150 Miscellanies. 
least, 40 schools in Albany, 27 in Utica, and numerous private 
schools in the other cities, and most of the villages of the State, the 
scholars of which are not embraced in the returns made to the su- 
perintendant. A complete census of the scholars in the colleges, 
academies and the private and common schools, would present a to- 
tal of at least 550,000 scholars receiving instruction annually in the 
whole. State, which is equal to 1 person attending school to 34 of the 
whole population, as ascertained by the late census.” 
Steam Boats.—There are seventy-five steam boats, (including six 
British boats plying on Lake Ontario) exclusive of steam ferry boats, 
&c., with an aggregate of 4,192 horse power. 
Learned professions.—Of the clergy of the State there are one 
thousand three hundred and eighty-two. 
aw.—The number of attorneys and Counsellors at law, is one 
thousand seven hundred and forty-one. 
Medicine-—The number of practising physicians and surgeons 1s 
two thousand five hundred and forty-nine. 
Military establishment.—The wilitary force consists of thirty- 
seven DIVISIONS, subdivided into eighty-one brigades, three hundred 
and thirty-eight regiments, two separate squadrons of cavalry, twenty- 
two separate battalions of artillery and infantry. 
The adjutant general’s report returns the number of horse 
artillery at : : ‘ ‘ ‘ 1,716 
Cavalry, ‘ ‘ ; : ‘ 5,814 
Artillery, ; . 12,808 
Infantry, including light infantry, and riflemen, . 166,514 
Twenty-seven companies of artillery and cavalry attach- 
ed to infantry for inspection, ; : ‘ 1,679 
ti lille 
Total rank and file, . 188,526 
The State owns 320 pieces of ordnance, of which 141 are irom 
and 179 brass, with the requisite number of small arms, colors, MU 
sical instruments, tents and camp equipage. 
2. Fish of Hudson River.—Prof. Silliman.—I have a neighbor 
on the bank of the Hudson, (within a dozen rods of whom I have 
resided ten years,) who has been most efficiently engaged in the 
fishing business, in the same place, sixty four years. ‘To prove bis 
efficiency in this business I may state, that he has accumulated 4 
large estate in lands, houses in town, and bank stock, by this ha: 
