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‘fiWWI1 “ <EolttmWa> (Toluitifeta, to (Kiorg $ti*ljee.”-r-D r. d w i g h % : VOL, I.-—NO. 22 * . HUDSON, SEPTEM B E R 22, 1842.. PRl£E>3 C E N T S , - A {Exhibiting the number of individuals con'fihed in the County Jails and P6or-Houses in the state of New-York, and their ’ drinking habits, as far as could be ascertained, together with the amount levied upon the Tax payers o f each county for the, i support o fthe Poor and for the Administration of Criminal Justice.; C O U N T IES. JA IL . PO O R HOUSES: COUNTY E X P E N S E S . REMARKJS. 1 —— *• ... — i i © ra *- <D O . S <D E h 1 j 5 a o « ID — j (3 ID f t , S 2 c l-H •A 01 n a a f s a © \O C l © d P w , —1, o a 1 A 3 O f t 5* o . £* - 3 3 O o - ID O a CtJ ' * cs CQ Albany, 114 35 17 82 20 634 1 17 616 30,250,00 7,500,00 11,870,86 10,8,79,14 The number confined in the Alba Alleghany, 57 8 49 3 50 11 5 3.4 7,00.0,00 2,-300,00 3,568,00 1*132,00 ny. Jail is for one month. Whole Broome, 18 3 15 1 26 3 4 19 2,500,00 830*32 • 957,55 712,13 number the last year 1;216. One' Cataraugus, 17 1 2 14 „ j hundred had delerium tremens. Cayuga, 113 11 12 90 3 221 70 9 142 13,564,64 4,634,00 ' 5,325*# 3,605,24 Chautauque, . 40 13 3 24 4 52 17 13 22 •• *» . > Chenango, 33 6 1 26 4 108 20 14 74 4,834.49 1,074,00 1,800,00 1960,49 One ofihe prisonersin the.Chenan+ Clinton, 52 13 6 33 15 157 27 53 107 12,151,00 •4,519,09 3,589,87 4*042,04 go J a il had four wives. Columbia, 153 12 17 124 200 17 47 136 11,614*88 7,000,00 3,400,00 • 1*214,88 In the Columbia 1 County. Jfcjf onet Cortland, 23 5 6 12 1 4,453,67 1,200,00 1,173,67 2 ,0 7 9 # was committed seven times for whip Delaware, 21 3 3 15 87 14 23 50 , 6,200,00 3,030,00 1,926,00 1,244,00 ping his wife! Dutchess, 81 13 17 51 443 29 60 354 2 L,157,25 11,975,30 7,681,95 1,500,00 H alf thetenctperateinthe Dutchess- Erie, 213 30 48 135 235 42 17 176 17,526,07 4,797,i5 4,500,00 , 8,288,92 County poor house were lunatics or?' Essex, 13 2 8 3 94 14 15 65 6,600,00 4,142,44 1,646,00 811,56 idiots. Franklin. 16 5 3 8 111 26 30 55 4,148,73 1,395,67 1,532,00 1.221,06 One of the prisoners in the Genesee- Genesee, 78 21 6 51 6 177 15 69 93 13,374,00 4,9S4,l8 . 5,230.41 3,159,41 Jail killed his wife\! The nuflnbhr inM Greene, 26 1 1 24 110 29 13 68 13,160,07 6,254,42 4,256,11 2,649,54 the poor house is given for 8 months?- Herkimer, 49 5 7 37 125 IS 19 88 8,606,80 3,000,00 3,403,60 2,203,20 Only, Jefferson, 98 22 8 68 9 187 43 18 126 14.462,30 3,425,94 5,507,73 5.528,63 Kings; ’ 31 1 5 25 395 37 97 261 12,230,51 4,719,40 5*197,69 2,313,42 The number jn the Kings counjyy Lewis, 4 1 3 21 4 8 9 2,114,46 1,130,49 539,65 444,42 Jail is for one month only* ■ Livingston, 47 1 1 45 50 4 11 35 4,122,11 2,000,00 1,500,00 622,11 - Madison, 26 2 24 120 32 18 70 5,600,00 2,422,12 2.320,30 857,58 Monroe, 279 34 245 1020 146 224 650 18,500,00 5,511,12 8.000,00 4,988,88 Montgomery, 72 16 9 47 1 156 39 24 93 11,887,00 2,500,00 4,667,23 4,719,77 Niagara, 82 1 10 71 164 22 29 113 • Oneida, 153 23 34 96 3 207 43 44 120 16,18S,8l 5,616,01 7,868,56 2,704,24 1 Onondaga, 139 ’ 10 19 110 3 285 69 38 178 18,816.96 2,950,00 6,713,84 9,153,12 Ontario, 69 ' 7 12 50 126 24 15 87 13,200,00 ' 3,085,92 5.104,89 5,009,19 Orange, 107 13 44 50 1 227 57 49 121 16,000,00 4,354,22 11,513,00 132,78 Orleans, 29 2 1 26 45 11 8 26 5,201,43 2,254,53 1,905,42 1,041,48 ) Oswego, 37 3 9 25 3 114 20 9 . 85 6,861,22 1,966,43 2,563,61 2,331,18 '■ ' Otsego, 52 4 3 45 2 190 33 5 152 13,912,45 5,190,54 4,666,63 4,055,28 ¥' J?umam, 6 2 1 3 81 19 _29 *‘33 3,200.00 2,140,00 216,00 844,00 Statistics for P u tnnnr county J a il Queens, 70 9 6 55 31 2 ^29 ' 5,138,00 2,610,12 1,982,74 1,545,14 is b u t forSekrief period* J . Rensselaer, 66 4 12 50 6 682 23 31 628 33,439,45 9,666,80 14,546,36 9,226,29 Queens for one month :oolyr Richmond, IS 1 4 13 26 6 6 14 2,2S8,42 1,036,21 ‘ 568,55 683,66 Rockland, 15 3 1 11 2,079,52 490,77 881,91 706,84 Saratoga, 52 5 20 27 5 184 17 43 124 10,573,00 4,162,05 3,475,37 2,935,58 ** Schenectady, 145 16 22 107 16 117 3 20 94 11,652,52 3,273,38 3,163,89 5,215,15 Schoharie, 25 7 18 32 7 9 16 3,124,00 1,055,02 1,337,29 731,69 Seneca, 47 8 I 38 97 18 12 67 6,108,27 1,627,00 3,511,52 969,75 Steuben, 29 3 4 22 3 In the Steuben J a il a sen was con St. Lawrence, 49 8 3 3S 2 154 14 50 90 13,661,46 7,702,79 3.648.35 2,310,32 fined for whipping his father! Suffolk, 25 6 4 15 2 2,424.83 145,00 1,270,40 1,009,43 In the Suffolk Jail one was con Sullivan, 7 1 6 1 27 2 25 4,235,93 2,052,91 1,123,26 1,059,76 fined for killing and one for shooting Tioga, 47 19 2 26 2 53 5 19 29 6,169,37 3,313,10 2,412,88 443,39 his w ife! Tompkins, 76 10 15 51 3 135 22 17 96 7,196,04 2,986,64 2,785,76 1*423,64 Ulster, 46 4 3 39 228 8 12 208 12,792,63 4.600,00 4,900,00 3,292,63 W arren, 25 3 3 19 72 23 33 16 4,816,21 1,040,70 1,559,31 2,216,20 Washington, 51 5 12 34 1 94 16 35 43 11,818,91 4,966,95 5,010,49 1,841,47 4 Wayne, 43 3 40 130 31 19 80 7,500,00 3,000,00 3,000,00 1,500,00 , Wesichester, 25 3 2 20 1 205 22 70 113 10,562,32 7,159,80 1,189,48 2,213,04 Yates. 10 •5 5 67 14 3 50 4,763,30 1,676,97 850,00 2,236,33 • 2224 253 344 1627 74 5818! S73'983 3962 310,263,65 106,351,79 120,794,31 83,117,55 . The Columbia Washingtonian. Levoted exclusitehj to the Temperance cause. •Is published every Thursday morning, by the Ex ecutive Committee of the Columbia County Washing ton Temperance Society, tinder the immediate super vision of a Sub-committee, composed of the following 'named' gentlemen : J a m z s M ’G i f f e r t , J o h n S. G o u l d , W a r r e n R o c k w e l l , C a r l o G r e e n ,- and J . It. S. V an V l e e t . T erm s .—O n e d o llar pfer annum -payable i n advancS.' A limited num b e r of A d v ertisem ents, of an appro ? ved character, will be inserted a t the usual rates. Address J . R . S. V an V l e e t , Hudson, Columbia County,. N . Y.,postage paid. C O N N E C T IO N B E T W E E N IN T E M PERA N C E , CRIM E & PA U P E R ISM . F A C T S F O R T H E P E O P L E . Our readers are already acquainted with the fact that during the years 1833 and 1834, S a m u e i . C u i p m a n , Esq. made a personal and critical examination of all the Poor-hou ses, Jails, &c. in the State of New-York, for the purpose of ascertaining the connection between lntemperan.ee, Crime aqd Pauper ism?, His Report appeared in 1834, and the facts presented, from which we have compi led the table, are certified to be correct by the Jailer, Su peiinlendent of County Poor, and Clerk of Supervisors of each county where examinations were made. There is no attempt in this Report to mag nify'the evils of intemperance; none but those who were really intemperate, and we suppose grossly so, are set down as intempe rate; io our own judgment, the ceriificates throughout, favor king Alcohol too much, and to show this, we will give-a few extracts as samples o f the whole. Albany Jail ,—Of the temperate in this Jail, (so marked in the table) two were con fined for assault and batteiy; gne on five indictments fot obtaining money under false pretences, grand larceny, perjury, &c. makes use of spirits; four others also make use of spirits. Of the doubtful, six are knowD to make use o f spirits, and two are vagrants, ■Cayuga J a il ,—Of (he “ doubtful” cases, the jailer says, From circumstances con nected with their commitments, 1 have no doubt that most of them were intemperate.” Essex Jail,—I11 Both those set down as tem perate, drank freely. Of the doubtful, one was imprisoned for an assault upon a drunk ard who insulted him. Three others drank freely. Anolhet makes use of spirits; his fa ther is a drunkard.” Queens County Jail .—“ Of the doubtful, uyo were vagrants, and probably intemper ate.” Rensselaer County Jail .—“ Among the fcdoubiful are two men who are generally con sidered temperate, but were intoxicated at the lime they were imprisoned.” . Richmond County Jail .—The four set down as doubtful were supposed, by the jailer, to have been intemperate. These quotations are sufficient to show the spirit of fairness with which Mr. C u ipm a n made his examinations, and sent them forth to the public. For the county of Albany, the table shows the number committed to jail during one month, but Mr. Hogan, the jailer,* says in his certificate that the whole number of com- ibitinenisduring the year ending the 19ih day •of November, 1833, was 1,216; that among ihe prisoners there were a t least one hundred .cttses o f delerium tremens —that at least 820 Were imprisoned in consequence of intemper ance, and hot less than two hundred for whip p ing iheir wives 1 Mr. C ole , a Police Magistrate of .Albany, also certifies that he took particular notice of every case that-Came before him during one week, and that of the fifty complaints of a •criminal-character which were made during the first week in January* 1834, forty-eight •clearly originated \n intemperance, and he Re lieves tbat to be a fair average of all the ca ses’ that came before him during the year, that is. N IN E T Y -SIX in a H U N D R E D originated in, or were dhectly'connected with Intemperance. ' At the Albany Orphan Asylum, Mr. Chip- man gleaned the following facts: Whole number.of children admitted last year, - - - 99 PAfents supposed to be temperate, - 16 Doubtful* - *■ - . , Interoperate, (one or both) - - 72 Mothers khoWn-to be intemperate* - IS Instances Where both parents Were intem perate, - - - ' - - 7 Children entirely deser'fed by their paren ts, 33 The annual expense of Supporting this in stitution iS$3,0QQ. Original cost of the build- ibfe $'18ai)00. T h S ^ p o t t aboutids With the tiidSt inter esting facts touching the tendencies o f intem perance, of w h ich the following are a few : T E N D E N C IE S OF IN T E M P E R A N C E . Broome county Jail .—One of the three put down as doubtful, is a Swede, and a minister of the gospel. He had formerly been very intemperate, but had hopefully reformed. He was a member of the old temperance so ciety, but indulged in the use of wine; and he says that it was through its influence that he was led tothe commission of crime. This is another proof of the insufficiency Of any' pledge short of Total Abstinence. Chataque County J a il .—O f the temperate, one was led to the commission of crime by a drunkard,— eight were young lads committed for trifling offences, three of whom had drun ken fathers. Chenango Poor House. — O f those reduced by intemperance, there were nineteen women who had drunken husbands, and thirty chil dren who had drunken fathers. Clinton Jail .—Of the intemperate, one is charged with having killed his son-in-law; ode has four wives, all living,as he acknow ledged to tbe Jailer. Delaware Jail.-— O f the temperate in this jail, one was a woman charged With burning the barn of a man who was in the habit of selling ardentspirits to her husband who was a drunkard. Her son, who was intemperate was convicted of arson. Delaware Poor House .—Among the in temperate Were six wives whose husbands are drunkards, and fourteen children of in temperate falhtcrs. Dutchess Jail .—Of tbe intemperate two were deraDged in consequence of drinking rum. Two olher imemperate-men had each a son imprisoned with them. Genessee J a il .—Of the intemperate in this jail, one was an Indian, who killed his wife when drunk; one was committed for striking his son with an, a x e ; one was a tavern keep er, who killed a drunkard in self defence; one for whiping his father, and four men for whiping their wives. Greene county Poor House .—Of the tem perate ono was an idiot whose father was af drunkard, and in consequence a pauper. Intemperate .parents not unfrequently have idiotic children, which is in strict accordance with the laws of hereditary transmission. If the parents are drunkards, they are not sane, and their children must inevilabiy be more or less subject to their infirmaries. Jefferson county Jail.— Mr. Beals, the jail er, gives the following description of a case of delerium tremens. “ One man who was brought here very much intoxicated, was in a few hours seized with delerium tremens. W h ilelabonngun- der this disease his cries and screams, tyqre absolutely frightful. For forty eight hours, they prevented myself and family sleeping, He imagined himself surrounded by devils, aud in order io escape them, would spring from one part of the room to the other with astonishing rapidity. H e would perhaps the next moment fly up; the grates of the cell with the agility of a monkey, and harig there until, exhausted. It required a number of men to take care, o f him ; and for my assist ants in this service, I took three other drunk ards who were then in jail. Such an appal- ing spectacle of the; effects of intemperance- did he present—so terrific and heart rending- were his screeches—so wild, so ghastly and* agonized were his features, that these men,, whose wives and children perhaps had seem them exhibit a similar spectacle, absolutely shrunk hack with horror ; and I could heart them pledging themselves to each other, that should they ever regain their libetty, they would never again taste ardent spirits.’’ Otsego County ja il.— OS the intemperate,, one was imprisoned fgr stabbing his brother ;, two for abusing their wives; two, (a brother and sister,)f fori incest and arson; four others- were a father, mother, a n d two sons. In the poor-house for this county,, there* were nineteen wives of drunken husbands, andf ninety-one children of drunken fathers! ' Rockland County jail.-^-Ois tbe: intemper ate in this jatl, Ohe was committed for break ing into a distillery and stealing a pail full o f whiskey, in a pail which he had stolen for that purpose* In qrder that he might drink the whiskey thus, obtained in peace and qui etness, he went into a hog’s bed and rem ain ed' there until nearly starved. Another for stealinggreen corn, and sejliugit for whiskey. St. Lawrence. County; Poor-housif .—Among the intemperate* are a woman aod fdur chil- dretiV the husband was sent to jail for steal ing a barrel of whiskey, and his family was sent to the poor-house; eleven, others were the wives ahd children of two drunken broth-
