Lord of Montpelier, which were very elegant and appropriate. The following are officers for the coming year:

President Rev. Pliny H. White, Coventry; Vice President-Rev. C. C. Parker, Waterbury; Recording Secretary-D. G. Moore, Rutland; Treasurer-Rev. R. Parkinson, Randolph; Auditor-J. M. Thayer, Barre; Executive Committee-J. S. Spaulding, Barre, J. S. D. Taylor, St. Albans, M. H. Buckham, Burlington; Corresponding Secretaries-D. E. Taylor, Addison Co., L. A. Knights, Bennington Co., L. R. Pearson, Caledonia Co., Asa Sanderson, Chittenden Co., C. W. King, Essex Co., Charles Fay, D. D., Franklin Co., Rev. O. G. Wheeler, Grand Isle Co., Rev. E. Wheelock, Lamoille Co., Rev. O. D. Allis, Orange Co., Elijah S. Cowles, Orleans Co., J. Joslin, Esq., Rutland Co., D. D. Gorham, Washington Co., Rev. A. Brown, Windham Co., J. J. Lewis, Windsor Co.

We are indebted to Rev. R. Parkinson, Assistant Secretary, for copious notes, from which the above abstract was prepared.

THE REQUISITES FOR A GOOD TEACHER.

We give below a Phrenologist's view of the requisites for a good teacher. The extract is from a sketch of the character and biography of Hox. WILLIAM H. WELLS, superintendent of public schools at Chicago, Ill., published in the Jan. number of the "American Phrenological Journal." The writer claims that most of these requisites are combined in Mr. Wells, and regards him, as well he may, as a model teacher.

ED.

1st. Good health, to give strength, endurance, and vivacity.

"2d. A hearty love for the pursuit, including love for children, through which to reach their affections.

"3d. Perfect self-control, an even temper, with great kindness, patience, justice, and authority.

"4th. Self-respect, true manliness, with not so much dignity as to overawe the student, and yet enough to command respect.

"5th. A peculiar organization and temperament, adapting him to his work; large perceptive faculties and Human Nature, to introduce him at once to all the conditions, to enable him to read character, acquire, and to communicate knowledge to others; good reasoning pow ers, to comprehend and explain principles; large Lan guage, to give freedom and copiousness in speech; sufficient Combativeness and Destructiveness, to give execu tiveness and force; large Time, to make him punctual; a good memory of names, that he may at once call the name of every pupil, and thus become more familiar with each large Calculation, to make him quick in figures; Tune, to modulate the voice; in fact, he should be a fully developed and a complete mau.

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"The pupil becomes, to a great extent, what his teacher makes him, and approaches to what the teacher himself is. Is the teacher lazy, the pupil becomes the same; is he a nervous fret, or a scold, his pupils take on the same spirit; is he severe, cruel, and vindictive, his pupils will act on his example; is he cold, distant and repulsive, so his pupils will become; is he careless, slovenly, and without order, his pupils will soon fall into the same habits.

"And the same is true of all the virtues. Is the teacher devotional, kind, trusting, loving, neat and tidy, mindful of others' feelings, gentle and respectful, choice and correct in the use of language, his pupils come to resemble him in all these things. Tell me who is the teacher of your children, and I will tell you what they are and what you may expect them to become.

"There is no higher calling on earth than that of the teacher! Was not the Savior our greatest teacher? Are clergymen more or less than teachers? or less than teachers? We look upon the office of the teacher with a feeling akin to veneration, and would have that office filled by those only who are the most gifted and the best fitted to answer its every end."

PASHUNCE OF JOB.-Upon this congenial topic, Josh Billings thus discourses :-Evryboddy iz in the habbit ov braggin ov Job, and Job did have considerable bile pashunce, that 's a fac, but did he ever keap a distric skue for 8 dollars a month, and board round?

"T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours.

The man who consecrates his hours

By vigorous effort and an honest aim,

At once he draws the sting of life and death;
He walks with Nature, and her paths are peace.

SOLUTION OF EXAMPLE IN JAN. NO.

The time between June 9th, 1858, and July 1st, 1858, is 22 days.

Find what principal will produce $1127.041 by dividing by the amount of $1, for 22 days, at the given rate.

We obtain $1122.2403+, the balance due June 9th, 1858. To this sum add the payment and we have $3543. 2803-+

Divide this number by the amount of $1 for 6 mo. 28 days at the given rate, and we have $3405.545+..

Add the payment $1809.10, and it will give $5214.645+. Dividing this sum by the amount of $1 for 1 year, 1 mo. 26 days, and adding the payment, we have $8665.66429+. Dividing this sum by the amount of $1 for 1 year, 6 mo. 29 days, adding the payment, we have $9677.81388+. Dividing this number by the amount of $1 for 1 year, mo. 13 days, we have the original principal, $8974.557, Ans. F. M. W.

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After the above was in type, we received from W. H. DownING, a teacher at White River Village, a similar and correct solu tion, prepared by three of his young pupils, each solving it without assistance. ED.

$867.33.

Buffalo, Dec. 8th, 1842.

On demand, for value received, I promise to pay to James Hadley, or bearer, eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and thirty-three cents, with interest, after three months, at the rate of 7 per cent. WM. R. DODGE.

On this note were indorsements, viz.: April 16th, 1843, received $136.44. April 16th, 1845, received $Jan. 1st, 1846, received $518.68. July 11th, 1847, received balance due, $31.765. What is the wanting endorsement?

E. C.

OUR ANNUAL MEETING.-We have given much space in this number of the Journal to a report of the last meeting of our State Association, because, as it seems to us, we could in no way furnish so great a variety of matter, upon topics of vital importance to the educational interests of the State.

Those present manifested much interest in the lectures and discussions, and we presume the same interest to hear will be felt by those who could not attend the meeting. The report, to be brought within necessary limits, must be in a measure imperfect, yet it was our purpose, in using the Secretary's notes, to do justice to each speaker and the thoughts he expressed.

This meeting afforded reasons for great encouragement to the friends of education in Vermont. The number in attendance, the character of the audience assembled and the interest manifested, all show that great progress has been made the last fifteen years. At the beginning of this period, our Association had no existence. And for several years, the attendance was so small that the railroads of the State refused to reduce our fare, and the villages where the meetings had been held hardly knew the fact. Now, so great has been the change, that the question is seriously agitated, (and by some of us already settled in the affirmative), whether it is not an imposition to ask free entertainment for all our members.

And who came to attend these meetings? Presidents and Professors from our Colleges, Principals from our Seminaries, Academies and High Schools, and teachers from every department of Instruction, public and private. Add to these the representatives of the learned professions (especially the clergymen, who have always occupied a prominent position among the friends of education), and citizens from every department of life, and we have an assembly as large, intelligent and influential as can be gathered in the State for any other purpose.

Let us thank God and take courage. Our labors are not in vain. "Paul has planted and Apollas watered,” and we are sure that in due time, "God will give the increase," even unto the present generation.