Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-01-09
CLEARFIELD PA, WEDNESDAY JANUARY g. 1867

/ piration of his last term in June last, and
he continued at the head of that Depart
ment until the first of November. when he
resigned, and | appointed Col. j. p Wick
ersham. 1t is due to Mr. Coburn to say,
that he fulfilled all the duties of his office
faithfully and efficiently. 1t appears from
MS report, that there were in the school year
OF 1865, 1868 school districts In the State :;
Is, l46 schools; 16,l4l teachers, and 725,
81 pupils, with an average attendance of
47S,O66. The total cost of the school sys-
tenn, tor the entire State, including taxes
levied and State appropriation, was for the
year 1866, $4,195,25S 81. The increase in
the umber of school districts was %; in
the number of schools, 222 in the number
or children attending school, 10, 932; in the
average attendance at school, 8, 945, and in
the total cost of the system, 1851, ,02o OF.
l invite your attention to the valuable sug-
gestlons made In his report, and that of Col
! W1ckersham, and commend our system of
public instruction to the continued fostering
care of the Legislature
L herewith present the reports of Colonel
Z. Jordan, Military Agent of the State, at
Washington; of Col a. H. Gregg, Chief
of Transportation of S. p Bates. on Mil
ltary History Of our Volunteers; OF trus,,
tees of the Soldiers Gettysburg National
| ny of the return of the flags, on the 4th of
July, in the city of Philadelphia, and of
Col. James Worrell, commissioner appoint
| ed under an act relating to the passage of
| fish IN the Susquehanna, and invite your at
tention to them, and the reports Of the Sur
yeyor General and Adjutant General
The Agency at Washington should, in my
judgment, be continued. 1t has proved
very useful in all respects, and especially to
our volunteers and their families.
-Four thousand six hundred and ninety
claims have passed through the Agency du-
| ring the past year, and three hundred and
eleven thousand seven hundred and three
dollars have been collected from the Gov
ernment and transmitted to the claimants
| free of charge.
1t will be necessary to continue the office
of Chief of Transportation, as there are un-
settled accounts with railroad companies and
the National Government, and duties to be
performed in the removal and care OF bodies
of the dead, which require it. An addi-
| tional appropriation will be required for this
| department.
IL earnestly reeen,nend. Justice the
living and the dead, that our military histo-
ry be pushed forward vigorously, and that
money for that purpose be appropriated.
The trustees of the State Lunatlc hospital
represent that it Is impossible for them to
accommodate and care for the number of
patients committed to them under the laws
regulating admissions into the hospital, and
earnestly recommend that provision be made
for increased accommodation.
| need not say that the institution is care
fully and economically managed, or to refer
| to the great good it has produced and that
I cordially unite in the statement and re
concentrations Of the memorial herewith
presented.
invite your attention to the condition of
! the Arsenal.
1t is too small-unsafe as depository for
! the large amount of valuable military ma
terial to be kept in it, and is, in all respects,
| inconvenient and not adapted to Its pur-
poses.
Much inconvenience was experienced du-
ring the war for want of sufficient room and
safety, and | recommend that ground be
procured and new and commodlous arsen-
| al be erected in or near the Capital OF the
! State
Since the adjournment of the Legislature
| drew my warrant on the Treasury for five
| thousand dollars, appropriated to the Ma
| tional Cemetery at Antietam, and appoint
| ed Major General John r. Brooke, trustee
to represent the State. Before the warrant
was drawn I appointed Col. VIM. III. Blair
| and Capt. J. Merrell Linn, who examined
| the ground and made a full investigation,
/ their report of which accompanies this mes
sage 1t will be noticed that they report
seven hundred and ninety seven bodies OF
! Iennsylvanians that will be removed into
| the Cemetery, and recommend an addition
al appropriation, In which L most cordially
unite.
cannot close my last Annual Message,
without renewing the expression OF my graf
tude to tie freemen of the Commonwealth,
| for the hearty approval with which they
| have cheered the labors of the Executive Of-
| fee. To have earned such approval by my
official conduct, during the last SIX years,
must ALWAYS be source of pride to myself
and children. Without the consciousness
| that I was endeavoring to deserve their APP
] proval, and without the hope that should
succeed in attaining 1t, L must have sunk
under the responsibilities OF my position
! 1t was only reliance on Divine providence;
and the active, resolute, hearty support anu
zeal Of the people, and their representatives.
that encouraged me during the dark and ter
rible crisis through which the country has
passed [ tried to do my duty to my coun-
| try, and know was at least faithful to her
in her deep distress, and L conceived that
duty not to be limited to the merely putting
of men into the field to suppress treason and
rebellion, and maintain the national life, and
doing of everything In my power to sustain
the Just war forced upon US. felt also
| bound, so far as [ could, to protect and pro-
mote the rights and comforts of our volun-
teers, after they had LETT the State, to aid
and relieve the sick and wounded, and to
care for the transmission, to their bereaVed
families, of the precious bodies OF the siam,
and the maintenance and educatlon OF 'heii
orphans as honored children of the country.
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