1 50 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 3| 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, 

 he, 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. 



Law. — The number of attorneys and Counsellors at law, is one 

 thousand seven hundred and forty-one. 



Medicine. — The number of practising physicians and surgeons is 

 two thousand five hundred and forty-nine. 



Military establishment. — The military 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, 12,803 



Infantry, including light infantry and riflemen, . 166,514 



Twenty-seven companies of artillery and cavalry attach- 

 ed to infantry for inspection, . • • 1,679 



Total rank and file, .... 188,526 



The State owns 320 pieces of ordnance, of which 141 are iron, 

 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.—l have a neighbor 

 on the bank of the Hudson, (within a dozen rods of whom I have 

 resided ten years,) who has been most efiiciently engaged in the 

 fishing business, in the same place, sixty four years. To prove his 

 efficiency in this business I may state, that he has accumulated a 

 large estate in lands, houses in town, and bank stock, by this busi- 



