EASTERN STATES.

VERMONT.-The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College has made arrangements for three new professorships and added materially to the philosophical apparatus, the collection of natural objects, and other means of illustration.

-On Commencement day Pres. Sears, of Brown University, announced that $100,000 had been, during the last year, presented to the college by a donation of $20,000 each from William Sprague, William S. Slater, Earl P. Mason, William H. Reynolds, Horatio N. Slater; and donations had also been received from Alumni residing in Massachusetts, amounting in all to $50,000. The donations from Massachusetts were made with the expectation that $100,000 in addition to the sums mentioned above would be subscribed by the Alumni and friends of the college, making a total of $250,000.

MASSACHUSETTS.-The whole number of graduates of Amherst College, for the forty-five years of its existence, has been 1681, of whom 697 have been ministers, and 70 foreign missionaries. 158 of her graduates and students were in the national service; 26 died in the war.

-At a recent meeting of the trustees of the Massachusetts State Agricultural College, it was voted to adhere to the selection of Amherst as the location of the college, and steps were taken for the erection of the buildings, which are not to cost over $50,000. The injunction restraining the town of Amherst from contributing $50,000 for the institution remains to be removed, however, before the building can go on.

-The new triennial catalogue of Harvard college contains the names of 7,786 graduates, of whom 2,77% or 36 per cent. are supposed to be living. All the Alumni are dead from 1642 until 1796, except Judge Samuel Thacher, of the class of 1793.

-There are now over twenty-two thousand volumes in the Springfield City Library.

MIDDLE STATES.

NEW YORK.-The trustees of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., have concluded a contract for the construction of their first college building. It is to be a dormitory, 165 feet long, 50 broad, four stories above basement, entirely of stone; cost $57,425. It is designed to afford the requisite facilities for one hundred students, and to be completed by June 30, 1867. The Agricultural Department may be opened next fall. -According to the twenty-fourth annual report of the Board of Education, there are in New York city 268 schools, including the Free Academy, Normal schools, Gram

mar Schools, Primary, Colored, Corporate and Asylum schools, and Evening schools.

During the year ending Dec. 31, 1865, $2,298,508 55 were deposited with the City Chamberlain for the purposes of education. The expenditure may be summed up as follows: Amount paid the City Chamberlain over draft in warrants issued in 1864, $86,533 77; salaries to teachers, janitors and officers, $1,482,177 84; support of Normal Schools, $6,781 38: rent of school premises and apportionment to corporate schools, and pianos for ward schools, $57,808 71; payments for building and repairing in ward schools prior to and during 1865, $311,189 78. This makes the total payments $2,877,988 69, which leaves an excess in warrants issued to be provided for from the fund of next year of $79,480 11.

The total number of scholars taught in these schools under the control of the Board of Education, and also the corporate schools, amounted during 1864 to 218,084.

In the year 1865 the total attendance at all the schools, including the Free Academy and the Normal, was 219,749, showing an increase over the previous year of 11,665.

The State School Tax paid by this city for the past twelve years, and the large proportion not returned, was as follows: Amount paid, $4,851,807 09; the amount apportioned to this county by the State during the same period, $2,594,491 05; amount retained by the State Government for distribution in other counties, $2,256,816 04. In the year 1856-ten years since the total educational expenditure of this city amounted to $961,885 75.

Some idea of the magnitude of the evening schools may be gained from the fact that in the twenty-first ward two such schools have been opened for the ensuing winter, one with forty-five and the other with 53 teachers.

-The seventh annual report of the Cooper Union of New York city has just been issued. This institution was established by Peter Cooper. The original cost of the property as received by the trustees from him was $630,000, and since it camé into their possession there have been expended $166,191, making the total cost thus far $796,191, all of which, excepting $1600, has been derived either from the founder or the revenues of the property. The institution includes a free night school for males and females, in which algebra, geometry, descriptive and analytical geometry, calculus, theoretical and practical mechanics, natural philosophy, and chemistry are taught; a school of art and a school of design for women. Twentyseven instructors are employed in the various schools. The number of pupils who entered the night school was 1571, of whom 958 remained until the close of the

school year. Five students, having completed the five years' course of study, graduated this summer. The School of Design for Women was attended by 200 pupils. The free school of music had 400 pupils. Attached to the Union is a free library and reading-room, visited last year by 201,760 readers. The total expenditure for the year was $28,658 07.

NEW JERSEY.-Gen. N. N. Halstead, of Newark, whose noble liberality in relation to the College Observatory at Princeton is well known, has contracted for the purchase of a lot adjoining the Observatory lot, for $3,500, with a view of enlarging the College grounds, and probably for the erection of a building contemplated for the scientific department of the College.

WESTERN STATES.

MISSOURI.-The late H. Ames, of St. Louis, left by will $100,000 to the O'Fallon Institute-an institution of learning resembling the Cooper Institute of New York.

-One thousand acres of excellent land has been purchased and laid out, about one hundred and thirty miles below St. Louis, for an industrial orphan agricultural farm school. It abounds with fruit, timber, and coal.

KENTUCKY.-The Freedmen have thirty schools, with an attendance of 2,828 schol

ars.

KANSAS.-We take the following from one of our exchanges:

"A novel, and yet very worthy educational enterprise has been set on foot in Kansas, having for its object the establishment of an Industrial University for the Indians of our Western tribes. The project originated with the Ottawas, who are a partially civilized tribe, living on a magnificent reservation of land lying about twenty-five miles due south of Lawrence. Their chief, Mr. John Jones, is a thoroughly educated man, having a very intelligent white woman, who was originally a missionary, for his wife. They have both devoted their lives to the protection and elevation of the Indians. By a treaty consummated two or three years since, the Ottawas donated twenty thousand acres of land from the center of their rich reservation for the establishing of this University. Six hundred and forty acres of it are to be devoted to a farm connected with the institution, and are inalienable. The children of the Ottawas, no matter whatever part of the country they may have removed to, are to be perpetually entitled to education in the University. Its advantages are also to be extended to the other tribes of the West who may desire to enjoy them. Mr. Jones, the Ottawa Chief, has associated with him several other gentlemen, including the Rev. Mr. Hutchinson, the Government Indian Agent for the Ottawas, and they have al

ready established a fine village of 1200 inhabitants on the land donated for the University, have built a church and a school house, established a weekly newspaper, and founded a flourishing community. They are now engaged in erecting one of the University buildings, designed to accommodate some fifty pupils.'

SOUTHERN STATES.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.-The Commis sioner of the General Land Office reports 2152 acres located in Nebraska during August by agricultural scrip; also 18,720 acres in Minnesota during the same month.

-J. W. Alvord, Esq., Inspector of Schools and Finances of the Freedmen's Bureau, has submitted to the Commissioner his semi-annual report of the condition of the Freedmen's Schools in the United States. It represents that the total number of schools, exclusive of night schools, Sabbath, and private schools, in all the districts of the Bureau, is 975. The total number of teachers employed is 1,405; and the total number of pupils receiving tuition is 90,778. The State of Virginia is in advance of all the others in Freedmen's Schools, the number reported being 123 schools, 200 teachers, and 11,784 scholars. The Inspector says, in reference to the subject: "Amid all the embarrassment of these past months, the schools have steadily gained in numbers, attainment, and general influence. This is true, with a good degree of sameness, over all the States except Louisiana, where special causes have temporarily paralyzed our efforts. Teachers generally are becoming more apt and skilful in their instructions, and the rapid progress of pupils hitherto noticed, continues. The Associations of the North are

increasing their patronage and funds, and concentrating their means in Central Agencies which promise greater economy and efficiency, and are now ready, with fresh hope, to co-operate heartily with the Bureau.'

SOUTH CAROLINA.-Gov. Orr, in a special message, has recommended to the Legislature the acceptance by the State of the provisions of the Act of Congress of 1862, donating lands to States and Territories for establishing agricultural colleges. He intimates that the State can realize $150,000 from the sale of scrip.

-President Johnson is said to have given Bishop Potter his check for $1000, to increase the funds of the South Carolina Theological Institute.

TEXAS.-The following from the Houston Telegraph shows that the people of this State are more keenly alive to their interests than most of their neighbors. Referring to a recent outrageous attack upon a freedmen's teacher in Louisiana, it says:

The attack, beating, kicking, and drag

ging of Mr. Ruby seems to be entirely without excuse. He had but newly arrived, and his only offense was that of instructing his fellow-people of color. Yet his treatment was most cruel. A great many of these outrages have occurred in Louisiana. We are glad to know that the people of Texas have been much kinder to the colored school teachers, and while we could wish there was less prejudice toward them, still we congratulate ourselves that Texans have not disgraced themselves as have the people of Louisiana.

"We are beginning to recognize the fact that our comfort and perhaps our safety demand that the negro be educated and raised above his present abject condition. We believe that no personal violence has been offered to any teacher under the Bureau, either white or black. This argues for us a higher state of civilization than our neighbors enjoy. We believe that the colored schools of Texas are the most prosperous of those established in the Southern States. They are conducted without expense to the Government, being entirely supported by the blacks themselves."

-Governor Throckmorton, in his recent message, does not represent the condition of the State educational fund as at all encouraging.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. IRELAND. The twenty-third report of the Commissioners of Education announces

that at the close of the year 1865 the number of schools in operation was 6,872, the average daily attendance of children was 821,309, and the average number on the rolls 598,408. There was an increase of 109 schools over the year 1864, and an increase in the daily attendance of 6,101. There are 45 national school houses in course of erection, and the model school. Of a total number of 675,335 pupils on the rolls of national schools for quarter ending 81st December, 1865, 551,006 were Roman Catholics, 45,026 Established Church, 74,424 Presbyterian, and 4,869 other persuasions. The total amount of salaries, etc., paid to teachers, assistants, monitors, and work-mistresses in national schools during 1865, was £252,248 18s. 2d. The total amount of receipts from all quarters during the past year, including a balance of £17,897 18s. 8d. in hand on the 81st December, 1864, was £369,594 7s. 10d., and the total amount of expenditures by the commissioners, £349,637 2s. 8d., leaving a balance in hand of £19,987 5s. 2d.

THE JEWS.-The Jews in Russia, and in the East, are reviving attention to education, and improving in all branches of learning. In Germany, a great agricultural school is in operation, in which many young Jews of wealth and station are studying the sciences, and learning practical operations in farming, with a view of applying their knowledge and skill to the soil of Palestine.

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much in it that is new, or an improvement on other books of the same class. And we are not often disappointed. But we find an exception in the little book' before us. This, if we mistake not, possesses features which will commend it to both teachers and parents. As in most primary arithmetics, numbers are first presented in connection with pictures; and the author is right in saying that these will cultivate the taste of the child and impart useful knowledge, besides assisting him in his first steps in numbers." The illustrations are really excellent, and in this respect the work differs materially from most books of the kind. Equal care seems to have been

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