Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-01-15

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num- S3l $50 90; Education and mainte-
! nance of l.050 children in Homes at
! Sl05 per annum, S55, l25 90; Clothing L.
$50 children,a at S25 per annum, S23, l25 90
Transferring pupils. salaries, &c. SO. 975 90;
Estimate for six months, ending June |,
1868, S242, 915 90.
Total actual and estimated expenses for
seventeen months. from January ] 1867, to
June |. 1868 S637, 395 o.; Or. 1T the rate
/ of S449, 925 so per annum. From which
deduct total amount appropriated for seven
teen months. at $3.50, 900 per annum, S495, =
S33 SO And deficit for seventeen months
is shown, of Sl4l sol 60; Or, at the rate of
$685. so per annum.
Add the amount due for d cenber, 1866,
S3I ,049 II; And it exhibits the total deficit
from December 1, 1866 to June /, 1868, to
be provided for by special appropriation,
Sl72. 46.
| do not deem it inappropriate here to
state that if the bill which passed the
House at the last session had become a law.
making au appropriation of $3.50, 600 per an
nun for the orphans schools, it would have
been sufficient to have paid the total ex
penses.
The estimates for the year ending June
/ 1st, 1869, will be found fully set forth in
/ the report of the Superintendent. From
that report it will also be seen that there
are IN operation thirty orphan schools
and homes, having in charge an average Of
two thousand nine hundred and thirty one
pupils, for the year ending November 30,
1867, at an average cost of one hundred aud
forty-eight dollars and forty three cents per
annum.
These schools have doubtless reached
their maximum numbers. Sixteen years
being the age at which the orphans cease to
be chargeable to the State. and they will
henceforward decrease in the following ra-
tio, viz: 314 will reach that age in 1868.
329 in 1869, 34S in 1870. 403 in 1871, 479
in 8T2, 460 in 1878. 4l6 in 1874, and 344
in 1875, after which there probably will not
be more than 600 remaining in the schools
Should the term be reduced to fifteen years,
as has been proposed by some, fully one
fifth OF the number now in The schools would
enter upon trades or business within the
present year.
No calculation can furnish an estimate of
the benefits and blessings that are constant
ly flowing from these Institutions. Thous
ands of orphan children are enjoying their
parental care moral culture, and education
al training, who otherwise would have sut-
tered poverty and want, and been left to
grow up in idleness and neglect Many
widow heart has been gladdened by the
protection, comfort and religious soicitude
extended to her fatherless offspring, and
thousands are the prayers devoutly uttered
for those who have not been unmindful of
them in the time of their af1iction. In
making the generous disposition it has done
for these destitute and helpless orphans
the Legislature, deserves and receives the
heartiest thanks of every good citizen, all Of
whom will cordially approve continuance
IL H., III,
ting and educating the children of our dead
soldiers the Legislature is nobiy performing
its duty. Those children are not the mere
object of our charity, or pensioners upon
our bounty but the wards of the Common
wealth, and have Just claims, earned by the
blood OF their fathers, upon its support and
guardianship, which can only be withheld
at the sacrifice of phlanthrophv, honor pa
triotisni. State pride, and every principle OF
humanity.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
The act of Congress of July ?, 1862, gran
ted land scrip 10 the several States to be
appropriated to the maintenance OF col
leges, whose leading object 1t shall be to
give instruction In the sciences hlcf minis
ter to agriculture and mechanic arts. BY
the rule OF apportionment. adopted by Con
gresS, 700. 600 acres fell to the share of this
Commonwealth The act Of Assembly of
February 10, 1867, appropriated the beneht
of the whole of that grant to the Agricuitu-
raj College of Pennsylvania, which has
thereby become subject TO the supervision
and guardianship of the State. | therefore
invite your attention to the organization and
condition Of that institution, as exhibited
by the president Of the board Of trustees, IN
his report for the year 1867. which will be
ln,1 hot no
ointed by the Legislature to sell the land
scrip have completed the sales, which a
mount to $439, lS6 so. In accordance with
the act of Assembly the one-tenth OF the
proceeds has been applied to the purchase OF
sites for Model and experimental Farms,
and the residue invested as follows: $l26,
OUO in the United States 500 bends: S20,-
600 in Pennsylvania war loan, and S235,
900 in the Pennsylvania bonds of 1867.
The college has been thoroughly re.or-
ganized in order to make it fully respond TO
the object and requirements or the act OF
Congress and to the educational interests OF
the industrial classes, and to meet these ends
it now gives courses of instruction In gener.
al science, agriculture, mechanical and civil
engineering. metaliurgy and mining ancient
and modern languages. and military tactics,
employing faculty comprising six profes-
sors and two instructors in the college de-
partment and three instructors in tie gram
mar school This important educational en-
ternrise in the interests of agriculture and
the mechanical arts deserves favorable con-
sideration.
MILITARY.
An adequate preparation in time OF peace
isa preservative against the probaoillties
and contingencies of war. This oft repeat
ed axiom was not sufficiently realized before
tho rebellion, for, when it broke out, 1t