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WAYLAND, FRANCIS. 



loyalty had most prevailed, I cannot make such rec- 

 ommendation. On the contrary, I now think it the 

 duty of the Legislature to so amend these laws that 

 their execution may the more certainly be secured. 

 And to this end I recommend, first, that you provide 

 for a registry of voters as authorized by the Consti- 

 tution, article 3, section 12; second, that you de- 

 clare distinctly that all officers of election shall take 

 the oath of office prescribed by the act of November 

 16, 1863, and, if they fail to do so at any place of 

 voting, that the vote where such failure occurs shall 

 be void and shall not be counted ; third, that you re- 

 quire all the county and the principal township offi- 

 cers to qualify before the Circuit Court of the 

 county, or the Judge thereof in vacation. These 

 amendments, it seems to me, will insure the purity 

 of elections, and the due and proper enforcement of 

 the laws. And in order that there may be no failure 

 in the administration of the laws where a person is 

 elected who cannot qualify, and, at the same time, 

 frequent elections may be avoided, it may be prop- 

 er to amend the law so that vacancies may be filled 

 until the succeeding annual election, instead of hold- 

 ing special elections as now provided by law; and 

 that, the vacancies in the principal township offices 

 may be filled, as many county offices now are, by 

 the Circuit Court, or the Judge in vacation. 



Referring to the conduct of returned Confeder- 

 ates in the border counties at the fall elections, he 

 condemned severely those who, knowing them- 

 selves disqualified, sought positions which they 

 could not fill, in order to retard civil organiza- 

 tion, and who, hy their example and counsels, 

 induced a general disregard of law in the con- 

 duct of the elections. In regard to the colored 

 people the Governor affirmed their inalienable 

 right to protection of person and property, but 

 declared that these would not be secure till 

 negroes were made competent witnesses. He 



recommended that the bronze statue of Wash- 

 ington, captured by General Hunter at Lexing- 

 ton, in 1864, be at once restored to the State 

 of Virginia. 



A growing interest was felt in the cause of 

 education. "The people," says the State Su- 

 perintendent, "are clamoring for schools and 

 school houses." The greatest obstacle to the 

 school system was the want of suitable rooms 

 and grounds. The number of children in the 

 entire State between the ages of six and twen- 

 ty-one was 84,418. In the twenty-two coun- 

 ties in which the school system was in full op- 

 eration, there were 63,458 children between 

 those ages, of whom 15,972 attended school; 

 there were 133 school houses, of which the av- 

 erage value was $303, but excluding the eight 

 schools in Wheeling, less than $63 ; the number 

 of teachers was 387, at an average salary for 

 those in Wheeling of $139 per month, and $42 

 per month for females, while in the other dis- 

 tricts it was only $34 for males, and 22 for 

 females salaries, says the State Superintend- 

 ent, " totally insufficient to secure the services 

 of first-class teachers." The total amount of 

 the irreducible school fund, on the 1st of Octo- 

 ber, was $106,122.78. 



An election for members of the Legisla- 

 ture and local officers was held on the 26th of 

 October. The result was that the Legislature 

 stands as follows : 



Senate. HOUM. Joint ballot 



Republicans 19 48 67 



Democrats 1 8 9 



Republican majority.. 18 40 68 



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WALDECK, the name of a German princi- 

 pality. Prince, Georg, born January 14, 1831 ; 

 succeeded his father May 15, 1845. Heir ap- 

 parent, Prince Friedrich, born January 20, 1865. 

 Area, 466 square miles. Population, in 1864, 

 59,143, nearly all of whom belong to the 

 Lutheran Church. The Constitution of 1852 

 provides for a Legislative Assembly of 41 mem- 

 bers, separately elected by the nobility, the 

 towns, and the rural districts. Contingent to 

 the Federal army, 866 men. Revenue in 1865, 

 511,801 thalers. 



WAYLAND, FRANCIS, D. D., LL. D., an 

 American Baptist clergyman and author, for 

 thirty years President of Brown University, 

 born in the city of New York, March 11, 1796 ; 

 died in Providence, Rhode Island, September 

 26, 1865, of paralysis. His father, a Baptist 

 clergyman of considerable ability, was settled 

 as a pastor, first in New York City, afterwards 

 at Ponghkeepsie and Saratoga Springs. The 

 family removed to Poughkeepsie, where Fran- 

 cis was placed at the academy, and pursued his 

 classical studies under the late Daniel H. Barnes. 

 In 1813, when only seventeen years old, he 

 graduated with honor at Union College, and 



showed, even at that early age, a marked pre- 

 dilection for metaphysical and economic studies. 

 Immediately after graduating, he entered the 

 office of Dr. Eli Burritt, of Troy; and, after 

 three years of medical study, was licensed to 

 practise his profession. During his medical 

 course, however, he felt called upon to conse- 

 crate his life to the Christian ministry. He 

 spent a year in the seminary at Andover, and 

 in 1817 was induced to accept a tutorship in 

 Union College. He continued his theological 

 studies, and mingled with them the study of 

 several branches of literature and science. He 

 remained here four years, taught in nearly every 

 department of college instruction, and acquired 

 much of that diversified culture which distin- 

 guished him in after life. 



In August, 1821, he was ordained, and settled 

 as the pastor of the First Baptist Church in 

 Boston, and resigned his position in 1826, to 

 accept the professorship of mathematics and 

 natural philosophy in Union College.- Soon 

 after he had entered upon his duties here, he 

 was elected President of Brown University, and 

 was inaugurated February, 1827. The cireum- 

 Btances in which he found the college were by 



