GEORGIA FEMALE COLLEGE.-The various religious denominations in this state, by combined contributions, having collected more than six hundred thousand dollars, for the support of education, which has been appropriated to different institutions, in all parts of the state; and this college, so creditable to the intelligence of Georgia, and so well calculated to confer upon it the highest benefits, owes its existence to the enlightened spirit and indefatigable labors of a few individuals in the city of Macon. Twenty thousand dollars were raised, to found a female college, in conformity with a resolution passed at a public meeting, and soon after, placed at the direction of the annual conference of the methodist episcopal church. In 1836, the legislature incorporated the trustees appointed by that body, and granted twenty-five thousand dollars to the institution.

porating this institution, and authorizing | of whom one hundred and nineteen rethem to confer the degree of Doctor in ceived degrees. Medicine on persons who have complied with the requisitions of the most respectable institutions in the United States. In 1835, the faculty addressed a circular to all the medical schools, proposing a convention in Washington city, which has not been held, but the honor of the project is due to this state. In 1833, a donation of $10,000 was made by the legislature, and another of $5,000, by the city council of Augusta, on condition that the college should supply the hospital, for ten years, with attendance and medicines. These sums enabled the trustees to erect the fine edifice which they at present occupy. It is a large structure, in the Doric style, with accommodations and arrangements well adapted to the nature of the institution, and which has been pronounced by good judges, equal, in this respect, to any other in the Union. It enjoys a fine and pleasant situation, admirably adapted to its use, in the vicinity of the town, on a lot appropriated to it by the trustees of Richmond academy.

In 1834, ten thousand dollars were raised by the faculty, who sent one of the professors to Europe, to purchase an anatomical museum, chymical apparatus, and surgical cabinet. In 1835, the legislature conferred on the institution a second grant, amounting to about twenty-five thousand dollars, which afforded them a fund for contingent expenses. The first class was instituted 1833-4, and amounted to thirty; and the members have been increasing almost every year, although the institution suffered a severe reverse, in consequence of the fatal epidemic of 1839, when, among many other losses, the valuable life of Dr. Antony fell a sacrifice to his humane exertions for the benefit of the sick.

The lectures begin on the second Monday in November, and close early in March; and the expense of the whole course, including practical anatomy and matriculation, is only twenty-five dollars. In the first ten years of its existence, the medical college of Georgia had three hundred and ninety-seven students,

The college edifice enjoys a commanding situation, on a fine eminence between Macon and Vineville, overlooking the former (which lies upon the plain beneath), and the surrounding hills, beautified by many neat and tasteful edifices. On the west is the village of Vineville; and on the north Fort Hawkins shows its remains, consisting of old blockhouses and trenches, while the forests spread far away on the east, and bound the distant horizon. The college building is one hundred and sixty feet long, and sixty in breadth, four stories high in the middle, with a cupola. Four large columns, in the centre of the front, support a roof over the entrance; and the building contains fifty-six rooms. Most of those in the basement are occupied as recitation-rooms. The steward's apartments are also below, where some of the officers have accommoda tions. The chapel is forty feet by sixty, on the second story, where are also the library, music-room, and president's apartments. The young ladies attending this institution provide their own furniture; and their lodging-rooms, which occupy the third and fourth stories, accommodate four each.

The yard extends over four acres; | dent stands on the south side of the and the rest of the section of land de- campus. voted to the institution is judiciously left covered with groves of fine oaktrees, so that ample opportunities are afforded for agreeable and healthful exercise. Six acres of ground opposite have been reserved for a botanical garden-the gift of the city council.