The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-01-21

Wiiliamsgh. 3,l25lt3 8t4UT 4U3l 1887 OBS
The amount paid rate bills In Utica 1855 49, and
those places In the other places the schools free
or substantially so very little being collected rate
bills in Troy Lansingburgh, Poushksspse and
with This table, any one can tell what would be his
tsx for the support of schools in either of the places
The continual increase Of the common school fund
would annually diminish the amount of taxation
1t urged by the opponents Of the system, that
those who have property taxed to educate their
owp well the children Of poor and that those
are also obliged to contrbute something for the edu.
cation Of the INDECENT Those who have omitted their
duty OF are mere Fortunate than their neghoors IN
Of the trifiDg burthsn which good fortune imposes
Are property holders wronged or By this sys
tenn Of taxation!
Property the creature OF the law It's ownership is
regulated by law.
DISTRICT SCHOOL JOURNAL.
The Superintendent would earnestly recommend the
continuance Of the appropriation Of $1,000 to the
District School JourRdt.
HOUSES.
There Is doubtless . gradual improvement going on
In the State in the Of SCHOOL houses ha
log huts and unsuitable structures built at the ar
organization Of many Of school districts giving
place to more comfortable and convenient buildings.
hsTiTU7IoEs For the DEAF AND DUNE, AND FoR THE
During the summer attended the annual examina-
ton Of the pupr in the for the Deaf and
Dumb, and the Blind in tho city Of New York.
The extraordinary progress made by the scholars in
both inEtutions furnishes the strongest evidence Of
earnestly commend these noble Charities to tho
continued favor OF the State.
GENERAL oBsEnvATIsss.
If this report, in its details, Is not In all respects
satisfactory yet the general results dedueibe there
frem such as to atfy the most ardent friend Of
cut, that the Legislature may anne nd thsm 1nacou-
rscts exposed that they may avoided In failure
pie and It cannot be expected that 1t should work
with perfect accuracy But It's defects sh )ud
ed and Its discrepancies reconced by the making
power and It's various parts far practicable har
monioutly adjusted.
There are instances Of trustees unable to read or
Of town superint- ndents incompetent and dishonest
Of districts quarrelsome and blind to their true in
terests yet these are all exceptions to the general
lars Is dsbureed by eight hundred and twenty town
supsrinten dents in small sums and at different times
to about thirty two thousand trustees ana that the
accounts Of this expenditure are rendered BY this
legion Of officers, must that perfect accuracy
cannot be expected And yet the account Of d:burse-
tie reports Of Trustees show that 1893 6l7 children
have school less h four months during the
Year. ALTO reminded that fifty years since tina
Of the people had the opportunity to obtain
even the rudinents OF education. We must also
recolect that the enlightenment and refinement Of all
al Gle mt and most modern tries limited the
favored few and that the to fame aud prefer
except through the church were cos cd against
sny person who could not claim descent from some
Norman robber, other freebooter, whom had
enriched and wealth ennobled.
III
attended school more than four months during the
year and that the attendance bsvery year increasing
we .hall End NO cause for encouragement The &C.
tua rchool age is from four to twentyone, illegally be-
twee FIVE and sxteenD and under the present orgaui
ration Of schools 1t Is scarcely possible that all the
children Of the Sae should not ate nd ct least four
| years in the ccurte Of seventeen.
ADy person Of ordinary capacity, who has had from
four TO six years Instruction in the osmmon school,
fitted perform well his part in of the
tons of life. If he kas been taught that most impor
tapt part Of al instruction. how to learn, he will
| time TO add to his acquisitions Of knowledge.
IL must be borne in mind that 1t is not the object
| Of the common echool to make finished scholars Its
great object il to give to all the first elements Of an
employ pts in life have to each other that but few
are needed to become scholars by profession The
| common school system gives to the community at
large, without respect to condition means the op-
porurty which, without It, would be enjoyed Only by
the rich for the unfolding Of
| dividua inclipations tastes, and powers of mind.
The district school and the district library supply
all with knowledge, and open to them their rich and
In obedience to the settled conviction of the people,
that 1t the duty Of every well constituted govern.
cation tie constitution guaranteed the integrity of
| the Common School Fund, and We may, therefore,
hope that the common school system viii be perfected
and continue to exist long The constitution and
lays by which 1t 10 guara ntesd and governed
| CHRISTOPHER MORGAN.
Such Is the report Of common school system and
though able document, regards the author Of It,
yet the picture it draws, OF confusion expenditure,
hberany, ano parsmopy oepioraoie. Wnet can Dc
expected Of school system in which teachers salary
is on an average twelve dollars per month That is
three dollars . week Who but bsggars fslons dunoss
idiots, and imbecile old women, and worn.out ser
wants, BIZ obtained to sit down to such gnomini.
Gus and contsmptuous drudgery, at such . salary,
which is less than child IL years Of age can
earn in New York By running errands! We invite
the attention Of readers particularly to the schools
fer colcred children there is some drol Information
there Eight thousand nine hundred and ninety
dollars paid for educating in county Of
them and two hundred and forty for two ooorsd chill
bred in another county
That part Of the report concerning Indian schools,
desrves attention and Is particularly interesting IL
is not perhaps, generally known that the Fourisrts,
rectal system h in practical operation In this State,
and that ts natural fruits and consequences beg
gary soth ideness, indolsnee destituton, wrstchsd
ness and misery!
PlRAcY AND MURpER.-The French schooner.of.