The Trustees have determined to replace the building consumed by a substantial and ornamental structure, at a cost of from $15,000 to $20,000 to be devoted entirely to public rooms. The inhabitants of Morgan county, where the college is located, have been appealed to, and not in vain, to make up the loss. One individual has subscribed $1,000 towards the object, and some others $500; and it is confidently anticipated by the friends of the Institution that enough will be secured, together with the insurance on the building consumed, to construct an edifice of great value to the college, and that will be an ornament to the place.

The special effort in behalf of this college, which was sanctioned by the Board at its last meeting, has, to a certain extent, been prosecuted by the President in connection with the agents of the Society. The sum already realized is $1,856; and three individuals have pledged $1,000 each on condition that twenty in all will agree to give a similar amount. The President, in a recent letter, says:

It seems to me immensely important to accomplish that Eastern effort in the least possible time.

Wabash College.

The Trustees of this Institution are doing every thing in their power to increase its means of usefulness by resources gathered from that field. Prof. Mills was appointed to solicit funds, and the following facts taken from a circular issued by him will be of permanent value:

History. This college owes its origin to the counsels and efforts of five Home Missionaries, who early selected the upper Wabash Valley as their field of labor. The preparatory department of the Institution went into operation in December, 1833, with twelve students. A college edifice of 106 feet in length, 48 feet in width, and four stories high, was erected in 1837-38, at the expense of about $16,000. This building was destroyed by fire in September, 1838, and with it were consumed the college and societies' libraries, containing about 3,500 volumes, and the philosophical apparatus. This loss occurring at a period of great commercial embarrassment, involved the necessity of procuring a loan of $8,000, in addition to all the funds that could be obtained by voluntary contribution. The debt thus incurred was a crushing incubus on the enterprise for eight years, but through the liberality of a few individuals, the means of liquidation were furnished the Trustees, and in 1846 the Institution was relieved from this pressure. With no indebtedness but arrearages to the Faculty, whose shoulders had long been inured to such burdens, the college began from that period to rise from its depression. Under all those adverse influences the Institution kept on its way, making no compromise with popular prejudice against the extent and thoroughness of its course

ng its mission to the confidence of all, regarded by the nd increasing interest, and by the community as an the cause of Popular Education.

Permanent endowments amount to only about $18,000. Sources of income for the support of the Faculty, are tuition, -vom-rent, and the annual stipend received from the "Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West." The limited but timely aid received from this Association has been the salvation of the college; for without this assistance the Faculty could not have been sustained, nor the Institution carried through the period of its greatest embarrassment.

Prospects. The number of students has increased to such an extent that its present accommodations are emphatically too strait. The chapel is literally crowded, and the recitation rooms are insufficient for their appropriate purpose. There is, therefore, now no alternative but an abandonment of the enterprise, or an enlargement of its accommodations.

Plans. Encouraged by the indications of Providence and the results already reached, the Trustees have resolved to go forward. Desirous to meet promptly and efficiently the educational wants of the State to the extent of their ability, and place the Institution under their charge in its proper position, they have established a normal department, with special reference to the education of teachers for Graded schools. To carry out these views, and meet the demand for additional accommodations for students, both individually and collectively, it becomes necessary to erect two buildings, one for the normal school and preparatory department, and the other for general purposes, including chapel, recitation rooms, library, society halls, cabinet, laboratory, chemical and philosophical lecturerooms. This provision for public rooms would result in vacating thirteen rooms hitherto used for general purposes, which, with slight alteration in only six of them, would all be ready for occupancy as dormitories, meeting pressing wants in that direction, and at the same time yielding a rent equivalent to the income of $3,900, permanent funds.

Funds Needed. The amount necessary for this object is estimated at $15,000. In anticipation of these wants, and for the purpose of meeting them at the threshold of their existence, measures were adopted to secure the requisite means, which have resulted in obtaining about $7,000 in Indiana.

• Professor Hovey, in a recent letter, says:

The total number of our students last year was 152. The present term opens with about 125, so that the aggregate for the year will probably be greater than ever before.

The number of volumes in our college library is a little over 4,000; in the Society libraries together about 2,500. I might add that our energies have been devoted somewhat to building. We have a good building completed for the preparatory department and normal school. It comprises a large room for public uses, and three good recitation rooms.

We have the foundation laid for a central building for public rooms, and a part of the material ready for the superstructure, and some five or six thousand dollars pledged towards its erection. To the amount stated in our last report some $3,000 have been added. We shall find it hard work, but we hope to get the building up next summer.

Knox College.

The President of the Institution writes:

It would be far more agreeable to us to notify your Board that the college is no longer in need of aid from your treasury-aid which has enabled us to devote our energies to the instruction of the large number of young people who resort here, and without which we must have divided our efforts between teaching and soliciting funds. We trust the day is not distant when we shall be enabled by a stout effort for endowment to enable the college to go on and meet the increasing educational wants of the community without leaning on your treasury; but this effort cannot be made till we have secured our main building, and ascertained, as we shall then be able to do, with tolerable accuracy, what endowment, in addition to present means, we shall require to place us above the fear of bankruptcy.

We have been blessed with uncommon prosperity during the past year. Our students in the collegiate department are gradually increasing.

A generous and philanthropic friend has recently donated to the college eighteen quarter sections of land, which will greatly assist the future operations of the college, though the deed of conveyance fixes a minimum price which will prevent an immediate sale of any part of it. The donor is the Hon. CHARLES PHELPS, of Cincinnati, Ohio, formerly of Vermont. His donation is to found a "Phelps' professorship or professorships" in the college for the purpose of educating youth in Christian principles of humanity, anti-slavery, literature, science, and morality, based on the attributes of God.'

We are endeavoring to do something for a library apparatus and cabinets from year to year; but we greatly need to be remembered by some munificent friend of education in the West. May we not hope, through the increased attention and disposition to such charities, which, doubtless, in large part through the agency of your Society, now prevails among Christian philanthropists in this country, that some friend of liberal education will furnish the moral light-houses which you are erecting, with oil in the shape of books and the material of instruction. Could the men of wealth see the avidity with which a new book is seized and its contents devoured by our students—the young men who are soon to teach the religion and make and administer the laws in this great countrysurely they would count it wise to furnish them such books at least as may guide them into political and religious truth. Our buildings are now all full, and we need others. We have postponed the erection of our main buildings till the railroads, now located through our village, shall be completed and bring us the materials.

The President says:

Beloit College.

By direction of the Board of Trustees of Beloit College, I hereby renew their application to your Society for aid in sustaining our enterprise. Your appropriations during the past year have been gratefully received, and have been of essential service. So far as can now be foreseen our

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necessities for the year to come will be as great as in the last year, trust your ability and willingness to minister to our relief will be no less. Our reliable means from other sources are gradually increasing, but just at this stage of the enterprise our wants also increase at least "pari passu." We thank God and our Christian friends at the East for the timely aid you have rendered us thus far on our course. We must still for a time stay ourselves upon the same support, and pray earnestly for the Divine blessing to attend your cause so essential and auxiliary to this and kindred institutions at the West.

The Board of Trustees, at their recent meeting, appointed Mr. Franklin W. Fisk, Professor of Rhetoric. Should he accept this appointment, the expense of this department of instruction will be somewhat increased, but the necessity is imperative for such an appointment.

The increased expense of living requires that provision be promptly made for increasing the salaries of the faculty. Such a measure will be necessary both to retain and to secure the services of such men as the college needs. To meet this necessity, and to increase as far as possible the resources of the Institution, the Board resolved upon a thorough canvassing of this field, during the coming year, to secure subscriptions. For this an Agent must be employed. Every thing is promising for the success of such an event.

The library of the college remains in much the same state as at the time of our last application, and the demand is stronger than ever for a considerable outlay for that department. A donation of $200 has just been received for this object, but it will come far short of supplying present pressing deficiencies. We have need also of addition to our stock of chemical and philosophical apparatus.

Iowa College.

The Rev. J. A. Reed, in behalf of the Board of Trustees, renews their application for aid, and communicates the following information:

We can expect little increase of students until we can furnish them with rooms and board. Hundreds of dwellings have been erected in Davenport during the year, but thousands have come to occupy them. The college is in pressing need of the following things:

1. A building partly for the accommodation of students and partly for recitations, lectures, &c.

2. A boarding establishment.

3. A fund for pious indigent students in the preparatory department. A large portion of our pious students must have aid at the commencement of their course, or they will despair of obtaining an education. 4. Additions to the library and apparatus.

Our instructors are toiling hard and asking little pay, while others of us are toiling for the college, and bearing many of its incidental expenses, without return, besides contributing to its funds.

We purpose to raise in Iowa, during the present year, $5,000 through the ministry, if possible, but shall employ an agent if absolutely necessary. Of this amount $2,000 are to be appropriated to scholarships in the preparatory department, a part of the balance to the aid of indigent young men in the preparatory department for the current year, and the remainder will be at the disposal of the Trustees, and will be used to meet in

part some of the wants just mentioned. The course of study is substantially the same that is pursued in our best institutions, and the instruction is thorough.

It is due to your Society that we express our conviction that it is not the least important among the benevolent agencies of the day. The institutions of New England and the Middle States can scarcely be able to supply those States with ministers; and the vast West is almost wholly unprovided for, unless the pious youth of the West are educated for the ministry, which will not be unless our Western institutions are efficiently sustained. Our missionary societies will be crippled, because to the calls of the destitute at home, and of the heathen abroad, so few will respond, 'Here am I; send me;' and there is no benevolent enterprise which will not be in a measure paralyzed. We feel, therefore, that at the present juncture, the work in which you are at present engaged is of the utmost importance and should be vigorously prosecuted.

Wittenberg College.

The following communication has been received from the President:

The whole number of students in attendance during the last year was 189, of which 73 are professors of religion; of the members of the college classes seven eighths are hopefully pious; and of the whole number in all departments of the Institution 39 only are candidates for the ministry. This disproportion of theological students is much to be lamented; but there are indications of a favorable change, and we are now receiving some very interesting pious youths, the sons of Europeans (Germans), who are the occasion of great joy and hope to us. There is, indeed, reason to believe that if the churches will exert themselves to aid such young men in the course of their preparations, their number will be greatly increased. It is indeed a matter of astonishment to us there are so many of these poor young men so persevering in their course with such small means and so little encouragement to expect beneficiary aid. I am sorry to say the lack of beneficiary aid renders it necessary to answer discouragingly the application and inquiries of many young men who seem to be anxious to prepare for the ministry. But our churches in the West are beginning to wake to a sense of the importance of this utter need; as I said, there is hope of a "good time coming."

German Evangelical Missouri College.

The following statement of facts and earnest appeal comes from Rev. L. Nollau, President of the Board of Directors:

Our Institution has been blessed, for the good hand of God has been upon us. It has at present two professors and one teacher. Professor Binner, who performed the first part of the year almost all the labor of instruction, and being confined to bed for three months, he taught the students who were gathered round his bed. Just in that time of need the Lord blessed our endeavors in electing the second Professor for the Theological Department, the Rev. A. Trion, a graduate of the Theological Col