The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-01-11

neotion with the other fact that European
immigration has increased, is a decisive
proof of the growth in population:
| Another class of facts tending to the same
conclusion, is found in the increase of mar,
riages, although this is in part attributed
to the return of soldiers from the dsband.
ed armies. rF
The report Of Marriages in 1912 was 10 $40
1923 was".. l9 500
| 1S63-4 was 49,. q, ,SS1
| lS64-5 was". .22l9S
! 1865 was. 80 GOO
Not only has the increase been about
thirty per cent. over last year. but it is some
six Thousand more than any year of the past
ten.
The amounts OF money loaned upon the
mortgages recorded in the State arc evidence
both of the numbers of transfers of capital
and real estate, and of confidence in the
stability OF business. After the beginning
OF the war and the depreciation of currency
tue number of mortgages was worry much
diminished, but the great increase since
the peace will be seen by tho comparison
of three years taken as specimens
Amount recited in mortgages of lSSS' $50 7o7 OsS
A." 1866 :. 49, 200, 900
In all these cases the amounts for the past
| year are given in round numbers, the state
ments from some localities not being en-
trely closed and footed but the report of
the Commissioners will fully support the
| figures above given
The records OF tho State Departments
show also q great increase in certificates
issued for the incorporation of manufactur-
ing companies, such as rolling mills, iron
furnaces, factories, &c.
| All Our internal n ffnirs fins chow tho
marks Of real and rapid progress and the
revival and increase of business enterprise
whilst the financial reports warrant the
Auditor in declaring that the finances oi
the State were never in as favorable q
condition as at the presout time, and her
credit in the market is not surpassed by
that OF any other State or Government III
| the world"
BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS a'r''.
The reports of the trustees of the several
Asylums which are submitted to you, show
all these institutions to be in GOOD condi.
ton, and, to the extent of their capacity,
doing thoroughly the good work committed
to them by the State.
| The current expenses of sustaining them
have been very nearly the same as the last
| year, and their estimates for the year t.
come are similar in amount. The very
! general expectation that the cost of living
wonld before this DO materially reduced
has been disappointed, and although the
! expenditures of these institutions are con
siderably greater than was formerly tile
case, believe that honest and careful econ.
omy is used in their management and that
the increase of cost is not proportionately
greater than in private families. u jr.lI
At your last session appropriations were
made for continuing tho work upon the
Asylums tor the Deaf and Dumb, and for
the Iiiotic, and for additions to be male
to the Northern and Southern Lunatic
| Asylums and to the Institution for the
! Bliud. 2. ~iy4
All mechanical work has been cmbar.
rass ID 10y the very high prices of labor. and
materials, and tho progress made has been
| fully as great and as satisfao tory as could
reasonably be expected. Tho foundations
and basement stories of the extensions of
the Lunatic Asylums at Newburg and
! Dayton have been built, and the additions
when completed will be harmonious with
| the original designs and plans, and will so
4 greatly increase the capacity of those in
stitutions, that am hopeful that large
proportion of the chronic insane who an
now enduring a wretched existence in the
County Poor House, may find accommoda
ton in them. The condition OF this unfor-
tunate class is graphically described in the
report of the Sergeon General, to which
earnestly beg your attention. Those OF
them who are simply demented and at all
times harmless, may perhaps be as well
! provided for in the County lnhrmaries as
elsewhere; but those who are subject to
! fits of mania, who tear off their own cloth.
ing, and attempt violence upon their at
| tendants or upon themselves, will almost
always be found reduced to the condition
of mere beasts in a cage, unless they are
| brought under the systematic and scion
tiic treatment which can only be obtained
in the regular organized asylums. be-
lieve the Medical Snperintendents of our
Insane Asylums generally agree that the
present system in use in this State is, all
that is necessary, if the scale of accommo-
dations be so increased as to receive tho
| additional numbers, and that the classfca-
ton of patients can be more satisfactorily
made under it, than by an erection of sepa-
rate asylums for incurables. 1t is expected
that statistics on this subject will be laid
before you early in the session, and your
humanity will prompt you to efficient action.
The new Asylum for idotic children, has
so far progressed, that the general features
of the design may be seen. Without sacri-
fcing economy or arrangement in material,
the plan selected by the Trustees combines
dignity of form aud well chosen grouping
of the parts of the building, which will
make it the most attractive of our public
institutions in appearance. and one which
will undoubtedly be exceedingly well
adapted to its uses. D. 7H
The Trustees of the Institution for the
Blind will lay before you their reasons for
concluding that the plan contemplated last
year of building an addition to the Asylum
would not produce satisfactory results.
The Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb ap-
proaches completion under the care of the
able superintendent and Architect originally
entrusted with the work. His report is ap-
pended hereto and furnishes full details of
the progress of construction and of the esti-
mates for its completion. The great advau,
tages Of the ample room provided in the de-
sign, and it's necessity in view of the increa o
OF the class educated there are now appai ent.
The crowded condition of the old buildings
calls for haste in the completion of the work
and as portion of it can properly 60 on
during the winter, would recommend a
partial appropriation at an early day SD that
the labor may not be suspended.
Ia addition to the buildings erected by
the State for benevolent institutions, Ham
iltOn County has purchased aud relitted, at
an expense Of twenty thousand collars, a
suitable building adjacent to the Longview
Lnnatic' Asylums and connected il with that
institution, under the same management, as
an Asylum for the Insane among the colored
people Of that county.
PENITENTIART,