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- A committee of the Detroit Board of Education receutly made a report in which they included a tabular Btatement showing the salaries paid for oue month, the number of teachers, the number of pupils to each teacher, the cost of tuition per month for each pupil, and the annual cost of tuitiou at the same ratio for 753 pupils (the number in the Detroit High School) in 14 of the high schools of this State and 29 schools of other States. The average number of pupila to a teacher in this State is given as 33 1-3 and the average monthly cost per pupil at $2.12. In the schools of the other States the first average is 29.65 and second, $3 87. The average tor Aun Arbor is giveu as 39 1-2 pupils to the teacher, with a monthly average cost per pupil for tuition ot $1.80-8 cents lower than the uext lowest State average, and $1.85 lower than the highest, Jackson. The State schools named have a monthly tuition average as follows : Anu Arbor, $1.80 ; Niles, $1.88 ; Kalamazoo, $2.01 ; Albion, $2.02 ; Pontiac, $2.07; Detroit, $2.08; Grand Rapids, $2.11; East Saginaw, $2.16; Battle Creek, $2.23; Lausing, $2.34; Flint, $2.44; Coldwater, $2.45; Corunna, Ï2.61 ; Jaokson, $2.65. A good showing for the economical management of our High School. - Prof. Winchell, of this city, no longer holds a professorship in the Vanderbilt Uuiversity, at Naahville, Tenn. At or about the time of the recent Commeucement at that institutiou, Prof. W. was advised by the President that there was a smell of heresy in his scientitic writings, that the history oí creation as told in the first chapter of Genesis was neither to be questioned nor explained away, and that his resignation would be accepted. We can imagine the contemptuous tone of the professor'á relusal to resign, and the indignation with which he told the Board of Trust, " You can do as you please." The Board pleased to cut off his head, and will seek for a man to fill the vacauey who can be classih'ed as a fossil. - On Monday eveuing Thomas M. Nichol, Esq., of Ritcine, Wis., Secretary of the Honest Money League of the Northwest, discussed bhe tiuancial questions at the Opera House in this city. Owing to limited notice the auiience was not a large one. Mr. Nichol': adiress was historically correct, logical in its :easonin, sound in its theories, and capital in ts defiuitions and illustrations. It was a complete extiuguisher of the rant and declamaron of Cary, and proved that eminent and ïltra greeubacker a falsilier and blatherskite. [t ought to have been carefully listened to by Bvery greenbacker in the county.