The unfortunate accident which occurred on the road on Friday last, and the melancholy consequences resulting from it, have occupied the most serious attention of the Executive committee of the Board of Directors. Every exertion has been made to obtain a correct statement of all the facts that they might be disclosed to the public. A fatal accident happened yesterday (Nov. 8,) on the The security of the passengers from the commenceCamden and Amboy Rail Road The train of Cars ment of the operations of this company, has been an ob bound for Philadelphia, had advanced about half way ject of the first consideration. For several weeks after between Spotswood and Hightstown, when the axle of a sufficient number of locomotives to carry the passenone of the cars gave way; from what cause, does not gers, were completed and on the line, the horses were seem sufficiently explained. It was either broken by the continued notwithstanding the importunity of the public pressure upon it, or as some of the passengers think, for the change. The most unfounded reports as to the the heat produced by the rapid motion, had burnt away capacity of the road for the use of this species of power, the material in which it was secured. The car fell on were circulated and believed from this delay. During one side, and was immediately knocked off the road by all this periód however, the engines were constantly in the momentum of the succeeding car. As the speed at use, when the line was free from the passenger cars, in this time was more than twenty miles an hour, the En-transporting merchandize and materials on the road. gineer was unable to stop his locomotive until the fallen car, with its contents, had been dragged about forty yards. The scene which presented itself to the passengers is said to have been shocking beyond measure. Of twenty-four persons in the carriage, twelve were seriously injured, and all were in some degree bruised or stunned. One gentlemen, Mr. Stedman of North Carolina, was so crushed that he expired in a few minutes. One other gentleman had both his legs fractured. Captain Vanderbilt, formerly of the New Brunswick steamboat, was severely injured in the back. Among the wounded are several females-one of them, Mrs. Bartlett, of Washington City, had her arm fractured in three places-and a child, dangerously, expected to die before morning. Mr. Dreyfous of this city, is among those injured, but we are happy to say not dangerous ly. The unfortunate gentleman who lost his life on this occasion, retained his senses to the last, and met his fate with perfect calmness and resignation. He expressed a wish to die in Philadelphia; and gave brief directions in reference to his family, and for the disposition of his property. We trust the public will be furnished as early as possible, with an accurate explanation of the cause of this melancholy disaster. The statement above given is derived from several intelligent passengers, with whom he had an opportunity of conversing.—Commercial Herald. The Directors preferred the odium attached to their delay to the risque attending the substitution of the engines until the engineers had become familiar with their use. They were then placed on one line only, that they might be under the immediate superintendance of confidential agents of the Company. Positive instructions were given that the trip [35 miles] should not be made in less than two hours and a quarter; allowing two hours, or a speed of seventeen and a half miles per hour, for the actual running of the engine, and fifteen minutes for the necessary stoppages. Special instruc tions were also given that no one mile should be run in less than three minutes. To ensure a compliance with these orders, an agent was placed on each line, whose special and only duty is to take the time of running each and every mile, with a stop watch, for the government of the engineer, and to note down the same, and report it to the Executive Committee. From the commencement these reports have evinced so nearly a compliance with the orders as to be entirely satisfactory. careful inspection of the reports of the week immedi ately preceding the accident, it is discovered that the time actually occupied in running, shews an average rate of eighteen miles per hour, and the fastest trip was of this line had sustained a slight injury from a fall a at the rate of 19 miles. Unfortunately the time keeper day or two previous, and was not then on the line. the engineers had become so well regulated in their time, it was deemed unnecessary to procure another agent to fill this temporary vacancy. From a As Had this officer been at his post, the first subject of inquiry, to wit: the rate at which the cars were runRAIL ROAD ACCIDENT.-We have learned the follow-ning, would have been attended with no difficulty. ing particulars in relation to this accident, since the pub- From the excitement naturally produced by the disas lication of our Saturday's paper:-The Car that was ter, it has been found impracticable to obtain accurate overturned, was not the one whose axle was broken, information on this subject. The committee are led to but the one immediately in its rear. Among the pas- the conclusion, however, that a short time before the sengers injured, in addition to Mr. J. C. Stedman, kil- occurrence of the accident, the speed of the engine had led, were Miss Whitehead, of Newport, R. I. one arm considerably exceeded the rate allowed, but that at the broken, and otherwise much bruised; Mrs. Barlett, time and immediately before, this was not the case. wife of Lieut. Bartlett, Washington City, badly bruised, This opinion is induced by the following facts. and her infant very dangerously; Mr. Wells, of Lebanon, Pa. who had both legs and both arms broken; Rev. J. West, of Newport, R. I. one leg broken, and considerably injured on one shoulder; Mr. King, also of Newport, severely hurt on the back and head; Mr. Charless, of St. Louis, Mo., thigh very much injured; of Phillipsburg, Pa., two ribs broken, head and arm injured-and after tying his handkerchief round his body, he directed all his attention to his fellow sufferers; Mr. Dreyfous, of this City, slight injury Dr. on the head and back. Com. Herald. There were two trains of cars attached to separate engines. The accident happened to the last train. The first engine is the least powerful on the line. The engineer is positive that so far from being in advance of, he was behind his time. He moreover states that from inadvertence his fire had got down, and his steam was so low as to render it difficult to maintain his proper speed at that point, as the road there ascends. The committee are satisfied that the orders had not been materially violated as to the whole time of running the dis tance. But it appears that owing to some trifling derange ment of the second engine, the engineer, about three miles before, had reduced his speed to adjust it. After doing so, he states that to recover his proper station he increased his speed, but not in his opinion exceeding his limited rate. In this he was probably mistaken. But before the accident occurred he had checked the engine by shutting off a considerable portion of the steam, and is positive that he was not then running faster than the train in advance. This declaration is strongly corroborated by the fact, that one of the agents accompanying the line was on the top of the car which upset, and jumped from it to the ground without injury, when he discovered that it was going over From the place where he alighted to that where the car rested after the train was stopped, is not quite 21 yards. The accident has also been attributed to the heating of the axle from friction for want of oil. It is under stood that some of the passengers are under the impression that they saw smoke from this cause. This is clearly a mistake. The axles were examined at Spottswood, (not eight miles distant,) by the agent whose duty it is to do so, and found perfectly cool and well supplied with oil. The appearance of the fracture is entirely inconsistent with this idea, and the quantity of oil still adhering to both the journal and box is conclusive, as that would have been entirely consumed by the heat. These matters have been adverted to particularly, because the accident has been attributed to them, and the committee have felt bound to afford every informa tion on the subject. They are convinced, however, that it is to be traced to other causes which could neith er have been foreseen nor prevented, and that the fatal consequences were produced by a combination of cir. cumstances that have never before occurred, and in all human probability will never again occur. Cast iron wheels have been entirely excluded from the passage cars on the rod. The axles have all been procured from Boorston, the most celebrated works in the country, at the exorbitant price of $125 per ton to ensure the quality of the iron. They are more than 50 per cent. stronger than those used for the passage cars of the Liverpool and Manchester road, and for still greater security, the ends were all welded down before they were turned.-Yet with all these precautions it ap pears by an examination of the broken axle, that a latent defect existed in it which caused the accident. There was a flaw in it leaving not more than threeeighths of the strength of the iron to sustain the whole weight, but as the defect was in the journal, it was effectually concealed. This was the primary cause of the calamity. But the breaking of the axle would have been harmless as none of the passengers in the car received the slightest injury. It remains only to account for the injury to the other car. the car was thrown from the track, and so far over as to be beyond recovery. There is no doubt but that the impetus from the after cars caused the overthrow of this car. It is evident that it must have been projected forward by them, and thrown on the front end, from the fact that of the twenty-four passengers in at the time, those in the back apartment were uninjured. This would have been effectually prevented by the application of the brake, but for the unfortunate "mischance which drew the agent from his post at that crit ical juncture. No blame appears reasonably to be attached to the agent, as the train was then running on a portion of the line where there is a double track, and perfectly straight for nearly six miles, without even a turn out to guard against. These are facts and conclusions arrived at after the most careful examination of this painful subject. Whilst the committee deeply deplore the event, and sympa. thise with the unfortunate sufferers and their friends, they have to console themselves with the conviction, that the company cannot justly, be chargeable with the censure of the public. It is believed that in no similar en terprise, greater care has been taken to protect the passengers from injury, and that their intentions have been frustrated by an extraordinary combination of cir cumstances, not to have been forsaken or prevented by human foresight. J. H. SLOAN, Sec'y. MAUCH CHUNK, November 9, 1833. 100 TON BOAT.-In walking along the wharf the other day, we were much pleased with the noble appearance of a large new Canal Boat, bearing the name of JOSIAH WHITE, of Easton, built and owned by Peter S. Michler, of that place. The boat, we understand, is intended exclusively for the Lehigh Canal, to ply be tween Mauch Chunk and Easton, being about 16 feet wide and capable of carrying 100 tons. She left this place with her first load in fine style, two days ago.→ Mauch Chunk Courier. EXPEDITIOUS WORK.-In order to convey a just idea abroad, of the capacity of the Cast Iron Foundry at this place, and of the despatch with which the enterprising enabled to make to order, castings of almost any dimen proprietor of the establishment, Mr. John Fatzinger, is sions which may be wanted, we notice with pleasure the following instance of the facility of its operations, which occurred a few days since: We understand that in consequence of the breaking of a shaft of one of the Stationary Engines on the Car bondale Rail Road, which caused a material interrup tion to the coal operations at that place, the machinest, Mr. McAlpin, after an unsuccessful trial to cast a new one there, the Cupola of their Foundry being too small It has been supposed that the car was thrown from found the same difficulty to prevent the accomplish. for so heavy a casting, came to Wilkesborre, where he the track and upset by running over the wheel of the ment of his objects, He then proceeded to this place broken car. This is entirely an error. The axle broke where he arrived in the afternoon. A pattern was com in the journal, outside the wheel, so that both wheels menced about three o'clock, and the shaft, weighing remained attached to the axle, which at one end main- upwards of half a ton, was cast by Mr. Fatzinger, and tained its proper position, but at the other, having no- all finished early on the following day. It was then thing to sustain it, dropped into the receiver, so that the spokes and the hub, which are of wood, were brought despatched for Carbondale by a team sent for that pur into collision with the iron on the frame, and nearly pose by the Superintendent of the Lehigh Coal & Navihalf of them splintered to pieces by the revolutions of gation Company.-Mauch Chunk Courier. the wheel. It has been this which was mistaken by the passengers for the smoke of the axle. An agent is always stationed at the brake of the baggage car to keep a constant watch upon all the other cars, and to apply the brake, and instantly apprise the engineer if any accident occurs. For the first time since the line has been in operation, a spark had alighted on the baggage car, and ignited a bundle of cotton. The agent discovered this, and was in the act of extinguishing it, when he discovered the breaking of the axle. Before he could recover his station and apply the brake, PRODUCTS OF THE SEASON.-Mr. Joseph Mifflin left at our office a few days since, a Beet which weighed 7 lbs. 3 qrs. and measured 20 inches in length, and the same in circumference. A Beet was shown us on Thursday, by Mr. Philip Gossler, which weighed 124 lbs. and measured 32 in ches and a half in circumference. Brown, which was two feet four inches in length.--Co. A Radish was sent to us last week by Mr. Jeremiah lumbian Spy. REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE. EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD. VOL. XIII.-NO. 21. PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 23, 1833. NO. 308 SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. OCTOBER 7, 1833. In the world of morals, power without responsibility, would be anomalous. If its Creator has formed the material universe, in all the vastness of its extent and in all the minuteness of its details, subject to certain fixed laws; and if the obedience of the whole and of each part to those laws, agreeably to the divine will, bespeaks the divine wisdom, shall it not be thus also in the orders of intellectual existence? If a single particle of matter could be supposed, for a moment, to lie without the range of Almighty power-beyond the general order which God has established for the government of matter, could it be otherwise than that this particle, by its motion or its rest, should disturb that which lay nearest to it, and this the next, and thus the entire system should be thrown into confusion? And would not such a result give mournful evidence that perfect wisdom dwells not in the builder of the skies? But if one lawless particle of matter might thus arraign the wisdom of the great Creator, how much more one lawless particle of mind? And this especially, when we consider that mind is necessarily active, and, by reason of its social nature, necessarily operative upon mind. For aught then that we can see, there does exist in the physical world and in the moral, an uncreated necessity for every atom in both being subject to law. For every talent he possesses, man is necessarily accountable, and though he often forgets this truth,the law does not. It stills holds him to his duties. Besides, from our ideas of moral accountability, we can scarcely separate the notion of time and season. Limitation is essential to probation. There must be a season-a period when the talent will be called for when an account must be given of the manner in which power shall have been exercised. In the application of moral principle by human arrangement, the designation of these times and seasons is matter of conventional agreement. Accordingly our laws, which prescribe duty and invest with power, generally fix some limit of accountability, defining the time and manner: or if they do not, they reserve the right so to do, whenever occasion may call for its exercise. out every good quality: repress every evil disposition: fit them by such evolution of intellect and heart, for the high and responsible stations recently occupied by their illustrious sires, and send them forth well endowed to manage their paternal inheritance and minister unalloy. ed consolation to their surviving parent. May we not call this a sacred trust? And shall the trustees of such a charge not feel a deep and solemn responsibility? And, although our charter names,not the day of our account, but only reserves to the legislature the right of recalling the powers granted, yet is there not a manifest propriety in our presenting annually to the people, an account of our doings for the past and designs for the future? Can any thing but rigid and punctilious accountability secure public confidence? And was ever that confidence withheld, where the trust was impor tant and its execution faithful? Therefore do we step forward in this report, to lay before the public a statement of our doings and designs. Let our trusteeship be inspected. La Fayette College is designed to bring the higher branches of education within the reach of youth in the humbler walks of life, even where indigence has travelled:-To elevate the standard of common school instruction.-To secure health to the student.-To promote the feeling of honourable independence.-And, to cement the extremes of society together, and so promote the permanent well being of the happiest nation in the world. As to the first of these objects, viz: opening the halls of science to those in the middle and lower walks of life; we propose to accomplish it, not by an agrarian law, not by a poor-rate system, not by lowering the standard of education, but simply by affording to the industrious and talented youth an opportunity by the labor of his hands, at some productive branch of business, to become the maker of his own fortune, and the promoter of his country's honor and prosperity. The time and force expended usually in play for needful exercise, thus becomes available for his partial support. This thows open the door of competition in the learned professions to many who could not otherwise engage in literary pursuits and scientific labours. Our success in this matter will be seen by a careful inspection of the appendix to this report. In the inspection, let the reader, however, recollect that our very limited resources as to capital to supply work and shoproom, have prevented us from employing in many cases, the full term of three hours, the time allotted by our rules to labour. And this deficiency has had a reflex operation upon the spirit of diligence. Some being unemployed, through a necessity growing out of our poverty, has operated a bad influence upon others, so that this year we have met with difficulty in several instances, in bringing up the student to the Now fellow citizens, we, "The Board of Trustees of La Fayette College," have a trust committed to our hand-a a power delegated by the people of Pennsylvania. We desire to remember, that this power is not absolute-this trust is not irresponsible. Such an anomaly our laws cannot endure, so long as moral virtue is the basis of our constitution. We desire to feel also, that this trust is not one of trivial concern. In the charter of our existence, we would hear this great commonwealth, as the voice of a tender widowed parent, deep-rule of labour. The cause of this difficulty, we trust ly solicitous for the reputation, usefulness and blessed ness of her beloved offspring, thus address us-Take these, my orphan boys, sons of noble sires, though not born to princely fortunes-take them under your care: I constitute you their guardians: into your hands I commit the sacred trust of their physical, intellectual, moral and religious education. They possess, I trust, powers worth cultivating: develope these powers: draw VOL. XII. 41 the public will enable us forever to remove, by furnishing the means of erecting shops sufficiently large for the accommodation of all. Meanwhile, to enable the pub. lic rightly to estimate the results of a fair trial of the system, we have added a column in the statistical table, shewing the amount actually earned; and another, what would have been earned by each student, provided he had worked the full period of three hours per day. From this table it appears that the whole amount charged within the year, for boarding and lodging, tuition and shop room, to fifty-two students, making an average of thirty-five for the whole year; is $3825 37; that the whole amount actually earned and credited, is $996 01, or nearly one-fourth of the charge; and that had full opportunity been afforded and embraced of working the full term, even at the low rates of our present disadvantages, the amount earned would have been $1419 05, or nearly four-tenths of the whole charge. 2. As to elevating the standard of common school instruction, we propose to effect it by training teachers to that business as a profession. This is all important to our country and its free institutions. Virtue in the mass of the people, is the basis of our political system, intelligence and religion the basis of virtue. Let the foundations be destroyed, and the superstructure must fall. Let religion, intelligence and virtue pass away from the body of the people, and the walls of the tem ple of our freedom, though cemented by the blood of our fathers, must crumble to the ground. But let common schools disseminate the light of intelligence, and the love of virtue over the whole land, and the glorious structure will rise higher, in beauty and grandeur, commanding the admiration and love of all the friends of freedom, and exciting the envy and terror of its foes. Now it is universally conceded that our common schools are not in a prosperous and profitable condition. Incompetent teachers, very frequently, receive inadequate support; and the inadequacy of the support secures and perpetuates the incompetency of the teachers. The labourer is rewarded, small as is the reward, beyond the value of his labour, and the employers are not qualified to detect the imposition. And how is this crying evil to be remedied? Not surely by any general school system, unless it embrace as a fundamental object, the training of teachers But let teachers be well educated, that is, let them be taught thoroughly the branches which they will be called upon to teach, and, which is the principal thing, the art of communicating instruction and governing a school; and let their service be secured permanently in that business, by adequate pay, (say from the State School Fund for a time,) and then, but not we apprehend until then, will the virtue and intelligence of the community sustain a general system-then and not until then, will the means be procured of securing all that is dear to us as freemen, and as Pennsylvanians. 3. The preservation of health. All experience has shewn the correctness of the adage, "Much study is a weariness to the flesh." Health is often sacrificed at the altar of science. To be pale-faced, emaciated and feeble, is an important item in a student's college credentials. And under this absurd idea, many a noble youth has been educated at colleges, just to graduate and die. Or, if death should not prove to be the seal of his diploma, he draws out a miserable existence, suffering sometimes in a single day more than the pains of mere animal death. The cholera, fearful a scourge as it is, brings not in its train so large and fearful a catalogue of miseries as are experienced by that numerous and unhappy class, who have sol i health for learning. Besides, the actual loss of money to the community, incurred by the premature death of its educated men, is an immense tax. Each young man who dies at the threshhold of professional life, must have expended something like $2,000 on his education. The statistics are not collected, but the number in the United States probably exceeds one hundred per year. That is, we throw away, besides the life which cannot be valued, $200,000 a year in educating men for the grave. Now the system we advocate largely forestalls this evil. Another year's experience confirms our confidence in the sovereign ef ficiency of this prophylatic remedy. Regular, daily, systematic exercise secures health of body, and by necessity health of mind. Sedentary discase is unknown in our institution; unless indeed it be imported, and even then it is neither infectious nor contagious. 4. To promote a feeling of honorable independence: It is obvious that the provisions of our laws, relative to "the education of the poor gratis," operate a most un happy influence upon this feeling. It wounds something which we are reluctant to denominate pride. Let this feeling be often wounded, and it will die; and with it will die the independence of our country. For if the people lose individually that high sense of honor, which prompts to vigorous effort for self support and self education-if they learn to lean on resources entirely fo reign to themselves, they must soon lose it in a national point of view and become willing to lean on a foreign arm. But if a youth prosecuting study, acquires also a trade, by which, if providentially called to it, as was the great Apostle to the Gentiles, he can maintain himself; and if he at the same time, contributes materially to his own maintenance, it is evident he must acquire a consolidation-a solidity of character which must render him a valuable member of society. 5. With these views of the bearings of our plan, it is easy to see how it must operate in cementing the ex tremes of society together. The sons of the indigent and of the wealthy meet together in the duties of the field, the garden and the shop, and also in the labors of the study, and the recitation rooms. There is a perfect equality. All labor, and all study. They learn to es teem and love each other. They form intimacies which pass down through life, with recollections, sweet "as the memory of joys that are past." They meet, perhaps after years of separation, in the higher fields of professional labor; in the halls of legislation, or the sacred assembly. Another way in which this influence is operated, is, by the school teacher's acquiring his professional attainments, in the college classes; and forming his ac quaintances and attachments there. He thus constitutes a connecting link between the School and College, and promotes the interests of both, whilst he furnishes pu pils for the one and teachers for the other. Still a third mode in which this system tends to union is by breaking down the aristocratical notion that manual labor is inconsistent with high literary attainment and refinement of manners. The feeling undoubtedly has existed, and to some extent does it now exist, that to be able to handle the farmer's implements or the mecha nic's tools, is derogatory to professional dignity and degrading to classic purity. Nor is this feeling confined to those who have been immured within the walls of a college. Many engaged in mechanical pursuits, enter tain the same opinion; and accordingly regard the vota. ries of learning and science with feelings of envy and jealousy. Now there can hardly be conceived a more effectual method of suppressing such feelings, than the one we propose. Let literary men pursue this rational mode of exercise for the security of health, and they will at the same time create a fraternal feeling in the minds of those whose occupations they thus practically honor, and break down the barriers which must otherwise exist to the prejudice of the social body. How all these things Itave their influence in promot. ing the lasting interests of the country, we need not delay to point out. Let this course be pursued, and the aristocracy of money and learning can never become dangerous, for it never can be hereditary and exclusive, where the high road to learning and to wealth lies open to all. Agricultural Department. For information on this subject, we refer to the sta tistics in the Appendix. In the Mechanical Department we have recently procured a horse power machine to facilitate sawing. We have also commenced the manufacture of Ploughs on an improved plan: for the number we refer to the Ap pendix; as also for the number and description of boxes, trunks, and other articles manufactured. Permanent Location. We mentioned at this, the product is $4,000 per annum; that is twenty per cent. on the entire expenditure. Now this, as we have said, is clear gain to the students, that is, to the community-for the community must educate its own sons that serve it. And, counting the first cost of the establishment as an investment of five per cent. the product of labor saved, operating as a sinking fund, will annihilate the debt in less than six years. the best interests of their country. And these one In our first Annual Report, we alluded to the neces hundred young men may earn on an average, each $40 sity of a permanent endowment, in order to a fair expo. Per annum. This ratio is less than has ever been allowsition of the system and its resources. ed in this institution. It can undoubtedly be increasalso that a contract had been entered into for land. Weed as the facilities for work are perfected. But even have now the pleasure to record that this contract has been confirmed and extended so as to secure eleven acres in an elevated and very beautiful situation. For the payment of the purchase money and the erection of the proper buildings, application was made to the Legislature during its last session. A bill passed the Senate prosperously, appropriating $5,000, and $1,000 a year for six years. It was diminished in amount and finally lost in the house by a majority of six votes. By this very unexpected result, the Board were thrown! upon the only remaining resource, and one which never fails in a good cause-the public spirit of the community. Subscriptions were opened in Easton, and in a few days, $2,935 were subscribed. Encouraged by this token of public favor, the Board could not hesitate to move onward. Contracts were made for materials and work. The first spadefull of earth was removed from the site on the 4th day of June; the first stone was laid on the 27th day of June, and the corner stone with appropriate ceremonies, on the 4th day of July. The building is 112 feet by 44, with a recess of 17 by 49 feet. The basement, the floor of which is two and a half feet below the surface of the exterior earth, is of limestone, and hammered for pointing; the first and second stories are of the same stone, rough laid, and the third story of brick. The three stories above the basement are intended to be plastered in imitation of granite. The entire structure, besides the entries, will afford two rooms 34 by 46 feet; two 19 by 34 feet; two 22 by 34 feet; fifty 15 by 17 feet, and two a little larger-in all sixty. The roof frame which is already raised, will be covered with slate, and the whole crowned with a modest but tasteful dome and spire. Whilst the work has been thus rapidly progressing, the subscriptions have also been advanced in this vicini. ty and in Philadelphia, to the amount of nearly $5,000. The Board had cherished the purpose of publishing in an appendix to this report, as the most satisfactory mode of accounting to the public for the funds entrusted to their care, an entire list of their benefactors and their benefactions. But as several of the sums promised are not paid, and as many others are confidently expected, we have finally concluded not now to present an account, which must necessarily be very imperfect; but to defer a full and perfect statement of all our receipts and expenditures until our third annual report shall appear. We earnestly invite public attention to this calculation. We think the estimates of costs are fair, and fully adequate to complete the buildings named. The other item in the data, is not conjecture nor hypothesis; but matter of sober fact; the result of more than four years' experience. Students of fifteen years and upwards, by laboring three hours per day, can earn forty dollars per year. So that if one hundred youth from good common schools, be placed in such an establishment, and be kept diligently employed eight hours at study and three at labor each day, in six years they will graduate respectably, and the exercise necessary to health, being expended in manual labor, will pay for the entire college premises. Again, therefore, we invite the public, and especially the strong armed yeomanry this calculation. If there be an error let it be pointed of the country-its bone, sinew, and nerve, to examine out. If not, then come-seize with a firm and manly grasp, the La Fayette Plough; drive a deep furrow; let the virgin soil, which has slept for ages in darkness, in its season; and wait with humble confidence its resee the sun; cast in with generous hands the good seed turn in a rich and abundant harvest. From which the student may deduct, by laboring three hours per day, one-fourth or one-half. (Appendix will be inserted hereafter.) ACADEMY. Our prospects for the future are not discouraging, although we have before us a heavy expenditure, with slender means at command. The public, however, INGRAHAM'S ADDRESS BEFORE THE LAW whom we serve, are rich, and a great public object cannot fail for want of money. Permit us then to offer our drafts at the counter of public opinion. Thus stands the account: Besides the college edifice, we need a shop and a barn; we have the rent of the premises now occupied to pay, and the lands purchased to enclose in good fences; and we must have the nucleus of a library and apparatus. Estimates of cost: An Address delivered before the Law Academy of Philadelphia, at the opening of the Session of 1828-9; by Edward D. Ingraham, Vice Provost of the Academy. Gentlemen of the Law Academy: The object of our institution is improvement in the science of the law. In a government emphatically of laws, and in a community attentive to the adoption of whatever tends to augment the convenience and happiness of its citizens, it is not to be supposed that the system regulating the daily actions of every man has been left untouched by the inquiring and amending spirit of an enlightened age. To this spirit the law academy owes its foundation, advancement, and success. It is my intention, in the present address to you, to point out, as well as its limited nature will permit, and as one of the means through which the object of the institution is to be attained, the effects which have been |