NEW YORK. 



613 



Expenditures. 



For teachers' wages $8,976,093 43 



For libraries 26,81608 



For school apparatus 175,75670 



For colored schools 86,62226 



For school houses, sites, etc 799,160 70 



For all other expenses 720,259 09 



Forfeited in hands of Supervisors 751 98 



Amount on hand October 1, 1865 616,782 80 



Total $6,252,242 54 



The total number of pupils receiving instruc- 

 tion in the State, including colleges, academies, 

 private schools, and common schools, but ex- 

 cluding professional schools, was 1,007,737. 

 The number of pupils who received instruction 

 in the State Normal School during the year 

 was 278; in teachers' classes in academies, 

 1,598 ; in the Oswego Normal and Training 

 School since its organization, 185, of whom 106 

 graduated. The number of teachers instructed 

 in teachers' institutes during the year was 

 8,887. 



In the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb on 

 Washington Heights, the whole number of pu- 

 pils was 402, of whom 234 were males and 168 

 females. Of these 267 were supported by the 

 State and 81 by the counties, the remainder 

 being beneficiaries of the institution and of the 

 State of New Jersey, or supported by their 

 friends. In the New York Institution for the 

 Blind the number of pupils on the 30th of Sep- 

 tember was 121, of whom 108 were beneficiaries 

 of the State. In the twenty-five schools on the 

 Indian reservations the aggregate attendance of 

 pupils was 971. 



The number of convicts in the several State 

 prisons on the 30th of September was 1,873, 

 of whom 159 were females and 73 insane. The 

 earnings for the fiscal year amounted to $205,- 

 219, to which must be added $78,477, the esti- 

 mated value of a large stock of iron and nails 

 manufactured by the inmates of the Clinton 

 prison remaining unsold, making the total earn- 

 ings $283,696. The expenses during the same 

 period were $474,040, an excess over the re- 

 ceipts of $190,344. Governor Fenton, in his 

 message of January 2, 1866, says: 



The large excess of expenditure over the earnings 

 of the year compares unfavorably with the results of 

 previous years, and is caused, in part, by the fact 

 that during the first nine months of this period there 

 was a large decrease in the number of inmates, while 

 the volume of expenses could not be ratably dimin- 

 ished. The report of the inspectors shows gradual 

 improvement iu the discipline and internal manage- 

 ment of the persons under their charge, and for their 

 efforts in this behalf I cannot speak too warmly. 

 Perhaps, however, to accomplish the highest success, 

 our prison system should be wholly absolved from 

 party influence, and the changes incident to the 

 varying fortunes of political organizations. To at- 

 tain this independence, and to engraft on our penal 

 code valuable improvements, appears to be the pur- 

 pose of the Prison Association of this State. This 

 association is charged by law with the function of 

 "visiting, inspecting, and examining " all the prisons 

 of the State, and of reporting annually to the Legis- 

 lature the results of this inquiry. These duties seem 

 to have been discharged with intelligence and fidelity, 

 and their recommendations, based upon extended ob- 

 servation and research, are worthy of the attention 

 of the Legislature. The measures of this board to 



furnish more thorough information, and to acquire 

 familiarity with the working of prisons throughout 

 the Union, will doubtless aid in the diffusion of prac- 

 tical knowledge and lead to salutary legislation. 



On the 2d of November a vessel arrived from 

 Europe at the port of New York, having on 

 board a large number of passengers, several of 

 whom were sick with Asiatic cholera. The 

 commissioners of quarantine found themselves 

 wholly unprovided with a place for their recep- 

 tion, except upon the floating hospital which 

 had been used during the summer for yellow- 

 fever patients. But this vessel was ill adapted 

 for the purpose, and only partially met the re- 

 quirements of the commissioners. There was 

 still no place in which might be detained those 

 persons who, from having been exposed to the 

 disease, could not with safety be permitted to 

 enter the city until they had undergone the 

 usual precautionary treatment. Besides this 

 difficulty, the commissioners were without 

 funds to procure the necessary supplies and 

 accommodations, the last appropriation having 

 been exhausted in making the improvements 

 and disbursements authorized by the Legis- 

 lature. Under these circumstances, Gov. Fen- 

 ton advised the commissioners to assume the 

 responsibility of incurring such liabilities as 

 might be necessary to meet the emergency, 

 and to rely upon the Legislature to ratify their 

 action. In accordance with his suggestions, 

 every thing possible was done on the part of the 

 commissioners and the health officer to provide 

 what the occasion seemed to demand. But 

 they were unable to procure any accommoda- 

 tions on land either for the care of the sick, or 

 for the temporary detention of those who had 

 been exposed to the disease. In view of this 

 unfortunate condition of the quarantine, and 

 the fact that the epidemic of eastern Asia, fol- 

 lowing the highways of commerce, had already 

 made its way from Arabia and Syria to the 

 basin of the Mediterranean and the shores of 

 western Europe, and might be expected to com- 

 mence its ravages in the seaboard cities of the 

 American continent in the ensuing spring or 

 summer, the Governor recommended prompt 

 legislative action with regard to such measures 

 as should meet the views of the commissioners 

 and health officer, and suggested that if it should 

 be found impossible to procure a suitable loca- 

 tion on land, attention should at once be given 

 to the erection of proper structures on the water. 



The Democratic State Convention was held 

 at Albany on the 6th and 7th of September. A 

 Secretary of State was the highest officer to be 

 elected. The Convention nominated Maj.-Gen. 

 H. "W. Slocum, and adopted the following plat- 

 form : 



Resolved, That the past history of the Democratic 

 party is to be found in the proudest records of the 

 country, and its creed in the Constitution ; and that 

 it is re'ady to meet the great questions of the future 

 with the patriotism, fidelity to principle, and practical 

 wisdom that have characterized its long and auspi- 

 cious identification with the history of the nation. 



Resolved, That we congratulate the people of this 



