Town paupers assisted in the same time, Intemperance, Total of town and county paupers, 26 3 5 18 135 Not from intemperance,. Doubtful, 22 17 In the amount expended for support of poor, is the sum of $484-43 for support of town poor, and not included in county tax. This would make the county tax, Deduct as above,.... $7,196 04 5,772 40 $1,423 64 H. S. WALBRIDGE, Clerk of Sup. ULSTER COUNTY.-Population 36,550. Of the three classed as doubtful, I cannot recollect their persons; from the commitments it appears that one was sent here for disorderly conduct; one for stealing fowls, and the other for petit larceny. Nearly all of the 39 were notorious drunkards; one of whom was committed for stealing four cents, with which to purchase spirits; one for killing a man, and that while intoxicated; three are women, one of them has been committed three times; and a number of men have been committed for abusing their families. Kingston, Dec. 19, 1833. ASA S. WYGANT, Mr. Wygant was confined to his bed by sickness, or I should have been more minute in my inquiries. Poor-House. Whole No. assisted from Oct. 17, 1832, to Oct. 17, 1833, was...... 111 Not reduced by intemperance, 4 Doubtful, 4 Intemperance,, 103 SAMUEL HASBROUCK, Keeper. Mr. Hasbrouck says that there were also, during the same time assisted as town paupers, 117. Among those reduced to poverty by intemperance, is the wife and four children of a man of very respectable connexions; he was liberally educated and was bred to the profession of law; he is now residing in the county a slave to his appetite, and even the sight of a sick, broken hearted wife, with four children, carried on a litter to the poor-house, was insufficient to arouse him to a single effort to break the chains of a depraved appetite, and save them from this degradation. In the same poor-house, is also a man who was once an eminent lawyer. He became a pauper solely by his intemperate appetite; he has a wife and one child. The wife supports herself by teaching school; another of the inmates of this house is a man that has been a distinguished teacher of a classical school in the city of New-York. $3,292 63 poor-house, N B. The expense of town poor supported at (raised by tax on each town for the support of its own poor,) $1,461-85. P. V. GAASBECK, Jr. Clerk of Sup. Kingston, Dec. 19, 1834. WARREN COUNTY.-Population 11,796. Of the temperate, one was a woman. Of the doubtful, two were lads, both said to be intemperate; one of them for assault and battery; the third is a man, also said to be intemperate. Twelve of the 19 were committed for assault and battery! four of them were brothers !! JAMES T. CAMERON, Sheriff. Remark. This is one of the most unsatisfactory examinations that I have made. The attention of the keeper had not probably been called to the subject of intemperance as connected with pauperism; and many of the inmates were from distant towns, about whom Mr. N. knew nothing previous to their being brought to the poor-house. County tax, Crime, Balance, Expenses. $4,816 21 1,040 70 1,559 31 2,600 01 $2,216 20 JOHN B. PROSSER, Clerk of Sup. WASHINGTON COUNTY.-Population 42,635. a man for Among the temperate, one was a lad, and one was Whipping his wife!!! Of the doubtful, there are two whose persons I do not recollect; one that occasionally gets intoxicated.— Four others are sisters, the daughters of intemperate parents; the parents kept a house of ill-fame, and these daughters were kept as prostitutes, one of them was only 12 or 13 years old. DARIUS SHERILL, Sheriff. Salem, Feb. 4, 1834. Poor-House. Whole No. in one year,. Not from intemperance, Intemperance, Among the temperate are a number of idiots and lunatics. And about three-fourths of the doubtful are the children of foreigners. DAVID THOMAS, Keeper. Argyle, Feb. 6, 1834. From the following extract of a report of the superintendents of the poor of this county, it will be seen that their attention had been early directed to the connection between intemperance and pauperism; and to this, perhaps. is to be attributed much of the zeal which has been manifestsd by the citizens of this county, and the distinguished success that has attended their efforts, for the advancement of the temperance cause. By a report of the superintendents of poor in Washington county, made Oct. 1, 1829, it appears that from June 20, 1827, (the time when the establishment went into operation,) to the date of the report, 322 had been received. In that report they say that "by a careful inquiry they have accertained, that 60 of these were sent to the poor-house in consequence of their own intemperate habits, and are now (if the means could be procured by them) confirmed drunkards." "That 230 (and probably several more, if correct information were in our power) where sent here by the intemperance of others; as fathers, brothers, guardians, &c.. thus presenting to our view the alarming fact that out of 322 paupers, 290 of them, being upwards of seven-eights of the whole were made such either directly or indirectly by the sin of intemperance. Expenses. Balance,... North White Creek, Feb. 7, 1834. $11,818 91 4,966 95 5,010 49 9,977 44 $1,841 47 IRA PARMELEY, Clerk of Sup. Doubtful, - Particulars. I have had the charge of this, jail, (either as sheriff or jailer) for about 10 years, and do not hesitate giving it as my opinion that the above statement for the past year, presents a fair average of the amount of crime growing out of the use of ardent spirit for the last ten years. There has been a considerable diminution in the number of commitments on criminal process in the last two or three years; which I attribute to the decrease observable in the use of ardent spirit in the community. Lyons, July 12, 1833. CALVIN D. PARMETER, Sheriff. Particulars. Of the 31, was an English family of seven; a German family of four; two deranged persons brought here for safe keeping only, and two illegimate children. One of those classed as temperate made free use of spirits, but could not be considered a drunkard--his offence, an assault and battery on a woman; another made use of spirits, and was imprisoned for whipping his wife! White-Plains, Dec. 12, 1833. JACOB FOSIIAY, Jailer |