Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-11-16
NATIONAL lNTELLIGENCER.
NATIONAL AGRoNOMIC INSTITUTE OF
VERSAILLES.

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with more striking or beneficial results man those
with the progress OF Agricultural science
The succession of new lights which has been dis
PLAYED within the last twenty years on this i'm
portant subject, has been the means Of developing
the resources of many tract OF land which had
hitherto been deemed unsusceptible OF cultivation
and unworthy of the smallest amount of labor.
Other experiments are yet going on under the aus
pices of the most enlarged and most phlanthropic
minds of both hemispheres, which may yet aston
ish the world by issues as thoroughly prosperous
as they will be staraing and unexpected. Decidedly
the most important Of all these combined efforts to
promote the interests Of agriculture and to dissent
nate useful knowledge is the kpstifM National
.agronomsque," founded by the Government Of
the French Republic at Versailles near Paris, for
the purpose Of afording gratuitous instruction in
both the theory and practice of agricutare so as to
produce in the end agriculturers and land pro-
prietors of enlightened minds, capable OF directing
or Of experimenting the improvement OF their
estates Besides school house, the institute pos
sesses an extensive tract of land, which contains
within its boundaries all the elements for practical
demonstration that are necessary 10 proper un-
derstanding Of the doctrines expo0nded by the va
rious professors employed for that purpose. This
domain is divided into three farms, upon which is
to be found the most complete collection of the va
riOus and complicated races of cattle, horses, and
hogs that is known to exist any where. The
buildings where the school is located are provided
with all the essential means of instruction, such as
scientific and agricultural collections, libraries,
amphitheatres, laboratories, and every variety Of
instruments and machinery.
The scheme of instruction consists of regular
courses oflecures botany, vegetable physiology,
zoology, chemistry, natural philosophy, meteor
oogy, and an infinite variety of subjects connected
with agricultural pursuits and the science Of agri-
cultural economy. Each chair, besides the regu-
lar professor and lecturer, is provided with an ex
FOUNDER, whose duty it is to elucdate the lectures
of the professor by private explanations to make
the pupils repeat the experiments which have been
exhibited in class and to ascertain, by frequent in
terrogatories, that they are duly impressed with the
lessons that have been taught them. Oral instruc-
ton is facilitated by means of scientific collections,
which constantly kept at the disposal Of the pu-
pills, and an agronomic museum, containing vast
assortment of fu-sized models of all the principal
instruments and machinery that are used in the
various departments of agricultural labor, both in
France and in other countries.
The elementary course of instruction lasts for a
period of two years, at the expiration of which
those pupils who have gone through satisfactory
examination and given undoubted proofs OF prof.
cheney receive certificate as graduates of the
National Agronomic Institute. Those who desire
to complete their general education, or to perfect
themselves in any one particular branch Of agri-
cultural science, or to devote their attention to
studies of more profound character, continue for
another year. These additional labors are termi-
mated by public exercises, when those who have
passed through this last ordeal in satisfactory
manner receive diploma from the Minister Of
A 1<r~oo IOf al,
three pupils who, at the close Of their respective
courses Of instruction, are found to occupy the
foremost rank in the list Of profcents, are provided
at the expense of the State with the means to COM
plete their studies, either in France or in foreign
countries-a privilege which may be extended to
a term of three years.
The above is only faint outline of the pro-
gramme just issued by the Minister of Agriculture
and of Commerce, copies of which have been trans
mitted to the Department of State in order that the
regulations of the Institute, and the advantages
which it offers alike to foreigners and natives, may
be made known to the citizens of the United States.
The programme is full of interesting particulars,
showing that the projectors of this stupendous
scheme for improving the of practical farmers
through the medium of mental cultivation, have
studied the subject in all its remotest intricacies
and bearings, and determined to spare no pains
AOI CAPcuSc W IcHuCI VIC NduOIldl AgEOHOLliC lH-
stitute source Of lasting benefit to the human
family. The conditions requiring certain degree
of familiarity with the exact sciencesto be tested
by thorough examination, unless the candidate be
otherwise provided with documentary evidence Of
having received bachelors degree in mathema-
tics or in physics-before any person can be adj
mitted as pupil Of the Institute, is very wise and
proper provision TO prevent the admission of inca
pabe aspirants, who, not possessing the necessary
qualifications to profit by the instruction there ad-
ministered, might become an incubus upon the
institution and dscredt to the whole system.
None but day scholars are admitted, who have
70 make their appearance at eight O'Clock every
morning, (except Sundays,) and to depart at half
past four or FIVE in the afternoon. The only sx-
pense to which they are subjected is for books and
such indispensable objects as may be wanted for
their immediate nse, the replacing of articles that
have either been destroyed or injured, and some
trfing charges incidental upon manual operations.
The muni6cence of spirit which the French
Government has shown in inviting foreigners TO an
equal participation of the benefits which may be
derived from the establishment of this institution,
is only another proof of that fraterniznp disposi-
tion and enlightened liberality which France has
always manifested in matters connected with the
progress Of science and the advancement of the
arts. L.F. T.
Tahlequah on the 9th u. The message Of the Principal
Chief short but creitable document II alIudes thus
TO the death Of President TArLoR and the ndant agent
the natoa
The removal by death Of the late President Of the United