The North-Carolinian., 1854-04-08

4
Colleges
The number Of Students at Academies, Sc
lcct and Private Classical Schools, cannot be
less than 1000.
BY the census Of 1850, the whole number of
white children at School in North Carolina dur
ing that year. was 100 ,59l, one hundred thou
sand five hundred and nnety-onc.
In 1870 after the Common Schools had
been in operation about nine years, there were
1914 children at school in 1880, 1881.
or fire hurdred PER cent gam i'll nine years
The whole number of Common Schools at
that time 632 ; in 1888, there were 2l3l
schools taught in seventy counties, and perhaps
fully twenty-five hundred in all being an in-
crease in thirteen years Of four hundred per cent.
The increase in Colleges has been about two
hundred and fifty per cent, and i'll Academies,
at least one hundred per cent.
The number Of children attending Com
mon Schools in seventy countless is 50, S73 ;
and the number in the counties not heard from,
and the number not reported may be safely
| estimated at twelve thousand more-making at
least 95, 600 in 1858, against 937 liz 1S4O,
an increase of over SIR hundred PER cent.
The Common Schools have not injured the
| quality of education Ivy breaking down better
schools, for colleges and academies have made
an unexamped increase and the course of stu
dies, has, every year, been made more thorough
and practical.
The valuc of apparatus for illustrating the
sciences at the schools now in the State is
perhaps fully three times great III 1910;
| the number of Grammars and Biographies sold,
| fully five times as great and the number of
| good scholars at least three times increased
Mr. Wiley is convinced that for every two
| good subscription schools broken down by the
! Common Schools, we have at least three equal
| ly good common Schools and Academy
somewhere else, or two good schools for one,
| besides three or four other schools not so good,
for every thus interfcred with.
/ The whole income of the public School Fund!
Of the-IIniteI States iM 1850, aside from that
raised by ton Goiiaf f0ns, 7Vc. Kc, was oIIYy
two millions five hundred and odd thousand
dollars and the income of the public fund OF
North Carolina (asiClc from swamp lands and
county taxes, equal to more than onc-twentieth
| of the whole.
| The whole amount expended in the United
| States nine millions and someth over
five hundred thousand dollars and in Mort h
Carolina about one hundred and scyentv-iv We
thousand dollars.
The whole number of public schools was
about 81 900, (eighty-onc thousand and there
fore the average amount expended in the United
States, was about l II dollars to the school
the average amount in North Carolina, about
10 dollars to the school taught and at least sc
dollars for every District in the State or every
four miles square of territory Now without
farther taNatIon we can nearly double this sum
many counties now lay no taxes for. school prr
poses, while our general taxes are lighter on
resources less developed, and the value OF on
real estate mines, commerce and manufacture
bound to increase more and more rapidly from
, their present rates than any other State in th'
Union
The average time during which all the school.
are taught in the year for the whole State il
, about four months :; and the whole number O
white children between the ages of and =
years, cannot be short of 1875, 0oo--and of these
we may consider that at least 80, 600 are be
tween the ages of and s. and Is and 2l ant
I we may calculate that of those at this age til,
number who have not yet commenced going t.
! school, ard who have finished their education
is at least 80 0oG-wh:ch, taken from l95, 900
leaves l65 600.
1t is entirely safe to estimate that not NOR
) than two-thir,is of those who go to school, at
tend in any one year; aud by this calculation
! we have one hundred and fifty thousand chi
c tlren attending school at some time in the State
: and hundred and siXty-ive thousand VIII
o ought to be at school. This leaves fifteen tho,
: sand the estimated number Of those who ar
: not attending school at ALL but we have ever
u reason to believe that one-t bird at least of thc>
: will yet go to some institutions of learning.
= they do, it will leave us ten thousand illterat
!, people in generation of one hundred and nine
I ty-iive thousand or in every j. or at tn
Il worst fifteen thousand in one hundred an
I nnety-tye thousand, or l in ID, who will nc
+ be able to read and write.-UH Her.
t
It \ Young man named Cooke was arrested i
Il Richmond a few days ago. In 1851 Cock
e was engaged to be married to young lady II
d Holly Springs, Mississippi. Having an intimat
e friend named William B. Sandefson, he r.
Of uucstcd him TO address this young lady himsel
Il merely to test her faith to him. SanderSo
)f ACCORDINGLY addressed her, acccltcd; an
= they married. In about twenty minutes aftt
the consulnlnation of the ceremony, Cooke aSke
Sanderson to step into the street with him
;, minute. Having gone little distance from I'll
1t house Cooke drew pistol and shot Sanolerso
"a dead, the ball striking just above the mout
W Cooke made his escape, and had not been foun
& till the present time
D.
is The following horizontal musng of loain
s. tpler, deserves to be perpctuated. Hear tt
10 wall:
d Leaves have their time to fall
a. And likewise so have /;
a The reasons too the same;
s. 1t comes of getting dry.
,e But here's the difference 'twixt leaves and m
1 falls 'morc harder and more freauentl