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ninety-five newspapers, and sixty-six magazines and should be like Michael Angelo's dome in the heavens, with-
scientific periodicals. If the population, exclusive scaffolding or support-never. He intended that it should
of those two countries, (Poland, 5,117,500 inhab.; be a dome over roof and cornice, and walls of colleges and
Finland, 1,547,724 inhab.), be considered as num-academies, and of common schools; that it should be a
dome, indeed, but the dome of a grand structure for the whole
bering 58,505,874 inhabitants, there will be one
people. He intended that the University should snperin-
periodical published for every 86,000 persons.
tend the colleges, and that there should be a college for every
The character, however, of these periodicals must center; that the colleges should superintend the academies,
be considered, as every thing which will bear that and that there should be an academy for every center; that
title is counted as one. For instance, the three the academies should superintend the common schools, and
English newspapers are the following:-
that there should be a common school for every center. He
knew what equality was. He knew what democracy was.
He knew that the republican institutions of this land were

1. List of the Principal Goods imported into St. Petersburg.

2. List of Goods cleared for export in the tom-House of St. Petersburg.

3. St. Petersburg Price Current.

from this place, and overtook one of our citizens on horseback, with, perhaps, a bag of hay for a saddle, without stirrups, and the leading line for a bridle, and he said, "Stranger, whose house is that ?" "It is mine," was the reply. They came to another. "Whose house is that?" Mine, too, stranger." To a third: "And whose house is that?" "That's mine, too, stranger, but don't suppose that I'm so darned poor as to own all the land about here." We may own land, we may own slaves, we may own roadsteads and mines, we may have all the elements of wealth, but unless we apply intelligence, unless we adopt a thorough system of instruction, it is utterly impossible that we can develop, as we ought to develop, and as Virginia is prepared now to do, and

Cus-based upon no other-no surer foundation than intelligence to take the line of march towards the very eminence of

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Languages.

Newspapers.

In Russian,

67

"German,

15

Magazines.
48
10

"French,

2

6

"English,

8

"Polish,

1

"Italian,

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and virtue. His democracy did not drag men down from prosperity. their elevation into the mire; but his democracy levelled upwards. He knew that if this man's son had all the means of education of common school, of academy, of college, and The Catalogue of BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, of university, and then might travel abroad for his learning, just published, shows 40 students in the Seminary, he could not be the equal of the son of the father who had including three who are Resident Licentiates. to work for hfs daily food. He knew that if it was inhuman Hon. J. McK. Wilkins has left about $35,000 for for the parent to starve the body of a child, it was much the founding of a STATE REFORM SCHOOL, in New more inhuman to starve the mind of a child. He knew that Hampshire, provided that it shall go into operation if you could afford to raise taxes for alms-houses and pauper in five years. The Catalogue of ANDOVER THEOhouses, to feed the bodies of the poor, it was much more the LOGICAL SEMINARY for January, 1855, records 5 Produty of the State mother to furnish mental food to her children. His democracy was like the principle of Christian fessors, 9 Resident Licentiates, 35 Seniors, 35 in the charity-like the great virtue of Christian charity-it ele-Middle Class, and 31 Juniors;-making a total of vated men to the highest platform of elevation-high as 110 under instruction. The Libraries of the Instikings' heads, made them sovereigns indeed, to stand equal tution contain 22,000 volumes.-At the annual. foot, equal head-uncontradicted, except by the laws of God meeting of the Board of Overseers of HARVARD COL-with equal opportunities for all; it reached down to raise LEGE, in the Senate Chamber, the various reports men up to the common level of the highest. He knew that were submitted, showing the condition of the Inproperty-property which must be taxed for instruction-stitution. From Rev. Dr. Walker's report it appears had no other muniment, no other defence, no other safe reIt is as folliance for its protection, but intelligence among the people. that the Divinity School has made no changes in Is there a rich man, then, in this assembly that loves a dollar the mode of study. Nearly 700 volumes, belonging better than the intelligence of the people? Is there any old to the late Rev. Dr. Parkman, have been placed in bachelor among you, who has no child of his own, who is the Theological Library. The Law School has had too mean to support some poor man's daughter as his wife, a greater number of students during the last year or to be rich in having some rich man's daughter to support than ever before. At present there are 148 in this him? Is there a man in the State who has already educated department. The number of students attending his sons, who is now willing to be taxed in order that his the Scientific School continues to increase, especialpoor neighbor's children may be educated-educated not only in the common school, but in the academy, the college. ly in the Engineering Department. The present the university? If there be, let him remember that number of Students in Science is 80. Prof. Agassiz before he dies his title to his property may have to be has furnished several thousand dollars' worth of tried by a jury to say whether that property be his additions to the Geological and Zoological Collecown or not, and if God shall let him live till he dies tions. Dr. Channing has been succeeded by Dr. and he can keep what property he has, let him remember David H. Storer, and Dr. Bigelow's place as Profesthat there is such a thing as what lawyers call devisabit vel sor of Materia Medica is now filled by Dr. E. H. non—that a jury may have to decide whether or not he had Clarke. A Professorship of Clinical Medicine has sense enough to make his will when he died. An ad valobeen established, and Dr. G. C. Shattuck chosen to rem tax upon property is the appropriate tax for the education of the children of the people. Property owes its defence fill that position. Prof. Longfellow has resigned to the virtue and intelligence of the people, and property the Professorship of Modern Languages and Literaought, therefore, to be taxed for the education of the people. ture. Several liberal bequests to this Institution The Hon. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, in his (Cheers.) We want one school for this state that will revive have already been noticed by us. Dr. Walker speech at Alexandria, as candidate for Governor, our agriculture. We want a school like the Mechlin Insti-states that the greatest objection to an education at thus exalts the subject of popular education for his tute of Prussia-an institute of applied science-an institute, State. While some of his remarks lack dignity, not to teach political economy, and send young gentlemen to there is much to be commended in his views of the the Legislature before they have hardly picked in their tuiState's care for University education, as related to tion; but an institute that will teach them domestic economy, the proper relation between floating and fixed capital at that of the Academy and the Common School. home-how much money a man must have to buy-how “Give her commerce, and she will have capital and popu- much land, and how much stock, and how many implements lation; she will have agriculture, mining, and mauufactur- he must have; an institute that will teach the physiology of ing, and then she will want but one thing more-the en- animals and plants; an institute that will teach natural lightenment of her people. She wants her popular instruc-philosophy and the diseases of animals and plants. Then, tion. I do not mean to recommend to you, or to any people within the limits of Virginia, any little day school, night school, common school, a b c, single rule of three, or Peter Parley Yankee system of instruction. I want Mr. Jefferson's policy, that he originally recommended to the State, to be consummated—an enlarged system of science, of literature, of learning, to be given to all classes of our people, to leaven the whole lump. I care not how blue a federalist that man may be who curses his red waistcoat, but Thomas Jefferson has three things recorded upon his tomb-that he was the writer of the Declaration of the Independence of our coun

Two hundred and forty-three journals and periodicals are published in seventy different localities in SWITZERLAND. Several of the newspapers have lately increased their size.

Educational.

try, the founder of the University of Virginia, and the author of the act of religious freedom. For these three good works alone, every man-democrat or federalist-may kneel -patriotically kneel at his grave. The great apostle of democracy never intended that the University of Virginia

gentlemen, the father who has spent his life in acquiring
real estate, in spreading out his broad acres, in adding family
to family of slaves, may die with a son instructed how to
manage the estate. You will then have, or it will be your
opportunity to have, the same privilege that the German
baron has, of sending your son for his two, or three, or four,
or five years' apprenticeship to an institute of that kind that
will teach him agricultural chemistry and every other science
necessary to enable him to manage an estate of lands and ne-
groes, The present condition of things has existed too long
in Virginia. The landlord has skinned the tenant and the

tenant has skinned the land until all have grown poor to-
gether. I have heard a story-I will not locate it here or
there-about the condition of the prosperity of our agricul
ture. I was told by a gentleman in Washington, not long
ago, that he was travelling in a county not a hundred miles

Cambridge is the expense, and the only way of re-
ducing it would seem to be by the institution of
scholarships. A large library fund is also very
much needed. A marble bust of President Everett,
by Powers, the gift of Hon. T. H. Perkins, has been
placed in the Library. Ex-Gov. Washburn, from
the Committee of Visitation, suggested the propri-
ety of employing some suitable person as a relig-
ious teacher in the college, who shall hold some-
thing like a pastoral relation to the students.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, the poet, has been elected
to succeed Professor Longfellow. There were five
applicants for the place, but Mr. Lowell was not one
of them, and his nomination was made without his
knowledge. We are happy to learn that he will
accept the appointment. Before entering upon its
duties, however, he will spend a year abroad, in
Germany and Spain. Ere he leaves the country
in May next, he will repeat, at the West, the
lectures on English poetry he has just de-
livered before the Lowell Institute at Boston.-
In the Know Nothing Legislature of Massachu-
setts a resolution has been introduced to provide for

the inspection of the private as well as the common Hartford, Ct., on the 23d of March next, and leave partly due to the mode of distributing the public schools, and providing that no person shall teach a for the West on the 28th of April, after a prelimin- funds. Gov. C. recommends that the Colleges of the private school in the elementary branches of an ary course of general instruction. The eighth State be brought into more harmonious connection English education, in that state, until examined by annual meeting of this Board occurred at Hartford with the Free Schools, referring to the advantages the School Committee. Of course, this is meant to on the 10th of January, at which a Report was which have resulted from the establishment of the apply to the Roman Catholic "private" Schools. read, embracing a view of past operations. Forty-Free Academy. If the academies and colleges and -The Boston School Committee have recently four teachers were sent during the last year, more common schools could thus form parts of one great prohibited out-of-school studies, by ordaining that than one-half of them to places west of the Missis-system, a thorough and complete education might the scholars in the public schools shall not be re- sippi. Whole number sent out since the spring of be brought within the reach of all.- -The ancient quired to learn their lessons out of school hours. 1847, 394. Number deceased, 17-of whom only PUBLIC SCHOOL SOCIETY of N. Y. city, chartered in The right to use the "Key" in the arithmetic class- four have died during the last three years. Re- 1805, has no longer a separate existence, having es was allowed.From the report of Mr. Sears, turned, 124-of whom 44 have gone back to the been merged into the general Common School SysSecretary of the Board of Education, in Massa- West to remain. Of the returned still in the East, tem of N. Y. A very interesting meeting of the chusetts, which is the eighteenth Annual Report several intend to go back this year. Now in the members of this society was held last month, at of the Board, it appears that all but two towns have West, 297-of whom 105 are married-several of which it was resolved, that the History of the late made returns, and there are 4,163 schools, an in- them still teaching, and all of them in positions of Public School Society be prepared and published. crease of fifty since 1858. Number of persons in much influence and usefulness. Of the teachers Mr. William Oland Bourne has been appointed to the State between five and fifteen years of age, sent out, Vermont has furnished 103; Massachu-write this history, and is well qualified to do the 206,625, being 1,920 more than last year. Number setts, 99; New York, 71; Maine, 88; Connecticut, subject justice.There are twenty-five EVENING of scholars last summer 186,628, being 894 less 82; New Hampshire, 30; and other States, 21. SCHOOLS in the different wards, of which eighteen than last year; number in winter 199,447, being There have been sent to Indiana, 118; Illinois, are male and seven female.- -There are more than 2,640 less. Average attendance in summer 141,226, 90; Missouri, 44; Wisconsin, 31; Iowa, 29; Michi- twelve INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS in N. Y., and they eman increase of 744; in winter 154,277, an increase gan, 22; Ohio, 17; Oregon, 6; California, 5; Texas, brace two thousand destitute children, and two of 1,489. Mean average of attendance of children 8; and the remainder to Western Pennsylvania, hundred voluntary teachers. It is highly probable between five and fifteen, 72. Children under five Minnesota, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, that these schools will eventually be supported in years attending schools 16,098, being 1,421 less than Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas. The general part by a participation in the distribution of last year; number over fifteen years 21,609, being topics of the Report were, the difficulties in the the Common School fund. The system has 753 less than last year. Number of teachers in sum- prosecution of the enterprise, the character and extended to most of the other large cities of mer 4,546; of whom 374 are males, 18 less than last qualifications of teachers, the importance of the the Union. The Public School Teachers of year, and 4,172 are females, 47 more than last year. employment of female teachers in missionary opera- BROOKLYN have just taken steps to form a Teachers' Number of teachers in winter 4,781; of whom tions, the increasing need of educational influences Association.Since January 1849, the FREE ACA1,840 are males, 181 less than last year, and 2,891 at the West, &c., &c. The receipts of the Society DEMY has admitted 1,163 students.At the close are females, 178 more. Average length of schools during the past year have been $4,555,75; expend-of the 21st term of the STATE NORMAL SCHOOL at seven months and sixteen days; wages of male itures, $4,517 08.- - Rev. Prof. Day, of Brown Albany, there were forty-one graduates.-The teachers per month, including board, $37 76; fe- University, has accepted the call of the Broad street Regents of the University have directed the Compmales $15 88. Money raised by taxes for schools Church, Philadelphia.-Gov. CLARK, of N. Y., in troller to pay to 91 of the Academies of the State the $1,018,472 26, an increase of $49,841 01. Volun- his recent message, gives the N. Y. Common sum of $17,740 from the Literature fund. The rumtary contributions of board, fuel, &c., 888,061 30; School system a due share of attention. He re-ber of students in these institutions is 1,780————— income of local funds appropriated to schools marks, that this institution is based upon the The DE VAUX LEGACY for the establishment of a $42,806 80; amount of school fund appropriated principle that the State is even more deeply and college at Niagara Falls, is much larger than was at $46,908 10; increase $2,840 99. Aggregate expend-permanently interested in the education of its first thought. The domain of the institution is 884 ed on the schools $1,140,132 68. The sum of $4 96 children than are their parents, and on the policy acres of land, and the amount of real and personal is raised for each child in the State between 5 and of providing for the expense of the system by taxing property for its support, $175,000.—The Annual 15, and this is 001-71 per centage of the valuation the aggregate of property. The whole amount of Report of the State Superintendent of NEW JERSEY, of the State in 1850. No town or city has raised money apportioned by the Superintendent of Pub- just issued, says that the recent law authorizing less than $1 50 per child, which is required to en-lic Instruction is $1,055,000, of which $800,000 was "Teachers' Institutes" has been productive of great title it to a share of the school fund, while 225 towns raised by a general tax, and $255,000 from the in- good. The following are the statistics: Whole numhave raised $3 or more per child. Incorporated come of the Common School and U. S. Deposit ber of townships, 190; number that have made reacademies 66; scholars 4,142; paid for tuition Funds. The whole amount expended for public ports,164-leaving 26 that have made no report this $85,322 90. Private schools 624; average atten- schools was $2,666,609 36, of which $1,929,884 49 | year. Whole number of school districts, 1,426,being dance 17,322; paid for tuition $244,290 72. Amount was applied to the payment of teachers, and $47,- an increase of 18 over the preceding year. Number of paid in 1858 for school houses for public schools 657 06 for the district libraries. The whole number children between the age of 5 and 18 years, 168,031. $402,609 90; value of school houses $4,576,457 26. of district schools reported for the year is 11,798; Number reported as attending school three months Amount annually expended, exclusive of the sup- and the whole number of children in the State of and less, 25,880; six months, 26,958; nine months, port of colleges and professional schools for the the age required to draw public money, 1,186,709. 24,968; 12 months, 87,806; allowance being made popular education in Massachusetts, not less There have been 877,201 in attendance upon the for vacations, 26,658; number attending over 18 than $2,283,544.- -By the official report we learn district schools:-in Academies under the super-years, 1,076; whole number taught, 105,040-being that the number of children who were taught in the vision of the Regents of the University, 37,406; BOSTON GRAMMAR SCHOOLS, in July, last year, was 84,279 in unincorporated private schools, and 4,568 10,204; boys 5,177, girls 5,027. The average attend-in colored schools. The average number of months ance during six months, was 9,722, or 95 per cent. during which the schools have been kept in the The number of seats in the schools is 11,327. These several districts is eight. The number of volumes ten thousand children are taught by 26 masters, 14 in the District libraries is 1,571,270. These results sub-masters, 14 ushers, and 165 female assistants. exhibit a gratifying increase in the number These statistics include only the Latin, High, and attending the district schools over the previous Normal Schools, and the 19 Grammar Schools. year. But it will be seen that of the whole number There are about two hundred public primary schools of children of suitable age in the State there are in the city besides, which have nearly eleven thou-309,508, or nearly one-fourth of the whole number, sand children in them, under the charge of some one who do not attend the district schools; 233,255, or hundred and ninety-four female teachers.The about 20 per cent of the whole number, who do not number of students in the WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY attend any school. In view of the provision that at Middletown is at present 128, a larger number has been made for the express purpose of securing than have been connected with the Institution for the education of all, this proportion is much too years past. We have already stated that the large; and indicates some defect in the system Seventeenth Class of Teachers of the Board of pursued, because it does not completely attain the NATIONAL POPULAR EDUCATION will assemble at object at which it aims. That it does not may be

an increase over the preceding year of 7,903.Amount of money raised and appropriated to school purposes: Raised by tax for schools, $220,888 95; for building and repairing school houses, $44,925 99; State appropriation, $80,000 00; from other sources, being chiefly the interest on the surplus revenue appropriated by the townships to school purposes, $42,756 92; total, $388,571 86-being an increase in the amount raised and appropriated to school purposes over the preceding year of $58,852 47. Number of teachers employed, 1,981; males, 1,201; females, 780. Average salary per annum of male teachers, $847; female teachers, $203. Eight years ago the sum appropriated to school purposes was $67,940 81, and number of children has increased during the same period from 91,430 to 168,081. All educational interests have advanced in the same proportion.-IN PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY the following number of students are in atten

GYMNASIA IN AUSTRIA.

According to the official reports for the years 1852-8, there are in the empire of Austria, 264 gymnasia, or

instruction, are almost as various as those employed The languages which are used as the medium of in the empire of Russia, notwithstanding the very much more limited boundaries of Austria. The language spoken in

75 gymnasia is German.

Magyar.

Italian.

Slavonic.

70

70

5

8

Romanic.

2

Illyric.

1

Czechisch.

German and Magyar.

7

German and Czechisch.

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German and Polish.
German and Slavonic.

In the remaining ten gymnasia, two or more of the above languages are variously employed.

dance: In the senior class, 42; middle, 33; junior, population of 8,100, is provided with two male and 34; resident graduates, 6; total, 115.—Mr. C. C. two female colleges, besides numerous primary Hoagland has been elected Agent of the TEACHERS' schools.-The Treasurer of TEXAS has made a reASSOCIATION of New Jersey, his duty being to visit port showing the pro rata amount which each teachers throughout the State, to promote the in-county is entitled to for the year ending on the 1st colleges, for the advanced education of young men, terests of the Association by the circulation of of September last, from the Special School Fund. the Universities offer. Of this number, 184 have preparatory to the various courses of study which periodicals, &c.—The Report of the PENNSYLVANIA The total number of children in the State is set the full complement of eight classes for the pupils, SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT is very general in its nature, down at 65,463. The amount distributed is the in-49 have six classes, and 67 have four classes. and wholly wanting in statistics. Dr. Jas. Bryan terest on two millions of dollars, United States has been elected Prof. of Surgery in the PHILADEL- Bonds, set aside for the purpose, amounting to PHIA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE.—The catalogues of $41,666, of which $40,487 06 is to be distributed, the present term in the several SCHOOLS IN PHILA-giving each child sixty-two cents.-The WEST DELFHIA exhibit the following totals: University of ERN COLLEGE SOCIETY, in the eleven years of Pennsylvania, 350; Jefferson College, 500; Penn- its existence, has raised at the East $250,000 for sylvania College, 120; Philadelphia Medical College, the support and endowment of collegss at the 100; Homœopathic Medical College, 80; Female West, besides what has been raised under its Medical College, 50. These constitute an aggregate auspices by the colleges themselves. It has of twelve hundred students.-ALLEGHENY THEO- preserved and brought to efficiency eleven of LOGICAL SEMINARY has forty-nine students, showing the most important institutions of the West.-a decided increase.- -UNIVERSITY OF LEWISBURG, Rev. J. W. Andrews has been elected as President PA. The catalogue of this noble Institution, re- of MARIETTA COLLEGE, Ohio, to succeed Rev. Dr. cently published, gives the following exhibit of its Smith, resigned. He has been connected with the present condition: College-Classical course, 45; Institution some sixteen years.-A JEWISH COLScientific, 15; pursuing selected studies, 10; mak- LEGE, on the model of the German Universities, is ing 70 in all the College course. There is an Aca-shortly to be established' at Cincinnati.-The demy in connection with it having 68 pupils; a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN has 288 students, of whom University Female Institute with 50; and a pri- 183 are in the Medical Department. 64 have enmary department with 28; making a total of 211 tered the Freshman class. Next to the State of in all the schools. Judge Helfenstein, a large Michigan, which furnishes 142 of this number, coal proprietor, has dedicated for ever one of his New York is represented by 87, and Indiana by coal estates for the benefit of the destitute poor of -$70,000 has been raised for the establishNew York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, &c.; and ment of a UNIVERSALIST COLLEGE (the second in the another for the endowment of a Free College at United States) at Salisbury, Ill. It is expected that Shamokin; and another for the benefit of Afri- the remaining $30,000 will be obtained before June can Colonization. There are at present in the next.-The loss sustained by the burning of the Baltimore MANUAL LABOR SCHOOL fifty indigent FEMALE SEMINARY AT PEORIA is about $600.-IN boys, the entire cost of maintaining the establish- THE WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, there are in ment being $3,855 for the past year. The sales of the several classes 49 students; in New Albany, produce amounted to $1,220 during the same 20; in Danville, 30.-Rev. C. S. Henry, D.D., has period.CAPTAIN H. LONG has left to the declined the Presidency of HANOVER COLLEGE, INCommissioners of Worcester County, Md., $2500 diana, to which he was elected.--Rev. E. J. Gilto be applied for educational purposes.- lette, of Jamestown, N. Y., has accepted the PresiThere are 502 students in the UNIVERSITY OF VIR-dency of the YELLOW SPRING COLLEGIATE Institute, GINIA at Charlottesville.--Col. Alexander W. at Kossuth, (near Burlington) Iowa. The InstituBrandon, who died lately in Salisbury, N. C., left a legacy of $3,000 to DAVIDSON COLLEGE in that State. Rev. Dr. Adger has declined the Presidency of this college.--Dr. Thornwell has resigned the Presidency of SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, for the purpose of entreing upon the duties of a Professorship in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina. We perceive that Francis Lieber, L. L. D., has been nominated as his successor. Dr.

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The number of teachers in all these institutions

is 3,046, or an average of between eleven and twelve to every gymnasium. The number of scholars is 49,745; of whom 44,638 are public scholars, and the remaining 5,107 are private scholars, that is to under the general directions of some gymnasium. say, have private teachers, who give instruction

The scholars are classified according to their religious faith, as follows:

87,748 Roman Catholics.
3,316 Greek Catholics.
2,509 Lutherans.

2,608 Reformed Church.
1,854 Jews.

89 Armenians.
127 Unitarians.

Societies.

tion is N. S. Presbyterian, and is in a flourishing condition.--Within the last six years $1,500,000 been subscribed towards the endowment of Baptist Colleges and Seminaries in the country.-— At the recent meeting of the American Association THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY holds for the advancement of Education, in Washington, its meetings semi-monthly, and communications Mr. Wm. P. Ross, of the Cherokee delegation, gave of an interesting and valuable character are read. some general account of the Educational move- The contributions to the Museum and Cabinet ments in the Cherokee Nation. The Common of this Association are frequent and valuable. L. has held an important Professorship in the S. C. Schools are mostly held in log cabins, and the teachTHE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL College for about fifteen years, and is ably fitted for ers are partly native; and those from the States this high position.A gentleman of Charleston, were obtained, the females from the Institution at SOCIETY.-The following are the names of the South Carolina, has given $5,000 to WOODFORD COL- Mount Holyoke, and the males from New York officers of this Association, elected at the annual LEGE as the nucleus of a fund for the education of State. They have two high schools, the one male meeting: President, Rev. Francis L. Hawks; young men for the ministry.The South Caro- and the other female. Many of the large number of Vice-Presidents, H. Grinnell, M. F. Maury, A. W, lina Legislature, at its last session, chartered a Col- pupils who are taught in the high schools are edu- Bradford; Treasurer, R. Watts; Recording Seclege for the education of Females.- -Rev. James cated at the expense of the Cherokee nation; the retary, A. Russell; Domestic Corresponding SecWeatherby, late of Charleston, Miss., has accepted buildings have been erected at the expense of $30,the Presideny of the FEMALE COLLEGE of Aberdeen, 000. Apparatus for them, purchased in Boston, and retary, H. V. Poor; Foreign Corresponding Sec-Rev. J. W. Shelton, a graduate of Ran- costing about $1,000, was lost in the Arkansas river retary, S. De Witt Bloodgood; Librarian, M. D. dolph-Macon, has been elected President of Sharon by the sinking of a steamer. The English language Beaux; Trustees, J. R. Brodhead, H. E. Pierre(Miss.) Female College.--Rev. N. M. CRAWFORD is the medium of instruction in all these schools. pont, H. Barry, J. D. Jones, C. Livingston, John has been elected President of Mercer University, The National Court records are also kept in Eng-Jay, W. C. Waddell, M. Lefferts, R. H. W. Withand has accepted the appointment.--The corner-lish. When a Cherokee boy had acquired the al-ans. The total income of the past year was

Miss.

stone of the GEORGIA FEMALE COLLEGE was laid at phabet of his native language, he could learn to $1,736 63; expenditure, $1,710 31. The regular Cuthbert, Ga. Jan. 10th. The Masonic fraternity read it in a single day. Mr. Ross made other monthly meetings of this Society are occasions and several clergymen officiated.- -The FLORIDA statements, which were listened to with much of great interest, and the communications have and SOUTH CAROLINA Legislatures are engaged in interest.- The BIBLICAL INSTITUTE, Concord, shown ability and care in their production. We propositions to improve the Common School system N. H., has at present 66 Students and 4 Professors. shall give an idea of the variety of information

of the two States. The plans proposed in South Carolina are much contested; but in Florida there is a hope of establishing a good system of school education. The village of Griffin (Ga.) having a

-The UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER has a total of 118

Students and 6 Professors.- -MADISON UNIVERSITY,
Hamilton, has 216 Students in the Collegiate and
Theological departments, and 9 Professors.

imparted at these meetings by running over the titles of recent productions. Mr. Kohl, the celebrated traveler, recently read an elaborate paper

on a series of maps drawn from the earliest times. In tracing the various geographical discoveries, he made use of many hundred maps, which he had copied from various sources in different countries. Lieut. E. L. Viele delivered an important production on "Texas and the Topography of the Rio Grande." Mr. Geo. Schroeter, the Cartographer to the Society, communicated a paper on "Forests, their distribution, and in fluence on Civilization." It is understood that Mr. S. is preparing another article on the connection of Forests with Art and Poetry. Dr. Hawks lately read an article on the subject of the "Indian Languages," or a collection of notes gathered during a study of American antiquities. Lieut. Bartlett delivered a scientific lecture on

The Rochester Union says that the Hon. R. A.

regular monthly meeting of this society in New- A collection of sermons by the late Rev. Ichabod ark, held on the 11th of January, Mr. Archer S. Spencer, D. D., of Brooklyn, is being prepared Gifford presiding, in the place of Dr. Coles, who for publication from the press of M. W. Dodd. The is absent in Europe, Mr. E. L. Viele, the State collection will make two duodecimo volumes, and Topographical Engineer, read a paper on Mili-will be accompanied by a memoir of the deceased divine, written by Rev. J. M. Sherwood, formerly tary Engineering, and exhibited a highly finished editor of the Biblical Repository. drawing of a permanent fortification, and a large map of the Crimea. Mr. Bigelow followed with Wilson, of that city, "has spent much of his time a continuation of his paper on the Geology of for the last four or five years in investigating the Baldwin Co., Ala., showing the probability of ancient history of the Mexican Republic, and of its being the ancient delta of the Mississippi the people who inhabited Mexico at the time of the River. Spanish conquest. In his researches he has been AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.-The eighth specially favored by the high officials of the Mexannual meeting of the American Medical Asso-ican Government-every facility that he has desired ciation will be held in the city of Philadelphia, having been cheerfully granted without any restricon Tuesday, May 1st. The committee appointed tion whatever. He has accordingly gleaned a mass "Lighthouses and their recent improvements," to award the two prizes of one hundred dollars from sources now for the first time so freely opened of authentic and highly interesting information, exhibiting one of Fresnel's flashing lights, equi- each to the authors of the two best essays on to the foreign book-maker, which he has digested valent to 6,600 Carcel lamps, and comprising subjects connected with medical science, an- and fitted for the press." three distinct flashes blended in one. Mr. Ed-nounce that all such communications must be mund R. Smith also read a paper on the "Arau- sent, post-paid, on or before the first day of

canian Indians of Chili."

It is announced that the 19th volume of the

The last autobiography announced is that of Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzie, well known in the literary

circles.

The first and tenth volumes of John Adams'

works are in press, and will be ready in the spring. issued together. The editor of these volumes, Mr. These volumes, which complete the set, will be C. F. Adams, has delayed the publication of his father's works.

Natural History of New York is now ready for disApril, 1855, to R. La Roche, M. D., Philadelphia.tribution to the subscribers in New York city. LITERARY SOCIETIES.-The annual meeting of Each communication must be accompanied by a the Century (Literary) Club, which comprises in sealed packet, containing the name of the author, its one hundred and eighty odd members many which will not be opened unless the accompanyof the most distinguished gentlemen of our city, ing communication be deemed worthy of a prize. was holden at its rooms, Clinton Place, on the Unsuccessful papers will be returned on appli6th ult., and the following gentlemen were cation to the Committee at any time after the elected its council and officers: Council, Gulian first day of June, 1855; and the successful ones, C. Verplanck, William C. Bryant, Asher B. Du- it is understood, will be published in the Tranrand, James F. Kensett, Charles M. Leupp, Wil-sactions of the Association. liam Kemble; Secretary, S. W. Goodridge, Jr.; THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. Treasurer, D. W. Lee. An interesting series of contributions were read. The council, in their annual report, paid a most eloquent and touching tribute to the memory of George G. Smith, one of the passengers in the ill-fated steamer Arctic, and who, at the time of his death, was an officer of the club.

At the annual election for officers of the New York City Literary Union, recently held, the following officers were elected: President, Douglas Leffingwell, Clinton Union; Vice President, H. S. Smith, Franklin Literary Association; Corresponding Secretary, W. P. Armstrong, Hamilton Literary Association; Recording Secretary, G. W. Southwick, Harlem Debating Society; Trea surer, O. R. Steele, Harlem Lyceum. This congress of Literary Societies holds its sessions quarterly.

The American Literary Union, of Philadelphia, which has a high rank among the literary organizations of that city, has determined to make its tenth anniversary, which is to be held about the middle of this month, not only an occasion of mental improvement, but also of phy. sical benefit, and the proceeds of the meeting will be given to the poor of the city.

The Printers of New York had a grand festival on the occasion of the birthday of Franklin, and under the auspices of the N. Y. Typographical Society. The entertainment consisted chiefly of speeches by Mr. R. A. West, Hon. Jas. Brooks, Col. T. B. Thorpe, &c., varied by the introduction of songs, choruses, &c. Mr. Peter C. Baker, founder of the Printers' Free Library, spoke in

behalf of that institution, and the receipts of the evening in aid of that object were about $500. THE N. J. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.-At the

The annual meeting of the Academy was held on Saturday evening, Jan. 6th. Col. L. Ransom, Vice President, in the chair. The reports of the standing committees and officers exhibit a very gratifying condition of the Society. During the past year sixty-nine volumes of scientific works have been added to the library, and more than eleven hundred specimens to the different departments of the cabinet. Correspondence has been opened with twenty-five scientific bodies in the United States and in Europe. The Society has sufficient materials in the archives for a large volume of transactions, illustrative of the natural history of the Pacific coast, for the publication of which strenuous efforts will shortly be made. After the reports were read, an election for officers was held, with the following result: Presi dent, A. Randall; Vice Presidents, L. Ransom, Dr. II. Gibbons; Cor. Sec., Dr. W. P. Gibbons. Rec. Sec. Dr. Winslow; Treasurer and Libra rian, T. J. Nevins.

The Book Trade.

We learn that Mr. John Lomas, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is preparing for publication a memoir of Louis Napoleon's residence in New York. A curious article on this subject was published by Mr. Lomas, while editor of the Brooklyn Advertiser, two or three years ago; and, judging from that specimen of his personal recollections of Louis Napoleon's adventures in this country, some curi

ous revelations may be expected.

It is said that the late Gov. Dorr has left a manuscript biography which possesses much political interest.

The Rev. Alexander Grozart, of Edinburgh, has been for some time in the United States, collecting materials for a life of Jonathan Edwards.

It is said that the Lectures of James Russell Lowell, on English Poetry, recently delivered before the "Lowell Institute," are to be published in volume.

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It will be seen, by reference to a communication in "Notes and Queries," that Mr. L. G. Olmstead is about preparing an edition of the Correspondence and Writings of Joel Barlow, with a memoir. The attention of editors is particularly called to this announcement.

Miss Maria Cummings, author of "The Lamplighter," who is passing the winter in New York, has a new work in preparation.

Rev. Dr. Magoon's long expected work on "Christian Art" will soon be published. The illustrations of this work will be taken from original water color drawings of the most distinguished living artists, as well as from copies of the old masters. In this work the author will seek to develop the grand and uniform progression of human civilization from the East to the West, in the train of Christianity.

TICKNOR & FIELDS have received from the author, Rev. Charles Kingsley, the proof-sheets of his new book, "Amyas Leigh; or, Westward Ho!" It will be published simultaneously with its appearance in England. Ticknor & Fields will also publish Mrs. Mowatt Ritchie's new book, probably this spring.

Messrs. PHILLIPS & SAMPSON, of Boston, have in press, and will soon publish, a work entitled "The May Flower and other Miscellanies," by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. This work consists of stories of New-England life, some of which were first published some years since. Also, vols. 1 and 2 of Prescott's Philip the Second.

GEORGE P. BURNHAM announces the Hen Fever."

แ The History of

Ex-Judge Edmonds and his literary co-partner, Mr. Dexter, have just prepared the second volume

of their Spiritual Revelations. Their books show one thousand orders for it in advance of publication.

Library Intelligence.

THE ASTOR LIBRARY.

The award of the great literary prizes-one of $9,000 and another of $3,000-to the authors of the two best treatises on "The Being and J. S. REDFIELD has the following books in press: Attributes of God," was announced at Aberdeen, "Cosas de Espana," going to Madrid via Barcelona. The trustees of the Astor Library have made on Saturday last. The successful competitors The early portion of this work was published in their report to the Legislature for the year 1854. were found to be-for the first prize, the Rev. "Putnam's Monthly." "The Wonderful Adventures of Captain Priest," by Philip Paxton, author At the date of the previous report, the amount Robert Anchor Thompson, A. M., Louth, Linof "A Stray Yankee in Texas," with illustrations expended for books was $96,113 83. During the colnshire; and, for the second, the Rev. John by Darley. "The History of Texas," from the past year there were expended $9,865 28-making Tulloch, manse of Kettins, Cupar Angus, Princiearliest period to its Annexation, by Henry Yoakum, a total of $105,979 11. The balance of the origi- pal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews, Scotland. Esq., of the Texas Bar, 2 vols. 8vo., naps and nal appropriation is $14,020 89, which, with the There were 208 treatises lodged. The judges plates. "The O'Briens and O'Flahertys," by Lady nett income from $180,000, yet remains for the were Professor Baden Powell, Professor Henry Morgan, edited, with notes, by Dr. R. Shelton Mac-gradual increase of the library. The year's in- Rogers, and Mr. Isaac Taylor. They were unanikenzie, and illustrations by Darley. "The Wild come of the principal is $12,415, from which are mous in their judgment. Irish Girl," by Lady Morgan, with memoir and to be paid the current annual expenses, $5,710. notes by Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzie, and illustra- The average number of readers per day, since tions by Darley. "Table Traits," and "Habits the opening of the library was 75; the lowest and Men," by Dr. Doran. "Sicily, a Pilgrimage," by Henry T. Tuckerman, author of a "Month in number 30, the highest number 150. The ave- the year ensuing. The salary is £300 per anEngland," &c., &c, 12mo. "The Life of Wm. II. rage number of volumes used per day, 100-a Seward, with Selections from his Works," in one total for the year of 30,000. The treasurer's handsome duodecimo volume of 400 pages. statement is as follows:

MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN will soon publish "Our World," a graphic Anti-Slavery Romance, in a large volume of six hundred pages, to be published simultaneously in London, Paris, and in this country.

Calvin Blanchard has in press, The Life of Jesus Critically Examined, by Dr. David Friedrich Strauss. Translated from the fourth German edition, by Marian Evans. In style to match Cointe's Positive Philosophy.

D. W. Dewey, of Rochester, has now in press, and will soon issue, an important work for every American citizen as well as foreigner, entitled, Native and Alien, or the Naturalization Laws of the United States, &c., &c. Carefully compiled and arranged by a Member of the Bar.

Fund for the edifice,

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"establishing library,
"purchasing a site and maintain-
ing the library,
Donation from J. G. Cogswell,

Win. B. Astor,

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stocks in which the funds were paid
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120,000 00

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$25,000.00
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19,896 36

that the Rev. Harvey Goodwin, M. A., of Caius From the London Literary Gazette we learn College, has been elected Hulsean lecturer for num, and the lecturer has to preach and print eight sermons. The office is an annual one, but may be held by the same person six times. The Hulsean prize of £100 for an essay on the "Influence of Christianity on International Law," has been adjudged to Mr. C. M. Kennedy, of Caius College; and the dissertation is to be printed. The Maitland prize of £1,000 bequeathed by Sir Peregrine Maitland, for an essay on some subject connected with the propagation of the Gospel in India and other parts of the heathen world, is this year offered for the best treatise on the Religious History of the Sikhs, considered with especial reference to the Prospects of Christianity in North-Western India. Candidates must send in their productions, under certain defined conditions, to the Vice Chancellor before the division of the Easter term, 1855. A new Map of the Arctic Region has just been published by the British Admiralty, in which the names affixed to various localities by the 104,874 23 American Expedition sent out by our fellow1,104 98 citizen, Henry Grinnell, Esq., have been adopt6,275 63 ed: and in particular, Grinnell's Land, discover482 30 ed by said Expedition, is entered conspicuously $434,353 54 on the map, it having been on a previous map of the Admiralty called Prince Albert's Land. Mr. William Howitt's first appearance in print upon his return from Australia is in the "Athenæum," complaining of the want of respect paid paid to the Copyright Laws in the British ColoConcerning the "Rejected Addresses," some nies. Mr. Howitt says that he sees no remedy interesting particulars are made public. It but at the fountain-head-that is, that nothing seems that the Messrs. Smith originally offered can be done until we have an International Copythe work to Mr. Murray for £20. Mr. Murray, right Law with America." Every where, he says, without even looking at the manuscript, declined that I have been, in Victoria, New South Wales, the offer. Another publisher was soon found, and Van Dieman's Land, American reprints however, and some proof of the popularity of abound. I have never seen or heard of any atthe work is to be found in the fact that when tempt on the part of custom-house officers to sixteen editions of it had been published, that same Mr. Murray gave £131 for the right of is suing a new edition. The total amount received by the Messrs. Smith for the Rejected Addresses, was considerably more than £1000.

"equipment of library and furnace,
"investment in bonds and mortgages
on lands in New York, Brooklyn,
and Albany,
For books, at cost,
"balance with Dr. Cogswell,
expenses for the year,

Parry & McMillan have the following books in press. A new edition of Chemistry applied to the manufacture of Soap and Candles, based upon the most recent discoveries in science and improvment in art, by Prof. Campbell Morfit. Entirely re-written, and embracing all the approved novelties that have accumulated since the publication of the last edition. Leaves from Life, by L. N. R., author of Cash on hand, the "Book and its Story." The Gospels, with moral reflections on cach verse, by Pasquier Quesnel, with an Introductory Essay by the Rev. Daniel Wilson, A. M., Bishop of Calcutta, and edited by Rev. Henry A. Boardman, D. D. In 2 vols., 8vo. A. Morris, Richmond, has in press, the Second edition of Lomax's Digest of the Laws of Real Property, greatly enlarged and improved. History of a Suit in Equity, as prosecuted and defended in the Virginia State Courts and United States Circuit

Courts. By Alexander II. Sands, Esq. Also, preparing for publication, Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals of Virginia, from Jefferson to 6th Randolph, inclusive; appending to each reported case references to subsequent enactments and decisions on the same subject. Condensed in 7 vols., royal 8vo. By Lucian Minor, Esq. By reference to Mr. Morris's advertisement it will be seen that he has just published the eighth

edition of "Alone." This work has also been republished in London and translated into French.

J. M. Fairchild & Co. (successors to R. T Young), have removed to 109 Nassau Street, their former premises and stock having been destroyed by fire.

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The Chevalier de Chatelain has made an attempt to introduce Chaucer to his countrymen by publishing a partial translation of the Flower The editor of the New York Mirror publishes a and the Leaf, with the English text in juxtapoletter from Mrs. E. Oakes Smith, in which she ac-sition. If this should meet with the success it knowledges that she is the author of the "NEWS- deserves, the Chevalier will next perform the same good office for the Canterbury Tales.

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prevent their introduction. No revenue officer ever asked me, at any port, to show my luggage, and I have seen scores of Americans come in and pass with the same impunity. In fact, all these colonies consider it to their interest to admit freely, as many cheap books as possible; and when inclined to wink, who or what shall make them open their eyes! But they have gone further in Victoria. In May last, the leading journals at Melbourne openly and energetically advocated the free admission of such reprints, and declared that the sooner the law was utter

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