The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-02-26

We have received the twenty.n annual renort ~
thl' institution, fsom which We collect the following
summary OF Its condition and operations The re-
ceipts OF this establishment for the year Isa7
to sal 4s5 49, aud the disbursements to SAL 2s9 o.
account Of 1916 This statement dots not iacluds the
debt CT $4,000 90 dae for tho erection of additional
buildings. IN 1916 The number Of pupils at tho close
Of tho year 225 viz 1876 males and 50 females
This institution recognises at subjects for admission
only those who are either born deaf or who by
cident In early YOUTH have lost the Of hearing and
Fno axe tsrmsG deaf mutes, but who afflicted
seventy-one from various parts of this state twelve
from other states and eight from the British PROVINCES
paid for by their friends and the remain
der who mostly introduced by the superintendent OF
common schools supported by the institution Deaf
insttution as the older they are the dout 1t Ia
to teach them. 30 many we'll instructed pupils have
that it has had the effect Of rapidly increasing tho
poatons admission and the members Of the institu
ton believe that the Legislature Will cheerfuy grant
the heahness Of the situation and the excellence OF
its domestic arrangements 1t Is remarked that only TWO
cases of aa during tho yea- and no
serious accident has happened to any OF the pupils
to which they would seem to be more peculiarly liable
but that they naturally endowed with instructive
yarines which sipgulary protects them from all dan.
ger During tho intervals OF study the pupils are al
taught the most useful ordnsry trafe with gra. az
vantage TO Themselves aud to the support Of the nsti
tuition The nartcuars of the annual exsnin alton OF
the pupils pa bshed in the report, afford satisfactory
evidence of their extraordinary progress, In the various
branches instruction Four Of the teachers well ed
ucatcd deaf utesthe other gentlemen OF col
peer Ed teaches class personally The and science
Of instructing deaf mutes 10 daily improving, and 30
many expedients are hourly invented for soridging
tho labor the president has in progress puoiioa-
lion Of the proceedings OF the institution in order
| to preserve these valuable technicaties. During
the last fifteen OF the existence OF tue pstuon
the nu mber of pupils annually admitted has doubled
being about forty two each Ii Il now nearly ntty
vsars snos the toun dation Of the institution As Of
he rouus of the dgent and scientific Investigations
Of its with regard to the laws which govern
tendency to natural deafness, they are ncinsd 70
the opu A. that in cases, 1t arises from the
arrispes of too near relations in evidence OF
which they adduce the fact, that while Ia the oommuni
ty at large not than child in fifteen hundred 10
born deaf there exist ia certain fsmss as many as
from four to eight deaf mute children VINO are
cousins nephews or n.ces whereas the cea,en o.
are born full possession Of all their faculties Inc
education Of the deaf mute Is On srduous and am
cult task even before raising them to the mental level
OF wholly uneducsted child who hesrs and IL Is, In
every respect far greater labor than the education OF
the blind possessed OF the faculty Of hearing The
amount Of individual donations and subscriptions for
the last year Sa7l3 besides few presents 10 the
| library end cabinet.
Il Is their aim to develops the whcls nan, moral and
physical The pupils divided into clsss accord
ING to their standing and capacity Besides the express
sivs Language Of signs, writing, being tue principal
| medium or instruction, literary composition ns.u.aiy
becomes the basis of their aoors are auec tns
study OF the scriptures geography and aIhmsic and
the higher caases evidence in their examination NO
proficiency ia such subjects as physiology and DIS
tory. There are, also In each class lev VINO nave
more or less the power OF articulation, that are daily
| exercised In the i'm provement Of this faculty
With regard to the last annual examination OF tue
pupils We CLEAN this wing interesting particusrs
The young IN n ployed cabinet makers exhioItea
handsome specimens OF useful household ~
as secre aries bureaus tables So manufactured ~ the
best style of the art By their labor the
furnished with every article In this ne anu al repels
are made at trining expense Tine young men enss8eu
at the trades OF shoe making, tailoring ana oooK-pno
ing do all the work the concern la their respective
arts and como OF the male pupils are employed In toe
garden (Which Is abundsntly supplied with the choicest
kinds ffui. aud vegetables In their proper season IN
| the study Of horticulture IL will De perceived
| that, Independently OF the course OF moral and
literary instruction, enc Of tbe chief opJects q
the inst tatiou Is afford the pupils the means OF an
independent livelihood in future at the same time TN
their present labors yiald reciprocal teneht TO tne
selves and the usttution The COMMITTEES asctios .nt
remarkable hsalthines of the establishment, not sion'
TO the ssubrity Of its situation, but mainly to It's excel
ent sanatory regu tons with regard TO proper Veh.ns
ton and scrupuous neetness and cleannnesS anu ii
cases of occ eickness the patient pIovdea Wiz
every confSrt, and treated with parental sohcitude
Since the last annual examination, various improve
meus hay. been added to the buildings ana the lnsti
ties OF New York During their examination, the pupI
indlso compositions various SUBJECTS such as letter
to their relatives characteristic descriptions OF anima
paragraphs designed to exhibit their distinct concep
lion Of tbs various parts CT speech in gram mar an
the highest class compose essays OF higher order
many specimens of which appended to the publish
ed report At tbs close Of the examinations dpiomas
certificates and farewell letters Conferred upon esrs
Of the pupils who have completed thor studies an
ore about leaving. 10 reoaim these Focr deal NUT
from the lowest scale Of humanity, and train e,i y
become useful and intelligent beings merit the nisnes
eulofy aud this institution Is noble evidence Vi ''
philenthropic spirit OF the citzsnsof New fofS'