Poor-House. Whole No. received in 1833,..... Of this number there were Americans, Of the Americans there were, Not reduced by intemperance,.. Doubtful,.. Intemperance,. Of the doubtful I have strong reasons for believing that three were brought here in consequence of the intemperance of the father. Of the foreigners, Not reduced to poverty by intemperance, 24 Intemperance,. ... 45 83 Of the temperate were eight of a Scotch family. A number of other families were left here, while the father went to the western country to get a place to deposite them; and I judge they were temperate, from the fact that they have returned with money and taken them away. Of the doubtful, the strong probability is that a large proportion of them, were reduced to poverty by intemperance. Of the intemperate, I judge and decide from my own knowledge; some of those whom I have classed as temperate, may have been intemperate. Beekmantown, Jan. 21, 1834. H. W. N. RANSOM, Keeper. Expenses. County tax $13,500 00 Of which there was raised to pay instal- 1,349 00 COLUMBIA COUNTY.-Population, 39,907. Jail. Whole No. committed in one year, Temperate, 124 Of the temperate, one was imprisoned for a riot in which he was engaged, and at the time, he was under the influenee of ardent spirit; two were acquitted, one was a lad. Of the doubtful, one for assault and battery; one was acquitted; one drinks occasionally; one charged with threatening to kill; three were lads, and two of them make free use of spirits; there is one whose person I do not recollect. Of the intemperate, one is a man who was once a very respectable business man of this city ; became intemperate, and in consequence, deranged. He is now at the poor-house. Another was also once a valuable citizen, became degraded and worthless from intemperance, and was sent to jail, for abuse to his wife and his parents. of perjury, which was committed while very much excited with Another was guilty liquor; his father is a drunkard, and is in the state prison. And FOURTEEN were sent here FOR WHIPPING their WIVES, or otherwise abusing their families; one of the 14 was committed SEVEN TIMES for this offence. There were also 4 other persons (not included in the 153) confined in this jail, for non-payment of military fines, ALL of whome were drunkards. Several of the intemperate have been committed to jail repeatedly. Hudson, Feb. 14, 1834. EDWARD O. HOLLEY, Sheriff. Poor-House Whole No. since the 6th of April last, (about 10 months) received into this P. H. (about).. Not from intemperance,.. Doubtful, Intemperance, 200 17 47 136 1 Of the doubtful, there are some whose persons I do not recollect; some are transient persons, and foreigners; others are from OF THE INTEMPERATE, ELEVEN ARE FEMALES !! HARRY HULBURT. keeper, remote towns. Ghent, Feb, 14, 1834. County tax,. Expenses Of this sum, there was raised to defray $15,614 88 Of the temperate, two were lads, one of whom was committed for assisting his father to break jail; and one was a man committed for profane swearing! three for assault and Battery!! G. KINNEY, Jailer. N. B.-The sum of $1,200 was raised for the support of the poor, but will be insufficient. J. D. P. FREER, Clerk of Sup. of Further.-In the amount of the expense of crime, the pay judges and jurors is not included. Judge Mallory, the treasurer, said he had no means of ascertaining it. This may be thought strange! This, together with the amount that will still be requisite to supply the deficiency in the poor fund, would add to the expenses from $500 to $1,000 One of the temperate was a lad whose father was a drunkard. Of the doubtful two were acquitted on trial, and the other was a fellow who was underwitted-he was committed for assault and battery. Of the intemperate, one was committed for whipping his wife. Delhi 3d December, 1833. OZIAS WATERS, Jailer. Mr. Waters adds-In the preceding year there were twenty committed, of whom three were temperate and seventeen intemperate. Of the temperate, one was a lad; one was acquitted, and one other was a woman, charged with burning the barn of a man who was in the habit of selling her husband, who was a drunkard, ardent spirits. Her son, who was intemperate, was convicted of arson. Poor-House. ..... Whole number received during the year, Doubtful, Intemperance, 23 50 87 Among the temperate are a number of deranged persons; and among the intemperate are six wives whose husbands are drunkards, and fourteen children of intemperate fathers. Delhi, 3d December, 1833. S. B. CAVIN, Keeper, Among the inmates of this poor-house, I observed more decripitude; more mental imbecility; more derangement, and evident inability to support themselves, than I have noticed among the same number in any poor-house I have visited. Of the temperate, two were lads, one ten and the other twelve years old; one man made use of spirits; one was committed for assault and battery one was acquitted; one was a woman who was underwitted, and the other was a boy. Of the Doubtful there are eight whose persons I do not recollect; one was for assault and battery; three for threatening; one for disorderly conduct, and two as vagrants. Of the intemperate, one for assault and battery; one was a man that was deranged by intemperance; another who was once a very respectable citizen is also deranged from the same cause. Among this class were two men who had each a son imprisoned with them. A number were imprisoned Nearly one half of those classed as temperate are idiots or V. D. M. RADCLIFF, Poughkeepsie 19th December, 1833. N. B. At the time I called on Judge Radcliff, he was very much engaged in business pertaining to his office as examiner in chancery, and he could not go into that accurate examination which was desired. A thorough investigation might considerably vary the statement in relation to expenses. |