The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-01-08
rFroin the Ohio Statesman.
GoVerOF Cox's EIessag

regret that the South has not seen proper
to adopt the Constitutional Amendment,
and thus "do most to make the measure
the promise and beginning of that full
settlement of our internal dissentions for
which we all long" The Governor seems
not sufficiently familiar with the current
political literature to know that if the
South were to adopt the pending Con-
stitutional Amendment, it would not do
much toward "a "full settlement of our
internal discentions for which we al
long" Further humiliation would be
required by the Radicals from the
South.
Equally unfamiliar the Governor must
be with the business condition of our State,
or he would not say, as he does, to the
members of the General Assembly, that
''the season which has passed since" their
adjournment may be regarded as pros
porous one of our people, The people
generally will not concur with the Gov
ernor in this statement.
The receipts of the fiscal year ending
the 18th of November last, including
the balance of S756,0S5,s2 unexpended
J in the previous year, were IS, ,455, Al
while the expenditures were 81 ,434, ,496,
73. The Auditor of State'ssestimates of
the current year, based upon the levy Of
taxes ordered by the Legislature, is that
the receipts from all sources will be S.
PSI ;404 ,01, and the total disbursements
81, 1923, 1886. 1t rs expected that the
State debt the present month viii be re-
dueed to 11,341, ,745, 49, The manage
ment of the State Treasury during the
past year is represented as having been
in strict accordance with law. Authority
is asked for the Auditor of State to
transfer one fund to another when it
shall be considered advisable. The tax
duplicate shows the total valuation Of
property subject to taxation in 1867 to
be 81 ,106, ,208, ,921 co. Over thirty six
and half millions have been added
to the amount of this valuation dur
ing the past year. More than nine
tenths of this is upon personal property.
The Governor thinks the inequality be-
tween personal and real estate has no
good foundation, and therefore is Of the
opinion that real estate should be taxed
up yet more. Eleven thousand buildings
were erected in the year ending July /,
1S66-more than in any one year for the
past ten years. Thirty thousand persons
were married in the year l865-66-six
thousand more than in any one of the
past ten years. The amount recited in
mortgages in 1866 is $50, goo, geo. There
has been issued from the State Depart
ment greatly increased number of GER
tifcates for the incorporation of manu-
featuring companies, such as rolling mills,
iron furnaces, factories, &c. From this
the Governor draws the deduction that
s'all our internal affairs "show the marks
Of real and rapid progress, and the revi-
val and increase of business enterprise. y
We hope the Governor is right, but fear
that he will realize before long that there
is real distress in business circles, and
that enterprise stands in dread Of the fu-
ture.
Tbs several Asylums are in good con-
dition, and thoroughly doing the work
assigned them to the extent Of their ca
pacity Good discipline is maintained in
the Penitentiary. The expenses of the
institution, or the past year, were SIG,
229,S5 in excess of the receipts. More
than three fourths of the convicts are un-
der thirty years of age, and a large ma
jority of them are young men who have
very recently. came of age. The War is
pointed to as having largely contributed
to the convict force, and suggestions are
made that it were well to devise modi-
fed system of punishment for those who
have not become hardened in crime. Our
State Reform Farm is instanced as hav
ing proven gratifying success. A
Board of State Charities, the Governor
thinks itwould be we'll for the Legisla-
ture to create.
The care of the Arsenal and State
arms has been transferred from the Quar-
termaster General to the Adjutant Gen.
eral in pursuance of statute passed last
winter. A more laborious task than was
anticipated, the distribution of medals to
veterans, has proven. A doubt as to the
propriety of continuing the Bureau of
Soldiers Claims and the Washington
Agency is raised. The existing military
claims of the State against the General
Government foot up 81, Ill, 0o8, ,26. More
than sixty five millions of dollars were
expended in the State during the War
for local bounties, ect., exclusive of the
immense private contributions.
Legislations is recommended creating
Boards Of Health in cities and villages,
with arbitray power, whose duty it shall
be to provide for the prompt and efficient
use of sanitary precaution against the
Asiastic cholera, which is likely to re-
new its rayages during the coming year
The Home for disabled soldiers Is getting
aleng very we'll. The $4,000 appro-
priation to pay military claims against
the State has been expended, and an ap-
preparation of like sum is needed to
|liquidate the unpaid claims, Only two
proposals have been received inviting the
location Of the Agricultural and Mechan
ical College--one from Licking county;
the other from Worthington College
The creation of County Superintendents
for Common Schools is recommended
The Attorney General recommends the
simplifeation of the criminal code; ans
the making intemperance disqualified
tion for the exercise of judicial Office
The damage done the canals and other
| publie Works of the State bv the freshets