New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-22
Board Of Education.

Board Of Education.
ALLEGED INTOxICATIoN OF A TEACHRR-HE Is
REQUESTED TO RESIGN, BUT REFUSES, ETC.
The Board met at 5 o'clock last evening, the
President. JAMES M. MCLEAN, esq, in the chair.
A communication received from james Curran,
Chairman OF the Board Of School Officers Of the First
Ward setting forth the following That Thomas Il.
Cody assistant in Grammar School No. 20 in the said
ward was. TO the knowledge OF the school oncers OF
ward in the habit of appearing before his class dur
ing school hours in state Of ntoxicatOn and entirely
unfit to govern said class aud that the school officers
ware Of such disgraceful conduct took no means 10
check the same that Cody continued In this disgrace
full course until his presence became intoerabe ana
demand was made upon him for his resignation, which
demand was not complied with, although made by and
with the approval Of all the trustees then In ONCE ana
that this clearly proved that said Cody placed the Local
Board at defiance aud that they tamey submitted by
not declaring his place vacant; that the trustees
failed in their duty in allowing said Cody 10 absent
himself from his duties for three weeks, they knowing
during this period his class suffered for the want OF
proper teacher. Mr. Curran concludes by saying tnat
| believing that the school was being held To pubic
scorn and derison and anxious to guard the sacred
temple Of learning against great proclamation IN
troduced a resolution Diminishing said Cody nom his
position; and upon the and nays being taken one
Trustee positively refused to vote while another nc
knowlcdgng the unworthiness OF said Cody, that ne
he Trustce) being the landlord of said Cody could not
against. hut womb gOtc hCcoIuiukH
vote to sustain said Cody The result Of the voting be-
ing that three Trustees voted for Codys dismissal and
two for his retention. Mr. Curran desires the Board
Of Education investigate this matter, and thoroughly
purge the First Ward of the many deadly horrors that
firmly collecting around one OF the .reso our
great Public School system as by so doing you wlli
prove lasting benefit 20 this city and confer an endur
ing favor on the citizens Of the First Ward"
The matter was referred to the Committee on
Teachers
A communication was received from p NJ. Flanagan.
No stating that bill OF indie ffurHt han
been found 10y the Grand Jury for elonious Assault
and battery committed by Elizabeth A. White school
teacher of the Fourth Ward the person oil his wie
Teresa Flanagan on the evening OF April 1863; that
al these facts having been taken by the Committee on
Teachers Assistant Dstriet.Attorney Hutchinks han
told him Fianagar) that the teacher (Miss Whte
had headed guilty 10 the charge before Judge Russell
Referred 20 the Committee on Teachers.
A communication was received from a number OF
citizens OF the rh Ward stating that having heard OF
certain charges having been preferred against MI
H. Lee School Trustee OF the 10Th Ward, by Mrs;
Presto they request that the same may be investigated
BIS the Board of Education.
II appears chat her husband Geoige Presto late pri.
vate of ca. \. 10Th Regiment \. Y. voPs. had died
Juy 3 ls,2 and she heard Of his DEATH she
tok tho necessary papers to Mr. H. Hunt Lee of No.
2i3 broadway and who T. a Trustee Of the 18th ward
for the purpose OF collecting the bounty ana BACK pay
which were due her husband, ana that Lee sad ne
would collect tie money for her rs soon as possible.
Iha, she had called the Office 81 Lee several times
for information ia regard 10 the claim but coud get
\ That February iffb, Sue v"
who told her her husband had been marked "a a de
.erter and II was very hard and he did not thnk
he could get II through but that ne "ond sNo
/ her so for the claim. Mrs. Presto heheyhg lua,
/ her husband WAS not deseTter, refused 10
take the go. thai she was very poor at the te ana
asked Lee Tor "a certificate of her claim That she migh
receive and from The soldiers Family Relief lunt
This Lee declined to do and by this means kept her
forn receiving any relief from said fani up Ia July
po cav" her no Information whatever ahou, herc,am;
that On the 18th day 81 January, 1864 she wrote 20 Inc
Second Auditor of the Treasury Department ia wash
1S @' Sa s S as 10 sR a .S Lee month
OF July l-s1 amounting 30 sl29 oJ that on tho 2i
Of J,nnary l-65 she called Lee az ms Once" aud
askcd him when she could get the money Lee repeed
that he thought she coul never get ~ Iht sue me
went 20 Major Gen. Dix who directed her TO go ote
PaymAster major HeTrick). who sent fro' ost MAI
shnl To the office Of Ice who was IN NJ the tlme tnh
hie she was waiting ln'HeFrioss Office Lee came IN
and was asked by Major Herriek II he had not received
her money, ana what be had 20 say Hbout ~; thAt
thercuton Lee was very much confused changed color
and trcmblcd all OYER that nerrlck 'od Ice mai be
was not an honest man and that ne shoui' Do hs1ncd
OF himself In trylng Ia dciraud poor woman ad he
little children out OF her money. ana tnht Ie Nhel
should be- compelled to pay great deal besides. Lee
was then asked " he was Whiust9 pay ,ne no ,tan
replied In tho affirmative. Tho Provost Marshai theh
ask ed Leo 10 pay the money which he did by cheek
given To the Provost Marshal and the remark was
made that the said II. Hunt. Lee, IN presence oil
Major Uerfick that he would sooner give $50 thnh 10
have ANYTHING said about the AFFAIR." that she ba'evss
II was the intention Of Lee 20 defraud her ana her tte
that il was her duty place before the Board the char
acter of a member OF the School Board.
Attached Ia the affidavit is the letter above referred
IN fron T. H. French the second Auditor Of the Treas
ury Department which carries out Mrs Presto state
ment. g., IT,. 81.
The subject referred TO special committee OF
five members for investigation.
The resolution increasing the salaries Of the Proes
sors and Tutors IN the Free Academy twenty hvc per
cent, was adopted
A report was received from the Committee on Teach
ers e,oneratng Miss Edwards. Principal Of PRIMARY
School No. TO- Fifteenth Ward. from the charge OF
having cruelty beaten little son OF Edward Dickinson
The report takes the ground that the chastlement was
necessary in order establish and MAINTAIN TIE disc
Mine of the school, the child having resisted the teac
/, when she was about 10 inhict two light blows ' LIS
= hand for "A violation Of the school rules ~, Al a..
Mr. DUPIGSAc offered resolution '"". ' =,
mite on BY Laws and KeguationS -. .l 49,, -; -
, mort a bylaw In favor Of 0h''''"'"b 'o'P''"' f
, ment. 10, soro~a, ,,oles n, n,,isb
ha h tspted in the schools In order to estab,
isb nron.r discipline, AS for instance, children hai
haan rc,ied stand on one leg Ike gootc, ana an
o,b.r csss where refractory juvenile hah ms nil,
nv, eaken away from him. aud placed within ioot Oh
his mouth that he might feast his eyes WIN hungry
stomach"
Mr. MILLER was opposed to corporal punishment
lie believed moral suason was tho BITTER course
Mr.. DurGSAC said that this speoes OF DruaIlty, az
exercised In Of the schools WIS nothing more ta
barbarsm that IL child of his should be punished AZ
Young Dickinson had been h vold not go 10 the Irus
tees the Board of Fdu.htnn Tor redress put no
would resort to the courts f. MS remedy
adopted.
The Board then adjcarnod.