Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-02-23

Garcia will receive on alternate Monday
evenings, commencing on Monday, January
3, and will be at home on Saturdays, from
until p. m.
HOUSE OF CORRECTION, OR RE.
FORM SCHOOL.
Efforts have been made, for two or three
years past by q number Of gentlemen Of
this city, to establish and put into operation
an Institution under the above designation
where the boys of tho cities Of Georgetown
and Washington aud the county, Of a GER
tain class, may be gathered and reformed.
Heretofore boys arrRigned before our courts
for petty crimes, II convicted, must be sent
to the worst possible school for juvenile
ofrenders-the jail-whGrc, for want of
room, they have to DO confined In the
same apartments with old and hardened
offenders, who find their youthful COM
panions apt pupils In the science of crime.
Such punishment Is worse than none for
these boys; and so believing, our courts
prefer to send them back into the streets
and to the companionshlp Of younger and
less accomplished candidates for penlten-
tlariss to pursue their former career, rather
than send them to Jail. This has been felt
to be one of tho very great evils under which
our citizens have labored.
But we arc happy to inform the public
that house of correction or reform school
has at length been established on the Gov
ornment farm, four milss from Georgetowni
that the board Of trustees have employed
superintendent Of high reputation and Of
great and successful experience, Mr.. Howe,
OF Ohio, who now occupies the building
prepared for the reception Of boys, and has
two under his charge sent there by the
Criminal Court, and 1t Is expected that the
number will soon DO greatly increased.
Mr.. Howe, brother Of George Z. Howe,
the very eminent superintendent Of the Ohio
Reform school, the model institution Of the
country, Is In charge Of our institution,
under the supervision of tho latter, who
takes lively interest In its success, as will
be seen by letter we deem proper to make
public, lately addressed to the president Of
the board OF trustees.
1t will be noticed by the proceedings OF
Congress that the Secretary Of the Interior
has, at the request Of the trustees, asked for
an appropriation to enable them to carry on
the institution, and without which 1t must
be given up, and all that has been done go
for nRught.
The following is the letter referred toi
STATE REyoRN soHooL.l
No. NF5R ktsSAsTEG,b 2g,o, 81 In 70 iSl9
opened your Reform School IN q small way,
And no doubt intend enlRrging II so as to
greatly increase its usefulneH., l take the
hope that may aid you In some way.
have long deGiTed TO see reformAtory 10
some section Of our country, established
purely upon the family systemin an institu.
tuition that would be model worthy OF iml.
tian hS snS Stdt% e. "i,ss ~, We eS,,IN
tai The family system was drst introduced
into this country by the State OF Ohio, 10 the
year 1858, the Ohio school being modelled
somewhat after the schools at Mcttray,
In France, and Red Hill, in England. The
success Of the system in Ohio has been such
ana, lows, Minnesota and Kentucky to adopt
the same, while many other States, which
have houses Of refuge or prison schools, arc
modifying their systems so as to more nearly
approach that Of the family.
We look forward with certainty to no very
distant future when the prison system for
roformAtoTy purposes will no longer exist 10
our country. This family system takes the
worst boy found IN the prisons or jalls OF the
ianu Ahl places MIN 10 good home where all
his necessary whntS are supplied, and where
he is brought within the elevatiug influences
Of a well regulated and Christian family. In
stead OF trowning walls, gloomy cells and
dungeons, he IL introduced to \ clean and
pleasant open farm home, whore kind friends
t pa hIa WSsiSSSms; HIS stubborn heart u
and purer life. II Is better to hold the KEY
of his heart than OF his cell. Experience has
boys can be reformed BY the open farm system
than under the old or pTiLOn system. or the
large number already dismissed from the Ohio
Reform School, very many are occupying i'm.
portant and lucrative positions, while many
others arc doing business Huecessfully for
caST. w Some arr even hat h S
done In Ohio eau be even better done 10 wash.
ington. ThS many mistakes committed In the
having preeSdeAtH by which to be governed,
can now all be avoided In the estGbllshment
Of \ school in Warrington.
There are no doub. great mHny boys in the
District Of Columbia In need Of restraint. In
fact think never visited city where saw
more vAgrAnt boys than saw In Washington.
II would not DO necessary to build the whole
institution At one time. The main building
could be erected, and one family building,
TO commence With then = family building
could be added from time to time, rs the vans
OF the school demanded. No Institution "a
Ohio 10 so much In favor with the LOgIalatuTe
as the reform school. am confident II Con.
gTess should appropriate for the eStAbl Ash ment
Of a reformAtory It would be but lew ye,rs
before you would see great chSRge 10 the
E,ral atmosphere OF your city, II would be
mater Of great interest to tAs District to
5 5nFo ons TX from ruin, snd Il ssFtAlnly would
be estimated In dollars and cents maSv sonIs
might DO saved, II Wouh be an evidence Of
nne AIYAnee OF Civilization should a suitable
place be furnist I'd for the care and reformation
o. your JOu'.hful unfOrtuuAteH
lfuy ours, O. E. HOWE,
x Our EDITORIAL Of Friday last on the
SANTANA Treaty, a typographical error made
Colonel Plckett'G suggestlOn for tho Acqulsl-
ton OF said bay only tro years old instead of
''ttOcnty; four" years Old as Intended. We
reprint from tho archives of the State De-
partment the following extract from his con-
sular correspondence with reference to the
Dominican republic, containing the first OFF,
clal suggestion OF recognition;
lew ~ TVEHs iaJGSD. Sept a. Isis
lion James BgchqRaH, Sscreiary ~ Stais.
SIRi by very recent Adyioes from
the Island OF 81. Domingo the political aGNirI
Of that Interesting country appear 10 remain
In 5fafu QUO, Tho HAytiens presenting the
continued picture OF anarchy and misruIe
which has long distinguished that people.
Whilst on the other hand the Dominicabs ap.
near to maintain peace at home, and TO sue
coed 10 asserting their entire independence o.
their tyTannleal neighbors.
II has been my good fortune to have visited
hath pOrtions OF that country. The Hayden,
previous to, and the DominioR subsequent to
the revolution OF February, 1874, and have
no doubt but that all strangers who have seen
the respective countries will eolnolde with ms
can wslI be more Distinct In their national
and aooial characteristics. They being to.
tally unlike In point Of laws, religion, Ian.
guage, and to a great extent As 20 origin and
they should have remained under the same
Isof-dIaAntl government as long a. they did,
The bright 6ide OF the picture IL OF course