The New York Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1847, Page 1

SS —————— Vol, XIII, No, 49—Whole Ne. 4646. ———_—_—_—_. AFFAIRS IN ALBANY, LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. TELEGRAPHIO. now pending in said courts, thereby sotfiool children in Schenectady, than in St. Law- me Court from the mass of ters and proceedings siness which would otherwise be throw! a1 2 upon do not compare favorably with the | between 25 and 30; and 217 over 90. The numbe - —. males who had taught, in the whole for a period I one year. was 172; who had taught, in the whole, | deemed im th 807. The number who had taught one year, was 453; years, Nem and for three nts jast year on this subject for the year 1845, not oly a diminished | than portant to put down the frac'ions of the but ‘for each of the and thorefre they sre resting problem for the consideration of the attendance in the age! 's above given. Of the 73, 86] cl it during some in which the sohooi abatracts } made to the department from that city. The last annual Pro- | report{rom that office shows an attendance of the period of “ien and lesss than twelve months;” aud | in number, 25 622 were re) | perintendent of New York. te cal attendance should correspond exactly with the “‘num- | aught during the yoar;” it does not, | however owing no doubt to some error in taking the amount from the teachers’ lists, or {rom the trustees’ or | town superintendents’ reporte. Tho cifference is quite small, and will not average buta fraction over one, to every two of the reporting districts. * + * . * Schools heve been tought in the several counties ip | | the State, other than those above enumerated, for such | periods as to give an avera; teen countics, the average is nine months; in twenty- | ia thirteen counties, seven Mouths; and in one county, year, not one | ment, owing to the manner | al are whom 1.163 were 18 and 21; 1,788 bot: 20; and 263 upwards of 30. had taught, in the whole, for a period less than on was 2.442;'who had taught, in t longer than one year, was 3,483. who had t ught th 4,340; for ono year, three years, 171. ina of the Peace for each of said courts may ri vided that such extension 6) day of June, 1847. And the House, in Committee of the Whole, resu: © collegiate and academical ap A most remarkable and incomprehenvib! pervade tho House in regard. to The amendment to the bill now nual stipend of $25,000 from deeb Sp oposite f appro; to colleges a common schools, Teen the fate of ment there appears to be u great deal of intere: peech of Mr Burnell tod ‘ae intermingled with barat moral sublimity, pamion. It was a loog speech especial reference to the proba: The number of volumes in { tively determine, - not be beyond the last of females who creased during the y crease from 1844 to 16: Tn two of the counties only, d in six of the other coun’ are less than 36,000; in fourteen counties, the oxgregate number of volum a upwards, to nearly 30 000; in eight counties the numbers range between 20,00 and 25. tween 16 000 and 20.000; ia thirteen counties, bet 10.000 and 16 000; Mr. Haanis reported a general law for the incorpora tion of religious societies. A debate ensued on a motion to refer to a committee, with adirectionto report a general bill in relation to bridge companies. The debate resulted in sending the whole subject to the committee. The resolution of thanks to Gen. Taylor, and others, was debated, but no question was taken. ted by the county su- | he whole, for a ‘he aggregate of periodi- number of females than ove year was years, $24; and for | number of districts vis id was 6 808, and tho uggregate number of pupilein attend- Auce at the time wes 2i attendance at the winter achools, and the 211,747 at Fummer, the course and extent ‘of the her of children ti Of the 227.760 pupils in and the remaining six counties, from 1,043, in Hamilton county, to 6 619 in Putnam, The average cost of euch volume purchased for the libraries in 1845, asstming the whole amount o! money to have bee: and sixty fiye and ficient to destroy such presumption. ‘There is not any reusonable probabil against the amend- of oloquence, tre- 1d semi-breves of ind it was made with extinction of the aca 8 and sewin.ties of learning in this ‘The Committee di not vote on the amendment. The same Committea went through the followi: use; it is un important. bi House by Mr, Ruth der of good Jnteliect, ‘and one of the able: ‘authorize the Board of Education of the rening free schools ge of eight months. Atsanr, Feb. 18, 1847. Mr. Buaneat reported a bill for the appointment of dockmasters in the counties of Wostchester, New York, Kings, Queens,’and Suffolk. The bill in relation to certiorari in certain cases, was Passed. This is the bill relative to Freeman. Mr. Smaut introduced a genoral bill for the incorpora- tion of charitable and religions associations. The Judicial Districts bill was further debated. Seve- ral motions were made to amend the bill, which were rejected. Pending the motion to strike out Tompkins county from the sixth district, and insert Tioga, the com- mittee rose, and the House adjourned. one counties, eight mont months; in four counties, Hamilton, five mouths, . . * use of j ubes, Me that, in many instan tricts containing the The number of children reported es having been dt, #ome portion of the year 1844, in all the coun- tthe Sivte, Wa... weometry survey iis, mental’aadunoral teens overs 749,688 WAR. ee eeeeee 7 boards, or other scientific apparatus, ‘and reported it to the Ho appears by the report of 1 pec! Xteenth section of the act, chapter 13 48. Inoreare during the year... ........+ of pupils, in attendan vate schools,” during the the counties of the state, w York, from which none have been reporter the present year, although 20 000 were re- turned tor J944, when the aggregate of this attendance i city of New York, to establish education of Apprentice jople of the State of Ni Assemb.y, do enact Seo. 1. In addition to th ized by law to be raised and of common schoois in the cit: the Board of Supervisors of annually raise and collect b. the epntinnant eharges of In relation to the ch common schools, the superintendent elucidation of the terms, ‘ aud those of acter, or of hostility to th “ anincorporste: "Tho average of tho aggreg except the city of D attendance at the others, rk ropresented in ow: ¢ inter examinations, fraction to each district, and at the summer visitations sition of them met the entire approval of the dis ‘and county of New York, said city aod cousty shall tex in the same manner as e said city and county are such farther sum of money, (not asand dollars per annum ) as the Board city and county shell certifyto the risors to be necess:ry for the organi- and support of evening public schools,and the said Board of Supervisers or the Common Couucil shall cause the said sum of money to be deposited with the chamber. Jain of the said city and count: the disposal of the Board of for the organization and sup; the gratuitous education or i others, whose daily avocatio1 their attending the public or wa These returas al ; at the ‘ine of visitatio: a decided improvement in the 1 ed in the higher bronches of in our common schools, Ww some inovease in tho attendance | vor that of 1845, and | ver of pupils engag- BY THE MAILS. LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. Ausany, Feb. 17, 1847. Sen: Mr. Fousom, fom ee Geman on imecsinre te fe jon of zens low bees i =p hse riation of funds for the esta- obsorvatory, reported a The whole number of “ select, and pri- vate schools,” at the close of 1844, was 2,006, and upile, was aan for the year, any sect or creed in our country chiming to b gious ono, shall be tolerated in the sehool librari “2 Standard works on other topics shall not be ex cluded because they incidentally und indirectly betray us opinions of their authors, rks 2vowedly on other topics, which abound ind unreserved attacks on, or defence of, the ong! What stronger indication than | this should we desire of the gradual advance of tho schools in all #1e elements necessary to meet the public wants? and what exhibition con be moi nting the school children of and pi dvancing in the acquisition of kuow- ledge, practically useful in all conditio, @ number of pupila in schools, engaged iu the study and pra sic in. 1943, during the winter terms, w: 47,615; in 1845, 77 926; aad in Leds, summer terms the nu: periods were 17 632; county superintende: ing tho year 12,609 school: M4 AZ it that so few of our colored population ap- ttended the schools during the p ar sents. The views prevent hool houses a ry, and show some and an extended field of operat it ‘The compensation paid to male teache rm, averages $14 16 to each pe: rng excluding the city of sus retarns, there w 208 of these uchool: exceeding ten thor of Education of said snid Boord of Supery: ©, ‘on the lat day of July, 1845, 4 reported attendance of 8,364 The marshals’ reports also give 63 private and t schools in the city of Albany; and the number of children attending the same ix stated at 2,49) Jn the superintendent’s annual report for the year 1344, “ np iige! “pri followigg abstract mber of children “average pumver York, praying for en appr Pont ala er agpnneeeticryes petitioners. iy to raye' "The bill was Fead,and re(erred to the Committee of the Mr. Hanp, from the Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred a bill entitled ‘‘an act in relation to aveealy St the passage of the bill.— printed. any religious body t ling out or bringing together only th | history or character, shall b of New York, subject to | ducation by appropriation part of evening schoo! instruction of apprentices and such as to prevent chools now provided ears tuere were 34, vate and select school: ot New York is not included. 66,446--during the 'Y whose constitution and laws guarantee mobora for the above corresponding 2, usury,” reported a The report was ordered to The concurrent into the House by tions to our Senators, &e. val of the bill brought into the Hous Cty for the reliet of Ireland, te their honor and famo, Assembly, and laid on the tabl whether of Rome or and Jew, to the orthedox and neterodox, what ither to claim exemption from the operation ofthis rule, and to insist that the district libra: hal! become the propegandists of th i all the others a1 of pupils in uttenda th incorpo: and private schools,” and “the students” attending the reported by the Regents of amble and resolution, introduced rd, conve; sugges Sec. 2 The Board of Education are hereby authorized to organize and establish such evoning schools in the cil 'y of New York as they may from time to pt the necessary rules “‘neorporated academie: the University, in 1846, of children taught in the com- ome portion of the year... . upils attending the pri pedien'; and to and regulations for te government This act shall ta xcluded ? of the State, or infidel, contribute of their means to support thi je, and, “‘even and exact justice,” demands that the rule of be equally and inflexibly epplied to were received from the le, under a rule of the Se- preamble and resolution is creditable to the go- vernment and the representatives of Whoie number of schools, reported Whole number of same, atten: effect immediately. =—— COMMON SCHOOLS t on the past ; each; otherwis the above statement, it was not | not stated. This exposition pre- . * . . district libraries, on 1848, was 1.203 089—having in- , only 67 889 volum: ‘The in- mber exceeds | 1, the ges from 25,000 in ten counties, be- | | library | plied to that object, if cents ; but this statement is ity that the whole of this fund has nd no othr ‘ante of quired nun black: of the of maps, globe r the ricts, as authorised by the 3 of the laws of stian religio: ed to that tho Teliowing expo: Dguish- 10 uphold o pty t, or tho: 10 contempt or exe jon, by rkor paits of iis n alike to protestant and cathelic, notof Rome, to the unitarian. uni- Pe while y iohabitant of the dis- jew or gentile, obristian all must be permitted to enter the arena. : * * Sabbath school, church and perish libraries are appro- Spirits vo humane, and ee feature in ibe human characte tl i ime” wi cor pir dor ty shall sme her throne, and when entire gladness shall fill the hearts of men. The mares pe President of the Indians of the Six re- moved west of the BM: i to return to this State, were received from the Assembly. Mr Fo.som asked the unanimous consent of the Senate to take these resolutions into consideration immediately. Mr Van Senoonnovsn objected. The resolutions were laid upon the table. Mr. Fousom called for the consideration of the House resolutions of thenks to Gen. Taylor and others. Mr. Fou.som roge with a copy of the resolutions in his hand ; he said that the Committee on Milit whom these resolutions were referred, had lustructions, The Senate hed instructed them to make some simple verbal amendments, but they had added a roviso or & preanible, that the war with Mexico was an vitable result of ber repeated outrages and Upon the great North American duction of such a preamble into resolutions of this chor- acter was improper and uncalled for. He hed hoped that these resolutions would have received the unanimous vote ol the Senate, but with such a declaration they must be inevitably defeated. He moved to strike out so much of the second resolution as referred to the causes of the ex- The honorable Senator said that in order to effect bis object, he would modify his motion ; he moved resolutions to the Military Committee , with instructions to strike out the clause referred to, and them to the Senate Hanp suggested to the Senator that the Chairman of the Committee on the Militia, who reported the reso- absent. He submitted to the Senator Proper to withdraw his motion Mr. Fovsom withdrew his motion, end the resolutions were laid upon the table. And the Senste, in committee of the whole, resumed the tonsideration of the resolutions of referance of por- tions ot the Governor’s Message. The leading characteristics of the debate, which curred, were of that peculiar netice of them unnecessai The committee rose, w: £8, from the Committee on ‘Was referred the Assemb): on contributions of flour, hearts so susceptible of immer term, $15 77, exclusive of board. The average monthly compensation paid teachers, during the tormer, Annual Report of the State Superintender * * * . * * » ‘The fifty-nine organized counties in the State, contsin- ed on the first day of July last, towns and wards; and the wi school districts, the school ho’ in the town or ward re, thousand and eizht ; dred and twen'y-seven were wi thousand three hunsred and fort; joint districts, composed of territo: fhe trustees ot eight thousand one three whoie districts, priate receptacles for works of peculiar sectarian te: cies; and no one, it is belie ‘ho his own rights, and justly estimates would seek, by indirection or other to enjoy any at the expense of his neighbor. . This prohibi- tion, called fer by the statute and enforced by ‘the de partment, was not intended to produce any injustice or inconvenienc ‘aud to guard the and preserve them from the encroachments of the maj It appears that school houses have been erected on the Ono! a and St. Roy was $7 37, and for the latter exclusive of board. The average as high as $19, $20, and eve: Y per month, for education”, ., sical scholars or studonte. nine hundred and twenty ‘ole number of organized uses of which were situated was, on that day, eleven eight thousand toree hun- jole districts, and five -eight were parts of of adjoining towns. undred and ninety- anal of five thousand two hundred ts of joint districts, have filed reports with ‘ursuant to law. There were, thore- nd thirty-four of the former, ‘and one red and fortv one of the latter, from which no re about the same number of y month, for males, ales.’ ‘The average of r in the eummer than in the wii female teuchors it is the reverse ; ow rable loss number the seasun the average:is the highest, and so e farther fact, that these who have devoted themselves to inatruc- proficient and faithful in t discharge of their duties, are retained in the same d. trict, or continued in some other durin, whole number of teachers, found at b der 18 years of whom were fem: three fourths of whom were mal: nations we found 1,062 teachers, who had taught same school for one year; throe years. At the summer examinations, 1,306 were found who had taught the same school for o ears; and 356 for three years. that 8,386 had been om; jand 4,599, fora tions respectfully request the States to perm: ‘ho have been 807,200 ‘The oggregate population of the State, on the lst of July, 1845, 2,604,495; and, from the foregoing, that nearly one, in ole population, or truction, some part mere advanced é. every three and one four of every thirteen were under ins of the year, in the ele y branches of English education, and in the classical de partments of the academies and other schools before enur Local laws, containing special provisions in reference in the cities of New York, Brooklyn, Al- bany, Troy, Hudson, Schenectady, Utic and Buifalo, and in the towns of Pel have boon passed by the Brooklyn, Rechester, and Buffalo, these arges for their support aid ig of school houses, exceed- ing the public money annually apportioned, are de- @ tax upon the real end personal property en from the reports of th its the condition of males ; and also to tion, as a profession, and aj for the instruction of cessful operation. The superiutendent’s concluding remarks on this sub- Jeot are as follows :— Tho duty of tsking the census of the Indians onthe several reservation: il aot, chap. 140, of the laws ef 1845, was performed by | @entiomen long familiar with the lodian character, their | customs, manners, aud habits, and the results given are | relied upon as accurate. ‘Tha whole number of Indian children residing upon the several reservations in the | State, on the first day of July, 1845, given in the cens reports, was nive hundred and eighty-four, (984) d | tributed as follows:—On the Oneida res 9; Tuscarora, 63 ; Buffalo, 11 824, On the Cattaraugus the year. The visitations, un- e was 1,522, the greater po; 1,901 over 30 yeas old, At the winter exami- fore, one hundre ports were received ; showin, dolnquent or nev-re Tue delinquent districts appear by foi (nis deparinont, to be about one in number, for the years ending on the 3lst of December, 3 and at the close of the year 1845, the pro- portion remained very nearly the samo. The Jast annual report shows there wert hundred and eleven towns and wards the eleven thousand and eighteen school distric houses being in the saue towns and wards and four hundred and nineteen whol: districts, thousand three hundred snd eleveu tricts ; and, comparing the results co ports of the last year, with thoso of 1815, we Lavo a da- Crease of ten districts, the school houses of which were situated in the same town or ward; and also a decrease of ninety-two whole districts, and ‘en inc: seven parts of joint diatricts New York one hundred und orting districts, as occurred in 1844 rmer reports from fitty of the whole hkeepsie and Wil- 406 for two years; and schools are free, and the chi for the erection and repairin, joyed in teaching gore than one yer jess period than one ‘The fellowing abstract, town superinteudents, exhil schools in the respective cit toned, except Schenectady and Poughki , Of the estimates and amoun' the school moneys, w: The whole amount during the year 1845, and a district libraries, was $1,19. 553 97, over 1844. ‘he receipts and upportionments b: tendents during the year 1846, inclu in cities under special laws, was $772.67 3 does not embrace the contributions by rate bills. i estimated expendicures for the year 1847, including r special laws in cities and by rate Mt $1,290 .473 81. mout of the school fund during the tion from the U. 8, Amount paid out duri leaving « balance of $1 In the Comptroller's re stated that from 1816 to 1840, th to the school fund $8 make the annual rev law to be distributed. From 1830 annual revenues of inte: to $1,632,976 76 for distritvution, leaviog an excess of $19,000. Besides thi ts of expenditures of @ give only a brief statement. Teceived by the tru: lied to teachers’ wag: 097 79, being an incre parts of joint dis lected from the re- No of Amount of pub. vols in “bic money rec'd Srom alt soureet, aggregute of the whole indian population upon these re- servations, is 3,763 ; und the proportion ofe the above ages, to the whole population, is nearly one to four, or twenty-five per cent, a ratio almo’ that given by the census for the white popu: tat sr has district the town superin- school purposes. tions, we seventy-two whol ied it would ing these distric' ‘is int houses within ti ‘Tho births and deaths among the Ind year preceding the first di bo nearly equul, being 121 births aud 120 deaths; an the largest.excees of mortality is found on the Onomiags, Halo, Allogany reservations ; while the bi would not until the chairman (C! some town or ward This is the only instance, save one in 1843, where the returos exhibit a diminution in the number of school d.s Period of more than 31 years, and consolidating old and fe Xceed the death: Tonawandas. If, from the above date, it ay thatthere cannot be any natural increase gate of the population, among these remnants of a once powerful ud cousiderably numerous people, the conclu sion is quite strong and certain, from tne premit Anat the ratio of mortality must be among the adults and children over and under the ages of five and sixteen ; otherwise, the proportion of children between five and six- teen years, to the whole population, to corres- pond #0 nearly between the two rect utterly hopeless must be all attempts to fatroduce the arts of civilization among uny poople whose minds | Untutored, aud whose understandings are shrouded with ignorance as dark and impenetrable as the legends of rigin, and the machinations of their evil spirit — The policy of the Legislature, indicated by the acts be fore reierred to, must oe perfectly apparent, and will re- seine as it deserv: iy 4 | of @ Just and liveral people. EV DYO: LOE DOM: | Nassd by the act, toteorrve-uoe xpend the money sp- propriated for the erection of school houses, on the Alle- gany and Cattaraugus seservatiens, have the required bond, on the ground, as is understood, that no provision has been made to compensate them for the services to be performed. The beneficial objects con templated, can no doubt be attained by a change in the commussion, or by authorising so the persons already designuted. ’ . tricts in the State, fora this hes been caused by is tricts, by dissolving others of like character withor led, and annexing the posite fund, was $376,287 03.. the same ‘period, $271,073 81, oc. quality which renders any school houses worthy to be so cail ithout having taken a vote territory of such d.ssolved distric . . port to the Convention, it is | je general fund advanced 1.863 10 more than was refunded, to equal to the sum re: to 1646 inclusi reat paid into the treasury, aggregate of the sumis paidout is $1,904,483, during the same Teceipts over eppropriations of all the benefit arising from | the payment of the income into the treastiry and its re- maining there until subsequent!) may have been, of thisfund would, at si annual revenue of $121 $117,866. 87 if promptly paid at the tr OF THY CAPITAL OF THE COMMON 1 proceeds to state the @ total of which on the 80th of Septem + $9,183,942 05 is than months. mber of common schools in the State, on ‘aly, 1845, as returned by the mai sppolnted to take the Jast consus, was 10,629, exc of the city of New York; andthe whole number of school districts, having the school houses in the same town re- rintendents in the other countie: of July, 1846, was 10,836; the diffsre: tu hibited 203 less than the town bill for the remission of tolls . for Ireland, reported the bill to the Senate with amendments. Referred to the Committee of the Whole. the Ist day of J ported by the town su Axnany, Feb. 17, 1847. THK CONVICT FREEMAN—INTERFOSITION OF GOV. SEWARD. Mr. Coxnwett presented the petition of William H Seward and others, for au amendment of the law in re- gard to the allowance of certivrari in orimi fs to secure to accused persons, who are insane, the same benefits of said writs which are afforded to sane persons. y admit that “' they desire such an amendment immediately ond withjreference to cases now pending, while they believe it necessary as @ pormanent For this roason the set forth the occurrences out of w! erises for the immediate interposition of the legislature ‘The petitioners then proeeed to recount and relate the circumstances associated with the dreadful murder of the ‘Van Nest iamily by Freeman. ‘I'he petition also contains the application of Governor Seward for a new trial for tue neg:o Freeman, it also contaias a certificate of certain Justices of the Peace of Cayuga county, Freeman, deine very deaf and a lunatic, gnizances for his appearance in Court, or to comprehend the asture, object, or effeot of the recogni- wenced. Ker weno reasons the petitioners pray for the pesunge of alawto secure the object mentioned above tor the benefit of Freeman. Tho Clerk, having read the My. Cony weut srose, and asked the unanimous consent of the House to introduce a bill for the objects mentioned 4n the petition. for July, 1845, superintendents of It is worthy of notice, that returns were received from the trustees of all the school districts, in ths counties ot Kings, Montgomery, Onondaga, Ontario, mond, Schoharie, Seneca, trustees of one district only in Albany, Clinton, Cortland, Essex, Monroo, Orie: Washington and Wyoming, Jn the ivilowing coun- on made by the trustees Poh RO . ken from the county super intendents’ reports, has been compiled, in order to give acondeused and comparative the common schools, ia different sections o and in counties adjoining to those in which the citi The following abstract, ta has accrued to ‘The present productive capital vat interest, produce ap ‘The petitioners fre each of the counties of Schenectady, Tompkins, | neglected to moke their rey ties no reporis appear to have be of whole districts and parte of joint districts, to the num- ber here stated, viz: Columbia, four whole districts and eight whole and fourteen part Dutchess, one whole and eight perts; whole aad two except in one instano», selected to afford WOOL FUND, RTC. titioners humbly greater facilities for observing the difference, if any, joh the necessity ‘ween the system of free ana other schools estabiis cular laws, and that of those io organized uader the general Amount of public applied to teachers wages eight parts: Delawere, Erie, fourteen whole and sever Increase during the year... * : * districts; Lewit tricts; Oneida, two whele and eight pi whole aad nioe paris; St Lawren part; Sten!en six whole and si whole districts; Sullivan, four whol in Warren, five whole and five pac No. of siv’ge No. No. vals. school. trict ubra- and school dis't The capitel of the common school fund has sustained losses since its establishment, timg in the to $170 203 00 ; and has been increased by ti the surplus revenue of the United States ve which acorued in the year 1830, 1840 and 1842, in the ‘he whole smount of surplu: ceived by the common school {und trom the United States 1@ $31,632 76 transferred during 09 ; and from ali other sources ved and carried,tocapits The following statement shows the amount of capital Ty period of fiv ponding with the year: as now provided by capital during the same time, and ¢ No better plan of general organization and supervision, under a form of go popular will, bas been, or pro puble of producing the astoni hibited in the ducuments accompanying the reports {rom this department, for several years pest; some are opposed, and t utility and e! ta; Putnam, two six whole and one arta; Suifolle, seven two parts; and ‘Was unavle to sum of $118,106 34 The number of “ unincorporate sohools” returned in 1345, was .. The number reported in 1846, was select and private depoalt tund, including ‘gies of the wholo peopl in the performance of an important duty, othe | States wre assimilating are modifying their laws to produ: responding result system of inspection and superintendence advantages and so present condition o! chi produce @ atrong conviction of their mince 1688, tho net amount r as been $60,257 69. Decrease of privato schools in one yer On tho first day of July, 1846, the agy “unincorporated, 1s” in the State, was 12,738, ‘averaging nearly 14 for each town and ward. Tho whole numberof common and private schools reported in 1845, was 12,999; show. ing a decrease dur! 3t, Lawrence . ..402 No. chil- No. chile No. pupils No. who No who di ded d ot this fand at By consent of the House the petition was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, with instructions to jy to the prayer of the petitioners Mr. Suumway, from Jin which epportion- , the increase of | amber of chil- “common” snd dren who atten 4G less so m'nths report @ bill eonformabi: After a little delay, on the Judiciary, reported the followi: AN ACT concerning the allowance a Counties. during Co be tween 5 & 2 months. the year of 261. This diminution d school houses, should not produce any whatover of retrogreasion, or want of nce, iu our school system. The whole number of children in the 3ist day of December, e 2 of the city o v Ca'taraugus. 11,914 ir crease of the same during the same periods:— from No. of child’n In. from writs of error in rit ‘The people, ke., de enact as follewa :— (1, Section 88 (second edition, which is section 65 of @ third edition) of title 4, part 4, chapter 2, of the Re- ised Statutes, is hereby amendod, so that in cases of in- shall not be necessary for the ofii- cer allowing a writ of certiorari, to take any recogni- 42. Whenever it shall appear that the ace! ing for a writ of certiorari under the befor and for that, or any ot! into a recoguizance, the same may ties alono without his being a party . This act shall take eff he bill wes read, and Committee to report com, Iner Capital. one peri schools entirely fc | elementary and u common languege of the country; and s the youth of the 31 life, and to imbue | duties and obligations as citizens and constituent mem- bersof a great a , 1845, between the a ir ending 44, also excluding Vee bene deseces 690,016 at of December, 18: the city of New York, was. ‘ * The avérage of the mo nthly compensation paid to teachers, in the foregoing ceuntie varies very mate. section, is insane, competent to ent be taken from suret New Sreams: our citizens visi on Sunday. She may weil be called the pride of the Gulf; for a more gracetul craft, one of firmer build, more elegant architecture, more neatness of finish,or of engine, of fiaer mechanical execution, never floated on its waters. She combines strengt taste in the detail of ornaments and appointments in a Her tongth is 227 f ox r of children, be- made to the deport of New York; hildren in New ar returns of the whole num! tween 6 and 16 years of age, are not ment by the school officers in the and it is presumed the whole number oi c! York, between those ages, would be found to exceed w of avoiding an over estimate. the en for the city of New + | mapa w On.rans.—Thousands of ‘The Superintendent recommends that the Town Su- ‘ eqnale $21 92 per month ; in’ Westohe: }@ elected bienally or triennally instead of Onondaga $12 09; Ontario $11 09; Greene $8 91; angus $7 1; Broome $7 29; and in county $17 08; nt. M the policy of the Legislature to ap- | portioa the funds of the State in such manner as to allot, equal portion to each child, and, atone period, t p itt rect immediately. It has hitherto b referred back to the Jadiciary Mr. J. StH introduced a bill to fix the salaries of the Indges of the Court of Appeals and the su; rt, 4s o: ganized under the new constitution. ti ry of the Judges of the Court of Appeals at $3, the Judges ot the Supreme Mr. Leavine reported a Dill to authorize railroads to carry ireight during the whole year, upon payment of A number of private and looal bills were The commissioners appointed b last yeur, to examine into the neers and contiact Tho averoge expense for tuition, the number of scholars in attendance during the t upon the rate cf compensa 1 Queen’s county, the ave- inating the attendance at Ifthe whole number of children Seon between tive and sixteon years, had attenied. Wu . depends as well uumber of this class. of childr i aevtag the. eee York, has been put down at 78, as near.y aa practicable, between five und sixteen years of a the apportionments were based upon the anmber of chil: dron reported trom the several towns and counties, be- | tween those ages, and not upon the aggrogate of tho | whole population in each. mode of distribution has been ogein changed, and the ap- the several towns ording to the ratio of their po- ly, ®* compared with the population State, according to the last preceding ceu- | sus’ but the town superintendents are directed to appor- | received by them, among the | rts of districts, and neighbor: hoods separately set off witbin the town, in proportion of children — residing under thet of have appeared from the last an- spective trustees.” tho school is kept ope: tion paid to the teache rage expense per scholar, ten months, is $3 09. superior degree lopth of hold, 14 feet; a The whole number of school children in the State, ou the 31st day of December, 1815, within the ages limited by law, including 78,000 for the city of New York, was Wholv number for the of December, 1844, including 70,000 tor the city of New York, was... per annum, and the sal Court at $2,600 per enum 434 evolutions since leaving New York—making 14 evolutions to the minute, oasrying 10 to 12 lbs. steam, | vacuum varying trom 20 to 47 inches; average rate in a sea-way, 14to 15 miles per hour. Engine built by T. F. or & Co., New York. William Bisby, organ, the owner of the Ni Increase for the last year, including New York. This, however, cannot be the whole increuse in the State, whole number of births For an eight months’ school in Onta- this average is $135 per scholar; in Greene $1 84; od Washington $1 26 each; for a seven in Broome $1 44; in St. Lawrence 05 cts ; taraugus for @ six months school, 97 cents. doa the school mone; several school vistrio s, u a tate, that she will-be open to-day to all 'w | peculiarities of bi true aggregate of the during the year, 1845. The iven by the census of that $704,09,760, and the whole number of deaths of all ing table shows the duration of life ®pproved writers on that interesting irth to the expiration of five a rowerd to irauda hich were sald to have tees mony 10 which were sa} ve made their voluminous re. eral weeks prior to the alluded to the report of in ra; they were organized into |, and authorized to take testimony, &c ,and make ra pd upon Lod merits \ extraordinary repor not redound vastly to | or its subordinate officers. re has boen an extensive of collusion and co-ordination between certain officers, appointed and salaried by the government, and certain erpetrated upon the pire to the House to day. meeting of the Legislat these commissioners at with Plenipotentiary pow. ateucture. The New Orleans leaves » | tomorrow for Galveston. May many prosperous { yoreger await her in | Feb, 2. over the age of fi years, as the same sh gual reports of their rations upon which beth of these apportionments are based, be aCburate, then it is evident thet the of children between thi dation, is much larger in some counties than in others. The following statement gives the amount under the late census, to each of the cot the number of children in each, between tive and sixteen years of sge, on the let day of January, tie of pubic money for each child is the The county superintendents for each county the State, exceptio; Ja, Orange, Richmond, tern section of Cattaraugus county, returns of examinations of the winter schouis whole number of districts visited during the winter dd the ite number of pupile in ich visitation was 227,760.— le teachers employed was 4 463; and rs of age, 960 between tion of a couat; Hamilton, Onoidi subject, from the ti fter: henectady, and A Satvon in rue Grasp or Lanp Swarns.—The 6 above ages to the w! Of every 100 births, robbery committed in that city on. Tuesday night :—"' A man, a pative of Belfast, robbed last 1100 in bank bills, $100 in geld, and a gold watch, whilst in a state of intoxication. He went into « house of bad repnte in Canal street, where he foolishly will diselove some fects which will ayive eae yous, the credit of the government They will show that thei tioned | seafari 65 26 Of 100,000 children 1946, and the ra- roperly ect e righ others, rd, Ww! jut to prevent the perpetration of both, ights and interests of the minoriti is reservations, and schools opened indian children, and are now in suc- # in this State, prescribed by the ‘vation, 69; jon, 21; ) 81. The wanda, 126; 3t. ch Idren, of TKO 0s in the during the : ts id to of July, 18 id a among the Oneidas, Tuscarores, and assumed ‘the oggre- largeat juld not find Vaio and the cordial approbation and suppert commissioners dosig- | jot_ tendered | ompensation to be paid nunent depending entirely upon the bly dovived, ca. | ually ex- | g remuits, ind while re in doubt, in respect cy, in arousing the and directing thos othe: Organizations to ours, and | ticable, cor- andou @ prolific of of the past and | Why, then, med? A re ac public eat usefulness, | nd fis blessings within the reach of © to embrace them, except ion, in the to prepare 4 of ho. r their Jor all the usual growing community. il his new end beautiful vessel her frame-work, and breadth 34 feet, measures about 1000 tons; her 4inch cylinder; made 1,8000 gi deer. Orleans, superintendence she was built, r 0 He will be present to explain the r future reer—N. O. Delta ives the following account of a was | displayed his mouey, and, becoming alarmed at an at: | No. of children Proportion | tempt to take it from him, he lett the house, and request. | jeda@hackman who was at hand, to convey him to Lis | place of residence. The hackman drove him out on the ‘eck, whore the heck was sopped, and two men, who robably been riding outside, got into the carriage, | and notwithstanding his resistance, etcceeded in robbing btn, when he was turned out into the street. ‘The samo | man was robbed of « lurge sum of mo: about two Survive one year , 154 were under 18 hired contractors, to rob the great treus rg vere 7 pilerings of an orga: fattened upon sod government vaults for this infamous policy of the government— laws—this idolatry of part: of theeo politics] lamplighte: tue of nobility, and which 4 tween the ages of 21 and 25 and 30; and 630 over 40 lumber of males who had taught in 8 period than one year, was 1,672; one year, 9,802 74,201 we take the calculation most iin jn of life in iu ese partial | the incr od with the of- radle to the du it; showing very clearly ) must, Under any circum. for it will not be assume: with a total in- who had taught in the whole moi The number who had taught tho same school, for a pe- Jess thau one year, was 3,070; for one year, 713; two years, 260; and for three years, 262. The number of fe ‘was 2,240; and of these, 178 | W' were under 18 years of age; 650 between the ages of 21 \w and 46) 160 between 25 aud from lo44 to 1945, ‘9 exceeded contrary to al! rational ertn= SIES which is oqu! ‘ts the surplus fands of jevernment from those channels where their use would benefit the mass of the people and enure to the 188 ‘of4, the kumber of births male teachers omple; lst of July, 1840, should have been 1845, as to give only abot eco | years ago, in this city, under somewhat sic and 118 ever 30. The | % ‘ommissioners was referred to tho | lowing preamble and resolu- number of females who had te less period than one year, wes jer than one year, 1,264. of the a ieee Ho) school re every #6 of the in 1845, was botwoon § she 1 ht in the whole, for a | 18; who had taught in New Bripes. te population of th of the raidroad bri ft Bexue offered the fo! The following is a description | je over the uehanna re | ver at Harrisburg, just finished by the Cumberland Val- | road Compapy, un iminense structure. The en- | | The whole number of children of all sees, TPRas eesbt the struction, some poriion of the time during in ail the common schools ja the State wh: ei fe aa including the city of New York, was 742,485 Of these, 4,198 attended 12,661 do me school, less than one year, wa: read, it is pre ued by the sth section of 1.176; for one year, 349; two years, 146; and for three amended Coustitution ot this of July, one thousand » jurisdiction of all suit y commenced and taen ested in the Supreme jirable that the several eecces. esses a Y “oa the first Mone dred oud forty. ceeding# origina Court ot Common Pleas, ot Now York,) shell Court: aod whereas it is des! Courts of Common Pleas in this State, (other than that | and nin ty-two feet,or within eight ! improved dot bridge him at inequality In the sums the sixteen coun |, The roturns under the above sevoral heads, for the torms of the summer schools, are comple Seption of the counties of Chomung, A Kings, Lolo We Se vnig and ee ‘eatecn section of a count, 6 num! | male teachers ed iduring the Venue terms, was appordoned to the chi ties above given ; litte rewaining countios of the State. school the whole 10 and less than De » Herkie | P eet it be the purpose of the Legislature to mal | tion of the School Fund faualy, it is obvior ether eighty-four feet long. send nine hundred of four thousand. | igo is threo tho men's of lattic nty-three viaducts—one fifty three feet, and are two carriegs | oy There above which, tinmediately under the roof, is the track. The entire cost of the bridge is about of which about $16,000 wero required to repair | occasioned by the several accidents, referred to ip the @: tepowe of and flaelly tion above mentioned,) should judicate upon the severe) mat. 87 were under 18 y’ tionment and di een the wges of 1s | conte Why should assigned to each scheol child in Allegnan, or twenty-four cents more to each S335 periments mee in Prussia, iron cen- hii in thickness then or- r charge of powder. 4, that the build: t, | non bronz dinery cennon, wi | | The Merrimac Courier it is pripted cost $868. an: house, the like of which can be built for $500, rents tor $3, 12 A manramed Bird, cupposed to be one of the three who knocked down and robbed Mr. Frozer on the Paw tucket turnpike, has bee: ated ond cammitted for aye cought fire in North Bridgewater, on Satur day, in consequence of the rain wet slacked lime on the premises. A couple in Allegh t damit onbe back an Lb who, seeing the knot w: and bade them Godspeed. ito Eramin: sat ae ero ae Ww: of Ops, we - | Ci burnt down about midnight, and : cores four children_were hare to death amid: 1B 8 quantity of un} one dollar | Lindsay, in the ing, siya the M et of vo- | inthe churc! Jumes, have appropriated ihe library money, belon ing | tered the jowe old and tilver watches, breast pins, was entered from the rear, ishment of Mr A. R. Crosby, by and pliers. Between fifty a n, a sheen of them a te t to be used in rt of them belonging to customers. aeatbalearrocge: tourist name | Cae (emetey wenallreoedineetehensieaeter tae sectarian char | styles. Religious Intelligence. The painers, Anppal Conference of the Methodist it d. Episcopal Church, whic y fo uphold, Washibgton, will meet at the nesday, the 10th of March It ia @: hundred and fifty ministers will be Hamline is to preside. Tho number of colporteurs em f ear me pet far over all the States ‘and embracing u glish, German, French, Welsh, and which hold up | tion. oundry Church, on Wes: urch, on ected that about two shop red by the American if ibut Tract Bociet from 200, distri egian WeattH or PuiLapgLrnia Crry axp County.— excluded from the school | The following is an exhibit of the assessed value of real and personal, Philadelphia, Real estate, Horses and cows .. Personal property. Furniture, (al rty in the city county y the Chronicle of thet elty,— Mone: Watches, (about,) This does not include the amount invested and commerce of the city, andthe stocks “Twomas F. Marswatt Kitizp uy Casstvs M. Cray,” is the imposing caption given to the fol- lowing story inthe Louisville Demecrat of last Satar- We learn that news reached here yesterday, in « private letter, of a fatal encounter between C. M.'Clay and Thos F. Marshall. Reports of this character have batt Une! Co wd ee in Cutt ee tated te- “The public know that a grudge has long ex! iM Jearn, that for some cause, Marshali refused to fight, saying thet in bohalt of thai 3 tween them. We challenged Clay ; thut Cla they had both volunteere and should not kill each other there, but that 1 ne wi wait until the war was over the matter shu ald be at- tended to. Marshall became enraged att 2 when Clay in the counter ran sword ” him through with b: fe 3 dah Sa GratiryinG INTELLIGENCE. — The New Bedford Mercury of Wednesday si Boston yesterday, from : Letters received in lu, Oct. 25th, mention ival there on the 18th, via California, of our long absent townsman, Mr. Henry Lindsey, for ship owners engaged in the whale er of despatches trom the States to the Sandwich Isla: overnment of the United From the long interval has elapsed since the previous tidings from Mr. L., and the somewhat bezardous entorprise upot embarked by the overland route, this infor- be most gratilying to many of our reade both in the assurance which st sfforde of his sefety, ex: of the prospect of his speedy return home. Cattarau: | th HE copartuership heretofore dericned, under the firm of y mateal consent yo seitied by Mr. Bi due t! ¢ concern tust be paid, and im the setdlemect be is eughorized to use the name of the IH Hsoy TVS WOKKS WILL PRAISE IT. " 7 edumdted thet New York, Jan. 26, 1847. 8.NO uMBUS. Dozen after co jon 03 « I does Rint i 4 he, 8. INGERSOLL, Bole Depot 230 Pearl st, two doors See ce-tificntes in Troe fon NYU Lav, co-partnership of rime, olved by mutual consent. irm will be liquidated by the subscribers. a ARCH’D GRACI New York, Japnary 2th 1847. The subsoribers have this day formed a eo-partnership, an | der the firm of & & CO. the Banking, Stock street. the firm of John We MEE, } of the. late: frre ard & ‘MevicAL NULIUO“ R MeDONNEL! mrope, attends In part 0 this cy or Brooklyn, for from $8 to {rested to him at 93 John street, New York, will ee Ladien res ta distance, who are suffer es of long stand! bas’ obstractious, regalercties, &e ¢ hat have fatleds he boast dy, cau apply with confidence to describing the» ining the necessary ward rd to their direction tn cannot fail to | _ 302 1m*r 3 Joha street, if FOR COLI or and Sulphur ain, Sore Throat, n be devised to | M%fae certain eure fort vidos instruction in sil the | 284 sll nflammatory yluesyer tncideat ve, the “changes state of the weather. | lasly recommended by ont 6 L continue to sell th fe bh 4 d, corner of King to those who wi SUSPENDERS FOR EXPORT HREE thousand dozen Paten' d to the Mexican and rade, aud warranted to siand lee: climate. For sale bythe manafacturer and owner HORACE A . DAY. 3 Com Di. POWELL, OCULIS’ TTENDS to Diseases of the Eye.ani le d . 961 Broadway, gee nad office. 381 Broadway, con ‘ nally remov 4 treated with great attenti or Squinting ears? uw ated Suspenders merienn, as we! ary permanent? cured, AKTIFICIAL E Speetacles ad: d te er a poke pre ~ JEFFERSON INSURANCE COMPANY Orvicy No. 0 Wart "} e THE Mencmast’s . shan opersy alte amlast lose or camage by fa 18 wPRGREE enten UEU. 'T. HOPE, Beerstary, mre “wat tre TO MARBLE WORKE Ls. POLISHING OLOTH. 8 superior Lolishiag Cloth, suitable (> a eee TESO EN NVLLOPE PAPEL circum | SOO YAK . ‘AY. (Lxtrect.)\ ebeorfally comp) jnest of Lienteuant stae unfit for duty, in plao—the in | being two sin. | 381 There sre twen- | was invalided home. ly recovered his hearing, eure for incipient deafmers, ) aad collections of bar