kins, another nephew, was killed at Cedar Creek; and Francis Dutton Russell at one of the innumerable Virginia battles. CHARLES RUSSELL LOWELL. Charles I pass to the last on the list, and the most remarkable. Russell Lowell, the only brother of James who died "dressing his line," was also the first scholar of his year (1854) at Harvard. He had visited Europe for health, and made long riding tours in Spain and Algeria, where he became a consummate horseman. On the day after the Sixth Massachusetts were fired on in Baltimore streets, Charles Lowell heard of it, and started by the next train to Washington, passing through Baltimore. All communication between the two cities was suspended, but he arrived on foot at Washington in forty-eight hours. In those first days of confusion he became agent for Massachusetts at Washington, and brought order out of chaos for his own State before joining the army. His powers of command and organization gained him rapid promotion. He served with distinction in the Peninsular campaigns of McClellan, and, after Antietam, was selected to carry the captured standards to Washington. He raised a second cavalry regiment at home in the winter of 1862. He was placed in command of the cavalry force which protected Washington during the dark days of 1863. In Sheridan's brilliant campaign of 1864, he commanded the cavalry brigade, of four regular regiments and the Second Massachusetts volunteer cavalry. He had thirteen horses shot under him before the battle of Cedar Creek, on October 19; was badly wounded early in that day, and lifted on to his fourteenth horse to lead the final charge, so faint that he had to give his orders in a whisper. Urged by those around him to leave the field, he pressed on to the critical point of attack; and himself led the last charge which ended one of the most obstinate battles of the war. It is the death of this nephew which wrung from his uncle the lines which occur in one of the last "Bigelow Papers," published in one of last winter's numbers of the Atlantic Magazine. "Wut's words to them whose faith and truth On War's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventured life an' love, an' youth, For the gret prize o' deth in battle? To him who, deadly hurt, agen Flashed on afore the charge's thunder, Tippin' with fire the bolt of men That rived the rebel line asunder. ""Tant right to hev the young go fust, To try and make b'lieve fill their places; Ther's gaps our lives can never say in, He died next day of his wounds, leaving a widow of twenty, himself not thirty. The Gazette, in which his commission as General was published, did not reach the army till after his death. Sheridan, with the generosity which most of the great northern captains have shown, declared that the country could better have spared himself, and that there was no one quality of a soldier which he could have wished added to Charles Lowell. My first example, then, gives us one family, in which there was no soldier in 1860, losing eight young men under thirty in little more than three years' fighting. MOTLEY. I have mentioned the name of Motley above. Let us see how it fared with his circle, He has assured me more than once that of his own immediate family there were fewer than the average in the ranks; but he had at least five near relatives serving-three Lothrops, one of whom was killed in Louisiana; Major Wortly, badly wounded in Virginia early in 1864; and Major Stackpole, another highly distinguished graduate of Harvard, who served through the whole war and has now resumed his practice as a barrister. Miss Motley married Captain Ives, a gentleman of fortune in Rhode Island, who was travelling in Europe when the war broke out. He volunteered into the navy, commanded the Potomac flotilla, and accompanied Burnside's expedition to South Carolina, where he contracted the illness of which he has since died. His cousin, Robert Ives, also a man of large fortune, volunteered into the army and was killet Antietam. I believe they were the last two men who bore the name of Ives in their State. EDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. RHODE ISLAND INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION.---TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 26, 1866. The Institute convened in the vestry of the Central Congregational Church at the appointed hour, 9 1-2 o'clock a. m., but delays incident to the opening exercises of all bodies, were experienced even by the teacher's Institute, and it was past 10 o'clock when President Mowry cailed the meeting to order. The Rev. E. M. Stone conducted the devotional exercises, when Dr. Swain gave to the teachers and friends from abroad an earnest, warm hearted address of welcome, congratulating the friends of education upon the triumph of the New England idea in our country- the supremacy of God and the Right, and the equality of His children. Like all of Dr. Swain's remarks, his address was full of cheer, soul and vital expressions of Christianity. A. J. Manchester was chosen Secretary pro tempore. The Treasurer's Report was read and referred to the Auditing Committee. The property of the Institute consists of twenty shares in the American Bank, valued at $1060 00; cash in hands of the Treasurer $114 49; total $1174 49. Voted, That a committee of five to nominate officers for the ensuing year be nominated by the chair. Voted, That a committee of three on Resolutions be nominated by the Chair. Voted, That a committee of three on the R. I. SCHOOLMATTER be nominated by the Chair. After a recess of a few minutes, the President announced the following committees - all unanimously elected. Committee on Nominations - Dr. J. B. Chapin, of Barrington; A. J. Manchester. of Providence; B. V. Gallup, of Coventry; D. W. Hoyt, of Providence, and J. M. Collins, of Westerly. Committee on Resolutions -I. F. Cady, of Warren; F. B. Snow, of Providence, T. B. Stockwell, of Providence. Committee on the R. I. SCHOOLMASTER T. W. Bicknell, of Providence; J. T. Edwards, of East Greenwich; J. H. Tefft, of Kingston. At 11 o'clock the President introduced Prof. Dunn, of Brown University, who gave a comprehensive and learned lecture upon "The study of English Literature." Adjourned to meet at a quarter to two o'clock. AFTERNOON SESSION. The afternoon session Friday was devoted to lectures. The first was by Professor S. S. Greene on "Teaching as answering an Internal Want of the Pupil." It was a discussion of the necessity of awakening in the learner a desire for knowledge. It was shown that unless this desire existed, no progress would be made. The pupil would be listless and inefficient. A successful teacher would apply himself to remedy this evil, by judicious training and discipline, create the desire and thus make his pupil studious and of course well educated. As soon as the want is created and an intelligent demand arises in the scholar, knowledge begins to flow in. The second lecture was by Rev. Prof. J. Lewis Diman, on "Political Education in Public Schools." The nature of our government was briefly discussed, and as a corrollary the importance of imparting to the young, the rudiments of social and political science. This would be a check upon partizanship, for this is the political education now bestowed, and into which the young man is indoctrinated when he comes upon the active stage of life. Politics is a science, and far different from politics as popularly understood and applied. Popularly, politics centres in principles These may he taught in all institutions of learning, and, as in our country, all men are participants in the government, it seems to be essential that every person should have knowledge sufficient to intelligently discharge his duties. EVENING SESSION. The lecture in the evening was by Col. T. W. Higginson, of Newport, on "Educational Missions at the South." The lecturer spoke of the situation of the races at the South and their relative positions. The white race were still imbued with their old slaveholding notions, and on them but little impression could be produced. The black race readily accepts his new situation and yields to educational influences. Our great duty is to this people, to carry them across the Red sea we have divided, and land them upon broad plains of freedom, where they may bask in the pure sunshine of religious liberty and education. SATURDAY MORING, JAN. 27. The Institute met at 9 1-2 o'clock, according to programme. Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. Geo. A. Willard, of Warwick. The following officers for the ensuing year were elected : Vice Presidents-Dr. J. B. Chapin, Barrington; Rev. E. M. Stone, Providence ; Auditing Committee-F. B. Snow, Providence; Thomas Davis, Central Falls; Edward H. Cutler, Providence. Directors-Wm. A. Mowry, Cranston; Isaac F. Cady, Warren; Alvin C. Robbins, North Providence; James M. Collins, Westerly; F. B. Snow, Providence; B. F. Clark, Providence. President Mowry, who declined a re-election to the position which he has so ably and satisfactorily filled the last two years, made some very interesting remarks on leaving the chair, reviewing the work of the Institute, alluding to the progress in the art of teaching, and counseling unwearied exertions in the great cause of universal education. A vote of thanks to the retiring President and Recording Secretary, was passed with hearty unanimity. The President elect was conducted to his seat by Messrs. Manchester and Clarke. Mr Bicknell thanked the Insitute for the unsought and undeserved honor conferred upon him, pledging his earnest efforts in behalf of the interests of education in our State, and relying upon the co-operation of the members of the Institute to second his labors. The following resolutions were presented by Prof. Dunn, and seconded by Prof. S. S. Greene. After appropriate remarks by Profs. Dunn and Greene, Dr. Chapin, Rev. Geo. A. Willard, Wm. A. Mowry, Isaac F. Cady and Hon. J. Kingsbury, the resolutions were unanimously passed by a rising vote : WHEREAS it hath pleased God to remove by death the Rev. Francis Wayland, D. D. LL. D., therefore Resolved, That as a body of teachers, we recognize the great service which during a long and active life, he rendered to the cause of education, both by the valuable works on Moral and on Political Science which he published for the instruction of the young, and by his own examples and influence as an instructor and as the head of the highest Institution of learning in this State. Resolved, That we revere his memory as that of a Christian Teacher, who sought to make all his stores of earthly wisdom, and all the powers and opportunities granted to him, promote the glory of God and the good of his fellow-men. Resolved, That we recall with gratitude his many services in behalf of this Institute in the way of counsel and of direct instruction, and that we consider his example as worthy of imitation by all, who, like him, are called to the moral and intellectual training of the young. Resolved, That these Resolutions be entered on the records of this Institute, and that they be published in the RHODE ISLAND SCHOOLMASTER and the daily papers of the city. Voted that a copy of the resolutions be presented to the family of the deceased. At 11 o'clock a lecture on the " Topography of Rome," was given by Samuel H. Taylor, LL. D., of Andover, Mass. The lecture was exceedingly interesting and valuable, and no abstract can do it justice. The subject was beautifully represented by a very large map, exhibiting the Tiber, the walls, Forum, the hills, the Campus Martius, the baths, the golden house of Nero, the coliseum, and the numerous places of historical interest. Dr. Taylor's reading, and his personal inspection of the antiquities of Rome, made his lecture as attractive and interesting as a moving panorama of life-pictures. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. The exercises were introduced by a lecture on "The value of Scientific Studies as a means of Discipline," by Josiah P. Cooke, Jr., of Harvard College. The lecturer would not ignore or disparage the study of the classics, but the great object of liberal education is to cultivate and strengthen the powers and faculties of the mind. He very clearly showed how the study of the sciences in a peculiar manner is adapted to reach such a result. Scholars must study with their understanding, and not merely with memories. Thoroughness in any department of learning is indispensible to sound scholarship. Students do not complain of the irksomeness of the work when the soul is interested in the pursuit. BOARD OF EDITORS OF THE R. I. SCHOOLMASTER FOR THE ENSUING YEAR. Contributing Editors- 1866 -J. B. Chapin, April; D. H. Hoyt, May; I. F. Cady, June; A. A. Gamwell, July; D. R. Adams, August; W. A. Mowry, September; J. J. Ladd, October; James T. Edwards, November; E. Rich, December. 1867.-T. B. Stockwell, January; C. B. Goff, February. Resident Editors-J. M. Ross, N. W. DeMunn, and T. W. Bicknell. Questions for Examinations and Mathematical Department—A. J. Manchester. Financial Department-N. W. DeMunn. The Committee on Resolution reported the following, which were unanimously adopted. Resolved, That we have cause for earnest congratulation in the continued prosperity of the R. I. Institute of Instruction, as indicated by the large number of teachers and friends of education present at this, its Twenty-second Annual Meeting. Resolved, That we tender our earnest thanks to Rev. L. Swain, D. D, for his words of hearty welcome and earnest cheer; to Professors Dunn, Greene and Diman, of |