Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-03-26

though, VIC believe, It's course Of study
hardly comporis with the name. The pfcpar.
atory branches are taught, and latterly q mill.
tary professorsliip has been added Itnumbers
about 100 students. lis buildings are not Inn
posing hardly tasteful, though additions and
alterations are giving them more modern
aspect. It's broad and ample campus, n consid-
cradle portion bearing upon II the primcval
forest, Is rs beautiful In topograhy as in the
venerable growth upon its suriacc. The
grounds attached are some 100 acres In extent,
II is one Of two institutions Of the Kind en-.
joying by grant, for educational pufboses, the
soil of the township. This was dlsposed Of
by long lease, at an early day, at only nominal
rentals, with the object of inducing settlement.
Although free from the burden Of taxation, the
returns arc so light and meagre as to fail as n
competent means of sustaining and literally
endowing the institution.
The female College has about 20 pupils, and
a portion of them are day scholars from the
village and vicinity. We learned but little of
it,
The Western Female Seminary seems to be
| in very 1ourishing condition. 1t numbers
100 students, gathered from various states of
the union, and corps of 10 teachers. Miss
Peabody, the very successful and competent
principal, Is a graduate of Holyoke, where
discipline and scholarship is the object of edu-
cation Most, or all of the teachers are also
graduates of the same Institution, which is the
best reference that we can make, of their ft-
ness and qualification for their respective posi-
tons. A two days sojourn gave us some means
of forming an opinion of the order and eXecu-
tive tact in its management That opinion,
cannot be expressed, perhaps, in more forcible
terms, than, while there was an entire absence
of anything like the appearance Of govern
ment, in no part of the large establishment,
nor under any of the varied circumstances
in which the scholars were seen, not a jar or
the slightest inraction of the strictest proprie:
ty could be detected. The moral influence of
the school was seen in ten of the students on
the sabbath, connecting themselves with the
visible church. The building is finely located
some miles from the business portion Of the
village, upon an cmncnce, with beautifully
undulating surrounding landscapes, varied
with stream and lakelets, and winding walks
extensive enough for all the exercise required
within the seminary limits. The advantages
enjoyed for securing an education at this insli
tLlIun, ARE scarcely surpassed.
Monday morning found us on our way tc
the southern metropolis of the state. Though
the day was not, after the storm of Saturday
night, as genial as upoE that day, the garden
ers in the ncighborhood, of Cincinnati wcr,
attending TO their early vegetables, some o
winch appeared from the cars to be in statt
of tUrwariness for market.
Our stay in Cincinnati was brief, leaving fo
Cleveland in the evening by way OF the Little
Miami. Starting at $50, z. NJ, and reaching
Cleveland in time Tor Il : o'clock A. NJ break
fast-passing in that time over the cntiIt
w,dlh-26O miles OF the state, and by IL
means having our state pride dwarIcd al thi
distance, and the various phases and lights il
wnlcn it had been exhibited during the trip
Making connection at Cleveland, we got bacl
= to our owh den and domicil, by the Atlantic
Express, ON ,sday, ii little before 10, A. NJ
alter an absence uf just one week, and US w
trLst, refreshed by the relaxation, and gralif,t
ana instructed. Reader, if you have been graf
iiiGd, and i'll any manner instructed by follow
ing us in our jouneyings, very well.