Litchfield enquirer., 1843-06-01
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS REPORT

SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS REPORT.
 We have received copy of the School Commissioners Report, from which we give the following abstract. It will be seen that the Fund continues in favorable condition, under the management of the present Com missioner. The revenue arising from the fund, including the balance in the Treasury last year was as follows :-
 RECEIPTS.
 Balance ofrevenue on hand, March lS49, g q 0e O Received for interest and rents, lU9'Sn S9 Dividends received from bank stock, l4'9oo 0o 0 Do from school socs Monroe & Plainfeld, l09 l6 Repavment of temnorarv loans 1850 % Total amount of income $l33,SOl 56 DISBURSEMENTS
 To snec;ai pronts of T.eoisIature. 34I 60 To claimed Oct. and March dividends, llO,O6O B Salaries. travelling, and other expenses, 3,169 IS Temporary loans made Tn past year, 1l'SoO VV
 Total amount of disbursements, $l3l,6Ol. .28 Balance ofrevenue in Treasury Mar lo45, Sl,2Oo 2o
 There is also on hand, says the Report, the further sum of $25, 900 of revenue tempo rarily loaned on interest at 6 per cent. well secured, and which will be repaid on two days notice, if required, for the payment of dividend This sum forms safe and use- full surplus, and will be sufficient without further collections of revenue, to meet the next October dividend to the schools. The amount of revenue received since the close of the last fiscal year, will be adequate to the payment of the dividends of that year which remained unpaid at that time, amoun- ting to about $8,0O0.
 Under the sore embarrassments of the country, it was feared that the dividend of $l 40 to each child, could not be continued. But contrary to general expectation the same rate of dividend has been declared, as was paid last year. amounting to $llS,496 ]; exceeding in amount, the largest dividend which has been distributed in any former year, by more than one thousand dollars, and is about 07-S per ct. on the original cap ital of the fund, which was Ss1,20O,O0O.
 The full returns and certificates made by the School Society officers to the Comptrol- Ter, for the last two years, furnish evidence of an unusual strict compliance with the re- quirements of the law.to enable the districts to draw their dividends. In May, 1S40, the amount of dividends requiring petitions to, and special grants from, the Legislature,for their payment, was S1,7G8 25. In May, 1341, the amount was S3,267 50; but in May, l842, the whole amount requiring spe- cial legislation was only $34l 50; and $222,6O of that sum, was by reason of de- linquencies in one School Society. In the past year, the requirements of law appear to have been so promptly observed, that dividends have been denied on 57 children only. In relation to the other districts, the necessary proof seems to have been fur nished, that the schools have been kept ac- cording to law.
 The capital of the School Fund,as last as- certained, was invested as follows, viz In bonds, contracts, and mortgages, $l694420 97 In bank stock, 2l6 700 0C In cultivated lands and buildings 79,9O9 0C In wild lands in Ohio N. York tL Vt 47,460 2t In stock on farms in Massachusetts, 2lO Ot l In cash (since loaned,) 5,664 64 Total amount of capital, $2,O44, 1854 g.
 The unsold wild lands, it will be perceiv. ed, constitute $s47, ,0OO of the capitol of the Fund, yielding no revenue, and requiring considerable expense and attention 10 pre-. vent them from being sold for taxes, or de precated upon by trespassers. The same remarks, 10 considerable extent, may be applied to about $9O,OOO. The whole amount of sales from this class of lands within the year past, is S6,Ol9 78; and wilc lands, to the amount of $935 72 have beer sold.
 Whatever opinions may have formerly been entertained and expressed at home or abroad in relation to the unfavorable effect of the School Fund on the schools of this State, it may with truth be stated, that al l the present time the common schools of this State are in a condition far superior to those of any other State in the Union. School houses, and the character ot teachers and books, have for many years, been constant. l ly improving. The youth of the State arc l almost universally furnished with good common school education and the cases of persons destitute of the rudiments of ed. ucation, are more rare in proportion to our whole population, than in any other of the United States.
 The following table shows the number of children, in each county, as returned tC the Comptroller, and also the amount of di- vidends paid, with the aggregate in the State :-
 Counties. Districts. Children. Diuidends Hartford, 259 l4,697 $20,7l5 s( New London, 2lS l2,27s l7,1s9 2 Fairfield, 2H A,322 2O,050 & Windham, l67 7639 lO,790 4( Ltchield, 29l 1l,033 l5,446 2 Mddlesex, lN 7Oll 9,Sl5 4( | Holland, l29 4,9l7 6,8S3 S( Total in the State, l.7i7 s4697 Slls.576 s( | TEXAS AND SLAvERY-A letter from Calves. 1 ton is published in the N. O. Bee, in which T ltl,o obo, oho e1