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WISEMAN, NICHOLAS P. 



Whole number of children over four years and 



under 20 years of age 835,532 



Number of different pupils who attended the 



public schools 



Number of days' attendance of different pupils 



Jn the public schools 14,681,167 



Average number of days the schools were 



taught 134* 



Per cent, of attendance of number registered ... 60 



Per cent, of attendance of number registered 



entitled to school privileges 88 



Number of different persons employed as 



teachers 7,582 



Average wages of male teachers per month. . . . 



Average wages of female teachers per month. . . $22 24 



State fund apportioned $151,81634 



Total amount expended during the year and on 



hand August 81st $1,055,101 33 



During the year covered by this report there 

 were 2,222 male teachers and 5,310 female 

 teachers employed in the public schools, and 

 11,948 more pupils in attendance than in 1864. 

 The whole number of pupils was sixty-six per 

 cent, of the whole number of persons over four 

 and under twenty years of age in the State. 

 The number less than four years of age, who 

 have been registered, is 1,252. The number 

 over twenty years of age, who have attended 

 school, is 1,523. There was raised by tax for 

 school purposes $2.70 for each child over four 

 and under twenty years of age, and $4.07 for 

 each child registered as a member of public 

 schools. The number of school houses is 4,338, 

 valued at a million and a half dollars, and ac- 

 commodating 241,595 pupils. The demand for 

 teachers is at present greater than the supply. 

 Hundreds of persons possessing limited attain- 

 ments are employed, not because the people 

 are indifferent to their qualifications, but be- 

 cause the school houses would be unoccupied 

 unless these were employed. 



The productive portion of the school fund is 

 given as follows : 



Amount due on land sold on certificates $675,037 11 



Amount due on mortgages 289,123 75 



Amount due on certificates of State Indebt- 

 edness 897,00000 



Amount due on State bonds 103,700 00 



One quarter of the Normal School fund 146,645 46 



Total $2,113,50682 



which is less than the amount in former years, 

 the decrease being due, according to the Super- 

 intendent, to the worthless security that loans 

 were based upon during the first ten years of 

 the administration of the fund. 



WISEMAN", NICHOLAS PATRICK, an English 

 Roman Catholic clergyman, Cardinal Arch- 

 bishop of Westminster, born in Seville, Spain, 

 August 3, 1802 ; died at his residence York 

 Place, London, February 15, 1865. His father's 

 family were of English origin, and his mother's 

 Irish. When five years of age he was taken 

 to England by his mother, by whom he waa 

 placed in a boarding-school at Waterford, and, 

 subsequently, entered the college at Ushaw, 

 where, for nearly eight years, he applied him- 

 self closely to his studies, laying the founda- 

 tion for that profound and varied erudition 

 which gave him such distinction in after life. 

 In December, 1818, he went to Rome as a stu- 

 dent of the English College, then but recently 

 established. At the age of twenty-two years 



he was graduated D. D. ; in 1825 was appoint- 

 ed to the priesthood, and two years after was 

 chosen Professor of Oriental Languages in the 

 Roman University, at which time he was also 

 Vice-Rector of the English College. On tho 

 elevation of Dr. Gradwell to the episcopate, 

 and his consequent return to England, Dr. 

 Wiseman succeeded him as rector of the col 

 lege in 1828. .This appointment, and the 

 passing of the Catholic Relief Act at the time, 

 may be said to have determined the future 

 career of the eminent divine. At this period, 

 notwithstanding the pressure on his time, and 

 the many demands upon his energies, he wrote 

 his Horm Syriacce, chiefly drawn from Oriental 

 MSS. in the Vatican Library. Returning to 

 England in 1835, he soon became celebrated 

 as a preacher and lecturer, and in Lent of 

 1836 delivered at St. Mary's, Moorfields, a 

 course of lectures on the principal doctrines 

 and practices of the Catholic Church, which 

 were afterwards printed and passed through 

 many editions. These volumes were speedily 

 followed by his " Treatise on the Holy Eucha- 

 rist," which occasioned the celebrated contro- 

 versy with the Rev. Dr. Turner, afterwards 

 Bishop of Ely. This work was quickly followed 

 by Dr. Wiseman's " Lectures on the Connection 

 between Science and Revealed Religion." It has 

 passed into several editions and as many lan- 

 guages, and it is held in such esteem as to 

 form a text-book on the very important subject 

 with which it so ably deals. After this he 

 made another visit to Rome, where he remain- 

 ed for a short time, and, it is said, was mainly 

 instrumental in inducing the then Pope (Grego- 

 ry XVI.) to increase the Vicars Apostolic 

 in England. Dr. Wiseman, shortly after, re- 

 turned from the Eternal City as Coadjutor 

 Bishop to Dr. Walsh, of the Midland district. 

 He was also appointed President of St. Mary's 

 College, Oscott. In 1847 he again visited 

 Rome, on matters in reference to the Catholics 

 of England, and, it is believed, to consult with 

 the Pope on the subject of the important 

 changes which were subsequently made. On 

 the death of Bishop Griffiths, in 1848, Dr. Wise- 

 man became Pro- Vicar Apostolic of the " Lon- 

 don district," and was soon afterwards nomi- 

 nated coadjutor to Bishop Walsh, on that prel- 

 ate being translated to London. On the death 

 of Dr. Walsh, in 1849, Dr. Wiseman became 

 Vicar- Apostolic. During the time that elapsed 

 from his second visit to England up to. his suc- 

 cession in 1849, great changes in religious opin- 

 ions had taken place, and within the very cen- 

 tres of the two great Universities of Oxford 

 and Cambridge the preachings and writings 

 of Dr. Wiseman were operating. On the 6th 

 of August, 1850, Dr. Wiseman was summoned 

 to Rome by the present Pope, who, on the 29th 

 of September in that year, issued his apostolic 

 letter reestablishing the English Catholic hier- 

 archy. At the same time his Holiness issued 

 a brief elevating Dr. Wiseman to the archiepis- 

 copal dignity, and, in a private consistory held 



