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We have been requested to invite public attention to n contemplated series of LECTURES, which are proposed to be delivered in the different Churches of this city, commencing with the Franklin street Me- thodlst Church, on next Sabbath evening, by the Rev. Mr. CHAMPLAIN. The object of these dis courses. as learn will be to enlist the sympahies and aid of the benevolent and philanthropc, in be- halt of the b!ind in this Sae with the view of form ing al institution for their instruct ion in some tart of Alabama Mir. Champlain is himself blind, hay ing been horn in that unfortunate condition but has received all the advantages of the excellent system for the educatio II of that class of persons as now taught in the northern States, rendering him entirely competent as an instructor, to which arduous and delicate duty he has devoted himself for several years He established an institution year or two since in Tennessee, which Is in successful operation and oi which he was principal, until compelled by ill health to resign. He brings testimonials of charac- ter ability, etc., from several distinguished citizens ofTennessee. We understand that he proposes in his lectures illustrating the modus operandi of teach ing tie blind to read. etc, and will exhibit spec- mems Of the mechanical ingenul, and industry of some of his late pupils in the Tennessee Institute. The lectures W i'll be free.

 According to the census of lS40 there were 209 blnd persons in this State-Il3 white and 96 colored