Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-01-21
The Govcrnor's Message

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Merrill is an important document
h and gives in plain language com
plete statement of the condition @
the State. We are only permitted t
give brief extracts. OF the finance
! he says:
During the first term ending DC
tober 3lst, 1869, the period covere
by those reports, there was receive
, into the treasury, on account of tn
, general revenue, inclusive of $50, ia,
4S on hand November LIST, 1867, til
: sum of 81 $3.50, 66S.I2; the expendi
lures amounted to $1553, 5O7. 9e
leaving balance i'm the treasury
S2S6, l60.16. The above mentione,
reports show the sources OF this reve
niue, and the object of these expendi
lures. This balance, it il proper {,
state, includes the sum of So, SIC. SO
paid out on account of losses by fir
at the Penitentiary, for which TIL,
Treasurer holds the wartlen,s recent
This amount deducted, there Is al
actual cash balance of S27G, $50. 90 il
the treasury. This large amount j.
partly due to the payment by thu
general Government OF the sum o
SZZ9,o W on account of claims TO
expenditure by the State dur!'ug thu
war, and the further sum of ST., il
TO reimburse outlay for the defense Z
the northern border of the State sub,
sequent to the massacre at Spirit
Lake I'm 1857.
This balance is The largest ever re.
ported at the close of any fiscal term
and indicates a condition of financial
soundness, which, it Is believed, few
of the States enjoy. There should be
at all times sufficient surplus in the
treasury with which to cash all war.
rants promptly on demand. Such
has been the case in the main with
us for several years, and during tie
| term just closed the State Treasurer
paid every warrant on presentation
and there are now no outstanding
warrants drawing interest.
The receipts during the fiscal term
on which we have jast entered, in
Guiding balance of general revenue
in the treasury November LIST, 1869,
estimated at S2,30S, SS3. 81 and the ex-
penditures at 81 ,107, $500, to which
sum must be added such special ap-
preparations as the General Assembly
in its wisdom, may see fit to make.
CENSUS.
The total population of the State is
l,O42, S07, an increase during the two
years since the last previous enume-
ration of 140, 767, or 1890 per cent
an average 100 per cent. per annum
about two and q half times the aver
age annual increase of the United
States during each decennial period.
OF this population 5.345 were persons
of color, an increase of only $50, OF
1880 per cent. The smallness OF
this gain-it being less, both abso.
lutely.and relatively, than is reported
in any previous biennial period since
the first enumeration of this class oil
ponulation-tends to demonstrate the
correctness of the views, long enter.
tanned by leading statesmen, that
with the abolition of slavery, this
race would incline to settle in warm.
er climates.
The population of the State to the
square mile, in 1S47, was 81; i'm 1850
"a; in 1856, "a; in 1860, 1872; i'm
1865, 1877; in 1867, 1914; and in 1869
1919.
Not only is the increase of our pop
ulation satisfactory, but its perma-
nent character is demonstrated in
the greater propoTtionate increase oil
dwelling houses. In 1867 there were
l55, 55S of these, or 100 to every $50
souls; now there are lisa, 92l, or 10(
to every $50 souls.
He reports the number of school
districts to be 1,462, an increase Of
l4l in two years. The number 81
schools, 1000. No. of children be-
tween the ages of five and twenty.
one, 49, Aggregate number at,
tending school, 296I38. No. Of
teachers employed, 1884. The
amout paid teachers in 1869, was
81, 43s, 964,04. The number of school
houses in the State, is 6,4O7.
He recommends the establishment
of Normal schools. The number o.
volumes in the State library is TO-
96l. He speaks i'm high terms of the
success of the State Agricultural
College. He says:
The college will re-open on the 9th
of March next, and while there are
! rooms for one hundred and sixty
pupils only, am advised that two
hundred and seventy-five applica-
| tons for places have already been
made. and, If there were sufficient
accommodation, more than three
hundred pupils would be i'm attend
ance next year. Additional build
ings for public rooms and dormitories
are therefore imperatively needed for
the full development of this institu-
ton. There is moreover. necessity
| for a laboratory and workshop, for
more professors houses, and for
furthur facilities for farm improve
ments. These engagements and adj
diti0ns, without which the growth of
the college will be checked, will call
for and appropriation of not less than
$3.50, 600.
SOLDIERS ORPHANS HOME.
First of the sisterhood of the States
to recognize the justice and necessity
of making suitable provision for the
care and education of the children of
the soldiers of the late war, our State
still contributes largely of its re-
SOuFceS III anu Oh lIlls bFanCn OF pll-
lanthropic effort. Three homes are
provided, at which twelve hundred
and ten of these wards of the State
have at various times found shelter,
care, and education seven hundred
and seventy three being the number
in attendance on the first of Novem.
Der last. These children have here
the benefit of common school,
combined with the advantage of a
hone.
Improve ments have been made 10
the property AZ all the points. a
new building has ben erected, at
cost of So, 900, at Cedar faa..s. where
forty acres of land have been giren
TO the State; another building has
been erected at Glenwood, where
sixteen acres of land were decided to
the State, and accommodations have
been PROVIDED for one hundred and
twenty-five children; and chapel
has been built at Davenport. The
total expenditures the past term
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