borders, should at once be supplied with missionaries. Corporal punishment has diminished nineteen per cent., compared with last year. This may be for good or for evil, according to circumstances. The fact may indicate looseness of government, a better condition of the schools, or a more judicious management on the part of the teachers. The last is, undoubtedly, the Secretary's view of the case. And if so, it is a good omen. Still, it is true that corporal punishment is sometimes not only necessary but desirable. It should not be, it must not be abolished, if authority is to be main tained in our schools. Our Secretary notes the alarming fact that during the last ten years, thirty-three per cent of our resident population has emigrated from the State. While other N. E. States have gained nineteen per cent.; the border Slave States fourteen per cent.; other Slave States, thirty-one per cent., and the Western States from thirty to two hundred and fifty per cent., Vermont has gained only one-third of ONE per cent.! This seems to be a good State to emigrate from; and no one can doubt that those who leave us are among the best of American population. Our young men who go out to serve our country, ever have constituted, as they now do, the van guard of the national army. We shall be wise to devise some means to check this too rapid emigration and save the talent and enterprise now lost, in our own State.

Our Secretary has given his critics on the "Bible Question," a broadside that will, we predict, silence their guns for the present, at least.

Mr. Adams is again on the wing. We hear from him at West Concord where he has just closed "a large and good Institute," as he himself expresses it. Long may he be retained to serve our State. No man can do it better.

RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT PEASE.-We regret to learn that Dr. Pease has not only decided to leave the College over which he has presided for six years, with so much ability, but that he is to leave the State. We can hardly afford to spare such a man at such a time as this.

IT IS SO, BUT WE CAN'T HElp it. "We are informed by one of our principal publishers, that the demand for yankee books is not affected by the war, and that, a few days ago he had an order for a considerable number of a Yankee arithmetic, although his shelves are filled with a work by an eminent Southern scholar, which is confessed to be the best in the language.

The war might as well-might better-have never been fought. If the South is to continue a commercial tributary of the North— if, above all, it is to look to the North for the education of its children, it is a subject and dependent province, and nothing more or less, no matter by what mocking name of freedom it is deluded.

As soon as this war is over, a Northern horde of salesmen will overrun the land, or come here to live, and vote down our liberties at the polls. If we do not make provision in our laws to prevent these objects, Southern independence is an idle dream."-Richmond Va. Dispatch.

ROUND HILL WATER CURE.-Terms Reduced from $7 to $10 per week at the Round Hill Water Cure, in Northampton, Mass. Open Summer and Winter. (Advertisement in next No.)

SPECIAL NOTICE.-The Normal Institute for Physical Education at Dr. Lewis' Gymnasium, No. 20 Essex St., Boston, opens its second session, Jan. 2d, 1862, to continue ten weeks.

SUPERANNUATED COMMON SCHOOL TEACHERS.-The number of worn-out teachers who received aid in 1860, was 150. Of the 181 teachers whose applications for aid had been granted, 25 died, 3 were not heard from in reply to letters, 2 resumed teaching, and 1 withdrew from the fund. The average period of service of the 150 is 21 1-2 years, and their average age in 1860 was 66 1-2 years."

This is in Canada. We in Vermont would be satisfied if the State would provide comfortably for its teachers while in service. Would it not appear strange to hear Col. Thomas, (who has for the last two years, made so much effort in our Legislature to withdraw all support from our Common Schools,) advocating a bill to provide for Superannuated Teachers?

A REMARKABLE PHOPHECY.—“One of the most striking instances of the fulfillment of prophecy," says the Boston Christian Advertiser, "was pointed out to us lately by an eminent Baptist divine. It occurs in the 8th, 10th and 21st verses of Haggai, chap. iv: 'Behold there shall be a rebellion in the South, a rebellion of strong men and archers, of chariots and bright shields; and the blast of the trumpet shall awaken the land, and the nations shall be astonished thereat. And lo, behold, because of the sin of the South, her mighty men shall be as babes, her gates shall be utterly destroyed, saith the Lord, yea, utterly destroyed shall be her gates, and her rice fields shall be wasted and her slaves set free. behold, great ships from the North shall devour her pride, great storm from the West shall lay waste her habitations. saith the Lord, and her dominions shall be broken.'"

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GOOLD BROWN'S GRAMMAR OF GRAMMARS.-The best book ever written on this subject. No teacher should be without it. Brown's Institutes of English Grammar we have long used in classes with excellent success. See advertisement in another column.

OUR DECEMBER NUMBER AND VOL. IV.-We have delayed the present number of the Journal, that we might ascertain more definitely the feelings and wishes of the friends of education, as to its continuance. Shall the Vermont School Journal "survive or perish?" was the question to be settled. This enquiry has revealed an alarming degree, not only of indifference in regard to the School Journal, but of stupidity in view of the educational interests of the State. This is not confined to that class of persons who would not be expected to appreciate the importance of vigorous action to sustain and elevate our schools, but is found among Clergymen, Superintendents, and Teachers. One clergyman regards it " dissipating to the mind" to read educational works! One Superintendent cannot take or circulate an educational Journal because the Tribune must be taken and read! One Principal of an Academy is TOO POOR to pay 50 cents for the Vermont School Journal and HAS NOT TIME to aid in its circulation! We will not now say what we think of a theology that is all theory, a patriotism that is all politics, and a professed interest in schools that is never felt or manifested abroad.

This enquiry in regard to the continuance of the School Journal, has also called forth the earnest expression of an enlightened abiding and practical interest, not only in this, but also in every enterprise calculated to benefit our schools. Many common school teachers beg of us not to discontinue the Journal. Many others (and some of them were opposed to starting the Journal), express their earnest wish to have it continued and offer material aid and co-operation. Encouraged by these expressions, we have decided to hazard the experiment and to promise Volume IV. We shall hope with the aid pledged by our friends, to make the Journal better than it has been. We offer it on terms suited to the times. [See second page of the Cover]. We cannot, as all will see, offer PECUNIARY inducements for efforts to extend its circulation, as we offer it to all below cost for printing,-(We hope to save ourselves by the advertisements which we append.

We, call therefore, upon all to aid us in procuring new subscribers. Let each subscriber send us at least one additional name. We take all the responsibility and perform the labor, with no expectations of receiving one penny for our services. May we not, therefore, without presumption, call upon our friends to lend us a helping hand? The Journal "still lives," may it never die. O.

NOTICES OF BOOKS, PUBLICATIONS, &C.

GREENLEAF'S MATHEMATICS.-We have for more than twenty years used some of Greenleaf's books in our School. First, the NATIONAL ARITHMETIC, as it was: afterwards the COMMON SCHOOL ARITHMETIC; then both together much improved. We have used the MENTAL ARITHMETIC with great success. Still later, the Algebra, all things considered, the best book of the kind extant. Now comes the Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, which appears so well, we have decided to introduce it next term, and doubt not, we shall find this book like the others, able to endure the ordeal of the school room. We call attention to the Publishers' advertisement in this No. of the Journal.

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BUTLER'S ANALOGY.-With an Introductory Essay by Albert Barnes. We call attention to this well known work, to notice the fact that the enterprising publishers, Messrs. Ivison, Phinney & Co., have issued a very fine edition, with an Appendix of Questions by Leonidas S. Smith. These must greatly facilitate the study, and especially the review, of the work with classes. New York.

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.-December 1861. Home of Lafayette; Field Night in the House of Commons, Legend of the Lake, Agnes of Sorrento, New Counterblast, The Wolves, Story of To Day, Health in the Hospital, Story of Thanksgiving Time, Song in a Dream, England and Emancipation, Union and Liberty, How to Rough it, Self-Possession versus Pre-Possession, Reviews, &c. This number is fully up to the high standard which this excellent monthly has so long held. The January number commences Vol. IX. The best talent of the country are enlisted: Prof. Agassiz, Nath'l Hawthorne, Dr. Windship, Jas. Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor, and many others, each in his appropriate field. Ticknor & Fields, 135 Washington St., Boston. We will furnish the Atlantic and two copies of our Journal, during 1862, for Three Dollars.

PETERSON'S MAGAZINE.-We are in receipt of this popular Lady's Magazine for December. It is a splendid number. The title page for 1861 is a very beautiful winter scene. "Peterson" will be greatly improved in 1862. It will contain 1000 pages of double column reading matter; 14 steel plates; 12 colored steel fashion plates; 12 colored patterns in Berlin work, embroidery or crochet, and 800 wood engravings-proportionately more than any other periodical gives. Its stories and novelets are well written. In 1862, Four Original Copyright Novelets will be given. Its Fashions are always the Latest and Prettiest. Its price is but Two Dollars a year, or a dollar less than Magazines of its class. To clubs it is cheaper still, viz:-three copies for $5, five for $7.50, or eight for $10. To every person getting up a club, the Publisher will send an extra copy gratis, as a premium. Specimens sent to those wishing to get up clubs. Address, Charles J. Peterson, 306 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.

ARTHUR'S HOME MAGAZINE for 1862! Edited by T. S. Arthur and V ́irginia F. Townshend.—The nineteenth volume of the Home Magazine will open with the number for January 1862. In all respects the work will continue to maintain the high ground assumed from the beginning. Rare and Elegant Premiums are sent to all who make up Clubs.

TERMS, in Advance.-$2 a year; 2 copies, $3; 3 copies, $; 4 copies, $5; 8 copies, and one to getter-up of club, $10; 12 copies, and one to getterup of club, $15; 17 copies, and one to getter-up of club, $20.

Address T. S. ARTHUR & CO., 323 Walnut St, Philadelhia. ALL CATALOGUES of schools in the State, sent to us, will be noticed next month,