Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-02-27

Npw yop,y SvSrr, ~, FOR TIE ENQUIRER
The report OF the Superintendent Of Common Schools
made TO the Legislature Of New York, in January
presents glowing outline OF the triumphs of this noble
system The difficulties which originally obsr,cted it,
action have been removed by the ed Iiberav
OF the community Ii is not like Of legislation
on this subject law which sIumbcrs in vapid
ness and whose existence OF fderDg promise and high
sounding defamation is terminated by the statute
IL has now become the proudes well the most ne
ce'sary feature OF the political greatness of that State Its
invaluable blessings have been widely and successfully
disseminated while it has awakened ideness into ac on
aud ignorance into virtue.
The great principle which this system is based vim
ates no feeling OF avaceno sentiment of proper govern
ment, and makes appeal either charity or bene.
voleace The apporonnent OF public money for the sun.
port OF the common schools paid such amount that
the inhabitants OF the several and school districts
may De induced by this payment TO raise by voluntary
P'ishment OF the object. The whole annual expenditure
arising IRON the system OF public instruction. to
more than million Of dollars Of which the State adj
vances about one eleventh part.
The productive capital OF the common school fund dur
Ing the ye 1888, ending the 30h Sept amounted 10
mortgages for the sale OF andsbaances due on old
canal aud bank stocks To this fund also belong all The
unsppI opated lands owned by the State, the first Of
January, 1873, and now remaining unsod Its unproJuc
i've fund, consisting OF unsod lands is estimated more
than $4,000.
comparative animation Of the returns from the Com
mon Schools will exhibit at glance the expanded use
ulness OF this noble system In the year 1888 the num-
her OF children taught in the School districts making
turns, was, 49i9o0-whe The number hdreD be
five and fifteen sixteen years OF age residing in those
districts, was reported at sos S7S.
In the county OF Genessee than 20 900 children
were instructed during the last year. In each of enty
TWO counties there are more than two hundred organized
school districts In eleven countess than HIN
dred aud fifty In Oneida, three hundred and 6y four
In Genessee, three hundred aud twenty and in Osego
three hundred aud ten.
by an act Of the Legislature in April 1927 the sum of
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars added TO the
Literary Fund, the interest Of which, amounting 10 ten
Thousand dollars, is annually appropriated TO the acade
mics, Tor the purpose" n the language Of the Act Of
promoting the education Of teachers" Under the prov
sions oil this law, sixty FIVE academies have been called
into exIsence and have produced teachers sufficient for
the demand OF the community. These academies are uni
form ~ their course OF instruction, and many OF them pos
sess convenient edhces valuable libraries and phosopb
cal apparatus. The men who qualified in the inst
tu,ons Tor the duties OF Instruction. must, from their DO
iished edhcaoD exercise powerful and improving fs
pulse over sociey; wbie public education takes from their
labots adgnity and expansion honorable alike to pa.
trioisn aud humanity
In the common schools reading, writing, arithmetic.
aure at us last session recommended the abrigem OF
hvings Lille oil Columbus proper class book Tor the
use OF the common schools" The Superintendent also
suggests some higher branches of study called for by
the educated character Of the comnupy geometry prac.
ucal rules OF civil jurisprudence, constitutional law and
the duties Of public officers
The conclusion OF the mastery and beautifully written
report OF The Superintendent Gen. j. A. Dix must ex.
cite by its cheering and satisfactory results both our
uiiratou and imitation:
The organizsiion (says he) Of the syste IL eoto
p'ete The public fund to IL annually sum en-.
reiy adequate TO call forth the necessary exerons from
those on whose voluntary contributions its support mainly
depends and with proper zeal aud attention, Ito the
crcson OF which Is The duty Of al classes TO contribute
on The part Of those mos, deeply interested in its pros