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Wisconsin has the largest school found of any state in the Union; arriving in part from government lands given by Virginia - the sixteenth square mile of every township of 36 square miles is appropriated for school, but -by a law of the state, it is all in the hands of the state to be apportioned by them: I suppose this is equitable, since this school section is liable to be a marsh or other unproductive land, in the case of Southport ten miles from this, it is actually all in the lake, of course valueless: in this place one third is in the lake, the remaining two thirds comprises the finest part of the city and is valued by commissioners appointed by the state of $88 000. If this sum had been left at the disposal of the town literary institutions might about of every grade. I believe public schools are supported generally about as in Maine or Mass, but - poorer teachers and more backward schools: but in this place on account of some dissatisfaction and dispute relative to the valuation of school lands, the people have been very remiss, no public schools have been established until now some efforts are making to do it. Southport the place above named has an excellent building, a flourishing school of six hundred pupils with