Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-19
THE NATIONAL ISrELLIaENcER.
THE SCHOOL AND SCHOOL DISTRICT AMERI-
CAN INSTITUTE.

The attention Of the people of the United States is
fully invited to the subject Of establishing the School and
School District American Institute ncung teachers resi-
dence an experimental and model farm garden of pnnt
with such improvements the American Institute of the city
Of New York. the National and Smithsonian Institutes of the
city OF Washington, may appropriate; with
for public meetings. for chemical electrical and other pho
sophica apparatus for free library, such those of Masa
chuse and New York for the reception and preservation of
the newspapers and reviews of the great parties which divide
our country, such as the National the Republic
the Union, the Congressional Globe the National Era, &c,
the Democratic and Whg Reviews, the State and county
papers the respective schools the Presidents annual
sages, with the accompanying documents the Patent Office
reports and such others to Congress may appropriate
that each voter may examine thoroughly the great ques
tons which agitate country.
In leisure hours if thrown out Of employment,
may always be had to valuable library philosophical appaa
us, and pleasant place of resort for social enjoyment
well for POLITICAL physical, intellectual and moral inn
Provement
Mothers and Daughters American Institute, an Ameri-
can, Maternal Patena and Juvenile Code of Laws may
also be established for mutual improvement to aid in self
culture, where the old and the young become successful
learners and teachers of truth And the mothers and
daughters Of country will have facilities for higher attain
ments than at present.
number Of andholdes in Maryland, Virginia, District
of Columbia, &C. have offered 10 give from to two
hundred of good land to aid in establishing State and
County Normal Schools School and School District Exper-
mental and Model Farms from which every family may have
the most choice fruits vegetables, flowers &C., and the use
Of each others labor, books, money, &c.
Estimating the of each school at ten thousand dollars
and eighty thousand schools in the Unon the whole
cost would be eight hundred millions of dollars. This is
large amount yet IL the American people approve, they
equal to its accomplishment But not the object sufficient
to induce fathers, mothers and the youth of country to
dispense with of the uxues and tnsel Of the day
accomplish il
BY introducing good Libraries, philosophical apparatus
periments and model FARMS much valuable knowledge may
be acquired by the children and youth Of country between
the ages four and with the advantage Of pu
suing investigations and experiments in the School and School
District American Institute in after fe-greatly facilitating
the Of adding to human knowledge and Of dsing h
If Government be great POLITICAL social Intellectual and
moral partnership will not the adoption Of the proposed
greatly advance its object JosEPH L. SMITH
8. The attention Of the people of the District of Colum-
ba is respectfully invited to the fact that the people Of Scot
land of the Presbyterian Church. greatly benefited by
to the valuable Libraries appended each church, for the
free Of each member Will not the appendage Of vaua-
BILE libraries to each church in the District of Columbia be
greatly beneficial to the members of said churches and pro-
mote the establishment Of such libraries in each church
throughout the widespread Unicn ]. L. s.