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2 JANUARY 4, 1865 NEVADA GAZETTE
COLONEL J. R. RIDGE is authorized to act as our Canvassing Agent for the city of San
Francisco, with authority to receive, and receipt for subscriptions—[Occidental.
Oho! There we have it in a nut-shell. Colonel Ridge, eh! “General Brown,” and “Colonel Ridge,” by
the grace of Jeff. Davis. By the way, the “Colonel” must be pretty hard up, again, when he is reduced to
carrying guts to such an uncouth bear as Zach. Montgomery.
A PETITION from fifty thousand citizens of Illinois will be presented at the coming session of the
Legislature of that State for the repeal of the Black Laws of Illinois, which forbid negroes from coming
into the State under severe penalties. Mr. Jones of Chicago, a colored man of great energy, formerly a
slave but now the owner of one of the finest buildings in the city, is among the most active in urging this
matter.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.—We are in receipt of the December number of the California Teacher,
containing the Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. It contains some matters
of special interest to parents and others interested in the cause of education in this county. We find that
the total amount of the State School Fund apportioned to Nevada county for the year 1864 was $3,886
50. The number of children in the county between the ages of 4 and 18 years, as ascertained by the last
School census, was 2,769. The county School tax raised the sum of $2 01 for each child—in all, $5,665
69. The total receipts of the School Fund in Nevada county for the school year ending August 31, 1864,
are stated as $15,910 83, and the expenditures for the same period as $15,322 10, leaving a balance at the
close of the year of $588 73. Whence the State Superintendent derives these figures it is difficult to tell;
since he states that the County Superintendent made no financial report whatever.
Of the 2,769 children in Nevada county between the ages of 4 and 18, of whom it is reasonable to
suppose the greater number ought to be in school, but 800 are reported as belonging to the public schools,
and the average daily attendance is stated at 742.
The State Superintendent says:
The time allowed the County Superintendents by law for making out their reports, is one
month—from the first of September to the first of October—a length of time, it would seem,
amply sufficient for reports so simple. The Superintendent of Nevada county made his statistical
report to this Department about the middle of November, and returned no financial report
whatever. Such unnecessary delay and failure deserve the severest censure.
The County Superintendent, M. S. Deal, Esq., excuses this delay and failure, as we are informed,
by saying that the books and accounts of his predecessor, Mr. [J. A.] Chittenden, came into his hands in
such a confused and unintellible [sic] shape that he was unable to straighten them out in time to make a
financial report in due season. Mr. Deal went into office on the first Monday in March, we believe, and
had therefore five months in which to overhaul his predecessor’s accounts, which, however complicated,
could not have been so extensive that they might not have been solved in less than five months, if capable
of solution at all. We hear it charged, by parties in a position to know, that the County Superintendent has
slighted his duties. However, as we learn that he is at present suffering from severe physical indisposition,
it would be unjust to press these charges upon him until he is able to address himself to the task of
answering them, which he will doubtless be able to do satisfactorily.
The report of the State Superintendent embraces many matters of general interest, to which we will
refer hereafter. [Marcellus Deal’s explanation appeared in the Transcript on December 17, 1864, and was
reprinted in the Gazette later in January 1865.]
DON’T LIKE THE GAZETTE.—We have not many secessionists in Nevada [City], but they are
generally of a very malignant stripe. And, notwithstanding they are as a class as ignorant as they are