The Meriden Daily Republican from Meriden, Connecticut • 2

A onal restraints MX of protection repoblicna tardeaT Some add: itionnl cells and accommodations ere now wanted for the prisoners and it would seem bat just that so much of their surplus earnings as may required to meet thto want should be set apart for that purpose VITAL STATISTICS The importeace of annually gathering the vital statistics of the State and preserving them In each form shall bast answer the purpose of future reference and use hu been fully recognized by the General Assem- 5 Jews which have ve dollar and the amount paid to the several district on the orders of the Comp-tntiler was $12685665 There was also paid out In salaries and expenses $8806 15 Wldran in the state entl-tlafi to the benefit of tbie fond according to inade on the 1st or January laat was $125407 to whom a per capita dividend of $1 each was dsclarad For further lnfor-to the condition of the tend and Government exigencies of the Govei civil war were held to excuse from the spirit of sEirrsj and thos eoatravmiea that bad distracted tlw country unsettled its commercial rela- tranqulllf jjr easy triotio patriotiemoijveA Discreet legislating with Win Beach Musical Asl Dear Sib I should be pleased to hear from your Association as to the convenience and propriety of your joining in the festivities or our bicentennial celebration George Woodworth on Tuesday evening assailed hit wife and an offloer wu called In to arrest him He in' to the officer who conveyed him to the LeolMip to a bad thing tnpltoh Into gp offloer the sequel shows for Mr Wood-worth wu ordered to pay a fine of 17 and oeris for the assault an Ms better-half to be sent to the Workhouse for sixty days for the assault on the offloer Judgment wu subsequently suspended in the latter case so that if Mr Woodworth behaves himself he may escape the Workhouse A word to the wise should be sufficient I recommend that Section 168 of an Act en Yitied "An Act Gonurej fr the General Statute of 1866 be amended a to Include drawing among the required branches of elementary instruction The Sheffield Scientific Schooi at New Haven Which te in waUty though not in name the Connecticut College of Agricul-tui and the Mechanic Aria has already1 acquired a national reputation from lu superior management and Improved educational advantage There have been 141 Undents i attendance daring the vear of whom 71 from tbla state and 70 from other Haunting twenty one in number scholarship are now all taken up the Increased interut which our people leel In this department of nnfverritr tody Lut Antonin the affairs of the school were in somewhat critical condition and great pecuniary inducements were held ont to its several professors to go to other and mors remunerative educational positions out of the Mate But thank to a few liber-al penons In this and other states the danger hu been averted and the school te now en-tering on I new career of nufulnese The authorities of the school have no desire to uk eav legislative Appropriation but they hope for the continued assistance of private liberality and wulft The Normal School at Now Britain which was reopened for instruction in September lut te now in full end enceueful operation There have been 185 pupils received into the uhort since that time and It te believed that the institution under its present efficient management will soon meet both the expectations of its friends and the demands of the public Grant credit te dne to the Board of Education and to ite able and efficient Secretarv for the manner ia which they have labored io systematize onr publle uhools and carry the Free School Lew into eneeeufol operation throughout the state THE MILITIA From the report of tho Adjutant General it will be seen that the military forces of the state with the exception of a few comps-nlu have kept good their organisation and attained a commendable degree ol proficiency in their drill and soldierly deportment The force consists of thirty nine companies of Infhntry two batteries of artillery drilling uintantre and one battery and a section ot another drilling light artillery The whole number organised into companies and duly armed and equipped 18867 including field and staff officers During the year each com-pany has paraded eight day agreeably to the requirement of the two days in the Spring and six days in the Fall or during the regimental encampment for which they have received compensation The expenses attending this blanch of the public urvice have been large amounting in the sums drawn from the treasury during the year to $11695595 The amount received from commutation tax wu $57528 making of expenditure above that tax $a9 42795 The Adjutant-General recom mend a alight reduction in the force in the hope of securing a better organizatien and discipline and reducing to some eztent the annual expenses of the nine His suggestions in this respect will no doubt receive due consideration at your hands The necessity of maintaining this branch of the public ser-vice and having at all times an efficient mil-Itary arm to aid the civil authority in the repression of public disturbances was fully shown in the recent important tervice ren dered to the Sheriff of New Haven county by the military companies ordered ont to assist him in arresting the prize fighter and other disorderly persons in attendance captured on Charles Island APPROPRIATIONS In considering the applications for appro- priations ahonld any be made extreme caution should be exerciaed against laying ad-ditional burdeni upon the people For while they cheerfully submit all neceaeary taxation for the support of government they have a right to demand that the burden shall be no greater than the public exigenciea absolutely require and that its weight shall be equally and fairly distributed without favor to the capitalist or disparagement to the industrial classes To lift the weight of taxation and lighten the hardens of the people te smoDg the first end most paramount duties of legislation but this cannot be done under our present weight of indebtedness without ex-erotetag the most judicious discrimination in ragurd to the pnbllo expenditure I earnestly desire to see Connecticut once more occupying the prond position she so long held of being "a State free from To this end it te necessary that we should retire each a portion of the poblie indebtedness annually as shall look to an early consummation of this reanlt It te oertainly no part of wisdom to put offtoo long the day of payment" THE CHIEF JUSTICE I regret to announce to yon the demise of Chief Jnetioe Joel Hinman who for more than quarter of century had been one of the Justices of the Snpreme Court of the State a position which he adorned not onlr by the strength of his intellect but the purity of his personal character It will beyonr duty to provide for the vacancy thus created CONCLUSION In concloeion I wonld nrge upon yon lontion the importaRM of obeervini Strictest econo tnv I mr con sideration the importance of onearving the my in the public expenditure lent you are re-erroq to the report of the Commissioner whieh will furnish all Aha fact desired banks Theresa re now only four banks doing te laws of the State and not ol tSi nnder tbe bank system capital to $1450000 being 1 discount but of coarse issuing no rireutetlng note Three new ravings bank were chartered at the last session of the Gen- tL the wb0 in 8fty-eight Their condition com-jmreafavombly with the report of last year the whole nmonnt of deposits on the let day Inst being $4740083411 This Of an infTXfV tor the year 18fltUf $6fMlW86 The nmonnt of their Jan nary was $8708110878 railroads the Railroad Coinmissienej show that the condition of tho several Stale constantly improving under tbeir promt able and efficient managed ment The number of passengers over the everal roads has been larger than during any previous year with an increase in the amonnt of freighting business on eveiy road Jb In Mite Tho number of hat been until compared with the number of passengers carried while there has been a commendable rivalry among the officers of the various roods to improve their traveling accommodations and make them more generally acceptable to the public The report contains some suggestions and 1 railroad crossings and par-allel highways which will no doubt receive your proper consideration hoxane institutions Onr humane institutions still continue their noble work of relieving the suffering and unfortunate of the State for th tonne at MMgletown though of recent construction ana date holds the first place in importance and value to the State considered with refer-nee to the noble and humane charity it dispenses It has beon under moat excellent management during the past year as its kindly care for the insane and the means it has afforded for the reatoratlon of many to health abundantly testify The total number ot patients In the institution onjtbe first ol April last wss two hundred and thirty-two being an increase of twenty-three during the year Of this number qne hundred and fourteen were male and one hundred and eighteen females There were admitted into the inatitntion daring the year one hundred and thirtv-four new patient of whom forty-three were discharged recovered eighteen discharged much improved twenty-seven discharged not improved twenty-one died (mostly soon alter entering the institution) and two were found not Insane Of the three lasses for whom provision is made in the act of incorporation there are at the present time one hundred and sixty-five pauper patients fifty-seven indigent patients and ten private patients The total number of all classes treated during the year was three hundred and forty-three and the whole number discharged one hundred and eleven There were one hundred and forty-eeven applications for admission during the twelve month preceding the first of April which had to be refused all but forty-one of whom were from this State It will be seen from this statement that the urgent want of the institution is more room The completion or two additional wings to tbs hospital building wonld probably double Its present rapacity for accommodation and tbla ahonld be done at as early a aay as the financial exigencies of tho etste will admit The reports of the Superintend-ent and Board of Trustee will be found to contain nil the information that may be desired respecting the condition and management of the institution The American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb hu been auccerafully prosecuting its benevolent work during the past year The whole number under instruction within the year has been 281 of which 50 were from this state This institution bra now been panning ite beneficent labor for fifty-four years during which period it has educated more than 1800 of these of 851 of the whole number belonging to Connecticut The asylum was the first school for the education of deaf mate established to this country and Its deservedly and ft Inatitntion hu never been more prosperous or efficient for good than at the proa rat time The number of state beneficiaries at prw ot to the Perkin Inatitntion and Maraachn-setts Asylum for tbs Blind al South Boston sent there on the authority of the Governor te nine They are reported by the Princlpai of that institution an making eommendable tho use ot support them- ifompleted will be told before you showing the present condition and management of th Connecticut School for Imbeciles the Soldiers' Orphan Home Home for Sol diers and the State Hospitals at New Haven and Hartford It te believed that all of thaw institutions have been well managed daring the past year and that the benefits flowing from them are such to justify continuance of the rapport they have received from the state reform school From ft report of the Trustees and Superintendent of tLe State Reform School It will be sera that this Institution continue to maintain Its high position as a reformatory school and that its discipline and management have bean daring the past year in marked degree efficient and satisfactory The whole number of boys In the school on the first dsy of Marob wm 267 or an in-eruie of 28 over lut year The whole number connected with the Inatitntion since to 1864 hu been 1815 181 of were received the past year The health of tho boys bra been uniformly good there having been but ran death daring the year The report allows ft school to be ralf-cnstalnlng and ont of debt the earning of the boys having been about $10000 the put year The wing to the main building for which an appropriation wat made by the last General Assembly Is now In process of construction and will be completed daring the Summer or early in the Autumn INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS In addition to the $10000 appropriated by the state to aid or the Industrial School for Girls there has been raised by private sub-rariptira enow $70000 which together with the handsome donation of land comprising forty-six acres mads by the town of Middle-town and valued at about $14000 (WiUrdFW E0 Markham Bnainees Kium JBT 2 circulation of tits journal it double tkul of i other daily newspaper ever published in If eriden railUDlf HAY 1870 oold closed nr new tout yesterday as THE MESSAGE We publish to-day the message to the exclusion of matter which would bo generally regarded as being much more interesting Compared with bis former messages the present document will show decidedly good taste There is probably ai little to object to in it as the party friends would allow and bad be left out a vary little exceptions to the message oonld not justly have been taken by any one He aooepts the Fifteenth Amendment as a fixed fact and had be forborne to ofaaraoteriae its adoption in the usual Democratic way he would haYe shewn still better taste than he has fu the main Hie Governor's recommendations are very good and we see ao reason why most of them should not be adopted Evident pains have been taken in preparing the message and the offensive promulgation of treasonable sentiments which hitherto have disgraced the documents issuing from the Governor are almost wholly wanting We suspect that this time the Governor suffering and profiting by past experience has trusted less to his party friends in making up the message than he has in the past and as we have intimated the result isa marked Improvement The position he has assumed on the Fifteenth Amendment dashes seriously with Mr Baton's determination to devote the remainder of his extstenoe to fighting It and be very but that animal has had to swallow many a bitter pill in the past and we have no fear that this one will choke him We be surprised if the with bis liberality had exerted some Influence In modifying the views that the Governor's more rampant and injudioious friends would have been glad to have the Governor promulgate but whether be had such an influence or not the fact remains that there is much more of the spirit of WaBer in the mesmge than there is of Eaton But we the spaoe for comment now event! they were called for and as the memage is very clear in its statements and to much better than we had any reason to expect we feel more strongly inclined to approve it than to find fault with it Some of its minor recommendations reaches the one relating to divorce its statements concerning reconstruction fcc we do not regard as sound but when they are under consideration by the committees to which they will be assigned there will be ample time to discuss them should It be best to do so THE ELECTION PARADE The Inauguration of Hon Jamee English as Governor of the State of Connecticut for the ensuing year took place on Wednesday at Hew Haven The day was olose and sultry The fates were propitious and Jupiter Pluvins merely laid the dust with a few drops of rain in the morning at an early hear instead of dampening the whole affair The crowd in the Elm City was the largest seen there for many a day The 8:66 train from Meriden numbered twenty-one oars A special left ten minutes after with our local contingent to the state troops and the reserve of Meriden visitors to the parade Although the trains were crowded to suffocation the utmost good humor prevailed and laugh and jest beguiled the timemway till the Hew Haven depot was reaehed It must not be Imagined that all this rejoicing was solely because Mr James XL English had been elected Governor for the ensuing year-for the Republioah party will have a big say la legislative but rather because it wss a fine day a good one for a holiday What added greatly to the eclat of the fcK train was the fact that Chang the great Chinese giant was aboard His celest lalship was in the best of humor talked and laughed and made bad jokes upon everything and everybody Once he attempted a neat but rather thiok speech to his own immediate friends which re-reived due applause He exhibited the same evening In Hew Haven with a minstrel troupe The train was so long that the exoursionists had a quarter of a mile to walk to get to the depot Those who tis patlenoo got thare by the ears Once there the fun was fast and furious Everybody wantaS to everybody else arid (all had made up their minds for a good time Everything pasted off loVely and serene the bands played with energy and everybody seemed gratified and satisfied The Meriden Chlef-of-PoUee and his aids were the honored guests of the Hew Haven Chief-of-Polioe who treated them jollily The Eaton Guard under the command of Oapt John Berio and the Veteran Guard Capt Frank Carter were received by the atlonol Blues under Capt Dawson and were escorted to the Armory of the Blues where the innor man was properly oared for Some members of the Eaton Guard wore for the first time their ne uniform which is in exceeding good taste and looks remarkably well but the majority were attired in Uncle Barn's suit of sober bine The Eaton Guard were unusually honored for they had the right of the line in the procession We are glad to find our local troops so distinguished The gallant inning veto all over and the ease and abandon with whloh they performed their movements was the subject of very general remark and high encomium It is that upwards of two thousand persons were present on and around the Green to see the troops form In line THE REVIEW took place at one when the Governor under escort of the two companies of Horse Guards and the two companies of Foot Guards with the Sheriffs the State among whom was Sheriff Bird-sy of Meriden marched up Church and Mm streets to the Green where they formed in line along Tomplo street with Gen English near the ooiors The usual salute was given when tie Governor with his Staff rode along the line from left to right and returned to the rear while the band played to the Chief and the battery fired the customary salute The military line reached from Temple street around the outer edge of the Green to College street and wasn very magnlfloent display TheOovemor rode a black horse aodjruoe- Not the least of to an era line was forme lows: 'jggfflftaaaasagjgy Bud 0 pieceo-Leader Doa worth Tucker sad Keefe Sargeae Bleseh Quarter-natter Bradler Paymaster Bassett Juogo Advocate Harm Chaplain hiebke CO Hamilton OsariS ImnfcrtjCapt Benches musketa Nh Hi CO Co oitz-ao A Co New Haven Light Guardi Capt Biadlcy-85 A 1 A Chatlield Guards or Waterbary Capt 50 Baskets Co Zneecll Rifle Perby Cept Nerramore-M IWocGoneral Bussell and Staff General Bnnnll and Staff Battery Hertford City Guard Capt White- Co Phalanx Sain Henry KennOdy command- Ljsa Cl 1)1 Dlllt Co Crawford -I WwH SOmaakets IGesrdjrramhnll Coptic Plnmb Co 6th BegtVetoraa Gaard Meriden Capt Carter 1st Lieut Norman 8 Wood ad Lieut 4 In new Zouave uniform Co 6th Bagt Montgomery Guard -85 men Nebatft Bad IS pieces Leader felsborg Second Company Bone Gnardia Major Cowls Mounted Bend Pint Company Governor' Hone Onarde Major Boerdman Sheriff Hotchkiss ol New Haven county and Sheriff! of other counties with deputies GOVERNOR ENGLISH OoBn Ingersoll New Haven Adjutant General William Chamley New Haven Pay-maater General Dr Jamee Hoyt Greenwich Surgeon General John Earle George Bead New Hava Kotrit Seymour Bridgeport and A Brand Norwich Aids de Camps Wheeler A Bad 17 placer Second Company Governor'! Foot Guards Capt Phil Co Bridgeport Cept Goodwin Co Sedgwick (tends Bridgeport Cept Brine- America Bud Providence First Company foot Guards Capt Dodd Col Crawford and Staff 6th Regiment Nine Pioneers horn Danbury Bridgeport City Bend pieces Drum Co SI Guard Cept A Gray-50 musket a Oo A Bethel Capt 8 Crolht-65 men Co Greenwich Light Goarda Capt Edward Lyon CO Beraeide Guard Norwalk Capt A 75 muskets IN THE CARRIAGES were the following gentlemen EX-GOVERNOR JEWELL Quar-General Dickinson Col Geo Bis-sell Col Frary and staff LieRt-Gov Hotchkiss Hon Wm II Barnum Hon Waller Hon 8 8 Logan Hons! David Nichols Manning ex-Lient-Gv Hyde Hon Jesse Olney Americus Club of New York as follows: Hons Tweed Eellowes Col Boyd Edward Marriner Colligan Keenan Miller 8 Miller A Garvey Welch and others In the next two earn ages were MayorFitcbof New Haven Mayor Cbapman Hartford Mayor Merriman Waterbury Mayor-elect Lewis New Haven Mayor Babcock Middletown Mayor Allen New London The members of the New Haven Com men Council fol lowed All passed off quietly and without any Nitons accident One hone fell on Chapel street but both officer and horse escaped unhurt The whole parade passed off quietly and the heavily ladened trains returned home at all hours of the night LRGIBLAITVB ORGANIZATION The Senate was called to order at half-put ten by Secretary Appelman John A Tlbblts of New London was elected clerk receiving eleven votes to ten for 8 A York Mr Tibbitte was sworn in and the Senate then balloted for a President pro tern Mr Harlan was elected to that of-fire by aoolamation Prayer was offered by President Woolsey It wu resolved that committees shall in future be appointed by ballot Instead of by the Lieut-Governor THE BOUSE was organized at eleven John Cotton Smith of Sharon the oldest member having been a member in 1838 called the House to order Temporary clerk were appointed the roll wu called and a ballet taken for Speaker with the follow-teg result: Whole samba of votes LF Foster 7 184 Doolittle IN Mr Foster upon taking the chair made a powerful speech whloh we regret we are unable for want of spaoe to publish A ballot was taken for clerk and Edwin Bennett of Hampton receiving 124 out of IKS votes was declared elected and sworn to The election of assistant clerk being in order a ballot wu dispensed with and A Hough of Danbury wu elected by acclamation The Bepubllcan candidates for messengers and doorkeepers were then eleoted by resolution HATTEBB ABOUT HOME The Corner and Center Schools commenced their Summer terms lut Monday with cheering the Corner with an aggregate attendance of 407 divided into eight departments The Center bad an aggregate attendance of 230 divided into slg departments More are yet expected to oome in Some changes and promotions hTe bren made in consequence of some older scholars leaving and many new ones mostly beginners coming in The departments are now nearly or quite full Each sohool hu a corps of superior teachers all whom are well qualified for and adapted their several departments They enter Upon their noble and responsible work with ardor and zeal well beoomlngtheir high trust Parent and the pupils may expect good results In moral training and discipline well in progress in the various branches of study pursued These schools stand well in comparison with graded schools in other oitire Mo Butler one of the committee for tite Aid Concert to be given on ft 20th of this month reports that the manufacture of the olty have been exceedingly liberal In answer to his call upon them for presents to be givau away at the concert The objeot of tholr gift 1 to further the sale of tickets in mills la other cities The value of the prizes all of which are exceedingly useful articles Is Already $L0 and there are more promised It is inteuded that the ooaoert shall net A band-some sum whloh will be placed in the hands of trustwortHy gentlemen appointed distribute it Among the west needy thrown out of employment by the fire The rehearsal ofi the Wallingford Mu-sioal Association on Tuesday evening last wss wail attended Those that were preset Utm different oheir of a been passed from time to time on the subject The fo-tem devised for collecting three ntoiteMra is perhaps as complete and perfect re aay that can be secured by mere legislation and the tabular form in which they have been pre-rated in the carefully prepared report of the Nwnrian renders them exceedingly valuable During the year ending with De-mmber 81 I860 there were 12481 birth In Stole which 0505 were male and 0886 females being the highest number ever reported in any one year and giving a some-what higher proportion of male births than bra been the average in former yean The number of marrlagea won 4754 being allght-ly in excera of those reported for 1868 But thto excess is entirely dne to the number of marriages where both parties were of foreign birth thera hnving been a falling off in the number where both parties wera of native birth The number of deaths wu 8417 showing the natural increase of the population or the excess of births over deaths te have been during the year 4064 The number of divorces granted wu 491 or greater than ever before reported Whether from the cause assigned in there cue there te any way of mitigating this growing evil by more stringent legislation or by restricting thegronndson which divorces can be obtained ia a question which I may well recommend to the consideration of the General Assembly The marriage relation te too sacred a contract and too vital to the welfare of the State to be impaired for any alight or trivial cause and in the preunt condition of society It te hardly possible to throw too many guards and protections around It It can certainly be no credit to Connecticut that her oourts should be opened for the easy ob-talnment of divorcee However delinquent public opinion may be in other respects it te certainly most prompt in condemning a laxity in this particnlar This recent events have clearly demonstrated and in my judgment the time te moet opportune for a thorough reviaion of our divorce laws EDUCATION In the annual message I had the honor to preunt to the General Asumbly at ite May session 1868 1 took occuion to recommend the adoption of a free school law which ahonld dispense with the rate-bill system and transfer the burden of supporting our common schools from the individual parents to the property of the aeveral town A law in conformity with thia recommendation wu passed with great unanimity bv the Legislature at that session which went into operation on the first day of the September following The practical results of this law hare been moet gratifying to the friends of the system showing an advance movement In the cause of education entirely unexampled in the history ol our public uhools The people have accepted the mew system with a warm welcome throughout the State and the statistics which will be laid before you in the able report of the Secretary of the Board of Education will more than verily the prediction of its success made by its friend two years ago The number of children in the State between four and sixteen years of age as will appear from the returns made to the office in Jananrr last was 125407 or an Increase during the year of 1825 Of thia number 102005 or fiveeixths of the entire number enumerated were registered as in attendance upon the public schools during a greater or leae portion of the year showing an increase In attendance of 5923 scholars over the previous year The number in attendance over sixteen years of age who did not share In the benefit ot the school fund money Wu 8808 with an Increase In their attendance of 664 This large percentage in attendance upon the public schools of the children enumerated the January returns 1 moet extraordinary when considered in connection with the large number of private school! and academies in the state all of which are in a more or less flourishing condition There are other facts of great significance in this connectian which moet conclusively demonstrate the successful workings of this new system The amount of money raised for the public schools by the aeveral towns during the year wu $415818 20 ehowli an Increase over the previous year of 970 61 while the amount raised by the several school districts wu $401420 01 showing an increase $28015 84 The taxes laid by the school districts it ehonld be recollected were entirely voluntary while those laid by the towns were only partially the law of 1868 requiring an increase of tho school tax from fonr-tenths to a mill on tho grand list The large earn raised by the towns wonld Indicate that about thirty thou sand dollar of tho amount waj voluntarily Imposed Th total amonnt expended for the school during the year wu $127882701 being an Increue in expenditure over the previous year of $170656 82 The total amount ot receipts from all source was $1-269152 82 being an Increue of $220006 12 To my mind thou facte and figures are a striking proof of the success of onr fre acliool Five years ago before the forma Educ tfon of the Board of fidneation the amount expended for the support of the public schools in the State wu only about half a million dollars a year it now reaches over a million two hundred thousand with an increase In school attendance that more than compensates for the increased outlay In the expenditure Upon the pasuge of the law abolishing the rate bill our public school became absolutely free with their fountain of in-struction open to all alike The quick In telligence of onr people wu shown in their ready acceptance of the tow and their prompt encouragement of the public schools under it the best and cheapest means of (educating their children We may safely challenge comparison of any State In the Union in the successful working of onr preunt school system Our common school are not only the nnneries of they are the cheap defence of the With their stsffof veteran teachers they more than take the place of armed battalions of soldiery giving ne the amplest amuraaoe we can have of Wet? to onr Institutions In the fatura Before leaving this subject I dartre to call your attention to one Important branch of Instruction which In my judgment te greatly needed In onr public schools This te free drawing or instruction In such elementary rule of the art may be Imparted by teach-era properly instructed in some uniform and practical system of mechanical and object drawing Drawing of thia description te now regularly and systematically taught to the public schools of New Haven and Hartford and I believe with the happiut results The object la not to make artists simply but to make to turn out a better and more proficient clam of scholars with such skill in designing and drawing aa shall aid them In their Industrial pursuits and more effectually advance the State In manufactories invention and the mechanic one The sagacity shown tar the flm Napoleon to his order te mek drawing tody in the oohoel ef Franco been acknowledged to the tribute which the world hu paid to the people of that eeuntry for their decorative msta to the arte Our own people are beginning to discover that their most profitable articles of manufacture are thou wbiofa coma from the hand of th thoronghlr trained dnnghtemen end designer The decree of Napoleon brought untold wealth to France ana instruction In drawing when once incouefttlly Introduced tote or public irtuel will I am confident work equally salutary ruelte to advaactog th wealth and adding to the material re-ooreu of our State Confident of the ml tad fully impressed cut do no leu than rectos ol these views and fully Impressed with their importunes 31 a be to to aaUMl Iniifrly pard2au puisne to have encountered no serious obstacle In aa earnest endeavor to restore the revolted states to their original condition in ft Uokm But when all meaaniea professedly intended for such reconstruction were subordinated to schemes for perpetuating a partisan aseendattey In the Southern States 11 arPritoff that the professed objeet failed in its accomplishment and although five yean have elapsed since the disbandment of the Southern armies and the thor-oogb submission of the Southern people to the Federal aaftorlty the anomalous and shamefnl spectacle is still pressnted of one or the oldest and largest States of the Union filled withjtn SatolUgent industrious and en-terpririEgpyrtrtiwltoM by the military am at the Federal administration white ite offices are made the spoil of alien political adventurer It is in violation not only of every principle upon which our government was founded end ought to be mainteinedbnt of every principle whether of policy or humanity which actuates every civilised government of the present age that so largo a portion or the intelligent and Influential pop-ulation of the Southern States should be longer exelnded from participating in the government which they are required to sup-port In view thto I indulge the hope that yoo will atthlaaeealon in some proper way exprea yoni opinion for its influence upon the repreantativa of our State in Congress that a general amnesty fer nil merely political offences should bo forthwith proclaimed financial condition It will bo eeea from the reports of the Troaenrar and Comptroller which wilt be laid before you with their respective etate-mentt in derail that the financial condition of the State continues to be in a high degree encouraging At the commencement of the fiscal yew ending March 31st 1870 the fund-ed debt of the State amonnted to $7622500 against $9705400 lew the amonut passed to the credit of the Sinking Fond at the of the fiscal year ending March Slat 1800 Deducting from this sum the balance in the Treasury carried to the credit ofenewaccount April 1 1869 which was $46697777 It left the total liabilities of the State at the commencement of the lut fiscal year $715552528 Daring the past year the tended debt of the State hu been reduced $846600 leaving the nmonnt outstanding on the let day of April 1870 $7275900 If we deduct iron) this the cash on hand carried to the credit of the new account April 1 1870 which wu $548493 51 it leaves the entire liabilities of the State at the commencement of the present fifial year $672740660 The two-and-a-half mill tax on the dollar laid upon the grand list resitted the lut year in revenue to the State $00591445 In addition to this there wu received from foreign Insurance companies $9696 07 from the Savings Banka of the State $82895032 from Railroade $25842180 from the Mutual Insurance Companies $14126248 from State and commutation taxes remaining an-paid April 1 1869 $10875670 which together with the amonnt received on wnr claims and other miscellaneous Items swelled the total amount of receipts to one million seven hundred npd thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and elxty-eix dollar and forty-nine cents" ($178876649) The total nmonnt of expenditures exclusive of the purchase of State bonds and appropriation to public buildings and inatltn-lions but Including Interest on the State debt amonnted during the year to one mil lion two hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and nlnetv-seven dollars and fort' one million one hundred and aixty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-three cent ($16968668) for the year previous while tbedebenture and contingent expenses of the General Assembly for 1869 were twenty-aix thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and forty-seven rents ($2634947) than for the year 1868 The increase in the taxable property of the State daring the put year indicates the steady growth of our people in wealth notwithstanding the heavy burdens they wo currying in the shape Federal and State taxation The grand list of 1868 was $812 874408 while that of 1869 amounted to $822553488 making an increase of newly ton millions In one year There wo still unsettled claim against the Federal government being for expense in curved by tho State 00 aoconnt of tho lata FWAtoonnting to something over $200000 Whlrti have never been allowed Thrtr die-allowance has arisen from the rulings of the Treasury department At Washington In gard to voucher and certain formalities required therein not understood and acted upon by onr Commlseane and others at the time the exponas was Incurred on the part of the State The sum of $21400 hu been collected during the put year under the more reseat raliags ol the Department and It is be-lieved that some fifty or seventy-five thousand dollars more may be realised under uch additional rulings at the pressure of these just claims on the part of the Statu haU from time to time secure at the Of the Treunry officials It Is do to the people of the State a matter of common prudence that I should without intending any reflection either npon present or put officiate call your attention to the nmonnt of bond nqalred of the Treunrer and his chief clerk By the law a It now stands hla bond it fixed at twenty thousand dollars and that of bis clerk at ten tboomnd With half a million of dollar or more not nnfreqnently In the treunry or deposited in the hank of the State subject to the draft of either of thou officers it is mani feat that the bonds required of them are ah together inadequate In amonnt At the time th dm nmonnt were fixed by tew as the penal urn In their bonds It wu rarely the case that any vary largo amonnt of money wu on hand in the treunrr or deposited la the banka to the credit of the State and the bonds were no donbt doomed infflclent to cover any pouible loas to which the State might be subjected The whole expenditure Of the State did not then exceed those of a single department of it at the preunt time Prudence would dictate that we should guard against any and svsry pouible contingency of lou and th luge balance frequently In the treasury should admonish ua of the Importance of taking seasonable action In this matter It hu long bun the practice in the office to allow the Chief Clerk to rtgn checks or drafts for mousy without limitation to amount and tho fact that we have thus far bun fortunate la securing Integrity with ability In this important position of public trust is no reason why should further continue tho hazard Involved In my judgment th ulartes of the Treasurer and Comptroller should lw auffiolsnt to justify tholr removal to tho State Capital when elected from any other locality aad th cheek or warrant for money drawn by the former should not bo paid without b-'WhyfteWtef ThiTwould oat dofUsntlon rity sflAii or ft diversion of tho puhlte moseys te lad! vldnnl nu Th (object Is commended to your consideration with a tall oonvlctlon of It importance viewed simply A precautionary measure for the futare TRA scAoib fi two million forty-four thoaaaad fifty-eight dollar and eighty -seven 06887) Mag slightly in oxAfis of tho previous Men- I si The dwelling houses of Selden Tuttle and Wm Beach of Wallingford were broken Into on Tuesday night Mr Tuttle had his pocket-book taken from his pantaloons peoket (fortunately it had only a small sum of money in it) and a gold watch and ehain At Mr they secured a small sum of money and took some articles of value keepsakes Mr Beach hu offered a reward of MO for the arrest of the thieves and return of the articles taken or $15 fhr the return of the articles and no questions asked A telegram wu received in this city Wednesday announcing the death in Plantoville of Mr Alfred Hotchkiss formerly a resident of this town and a member of the Up-town Baptist Church He hu many friends in Meriden who will regret to learn of his death lie wu a man of influenoe in Southington was universally respected and his death will be a severe loss to the community in which he resided OmcxR Ford picked up a pocket-book in the 6:80 train from New Haven lut evening From papers found in it the ipporttion is tbnt it belongs to Thos olcorab of Cheshire Hartford papers please copy Perkins Lin eh of this city have secured the contract for the mason work of the new bridge across the Quinnepiac known uHumiston The work is to be begun in few days the stone ooming from Portland MESSAGE FeUoib-CUiient of the Senate and House of Repreuntatives I assume the duties of the office to which the suffrages of my follow-citlzena have called roe With a profound sense of gratitude for their favor accorded to me and an earn eat desire to co-operate with you in whatever legfetettosne Yegard Wr tlieir interests" shall demand The put year hu not been marked with events especially calling for legislation and I truat that your duties may be accomplished within even a shorter period than that usually allotted to the session of the General Assembly For this retson 1 deem it particularly opportune to call your attention to a subject which has of late and I think favorably attracted public attention It is now over fifty years since a constitn tional convention assembled in this State Of the members of the body which framed our present constitution but one It is be lieved survives Marvelous changes have occurred during this period Ia population in the pursuits of our people in their con dition and habit of life in political ldeu lathe relation of the State to the other Statu and to the General Government the change are too striking to need any particular Indication In fact the bulk of our legislation to-day is opon subjects which were entirely unknown and hardly con cel ed of by the people of Connecticut in 1818 and the matters which absorbed their atten tion then are for the most part regarded by thto generation as of inconsiderable moment Upon every principle which justifies consti-tutional government the organic law which govern ns should be adapted to the altered circumstance of oqr people and the frequent amendments that have of late years been made to the Constitution and the preposition for nmendmenta that are constant-ly being made are only the natnral symptoms attending the eflbrt of this principle to vindicate Itaelf I therefore earnestly recommend tbnt you take the necessary Men for the calling of a Convention at the earliest day practicable for a revision of the Constitution of this State Noram I (are that thia will not be necessary aa well aa expedient If the State determine to facilitate by nay net of it own the operation of the recently proclaimed amendment to the Federal Constitution known ns the Fifteenth Amendment By the provisions of that utMe the State is prohibited from making any distinction on account of color In those to whom it shall give the right to vote Bat the right to vote in constitutional priri lags la Connecticut The qualification of an alertor are prescribed by the Constitution of ft Stele The General Assembly ha no power over the subject That instrument as it now stands prescribes no qualification whatever for any other titan the white elti-sen The new article of the Federal Constitution does not define what qualifications shall entitle citizen to vote but only prohibits the State from making race or previous condition of a disqualification As the General Ascembly has no power to make a white citizen of the United States an elector or this State whatever qaatifisation he may peMsaa I am unable to how tlw requisite qualifications are to be provided for the citizen "not white" except by constitutional provision In thus alluding to the soalled Fifteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution I sm not insenelble to the circumstances attending its adoption as reclaimed by the President of the United lutes The fact Is notorious that Its claimed ratification by several of the State enume rated among those requisite for it adoption was accomplished by means of chicanery and force which wonld properly vitiate any contract between one citizen and another brought about by inch means In its object and effect too it la revolutionary or that system of government which recognizes local self-government at necessary to tlte stability and indlapenslbleto the practical working of republican Invtitntiona ly the power of appropriate which It gives to Congreaa it eommlts to the absolute control of the General Government the right to vote In every State and the mockerlee of an election which have within the put few yarn ban held in the South-States under era Btatee under the bayonets of the General Government li a sufficient commentary upon the liability to abuse of each to impov-tent power Bat still the forme of tew in lno lonni0I wln the sSoption of this amendment haviTbJn complied with and It has bean officially pro-claimed as an integral portion of the organic law If the State of Connecticut constitutional act Of its 6wh could prevent thto deprivation of that right whliTevar since Ite foundation as a commonwealth it has Mall time proclaimed end wonld never by the rote of Its people have abandoned the right to tnaaage her Internet concerns in her own way" I should not concerns of no war ia Which thls oaa besosompllshed The State is poweriee for that purpose but nearly two restarts ago its historic oak preserved it chartered liberties 0 now It people should treasure in their hearts this sssssprxFR of avoiding as far as possible the delays incident to special legislation and using the utmost dispatch In bartneea consistent with the magnitude of the tract committed to your charge With a firm reliance on that Infinite Power whieh shapes the destiny of 11 human governments and without whose supervision neither States nor Individuals can stand 1st ns approach onr deliberations and Munoils in such spirit that when our duties and labors ere done we shall receive with the public approbation that higher recognition of a ftdthftal stewardship which only the vole of an approving conscience can give JAMES ENGLISH New Haven May 4th 1870 LOCAL NOTICES Land I rent valtsble tor psstarase sod tas trowing of potato cheap for cub by A Carp dtt A boy about a (teen yean old Is wanted to work on a Am Apply at A Judd's oonfectlenery store tp-towa 8dtr A Lost Ant Bsvnran-It Is seld that the Soman ladles embrowned their Ikdtd hair with a tiaacpar-ent fluid bat the eacret of each a composition wee unknown to aoy modern cheulsta uotll Phalon discovered sad produced his Vttsllu or Salvation tor the Heir Bold by all diygrieta and limey good dealer On Wednesday afternoon between Thome William' Bakery on Main street and the residence of Hemaa Eaow on Liberty street a pocket-book containing a smell earn of mosey in bills and liver check on the Home National Bank tor between $100 end S00 lo mortgage note for $100 endorsed by A Boerdmsn Payment on the check aad not hoe been stopped A suitable reward will paid by leaving the wallet and contorts at the BsrnsLiOAN Ornc or with Mas Haw a ffaow NEW ADVERTISEMENTS JOTIC Thfr wHl be a meeting of the legal voters of the Rail road Wrtriot on TUESDAY Evening Mar 10th 1ITO at A to reacted the vote Hying a tax or postpone the same to oome return tltoe JAMES TUTTLE Committee Muaroaa May IMP myS-ditt Quaui OUfillll CUffiU 1 1 1 Ik Pregsrstioo tor carll ng th hair yet termtad It te perihcUv harmless aad warranted do all we el elm All ladies and geoHeomn honld this iutitntion on permanent and an tlal foundation Building an now being erected to accommodate about Seventy Inmate whloh will bs completed and ready for occupancy by the first of July next Great credit te du to the Bev Fessenden for hie Indefatigable exertions ia procuring the aeceaeary mean to complete this charitable work STATE FRIiON From the report of the Directors of th ttt Prison it will be sera that the whole number of convicts In confinement on the 8 lt of Marsh 1870 216 or mors than last yswr The gromrantoisof the prison forth 84 and the total A net $ais of lent by (that of.