perintendent Wells, if in these eight years you had been always found standing up manfully for the right; if your voice had ever condemned wrong; if you had not alienated the able, outspoken, fearless men on your corps of teachers,-the only men whose friendship and respect were worth any thing to you, because they were the only ones who would dare to defend you,-by failing to render them your cordial support whenever they deserved it; if you had voted oftener and written less such articles as this; if both your friends and your enemies had known where to find you, you would now have far more of one and less of the other, and you would not have been forced to take from your pocket your report, and point to this article as a vindication of your patriotism; while your friends would have been spared the mortification last summer, when you were nominated for President of the National Association, of being obliged to vouch for your loyalty to save you from defeat. And in the days to come, when the man who has spent the most money and done the most service for the cause, and yet has not shouldered a musket, will have hard work to justify himself in the eyes of his children for staying at home, how little worth will be the apology of him who can point only to such shallow expressions as these, as his only record in his country's behalf in this time of her great peril.

A BURST FROM Gov. ANDREW.-It does n't always pay to read governors' messages, but Gov. Andrew's last to the Massachusetts Legislature will amply repay a second reading. It closes with the following eloquent strain :

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"The heart swells with unwonted emotion when we remember our sons and brothers, whose constant valor has sustained on the field, during nearly three years of war, the cause of our country, of civilization and liberty. Our volunteers have represented Massachusetts, during the year just ended, on almost every field and in every department of the army where our flag has been unfurled. At Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Fort Wagner, at Chickamauga, Knoxville, and Chattanooga under Hooker, and Meade, and Banks, and Gilmore, and Rosecrans, and Burnside, and Grant-in every scene of danger and of duty, along the Atlantic and the Gulf, on the Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Mississippi, and the Rio Grande - under Dupont, and Dahlgren, and Foote, and Farragut, and Porter - the sons of Massachusetts have borne their part, and paid the debt of patriotism and valor. Ubiquitous as the stock they descend from, national in their opinions and universal in their sympathies, they have fought shoulder to shoulder with men of all sections and of every extraction. On the ocean, on the rivers, on the land, on the hights where they thundered down from the clouds of Lookout Mountain the defiance of the skies, they have graven with their swords a record imperishable.

"The Muse herself demands the lapse of silent years to soften, by the influence of time, her too keen and poignant realization of the scenes of war- the pathos, the heroism, the fierce joy, the grief of battle. But, during the ages to come, she will brood over their memory. Into the hearts of her consecrated priests will breathe the inspirations of lofty and undying beauty, sublimity, and truth, in all the glowing forms of speech, of literature, and plastic art. By the homely traditions of the fireside by the head-stones in the church-yard, consecrated by those whose forms repose far off in the rude graves by the Rappahannock, or sleep beneath the sea embalmed in the memories of succeeding generations of parents and children, the heroic dead will live on in immortal youth. By their names, their character, their service, their fate, their glory, they can not fail:

"They never fail who die

In a great cause; the block may soak their gore;
Their heads may sodden in the sun, their limbs

Be strung to city gates and castle walls;

But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years

Elapse and others share as dark a doom,

They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts

Which overpower all others, and conduct

The world at last to FREEDOM.'

"The Edict of Nantes, maintaining the religious liberty of the Huguenots, gave lustre to the fame of Henry the Grand, whose name will gild the pages of philo

sophic history after mankind may have forgotten the martial prowess and the white plume of Navarre. The great Proclamation of Liberty will lift the ruler who uttered it, our nation, and our age, above all vulgar destiny.

"The bell which rung out the Declaration of Independence has found at last a voice articulate to Proclaim liberty throughout all the land and to all the inhabitants thereof'. It has been heard across oceans, and has modified the sentiments of cabinets and kings. The people of the old world have heard it, and their hearts stop to catch the last whisper of its echoes. The poor slave has heard it, and with bounding joy, tempered by the mystery of religion, he worships and adores. The waiting continent has heard it, and already foresees the fulfilled prophecy, when she will sit redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the genius of universal emancipation.

"I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world. But this I do know, that I never was so mean as to despise any man because he was poor, because he was ignorant, or because he was black."

It is more to the honor of a man to have written that last sentence than to be governor even of Massachusetts.

P. R. SPENCER died at his residence, in Geneva, Ohio, April 16, aged 63 years. The deceased was the author of the far-famed 'Spencerian' system of Penmanship, which for over 40 years has claimed his almost undivided attention. He was born in Greene county, New York, and moved to Ohio in his boyhood, while that country was new. Here he established himself in his profession, and while industriously engaged as a teacher, became also an excellent historian, a good speaker, and a poet of acknowledged ability. But his chief acquisition in this line was the poetry of motion and form as embraced in his excellent system of writing, which has already become the standard for business writers throughout the country.

A man of conscientious life; intelligent, kind, companionable, he had an extended circle of personal friends, who will mourn his loss with deep sincerity.

WM. D. TICKNOR, Esq., of the firm of Ticknor & Fields, the well-known Boston publishers, died at Philadelphia, April 10. He had arrived on the 5th, in company with Hawthorne, the author, and during a ride took a severe cold which resulted in congestion of the lungs. He was upward of fifty-three years of age, and had been in the publishing business for a quarter of a century. The firm was originally W. D. Ticknor & Co., but was changed several years ago to Ticknor & Fields, when Mr. James T. Fields, who had been brought up in the establishment, became a partner. Mr. Ticknor was a cousin of Mr. George Ticknor, the distinguished author of the Life of Prescott'. He was an excellent man of business, and universally beloved by those who enjoyed the rare felicity of his acquaintHe was for more than thirty years Treasurer of the American Institute of Instruction, was always present, and looked forward to its meetings as his annual vacation. He has left a wife and family. One son is in the army. The eldest son, Howard Ticknor, who has been in the establishment since he graduated at Harvard, will probably be the future representative of the family in the firm of Ticknor & Fields.

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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, the author, died at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 19. He had been in poor and failing health for some time, and while traveling with ex-President Pierce had reached Portsmouth, where he was stopping for a few days. He retired at night with no signs of sudden failure, and was found dead in his bed about three o'clock in the morning. Mr. Hawthorne was born in Salem, and would have been sixty years old had he lived till July 4. He was best and widest known as an author, a charming essayist, an original and fascinating novelist; and as a writer of pure, undefiled English he had few if any superiors in this country. The works by which he is best known are The Scarlet Letter, House of the Seven Gables, Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Life of Franklin Pierce, and his last book, Our Old Home, sketches of his life in England during his consulate. He has been for some time engaged on a new novel, which he left unfinished. Many, both in this country and abroad, will mourn the loss

of the accomplished man of letters; but at this time, when all our energies are bending in one direction, the regret and grief of the loyal people of the North is not and can not be what it would have been had Mr. Hawthorne ever expressed a word of sympathy for the cause in which we are fighting, or manifested any interest in the preservation of our national integrity.

THE STATE SUPERINTENDENCY.- Our readers can judge from the tenor of the articles in the Editor's Table last month, how much satisfaction we have in being able to announce the nomination by acclamation of Mr. Bateman for State Superintendent by the Union State Convention, which met at Springfield, May 25.

Only two men were mentioned as candidates, either of whom would have filled the position with honor to himself and with satisfaction to the profession. Our editorials last month were dictated by no disrespect for Mr. Eberhart's abilities, or ill-feeling toward him, as he well understands. He was our second choice, and would have received our hearty support if Mr. Bateman had not been a candi. date. To his honor be it said, for it shows that he had the welfare of the cause at heart, he withdrew his name, as indeed he had assured us beforehand he would do, as soon as he saw that Mr. Bateman was the unmistakable choice of the profession throughout the state. Though he will not be our next Superintendent, he has gained a victory which will be worth something to him some day.

THE NEW GYMNASTICS.- We lately dropped into the Academy of the New Gymnastics on Randolph street, Chicago, so successfully conducted by Messrs O. W. and J. E. Powers during the past winter, to witness the operations of one of the evening classes. Some fifty pupils of both sexes were present, and as many visit

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The movements were executed with skill, and with an evident enjoyment which never in our experience attached itself to the old system.

Finding an opportunity of enlarging their sphere of usefulness, the Messrs. Powers have organized the Northwestern Normal Institute'. The institution, incorporated under the laws of Illinois, will be in full operation the coming summer, and will afford abundant facilities for the most thorough training in gymnastics.

THE CHICAGO MUSEUM.- Teachers and others coming to the city should not return without visiting the Chicago Museum, on Randolph street, near Clark, now under the mangement of J. H. Wood & Co.

In these days of object-lessons, they will find there materials for instruction which are attainable in no other way. The teachers of Chicago have during the last winter visited it with their entire classes, as affording them the most interesting and satisfactory method of giving the instruction required. The museum of natural history contains some two hundred thousand objects, many of them very rare. To these attractions are always added others which change from week to week. The proprietors have also fitted up an excellent lecture hall for the purpose of giving unexceptionable dramatic exhibitions. The only piece yet introduced is thegreat moral drama called the Ticket-of-Leave Man'. It has been on exhibition six weeks with no diminution of interest. Conveying a lesson which can not be mistaken, of a high moral tone, unexceptionable in words or acts, this drama will do good to all who see it, and we wish it were possible for every teacher in the state to do so. It would form a most interesting basis for a morning's moral lesson.

Y DRYCH.-Newyddiadur Cenedlaethol at Wasanaeth Cenedl y Cymry yn y Talaethau Undig. Cyhoeddedig bob dydd Sadwrn, dros y Perchenog, gan T. Y. Griffiths, Utica, N. Y. Telerau: I dderbynwyr unigol yn unrhyw le o fewn terfynan y Talaethau Unedig a'r Tiriogaethau, $2.00 y flwyddyn yn mlaen llaw. Gellir dechreu y tanysgrifiad gydag unrhyw Rifyn yn nghorff y flwyddyn.

A newspaper came to us the other day bearing the caption which heads this item, and printed throughout in the curious language indicated by the above extract, which is its business announcement.

What to make of it we did not know until on the last page we stumbled upon the following: "Y Drych, The Mirror, the only Welsh newspaper published on the American continent," etc. It boasts a circulation of three hundred thousand.

MICHIGAN. The next meeting of the Michigan State Teachers' Association will be held at Ann Arbor, commencing July 5th. Hon. J. L. Pickard, Superintendent of Public Instruction in Wisconsin, is to deliver an address.

The people of Northville, Michigan, are erecting a substantial brick schoolhouse, to cost about seven thousand dollars. It will be completed in time for the fall term, when they will want an experienced teacher to take charge of their school. Our friend G. A. Brown, under whose excellent management the school now is, intends leaving with the present term.

Prof. Alexander Winchell, of the University of Michigan, and Geologist of that state, has recently been elected a member of the Société de Géologique de France, to which he was nominated by the eminent geologists Messrs. De Lesse and Manton. We spent one day of our recent vacation in visiting some of the schools of Detroit, in company with their efficient superintendent, J. M. B. Sill, Esq. The system which Mr. Sill has introduced, not only in each individual school, but in the whole educational plan of the city, has already produced very marked improvement. Of many excellent things we saw during our visit, the one that impressed us most favorably was that neither teachers nor superintendent took a minute's time from the regular exercises of the day because of our presence. Every where was faithful, earnest work, such as, if continued, and encouraged as it deserves, will ere long place the public schools of Detroit on a level in point of excellence with those of any city East or West. The people are beginning to realize that the amount paid for the general care of their educational interests is one of the most profitable investments of the public money that can be made. The Board of Education have made a slight increase in teachers' salaries, and are striving to find means for a further and still greater increase. These wartimes and high prices demand it of those in charge of schools generally.

From the General Catalogue of the University, just issued, we gather these items: The first class graduated in 1845, numbering eleven. Since that time there have been nine hundred ninety-nine graduates, distributed among the various departments as follows: Science, Literature and Arts, 472; Medicine and Surgery, 374; Law, 153. Of this number there are now living 935.

This institution has a large and efficient corps of professors, an endowment sufficiently large to defray current expenses, and a splendid geological cabinet and Museum of Natural History and Fine Arts. Its library numbers about 12,000 volumes.

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NEW YORK.-Columbia College is about to follow the example of Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, in the establishment of a scientific department, to be called a school of applied sciences. the course of study covering three years, and embracing analytical chemistry, metallurgy, lithology, and the formation of metallic veins, geology, palæontology, machines, mining, mining legislation, etc. first step, the trustees are now organizing a school of mines and metallurgy. J. W. Bulkley, Esq., has just been reëlected for the tenth time Superintendent of Schools in Brooklyn, New York. During the past year the Board voluntarily raised his salary to $2500.

From the State Superintendent's Report for the year ending December 31, 1863, it appears that the number of school-districts in the state is 11,734; of school-houses, 11,753, of which 216 are log. The amount expended for sites and for building and repairing sites was - in the cities, $242,547.53; in the rural districts, $186,961.40, making during the last ten years for these purposes $6,322,988.68. The libraries contain-in the cities, 93,656 volumes; in the rural districts, 1,078,748. The total amount expended for libraries was $29,465.65; for apparatus $133,206.20. The number of persons between the ages of four and twenty-one was in the cities, 453,798; in the rural districts, 903,249; total, 1,357,047. The total attendance was 886,815; the average school-year in the cities was between ten and eleven months; in the rural districts seven months and eleven days. The cities paid their teachers $1,294,871.65; the rural districts, $1,431,015.02; total, $2,725,886.67; the total amount raised for all school-purposes was $2,095,910.08. The number of male teachers em ployed was 6,394; of females, 19,819.

The number of pupils in the New-York Deaf-and-Dumb Institution was 819, sixty-six of whom were admitted during the year.

In the Institution for the Blind were 145 pupils, 71 males and 74 females. During the year 30 have left by graduation and otherwise. There are 20 teachers. In the Asylum for Idiots were 140 pupils of every grade of idiocy.

The provisions for the education of the Indian children have been faithfully carried out. The current expenses of these schools for the year were $5,077.19. The State Normal School (D. H. Cochran Principal) has had 279 pupils in attendance, and has graduated 60. Their average age is 22 years, and they have taught an average period of 8 months before entering school.

Fifty-five Institutes have been held during the year, the only one less than two weeks in length being one week. One was six weeks, and two four weeks. The aggregate number of teachers present was 9,027. The largest number at any In. stitute was at Jamestown, Chautauque county, 584; the least at Warrensburgh, 52

MAINE. The state has accepted from F. O. J. Smith the estate given for the establishment of a primary agricultural college. The officers of Waterville College have obtained subscriptions amounting to $30,000 during the winter in aid of the college. E. P. Whipple, of Boston, has been elected orator for the coming commencement.

The number of children in Maine between the ages of four and twenty-one years is 234,775; the number of school-houses 3827.

NEW HAMPSHIRE. Prof. Daniel J. Noyes, of Dartmouth College, has secured $5,000 in Concord by subscription, for the use of that college. It is thought this amount will be increased sufficiently to endow a professorship, to be called the Concord professorship.

The new high-school building in Concord has just been dedicated. It cost $25,000.

VERMONT. An annuity of $1,200 was lately presented to Dr. Lord, late President of Dartmouth College, chiefly through the efforts of Ex-President Pierce, with whose views of slavery, etc., the doctor's letter, accepting the gift, indicates cordial sympathy.

EDUCATION IN FRANCE.-The report of the condition of the French Empire, for 1863, which was recently laid before the legislative body, gives us important information in regard to the progress of education among the masses of the people. There are at present 82,135 primary schools, or 16,136 more than in 1848. There are 4,731,946 scholars in all, nearly a million more than in 1848, or a quarter of the whole. The 36,499 communes provided with means of instruction comprise 41,426 public and free schools, special for boys, or mixed as to the sexes, of which 37,892, numbering 2,145,420 pupils, are directed by lay teachers; 3531, numbering 982,008 pupils, are taught by Romish ecclesiastics. It is estimated in their report that more than 600,000 children are without the means of education. Other authorities estimate the number at a much higher figure.

Large numbers of the ecclesiastical teachers appear to be sadly deficient in moral fitness for their positions. No less than 124 of the teachers of the public schools have been brought to trial for immoralities and indecencies, and the number of condemnations among the ecclesiastics has been five to one of lay teachers. The government authorities are seeking to impress the country with the truth that money expended in schools is so much saved on prisons, in illustration of which this report shows that while the scholars have increased more than a million since 1848, crime has diminished nearly fifty per cent. In one department where the schools are usually full, the prisons have frequently been empty.

The Opinion Nationale, the Siecle, and the Temps, are just now incessant in their efforts to stir up the public to demand improvements in the system of public instruction, and its extension to every child in the Empire. Their programme is radical and thorough. They demand that education shall be universal, gratuitous, and obligatory, and none of the teachers shall be ecclesiastics. These points are urged with eminent ability and tact in these powerful Paris journals. The