Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-12-19
EDUCATION, &c.
WESTERLY
MILITARY INSTITUTE,
BOARD OE VISITORS.

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Guilty of any other College.
COL. T. F. JOHNSON, General Superin'
tendant-educated at West Point.
COL. E. w. MORGAN, Joint Superinten-
dent, and professor of Civil and Military En-,
observation-disclosures at West Point.
LIEUT.. COL. B. r. JOHNSON, professor OF
Observation-Disclosures at West Point.
MAJ. RICHARD OWEN, professor Of Nat
ural Sciencc--a pupil Of DR.. IRE, Of Glas-
Mr.. ALEX. SCHUE, Adjunct professor of
Chemistry-for Is months Il pupil of the
celebrated Liebig.
REV. H. V. D. MENUS, A. NJ, professor of
Ancient Languages-educated at Princeton
College, N. J.
J. G. BLAINE, A. B., Adjunct professor of
Languages-educated at Washington Col
lege, Pa.
]. H. DAV1ESS, Esq, professor Of Lava
practitioner in the various courts of Ken
lucky.
REV. J. R. SWIFT, A. NJ, professor of E.
thies and Bellies Lettres-educated at Yale
College.
Mr.. E. A. CAMBRAY, prof. of Modern Lam
gu~ages--educated in the city Of Paris.
CAPT. C. E. MOTT, Principal Of the Aca-
demy-educated in New York.
CAPT. w. w. GAUNT, Adjutant of the In
stitute.
Two hundred and thirty cadets, from fifteen
different States, have entered this Institution
since it was organized, in l647. 1t is entirely
free from the control or domination of any
sect or party, either political or religious. Eco
nomy in dress, by the adoption of a cheap Uni
form, for winter and summer, is rigidly enforc-
ed. Every student is required to select a col
hge guardian, with whom all funds brought or
received must be deposited, and no debt must
be contracted without the consent of such
guardian.
Civil Engineering
will be thoroughly and practically taught in the
Western Military mstitute-the professor,
Col. Morgan, being one of the most skillful
and experienced Engineers in the United
States. He was for a long time the Principal
Assistant Engineer of Pennsylvania, after re-
ceiving the highest honors of the u S. Military
Academy at West Point. All the instruments
connected with that department, have been
procured at considerable cost, and Of the best
quality.
The superintendent takes the liberty of sta
ting that he is now offered $50 per month for
competent assistant Engineers. One of his for
mer pupils receives at present $4,000 per annum
dS III pau ShiS VI i " ttlibS
construction in Kentucky, whilst others of the |
same class are receiving in different parts of
the United States, $4,000, $500, or $1,000 a
year as Assistant Engineers!
The rapid advancement of our whole coun-
try, and the eagerness of our people, for ex-
ploring the hidden resources of the new
States and the newly acquired territory, will
give ample scope for ages to come, to the skill
and enterprise Of the Engineer, the Geologist,
the Mineralogist, the Surveyor and the Archi-
tect. Young men who have an aptitude for the
Mathematical and Physical sciences, will have a
wide field opened to them for engaging in an
honorable, a healthful and lucrative pursuit, for
which they may be thoroughly and practically
qualified, in a short time, and at small expense,
the Western Military Institute.
To secure the manifold advantages of health, !
discipline, progress aid moral train
inc, the Faculty of this Institution have select
ed for its permanent location the famous
Blue Lick Springs,
pike, twenty-four miles from the latter place,
try location, being ten or twelve miles distant
from any town or village. The buildings are
mostly new, well constructed for Garrison pur-
poses, and ample for the accommodation of
300 Cadets. This place is unsurpassed for its
healthy atmosphere, pure water and romantic
and is, unquestionably, one of the
eligible locations for a Literary ~Institu-
lion in the United States. The grounds have
been greatly improved and ornamented during
The last five years. A plat of forty acres, beau
situated on the margin of the Licking
River, Immediately in the rear of the buildings,
be reserved for Military Exercise. The re-
noyaf will be made Immediately after Christ
mas, and the school opened at that place on the
7h dau of Ja,auary, 1850. Vacation will en-
,race the months Of July and August, by which
arrangement the Watering Season will not in
with the exercises of the institution
The academic year extends from the first Mon
lay of September to the third Friday of June
forty weeks.
TERMS: +;
The entire charge for tuition, boarding, lodg- .
ng, washing, fuel, lights, backing, servants at
enhance, music, use of arms, &c. &C., will be !
$3.50 per year. Payments will be required in '
at that rate, from the day of entrance
0 the end of the term. From the first Monday :
f January-for example-to the third Friday ,
f June, (twenty-four weeks,) it is 1896.
Cadets from a great distance, who prefer re-
in Kentucky during vacation, can find
he most comfortable boarding in the families
f our wealthy farmers at $3.50 per week. ]
or Western students maJ land at (
.~ouisville and take stage, steamboat or railroad il
Frankfort and Lexington; thence in four c
orse coaches to the Blue. Lieks. Or, they may t
scend the Ohio to Maysyille, which is three t
ours stage from the Springs. s
U7This place is furnished with commodious Ii
aud is abundantly supplied with free d
tone, limestone and cistern water of the best Il
uality, independent of the sulphur springs, h
nd tho colts and culnI,nr enr;nnr Z