Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-01-11

Sl1 ,03l,94l DO. by q law OF IaSC Winter
the Auditor was authorized TO transfer
temporarily balances of various funds to
the sinking fund, and other means sa-
Wing has been effected in interest of $37,-
4S0, Al without detriment to the business
of the Treasury. The endowment fund
for an Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege, amounting to S340,S9 30 to which
nearly twenty thousand dollars of interest
is to be added, is now in the State treas
ury, ready for use, and it is recommended
that the Legislature make it Immediately
available to the classes of youth 1T was
designed to benefit. Two changes IN the
common school law are recommended; ISt,
The establishment of County SGperinten-
dency; 2nd. The distribution of the
public money in proportion to the num-
ber' of pupils in actual attendance Of the
schools.
The reports of the Benevolent Institu-
tons give a satisfactory account of their
management. The Trustees appointed
to locate and build new Insane Asylum
have located it at Athens. The message
alludes in detail to the frauds and specula-
tions of Joseph NJ Blackburn, the archi-
!
Dumb Asylum building. The total a.
mount of the Reform. School for boys is
highly commended, and 4 similar school
for girls is recommended. The message
commeEGs the administration of the Pen
itentiary for the past year. The receipts
exceed the expenses by the sum OF $l3,-
0OO The average cost of each convict
has been, reduced from &SI, to So 81.
The number of cenvicts has averaged
one thousand; twelve hundred and ninety
one have been in the penitontiary during
the year, and one thousand still remains.
The message recommends an increase Of
prison room, and suggests an intcrmedl-
ate prison, between the Reform School
I and the penitcntiary, where the value Of
r n rcformatory system may be tested on
the Younger and less hardened convicts.
The message refers to various reports,
such as that Of the Board of State Char
rites; the Attorney General, the Secretary
of State, the Supervisor of Printing, the
Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraph
&c. The message recommends the re-
peal OF the law giving persons on trial
for criminal offences, opportunity TO tes-
lilN III tUClT Owl DcildIl. Hc lCdoC vi
the Canals and Public Works has been
extended ten years, rinning to Jun" lst,
! 1881. The impi oycmcnt Of tie State
Library, by the addition of new volumes
&c, is commended. 4 rough board
fence still surrounds about half of the
capitol grounds. 1t is recommended
/ that this give place to an appropriate,
! permanent fence. The BOARD Of Military
! Claims for examining claims of Ohio citi
zems during the war for services, &c, have
examined claims, amounting to Sl4G,867
81, OF which S66,44l 81 have been allow
ed, and the remainder are still under
consideration. The cllims allowed cx-
ceed the lust appropriation made by
/ S21, ,73l -. The General Government an
pointed a Board to examiue claims for
expenditures during the "AIorgan Raid"
Their authority did not cover claims for
damage to private property but only cx-
penditures incurred for sustaining State
troops in the field Claims to the amount
! of #274, ,O24 A, were laid before the board
and all but,sSS, ,G22 73 allowed The to-
tai military claims now outstanding
against the United States is 81 ,l00,G4O-
q. Of this it is expected 3500,000 will
be paid during the present session Of the
legislature The message gives detail
ed account of the controversy betwRen
James &. Wetmore of the Washington
Agency, and Adjutant General Cowan.-
The District of Columbia Court having
decided against Gen. Cowan, as to the
custody Of the books and records of the
Washington Agency, All appeal has been
taken to the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States The AGiutant Generals re-
port is referred to for full history of
the transaction. The law providing for
the office OF Commissioner of Immigra-
ton, whose duty it is to turn the tide of
immigrants to our own borders, is practi-
cally dead letter, as for two years no
appropriation has been made for this Of
iice. The message suggests the value Of
a Geological survey Of the State. The
message is studiousy confined to dry
detail of State affairs, and INDUCES in but
few recommendations for new legislation.
1t makes no reference to National affairs
and is perhaps none the less valuable
on that account, especially being ad
dressed by Republican Chief AIagis-
trate to Democratic Legislature.
The Democratic State Convention in session
at Columbus, adopted without opposition on
Wednesday last. resolution announcing that
Hon. Geo. II. Pendl=ton is It's first choice as 8
candidate for The Office OF President.
On the Senatorial question, though no direct
action has been taken, it is considered clear E.
noush that Thurman oversloughs Val and his
friends are evidently suffering with the lopjaw.
CoNGEEss.-Members of Congress came
together on Monday last, comparatively
fresh from the people. During the holi
day adjournment they no doubt availed
themselves of the opportunity of free in
tercourse with their constituents, and
heard the popular voice upon the absorb
ing questions Of finance and reeonstruc-