The amount of hemp raised in the Western States, as near as can be ascertained, is 29,000 tons per annum. Of this great western staple, Kentucky raised 15,000 tons and Missouri raised 10,000 tons. Each of these States is capable of producing 10,000 tons per annum.

Some boys at Tahula, Miss., on the 24th ult., tied some crackers to a dog's tail, and the dog ran into a cotton shed, setting fire to the cotton, and causing a loss of $200,000.

An exchange says: We received our files of papers from the Sandwich Islands, but can find in them nothing interesting or important, except the following, which is published in the Polynesian, "by authority:"

"Okiia e ke kiaains o Oahu.

O. A. Wood laua me Keala kana wahine no ka hewa o ka wahine.

O. Kauluad laua me Hakau-kona wahine no ka hewa o ke kane.

O Pukoaku laua me Melachaadoa kana wahina no ka hewa o ke kane." The cotton crop of the United States, for the year ending the 1st inst., is computed at 3,262,882 bales. Of this there has been used in the States North of Virginia 671,000 bales, and about 90,000 south of that State. The balance has been exported. Only about one-fifth of the cotton crop is consumed in this country.

The Murray river, Australia, is navigable for vessels, it is said, 1,200 miles from sea. Vessels had ascended that distance. The navigation was perfectly safe, the depth of water varying from 18 to 36 feet.

Chemically speaking, a man is 45 lbs. of carbon and nitrogen, diffused through 5 pails of water.

Rev. Mr. Brace said, the State Prison at Wethersfield, Conn., never had a convict till lately that had ever been to a Sabbath School.

Messrs. Water and Oil one day had a broil
As down in a glass they were dropping;

And would not unite, but continued to fight,

Without any prospect of stoping.

Mr. Pearlash o'erheard, and quick as a work,

He jumped in the midst of the clashing;

When all three agreed, and united with speed,
And SOAP came out ready for washing.

Items.

Mr. JOSIAH HURTY, A. M. late Superintendent of the Public Schools of Lebanon, has been appointed Principal of the Public High School of Newport, Ky. Salary $1,000.

Mr ALFRED HOLBROOK, late Principal of the Union School in Marlboro', Stark co., has accepted the place of Superintendent of the Public Schools of Salem, Columbiana county, at a salary of $1,200.

Mr. J. G. MARCHANT, late assistant Principal of the 11th District School, of Cincinnati, has been appointed Principal of the 13th District, in place of Mr. HOPKINS, resigned.

Mr. J. B. BEACH, late Superintendent of the Schools of Ironton, has taken charge of Western Reserve Teachers' Seminary, Kirtland, Lake county.

Prof. JOHN STEVENSON, a graduate of Cambridge University, England, has been elected Professor of Mathematics, in Kenyon College, at a salary of $1,000. In addition to his salary, each Professor in Kenyon is furnished with a commodious dwelling.

Mr. W. D. HENKLE, late Superintendent of the Schools of Mechanicsburg, Champaign co., has been appointed an instructor in the Green Mount Seminary, near Richmond, Ia. Salary, $800.

Mr. W. H. ANDREWS has been appointed Superintendent of the Union School in Ripley, Brown county, in place of Mr. Hurtt, resigned.

Rev. W. S. SPALDING, and Mrs. SPALDING, late of Plymouth, are to take charge of the Public Schools of Wellsville. Salaries, $650 and $300, respectively.

Mr. H. K. SMITH, A. B., a member of the class just graduated at Marietta College, is employed as assistant Teacher in the Public High School of Columbus. Mr. F. M. DIMMICK, of the same class, is employed in the Public High School of Marietta.

Mr. W. H. YOUNG, late of Worthington, has been appointed Principal of the Preparatory Department in Ohio University, at Athens.

Mr. ALFRED KIRK, late of Steubenville, has been appointed Superintendent of the schools of New Philadelphia; salary $500.

Mr. C. W. KIMBALL, late of Maineville Academy, is employed as Superintendent of the Public Schools of Lebanon, in place of Mr. J. Hurty, resigned.

Mr. D. PARSONS, having resigned his place in Wellsville, desires to secure a situation as Principal of an Academy, or Superintendent of Schools. Address him at Jefferson, Ashtabula Co., O.

Bound volumes of the Journal of Education can be purchased, and subscriptions for the current volume will be received, at the following places: Payne and Wheaton's Bookstore, Dayton,

W. B. Fairchild's Bookstore, Xenia,

Randall, Aston & Long's Bookstore, Columbus,

S. H. Burr & Co's Bookstore, Columbus,
A. W. Perley & Co's Bookstore, Zanesville,
J. B. Cobb & Co's Bookstore, Cleveland,
G. W. Batchelder, High School, Zanesville,
E. C. Ellis, Normal Institute, Georgetown.

Not long since we received a letter making some inquiries and containing a stamped envelop! Not long after, another came asking for sundry documents, (which, though worth much to the writer, would cost us nothing but the prepayment of some 12 or 15 cents of postage,) and inclosing stamps to the full amount of said postage! Can the writers be sane? We appeal to our correspondents.

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.

A graduate and an experienced teacher would accept a situation as teacher in some Academy or good Union School. Application should be made soon. Address K. L., Chillicothe, O.

Ohio Journal of Education.

COLUMBUS, OCTOBER, 1854.

Duties of School Officers and Teachers.

HE following are among the duties required of the persons above named, to which it is proper, perhaps, to call their attention: 1. The annual enumeration of the unmarried youth between five and twenty-one, must be taken by the authority of the directors in each sub-district, between the 2d and the 16th of this month; and the number of white males and females, and of colored males and females, must be returned to the township clerk, in accordance with the 8th section of the school law. If the directors of any district fail to do this, the township clerk must employ a competent person to take the enumeration. Section 37 declares that "no township, or other district, city or village, which shall have failed to make such enumeration, shall be entitled to receive any portion of the common school funds.'

2. The township clerk must make an abstract of the said enumeration within twenty days after it is returned to him, and certify the same to the county auditor. The clerk is responsible for all losses sustained in consequence of his failure to return the aforesaid abstract. section 42.

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3. The 19th section requires each Township Board of Education to prepare and forward, with the abstract of the enumeration, a full report of all the schools in the township. This is one of the most important requisitions of the law, and this report should, without fail, be promptly and thoroughly made.

4. By the 67th section, Boards of Education in cities and towns, under whatever law their schools may have been organized, are required to report to the county auditor the same statistics prescribed in the 19th

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section; nor can the auditor authorize the payment of a dollar of school money to any such board till these statistics, with the enumeration of youth, before named, have been duly returned.

5. The county auditor is required, by the 40th section, to transmit an abstract of all the school statistics to the State Commissioner by the 20th of December. Besides being responsible for any loss which may follow a failure in this duty, he is liable to a fine of $50.

6. Section 18th requires teachers to file with the township clerk a full report of their schools for each term; and forbids the directors to pay for their services till this report is duly made and filed.

Since the forms for all these reports have been carefully prepared and published with the school law, and placed in the hands of all the school officers, it is earnestly to be hoped that the returns for this year may be fully and accurately made. One of the greatest difficulties with which the friends of education have had to contend for years past, is the want of full and reliable statistics of our schools; even last year, only about three-fourths of the counties reported the number of school districts they contained.

A. D. L,

Sandusky Public Schools.

It is a matter of much interest to those who have but just established, or are about to establish a system of graded schools, to know what particular courses of study and what particular methods of instruction are adapted to each grade, and, in general, to know, as respects the instruction, to what extent advantages are to be sought or expected over schools not thus classified. Information of this kind, involving almost all of the details of instruction, as well as the more general regulations of a school system, is constantly sought by teachers, superintendents, and members of boards of education, either by a personal visit or by correspondence, from those schools where classification has longest existed, and where a connected and systematic course of study has been longest pursued.

In the case of a personal visit, it is very easy and pleasant to communicate such information as may be solicited, but to correspondents, it is quite impossible to furnish much information of an intelligible or satisfactory character. School reports may be sent as requested, but

our own, at least, do not furnish such details as persons at a distance especially desire to know. Forms and blanks may be enclosed in an envelop, but if of much importance they will often require such explanations as few teachers or superintendents have leisure to make. In our own case, we have often felt obliged to withhold such as we regarded most especially valuable, in simple justice to ourselves, lest, without proper explanations, they should be misinterpreted, if interpreted at all. We therefore beg the indulgence of readers, while we "put ourselves upon record" in such a manner that we can, for a few months to come, refer all persons in pursuit of the details of our school arrangements, to the proper page and volume of the Journal for answers to their inquiries. Let it however be understood, that the methods and arrangements described are furnished simply as items of information, and not offered as a complete plan of school instruction. They are not so regarded by those who have devised and established them. It is sincerely desired and expected that larger experience and more careful investigation will, through successive terms and succeeding years, tend more completely to perfect all departments of our school system. We feel, it is true, deeply conscious, in the establishment of our schools, that, in common with a hundred other schools of the state, a few right steps have been taken,-in commencing with a proper and close classification of the pupils, and in attempting to provide instruction and discipline adapted to each particular grade. But still, beyond this, we feel assured there is a boundless and most inviting field for investigation and improvement. We do not, then, offer to others our arrangements as complete, while we are anxiously hoping constantly to modify and improve them ourselves.

Of the seventeen schools which compose our system, seven are PRIMARY SCHOOLS. The average daily attendance of pupils in each of these schools is from fifty to fifty-five, and the average age of the pupils about seven years. Children are not admitted under six, and seldom remain in this department more than two years. The following is the present daily order of exercises in these schools:

SANDUSKY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.