A Penitentiary Thanksgiving

-A spirit oi' thankfnlnees surely ought to bc eiicournged in every hemt, and we think Col. Waloutt made a most laudable effoit to do this in liis address to the convicta in tlio Oliio Pfnitentiary, just a t'ter they h:id caten thoir Thanksgiving dinnei Ho remisded the men tuut they should bo thankful that, "whilo they wero workiug over and around numorous steam boilers in the various shops' no accident had befallen them. Thcro isnothing liko keeping a looko.ut for tho blossings of life, umi certainly to work around a steam boiler a wholo year and not be blown up once, ia a blessing which even the flulled uiiud of a coavict should cotn piehend.