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feet gentlemen and ladies. Their constant examples before 

 their pupils, the moral as well as literary instruction, which 

 they convey to their schools, are productive of the happiest 

 effects. Pupils are admitted when six years old, and they 

 can be instructed until, they are fourteen years old, and all 

 this instruction costs nothing to them, or their parents and 

 guardians. 



Among the teachers in the higher department of females, 

 Mrs. Wing and Miss Eustis, are preeminent for their educa- 

 tion and polite accomplishments. We mean no disparage- 

 ment to other teachers, because they are all good, and de- 

 serve higher wages than they now obtain. 



immigrants' friend society. 



There is also another institution of learning in this city, 

 tinder the patronage of the immigrants' friend society of the 

 valley of the Mississippi. The object of this society is to ed- 

 ucate the children of foreigners in the English language; to 

 instruct them in the scriptures, and the nature of our free in- 

 stitutions. This object commends itself to the understand- 

 ing of every thinking patriot when he looks at the fact, that 

 the great mass of this foreign population are inaccessible to 

 us, through the medium of our language, because we have 

 otherwise no means of diffusing useful information among 

 them. It is their object also to remove their misapprehen- 

 sions, and correct their errors. The members of this insti- 

 tution extend the hand of kindness to this portion of our popu- 

 lation, and establish schools for the education of their chil- 

 dren, 90 that they may be prepared for the reception of use- 

 ful knowledge, and become good substantial Americans. Al- 

 though this society is yet in its infancy, yet it is truly in a 

 flourishing condition. They have one school in Cincinnati 

 numbering two h'lndred pupils in daily attendance. They 

 have also, a school recently established in Louisville, and one 

 in New Albany, bv their general agent the Reverend J. J. 

 Lehmanowsky. He makes it his business to raise funds, and 



