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dents to be nominated by the Governor, and not more than twelve to be in the college at any one time.

This judicious appropriation, and the results of the meeting of the Joint Board on the 14th inst., will give increased confidence to the country in the success of this institution. The report of Judge Carrigan, Superintendent of Public Schools, accords to Centenary College a high place in usefulness and success among the institutions of this State.-N. O. Adv., March 24.

[From the Texas Christian Advocate, April 6.]

LOCATION OF A Methodist UNIVERSITY IN TEXAS.

The Board of Commissioners, appointed by the Texas Annual Conference, to locate a University, met in the Advocate Office, in Galveston, April 2, 1855. Present-R. W. Kennon, Chairman; R. Alexander, J. M. Wesson, S. S. Yarborough, and H. S. Thrall.

H. S. Thrall was elected Secretary.

R. W. Kennon read a telegraphic dispatch, informing the Board that several additional members were in Houston, and would be down on the evening's boat. On motion of R. Alexander, adjourned to meet on Tuesday morning, at 8 o'clock.

Board met, R. W. Kennon in the chair.

TUESDAY, April 3, 1855.

J. W. Whipple, D. Morse, and J. S. McGee, appeared and took their seats in addition to those present on yesterday.

After reading letters from Brothers Phillips and Seat, the Board determined to receive the vote of J. M. Wesson, as proxy for J. W. Phillips, and J. E. Ferguson's vote as proxy for W. H. Seat.

The Board decided, on motion of the Secretary, that a two-third vote should be necessary to a choice of location.

Liberal proposals were read from the citizens of Richmond, San Felipe, and Waco, proposing their respective places, as candidates for the contemplated University.

Dr. R. J. Swearingen and Wm. Chappell, committee on the part of the citizens of Chappell Hill, presented to the Board notes and obligations, amounting in the aggregate to nearly fifty thousand dollars, as an inducement for the location of the University at that place.

On proceeding to ballot for the place, ten votes were cast, and Chappell Hill received every vote. So, therefore, Chappell Hill was unanimously chosen as the place.

The present Board of Trustees of the Chappell Hill Institute were requested to act as Trustees of the institution just located.

The Board determined to appoint an agent to secure funds for the erection of suitable buildings, and to increase the endowment fund.

Dr. R. J. Swearingen, President of the Board of Trustees, was requested to procure from a competent artist, models for suitable University buildings.

It was resolved, that with the consent of Rev. D. Morse, P. Elder, we appoint the Rev. Isaac G. John Financial Agent of the University. Brother Morse assented, and Brother John was accordingly appointed.

Brothers Alexander, Yarborough and William Chappell, were appointed a committee to confer with the Board of Trustees in selecting a suitable site for the University building.

And the same brethren were requested to cooperate with the Trustees in securing the services of a suitable person as President of the Institution.

The Agent and the Board of Trustees were directed to make a detailed report of their acts to the Texas Annual Conference, at its next session.

The Secretary was directed to prepare minutes of our proceedings for publication in the Texas Christian Advocate.

And, on motion, the Board adjourned sine die. R. W. KENNON, Chairman. H. S. THRALL, Secretary.

LIBERALITY.-Capt. John Nelson, one of the friends of the projected College at Greensborough, Ala., died on the 26th March. He provided in his will for a gift of $12,500 for an Institution, to be erected at that place. Whether or not this do

nation can be transferred by the Conference, to which body it is given, to a College at another place, if the committee appointed to select a location, do not agree upon Greensborough, we do not know.-S. C. Advocate, April 13.

CATALOGUE OF EMORY COLLEGE, OXFORD, GA.-The Catalogue of this prosperous institution reports 176 students, including 40 in the Preparatory School, now in attendance; 211 graduates, of whom 31 are clergymen, 60 teachers, 13 deceased. Dr. Means, Professors Orr, Sasnett, Smith, Stone, Williams, and the Principal of the Preparatory Department, Mr. Fulton, constitute an efficient staff of instruction. Bishop Andrew is President of the Board of Trustees.-Nashville Adv., April 19.

COLUMBIA (S. C.) FEMALE COLLege.

In the S. C. Advocate of April 20, the Rev. Colin Murchison, the Agent for this new Institution, inserts the following Appeal:

"The South-Carolina Annual Conference of the M. E. Church South, having determined upon establishing an institution of learning, for the education of females, at its last session appointed a Board of Trustees, who applied for and obtained a charter from the Legislature. About fifteen thousand dollars has been subscribed in Columbia, S. C., for the purpose of erecting suitable buildings, but that amount is not sufficient to put up and furnish such buildings as will be necessary for such an Institution. The Conference appointed the undersigned Travelling Agent, to solicit donations to aid this worthy enterprise. He is now in this city for the purpose of presenting the claims of this Institution to the friends of education, as far as he may have an opportunity. He will receive subscriptions, donations in money, or books for the benefit of the College. If there are any on whom the Agent may not have the opportunity of calling, who wish to make any donation, they can do so through Rev. J. Cross, D. D., Rev. S. Leard, and Rev. J. T. Wightman, of this city, who are members of the Board of Trustees.

"A wealthy citizen of Columbia proposes to give five thousand dollars, to establish a Normal Department, on condition that he has the privilege of educating a female in the institution, to be selected from the poor of his own district, free of charge for board and tuition. Are there not others in the State, and especially in this city, equally noble-hearted and liberal-minded? Can there not be found four others at least, willing to contribute the same to a Female College of high grade in the capital of their own State, and secure a similar privilege for themselves or for their community. Let the friends of female education devise liberal things and report the same to the undersigned."

[From S. C. Advocate, April 20.]

WOFFORD COLLEGE.

MR. EDITOR: I desire to acknowledge, with many thanks, a valuable donation recently made to the library of this institution by the Rev. F. A. Mood, of Columbia. It is a quarto, more than two hundred and fifty years old, containing in black letter, the entire works of Geoffry Chaucer-the morning star of English poetry. This gem of a volume is in excellent preservation, and is a handsome addition to the literary treasures of our library. To Mr. Senator Butler, and the Hon. J. L. Orr, of the House of Representatives, we are under obligation for similar favors. A complete and beautiful cabinet of minerals has been presented to the college by Dr. Dogan, of Union C. H., one of its trustees; for which also we are laid under special obligation.

It gives me great satisfaction to say that the institution is doing well. There are in attendance in the collegiate and preparatory departments, between seventy and eighty students; and we have reason to anticipate that this number will be largely increased at the beginning of the next term, on the 4th Wednesday of August, when a new Freshman class will be formed. The endowment left by the venerable founder of the college, $50,000, was paid over to the Board of Trustees by the executors, on the 1st of January, and invested without delay. The proceeds of the amount funded, with the patronage already secured, will meet the expenses of the institution the present year. Professor Dipre is now at the North, for the

purpose of purchasing an extensive chemical and philosophical apparatus, which will be here by the time it is needed.

Without any appeal to public liberality, an institution of learning, of high grade, fully officered, and furnished with an extensive suite of buildings, has come into existence, and with flattering prospects has entered upon its course of public usefulness. This, as far as my information goes, is unprecedented in the history of our Church. It calls for special gratitude to God, the giver of every good and perfect gift. It is cheering to think that we shall work on in the noble vocation of Christian education, free from the embarrassments and backsets which scanty means at the beginning generally entail. We may count on efficiency and vigor from the very outset. We may confidently invite the young men from the families of our members and friends throughout the extent of the Conference, to our halls of instruction, offering them all the facilities of mental culture possessed by older colleges, assured that a long career of usefulness lies before the institution, and that it is destined by God's blessing to promote to a large extent the highest good of man in time and eternity.

It is our hope that it will be both a centre of letters and a shrine of religion, sending out its influence, deep and diffusive, not only over classes of society possessed of wealth, but also over those in more limited circumstances, to whom the blessings of sanctified learning may prove an inheritance richer than gold, more precious than all other worldly advantages. W. M. WIGHTMAN. WOFFORD COLLEGE, April 6.

MOST MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.

On the morning of the 15th April, about three o'clock, when all around were soundly asleep, one of the buildings at the Arcadia High School, Mo., was struck by lightning, set on fire, burned down, and, melancholy to relate, the bodies of four boys, pupils of the school, were consumed in the flames. We learn that a jury of inquest met, carefully examined all the facts, and came to the conclusion that the boys were undoubtedly killed by the lightning, and unconscious of any suffering, passed from time to eternity. There were several other students sleeping in the same building, who were aroused and escaped.-St. Louis Adv., April 26.

[From Memphis Adv. of May 23.]

ANDREW COLLEGE-ITS ENDOWMENT.

***** It is generally known that between one and two hundred students have entered Andrew College during the present scholastic year, which is but an additional indication of that crowning success that has blessed the laudable efforts and continuous labors of the friends of this institution, even to an extent far surpassing their fondest hopes. The day has arrived in the history of Andrew Col lege when the trustees, however efficient, and the faculty, however learned, must be attended by suitable instrumentalities and auxiliaries, that permanency and stability may be secured. If the object is (as we think it is) to build up a mammoth institution in the Memphis Conference, that an infinite weight of glory may result, proving a source of light and knowledge, in a scientific and religious point of view, then it is time we should be up and doing. It is time that mere talk, philosophizing, and theorizing, should yield to prompt, efficient, and united action. Andrew College no longer occupies the position of an experiment, but it is in a full tide of prosperity. But the object is to make this prosperity permanent, by means of an Endowment. This subject makes a direct appeal to every friend of learning and religion and while the College may be endowed, those who endow it will be the beneficiaries.

To accomplish this great work, so fraught with interest, the last Conference adopted a plan of endowment, and appointed an agent to take the field, to secure the endowment of Andrew College. Shall this great enterprise succeed? Does not every consideration that attaches to the benefits of a Home Institution plead trumpet-tongued for the consummation of so noble a work? Is it not reasonable to hope that much good will be effected in the various circuits and charges of the ministry, in bringing the subject of the endowment of Andrew College before their churches, thus paving the way for the agent? Much might be accomplished in this way, and a sacred duty thus performed.

Rev. T. L. Beard, the agent to procure the endowment, is now in Trenton, fully in the harness, and fired with sacred zeal-manfully laboring for the accomplishment of his important mission. The citizens of Trenton and the vicinity, ever in the front ranks in building up great enterprises, have come nobly up to the work, and have set an example worthy of imitation. Already the agent has procured between ten and fifteen thousand dollars of the endowment, in our midst, and still the work is progressing.

By paying one hundred dollars, whenever fifty thousand dollars of the endowment is raised, the party thus paying entitles himself to ten years' tuition, or a scholarship, to be filled up as he may select his own time, in said college. Compare the cost that will accrue by scolarship, with customary tuition fees, and draw the legitimate deduction.

In addition, no institution in the West can boast of a more efficient and able faculty, of a locality in a more salubrious and healthful climate, or of a position in a community more noted for morals and refinement. Situated, too, at the junction or crossing of those two great thoroughfares, the Mobile and Ohio, and Memphis and Louisville railroads, which ramify and connect with various other roads, thus at a very early day, affording unexampled facilities in rendering Andrew College accessible to the entire "Great West.' Thus the providence of God seems to be manifested in affording all the elements necessary to the triumphant success of so glorious a work-a college of the highest class. Shall we take encouragement, and let action prove our zeal ? R. B. MCGEE.

TRENTON, May 7th, 1855.

LAGRANGE COLLEGE AT FLORENCE.

We copy the following from the Florence Gazette. It will be gratifying to the friends of La Grange College to know it is prospering.

LA GRANGE COLLEGE AT FLORENCE.-The exhibition of the Senior Class, at the Methodist church on Wednesday night, was interesting in the highest degree. We express the voice of the public in saying, the large and attentive audience were delighted and well pleased. The young gentlemen gave evidence of severe mental culture, of extensive reading, and a thorough knowledge of the various subjects discussed by them. Truly their efforts would have done credit to children of a "larger growth," and reflected the greatest honor on themselves and the learned and able faculty of this noble institution-already the pride of the State, and destined soon to become a blessing to the entire South-west.-Nashville Advocate, May 24.

ANOTHER FEMALE COLLEGE.

The Western Weekly Review, Franklin, Tenn., says, speaking of the various improvements going forward in their town: "Besides all these, there is now in course of erection a large, substantial, and beautiful college building, designed for a female school, to be under the patronage and direction of the Methodist Church South. When completed, which will be in the course of the present year, it will be one of the handsomest and most commodious educational establishments in Tennessee. The building will be sixty by ninety feet, two stories high, and so arranged that the greatest degree of comfort and convenience may be enjoyed by all who shall enter therein. It is situated in the southern portion of the town, and fronts South-Margin, West-Margin, and Indigo streets."-Nashville Adv., May 31.

[From the Richmond Christian Advocate, June 7.]

GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT.

The commencement exercises of this institution took place last week. The town was full of visitors, in attendance on this interesting exhibition of learning, art, and beauty. We propose only a partial review of the exercises, such as may be of general interest to the Church, and especially of the North-Carolina Conference; by whom the college was built and is now sustained.

On Tuesday and Wednesday the different classes were examined in the college chapel, to the entire satisfaction of all present. The annual sermon to the graduating class was preached in the M. E. Church, on Tuesday night, by the Rev. C. F. Deems, D.D., former President of the college. The church was more than usually crowded for such an occasion. And a more affectionate, earnest, and impressive sermon perhaps was never preached in that church, than we listened to from these words: "And he, trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" (Acts 9: 6.). Could such a sermon be preached to every man and woman once a week, energetic, pious, and devoted laborers would soon begin to multiply rapidly in all the various avocations of life, and the cause of piety and benevolence would quickly overrun the nations of the earth. The inquiry, "What wilt thou have me to do?" was appropriate, and the reflections solemn and impressive.

The Rev. H. T. Hudson, of the North-Carolina Conference, delivered an interesting, chaste, and eloquent address to the literary societies on Wednesday evening. His subject was Female Education, embracing its three distinctive features: 1st. What it was. 2d. Its pleasures of acquisition; and 3d. The benefits resulting

therefrom.

On the same occasion, the Rev. William Closs, Conference Agent for the college, made a short report of past success and future anticipations. We did not learn the entire amount he had thus far succeeded in obtaining, but, in his own language, he was doing finely. We feel very confident the $20,000 will soon be all taken. The college building will then be immediately enlarged and otherwise improved. The concert, Wednesday night, was highly entertaining. The selections were good and well performed, with an occasional introduction of an original composition, the whole concluding with the crowning of a May Queen-one of the most interesting, as well as instructive exhibitions we ever beheld.

The commencement exercises were held in the church on Thursday. Eight young ladies were regularly graduated, and received their diplomas. We extract from the programme their names and subjects of composition.

Salutatory Addresses-Miss Lavinia J. Watt, of Chatham.

Voices of Nature-Miss Lavinia J. Watt, of Chatham.

Joy, Joy, Freedom To-day-Miss Temperance E. Neely, of Mocksville.

Knowledge is Power-Miss Harriet E. Harlee, Bennettsville, S. C.
Modern Belles-Miss Bettie F. Sanders, of Wythe Co., Va.

Music-Miss Oscia E. Joyner, of Franklin.

The World is all a Humbug-Miss Nannie O. Brame, of Mecklenburg, Va. Visions of the Future for the Old North State-Miss A. M. Speer, of Yadkin. Home Again-Miss Bettie A. Howland, of Beaufort.

Valedictory Addresses-Miss Bettie A. Howland, of Beaufort.

Without the least flattery, we say any female college ought to be proud of such alumni.

The parting address of President Jones was pathetic, filled with paternal love and admonition. Thus closed another annual commencement, one of the most pleasant and entertaining we ever attended.

The Trustees had several meetings during the week; but we have not learned the particulars. The most important transaction was the election of Dr. Deems President of the Board, vice George C. Mendenhall, Esq., resigned. We have heard the selection spoken of only in terms of the highest praise. B.

May 22, 1855.

[From the Richmond Christian Advocate, June 21.] COMMENCEMENT OF THE WARRENTON FEMALE COLLEGE.

The first commencement of this college took place on the 6th and 7th of June. The examination of the pupils, beginning on Wednesday, and ending on Thursday, was highly creditable both to the faculty and pupils. The ready and accurate answers of the students to the scholastic questions put by the examiners, showed great industry and ability on the part of the Faculty, and diligence and proficiency on the part of the students.

Patrons and visitors seemed perfectly satisfied with the progress of the pupils and the competency of the Faculty.

On Wednesday night, Rev. A. Dibrell, of Norfolk, (Va. Con.,) preached the sermon to the young ladies. The text was taken from 1 Cor. 7:31. "For the fashion of this world passeth away." The sermon was comprehensive in its range