FROM OUR PITTSBURGH CORRESPONDENT.

F. DOUGLASS, ESQ.: SIR:—The same motive
which indued you, in your generous heart, to
laud the apparent successful efforts of colored
Americans to colonize, the bring under govern
ment those natural forces of society which they
find there on the western coast of Africa—the
same motive, I say, the same sympathy—aye,
and the same national pride which thrills with
joyous emotion upon contemplating this and
every enterprise of colored men, which is at
tended with success, prompts your humble ser
vant to speak of an institution as much entitled
to the solicitude of colored Americans as can
possibly be bestowed upon a truly worthy ob
ject.

Several years ago, our people felt the great
necessity of education and such institutions as
possessed the facilities to lead our youth thro'
the labyrinths of science and literature. This
necessity has been expressed in the addresses of
all our Conventions, and has been the burden
of our prayers from the time immemorial. Six years
ago, the Rev. Charles Avery, with a philan
thropy all his own, singled out this want of the
colored people to satisfy, by founding the Al
leghany Institute, which commenced its first
sessions in April, 1850, under a college charter
from the Legislature of Pennsylvania. The
building is a large and convenient one, put up
at a cost of nearly two thousand dollars, well
ventilated, and having amply play-grounds attached. The senior Professor is a graduate of Middlebury College, Conn, and is every way qualified to fill the post he holds with justice to
the pupils, and honor to himself; in this, he is
assisted by a worthy and talented corps of junior
Professors. The boarding schools are under
the care of the Rev. John Peck, who needs no
commendation at my hands. The Institute is
provided with complete sets of Astronomical,
Chemical, and Philosophical apparatus, and
has a select library of nearly seven hundred
volumes. Notwithstanding the facilities of this
Institution, I regret to say it has not met that
success which it is every way entitled to. It
has been an expense from its inception to the
present hour to the founder. It will be a shame—yes,
an everlasting disgrace to let it be numbered among the things that were.

The election on last Tuesday passed off very
quietly without the least disturbance, though

not without incidents common to all Presiden
tial contests. Between six and seven o'clock, a
woman, whose instincts of Freedom is more to
be admired than her want of judgment to be
pitied—clad in the garments of the sterner sex—presented
herself at the Fifth Ward polls to
deposit her rebuke to the women-whippers of
Kansas. Of course, she was challenged, (as
every doubtful-looking individual was here,) but
succeeded in her making her way through the crowd
without molestation. I have been credibly in
formed of a deputation of the most prominent
Border Ruffian Democrats from different parts
of this State is in this city to Kansas
and Missouri, to prevail upon Atchison, String
fellow & Co., to temper their actions in the fu
ture with a little more discretion. Poor, bleed
ing Kansas! who shall be able to write her
history of wrongs, or stand amidst the smoking
ruins of her hearth-stones and detail her sufferings, or look upon the graves of her martyrs
with tearless eyes? She stands with outstretched hands, imploring protecting from her remorseless oppressors, and like one of Scripture memory, begs the cup of her bitterness may pass.

DUQUESNE.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 9, 1856.