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 414: HAMILTON the control of a common board of trustees, Hamilton theological seminary (Baptist), Mad- ison university, and Colgate academy. These schools were developed out of the " Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution," founded in 1820. Madison university was chartered in 1846. Its faculty in 1873-'4 consisted of 10 professors. A scientific as well as a classical course may be pursued. The number of vol- umes in the libraries was 10,860. The faculty of the theological seminary consisted of four professors, who were also members of the uni- versity faculty ; and Colgate academy has a principal, with three other instructors. The theological seminary had 43 students, the uni- versity 106, and the academy 60. The acad- emy has a commodious edifice. The university buildings are Alumni hall, East college, and West college ; besides which the grounds con- tain a president's house, a gymnasium, a board- ing hall, and professors' houses. The town also contains the villages of East Hamilton, Hubbardsville, Poolville, and part of Earlville, through which the main line of the New York and.Oswego Midland railroad passes. HAMILTON, a city and the capital of Butler co., Ohio, on both sides of the Miami river and on the Miami canal, at the intersection of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton, the Cincin- nati, Richmond, and Chicago, and the Cincin- nati, Hamilton, and Indianapolis railroads, 20 m. N. of Cincinnati, and 90 m. W. S. W. of Columbus; pop. in 1850, 3,210; in 1860, 7,223 ; in 1870, 11,081, of whom 3,062 were foreigners. It is surrounded by a rich and populous district, and is extensively engaged in manufacturing. The principal establish- ments are machine shops, iron founderies, pa- per mills, woollen mills, flour mills, distilleries, breweries, manufactories of carriages and wag- ons, boots and shoes, railroad supplies, ploughs, saws, rope, pumps, brooms, candles, boilers, <fec. Abundant water power is supplied by a hydraulic canal, which gives a fall of 28 feet. There are eight hotels, and two national banks with $200,000 capital ; valuation of property in 1873, $5,836,065. The city is divided into four wards, and is governed by a mayor and coun- cil. It has five public schools, including a high school, having in 1872 28 teachers and 1,200 pu- pils ; a free library of 2,000 volumes, four week- ly newspapers (one German), and 12 churches. The quarter on the W. bank of the river, for- merly the village of Rossville, was incorpora- ted with Hamilton when the municipal charter was granted in 1853. HAMILTON, a city and the county seat of White Pine co., Nevada, situated in the S. W. part of the county, 230 m. E. of Carson City and 215 m. S. W. of Salt Lake City ; lat. 39 15' N., Ion. 115 27' W. ; pop. in 1870, 3,913, of whom 160 were Chinese. It is built at the N. base of Treasure hill, 8,000 ft. above the level of the sea, and 120 m. S. of the Central Pacific railroad, in the midst of the White Pine mining district, which comprises three parallel mountains, viz. : White Pine, 11,000 ft. high, and Babylon and Treasure hills, each 9,000 ft. high. Treasure hill contains rich chloride silver ores, while the other two yield complex ores, embracing carbonates, oxides, and sul- phites. All the valuable minerals abound here except tin and platinum, and the ores assay as high as $1,500 a ton in silver. The climate of Hamilton is rigorous, but very healthful. In- sects and reptiles are unknown. Stages run daily to Palisade on the railroad and to the mining districts S. of the city, and there is a tri-weekly line to the east. It contains a court house, an Episcopal and a Roman Cath- olic church, a public school with two depart- ments, a weekly newspaper, a bank, two ho- tels, and a brewery. In the neighborhood are nine quartz mills with 155 stamps, extensive smelting works, and an incomplete refinery. The streets are graded, and water is supplied by works erected at a cost of $300,000. Ham- ilton owes its origin to the discovery of silver in Treasure hill in 1868, followed by a great influx of population and extensive operations. But business was soon paralyzed by litigation concerning titles, coupled with the refusal of speculators to work their claims, and by the failure of the smelting works through igno- rance of the proper treatment. The city con- sequently dwindled, until, after being nearly destroyed by fire in June, 1873, it contained only 600 inhabitants; but it is now (1874) re- covering. HAMILTON, a city, port of entry, and the capital of Wentworth co., Ontario, Canada, situated at the S. W. extremity of Burlington bay, at the W. end of Lake Ontario, 36 m. S. S. W. of Toronto, and 42 m. W. by N. of Ni- agara Falls; pop. in 1836, 2,846; in 1846, 6,822 ; in 1851, 10,248 ; in 1861, 19,096 ; in 1871, 26,716. The city is built on sloping ground, extending from the foot of a hill about 1 in. to the shore of the bay, and is laid out with considerable regularity. The prin- cipal thoroughfare, King street, runs E. and W. The commercial quarter is about a mile back from the bay. There are several public squares, on which the government buildings generally front, Court House square and Mar- ket square being among the finest. The city is lighted with gas, intersected by a system of sewers, and supplied with water from Lake Ontario (6 m. distant), by means of a mag- nificent system of works, which cost about $800,000. The public and private buildings are mostly either of brick or of freestone or limestone, brought from quarries in the neigh- borhood. The most elevated sites are occu- pied by residences and gardens. The banks, public offices, churches, hotels, and some of the stores, are good specimens of architecture. The Great Western and Hamilton and Lake Erie railways furnish communication with the principal points of Canada and the United States. Its situation at the head of naviga- tion on the lake, and in a rich and populous