amounts only to $60 per annum. They have the preparation of young men for the ministry as their primary object. They, however, exclude no moral young man from the advantages of the schools.'

COLLEGES AND HIGHER SEMINARIES.-A Baptist Manual Labor School will probably go into operation at Greensborough, in 1834.

University of Georgia, at Athens. Incorporated in 1788; endowment, 30,000 acres of unappropriated land; established in Athens in 1802, and Josiah Meigs, LL. D., appointed president. In 1808-9, Dr. Kollock of Savannah, was appointed president, as Mr. Meigs had resigned. He did not accept, and Rev. Professor Smith, of South Carolina College, was appointed. Dr. Smith accepted the appointment. It languished for want of funds till 1816, when lands were sold to the amount of $100,000, and the proceeds placed in bank stock, which yielded eight per cent. In 1817, Dr. Finley of New Jersey, became president. He died in a few months of fever. Dr. Beman, now of Troy, N. Y., was then appointed, but declined. In 1819, Rev. Dr. Moses Waddell, of South Carolina, was appointed president and accepted. He raised the institution to a very respectable rank. He retired in 1819, and Rev. Dr. Alonzo Church, the present incumbent, succeeded. One of the buildings was burned in 1830, which cost $25,000. It was rebuilt by the State, and a valuable library also procured. The annual income is now $14,000; $8,000 from bank stock, and $6,000 from the State; tuition, $38 for each student per annum. It was never in so flourishing state as at the present time. Alonzo Church, D. D., president and professor political economy, mental philosophy, and evidences of Christianity. James Jackson, professor natural philosophy and chemistry. Rev. S. Olin, rhetoric and moral philosophy. Henry Hull, M. D., mathematics and astronomy. James Shannon, ancient languages. Malthus A. Ward, M. D., natural history. Rev. Wm. Shannon, modern languages. B. B. Hopkins and Wm. L. Mitchell, tutors. The college has two buildings, each 120 feet by 50, three stories high, and a third building for public purposes. A botanic garden has been commenced.

ALABAMA.

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.-By Act of Congress, March 2d, 1819, 640 acres of land were granted to the inhabitants of each township for the use of schools, and two entire townships for the support of a seminary of learning.

COLLEGES AND HIGHER SEMINARIES.-La Grange Methodist College. This is situated a few miles from Florence, Ala., at the head of steamboat navigation, on the Tennessee river; and its location is high and healthy. It has been three years in operation. The faculty consists of a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, a professor of ancient and modern languages, and a tutor. There is also a superintendent.

University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa. Tuscaloosa is at the seat of government, on the eastern bank of the Black Warrior, at the head of steam navigation. Population, 2,500. The University located in this place in 1827-8, is on the Huntsville road, a mile and a half from the State House. In the center is the rotundo, a large circular building of three stories; the first is a large room for public occasions; the second a circular gallery for spectators; the third for a library room. There are three three-story dormitories, building for a laboratory and recitation rooms, several professors' houses, &c. Alva Woods, D. D., president, and professor of mental and moral philosophy. J. F. Wallis, professor chemistry and natural history. H. Tutwiler, ancient languages. S. F. Bonfils, modern languages. Rev. Henry W. Hilliard, elocution and English literature. Wm. W. Hudson, mathematics and natural philosophy. C. Jones, tutor; J. G. Davenport, librarian; R. B. McMullen, chemical assistant. The institution went into operation in April, 1831. Students, 95. Board, tuition, room rent, &c., 120 dollars per annum. Library, 3,000 volumes.

MISSISSIPPI.

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.-No system in regard to Primary schools has been adopted. The State has a Literary Fund amounting to $30,000, or $40,000, but no portion of it is available till it shall amount to $500,000. It is supposed that 8,000 or 9,000 children of a suitable age receive no instruction. The land,

allowed by Congress for schools amounts to 800,000 acres, and is worth 2,000,000 dollars.

COLLEGES AND HIGHER SEMINARIES.-Jefferson College, at Washington. Captain Alden Partridge, president; E. B. Williston, J. Holbrook, professors; and 7 assistants. This institution was opened December 7, 1829. It is in part a military institution; number of cadets, 98. Physical education receives special attention. The principal building will accommodate more than 100 students. Every cadet must be furnished with a Bible, and must attend public worship on the Sabbath.

FLORIDA.

Five individuals have agreed, if it can be done at an expense within their means, to purchase a small tract of land, and form a small Manual Labor School, somewhere in the neighborhood of Tallahassee. A teacher is to be employed to take charge of a limited number of pupils; suitable buildings are to be erected for the accommodation of the teacher and pupils, who are to board together, with as little connection as possible with the inhabitants in the vicinity. The pupils will be required to devote a certain number of hours daily to agricultural and mechanical employments of the simplest kinds. No pupil will be admitted except with the consent of the teacher and each of the proprietors; nor suffered to remain in the school, unless he submits to all its regulations. The studies at the commencement, are to be confined to the usual branches of a good English education, including mechanics, botany, chemistry, &c.

LOUISIANA.

The legislature appropriate about 40,000 dollars per annum for the education of the indigent in the State. The United States granted the State 46,000 acres of land for a college, and 873,000 acres for schools. At New Orleans there is a Roman Catholic College. In the town of Jackson, parish of East Feliciana, is the College of Louisiana,' H. H. Gird, president ad interim; founded in 1825 by the legislature, 3 instructors, 55 students, including those in the preparatory school.

TENNESSEE.

In Maury county, 30 miles south of Nashville, and 9 from Columbia, is a Manual Labor School, lately commenced. Rev. Robert Hardin, D. D., president, and professor of natural philosophy and rhetoric. Rev. B. Labaree, vice-president, and professor of ancient languages. W. L. Willeford, Esq., professor mathematics and natural philosophy. 3 assistant teachers. The course of study is liberal, and embraces 4 years. Tuition and board remarkably low. The University of Nashville is one of the most important institutions in the western States. The philosophical apparatus cost in London $6,000. The mineralogical cabinet contains more than 10,000 specimens. Total annual expense of students, $100. Theological students of all denominations admitted at half price. At Greenville is a college, the funds of which amount to $5,000, all received from individuals. Knoxville College is in East Tennessee. Southern and Western Theological Institution, at Maryville, East Tennessee, established in 1819, by the Presbyterian Synod of Tennessee. Rev. Isaac Anderson, D. D., principal instructor. A boarding-house is connected, and a farm, which is cultivated by indigent students. The institution is both literary and theological.

KENTUCKY.

The Literary Fund of Kentucky amounts to $140,917 44. Two or three years since, it was supposed that not more than one-third of the children between four and fifteen attend school. At Elkton, Todd county, is a Preparatory school of a high order, under the care of Rev. J. J. Pierce. Cumberland College, at Princeton, founded in 1825, under the care of the Cumberland Presbyterians. A college building has been erected, 120 feet long, 45 wide, and three stories high. Great benefits have resulted from the manual labor system. Center Col lege, at Danville, incorporated 1818; managed by a Board of 11 trustees appointed from time to time by the Presbyterian Synod of Kentucky. The legislature gave up all control over its concerns, and surrendered it to the Synod in con

side ration of their endowing it without legislative assistance. Rev. J. C. Young, president, and professor of mental philosophy; J. M. Buchanan, professor of mathematics; Rev. W. L. Breckinridge, professor of ancient languages; L. W. Green, professor of belles lettres and political economy; Luke Munsell, M. D., professor of chemistry, natural philosophy, and mineralogy; Rev. Joseph Huber, professor of modern languages; William G. Allen, Henry G. Cummings, tutors of grammar school. The students are required to attend a Bible recitation on the Sabbath. Expenses, exclusive of books and clothing, from $80 to $100 per annum. Some respectable students expend only from $65 to $80. Those intended for the ministry, by working on a farm two hours a day, can be supported on $60 per annum. All students will soon enjoy the same benefits. Connected with the College is a Grammar school and a Primary school. Under the same Board is an Institution for the Deuf and Dumb, endowed by Congress. In Danville is a Female school of a high order, under the care of Rev. James K. Burch. At Monticello is an academy under the care of T. C. Tupper. Near Salem, C. H. Clarke county, is the Sylvan Academy, under the care of Rev. O. S. Hinckley. At Lexington is the Shelby Female Academy, under the care of J. L. and W. Tracy. A Classical school for boys, and an Infant school are connected. The Messrs. Van Dorens have a seminary which they call the Collegiate Institute, at Lexington. At Winchester is a Female school, superintended by Willis Collins. At Versailles, another similar institution, under the care of Miss C. A. Tillery. At Hillsborough, Samuel David Blythe instructs an English and Classical school. The Transylvania University, at Lexington, is nearly in the center of the valley of the Mississippi. The buildings stand on an eminence, removed from the city. Rev. Benjamin O. Peers, president; John Lutz, D. P., professor mathematics; E. Rovel, professor of languages; Charles E. Bains, principal of the Preparatory department. At Bardstown, is St. Joseph's, a Roman Catholic College. At Georgetown, is a Baptist institution, lately under the care of Rev. Joel S. Bacon. The professors are George W. Eaton, languages and philosophy; S. Hatch, chemistry; William Craig, tutor; and C. Lewis, principal of the Preparatory department. Expenses, $100 per annum. It is 12 miles from Lexington, and 17 from Frankfort. Augusta College is a Methodist institution, in Bracken county, on the Ohio river, established as an academy in 1822, and as a college in 1829.

MISSOURI.

At St. Louis is a Catholic institution, founded in 1829. Edifice is a brick building, 60 feet by 40, about to be enlarged. It has a pleasant situation. Corporations have been formed for 9 academies. In Marion county, a college is about being commenced. Another similar institution is also contemplated.

ILLINOIS.

A thirty-sixth part of each township is granted for the support of schools; and three per cent. of the net proceeds of the United States' lands, sold within the State, is appropriated for the encouragement of learning, of which a sixth part is required to be bestowed on a College or University. A further provision has been made for a University, by the grant of two townships of land by the United States. An Illinois Institute of Education,' was lately formed at Vandalia. Illinois College, at Jacksonville. Rev. Edward Beecher, president; Rev. J. M. Sturtevant, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy; Rev. W. Kirby, professor of Latin and Greek; Erastus Colton, Preparatory department. About $46,000 have been raised in the East and West, toward founding this institution. The building will accommodate 100 students. A philosophical apparatus, worth $600 or $800 has been procured. A president, two professors, and an instructor in the Preparatory department have been provided. The college stands on a rising ground, in front of which is a beautiful prairie of 13,000 acres, or 20 square miles of the richest soil. At Alton, Madison county, an institution for the Baptists is about to be commenced. The library, and other property at Rock Spring will be procured. An organized College of the first order, it is intended soon to establish. Instruction, we believe, has been already commenced. Two or three other institutions are contemplated.

INDIANA.

The thirty-sixth part of each township of land is reserved for the support of education. Reservations are also provided for the benefit of the Indiana College at Bloomington. The funds of this institution will amount, when the land is sold, to $60,000. About half are now sold. Two college buildings have been erected, one 40 feet by 30, the other 75 feet by 55, three stories in height. The situation of the college is very pleasant. The course of instruction is thorough. The Cambridge mathematics are a part. South Hanover College and Indiana Theological Seminary. Located at South Hanover, six miles below Madison, Jefferson county, on the banks of the Ohio. The college edifice is 40 feet by 100, and three stories high. Eight dormitories 12 feet square have been erected, and a carpenter's, a cooper's, and a wagon maker's shop. It was founded in the year 1825, very much through the instrumentality of Rev. Messrs. John F. Crowe, and James M. Dickey. The president is James Blythe, D. D., who is professor of rhetoric, chemistry, natural, mental, and moral philosophy; Rev. John F. Crowe, professor of logic, belles lettres, and political economy; John H. Harney, mathematics and natural philosophy; Mark A. H. Niles, languages; Rev. John Matthews, D. D., theology; Rev. John W. Cunningham, biblical lit.

OHIO.

Three-fourths of a mill on a dollar is levied on the ad valorem amount of the general list of taxable property in the State, for the support of Common schools, We are not aware that there are any flourishing incorporated academies in the State. At Marietta is the Institute of Education, under the supervision of Messrs. Bingham, French, and Adams. It comprises four departments; Infant school, Primary school, Ladies' seminary, and Young Men's High school. The year is divided into two terms. Tuition, from $250 to $7. Students in all the departments, about 130. Provision is made for manual labor. At Granville is a Literary and Theological (Baptist) Institution. Rev. John Pratt, principal; Paschal Čarter, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy; A. H. Frink, teacher. It commenced operations in December, 1831. A commodious building has been erected. Annual expenses, about 70 dollars. There is a Female seminary in the same place. At New Franklin there is a College. At Gambier, Knox county, is Kenyon College, an Episcopal institution, founded by Bishop Chase. Rev. Charles P. McIlvaine is now president. Rev. William Sparrow, Milnor professor of theology; Rev. C. W. Fitch, languages; John Kendrick, philosophy and rhetoric; Rev. George Dennison, mathematics and natural philosophy. It has 8,000 acres of land. It received about 13,000 dollars from England. A Diocesan Theological seminary is connected. A very large and commodious building of stone has been erected. Miami University, at Oxford. This institution is in Butler county, adjoining the State of Indiana. The lands of Oxford belong in fee simple to the University. The township is 6 miles square, and contains 3,000 inhabitants. The University was chartered in 1809, and went into operation in 1824. The annual revenue of the institution is more than 4,000 dollars, and it is rapidly increasing. The situation is represented to be delightful. The number of instructors is 11. Ohio University, at Athens. This institution is supported by two townships of land, given by Congress for the purpose. Rev. Robert G. Wilson, D. D., president, and professor of logic, rhetoric, &c.; professors Thomas M. Drake, M. D., natural philosophy and natural history; Rev. William Wall, mathematics; Joseph Dana, Latin and Greek; Daniel Read, academical preceptor. Lane Seminary, at Cincinnati. Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D., president, and professor of theology; Rev. T. J. Biggs, professor of church history and church polity; Rev. C. E. Stowe, professor of biblical literature; Rev. Ñ. H. Folsom, professor of languages; Thomas D. Mitchell, M. D., professor of chemistry; E. Whitney, teacher. In the early part of 1832, the committee commenced the erection of a seminary edifice, 100 feet long, and 40 deep, and four stories high, with a basement, which will contain more than 100 single rooms. The estimated cost of this building is 8,000 dollars. Near 40 of the rooms are now occupied, and the remainder will be finished by the close of the spring vacation. The committee have recently purchased from Mr. Elnathan Kemper all his farm adjoining that of the semin

ary, containing about 51 acres of his most valuable land. The table has been, to a great extent, furnished from the farm with milk and butter, and with all the vegetables necessary; and as it has been the wish of the students to dispense with tea and coffee, and all articles of luxury, and to live on principles of Christian simplicity and economy, the committee have been able to furnish board at 1 dollar per week, without loss to the institution. Expenses of theological department,-Board, including the two sessions of 40 weeks, at 1 dollar per week, 40 dollars; for rent of room, from 3 to 5 dollars, average 4 dollars; those having double rooms, 2 dollars; washing, 40 weeks, 7 dollars; fuel, 5 dollars; light, 3 dollars; contingent expenses, use of library, wood for recitation rooms, sweeping, &c., 3 dollars; tuition, gratis; total, 60 dollars. Literary department,-Expenses the same as in the theological department, 60 dollars; an addition for tuition of 20 dollars; total, 80 dollars. Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati. Students, 110; professors, J. Cobb, J. Whitman, J. Smith, E. Slack, J. Moorhead, C. E. Pierson. An institution, called the Reformed Medical College, has lately been commenced. At Hudson, in Portage county, is the Western Reserve College. Rev. Charles B. Storrs, president; professors, Rev. Beriah Green, sacred literature; Rev. Rufus L. Nutting, languages; Elizur Wright, Jr., mathematics and nat. phil.; Rev. David L. Coe, assistant instructor.

MICHIGAN TERRITORY.

A Society for the Promotion of the Civilization and Christianization of the North-western Tribes, has been recently established at Detroit. Henry R. Schoolcraft, Esq., is president. It is called the 'Algic Society.'

From this comprehensive and by far the most painstaking and exhaustive survey of the educational institutions of the United States up to the time when this was made, we learn that so late as 1833:1. There was no national recognition at Washington by any department, or bureau, or clerk, of the importance of schools and education to the general prosperity of the country, and no informa tion as to the manner in which the lands devoted by the general government for educational purposes had been disposed of.

2. There were only three States (New York, Maine, and Massachusetts) which had provided by law for officially authenticated returns respecting their elementary schools—their number, pupils, teachers, and means of support.

3. There was not a single State or city which had an officer whose whole time was devoted to the supervision of the educational interests of that State or city, and only one State (New York) in which an officer of any other department was charged with the general supervision of Common schools, or a Board to report on the higher institutions of learning.

4. Outside of Boston there was not a single city which had a system of public schools, culminating in a High school-all the higher instruction below the college curriculum being given in incorporated academies and seminaries in no way responsible to the public or the legislature.

5. Not a single State or city Normal school, or seminary for the professional training of teachers had been established.