Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-01-18
WHOLE NO. 1882.

scholarships the Peabody Trustees
appropriated two hundred dollars
for the support Of the students to
whom they were assigned tuition
Is free TO all. For the current year,
there are in attendance thirty-eight
Peabody scholarship students, with
eight or ten to arrive they repre-
sent all the Southern states except
the CarOlinas. This college Is ded-
icated to the exclusive education of
teachers, and from personal obser-
walton and acquaintance with Pres
| ident Stearns and his associates of
the faculty, and with their system
ofinstruction, am confident that
IL offers advantages equal to any to
be found elsewhere, and that it de-
serves the support of the State. If
the students In attendance from the
State represented all parts of II, the
friends of the college would be moro
encouraged, but it happens that
those who are seeking professional
training as teachers are not always
possessed of the pecuniary ability
that will enable them 20 sOujOurn
away from their homes. The con-
sequence is that those In attendance
are mainly from the territory con-
tiguOus 10 the city of Nashville.
The superior advantages offered by
this college cannot be equally dis
tributed among those who would
like to enjoy them without assist
ance. The Peabody Trustees feel
that they have exhibited unusual
liberality in establishing the college
in Tennessee and in providing the
money for the maintenance OF the
Faculty, and agree with them In
the belief that the time has come
for the State to extend its benefits
and to aid in its support. The fund,
amounting to $26, ,2J6,Sl, recently
appropriated to the State by the
Federal Government for the care of
prisoners, can with great prOpriety
be appropriated to this purpose.
This fund is paid for a service for
which the State expected no COM
pensation when it was rendered, it
is a recovery that was not antici-
pated, and II il Is now invested in
the bonds of the State and the i'm
terest applied to the support of one
for each Congressional
district in the State, it will be the
best service to the cause of popular
education that can be rendered.
THE UNIVERSITY or TENNESSEE.
/ transmit the sixth biennial re-
port of the Trustee and Treasurer Of
East Tennessee University, and
commend the recommendations
made to the consideration Of the
General Assembly. This institu-
tion of learning Is under the direct
control and supervision of the State,
and should no longer bear the name
of one of its divisions. The Trus-
tees ask that il shall be called the
University of Tennessee and /
heartily join i'm the recommended
tion. Free tuition is secured to
two hundred and seventy-five State
students. Two were appointed
upon the recommendation of each
each Representative. The Board of
Trustees recommend that a num-
ber of these scholarships should be-
placed at the disposal Of the State
of Schools. This
suggestion deserves favorable con-
sideratiOn, and | believe 1t would
be wise to require a certain per cent.
Of those who enjoy this benefit to be
qualified to enter one of the higher
college classes. This would be tho
best means Of securing a thorough
to large number OF
State students and would be n great
addition to the influence of the Uni
versity. State scholarships should
keep their representative In tho
this large number of
State students in constant attendance
would give it strength and dignity,
and carry its benefits to every
In the State. This
faculty of the university is an able
Dne. The curriculum in its several
colleges furnish an ample course OF
study to the student i'm any depart
ment of science, and all that Is
to make this rank with the
foremost institutions of learning in
any of the States, Is the active sym
pathy Of the General Assembly.
THE PENITENTIARN.
inement on the first of December,
1878, was 1883. The total number
On the first of December, 1876, was
]97, showing an increase of 156 in
two years. The number confined
IN the main prison on the first Of
December, 1878, was 600.
One of the greatest improvements
made in the administration of tho
affairs of the State Is in the manage
nent of this institution. / have
made frequent personal inspections
Jf il, and am satisfied. after making
iue allowance for It's deficient ac-
for the large num-
Der of convicts, that there Is no
penal institution In any Of the states
where its inmates are under better
moral training and discipline, OF
where the sick or death roll Is small
er. The officers in control Of the
prison have secured this result by
1ind and humane treatment, and
~ the enforcement of proper sani-
AIRY regulations.
Under the provisions Of the act
March 26, 1877, the Peni-
entiary and labor of the convicts
Yas leased to A. M. Shook for six
years from the first day of August,
877, for a rental of seventy-five
hOusand dollars per annuIn. The
payments are made quarterly, and
lave been met as they mature, and
he proceeds passed into the treas
Try. In addition to this cash rental,
he lessees receive the convict at the
,lace of conviction and pay the
,ost of transportation, which here
ofore cost the State an average OF
welve thousand FIVE hundred dol
ars per annum. But two or three
# the states of the Union realize Il
urplus from prison labor, and the
state prisons of two or three are self
The prisons Of about
he same number of European
states pay expenses, and IN all Of
hem, in Europe and America, the
Industries of their respective locali-
les are pursued.
From 1888, the year OF the inau-
yuration of the penitentiary system,
o 1865, the average expenditure by
he State for its support, over and
lboVe its earnings, was fifteen
housand dollars per annum,
n total Of four hundred and
thousand dollars; for
he succeeding four years, the State
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