CANALS.-The cost of the canals, and the revenue received from them, during the year ending Sept. 30, 1843, are shown in the following table: The annual interest upon $30,885,029.26, at 52 per cent. Deficit of the canals to pay 52 per cent. upon the cost, $1,698,676.60 1,456,760.60 $241,915.91 The following tables show the amounts of Flour and Wheat brought from the West to the Hudson River during the last five years: Statement of produce and tolls, received at Albany, from the commencement of canal navigation, to the close of August, 1844: April 18th. Total Canal Debt, 30th Sept., 1843, 1,493,000.00 18,967.00 3,553,000.00 50,000 00 61,276.13 20,411,291.18 The annual interest on this debt is $1,111,662.46. $14.872,009.95 bears 5; $1,892,145.23, 6 per cent.; and $3.647,136, 7 per cent. interest. There is also the General Fund Debt, amounting to $5,423,415.33, on which the annual interest is $265,599.38. The total debt of the State, therefore, is $25,834,706.51, on which the annual interest is $1,377,261.84. But there are available means on hand, amounting to $1,951,575.66; leaving the actual balance to be provided for, $23,883,130.85. There is also a contingent liability for stocks issued on loans to Railroad Companies. This liability amounts to $1,720,000. Public Revenue and Expenditures for the fiscal year ending 30th Sept., 1843. Tolls, after deducting the expenses of collection, Interest on current canal revenue, Revenue from the General Fund, from all sources, The capital and annual revenues of the several funds appropriated to the purposes of education, are as follows, viz: [Compiled from the Annual Report of the Superintendent, Jan 13, 1844.] The 59 counties of which the State consists, are divided into 897 towns and wards, and these again are subdivided into 10,875 school districts. Of the 59 counties, all, with the single exception of Lewis, have appointed county superintendents. The total number of children between the ages of 5 and 16, residing in the several school districts, exclusive of the city of New York, is returned at 607,996; while the aggregate number of children, of all ages, who have attended school for a longer or shorter period during the year ending January 1, 1843, is reported at 610,354. In the city of New York, it is estimated that there are 75,000 children between the ages of 5 and 16; and of these, 47,428 have attended school for a longer or shorter period during the last year. This swells the grand aggregate of children under instruction in the schools of the State, for the year reported, to 657,782; an increase of 59,000 over the number returned the preceding year. The number of male teachers in the winter schools is stated at 5,170; of female teachers, 635. In the summer schools, there were 1,024 male, and 5,699 female teachers. During the winter, the average monthly compensation of male teachers, exclusive of board, has been $14.28; that of the females, $7. In the summer, the male teachers received, on an average, $15 per month, the females, $6. There are 9,368 school houses in the State; 969 of brick or stone, the remainder of logs, or framed wood. Of these, 3,160 were in good repair; 2,870 in comfortable condition; and the remaining 3,319 “unfit for the reception of man or beast." The common school fund, on the 30th of September, amounted to $1,975,093, and there belong to it also 357,824 acres of land, valued at $178,412. The amount of public money expended in all the school districts in the State, during the year reported, was $660,727, and the amount contributed by the people in these districts was $509,376, making in all nearly $1,100,000 expended in the payment of teachers' wages, and the purchase of books for school libraries. The report furnishes a variety of extracts from the communications made by the different county superintendents, all tending to show a gradual improvement in the schools, and furnishing conclusive evidence of the wisdom and propriety of the laws of 1841 and 1843, intrusting the duties of inspection and supervision to county and town superintendents. Paupers in New York. [From the returns of the Superintendents of the Poor in every County.] In 1843, the number of county paupers relieved or supported was 78,233; number of town do., 4,521. Whole number of regular paupers, 82,754, or about 1 to 30 of every inhabitant in the State. But in addition to these, there were 62,047 paupers temporarily relieved by the public officers, making an aggregate of paupers in the State of New York, of 144,801, or about 1 to every 18 of the inhabitants. The whole expenditure for the poor during 1843, is but the value of the labor of the paupers, amounting to $592,353.29 58,658.85 This shows an increase of pauper expenses of the year 1843, over those of 1842, of $72,989.72, or an increase in a single year, of over 15 per cent. in the expenditures. The average weekly expense of each pauper during the year 1843 was 58 cents and 2 mills; do., during the year 1842, 64 cents and 6 mills. 8 This shows that the expense of supporting each pauper has decreased per cent., and yet the whole aggregate of expense has increased 15 per cent. This solely arises from an increase in the number of paupers. This increase was 21,314 over the preceding year. Yet it is proper to bear in mind, that about one third of this increase occurred in the city of New York. On the 11th of April, 1842, a law passed, directing the county superintendents of the poor to make detailed returns, not only of the name, age, sex, and native country of every town or county pauper, but also "a statement of the causes, either direct, or indirect, which have operated to render such person a pauper." At the first glance, it will be perceived, that information of this character must be invaluable, as it could be the pioneer to sound and safe legislation upon this complex question. Under this new law, returns have been received from every county in the State, except Albany, Green, Suffolk, and Warren. Of the 25,624 paupers returned in these special reports, of natives of the United States, there were, males, 8,104; Females, 6,312; total, 14,415. Of natives of Ireland, there were, males, 4,442; females, 2,849; total 7,291. Of natives of England, there were, males, 871; females 533; total 1,404. Of natives of Scotland, there were, males, 178; females, 107; total, 285. Of natives of Germany, there were, males, 461; females, 207; total, 668. Of paupers coming from Canada, there were, males, 220; females, 159; total, 379. Of natives of France, there were, males, 133; females, 63; total 196. 985 paupers were reported without giving their native country. Comparative Statement of the Imports and Exports of the District of New York, during the first six months of the year 1843, and the first six months of the year 1844. The annual report of the city inspector shows the number of buildings erected in the city of New York, in 1843, as follows: 842 brick dwellings; 117 wooden dwellings; 156 brick dwellings and stores; 27 brick and granite stores; 48 shops and factories; 12 brick stables: 20 brick stores; 8 brick churches; and 43 other buildings; making, in all, 1273 edifices. |