[1] Sunday schools have been maintained; and in pursuance of my
recommendation, the cell of each prisoner is always supplied with a
volume of the School District Library. The measure was followed by a
gratifying improvement in the conduct of the prisoners. Many wearisome
hours of solitary time are beguiled,; resolutions of repentance
and reformation are formed, and the minds of the unhappy convicts,
accustomed to the contemplation of virtue, and expanded by knowledge,
are gradually prepared to resist the temptations which await them on
their return to society.--GOV. SEWARD’S MESSAGE, JAN. 1841.
[2] Chapin’s Gazateer.
[3] Tanner.
[4] Antiquities of America.
[5] Gazetteer.
[6] I am glad to see Troy, who is ever forward in the cause of religion
and morality, has abandoned this practice in some instances. There has
been more success in the canal this year. Mr. Eaton, in his report,
mentions 150 conversions. A small number among 25,000, but enough to
cheer on the pious missionary.
[7] America to Great Britain.--ALLSTON.
[8] Amount of flour and wheat which entered the canal from Lake Erie at
Buffalo:--
From Ohio, 505,262 barrels of flour; 72,525 bushels of wheat.
Michigan, 112,215 “ “ 97,249 “ “
Indiana, 13,726 “ “ 48,279 “ “
Illinois, 2,259 “ “ 10,634 “ “
Wisconsin, 1,166 “ “
[9] Darby.
[10] Smith’s Western Tourist.
[11] Among the articles arrived at Cleveland from the Ohio Canal this
year were--504,900 barrels of flour; 167,045 bushels of coal; 932 hhds.
tobacco; 2,252,491 lbs., of iron and nails; besides numerous other
articles of merchandise.
[12] Darby.
[13] Salmonia.
[14] Schoolcraft.
[15] Bibliotheque Universelle, translated by J. Griscom, in the
American Journal of Science.
[16] Chalmers.
[17] Lev. xxvi, 4, 12.
[18] Deut. xxvi, 19.
[19] Deut. xxviii, 16.
[20] Becks Gaz., of Ill.
[21] Hall.
[22] Am. Jour. of Scien. vol. 25.
[23] Dr. Hildreth.
[24] Peck.
[25] Judge Hall.
[26] Dr. Owen.
[27] Hildreth.
[28] Hildreth.