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Pastry, Confectionery, Candying, Preserving and Peckling, and of making of Milks, Creams, and Syllabus, Jellies, soups, and Broths of all sorts, and who taught to dress and cover a table, and to make bills of fare, for entertainments of ali kinds, and that of late he had taught some young ladies, to their own and their parents' satisfaction; and that for instructing of his scholars, he is obliged to provide upon his own charge, flesh, fowls, fish, spices, and some other ingredients, but when dressed lie on his hand for sale, by which he is a loser, and will be obliged to lay aside his teaching, unless be is assured in carrying it on, and therefore craving a yearly allowance for his encouragement;" which being considered, "the Magistrates and Council agree to give him ten pounds yearly, for his encouragement,' ,"--a sum equal, at that time, to the salary of a master in the Grammar School.

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AMERICAN ASYLUM FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.

From the Missionary Herald for September.

The Directors in the tenth Report make the following statement with respect to the terms and conditions, upon which the Deaf and Dumb may be sent to the Asylum.

The annual income, accruing from the permanent fund, is expended in defraying the current expenses of the Asylum. The greater this income, the less, of course, is the charge made to each pupil; and thus throughout the union, any State, or any individual, or any association of individuals may equally participate in the benefit of the grant made by the general government to the Asylum.

By pursuing this course, the Directors have been enabled to reduce the annual charge for each pupil, to one hundred and fifteen dollars. How soon, and to what extent, they may still further reduce it, must depend on the avails of the land already sold, and yet to be sold, in Alabama.

This annual charge falls far short of the expense of providing for the necessary wants, and comfort, and instruction of each pupil.

Thus, in fact, the Asylum is constantly dispensing gratuitous aid to all who wish to receive it, in a mode, too, which recommends itself, by its impartiality and permanency. Any other mode would lead to invidious distinctions; to insuperable practical difficulties in carrying it into effect; and to such a speedy annihilation of the permanent funds of the Asylum, as would result in the complete destruction of its continued and extensive sphere of usefulness.

On the subject of education the Report contains the following paragraphs. The mechanical department has continued to receive that attention which its importance demands. With the exception of only two or three individuals, who, from peculiar circumstances, have been excused, all the male pupils, during the past year, have devoted a few hours each day, to the acquisition of a trade.Persons of skill and experience are employed to teach them. Their progress has been satisfactory. Measures have been adopted to give permanency to this department of the Institution; and every male pupil, who in future comes to the Asylum, will thus have the opportunity, while he is acquiring useful knowledge, of preparing himself to provide for his support when he shall return to his family and friends.

The pupils who receive legislative aid from their respective States, are generally sent to the Asylum for a term of four years. In this time, high expectations ought not to be formed of their intellectual improvement. Considering the great number of the Deaf and Dumb yet to be educated, and the importance of affording even a moderate degree of useful instruction to as many of them as possible, a period of four years is as much, perhaps, as they ought to expect from the public bounty. This period, however, in the case of other children and youth, who are in possession of all their faculties, affords them the bare rudiments of a common English education. Let every proper allowance, then, be made for those who labor under great and peculiar disadvantages; and let not too much be expected of them, or of those who are entrusted with the difficult and laborious task of their instruction.

The whole number of persons who have received the benefit of the Asylum, is 221. Of these 106 have gone from the institution; leaving 115 for the present number. The State of Massachusetts has supported 77; 18 have been supported, in whole, or in part, by New Hampshire; eight, in the same manner, by Maine; and 18, by Vermont. The rest have been kept in the Asylum at the expense of their friends.

No person is received into the institution, who is under ten years of age, or over thirty; nor is any one admitted for a less term than two years.

HAWAII.—SANDWICH ISLANDS.

Extract of a Letter from Mr. Goodrich to the Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions.

'The state of things at this station is very interesting. The house of public worship will not contain half that assemble to hear the word of life. The chiefs have lately begun to build a new meeting house of much larger dimensions.— Schools are rapidly increasing in all the eastern half of this island; and all that seems to be wanting is books and teachers. I am unable to supply one twentieth part of the call for books. Some have already left the school, commenced by us about ten months since, and have gone out to teach others; and many other teachers are immediately wanted. I have taken eight or ten persons from different lands to educate for teachers, who, finding their own food, are no expense to the mission. Most of them will soon be qualified to commence the business of instruction. A wide field of usefulness is open here on either hand.'

[A view of the state of schools, and of the progress of education generally, at the various missionary stations would, we think, form an interesting subject of contemplation to the friend of intellectual and moral as well as of religious improve ment. An article embracing a wide and systematic survey of this kind is in preparation; but the necessary researches have hitherto delayed its completion.]

KOSCIUSKO SCHOOL.

The Kosciusko School, for the education of Free Colored Youth in the United States, is an institution worthy of the age, and of its enlightened and generous donor. This school, which it is proposed to establish in the vicinity of Newark, N. J. was organised at a recent meeting of the trustees of the African Education Society in that place. The intention is to appropriate the Kosciusko fund, and to raise a similar sum for its endowment. The origin of the Kosciusko fund, and consequently of the name of the school, is explained in the New York Observer as follows: "That distinguished champion of civil liberty, on his last visit to the U. States, left in the hands of his friend and compeer in patriotism, the venerable Thomas Jefferson, a will, of which he was appointed the Executor. By this will, he gave to Mr. Jefferson a fund, the available amount of which, at this time, will be about $13,000 to be employed in liberating enslaved Africans, and bestowing upon them such an education, as, (to use his own words) would make them better fathers, better mothers, better sons, and better daughters.' The ilJustrious and lamented executor, in his life time, intrusted the management and ap plication of this sacred fund to Benjamin L. Lear, Esq. of Washington City, and one of the Board of Trustees; and we are authorised to state, that the appropria tion of the fund, upon the principles recommended at the above meeting, and adopted by the trustees, received the decided approbation of Mr. Jefferson." Geneva Gazelle.

LIVINGSTON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.-GENESEO, NEW YORK. The Committee designated to manage the concerns of the Livingston County High School, have chosen a scite for the buildings of this institution, near the old Town House, on the eminence, about half a mile east of the main street in this

village; and we are happy to state that such proposals have been received as will, in all probability, enable the committee to close, within a short time a contract for their erection. We understand that every apparatus necessary for the use of a school upon this plan, will be procured, and every arrangement made for the commencement of the school so soon as the buildings shall be completed.

When the general health of this village is considered-its location, and its exemption from the many allurements to dissipation to which students are exposed in cities and larger towns, it must be admitted that a place better fitted for a literary institution, can nowhere be found. A more beautiful site for the buildings can hardly be imagined. The prospect from this eminence is one of the finest in the state. Geneseo Journal.

PHYSICAL CULTURE AND MEDICAL ADMONITION.

It is with much pleasure that we inform our readers of a periodical paper to be devoted chiefly to the above objects. The Medical Intelligencer has, we understand, passed into the hands of Dr. J. G. Coffin, whose intention is to make it a vehicle of useful information, as acceptable to parents, and to the community at large, as to physicians. The abilities and other qualifications of the new editor, are extensively known and appreciated: this circumstance, as well as that of his having contributed to the pages of our Journal most of the articles on physical education, would make it superfluous or improper to dwell on this point.

The most material deficiency, perhaps, that has ever existed in prevailing systems of education, is the want of instruction regarding man's corporeal structure and capacities. Most of those acts or habits of imprudence, which we daily see laying the foundation of fatal disease in persons of every condition in life, proceed from a want of information respecting the human frame, and the means of preserv ing and improving health. The attention now so generally excited on the subject of physical education will, no doubt, diminish the deplorable frequency of such cases, by furnishing means and opportunities for invigorating the body, and protecting it from injury. More than this, however, is needed. Implements and a ready hand are good things; but they can effect nothing without intelligence to guide them. So it is in the culture of health: opportunities and means of exercise are valuable; -but a well informed mind is requisite in order to use these to advantage. Man's physical formation and habits were obviously designed to furnish sources of happiness; and education, we repeat it, is seriously defective, while it leaves him unacquainted with the structure of his body, the proper methods of enlarging its capacities, and of improving and prolonging its powers of action.

In every seminary, this subject ought to receive attention, as a branch of useful knowledge, and of practical instruction.

The Medical Intelligencer, in its new form, will, in the mean time, supply the requisite information to families and individuals; as it will contain the useful eleinents of medical science, in a popular and intelligible form. That this paper may be rendered equally instructive and interesting, will be evident to those of our readers who enjoyed opportunities of attending the course of lectures on the physiology of man, delivered last winter, by Drs. Ware and Bradford.

COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS, 1826.

The great number of these interesting exhibitions puts it out of our power to enter into them in detail. The general impression produced by them seems to have been favorable to the interests of literature and creditable to the character of instruction in our colleges and universities. Our want of room for particulars we regret the less from hearing that a sort of Annual Register of colleges in the United States, is about to be published by a citizen of Massachusetts.

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FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL.-PHILADELPHIA,

The Franklin High School is now opened under the most flattering pros pects. The room appropriated by the Institute is very large, and well cal culated for the purposes of the school. It is furnished, upon the most approved plan, with desks capable of holding two pupils each, and arranged in rows leaving passages between them. At these desks 304 pupils can be seated. In the recitation rooms, which adjoin the great room, there are circular seats and tables, at which the lessons are heard. To prevent noise, the rooms and the stairs are covered with thick carpeting.

The number of pupils present at the opening of the school, was 252; and there can be no doubt, that the school will soon be supplied with the whole number which the rooms can accommodate.-Nat. Gaz.

RENSSELAER SCHOOL.-TROY, N. Y.

Circular to the Citizens of Villages and School Districts.

A plan has been proposed by the Honorable Stephen Van Rensselaer, of Albany, for extending to every class of citizens the benefits of those departments of scientific knowledge, which are most intimately connected with the common concerns of life.

For this purpose young gentlemen are prepared for giving instruction upon his plan, at a school established by himself for this and for other objects, in Troy, N. Y. in the year 1824, which was incorporated by a legislative act, in March 1826. These instructers are sent to different districts, with directions to conduct courses of instruction as follows:

They are to give lectures on the evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, to popular classes, on experimental Chemistry, with its applications. Young gentlemen, from four to ten in number, selected by the evening class, are to be taught upon the Rensselaer plan; that is, they are to be present and assist in the prepar ations for the evening lectures and experiments, which they are severally to repeat in the form of experimental lectures on the following days. The schoolmaster of the district ought always to be one of the experimental class.

By this method, several residents may be qualified, at a very cheap rate, for instructing others; so that every individual of every vocation may, in a few years, become familiar with the principles and manipulations of experimental chemistry with their applications to the arts and manufactures, as well as to agriculture and the other various concerns of life, without any material loss of time.

The course of instruction is not limited to chemistry. Natural philosophy and natural history will be taught on different evenings upon the same plan Those who attend the popular course, will be compensated by much pleasure and profit; though the principal object should be to qualify a number of residents in every district for perpetuating the practical sciences among those whom they will aid most in all their important operations. It is presumed, that the disinterested munificence of the patron of this plan of education, will be duly appreciated by every individual to whom it is made known, and that sufficient sums will be paid by those gentlemen and ladies, who attend the Evening Course of lectures, to defray the expenses necessary for instructing the experimental class.

Chemical apparatus is now so far simplified, and collections in Natural History are now so easily obtained, that any school district can afford the necessary expense for perpetuating these sciences. Fifty dollars will procure apparatus and specimens for giving a very profitable course in chemistry, natural philoso phy, and natural history, with their application to agriculture, domestic economy, the arts and manufactures. One hundred and fifty dollars, economically expended in procuring apparatus, &c. will be sufficient for a course as full as any school district will need. Where the districts are very small, four or five, or any other convenient number, may unite and fit up a laboratory in a central situation, where a definite number from each school may be taught annually, until every

youth in each district shall become experimentally acquainted with those useful sciences, and with their application to daily exigencies.

Though this undertaking is of vast importance in its tendencies, it is unquestionably practicable. Should it succeed, it must necessarily improve the state of society more than any other scheme hitherto proposed. When the human mind receives a bias in favor of the study of nature, it is immediately withdrawn from all vicious and frivolous pursuits. No one will question the correctness of the often repeated saying, that "the next step to the contemplation of Nature, is that of Nature's God."

Samuel Blatchford, President; Amos Eaton, Lewis C. Beck, Professors.
Rensselaer School, Troy, N. Y. June 17, 1826.—Geneva Gazette.

GYMNASIUM IN BOSTON.

This valuable acquisition to the city is now open; and, from the large number of pupils of various ages, and the high gratification it seems to afford, it promises to meet if not surpass the expectations formed of its usefulness.

NOTICES.

WORKS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

Elements of Moral Philosophy: comprising the Theory of Morals and Practical Ethics. By John L. Parkhurst. Concord, N. H. 1825. 12ino. pp. 257.

This work is written with much of the zeal of one who regards the christian revelation as the source of all pure morality, and who wishes to make ethics the avenue to truth as exhibited in the scriptures. The whole character of the work is well adapted to this purpose: it is familiar and unassuming in thought and language, and simple and intelligible in its arrangement. The author's intentions are highly laudable; but his success would have been greater, we think, had his mind previously undergone a more rigid discipline on the elements of intellectual philosophy-the basis of the science on which he treats. His work is now a very good popular essay on the subject of moral philosophy; but it might have been made something more: it might have been rendered a work of philosophic rank and merit.

As a reading book for families and schools, the Elements will be very useful in the way of enlarging and improving the mind, and placing the duties of life on an elevated basis.

The chapter on Emulation and Ambition will, we hope, do much good among teachers. It speaks plainly on the evils arising from emulation, and the attempts commonly made in schools and other seminaries, to clothe it in the garb of an angel of light, while in reality it is only a specious modification of selfishness. In this part of Mr. Parkhurst's work, however, there would have been more clearness and more directness, had he set out with discriminating between emulation, and that virtuous desire of meriting approbation, which mingles love and respect for others with all movements of the mind which revert to self. That the desire of approbation is a pure principle of action, which may be successfully transferred to the aid of instruction, needs no demonstration to those who remember that it enters into the impulse to duty towards parents, and benefactors, and the Supreme Being himself. And every teacher who cultivates it attentively and judiciously, will find it much more generally applicable, and more productive, too, of good results, than the sclfish principle of emulation.

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