The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-01-10
THE EJOURNAL.
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the exemplary punishment OF those
who have been already convicted.
INFLUENCE oE REFORM SCHOOLS.
tits gratifying to know that there
are one hundred less convicts in our
Penitentiary now, than there were
one year ago; and the number re-
ceived since the opening of the fall
terms of. court, has been less than
two thirds Of what it was in the cor
responding months of 1871. There
are various ways to account for this,
but undoubtedly one explanation is
found in the fact that our Reform
School for boys and girls, take
badly governed and incorrigible
youth away from the haunts of vice,
generally before the commission of
any serious crimes, to institutions
where they are surrounded with
good influences, and educated for
lives of usefulness and virtue. We
haze few nobler or more benefcent
charities than our reform schools.
Your attention is directed to the
Recommendation of the Commission
ers of the Reform School for boys,
with reference to the purchase of
lands necessary for the use of that
institution.
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS ORPHANS
HOME.
The Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
Home at Xenia, is in a prosperous
condition. The new buildings, not
already finished, are in process OF
construction, and there will soon be
ample accommodation for the help
less and homeless children of our
dead soldiers and sailors, with such
teaching and guidance as judicious
and loving managers can offer, or
the State provide.
a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
The Geological Survey of the State
has progressed satisfactorily during
the past year. The first volume of
the final report is now in the hands
of the printer and will be ready for
distribution at the present session
Of the General Assembly. Material
for another volume is now nearly
ready, and it is hoped provision will
be made for its early publication.
To perfect the work of the survey
according to the original design, and
in harmony with what has already
been complicated, will require one
year more, and it is recommended
that the time of the geological corps
be extended accordingly and that
such appropriation be made therefor
as may be necessary.
Five maps upon somewhat ex-
tended scale, have been prepared by
Prof. Andrews, representing the coal
region in the district assigned to him.
The funds heretofore appropriated
for engraving and printing were not
sufficient to warrant the Board of
Control in ordering as many copies
of these maps as there will be vol
umes in the edition to be published.
If it should be considered desirable
that an equal number should be
printed, an additional appriation will
be required.
The Geological Survey is a very
important work in an economic point
of view, to say nothing of its scien-
tifc interest. 1t has already added
largely to the value Of real property
in the State, while its developments
and disclosures are inviting labor
and capital from abroad. To make
a satisfactory and creditable survey
necessarily consumes considerable
time and costs large sums of money.
It is, however, believed that our work
is being well and faithfully done, and
at the same time more expeditiously
and cheaper than similar work has
ever been performed in other States.
You are requested to provide for
the necessities of the survey by such
appropriations as careful estimates
shall call for and your judgment
shall approve.
OHIO RIVER IMPROVEMENT.
The improvement of the Ohio
River and its tributaries is subject
which, for manifold reasons, has
largely engaged the attention of the
people of Ohio during the last few
years, and more or less for a long
time. Some time since q commits
sion vas constituted by the Cover
nors of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, In
diana and Illinois, whose duty it is
to consider what steps are desirable,
and to employ such means as may
be necessary to secure free and uns
interrupted navigation of the Ohio
River and the principal streams
which feed it, SO far as that is posi-
bic. This commission has had fire.
quent meetings, and is still prose-
cutting the work delegated to 1t. No
has heretofore been
made to pay the expenses of the
Ohio Commissioners. Your atten-
ton is invited to the propriety of
some proper and reasonable provl-
sion.
You are also requested to unite
with the commissioners in their
asking Congress to give
the subject such consideration, and
to take such action, as matter of
great national importance demands.
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.
Great preparations are being made
for celebrating the one hundredth
anniversary ofyournational indepen-
dence in1876. The Congress of the
United States has by legal enact
ment constituted National Board
Of Commissioners and a Board of
Finance, composed of corporators
from each of the several States and
Territories. To make this celebra-
lion creditable, as the occasion de-
mands, it must be brought home to
5he hearts of the people. All should
n some way contribute to its sue
cess. AS we remember what mar
yelous blessings have followed the
declaration Of 1776, it is eminently |
itting that we should give express
on to our appreciation and gratitude.
The General Assembly of Ohio is
therefore, respectfully requested to
with the Congress of the
Nation in making the necessary
IANNER OF LISTING PROPERTY FOR