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MY BABY,
(Lessons of chkistian FAith.)
It a holy hour—which even now
Brii - tender musing— when our father rent
A biased Angel down to lay my sweet
Young babe within niy aims. Hie shining One
Let tall on me the glory ol his love,
And breathed the ene.woid, “Peace !” and from us
passed
Into the deep, still night.
The little one
Close nestled to my side, and slept its tirst
Sweet sleep beneath a mother's watelilul eye.
How strong that sleeper was, to bind our souls
With golden choids that never can be broke!
No time, no change, no sad reverse ol'years,
No lortune good or ill, nor hand of Death,
Nor all combined, can equal in their might
The giant power ol a helpless child.
My little sleeper won my heart; and T,
Through all its days on earth, followed it still,
A eapuve led by love. It grew in strength
Ana beauty, both of body and ol mind—
And grew in love tor me. About my neck
AVereolten twine the liny aims, the eyes
Uplift to mine were lull of love. How bright
That young intelligence, how the dawning soul
Caught new bright colors of thought! V hat artless
ways
And witching smiles, and looks of eager light!
W bat joy to me to look on all the chat ms
And nameless graces of my child, and lcel
My lile bound up with tins lair being: to press
Its innocent lovnness to my throbbing heart.
And whisper w ith deep giatitude and joy
“THE LORD GAVE.”
II. H
Another Angel came to my sweet he me—
Lown through ihe quiet stais it came, and stood
In all its brightness near my sleeping chnd
1 saw it in w tat seemed a vision lair;
It bent above the sleeper, touched its brow,
And printtd on the parted lips a kiss.
Then like the first, it spake the oBe word, “Peace!”
And vanished in m my sight. My heart was glad,
And waimeu With giatitude to God. I thought
The Angel came to guard the helpless life
W hich 1 couid not. Ho not such w atchers come,
And take their stations by our little ones,
To save licm death, and guide them into life?
"While thus my soul rejoiced, and lelt secuie
Beneath the watelilul care ol it inless Ones,
And, snong in laitli, believed that God’s good band
Would keep us Item all haim, and bless us still
With good through many years to come, sleep wove
A deeper, dreamless spell.
The morning came.
My child was dead! It hat could 1 do, but stand
With broken heart beneath the avvtui blow?
"My darling's gone! JJy baby's dead !'' I moaned
And pressed wild kisses on the silent lips.
My Leart giew bitter. Death, the enemy
I thought, had tune in angel lotni, with word
Oi peace, to rob me ol my ebitd. Alas !
Alas ! my btuutilul, my light had lied!
fco days ol gloom went by, and I still mourned
And murmured at my lot. Yet God still looked
W itb pity on me, as lie looks on all,
His love "was mine although I knew it not.
Once more I dreamed. Alone and desolate
It seemed I went to lay lush wreaths upon
T he grave of my sweet sleeper, hut what sight
W as there ! an angel sal within the tomb,
And filled its darkness with celestial light.
The bright One knew my <iuest and spoke in Jove,
“It is not here, but risen Jibe the Loid.”
I turned togo, with trembling and great joy,
W hen, lo! 1 saw another Olivet,
And Horn it rise my dead, my living child.
W itli steadfast gaze I looked, until a cloud
Parted it Hem my sight. And then again
An Angei near n.e spoke the one worn, “Peace !”
And vanished. Light ieli on my soul
Amid those vondious scenes, and love bade all
My bitter thoughts be gone. I ltaincd to say:
“THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY.”
III.
Still life w as lone. With baby gone I lived
On lamias, banished Item my joys, I saw
Ko moie tlie little busy one, nor heard
Tbeilnging laugh that tilled the house with joy.
1 did not chale, but bowed to God. I saw
His hand, but couid not see my lot was best.
A Sabbath on this I'aimos shore ! itbiouglit
The Spirit and its holy peace. My soul
W as steeped in rest ana hope. The grace el' God
Came soltly dow n, in tenderness, to win
My soul to Him, and to a happy life.
Bay more. An .Angel came and talked with me,
And boie me lo a mountain gieat and high,
A 1 itgali ot the soul, above earth’s giot m
And sbade, and showed to n e the Land of Rest—
The Canaan that we love, Oh.visitn blest!
In waves alar ran golden plains away,
And distant still the spirit hills laistd high
Their glimm’ring crests. The sunlight moved o'er
wood
Andlield, andjoyousiy poured down thedewy slopes,
Then smiling stoid by cbrystal streams to watch
The silver waters run. O'er all the land
Peace held her mystic l eign, while sky on earth
Threw beauty’s blush, aud radiant earth gave back
Her sw eels. Our Ltav in, host med in the depths !
On ail its slopes the shining squadrons moved,
Ol thobetbat dtil not sin, and tansemeu ones
I rem earth, with Jesus in iheir midst. 1 saw
The blight throng rest, and my sweet babe, with
harp
Of gold in its young hands, a crown of life
On its lair blow, in raiment clear and w hite,
Sit dow n among the company, and near
The blessed Master's leet. And then it sang—
My yearning heart thrilled t< that soft, sweet voice—
Heard it amid the mighty thunderlngs,
And heatd the broken woius— “Letus be glad.”
And “Alleluia!”
Then I felt and said :
“BLESS!D BE T HE NAME OF THE LORD.”
IV.
My Sabbath gone, I went to life again,
With cheerlul heart, lo fill its mission well.
My soul rejoiced—its sw ii-t and tender thoughts,
And precious numoiies, lieni God's good hand
Sent down by Angel ministry, filled my soul
With lest and coiulort
One other lesson tame.
Not now an Angel teacher, but the Lord,
By that same couth on which my dear one died.
He stood as in the olden time, He stood
Among His iriends, and said, “Peace be to you !”
Then to n y soul He gav e another Pope.
It sweetens toil, and animates and cheers.
It clots not bring my lost one back to' me
lt leaves it in the sinless land, and leads
Me to that liebet, higher, grander lile.
It is the wotd oi chtistian hope which Be,
The loving Cne, has taught me now lo say:
“I SHALL GO TO HIM.”
W. H. D.
High Faur I uni a feulfttn— ,In de-
sciibing a dinner at tlie soitan’B paJace-
Mr. Drew Gay writes: ‘And now ctmts the crit
ical moment icr you if you, are present at thiB
feast as a sturper. You will have placed your
meat tn ycur plate, and be cerelully cutting it
up, wLtn suddtnly a more ttan ordinarily jui
cy mcnel will te (utbed info your mouth by a
pair of very greasy fingers. You must not rtsenl
tbis. It is a token cl loving j kindness, a sign
that you are respected, esteemed, beloved. Eat
it, you are a l&vored mortal.’ Ibis is worse
than the milk and water at the tVhiteBcuse.
Don’t know, come to think of if, both are bo
had there is no choice.
The Paeis Ixeiuitios.—All wlo have visited
the Paris Exhibition and lave taken the trouble
0 going through the small cilecticn clGermn-
1 timings which, notwithstanding its limited ex
tent, may aaiely pronounced to be the pearl of all
the Art sections in the Exhibition, wiil Lave been
struck with two celebrated pictures by the Ger
man artist Enas. They ate : “Ihe old Jew in
structing a boy in the secrete of trade,” and the
ptimant to it, “Ihe boy s fiist profit.” Not only
connoietuis, but even the gerunl yi-v;,- at _
traded by tLcse two pictures winch wilt be liuly
described as marvels of stedy and design. It is
interesting to learn who it is who has served aB a
model lor these j ictuses. The head oi an old Jew
with a fine lace, painted in so masterly a manner
by Enaas, is that ot Elen Stein, ioimeiJy a dealer
in hides and now a baker in the Eaj enstraste of
lierlin, sujplying most of his Jewish compatriots
with fc&LLath Liead—larthu. Ihe likeness is
’iriking.
‘The strongest propensity in a women s na
ture.’ says a careful student of the sex, ‘is to
to know what is going em, and the next
is to boas the job.’
EEUCATIQKAIi DEPARTMENT.
Organ of the Georgia Teachers Association-
Organ of ihe State School Commissioner, G. J, Orr,
B. W. BObNBLL, Editor.
Mutation aud tlie Mate.
In the Constitutional Convention of 1877,
when the subject of education came up for dis
cussion, there were several able speeches made.
The result was the article bow embodied in tlie
tundamentai law of the State. Among those
w ho were most earnest ana elcqueni in their ad
vocacy ot liberal measures lor education was
Mr. Guerrard ol Columbus.
The t olio wing is the substance of one of his
speeches, and we commend it to the careful con
sideration ot every citizen ol Georgia:
T do not think there can ccme before this
house a question during the discussion of which
the eyes of the Slate and the country at large
would be more nearly fixed than during that
discussion. One ol the theories advanced by the
manager of the great Peabody iuna was thai the
people should not go backward upon the sub
ject of education. We have a tendency in that
direction. Let U6 pause belore we lake ihe step.
One of the reasons why tbe State of Georgia is
not richer than the ib, is because the people are
not better educated than they are. Knowledge
is power, and power ta wealth. The man ot ed
ucation puts money into the treasuiy where the
ignorant man taktb it out. What man is there
who withes to succeed in his tiade who does
not ute the best tools;! 1 The^ citizen is the tool
ol the State, and it is education that makes this
tcoi the best one. The gentleman says ihe
State bhould not pay lor tuts education; but i
say it is to thejiiiltitsi ol the State to pay lor it,
and the State 4 ib reimbursed lor the outlay.
Look at the recent war in Eutope between Piut-
sia and E’rance. Do not ah thinking men know
tLat ihe reason why Prussia ciusheu ETance al
most in a week was Lecause the peasantry of
France had not betn educated and the soldiery
of Prussia was educated in the service ot the
State ? 1 w ant C eorgia to hat e that soil of power
in reserve. 1 am only htie to appiopnate our
money wisely and not wasteluliy, and without
stint. It is not under the present school sys
tem of Georgia that the young miss comes home
with her head lull ol notions and an education
that Las no practical benefits in it. JudgeLong-
street, in Lis • Gecigia Scenes’ atsciibes her
with vivid accuracy long btiore it was ever at
tempted by the people ot Georgia lo educate
their childien in public schools. I have betn a
tax payer, but neiiher i nor mine have re
ceived any benefits licm ibe school system, but
1 Lave been benefiued in not being taxed to
support jails ana pcor-Louste. I nope this
people will give a suppoit to these schools.
Letter li t in Jriol. Mears.
Stumbling Blocks in IhePaUi ol tbe
r ltaclitr. Ibe Bible m htiiboi, eic.
Are we in t anger or educating the poor too
much? Is the cry to be raised in thib country
that tbe poor by education will get above their
station? Even wLtn opportuniiies aie multi
plied ani put within their tab} itaeb, are there
so nibDy ol tLat class willing and ulie to avail
tbemstivts ot their opportunities, ub to warrant
the tear tbit the ranhb el toileis will be uncom-
lortabiv diminished? Dots education bring dis
gust oi'bonest toil in any sphere? Ihtn n is
not education, but our pervtise ana imperitci
methods and wrong spirit, which are rtally to
blame. Ihtre is no uepaitmeni or tailing ol
lile, however Lumbie, wmch the rightly educa
ted man or woman may not occupy with honor
to themselves and with p refit to the catling.
Hole we may hope lor valuable assistance in
the various ltiin ot industrial art education which
have long Leen in vogue in the older countries
of the world, and which Lave enjoy ed such a
vigorous lile and development in iiusbia. Rus
sia, that lriend and ally ol America in the uark
period of the civil war, who teaches her advan
ced pupils ihe Ameiicen it ther than the English
language, whose emancipation policy was car
ried out peacefully while we were woiking out
ours in bleed; that gigantic nation, the scene or
a thousand years of despotism, always an otject
of peculiar interest to this youtblui republic,
wbese Centennial the older nation aided to cel
ebrate with such lavish and goigeous display;
Kussia, who has at last driven tne lurk from
his lour-ceniuiy encampment on the Danube,
and whose great seivices for Christendom, no
unwoitby diplomatic Bliategy, e=ven though met
with large concessions Hem ihe victor, can nul
lity or eflace licm the memories ot men or lrom
the map of the world.
Whatever may be said ot the backwardness of
Russian civilization, the grand oevelopment of
her industrial ait education, joined with the
well-known docility ot her people, will prove
elements ol a iapia progitss; ana even now her
museum of educational appaiatus, and her im
mense pedagogic library at St. Petersburg, rival
Flevna itself in reputation and interest.
Ihepowtiluianu contioiling tendency towards
an increase of personal liberty, effects all lanks,
classes and ages, and gieatly mcitases the bur
den and responsibility ol the teacher’s work. It
iB part ot tbe indcciluy of the age, that it is so
impatient of restraint, so ready to remonstrate
against tbe just exercise of authority, so quick
to tevolt, so violent and bloody m rebellion.
Even a liee republic like our own was not sate
lrom the deaoiy assaults of organized lawless
ness. The deep wounds given and received in
the memorable struggle lor law and authority
and national life, which ended in an act of assas
sination thirtetn yeais ago, aie far from healed
to thiB day. The pain and inconvenience of
seme of thtse wounds are more keenly felt as
time lolls on. And such a lesson cf the value
ol law, and of the unspeakable importance and
sacredness of civil government, was given, as
one would think, sufficient to restrain the tur
bulent and to pat (town lawlessness for a *ife
time at least.
Quite different are tbe faclB that fsce us to
day. At the last meeting of the N6W York State
Teacher’B Association, held in that picturesque
region ol mingled lake and mountain scenery
in the northeastern corner ol the State, where
hospitable tlattsbuig with its gray church tow
er looka out upon the placid waters of Cham-
plaign, all begirt and laden with choice memo
ries of Ameman heioiem; where every nook and
headland has been enriched with patriotic blood,
shed in establishment or maintenance of Amer
ican liberty, there, in that peacelnl scene there
leached us the ltmors ot a new and a vast up
rising against the wholesome restraints of law,
a revolt against the lew, and theielore the more
necessary , principles ol order lelt in the struc
ture ot our system oi seil-government. It looked
tor a time as if the representative teachers of
tbe Empire State would be quartered indefinite
ly upon their hospitable Pittbburg hosts,or would
have to woik thtir way home by slow and doubt-
lui metbeos ol pedestnamsm. Rut the teachers
themselves weie ltamers in the school of Provi-
dence cunng that tventlul, though brief, term
taken licm the summer vacation. It was a sort
of institute in moiais and political economy.
And tbe lessen, il not cnloiced by repetition,
Las been kept lresh in cur minus by a threaten
ing underground rumble, prolonged through all
the intefvenir. g monihs, as il lore running a sim
ilar and even more formidable social convulsion
> tPan the last, incitaible as it may seem, the
free air of the American republic is not free
enough to satisfy the restlesB and defeated die-
organizers of the old world, and the followers
among the masses here whom they have infect
ed with their own fanaticism. They indeed are
not likely to succeed in their wild assaults
against law and justice, but whence even the
slight ground of encouragement which sustains
them, if it be not in the restless, intractable
spirit of the age itself? The passive virtues of
Christianity are disparaged; patience, tempe
rance, contentment, are at a discount; authority
is challenge! and criticised; every one would be
his own master; submission is not yielded to
law, but to one’s own good opinion of the law.
Republicanism, if uuchastened by a regard for
the inherent sacredness of government as a Di
vine ordinance, is morally certain to develop
in just such disorderly tendencies. They have
invaded our colleges, academies, schools aud
households. The educational annals of the past,
year have been border, ed with disci editable re
ports of rowdyism which Bound like echoes of
the larger, bloodier uprising of the dangerous
classes. ,
I am proud to say of the schools and acade
mies and colleges of the Empire State, that they
have not shared in the bad eminence gained by
colleges in other parts of the land during the
past year. Whatever have been our troubles,
they have not been considerable enough to at
tain noteriety. But has any of us quite escaped
manifestations of the same disorderly spirit
which in other places has broken out into open
violence ? The eartl quake, the eruption, has
been confined to ceitain localities, but bas not
tLe whole surface of the ground trembled in un-
ccmiortable sympathy? Have not educators
themselves been to some degree demoralized,
and caught by the infection of disorder? have
there not been instances cf unworthy conces
sion and tolerance,tending to the hi eakmg down
of discipline among the authorities themselves?
Has there net been too great a disposition to
ltave our youth to themselves, to dispense with
authority in our treatment of them, and to put
moral suasion in the place of law ? Instead of
insisting upon submission as in it self one of the
best lessens youth can learn, have we not rather
petted their crude reason and judgement, and
taken it into council with ouxsePves ? Has not
our whole educational mtthed, reacting from
the monkish, jesuitical, and pietistic repression
of former times, swung over too far towards the
fake liberalism of Rousseau ? Is net the entire
abolrtion of corporal punishment net only an
unwise thing in itself, but asymptem of a gen
eral weakening in tbe matter ot discipline among
educators ?
bays Rosenkraiz, the philosopher of educa
tion : ’borne kind of corporal punishment is
most suitable for children, and this kind of pun
ishment, provided always tbit it is riot too often
administered, or with undue seventy, is the
proper way ol dealing with wiillul defiance,
with obstinate carelessness, or with a really per
verted will, so long or so often as the higher
percep tion is closed sg&inst appeal.’—Miss Brac
kett’s Translation, p. 21.
When a democracy, says Plato,w hich is thirtt-
ing lor more freedom, has evil cupbearers pre
siding over tbe feast, ind has drunk too deeply
of the strong wine ot freedom, theD, unless tier
ruleis are veiy complaisant and give plentiful
diaugbt, she calls them to account and punish
es thtm, and curse:- them as oligarchs; and loy
al citizens are insulted by her as lovers of slav
ery and men of naught; she would have subjects
who are like ruleis and rulers who are like sub
jects; the anarchy <giows and finds a way into
private houses; the father gets accustomed to
descend to the irv&I of his sons and to fear them,
and the son to be cn tbe level with his lather,
he having no shame or fear of either of his pa
rents; :Lc master leaib and flatters his scholars,
and the scholars despise their masters and tu
tors; and in genetal young and old are alike,
and the young man is on a level with the old,
and the old men condescend to the young. They
do not like to be thought morose and authori-
tive, and therefore they imitate the young. Even
jhe horses and asses come to have a way of march
ing along witn all the rights and dignities of
lretmen, and they will run at anybody whom
tLey meet in the street if he does Dot get out
of their way, and all things are just ready to
burst with liberty.’
If we seek for deeper grounds for this relaxa
tion cn the one side ana hostility on the other
towards the principles of order in our education
al system, we may find them in part at least in
the unfortunate divorce which is being effected
between education and religion. I wish to lay
the blame on no one; ldo not intend here to ar
gue that sualr a divorce can be prevented by
any means in our power. But I do affirm that
it is a most unfortunate dissolution ot two par
ties whom God and reason have joined together.
Education, without a clearly recognized basis
of dit ine authority, without reference to a divine
government and revelation, and without a broad
and clear admission of the duty of the educator
to cultivate the religious feeling as the highest
exercise of the human spirit, loses its most ef
ficient means of controlling the pupil and of
securing his faithlulness and loyalty, in a word,
his docility. *TLe youth of the age will become
unteachable in proportion as the age itself be
comes unbelieving, skeptical, and critical to
wards a positive religion. We have seen a thing
unprecedented in our age and country during
the past winter—a Biuart and showy lecturer, a
native of Central New York, but now a resident
of Illinois, passing lrom city to city and pour
ing out to crowds of applauding listeners tbe
bitterest tirades and the most unqualified invec
tives, not only against Christianity, but against
religion itself, against the idea of retribution,
and the very name of the Deity. The bearing
of all this upon the tone ot public sentiment in
general, including our youth, was clear enough
S' those who were willing to see; but even the
blindest must have been convinced, when they
learned that the name of Robert Ingetsoll was
signed to the extraordinary petition presented
to Congress lastwinter, in lavor of repealing the
law againbt the circulation of obscene matter
through the mails. It is well known that the
youth of our land are the chief objects sought by
those who would use the mails in the manner
lorbidden by the law, and these clandestine,and
dangerous, and diabolical panderers to unholy
lust, naturally enough find an ally in the man
who has the effrontery publicly to declare his
hatred of God and religion.
School Hints.
The following excellent hints were given by a
practical speaker at the recent meeting of tbe
Detroit teachers:
Have a clear, well-defined idea of the kind of
a school you want. Have in mind an imaginary
model school, but do not be discouraged if you
tail many fimts before you attain this; each
day’s determined work will bring it nearer.
Teach pupils how to study. Teach them how to
get irom a beck thoughts which the bcok con
tains. Much time is wasted in getting ready lor
work. Too often when yqu enter the room
there is the appearance of getting ready for in
spection. Teach pupils to attend to business,
and do the wcik assigned them at the proper
time, and to do one thing at a time. In hearing
recitations be interested yourself; be enthusias
tic yourself; Lave a soul in the work. If you
are obliged to punish, do it out of school. If
anything unpleasant bas occurred during tbe
dsy between the,teacher end any of the pupils,
never allow the school'to close without dropping
some pleasapt word which will c&tire all to leave
the room with^goolj lteling. Cultivate in pupils
aB far as possible, self-r«pect and s^li-govern-
ment. Never attempt to ferret out mischief
without certainty of success; better let it pass
than fail in the attempt. In governing your
school do not lower yourself to the level of your
pupils, but always be dignified and gentlemanly
in your deportment in all the little thiDgs that
pertain to the government of your school, thus
silently and imperceptibly lifting them up into
a higher manhood.
STATE JNEWS.
GEORGIA.
One hundred and four students have matric
ulated at the tall term of Mercer University.
The closing exercises of Farmers’ High School,
under Prof. Leonidas Jones, occurred on the
1st. instant. This is one of the best schools in
Troup county.
The Salphur Springs High School closed dur
ing the second week in November.
The Following is a part of Governor Colquitt’s
message to the Legislature, now in session. Oar
educational outlook is by no means discourag
ing, though much remains to be accomplished
in order to place Georgia in the fore front of
Southern education.
THE STATE UNIVESITY.
The condition of thb state university, of the
college of agricultural and the mechanical
arts, and of the North Georgia agricultural col
lege, is shown in the accompanying reports.
The receipts for 1876- 7 were $40,529 54, which,
with the balance on hand July the 1st.. 1876,
made revenue for the year $46,518.8o. The dis
bursements were $34,880 44, leaving the balance
on hand July, 1877, $11,995.10, which, with
scrip fund and tuition due, would run the
balance to $15,000.00. The amount of $15,000,-
00 voted by the general assembly to supplement
the experimental and mechanical departments
of the university has been received, and judi-
ciouly used as far as expended.
For the year 1877-78, the receipts not includ
ing the balance lrom the previous year, were
$33,862 61, and the disbursments, including
purchase of apparatus, were $33,206 98, leaving
a cash balance of $9,686.79, belonging to the li
brary, apparatus, land scrip and general funds.
The leport gives the details of receipts and ex
penditures, and says that leaving out the expen
ditures for apparatus, the total debasements
were $67.22, in excess of the total receipts, and
including refunded tuition, $990 70 less than
the appropriation made in August, 1S77.
The decline in the number of students, and in
consequent income from tuition, caused the
board of trustees to examine closely into the
cause of such decline. There is no reason why
this venerable and illustrous institution should
fall into decadence, but, on the contrary, every
good ground for its increasing in usefulness
and prosperity. The university has an able
and full faculty; it is provided with $22,560,000
worth of apparatus for the instruction ot science;
it presents facilities lor the education of our
youth surpassed by no college in the country,
in the increased number of pupils in attendance,
there is an indication of a more prosperous con
dition •
The plan of utilizing the public buildings at
Hilledgeville, by establishing in them a branch
agricultural college, like the one at Dahlcnega,
is one that presents strong merits, and is re
spectfully brought to the consideration of the
general assembly. To show the value of the
Dahlcnega college, it may be stated that the re
port of the president, submitted June the 10th,
1878 and approved by the board, tor the scholas
tic year, shows that three hundred pupils re
ceived instructions in the various departments
ot the institution, at a total expense of the small
sum of $4,440.00. If like favorable results can
be reached by the establishment of a similar in
stitution in the unoccupied public buildings at
Milledgeville, it would be both a wise policy
for the state and a gratelul lavor to the citizens
of the old capital.
ACADEMY FOE THE BLIND.
The twenty-sixth annual report of the trustees
of the Georgia academy for the blind, at Macon,
ler the year 1877, is herewith submitted. It
shows the attendance of sixty-three pupils.
The receipts lor maintenance were $12,632.07,
including balance of $33.07 for the year 1876,
and the expenditures were $12,438.14. In ad
dition, $1,173.62 was expended lor building a
cistern.
THE DEAF AND DUMB ASYLUM.
The institution for tbe deaf and dumb, at
Gave Springs, is in excellent condition. The
report of the trustees covers the operations from
July the 1st, 1877 to July 30, 1878. The pupils
numbered 73, the largest number at one time
being 71, and the average 65, or 25 mo.e than
the previous year. Of these 37 were males and
36 females. The asylum appears to have been
managed economically. Tbe trustees urge that
the legislature make provisions for completing
the departments for colored deaf mutes, and lor
increasing the accommodation for white mutes.
The quarters are alleged to be inconvenient for
the number of pupils now iD the institution.
There are said to be fully 300 deaf mutes in
the state needing the benefits of tbis institution.
The trustees ask an increased appropriation lor
the sustenance of pupils.
THE COMMON SCHOOLS.
The report of the state Bchool commissioner
shows an encouraging condition of the pub
lic schools in the state. In 1877 the attendance
was 190,626; in 1876, 179.405; in 1875, 167,394,
and in 1873, 83 677. These figures show the
steady growth cf the common school system.
In 1878 the attendance of white children was
126,963, and of colored 61,664. The statistics
for 1878 are not yet obtainable, as some of the
schools are still in operation, and reports are
not made until the close of the term.
The state school fund, including the poll tax,
is about $300,090. The counties and cities rais
ed by local taxation, under local laws, in 1877,
the sum of $100,153.19, making the entire tree
school fund for that year about $400,00.009.
The enumeration of the school population in
1878 6hows 546,318 whites and 197,125 colored;
total 433,444. This is a total increase over the
enumeration of 1874 of 38,407; whites, 19,856;
colored, 21,821.
While there has been an increase in the school
population, there has been a decrease in the illit
eracy in the state. In 1873, the numbeT of per
sons between ten and eighteen nnable to read
was 106,444, of which tho whites were 26 552, and
the colored 79,69.2 The returns for 178 show a
total of theso illiterates of 85,630; whites, 22,-
323; colored, 63,307; showing a decrease of 20,-
614; whites, 4,229; colored, 16385. This is an
encouraging result of the free school system.
The report reccommends amendments of the
school law, looking to an increased income for
the support ot the public schools.
KEN1UCKY.
Tbe foflowing items are taken from that ex
cellent journal the eclectic teaches, published
in Carlisle, Ky.,and *C. ’we percieve, is that most
genial gentleman and accomplished educator,
Prof. Geo. A.Chase, Principal of the GirlB High
School in Louisville. [Ed.].
The school board is calm again.
Tbe fight over the geographies resulted in a
victory tor Monteith.
The public schools of the city opened on the
2d of September with the prospect ol a larger
attendance than ever.
Mr. W. W. Penniston has been elected to the
principalship of the Ninth Ward School; Mr.
Spencer to that of Portland, Mr. Saulsbury
having been transferred from that school to the
Tenth Ward School.
One question seems to have been settled, viz:
That, while it would be dishonorable for a mem
ber of the state board of education to act as a
paid agent for the introduction of any text-book,
a member of the state board of examiners may
do so without incurring public censure.
Louisville training School.—This institu
tion bas been indefinitely suspended by the
board of trustees. The school uuilding is to be-
occupied as the other public school buildings.
The principal, Mr. Hiram Roberts, and the
critic teachers have positions in the same
buildiDg. Miss L. D. Hampton, the chief assis
tant, has opened a private school for girls in the
city.
Some of the ablest educators of the South
were in attendance upon the Southern
Educational Association, at Chattanooga.
Among them may be mentioned tfie earnest,
active Mallon, of Atlanta; the sprightly Bonnell,
of the same city; tbe scientific Campbell of
Rome; the scholarly Meek, of Tuscaloosa; the
genial Smith, of Alabama, Agricultural College,
one of the few mathematicians who mingles
overflowing hnmor with common sense; the vig
orous, business-like Dr. Kerr, cf Mississippi;
the industrious and cultured Chappell, of Co
lumbus, Ga,; the modest but invaluable Dick
son, of Mobile; the successful organizer, Wyatt,
of Chattanooga; the live, indefatigable editor of
the eclectic, with a head much larger than his
beard; the distinguished Prof. Seamans, of the
New Orleans High School, and others who
might be named. One who must not be forgot
ten is Miss Mary Bowen, of Montgomery, Ala-
This lady delighted all who heard her exquisite
readings of some of the choicest selections of
English and American literature. She is the
possessor of a rich deep and highly cultivated
voice, joined with a very attractive personal ap
pearance. Her rendering of ‘Archie Dean' to a
favored few upon Lookont Mountain was inimi
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