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NEW YORK. 



The following are the common-school statis- 

 tics of the State for the year ending Sept. 30th : 



Total receipts, including balance on hand Sep- 

 tember 30, 1874 $12.516,362 96 



Total expenditures 11,365,877 79 



Amount paid for teachers' wages 7,843,231 07 



Amount paid for schoolhouses, repairs, furni- 

 ture, etc 1,844,34720 



Estimated value of schoolhouses and sites. . . 36,393,190 00 



Number of schoolhouses 11,787 



School-districts, exclusive of cities 11,289 



Teachers employed for the legal term of school 19,157 



Teachers employed during any portion of the year 29,977 



Children attending* public schools 1,058,846 



Persons attending normal schools 6,207 



Children of school-age in private schools 185,093 



Volumes in school-district libraries 812,655 



Persons in the State between the ages of five and 



twenty -one years 1,579,504 



The amount raised by the State school-tax 

 of li mill was $2,959,725.13. 



The National Guard of the State consists of 

 eight divisions, eighteen brigades, one regi- 

 ment and ten separate troops of cavalry, eleven 

 separate battalions of artillery, and twenty-five 

 regiments, twelve battalions, and seven separate 

 companies of infantry. They comprise 1,505 

 commissioned officers, and 17,908 non-commis- 

 sioned officers, musicians, and privates. 



The Republican State Convention was held 

 at Saratoga on the 8th of September. George 

 William Curtis, of New York, presided over its 

 deliberations, and made an address urging the 

 nomination of men of the highest character 

 and the adoption of sound principles. The can- 

 didates nominated were : Secretary of State, 

 Frederick W. Seward, of New York ; Controller, 

 Francis E. Spinner, of Herkimer ; State Treas- 

 urer, E. A. Merritt, of St. Lawrence ; Attorney- 

 General, George F. Danforth, of Monroe ; State 

 Engineer and Surveyor, Oliver H. P. Cornell, 

 of Tompkins ; Canal Commissioner, William T. 

 Tinsley, of Wayne ; State-prison Inspector, 

 Benoni I. Ives, of Cayuga. 



The platform adopted was as follows : 



The Republicans of New York, faithful to justice 

 and liberty, to the supremacy of the Constitution, to 

 the national unity and the just rights of the States, 

 make the following declaration of principles : 



1. The national Government should remain in the 

 Lands of those who sustain the guarantees of the 

 amended Constitution, and, in pursuance of the past 

 action of the Kepublican party and its good results, 

 the welfare of the country requires a just, generous, 

 and forbearing national policy in the Southern 

 States ; a firm refusal to use military power, except 

 for purposes clearly defined in the Constitution ; and 

 the local enforcement of national authority by those 

 only who are in sympathy with such a policy, and 

 will heartily support it. 



2. We demand honesty, economy, and efficiency 

 in every branch of the State and national adminis- 

 trations, prompt investigation of all charges of 



LMuvivfuo. ^ivmjju ii-ivcotigauiuii 01 an cnarges o; 

 wrong-doing, and summary exposure,prosecution 

 and punishment of wrong-doers. "We therefore 

 heartily commend the action of all officers, whether 

 of the State or national Government, in their honest 

 efforts for the correction of public abuses. We tion of the Unionl 



pledge to them our constant and faithful support, 

 and we charge every nominee of this convention to 

 cooperate in every honorable way to secure pure 

 government and to bring offenders to justice. 



3. The people should nominate for the Legislature 

 only men who are pledged by their known character 

 to provide and sustain measures calculated to rescue 

 and preserve the State from every form of corruption 

 and maladministration. 



4. The guilty offenders in the management of the 

 canals should be brought to speedy punishment, 

 and the Executive, under the powers already qpn- 

 ferred upon him, should suspend all officers who 

 have violated the law. 



5. The Kepublican party has proved itself from 

 the beginning the party of practical reform and sound 

 economy. In the affairs of this State it has, within 

 the last four years, provided for the payment of 

 $20,000,000 of the public debt, and practically ex- 

 tinguished the general State indebtedness, and "by 

 this action has made it certain that the tax for the 

 next year will be reduced about $5,000,000. 



6. Further inflation of the currency ? under any 

 pretense whatever, would be a public calamity. 

 The interests of honest industry and the common 

 welfare demand the speediest possible return to 

 specie payments. 



V. The whole subject of taxation ought to be care- 

 fully and wisely reviewed, to the end that its burdens 

 should bear equally upon all. 



8. Recognizing as conclusive the President's pub- 

 lic declaration that he is not a candidate for renonii- 

 nation, and \yjth the sincerest gratitude for his pa- 

 triotic services, we declare our unalterable opposition 

 to the election of any President for a third term. 



9. The free public school is the bulwark of the 

 American Republic ; we therefore demand the un- 

 qualified maintenance of the public-school system, 

 and its support by equal taxation. We are opposea 

 to all sectarian appropriations ; and we denounce, as 

 a crime against liberty and republican institutions, 

 any project for a sectarian division or perversion of 

 the school-fund of the State. 



10. The national Administration, by its steadfast 

 fidelity to the principles of commercial honor, by its 

 opposition to unsound financial projects, by its calm 

 avoidance of collisions with foreign powers, by its 

 reliance on justice and reason, rather than force, in 

 the settlement of disputes, by its firm vindication of 

 the national dignity and authority, by rigidly exe- 

 cuting the laws, correcting abuses, punishing offend- 

 ers and enforcing retrenchment without boastful, 

 ostentatious pretension, deserves the gratitude of 

 the American people ? and adds lustre to the services 

 in the war, of the distinguished soldier and patriot 

 who stands at its head. 



The Democratic State Convention met at 

 Syracuse on the 15th of September, and occu- 

 pied two days in its proceedings. Judge 

 Hezekiah Sturgess, of Otsego County, presided. 

 The ticket put in nomination was as follows : 

 For Secretary of State, John Bigelow; for 

 Controller, Lucius Robinson; for Attorney- 

 General, Charles S. Fairchild; for Treasurer, 

 Charles N. Ross; for State Engineer and Sur- 

 veyor, John D. Van Buren, Jr.; for Canal 

 Commissioner, Christopher A. Walrath ; for 

 Inspector of State-prisons, Rodney R. Crowley. 

 The following was the platform adopted : 

 The Democratic party of New York renew their 

 pledge of fidelity to the principles adopted and af- 

 firmed unanimously by the delegates representing 

 Democrats of all the United States together assem- 

 bled in their latest National Convention, and since 



reapproved by Democratic majorities in fifteen 

 States, comprising more than half the total popula- 



