of the $45,000. They are further authorized to pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars toward the salary of a teacher, provided the inhabitants of the district contribute an equal or greater amount; and, at the school thus provided, every white child in the district may be taught gratis. Each school is to be placed under the control of three trustees, of whom the School Commissioners are to appoint one, and the private contributors two.'

ACADEMIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS.-Academies in Virginia are private schools, commonly established by a few public spirited individuals in a county or neighborhood, who erect suitable buildings and provide requisite teachers. The ordinary number of scholars is from 30 to 50. There are about 55 of these academies in the State. The grammar schools are conducted solely by their respective teachers. In some of them Latin, Greek, and mathematics are taught. But the largest part of the youth of both sexes are taught in domestic schools. COLLEGES AND HIGHER SEMINARIES.-College of William and Mary. This College was originally projected in 1688, the year in which William and Mary ascended the British throne. The instructors are:

Adam Empie, D. D., president, and prof. moral philosophy and rhetoric. William B. Rogers, professor chemistry and natural philosophy.

Dabney Brown, professor humanity.

Thomas K. Dew, professor hist. met. and political law.

professor mathematics.
law.

The property of the college amounts to about $150,000, not, however, yielding an income in proportion to that amount. The salaries of the professors are $1,000 each, except that the Professor of Law has $600, and the Professor of Humanity, $900.

Hampden Sidney College. This institution is in Prince Edward county, 80 miles south-west of Richmond, on an elevated and remarkably healthy situation. It was founded in 1755, and has a very liberal charter. The President, James Cushing, Esq., is professor of mental philosophy, rhetoric, moral philosophy, and natural law; besides which are the chairs of chemistry, natural philosophy, mathematics, and the learned languages.

Union Theological Seminary in Prince Edward county. This institution is under the immediate care of the Presbytery of West Hanover, but by its constitution is bound to report annually to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. It commenced operations in 1824. On the 1st of January, of that year, Rev. John H. Rice, D. D., was inaugurated professor of Christian theology. The instructors are:

Rev. George A. Baxter, D. D., prof. Christian theology.
Rev. Hiram P. Goodrich, prof. oriental literature.

-, prof. church history.

Elisha Ballentine, assistant teacher.

Washington College, at Lexington. This College was endowed by General Washington, with 100 shares of the stock of James river company, which in 1821 produced an annual income of $2,400. The two college halls, of brick, will accommodate from 50 to 60 students. The faculty are:

Louis Marshall, M. D., president, and prof. languages.

Rev. Henry Ruffner, prof. mathematics.

Joseph W. Farnum, M. D., prof. chemistry and nat. philosophy. -, prof. ethics.

N. R. Seabrook, tutor.

The funds of the college are large, and the course of instruction thorough.

Virginia Baptist Seminary, located four miles north of Richmond. It is well situated for the purposes of a manual labor institution, as Richmond furnishes a good market. Rev. Robert Ryland is principal; 14 scholars, all preparing for the ministry; 30 students about to be admitted. Total expenses, $95 per anNo student under 16 years to be received. All to labor 3 hours a day, Saturday and Sunday excepted.

num.

Randolph Macon College, Boydton. This is in Mecklenburg county, 88 miles south-west of Richmond.

John Emory, D. D., president.

Martin P. Parks, prof. mathematics.

Lorenzo Lea, principal of the preparatory school.

Founded in 1831.

University of Virginia, at Charlottesville. The University of Virginia is lolated about 2 miles from Charlottesville, in Albemarle county, and very near the center of population of the State. It was founded in 1819, and went into operation in 1825. It owes its origin and its peculiar organization to Thomas Jefferson. It was erected by the State, at a cost of about $400,000; and the State now gives an annuity of $15,000 for its support. Degrees are granted, after very thorough and rigid examinations, in the separate schools. The number of the graduates, at the close of the last session, in the several schools, were as follows:-In the school of ancient languages, 2; certificates of proficiency in the Latin language, 9; mathematics, 9; natural philosophy, 14; chemistry, 3; moral philosophy, 9; certificates of proficiency in political economy, 7; law, 4; medicine, including the school of medicine proper, (physiology, pathology, &c.) the school of chemistry and materia medica, and the school of anatomy and surgery, the graduates receiving the title of 'Doctor of Medicine,' 5.-Students who have received separate degrees in the schools of ancient languages, mathematics, natural philosophy, chemistry, and moral philosophy, are declared graduates of the university, with the title of 'Master of Arts of the University of Virginia.' This title was conferred on one student at the last commencement. Number of diplomas granted in 1832, 47; number of certificates of proficiency, 16. There are no indigent students supported by the university. The library has about 8,000 volumes; but it is very valuable, having been purchased in Europe, according to a catalogue previously made out by Mr. Jefferson.

NORTH CAROLINA.

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.-This State has a Literary Fund, arising from bank dividends, &c., to the amount of upward of $70,000. When this sum has reached a sufficient amount, it is to be divided among the Common schools, according to the free population. Some vigorous efforts have recently been made to arouse the public attention to the subject of education.

ACADEMIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS.-The Baptists have purchased the estate of Gen. Calvin Jones, in Wake Forest, 16 miles from Raleigh, for the purpose of founding a Manual Labor school. It will go into operation in 1834. $2,000 are required for this purpose. The Donalson Academy, and Manual Labor School, on Hay Mount, founded by the Presbytery of Fayetteville, has been lately incorporated. $10,000 subscribed.

COLLEGES AND HIGHER SEMINARIES.-University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. This institution was established in 1791. Joseph Caldwell, D. D., is president; 9 instructors; between 450 and 500 alumni; 1,800 volumes in the college library; 3,000 in the students' libraries.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.-The Free School system was adopted in 1821. In October, 1824, there had been appropriated on account of Free schools, $441,176 90. The annual legislative appropriation is from $37,000 to $38,000. About 8,000 or 9,000 children are instructed in them.

ACADEMIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS.-The South Carolina Female Institute is two miles from Columbia. Mrs. Marks, principal; property, $30,000; principal edifice, 134 feet long, 34 broad, 2 stories high.

The following was the list of academies in 1826:-Abbeville, Barnwell, Boiling Springs, Beaufort, Broad River, Cambridge, Chesterville, Cheraw, Camden, Cedar Springs, Edgefield, Gilesborough, Greenville, Long Town, Lancas terville, Marion, Mt. Ariel, Monticello, Minervaville, Mount Olio, Newberry, Pendleton, Pineville, Platts Spring, Rocky Spring, Rocky Mount, Society Hill, Unionville, Willington, Winnsborough, Woodville, Yorkville.

COLLEGES AND HIGHER SEMINARIES.-Furman Theological Institution, under the patronage of the Baptist State Convention. Rev. Messrs. Jesse Hartwell, and Samuel Furman, principals; located at the High Hills of Santee. 30 students preparing for the ministry.

Lutheran Theological Seminary, at Lexington. Rev. John C. Hope, professor; salary, $700, and dwelling, and firewood; 9 students. A Classical school to be attached, with a principal, at a salary of $600. The inhabitants of Lexington gave $5,287.

Southern Theological Seminary. At Columbia, the capital of the State; founded in 1829.

Thomas Goulding, D. D., prof. ecclesiastical history, and church govern

ment.

William A. McDowell, D. D., prof. elect. theology.

George Howe, prof. biblical literature.

Students, 22; volumes in the library, 1,800. For the Charleston Union Professorship, $2,371 have been collected. It is under the care of the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia.

South Carolina College. This institution was established in 1804, at Columbia. The entire expense of the college to the State has been more than $420,000. Of this sum, the buildings, library, and cabinets, cost $154,234 82. Since 1824, the legislative appropriations have been $120,000. Its library consists of about 8,000 volumes Its buildings have become very much dilapidated. Thomas Cooper, M. D., is president.

Charleston College. This College was originally chartered in 1785, but it was no more than a respectable grammar school till 1824, when it was organized anew, and placed on a respectable footing as a college. Among its original trustees, were C. C. Pinckney, C. Pinckney, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge, David Ramsay. Its original funds were large, but through neglect, were very much diminished. It received some years since from Elias Horry, Esq., the sum of $10,000, and from Thomas Hanscome, Esq., $12,500. The principal edifice is one of the most commodious buildings of the kind in the United States. It has lately received a valuable addition to its philosophical apparatus. Its entire property is valued at $60,000.

Rev. Jasper Adams, D. D., principal, and Horry prof. mor. and pol. philosophy.

William E. Bailey, professor languages.

Stephen Lee, professor mathematics and natural philosophy.

Charles B. Cochran, Jr., master of English department.

Henry M. Bruns, Joseph T. Lee, Geo. Hooper, tutors.

Medical College of South Carolina. This is situated in Charleston, and has for several years received an extensive patronage.

GEORGIA.

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.-'There is in this State an Academic Fund of $250,000, the interest of which is annually divided among the incorporated academies. There is also a Poor School Fund of $250,000, the interest of which is divided among the several counties, according to their white population, and for the education of the poor. No definite plan, however, has been devised to render this fund valuable to that class for whom it was designed, and we fear thus far, much of it has not been useful.'

ACADEMIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS.-'The Richmond Academy, in the city of Augusta, is well endowed, and supports able teachers. The Chatham Academy, in Savannah, is also a very valuable institution, and has considerable funds. Two Manual Labor schools have just commenced, and promise much usefulness. One is in Green county, under the Baptist Association, and the other one mile from Athens, under the Georgia Presbyterian Education Society. Each has a large farm, and oblige their students to labor at least three hours each day. The one near Athens intends to give students an opportunity of laboring enough to pay all their expenses. Board and tuition in either of these now

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 labora tory 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 College, 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