On motion of Mr. L. Andrews, the "American Journal of Education," published by Hon. H. Barnard, of Hartford, Conn., was recommended to teachers and friends of education generally.

EVENING SESSION.

Melvin Clark, Esq., a member of the Board of School Examiners in Marietta, delivered an address; subject, "Popular Education as an element of Republicanism." A copy was solicited for publication.

The valedictory address of the President was pronounced. After which, Rev. A. SMYTH, the President elect, was conducted to the Chair and made a brief and appropriate address.

Rev. H. L. Hitchcock, D.D., President of Western Reserve College, was appointed to deliver the evening address at the next semi-annual meeting.

Rev. Mr. Bittinger, of Cleveland, was invited to read, at the same meeting, a Paper on "The Will as an Educational Power."

The thanks of the Association were tendered to Mr. A. J. RICKOFF, the retiring President, for the able, impartial and dignified manner in which he has discharged his duties during the past year.

A vote of thanks was returned to the railroad companies that reduced the fare of persons attending the Convention, to the hotel keepers in Columbus for the same, to the citizens of Columbus for their hospitalities, and to all who contributed to the agreeableness of this session of the Association.

The Christian Doxology was sung, the Benediction pronounced, and the Association adjourned to meet in Mansfield, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 1st and 2d days of July next.

NAMES OF MEMBERS.

The following persons became members, or renewed their membership, by paying the fee of one dollar:

The following persons were reported as in attendance on the Convention but did not become members of the Association:

Clinton County.-John M. Kirk.

Delaware County.-T. C. O'Kane.

Franklin County.-A. B. Buttles, A G. Dimmock, Dr. W. Goldrick, Rev. I. Grover, S. D. Harris. J. J. Janney, M. H. Moore, Rev. E. D. Morris, L. L. Rice, E. L. Traver, Dr. W. Trevitt, Rev. L. Warner, Rev. J. W. White, Mrs. E. L. Traver, Mrs. D. C. Pearson, Misses S. Adams, L. A. Brelsford, E. E. Edwards, C. B. Freemen, C. George, C. A. Goldrick, Mary Harrison, M. L. Houghton, S. C. Ingraham, S. Johnston, S. J. Maxfield, A. A. Nichols, Lucy E. Peters, Mary Rice, M. E. Robertson, C. P. Snell, M. E. Snell, Frances Washington, Kate Wheeler, Alta Winchester.

Greene County.-G. H, Barker, Rev. G. H. Gowdy, Mary E. Harbison.

Hamilton County-Hon. H. H. Barney, Rev. D. S. Burnett, Daniel Hough, D. Ray, Esq., Miss S. A. Chamberlain.

Huron County-Miss E. A. Deaver.

Licking County.-Miss Bancroft, Kate E. Coman.

Montgomery County.-Miss Almira Davis, Mary McQuade, Sarah Yontz.
Muskingum County.-Miss Julia Eaton.

Richland County.-Mrs. M. E. Catlin.

McNeely Normal School.

The Trustees elected by the State Teachers' Association met in 'Columbus on the 27th of Dec., 1855. Present, Lorin Andrews, M. F. Cowdery, John Hancock, T. W. Harvey, Geo. K. Jenkins and A. D. Lord the President, Mr. John Ogden, Principal of the Normal School, presiding.

A. D. Lord was elected Secretary, and Geo. K. Jenkins Treasurer, for the ensuing year.

The Principal was authorized to make By-Laws for the government of the several departments of the School; and to employ a competent Teacher for the Model School and pay such salary as may be necessary.

The following were adopted as Text Books in the Academic Department of the Institution: McGuffey's Readers, Stoddard's Intellectual Arithmetic, Ray's Arith. part III, Ray's Algebra, Davies' Legendre's Geometry, Cornell's Geography, Greene's Grammar, (Elements), Lynd's Class Book of Etymology, Quackenboss' Composition, Worcester's Academic Dictionary, Berard's History of U. S., Cutter's Physiology, Youman's Chemistry, Parker's Natural Philosophy, St. John's Geology, Wayland's Mental Philosophy.

Voted, that whenever Publishers present 50 or more copies of any work needed as a text book in the Normal School, it shall be used as such in that Department; and that the Principal have the selection of of the books to be used in the Model School, or Primary Department.

A. D. LORD, Secretary.

Cost of War Compared to that of Gducation.

There is not an appetite that allies man to the brutes, nor a passion for vain display which makes him more contemptible than any part of the irrational creation, which does not cost the country more every year, than such a system of schools as would, according to the evidence I have exhibited, redeem it almost entirely from its follies and its guilt. Consider a single factitious habit of our people, which no one will pretend adds any degree to the health, or length to the life, or decency to the manners of the nation-I mean the smoking of tobacco. It is said, on good authority, that the annual expenditure in the country for the support of this habit is ten millions of dollars; and if we reflect that this sum, averaged upon all the people, would be only half a dollar apiece, the estimate seems by no means extravagant. Yet this is far more than is paid to the teachers of all the public schools in the whole United States.

Were nations to embark in the cause of education for the redemption of mankind, as they have in that of war for their destruction, the darkest chapters in the history of earthly calamities would soon be brought to a close. But where units have been grudged for education, millions have been lavished for war. While, for the one purpose, mankind have refused to part with the superfluities, for the other, they have not only impoverished themselves, but levied burdensome taxes upon posterity. The vast national debts of Europe originated in war; and, but for that scourge of mankind, they never would have existed. The amount of money now owed by different European nations, is said on good authority, to be $6,387,000,000. Of this inconceivable sum, the share of Great Brittain is about $4,000,000,000, (in round numbers, eight hundred millions of pounds sterling;) of France, $780,000,000; of Russia and Austria, $300,000,000 each; of Prussia, $100,000,000; and the debts of the minor powers increase this sum to six billions three hundred and eighty-seven millions of dollars. The national debt of Great Britain now amounts to more than $140 for every man, woman, and child in the three kingdoms. Allowing six persons to each family, it will average more than eight hundred and fifty dollars to every household-a sum which would be deemed by thousands and tens of thousands of families in that country to be a handsome competence-nay, wealth itself—if it were owing to instead of from them.