New-York tribune., 1870-05-11

preserve their beautiful Protestant religion win uo
Common Schools and a the benefits and advantages In
their lain, and while allowing their opponents to wor-
ship freedom, let them say TO them-thns far and no
further shall you attack institutions and our liberties
and will not have you to modest religion Which Is
the 81 tSs ad Ros M Peck
Albany then addressed the meeting and tho meeting
adjourned.
THE INSTITUTION FOR THE IMPROVED NsTRUC-
TON OF DEAF MUTEs.
The annual meeting of tho Association for
the Improved instruction of Deaf Mues held last
night as the Institution No. $50 East Fourteenthst, Dr.
Blumenthal in the chair.
Reports read from the President the Finance
Committee the Board of Governors, and the Principal
Of the Institution
The report of the Principal Prof. F. A. Rising states
that there four regular classes and one mixed class
The last comprises those who have lately entered Class
strucon Glass includes those who had nstruc-
ton previous to tho opening of tho term; Class com.
pTses two new pupils, semi-mues, and five who had
been in school from to two and half years. Class
is the most advanced class in the Institution, and is
completing its fourth year; it embraces four cOngenial
and three semmutes During the year they have com
psd,d ,hs Of d ~E 6 s ss
OF Bible history Both systems that OF signs and that
pup pa but both cannot be adopted in the same s
tion. Trained teachers OF articulation cannot be OBJ
tanned in this country, but educated young ladies can
easily become good Instructors
From the report of the Board Of Governors 1t appears
the institution ten boys and five girls during the year
there were received boys and girls making total OF
discharged, leaving &c pupils at present in the institu
ton BY natonaities as OF the pupils American, and
Is day scholars The Board of Governors recommend
that application be made to the Municipal Government
The receipts during the past year were Contributions
sOss 50 interest, s2s "a; dues of members, 1882 tO
fray current expenses sa2O toal receipts l97lO So
Total expenses. 1856 90 invested ia New-York City
The assets Of the Association amount TO 5000 the
total estimates for the ensuing year are total
row inch nj
The Directors FOR the ensuing year are Messrs Isaac
Rosenfeld, Cornelius Rose 5. 7. Meyer, g. kaufman,
resolution was passed requesting the Board of Di
sense Of the Association to the Hon Judge Cardozo
his warm interest and Jealous efforts In behalf OF tho
The Constitution and Bylaws were revised and
amended. one OF the amendments is that henceforth
the second Tuesday in May to allow OF the re-
ports being laid before the Legislature without delay
After some further business Of no public Importance
the meeting adjourned
LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The Long Island Historical Society held its
meeting last evening at the Packer Institute and
reelected the following officers for the year Directors
Simeon b. Chittenden A. Abbott Low, James ii. Prem
tce Alden ]. Spooner, John Winslow. Counselors for
Kings CountyThe Hon. John A. Lott. Francis Vinton
D. D.. the Hon. Tns G. Bergen. Frederick A. Farley, d.
D., Benjamin d. silliman Geo. W. Parsons. Queens
County-willam Cullen Bryant, Henry Onderdonk, jr
Henry W. Eastman John Harold, L. B. Prince, Solomon
Townsend. Suffolk County-The Hon. S. b. Strong, j. H.
Tuthi the Hon. j. l.. Smith, the Rev. L. Whitaker, VIM
read the ania report OF the Executive Committee from
which it appears that during the year G1 new members
$50 volumes and i2O pamphlets added to the
library. 1t was announced that plan was being pre-
pared a new building, the OF Clinton and
Pierrepont-sts The Rev. Dr. Hall, Rector of the Holy
Trinity Church, then read paper on the lie ana CHAR
acter of the late Hon. L. NJ. Stanton.
THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
The Forty-ninth annual meeting of the Mer-
camille Library Association held last evening in
the reading room, Clinton Hail. new Constitution was
adopted by the provisions of which the whole manage
men the institution is hereafter TO be vested in
board Of Directors four to DO elected each year. to
hold Office for three years The Directors are to elect
President Vce-President, Corresponding Secretary,
Recording Secretary and Treasurer from Their own num-
er and those officers TO be the officers of the Assoca
ton. The ~ directors first chosen will be divided by lot
into three classes hold office for one, two and three
years respectively The regular dues OF the active mem
increased by the Constitution 10 - per an
num- instead of 50 as heretofore The financial eond
ton of the Library appears SO be satisfactory n Ie re-
penses $4OSg1 H. OF the receipts soloo Is were ex
books by the Clinton Hall Association, making LII all
s1sG36 81 ,-,- 49,. ,-.,
sos Of Which s14 were works Of ctioh Miss Alcotts
Little Women" and Old-Fashioned Gin "appear to
ing necessary to supply the demand which s cOntin
great as 70 keep all the Ses out sGn DS46 ss s
extent of and 100 copies respectively or standard
works, Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad" was studied
such extent to neeessitate supply OF 10 COPIES
The total number of books taken from the library Dy
readers 2S4l5O copies Of which about threeonrhs
were works OF English fiction. During the year four
branch libraries established-at IonKers, Elza-
beth Stamford and NOrwalk The experiment has
worked WELL financially, and has extended the hed OF
the ibrarys influence. AT the Irese, rate OF ncre,ie
the shelf will be completely exhausted within the
next l2 months plan is imperatvely demanded by
which more room be secured 1t il desirable to have
a bndery in connection with the library, a measure
which was commended the both OF convenience
and economy. The plan has already been carried out
with much advantage by the Boston Pubic Library.
Acknowledgement was made OF hne portrait OF Cen
Grant which had been presented to the Association by
Mr. Wilson G.. Hunt. The reading-roOm l. supplied Wltn
the regular OF ia reviews and magazines ana S
newspapcrs II to extent from the depIeda-
tons of thieves though the losses not so great from
that source in 1869 as in 1863.
The Board Directors, in their elaborate report from
which the above particulars are derived hoce
the very small accessOns which the Library receives
from gifts OF 9O8 volumes added last year, only Ito
were given and Of this small number most were pnbhc
documents. The abolition OF the ranking privilege
threatens diminish this source OF supply me mem
bershp OF the Association 1923 on the 3Ot OF APRIL
against April SO 1862 The total number OF volumes
in the Library is now 1l5S2l.
PTJN OF FRENCH INDUSTRY.