Editors' Cable.

POPULAR EDUCATION: for the use of Parents and Teachers, and for young persons of both sexes. By IRA MAYHEW, A. M., late Superintendent of Public Instruction in Michigan. Second edition. New York: Daniel Burgess & Co. 1852. We are not a little rejoiced to see a second edition of this valuable work appear in such good type and in excellent binding. It is sold to the trade at sixty cents per copy, but will be afforded to Teachers and others who wish to promote its circulation at a heavy discount from that price, by applying to the Publishers, or to the author at Monroe, Michigan.

VIEWS OF THE MICROSCOPIC WORLD: designed as a Hand-Book for classes in Natural Science. By JOHN BROCKLESBY, A. M., Prof. of Math. and Natural Philosophy in Trinity College, Hartford. New York: Pratt, Woodford & Co.— This is a valuable contribution to the means of instruction. The work is illustrated with numerous and well executed engravings. As a work of reference, it will be valued highly by every Teacher.

ANNUAL REPORt of the NORMAL, MODEL, AND COMMON SCHOOLS in Upper Canada, for the year 1850: with an Appendix. By Rev. E. RYERSON, D.D., Chief Superintendent of Schools.-This is a document of 376 quarto pages, forming one of the most complete and definite Reports of the kind ever published in America. The number of School districts reported is, 3,407; children of school age, 259,258, of whom 151,891 attended school; Teachers employed, 3,476, of whom 2,697 were males, and 779 females; the sum paid for Teachers' salaries, was £88,499, for the erection and repairs of School Houses, £14,189, total £102,619, or more than $400,000. An appropriation of $60,000 was made for a Normal School, for which a noble building has been erected; and the school, with the Model Schools attached to it, is accomplishing the work for which it is intended. Teachers are rapidly improving, and every effort is made to secure, as soon as practicable, an accurate classification of the schools in all the towns and larger districts.

We return our hearty thanks to the Superintendent for this Report, and respectfully solicit a continuance of such favors.

THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Secretary of the Board of Education in Massachusets; with the report of the Board and the Appendix, makes a docu ment of more than 140 pages. This is the third Report of the Rev. B. SEARS, D.D. The three State Normal Schools have instructed nearly 400 pupils during the past year, and more than 2000 since they were commenced in 1810. Twelve Teachers' Institutes were attended, in which 1435 were instructed. The State contains 122 towns, of which 120 were reported. The number of Public Schools was 3,987; no. of children between 5 and 15 years, 196,536; scholars in attendance -in winter 199,429, in summer 179,497; average attendance-in winter 152,564, in summer 132 422; different persons employed as Teachers-males 2,138, females 4,853, total 6.991; average wages of Teachers per month, including board, males $36.39, females. $15.25; total expended for Public Schools during the year ending December, 1851, $1,021,775.66; and the estimated sum expended for tuition in Public and Private Schools, $1,353,700.63.

THE ANNUAL REPORT of the State Superintendent of Public Schools of New Jersey, contains 140 pages. The State has 20 counties, and 183 townships, of which 170 were reported; 1612 school districts, of which 1538 made returns; children of school age (between 5 and 18), 145,529; number who attended school, 88,610; money appropriated to schools by the State, $80,000; raised by townships, $170,859.31; total, $250,859.51. Hon. T. F. KING, of Perth Amboy, is the Superintendent.

THE FIRST ANNUAL REPORT of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to the Legislature of California, is dated January 5th, 1852. Thirty counties are reported, containing some 6000 children. It will require time to establish an efficient Public School System in this State, but it is a gratifying evidence of correct views on this all-important subject that the people have, by their constitution, secured a State Superintendent, and by one of the earliest acts of the Legislature created a State Board of Education, consisting of the Governor, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Surveyor General of the State. The P. O. address of the Superintendent, is JOHN C. MARVIN, Vallejo, California. THE N. Y. TEACHER for November appears equally as well and is more interesting than the first number. The price is one dollar per year: all orders and communications should be addressed to T. W. VALENTINE, Resident Editor, Albany, New York.

THE ANNALS OF SCIENCE is published twice each month, at one dollar per year, six copies for $5. Number II contains several valuable articles: subscriptions should be forwarded to Prof. H. L. SMITH, Cleveland, O.

THE AMERICAN PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, a quarto of 24 pages; devoted to Phrenology and kindred sciences, and general intelligence, is published monthly by FOWLERS & WELLS, N. Y., at $1 per annum: five copies for $4, twenty copies for $10. It is ably edited, and printed on good paper in the best manner.

THE OHIO MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL is published every other month, each number containing 96 octavo pages. This ably conducted work entered on its fifth volume in September last. It is worthy of a liberal patronage, not only from the Profession, but from all the friends of sound medical science. Terms, $2 per year: address Prof. R. L. HOWARD, M.D., Editor and Proprietor, Columbus, O.

PHILOSOPHY AND CHEMISTRY.-A System of Natural Philosophy, designed for Schools and Academies: with nearly 300 engravings; ninety-first edition. By J. L. COMSTOCK, M.D. Elements of Chemistry, in which the recent discoveries in the science are included, and its doctrines familiarly explained. By J. L. COMSTOCK, M.D. New York: Pratt, Woodford & Co.

READING AND ELOCUTION.-Lessons in Reading, by RICHARD G. PARKER: Lessons in Elocution, by J. C. ZACHOS, Author of New American Speaker. New York: A. S. Barnes and Co. 1852.

READERS.-The Normal Series by J. RUSSELL Webb.

Normal Primer, beautifully illustrated. 12 mo. 24 pages.
Normal Reader, No. I. A new method of teaching to read.
Normal Reader, No. II. Combining Spelling and Reading.

Normal Reader, No. III.

Normal Reader, No. IV.

A guide to correct Articulation.

Designed to teach correct reading, to improve and

expand the mind, and to purify and elevate the character. New York; George Savage; and Mason & Law. 1852.

Stems.

Mr. T. M. HILL, late Principal of Wayne county Academy, is employed as Principal of the Union School in Bucyrus.

Mr. S. S. COTTON, late of Connecticut, has been employed in the High School department of the Public Schools of Sandusky City: salary $600.

Mr. E. M. COTTON, late of the Ashland Union School, is Principal of the Grammar School department of the Union School in Circleville.

Miss MARGARET KELLEY, of Lake county, has been appointed Principal of one of the Grammar Schools in Sandusky City.

Prof. W. C. LARABEE, of Asbury University, Greencastle, Ia., was recently elected Superintendent of Public Instruction in Indiana.

Rev. CLEMENT LONG, D.D., late Prof. of Christian Theology in West. Reserve College, has been appointed to a similar Chair in the Theological Seminary at Auburn, N. Y.

Rev. ELIJAH P. BARROWS, late Professor in the Theological Department of Western Reserve College, is employed as an Instructor in Andover Theological Seminary.

Rev. NATHAN L. LORD, late Financial Secretary of W. R. College, has been ordained as a Missionary of the American Board, to labor in Ceylon.

EDWARD COOPER, A. M., formerly Editor of the N. Y. Teachers' Advocate, is President of Asbury Female College, at New Albany, Ia.

Hon. SALEM Town, LL. D., late of New York, is Superintendent of the Normal department in the same Institution.

The Rhode Island State Normal School commenced its first session, in Providence, on the 1st of November.

The number of adults in Virginia who can not read or write, is 80,000-twenty thousand more than in 1840; and the number of children whose parents have not the means to educate them, 75,000.

The census of Cleveland just taken, shows a population of 25,668; increase during the past year, 4,530. The population of Cleveland and Ohio City is 33,134. There are already some 12,000 Chinese in California; they are said to be very peaceable and industrious.

The aggregate length of the Mississippi and its tributaries, not including the Red, Arkansas, White, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin, with their tribuutaries, is 14,385 miles. Including those, the total length of the great river is 51,000 miles. The aggregate of steam navigation upon it and its branches exceeds twenty thousand miles.

A vein of coal has been discovered in Burton, Geauga county. It lies some 18 feet below the surface, and under a ledge of rocks twelve feet in thickness.

A Female Teacher in Seneca county, a resident too of a country district, procured for the first volume of the Journal ten subscribers and ten dollars. The same lady has already sent in six dollars for six subscribers to the second volume. We will give the name of that same lady to any Bachelor Teacher who will procure, during the coming year, twice as many subscribers as she will.

The Teachers of Seneca county, have already secured over fifty subscribers to the second volume of the Journal. They are determined to bring down to the Annual Meeting one hundred names and one hundred dollars for the second volume. What county will do better?

Subscribers will perceive that this number contains sixteen pages extra, thus making a volume of 400 pages, beside the title and index, nearly every article in which is original. It is not our intention to make large promises, but our patrons may rely upon receiving all we offer in our Prospectus.

We hope largely to increase our subscription list in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, etc. Will not our friends and patrons in these and other States, remind others of the commencement of our second volume, and thus aid us and the cause of education? We hope our friends in surrounding States will keep us advised of all educational movements and items of interest in their various localities. L. A.

The following Teachers' Institutes were attended in Ohio during the year 1852 :
Stark county, at Waynesburg, March 15th, one week.

Richland county, at Lexington, March 22d, one week-178 members.
Montgomery county, at Dayton, March 29th, one week-82 members.
Muskingum county, at Zanesville, April 5th, one week-68 members.
Licking county, at Newark, April 5th, one week-62 members.
Guernsey county, at Cambridge, April 12th, one week-55 members.
Jefferson county, at Mt. Pleasant, April 19th, one week-41 members.
Greene county, at Xenia, May 10th, one week, 130 members.
Clermont county.

Montgomery county, at Dayton, Aug. 16th, one week-85 members.
Warren county, at Mainville, Aug, 16th, one week-50 members.
Licking county, at Newark, Aug. 23d, one week-112 members.

N. W. O., at Perrysburg and Maumee City, Aug. 23d, two weeks-107 members.
Miami county, at Troy, Sept. 6th, one week-50 members.

Belmont county, at St. Clairsville, Sept. 27th, one week, 61 members.

Jefferson and Harrison co's, at Harrisville, Sept. 27th, one week-55 members.
Columbiana county, at Wellsville, Oct. 4th, one week-101 members.
Clermont county, at Bantam, Oct. 4th, one week-68 members.
Knox county, at Mt. Vernon, Oct. 11th-one week-106 members.
Lake county, at Painesville, Oct. 18th, one week-139 members.
Preble county, at Eaton, Oct. 18th, one week-56 members.
Guernsey county, at Washington, Oct. 18th, one week.
Mahoning county, at Poland, Oct. 18th, one week.
Ashtabula county, at Orwell, Oct. 25th, one week.

Ashtabula county, at Ashtabula, Oct. 25th, one week-63 members.
Stark county, at Paris, Oct. 25th, one week-200 members.
Morrow county, at Chesterville, Oct. 25th, one week-65 members.
Hancock county, at Findlay, Oct. 28th, three days-53 members.
Seneca county, at Republic, Nov. 1st, one week-175 members.
Richland county, at Plymouth, Nov. 8th, one week-88 members.

TO THE FRIENDS OF FEMALE EDUCATION.-The meeting of the Ohio Association for the promotion of Female Education, will be attended in Columbus on the 28th of December, the day preceding the Annual Meeting of the State Teachers' Association. Reports are to be presented by Rev. J. McD. MATTHEWS, Rev. S. FINDLAY, Prof. J. C. ZACHоs, Messrs. T. A. BURROWS and LORIN ANDREWS. A general attendance is earnestly requested. A. D. LORD, Secretary.

The members of the Executive Committee of the Ohio State Teachers' Association, are requested to meet in the Reading Room of the Neil House, in Columbus, at 3 o'clock, p. m., on Tuesday, the 28th day of December proximo. COLUMBUS, Nov., 1852.

LORIN ANDREWS, Chair'n.

THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE JOURNAL.

The Executive Committee of the State Teachers' Association, is making arrangements for the early issue of the 1st No. of the 2d volume of the Ohio Journal of Education. The experience of the past year has demonstrated the importance of an early issue of the first number of each volume. It is intended to get out No. I. of Vol. II., by the 20th of December next. Delegates to the Annual Meeting of the State Teachers' Association can thus return with specimen numbers in their hands, and begin in good season to add to the subscription list of the Journal. Teachers of Ohio, your Journal of Education, during the first year of its existence, has succeeded beyond all expectation-probably beyond all precedent of similar Educational Periodicals. It has reached a circulation in all of about two thousand. Not only has it educated and elevated public sentiment; not only has it better prepared Teachers to preach school as well as to teach school; but it has been a source of some small profit to the Association under whose auspices it has been published. If its infancy has been thus prolific of good, what may we expect from the maturer and more powerful influences of its manhood prime? We may expect of it, fellow Teachers, just what you will make of it and nothing more. If you desire it, and if you will work for it, the Journal, during the coming year, will exert a powerful and widely extended influence in favor of the cause of education, but if you regard it with that indifference with which nine-tenths of the Teachers of Ohio have treated it during the past year, it will inevitably become a mere starveling, dependent, as heretofore, upon the over-tasked efforts and overdrained pockets of a generous few.

First, let each Teacher in the State subscribe for the Journal and pay for it; and then secure the subscriptions of from one to ten citizens. In this way, not only will correct and liberal views of the importance and necessity of the right education of all the rising generation be disseminated and powerfully impressed upon the public mind, but that "material aid" will be afforded the State Teachers' Association, which will enable it greatly to extend the sphere of its usefulness and increase the efficiency of its efforts. Remember, Teachers, "There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty."

It will be the constant effort of all connected with the Journal, to make the second volume superior to the first in practical usefulness and general interest. Increased attention will be given to those subjects which will be of practical utility to the Teacher in the school room; yet the articles published will be of such a character, that the Journal will continue to be an interesting and useful Family Paper.

The Executive Committee, confidently relying upon the well known public spirit and determined energy of the Teachers of Ohio, will issue an edition of five thousand copies of the second volume. Every Teacher and friend of education in the State, is earnestly invited to act as an agent for the Journal. Let each one commence to canvass for subscribers immediately. Wait not a day, but begin the work at once, and cease not until you shall cause it truthfully to be written on the page of the educational history of the State for the coming year, that the Teachers of Ohio have done their whole duty.

The first volume of the Journal, neatly bound in cloth, and the successive numbers of the second volume, will be furnished for two dollars. Those desiring the bound volume forwarded by mail and prepaid will enclose an additional twentyfour cents in postage stamps. Address as heretofore, Lorin Andrews, Columbus, Ohio. LORIN ANDREWS, Chairman of the Ex. Com.

COLUMBUS, Nov. 20th, 1852.