Education in Grant County-
L Editor:—
ho portion of otir growing state, of
i.:i S r population, can boast of greater
IjMlionai advantages then Grant Co.—
-eadv we have Jive Academies, four in
-(-.'■hi! operation, and one in course oi
Liion, with able Professors and efficient
Lhcrs; and enjoying a patronage which
.peaks it J r future, triumph. Platteville
Lbe honor >f founding the first Acade
[-incur part of the state, und its unpar
>lfd success during the period of six
■it? and more, is most gratifying to its
oJers and patrons, and an earnest of its
tiinued proserity. To students seeking
, reparation for public teaching, or to en
-7 College, Plattevil Academy offers
jnv inducements; and i am informe.!
hike fixtuies and apparatus, fcr illustia
Lobe various Sciences of our day. In
1 .’nnce toTaftun Seminary, my intbnna
,n j limited; but being acquainted with
■Ldocalitv, with some of its principal cit-
: n-, of their wealth and generosity", and
«interest which many of them have ex
Sited in the past,in all kincs of iinprove
-ents, I am led to think it cannot fail to
L .ninliMi the great end which such insti-
!ji.’>?Ver keep in view - ; It is situated
di-ligliiFul ittul rich farming rnd min
;district, alid hafea population sufliCieni
■ warrant it success. For its support, it
□r.call to its aid Patch Giove, Beeluwn,
■lhille and Cassville, five growing vil-
I jes and blest with almost any number
fintelligent r.nd aspiiing youth. 1 deem
■iecilizt-nso’ Tafton, fmtimate in seenr
j rtlie services of Prof. Parsons and La
I;;and with excelsior for their motto,
I ev see befoie them a generation who are
I i>lr.s.ng up to ci II them blessed. Lan-
I Cerias at last arisen from the dead, hei
.lit beihg come,an J the glory of the Loid
rir<jarisen upon her. It has been tho t
it the citizens of otir County seat ha'e
px a/tt.'/i’cfrfnhpy in the matter of Ed
but it is ray bpihitrti that theii;
:.4>m has been the L.ttcr part of valot,'
no coir mt: nil v shuuLl cr.gttgfe in an on
rse tis .Mich moment, without first sit
. 2 down and coiltHmg the Lai>.
