Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1861-01-10

the building and repairs Of school houses
On this occasion l have thought it proper
/ ID call attention to the increase of the last
two years over the aggregate of the two
preceding years. The following table ex-
hibits Interesting facts in very sailsfacto-
ry hight.
1859. 1855. 1857. 1856.
No. Districts 5,27! 1916 1910 1855
Whole No. of
Children in
State betw.
$3.50 yrs.3S5, 500 367,24S 34l,l 2i 02,l26
dur'g ysar.l7l 1878 l5s,94l 1925 a7,sC7
! No. School - p 49, - -
No. eo Tssenor. t sss i sS5s i as ss
Total amount "a
paid Teach
eTs during
year. .s6sl ,52l 5So,767 1880 s7a,sl5
Amt raised
to build "
and rep'r
Sch ool
houses. 1s2,423 lO7, 5ss l3O,2S0 32,5H
1t will be seen that our Common School
facilities keep pace with cur increase in
population, while the evidences Of greater
interest in educational affairs are nantes
ted in a substantial manner by the very
large increase in the aggregate amount
paid TO teachers Fand raised 10 build and
repair school houses. The last item has
grown since 1856, from $32,57l. SO to
$l92,423 90, in 1888; while the former
part of which is also self.inposed tax.
has incr eased in the same period from
$379.Sl5 So to $69l,42i IL. The num-
Dor of children attending our Common
Schools in 1856 was only 97.907, but in
1859 it reached III ,3S8-the increase OF
over seventy-fve per eent.-while an in
crease in the number of children in the
State during the same period was less than
twenty eight per cent. This is very en-
lcourageing fact and should induce US to
maintain the system intact, taking care
never TO lessen its efficiency, and ever
guard it from every inrOad by special legls-
lation. The system should be universally
and unformally operative throughout,
the State, except in dense Populations,
larged by the addition of higher central
! schools. In addition 10 the evidence Of sd
yancement derived from official documents
have been pleased 10 learn from MIR. j.
l.. Tracy, gentleman who has spent the
two last years in labOring for improvement
in the school system of the State, that there
Is every where, amongst teachers and peo-
pie, desire to set up higher Standard
a disposition TO build better school houses |
employ able workers, and secure higher
style of workmanship.
His excellency recommends appropri-
ations for the institution for the Blind and
Deaf and Dumb, and the Lunatic Asylum;
reviews his former suggestion for an ex-
change Of fficial documents with the Indian
Nations, and recommends the Improvement
of The Executive Mansion.
CONCLUSION.
Returning now to private life, with The
purpose never again to seek or accept any
Office in the gift of the people, or of Gov
eminent. shall carry into my retirement
a grateful recollection of the many favors
the people have bestowed upon me, and the
numberless acts of kindness received at the
hands of those with whom | necessarily
had intercourse in the discharge of my Off
cial duties.
Allow me, gentlemen of the Senate, and
Of the House of Representatives, again to
express the hope that the public good may
prompt, and the highest political wisdom
direct You in all your deliberations, and
that Heavens choicest blessings may at
tend yeur official action, and go with you
on retiring to your respective homes.
With renewed assurances of my esteem,
it only remains for me respectfully TO ten
der my official farewell.
R. NJ. STEWART.