The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-12-24
A NEW ENTERPRISE ON FOOT.

A NEW ENTERPRISE ON FOOT.
One new enterprise seems to follow closely
upon the heels OF another. The excitement,
noise and confusion consequent upon the COM
menccment Of Rail and Plank Roads, Harbor
improvements, embryo Steamboat organizations
&C., have hardly gwen time for quiet respira-
ton, until generous and cultivated public mind
is called to renewed action in some other sphere
of public improvement. This is peculiar to
new and nndcreloped country, and is the ordeal
through which the people ofevcry nen country,
have to pass. The capacities, energies and cap
ital of men are brought to bare upon the eoun-
try, and although the burden frequently falls
with heavy weight upon the few, when compared
with the more advanced stages Of progress and
prosperity in other and older settled parts of the
country, vet the brief, but cvrn.ful history of
the Wes', has shown, that our people are emil
nently qualified in every respect, for the task
But while we arc dcv,slng plans and carrying
out projects for developing the natural resources
of our place and country and laying up treas
urcs for fu'urc day, there is an important sub
icct which we should never overlook 1t is the
subject of education. A subject to which we
owe perhaps deeper obligation and in which
we should feel livclier interest, than any other
one subject We are called upon to contemplate.
For, it is upon the proper cultivation of the
young and naturally hayward mind, that de-
!! sends the stability of our government, the puri.
ty and preservation Of cur institutions, and the
morality, harmony and h1ppiness fsociety. 1t
becomes solemn duty then, with the citizen
and especially the parent, to provide proper in
| stitu,ions Of learning forthe young
An enterprise for building an Academy in
this City, is now in embryo and tour, out of the
FIVE thousand dollars necessary to purchase lot
and complete such structure, has been already
subscribed. We have been permitted through
the politcness of Mr. Peter NAPLES, to examine
the plan upon which this enterprise is to be con-
Quoted, and will give brief outline Of it.
Dr.. H. Burkleo, who comes to our City, high
ly recommended, as gentleman and a scholar,
proposes to put up this building and provide il
ton in all the higher branches of education, pro-
vided he can get five thousand dollars subscri-
bed-four thousand of which, is already signed.
The Doctor is to take the building and pay for
it in tuition, agreeable to the wants Of the sub
scribers, and should he fail by death, or other
wise, to conduct the institution in proper man.
ner, for the term of four years, then the proper
ty to revert to the subscribers. The subscribers
to have general supervision of the construction
Of the building and the Academy when COM
pleted. The subscriptions to be paid in four in :
stalments One fourth, when the sum of five
thousand dollars shall have been subscribed
one fourth when the lot shall have been purcha-
sed and the foundation Of the building laid
one fourth when the building is half completed
and the remaining fourth when the building is
completed and ready for use. which is to be, by
the first day of November, 1882 These CON-
prise the most important points in the contract.
The tuition annually per pspli is to be $40
A sum much less than it would require, to send
children away from home to obtain, the same ad-
yantapes which this school is intended to confer.
Another advantage, is, that you can have
your children at home, where you can direct a
parental eye upon them and have watchful
care over them.
That such an institution is required here, We
presume no one will question and we'can see no
particular objection to the plan proposed. In
deed the plan to be adopted for bringing about
such result, seems to be Of small moment,
when compared with the necessity of an eleva-
ted system Of education in our City. And as
this plan proposes to divide the burden in such
a manner. as to fall upon large number, max
ing the tax light upon each, we think it may be
as good, as any which could be adopted.
As we remarked before, four thousand dollars
have already been subscribed, and it is certainly
to be hoped, that the want of an additional thou
sand, will not deprive our place of SO important
an improvement, and the youth of our CITY, and
the surrounding country ,of the inestimable bles-
sings which they would derive from such an in
s.itution.