The order and regularity of (he present
system us County School Stwei.io tendency
must be by all. That the
system imparts energy as well as regularity
must be .From order and
energy tbe®e must spring up a lively confi
dence in in i whole system of common
schools, and a higher degree of public res
p cl for and attention to education in ger
eral. Such are the aspects for Grant coun
ty, for it cannot be denied that a higher de
cree of energy exists among the schools nt
this time than at any previous day. Wit
ness the attendarce now al the Academies
as a result of increased interest in educa
tion at the starting points which aje the
public schools! Near 150 are attending
the Platteville Academy, 125 at Turton,
and Lancaster Institute 10C, perhaps as
many at Hazel Gieen, or near 500 students
iy pie higher English and Scientific de
pai tmenta of learning in the single county
of Grant, besides what are at Colleges and
Seminaries abroad. Such students get
their impulse for learning at the more thor
ough public schools of the county —we
mean at such of the public schools as have
bad thorough and working teqcherg, And
were there in the county double the present
number of such radical leathers of element
ary learning it is fair to pregump there
would soon be double the present number
of students in attendance at the several
Conn / Academies; or rather, the number
of Academies would soon double, as the
pree it Academy builJipgs’are toosmall to
accommodate the number that would ap
ply. We think hoyicvgr but one other
Academy will be need xl in the county for
a few years; we mean at Boscobel, where
one should be arected next year and of di
niensions sufficient' for at'least 200 students
tu*accommodate that stupendous Lbe of
the county and contiguous parts of Craw
ford and Rich'an 1. We speak now not
Ffom vhgqa opinion, but from strict calcula
tion, based upon the present system of
school management under the energetic
superintendency of Mr. Parsons and bis dis
ciplined teachers. We take it for granted
the new Superintendent, Col. Purman, wiil
pursue an equally energetic policy under
the system which he can scarcely fail to fol
low and apply as minutely as his predeces
sor. 