New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-01-03

B,ane s' in ,ad the Treasury. 5ath Sept ista 7s Is
Tn. d,vi d1sis 10 Academies. and contingent :.
penses paid out Of the Treasury 80 IS
Tbs United ia States Deposit fund
gage in the several Counties and on the JUN sep:
last, amounted to-. 4,s5l Isl %
Amount received into the Treasury for revenue da
B,. .es i in the Treasury 3oh Sept 1852 0o co
TOTAL .s3 s2 7 '55 e e
Charges OF the revenue for The ,42 %
Balance due the Treasury soth September last 81
The number of acres of land charged with
taxes in lS42, was 27,l76,934 valued at S5Vl,-
254,O29; and the personal estate at Silo,o39,
233; making an aggregate OF s62O,676,34b. On
this sggrepate was collected for State State tax
and County charges S3,2s3,4 400 80, and Tor
town charges s963,0S7 SO, amounting IN all to
S4246,4 IS; equal to nearly seven mills on
every dollar Of valuation.
Our Colleges, Academies and Common Schools
are performing the high functions for which they
were designed, in manner credltabie TO those
under whose supervision they are placed, and use
full to the public. No interest of tile State Is EN-
titled to a more favorable regard, or greater
share OF attention at the hands ofthe Legislature,
than that of public instruction. The intellectual
and moral culture of the SIX or seven hundred
thousand children, who are speedily to succeed
the generation now or the stage OF active lie, ana
to assume the duties and responsibilities, as well
of government as of society, in all It's depart
ments, involves in its consequences the existence
and dcstinies of the Republic itself, and cannot
be neglected without danger to the vital interests
of free institutions. The elementary education
of the youth of the State has attracted the atten
ton and occupied prominent position IN the
policy of the Executive and Legislative depart
menls, from very early period OF our existence
as State.
A perpetual fund, the revenue OF which, Tor
several years past, has secured an annual appor-
tionment from the Treasury for the benefit OF the
common schools of $4,000, has been specific
ally appropriated, by provision Of the Constltu-
ton, TO this object; and since the year 1885 the
additional amount of Sl65, 900 has annually been
appropriated by the liberal and enlightened policy
of the State, from the revenue of U. 5. Deposit
fund, to the object, and to the procurement
of common school Libraries IN the several school
districts of the State. An amount, in the aggre-
gate. equal to these two sums ,OOO) IS re-
CURED to be annually raised upon the taxable
property in the several towns; and the proceeds
of this fund, augmented by nearly an equal
amount contributed by the inhabitants OF the Sc
yeral districts on rate bills; by various local
funds, and by sums voluntarily raised for tins
purpose by the inhabitants OF the towns, arc ap-
piled exclusively to the payment OF the wages OF
competent and approved teachers, and to the pnr-
chase of suitable books for the school district IL
brarles.
There are l0,S6O organized school districts in
the State; from 1852 of which, reports have
been received during the past year, pursuant to
law. The number of children who have been
under instruction in these schools, for longer or
shorter period, during the year embraced IN the
reports, exclusive of those in the city Of New
York, was 6l0,354 being an increase OF up
wards Of thirty-nne thousand over the number IN
attendance during the preceding year, and. con-
siderably exceeding the whole number of children
between the ages Of S and l6, residing in the dis
tricts reported. The number under instruction
in the several public schools of the city of New
York, is about 10000. The whole amount OF
public money received and expended in the seve
raj districts, from which reports were received,
during the year ending on the date of the re-
ports, was upwards Of S660,O00; of which
S565,793 76 was appropriated to the payment
of the wages Of teachers; and about S93OUu Tor
the purchase of suitable books for the several dis
trict libraries.
The amount raised on rate-bills for teachers
wages, in addition to the public money appllca-
BILE to that object, was $509,376 81 making an
aggregate of upwards Of one million Of dollars paid
to teachers during the year, for the instruction OF
youth in attendance on the common schools The
schools have been kept open during an average Pc
Rod of eight months, throughout the State. The
number of volumes in the several school district
Libraries, is about $4,000.
The substitution of single officer charged
with the supervision of the common schools of
each town, for the board of commissioners and
inspectors, formerly existing, in connection with
the supervisoryand appellate powers Of the several
county superlntendcnts, as defined by The law oil
the last session, seems TO have met y.lsf ihc gen
eral appreciation and concurrence of tie people.
Conventions and associations OF the friends ci
education have, during the past year, been held In
almost every section Of the State, indicating a
concentration of interest, and direction ietfort
to this great subject, which cannot fail OF produ-
cling the most salutary results. The standard of
qualification for teachers has been materially ad-
vanccd; parents and the people generally, mani
fest an increased interest in the welfare and pros
peritv Of these elementary institutions OF learning:
and there are the most abundant reasons for an
tGpating steady and continued improvement
in all the clements ofour extended system OF CON-
mon school education.
1 am not aware that any farther legislative ac-
ton is expected or desired at the present session
in reference to this system. The frequent changes
which have been made in the law during the past
six years have scarcely afforded the necessary
opportunity for the inhabitants and officers of the
several districts to become famiarized with the
various duties devolved upon them; and it is in
every respect desirable that the system as now
established should be permitted without farther
innovation to deve!ope its excellcncies andts de-
fects The magnitude and variety ofthe interests