabitants
what Il recommendation to go abroad
Ii is pity all her proposed public
buildings were not underway in the
different sections of the State SO rs tO
give all her people an extra chance to
roll up their sleeves and pitch i'll and
finish the poor thing at once, while the
bankrupt law is in force. Think if the
gentlemen comprising that Board had
been about to expend S42, 2S6 - OF theil
OTn money they would have awarded
such contracts upon so short and limit
eel advertisement when only halt o
what they had advertised for had beer
takenf Stnnna6 ~ pnul1 seem IN or
der to reserve the balance for the III
tnre enjoyment of the same PARTIES a
the same price, in imitation of tn
Hospital. If there had been presen
want Of material, why did they not ad
Vertise earlicrG
The township of Wellsburg recentl
contracted for the stone, including di
mension and rubble, for the foundation