New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-07

lions of persons. She has Thirteen and Half
Millions Of acres Of improved land, With nearly I"
much unimproved, $50 Newspapers. 70 OF them
issusd Daily, aud aggregate circulation OF nearly
Five Million copies per week. Our people e1'
pended Three and Half Millions asst year for The
support Of Common Schools, ard nearly Million
children attended school some part Of The year,
leaving Quarter Of Million who appear to have
enjoyed no educational advantages whatever, though
the schools were freely open TO their attendance. The
Governor thinks this discrepancy rather apparent
than real, and trusts that there are very few
children who do not spend portion Of their time
in SCHOOL," bat we fear be is mistaken. For
nowhere IN the wide world lie education more free
and in the main more effective than in this city,
where well-warmed, comfortable schoOl-roOms,
with oil needful books and other materials as well
as tuition, are freely proered 10 every child; and
ret we have not less than Fifty Thousand children
within cur Municipal jurisdiction who do not
a.terd school so much as year during their
entire minority. Some are the children Of
druDksr6', who keep them in rags and employ
them 8s beggars; some are children of thieves,
and being trained TO the hereditary calling; many
are the children of vrtuous but unfortunate, inef'
fec,ive or improvident people, whose battle with
starvation is fierce and desperate tina. they have
no thought or care for any thing beyond the NOR
rows bread or the weeks rent; thousands are the
children Of immigrants just cast upon our shores,
and who are too ignorant Of our ways or too
anxious for their own future to think OF the school
iIg of their children. We once had Governor
who dared recommend that special efforts be made
TO draw these stranger children promptly and gen.
eral'y into our schoOls-tha. teachers according
with them in religious faith and speaking their
mother tongue be provided, expressly to win their
confidence aud insure their early attendance. The
howl of bigOtry, the persstency Of impudent mis-
representation, the bitterness Of denuncati0D,
wberewith this sagaciOus and humane suggestion
was met, appear TO have deferred any successor Of
thst Governor from repeating it; bat there is
urgent need OF its adoption to-day, and We wish
Gov. King had proposed some practical mode of
reducing the fearful aggregate of children who de-
rive no advantage from our State system of educa-
ton, rather than cOntented himself with guessing
it unreal.
TIE Governor gives cautious but evidently sim
cere comm endation to be new system of District
in place of Town Supernendents of Schools
wherein We heartily agree with him. The Town
Superintendent were often VIGOROUSLY unqualified
10 examine and certify Teachers there is reason to
hope that the District Superintendent will prove
more capable and efficient Let us give them fair
trial.
Gov. King adhtres to the school of Regulation
with regard to the traffic in intoxicating Liquors
ms was well known before and at the time Of his
election. He consistently urges the Legislature to
pass an effective and controlling License law. We
having no faith whatever in The License system
trust that the Governors V ews may be acted upon.
Let The Li:ense men bava the best system Of Rcgu-
lston that they know how to frame, aud cODcede to
the Prohibit!oIsts the initiation Of change ia the
Constitution whi,h II place the power o. future
Legislatures to prohibit the Traffc, should they see
fit, hey md contingency or cavl. The day OF Pro-
hbiton must come again, bat il has not come yet
ard it we're not wlse 70 anticipate it. Let the
ReguatOnis.s frame their own bill and have 1t
passed without resistance; let the Prohibitlpnists
with equal unaIim'y lave the first step toward
Constitutional AMENDMENTS Thus, while Regula-
ton s enjoying fair and unObsrucied trial, We
shall be opening the way to resort to Prohibition
should Regulation again prove, as we are sure it
will, signal failure.
We thank the Governor for his cordial and we'll
earned tribute to the merits and services of the
Emigrent Commission, and their Castle Garden ar
raneement for prot, citing immigrants from impOs
ticn and robbery.
We as decidedly dissent from his suggestions with
regard to John Browns Tract, more especially
if they Inc, n, as We fear they DO. aid and comfort
to the Saratoga and Sackett's Hsrbor Railroad.
TIE region designed TO be pierced and laid open BY
that projected Road is lofty, cold rugged and gen.
eIally steiile-it may be made to bear scanty pas.
turage but it will never repay the labor and outlay
involved in clearing and seed ng it. We pray the
Goyel nor and Legislature to let John Browns
Tract" alone-leave il TO The !umbermen aud hunters,
tn. deer, the bears, tie trout who fifty compose its
resent population. lie. Us preserve in our midst
a stretch of o,d-hshioned Nature, such as Sebw
tian Cabot aud Hendrix Hudson delighted to gre
on. John Browns Tract is our Safes Central
Park; cheaper, more spacious, more health
ful, less costly, less troublesome than that which
our city has just undertaken. All We have
to do to preserve it is to compel our rulers
to ct it alone True, as the Governor
says, it Twill furnish timber and iron in exhaust
"less quantities." but it does this now, and viii
continue to do il if well let alOre Bat run rail
road through it, and the timber Will soon disappear
and not be replaced 4 population hardy" as
The Governor vel SAYS, but by 20 means " numer.
ous," weud cover that ngon, living after a
fashion, bu. not producing half so much as il en-
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