New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-15

Ohio. Is North Csrolins..
They have been drawn from the following Ststes
Massachusetts, So Vermont So New York ~, Name ~,
Connecticut -, New Hampshire 81, Raodeisand 4,
Pennsy lvans 4, Virginia l. Western Reserve Ohio, s.
Michigan 3 Wisconsin |. Irelsndl.
Ofthe entire number rs have been MARRIED OF whom
still continue &c teach.
tis must confess, source Of no little satisfaction
that have contributed 10 furnish Is good Christian
wives 10 AS many gentlemen at the West and No arc
more than halt inclined to agree with intelligent west
clergymsn who wres that this 10 the beet part OF
enterprise
At all events this incidental result conmcnds itselfto
the confidence OF thinking men Oh those named, ~
went out in ls47 IL in 1852 Ia in lss9 IA In 1850 and
in 1851.
OF the three hundred and two Teachers, 6fty four
have returned but few Instances without having
taught two years. considerable number Of whom con-
template again returning their fields Of labor Many
of the have been owngto Ill health or 20 change
in the condition OF families at the East requiring their
presence.
One Teacher has gone as Missionary to Persia and
another Is going through OF medical Instruction
in the Female Medical College at Philadelphia with
view to missionary labor in foreign land.
With devout gratitude permitted TO say that
amid the wasting peslence OF the past year the ves
OF all Teachers, with but one exception have been
presoyed
velcped in various ways. In many instances Il has
beer instrumental In raising the standard OF education,
and in dignity ing the profession OF the Teacher
One great and important result has been the edu'
from Missouri:
When came to Missouri such thing was almost
and have sbored stly and persevernsy to induce
the young ladies to enter the work How tar have been
successful time will determine but can now recoect the
OF mine who have been my pupils who are engaged
in teaching"
One from Michigan writes
over trety my pupils that have LETT school teach
ing ia different parts OF the State many with very great
success"
Thus are the Teachers OF our Board doing Q great
work In qualify ing young ladies 10 enter the held
and thus Ia csrrying forward the main object OF
enterprise the Christian education OF the children oil tho
West
The success that has hitherto attended efforts
coursges US to perseyere. THIS Board, through It's
hundreds OF teacherr eacn center OF intellectual and
rel gcus influence 10 capable OF accomplishing much
good and Justly claims from an intelligent community
sympathy and support. What we have accomplished,
il is lruc does not stend out very prominent neither
does il forciby strike the senses Ito aspect "a unpre-
tending and unimposng and to careless observers seems
quite destitute OF any very great element OF p,wer.
A stronger impression might be made, perhaps. by
erecting female Summaries at important points In the
West which would stand visible monuments Of our
labors But while highly value such efforts, wisely
and dscreety made have chosen humble and lees
imposing, though we think very effective, method Of
doing good
We are scattering good seed broad cast with full con
fdence that II fhall bear much iruif.
Thus la the frt place, accomplishing immedi-
st,y great o good In the present education Of
thousands Of children who csnnot wait for the slow
growth OF great estAb hmenS In the West a. furnish
them Instructors, and the place many OF our
teachers ,ilenty laying foundations upon which
seminses will arise by exciting general interest In the
subject OF Education.
OF course have gwen you but imperfect sketch of
the Report having eneayored to jot down some Of the
men thoughts only
The reading Of the Report w. followed by an Al.
dress Rev Dr. Elliot Of the Methodist church, from
Cincinnati.
The meeting was largely attended by apprecistive
audience Ia truth this organization IL accomplishing
more for tie West than dreamed of by the superficial
observer Is influence goes down into the homes II tho
humble gathers within rs embrace thousands 0f chill
den, ano surely shaping their characters and guiding
their desinies.
Like the gentle dew the still small rain 10.
menis arc noseless but like them too IL shall make the
West L. bud aud blossom Ike the
Recognizing the principle TINT prevention 10 Tar Gamer
than c-re 10 takes the mind OF the child and tmpresses
il tor good with Impressions that shall last forever
Realizing the truth that the child IL father 10 tho
man. il seeks to make its thousand pupils ruhfsl and
honest and 10 them for honor and usefulness In com
ing life.
Surely 1t Is noble work, conceived In pblosophic
view Of the Of the West, and seeking by wise
adaptation OF TO ends to secure threat results
BUcKEvE.