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efforts never be forgotten by grateful parents who will, we doubt not, inscribe upon their promising Library-A MONUMENT ERECTED TO THE YOUNG OF CHILLICOTHE, BY THE NOBLE TEACHERS OF 1854.

Without meaning any offence to our esteemed friends-the unostentatious Teachers of the Chillicothe Schools-we will take the liberty to pay what we consider a merited compliment to their excellent school system. But few cities of equal means and population can boast of superior school advantages, and a more efficient corps of Instructors. We doubt whether any Union School in the State can present a finer array of talent. In proof of this we subjoin the following list of graduates, embracing the teachers of the High School and Grammar Schools.

Mr. L. E. W. Warner, Superintendent, graduate of Marietta College. O.
"O. T. Reeves, graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University.
"E. Blanchard, graduate of Dartmouth College, N. H.

" R. T. Lockwood, of Ohio Wesleyan University.
"A. J. Fullerton, graduate of Miami University, O.

Knowing that the title of A. B. or A. M. is not always recognized as prima facie evidence of a Teacher, par excellence, we assume the responsibility of testifying to the ability of any of the foregoing Teachers practically to sustain their professions, knowing them to possess, by nature and education, all the required elements of successful Teachers.

At the adoption of the graded system, the city was divided into three sections, in each of which has been erected a large and commodious building, furnished with all the modern improvements, including reception rooms, closets, recitation seats, platforms, maps, charts, spacious blackboards, Holbrook's apparatus, etc. The rooms of the Primary Schools are provided with Spaulding's patent seats; the High School is being furnished with the Boston improved chair and desk. To each building is attached from two to four acres of ground, which is now being beautifully studded with ornamental trees and shrubbery. The aggregate cost of the buildings, including fixtures and grounds, is nearly $40,000. The following is the number of teachers employed in the several grades, and the amount paid to the Teachers of each department:

In the Primary Department, 7 Teachers, sum paid $1,400

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Whole number of Teachers employed, 21; aggregate salary, $6800. With such facilities, well may the people of the "Ancient Metropolis" boast of superior advantages. May their system never grow less efficient, and their excellent Teachers never share less of the esteem of confiding patrons.

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The Teachers of Harrison county are, as a body, at least ten years behind the age. Our Institute is doing a good work, and I trust the day is not far distant when we can compare favorably with the Teachers of any other county. The examination of the Union School (in Cadiz) has just closed: it was highly creditable both to the Teachers and Scholars. The school meets with great favor among the citizens.

G. W. B. Cadiz, March, 1854.

Our School examiners have been in session two days and given about 30 certificates: only two for a longer period than six months. The Board are beginning to feel the importance of having Teachers prepare themselves for the responsible station they assume, and have placed the standard higher than they did last year.

0. G. Athens Co.

Notices of Colleges, Schools, etc.

Ohio University. From a recent conversation with Rev. S. Howard, the effi cient President, we learned that this Institution is now in a very flourishing condition having about 50 students in the college classes, and more than 60 in the preparatory studies. More than half of these young men are professedly pious, and the standard of morals and scholarship is highly creditable. Perhaps there is no college in the State where a student can live more cheaply than at Athens. The Trustees sell scholarships at the rate of $15 for three years, and the ex• penses for board are proportionally low.

It is certainly a matter of rejoicing that Ohio and Miami Universities are now doing so effectually the work for which they were established. If the Faculties of these and other Colleges identify themselves with the great effort now making, for the improvement of our Public Schools, and, by associating with the friends of Education, become personally acquainted with only a portion of the hundreds of young men in Ohio who are longing for a thorough Education, there will be no lack of students to fill their halls.

TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.-Muskingum county.-The Institute met at New Concord on the 21st of March. The Instructors were C. Tracy, Rev. B. Waddle, Rev. S. McArthur, J. L. McCartney, G. W. Batchelder, J. M. McLane. Lectu rers, C. Tracy and S. Roy: 92 teachers attended.

Portage county.-The Institute at Ravenna having been postponed till October, a Teachers' Class was formed on the 4th of April, at the Shalersville Institute, under the charge of Mr. J. K. PICKETT, and 100 hundred teachers assembled and received instruction from Messrs. J. K. Pickett, T. J. Newcomb, E. K. Hoskin, E. B. Olmstead and A. E. Holcomb. Lectures were delivered by Dr. Everitt, O. P. Brown, Esq., Rev. T. J. Newcomb, P. N. Schuyler, Esq., Prof. Hayden and E. C. Wilmot, Esq.

Coshocton county.-The Institute convened at Coshocton on the 10th of April: 120 attended. Messrs. L. Andrews, W. A. McKee and C. R. Shreve were the Instructors.

Richland county Institute convened at Shelby on the 10th of April: more than 100 attended, and enjoyed a pleasant and profitable session.

Guernsey county Institute met at Cambridge, April 10th. The statistics have not been received.

Clermont county Institute met at Bethel on the 10th of April: 75 teachers attended. Instruction was given by Messrs. J. Ferguson, E. C. Ellis, L. H. Smith, J. C. Morris, T. C. Bowles and A. D. Lord; and evening lectures by Rev. J. Wiseman, H. H. Barney and A. D. Lord.

Jefferson and Harrison counties.-The Institute was held in Steubenville, commencing April 17th. Instructors, Prof. I. W. Andrews, M. D. Leggett, C. Tracy, E. Regal and C. S. Royce: Lecturers, Prof. Andrews, and Messrs. Leggett, Tracy and Royce.

Fayette county Institute assembled at Washington on the 17th of April. Some 35 teachers attended: instruction was given by Messrs. D. C. Eastman, J. M. Bell, W. Williams and A. D. Lord; and three evening lectures by A. D. Lord.

Brown county Institute convened at Georgetown on the 24th of April. Some 80 teachers attended: instruction was given by Miss C. O. Gray, and Messrs. J. W. Davis, G. D. Parker, E. C. Ellis, Wm. Wall, D. W. C. Loudon, F. W. Hurtt and A. D. Lord. Addresses were delivered by Rev. Mr. Wheat, Maj. Wm. Wall, C. Robb, E. C. Ellis, and A. D. Lord.

Swan's Revised Statutes of Ohio, Derby's edition.-This great work of 1114 pages, royal octavo, proved to be all that was expected from the ability of the compiler and the enterprise of the publisher. It contains all the general laws in force on the first of January, 1854: the arrangement is the same as that adopted in Swan's Statutes published in 1841. No public officer can well afford to be without it.

Hitchcock's Elementary Geology: revised and enlarged, and adapted to the present advanced state of the science. New York: Ivison & Phinney, 1854.It is hardly necessary to commend this work of Pres. HITCHCOCK, which has already passed through 25 editions. It is now published in a duodecimo of 418 pages, copiously illustrated with engravings, sections, etc.

Lardner's Hand Books of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, third course: Meteorology-Astronomy. With 37 plates and more than 200 illustrations. Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea. 1854.-A volume of 768 closely printed pages. We have previously noticed the first and second courses of this series. This volume will be received with pleasure, especially by all who are turning attention to the study of Meteorology.

The Youth's Musical Lamp, and American School Song Book: a clear and scientific notation, arranged according to the improved German method of instruction. By E. PEASE, author of "Philosophy of Music." Cincinnati: Moore, Anderson, Wilstach & Keys. 1854.-A neat book of 160 pages, containing the elements of the science of music, and a great number of tunes on an improved system of numeral notation. Every attempt to facilitate the cultivation of the science, as well as the art of music in our schools, should receive encouragement according to its. merits. We commend the effort of Mr. Pease to all who are interested in vocal music.

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The First Ten Years of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Ohio: being a reprint of the Journals of Annual Conventions from 1818 to 1827, inclusive. Published by Rev. W. C. FRENCH, Columbus, O.-This is a valuable contribution to the early history of Ohio, and as such is worthy of a place in every library. Price, sent by mail, prepaid, in paper 65 cents, in muslin 88 cents.

PERIODICALS.-Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular: published in quarto form, on the 1st and 15th of each month, at $2.00 per year: by C. B. Norton, New York.-This is a most valuable work: almost indispensable indeed to one who would keep informed in regard to the issues of the press in our own and other countries.

Dickens' Household Words: the American edition is published monthly, at $2.00 per year, by McElrath and Parker, 17 Spruce St., New York. The ninth volume commences with the month of May.

The Student, a Family Miscellany and Monthly School Reader, edited by N. A. CALKINS, is published at $1.00 per year by N. A. Calkins, New York. Volume 9 commences with May: see advertisement.

"The Incentive" is still published monthly in quarto form by the Superintendent, Teachers and Students of the Union School of Circleville, at 25 cents per

year.

"The Casket" is a large quarto of 8 pages, published monthly by the Superintendent, Teachers and Students of the Public Schools of Chillicothe : 25 cents per year; ten copies $2.00. Will the publisher forward numbers one and two? "The Chrysalis," a neatly covered duodecimo of 24 pages, has just been issued by the Students of the Union School of New Lisbon.

SCHOOL BOOKS.-Goodrich's Comprehensive Geography and History, Ancient and Modern: with 80 maps and 200 engravings. 272 pages quarto. New York: Lamport, Blakeman and Law.

National Geography for Schools. By S. G. Goodrich, (Peter Parley.) Quarto, 72 pages: with maps and index, and a pronouncing dictionary of Proper Names. New York: Lamport, Blakeman & Law.

Introductory Lessons in Geography, by Geo. W. Fitch. Quarto, 38 pages: with maps and engravings. Lamport, Blakeman and Law.

A new method of learning the German Language; being a plain and practical way of acquiring the art of reading, speaking and composing German. By W. H. WOODBURY: seventh edition, revised and enlarged. 528 pages, 12mo. New York: Ivison and Phinney, 1854.

Payson and Dunton's Penmanship: parts I, II, III, and IV; as taught by the authors at French's Mercantile Academy. Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Co. First Lessons in Language; or Elements of English Grammar. By David B. Tower, A. M., & B. F. Tweed, A. M. New York: Daniel Burgess & Co. 1854.

Items.

VICTOR M. RICE, late Superintendent of the Public Schools of Buffalo has been elected, by the Legislature, State Superintendent of Public Instruction in N. Y., in accordance with an act creating the office which was passed March 30th, 1854. His salary is $2,500: and he is allowed to appoint a Deputy and three Clerks, if necessary, whose aggregate salary is not to exceed $3,000.

S. S. RANDALL, Esq., who has for some fifteen years officiated in that capacity, has been appointed, by Mr. RICE, Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruc tion.

Mr. W. H. WELLS, M. A., (the Author of Wells' Grammar) who has from its commencement been Principal of the Putnam Free School in Newburyport, Mass., has been appointed Principal of the State Normal School at Westfield, Mass.: salary $1,500. He is to enter upon his duties in August next.

Mr. JOHN B. BEACH, Superintendent of the schools of Ironton, receives a salary of $700, instead of $400, as given by mistake on page 72.

Mr. W. P. GIBSON has taken charge of the schools of London, Madison Co.: his salary is $700.

Mr. H. S. MARTIN, late of Newark, has been appointed Superintendent of the Union School in Canton; salary, $800.

Mr. I. M. ALLEN, late of Canton, has taken charge of the Rotch Institute near Massillon, of which Mr. P. DAWLEY has for many years had the supervision. Mr. JAMES M. Ross, for several years Assistant in the first district, has recently been appointed Principal of the Public School in the fifth district, Cincinnati. A Teachers' Institute is to be attended in Wilmington, Clinton Co. during the week commencing on the 5th of July next.

A Normal class will be instructed in Dayton for four weeks from the 2d Monday in July next.

Several gentlemen of experience in teaching are desirous to secure situations as Principals of Union Schools or Academies. Inquiries may be directed to A. D.Lord, Columbus, O.

Wanted. A young man of fine qualifications to take charge of the department of Natural Science and Mathematics and competent to teach Civil Engineering: in Bethel High School, Russellville, Ky. Address B. T. Blewett, Russellville, Ky.

THE

Ohio Journal of Education.

COLUMBUS, JUNE, 1854.

Township Boards of Education.

HE Legislature having adjourned without any change in the details of the school law, it becomes a matter of great importance that all the officers employed in its administration should understand its provisions, and commence the discharge of their duties in good faith, and with a determination to give the system a fair trial during the coming two years.

No doubt the law will be found to have some defects; but it has very many, and great excellencies; and the creation of township Boards of Education, with the powers conferred upon them, is regarded by the most intelligent friends of education in our own and other States, as one of its best features.

Most of the duties of these boards are described with sufficient clearness in the law; or, if not, they will be found defined in the opinions of the Commissioner. It is gratifying to believe that large numbers of these officers have entered upon their duties with high ideas of the importance of the station and the means of usefulness which it affords; and it is hoped that all are disposed to study the law, to understand its provisions, and to discharge the duties it requires faithfully and impartially.

Doubtless one of the most frequent sources of difficulty, and especially of that lack of efficiency which too frequently characterizes the administration of school officers, arises from a natural diffidence, a disinclination to run counter to the wishes or views of any of their neighbors, or to give occasion to any to find fault. Amiable as this disposition is, (and commendable, where no important interests are hazarded by its indulgence,) it must be remembered that these officers will find it impossible to please all; that the very effort to do this will have a tendency to induce a disposition to find fault with everything they do.

VOL. III, No. 6.

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