The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-12-04
CANroN 800 AoADEMY,

TRE CANTON FEMALE ACADEMY
Isnow in successful operation under the SUI
perintendece Of Mr.. RoBERT ANDERSON, as
Principal, and competent Assistants. Mr..
Anderson is a graduate Of the South Carolina
College, and has been engaged in teaching
in this and the n~eighboring States for several
years past, He is a teacher by profession
aud by the arrangements made with him his
interest is intimately identified with the pros
perity of the institution over which he Pres'des'
lie comes recommended to us by gentlemen
of high character and standing in this State, as
an accomplished scholar, a gentleman and a
christian-combining with these qualities a
talent for maintaining discipline and a happy
faculty Of imparting knowledge. Chemical
and Philosophical apparatus, Globes, Maps,
&C., will be provided.
The Academy building is spacious and COM
Portable, and besides the School Rooms, d in
tended for the residence Of the Principal and
his family, and the accommodation Of all The
boarding pupils whom parents and guardisss
may wish to have placed under the immediate
charge of the Principal. It is located in q
pleasant and retired part Of the town, and in
the vicinity Of respectable families, where
boarding can be had on reasonable terms.
With the view to prevent extravaganza, to
repress the love Of display, and the spirit Of
rivalry in dress, the following uniform has been
prescribed:
For SPRING AND SUMNER
Dress Of plain Blue Bingham Calico, or any
other material OF the same color not more ex-
Pensive, and sun-bonnet Of the same, with
white or brown iinnen apron.
FoR FALL AND WINTER
Dress of Wooden or Worsted Of any des-
criplion, of a solid green color, bonnet of the
same color, with linnen or brown Holland
apron, and thick soled shoes.
Pupils are strictly prohibited from attending
dancing OF social parties.
The Trustees are gratified in announcing
that with the means at their disposal, they will
be enabled, commencing with the next regular
session, to afford gratuitous Instruction. to oil Pu'
pills residents of this county, in the following
branches: Spelling, Reading, Writing and Ari'
thmetic. Either English GraInmaror Geography
may be taught IN addition at SIS per session
for each. tits to be understood, however, tina
if the pupil should be taught any other branch
es Of the higher classes, she will be charged a
the full rates of that class. 1t has been deemet
expedient to adopt as a rule, that no pupil nm
der the age OF six years shall be received 70
gratuitous instruction.
The scholastic year consisting Of ten months
will be divided into two sessions of five month
each, commencing respectively on the first o
October and March Of every year. At thu
close of the Summer Sesso on a public exami
nation will be held, after which there will b,
a vacation during the months Of August ant
September. Pupils will be received at an
time, and will only be charged from the TIM
OF entrances; but after that no charge will b.
made for a less time than a Session, unless il
case Of continued absence for more than
month, on account Of sickness or death.
Canton is one Of the healthiest places in thu
South during the whole year; and for morality
Intelligence and refinement, its citizens ma,
well compare with those Of any interior towl
in the State.
1t is the aim Of the Principal and Trustee
to build up and permanently establish an instl
tuition Of the highest order-one which vii
afford gratultous instruction in the useful an
solid branches Of education, and at the sam
time, on moderate terms, all the advantages I
be had any where else of a more thorough an
extended course; thus sparing our people tn
expense and sacrifice of feeling incurred i
sending their children abroad. Situated as on
Academy il, in the midst Of a wealthy an
Intelligent population, at a healthy point, cor
nected with all the principal places Of tn
State by stage and mail facilities, and cor
Quoted by competent teachers, we see n
good reason why our most sanguine hope
should not be realized. We call on our fello,
citizens of this and The %neighboring counties /
Egive our Academy a fair trial, and if foun
deserving, to sustain an institution here f,
home, where they can watch over the healtI
comfort and progress of their daughters duFin
their course of neutrality-suspicious. %ourselve
thatno efforts shall be spared to render it woi
thy Of patronage.
w. r. HILL,