New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-19

3lal nlus have baCn rs,kcd IDIOTS In Che eye OF Ne
law Tie Code of Jus.iniap dl,''ngusi % ssvcs.i
O., stc. Of af persono 0rd amopg them specifies O.,
vi C0 We now koow cannot POSSIBLY have existence
in isct9a ~ ptrs1na - wn0m la'utc has 'coad the
faculty Ci hCarIug aid lqseu that ofspecoh Otbcr
CIudo nrd susr notions have prevailed on tbs sab
i,d. tAcItport traces the steps by which ;he law in
relation to the deaf aud oumD has m loe progress,
til Low th-y enjoy, IN most civilized States tie scme
lcga. ehts th,se whose sense OF hearle is
pc'feo, lar they able to hold commit
Iicat.on with others intelgenty, whether by writos
by signs, with the aid OF an interpreter. There
is, however, ststute in force in the State
o GeW ei0, povd ng for the guardianship Of the prop
Iy Of deaf mutes which is qurc behind the age; for
this lass Of peHots have proved themselves, when
eoucatoc TO be quite us competent other p-ope to
mansee their own effaiis.
a paper was reao 10y John X. Reep Of the Hartford
Institution which excited some interesting discussion
on the question, " How may the instructor OF deaf
"mu,cs beat acquire knowledge Of the language Of
"sgIs." Tie Importance Of regular and systematic
il istucion to fit the teacher iD this respect for his du
tics, Insisted on; ard the importance Of having
the PriI cipa relieved from multifa.iou5 petty duties
and matters OF business that he may have time for the
training of assistant teachers and for other duties per
tarr TO the department Of instruction. was fully set
forth. The discussion deeply interested the outside
spectators is always the case when the subject Of
the language Of signs is preserted
Otter able and interesting papers have been read
One By DR.. Peet the statistics of the deaf and
ounb in the State of New-York. In the discussion
which followed Dr. Peet remarked forcbly upon the
intccuracy Of our national census aud Oh the difficulty
of obtaining accurate results from the tables. The
absud naccuracy of the returns pointed out in
some etrlkrg instances. In every census which has
vet beer taken any where the number of the deaf and
dumb uLder ten years Of age is returned much too
low beng generally only about half the number of
those between ten aDd twenty, whereas it should be
greater for deaf mutes who from birth gen
orally become so at very early age, and from the
ege Of ten TO twenty the number is Of course dnil
ishtd by death. Dr.. Peet remarked upon the better
method in which the British census of 1851 had been
taken. For Ireland particularly the method was pc
cuiar. The enumeration made by the census
takers in every part of the island on single day.
After this the returns were verified by u census.
police, who required to go the GROUND again,
AID satisfy Themselves of the correctness Of every
entry on the original schedules.
paper transmitted by Mr.. Gllet of the Illinois In
sttuton was read by Mr.. MacIniire the Superintend
cnt of that institution tied Hints in relation to
common schools, suggested by the methods EN-.
" ployed in the instruction of the deaf and dumb,
and paper by Mr.. Francis Of the Ohio Institution
was slso read Oa "The influence of the employment
" of the instructor of the deaf and dumb upon his
" own socal aud intellectual character"