The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-03-11
THE CANTON FEMALE ACADEMY,


perintendence Of Mr.. JAMES F. GOULD, az
Principal, and competent Assistants. Mr.
Gould is a graduate of Harvard University
and has been engaged in teaching for Is
years in the city of Baltimore, and four or five
in Pendleton South Carolina. He is teach-
err by profession, and by the arrangements
made with him his interest is intimately iden-
tilted with the prosperity of the institution
over which he pfesdes. He comes reconimen-
ded to us by gentlemen Of high character and
standing in the city of Baltimore, and also by
some of the most distinguished men Of South
Carolina, and among them the Hon. John e.
Calhoun, as an accomplished scholar, and a
genteman-combining with these qualities a
talent for maintaining discipline and happy
faculty Of imparting knowledge. Chemical
and Philosophical apparatus, Globes, Maps,
&c, will be provided.
The cademy building is spacious and COM
Portable, and besides the School Rooms, is in
tended for the residence Of the Principal and
his family, and the accommodation OF all the
boarding pupils whom parents and guardians
may wish to have placed under the immediate
charge of the Principal. 1t is located in
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 linnen apron.
For FALL AND WINTER
Dress Of Wooden or Worsted Of any des.
cripton, of solid green color, bonnet of tho
same color, with linnen or brown Holland
apron, and thick soled shoes.
Pupils are strictly prohibited from attending |
dancing or social parties.
The Trustees are gratifed in announcing, |
that with the means at their disposal, they VIII
be enabled, commencing with tho nextreguiaT |
session, to afford gratuitous Instruction. all pu-
pills residents Of this county, in the following
branches: Spelling, Reading, Writing and An
thmetic. Either English Grammar or Geography |
may be taught IN addition at So per session,
for each. 1t is to be understood, however, that
if the pupil should be taught any other branch
es Of the higher classes, she will be charged at
the full rates of that class 1t has been deemed
expedient to adopt as a rule, that no pupil I'M
der the age OF six years shall be received for
gratuitous instruction.
The scholastic year consisting OF ten months,
will be divided into two sessions Of five months
each, commencing respectively on the first OF
October and March of every year. At the
close of the Summer Session public exami-
nation will be held, after which there will be
vacation during the months OF August and
September. Pupils will be received at any
time, and will only be charged from the time
OF entrance; but after that no charge will be
made for less time than a Session, unless in
case Of continued absence for more than a
month, on account OF sickness or death.
Canton is one Of the heathiest places in the
South during the whole year; and for morality,
intelligence and refinement, its citizens may |
well compare with those OF any interior Town
in the State.
II is the aim Of the Principal and Trustees
to build up and permanently establish an nst-
tuition of the highest order-one which Will
afford gratuItous instruction IN the useful and
solid branches of education, and at the same |
time, on moderate terms, all the advantages to
be had any where else of more thorough and
extended course; thus sparing our people the |
sending their children abroad. Situated as our
A cademy is, in the midst Of wealthy and
intelligent population, at a healthy point, con-
nected with all the principal places OF the
State by stage and mail facilities, and con-
Quoted by competent teachers, we see no
good reason why our most sanguine hopes
should not be realized. We call on our fellow
citizens of this and the neighborng counties TO
give our a cademy fair trial, and il found
deserving, to sustain an institution here at
home, where they can watch over the health,
comfort and progress Of their daughters during
their course Of neutrality-suspicious. ourselves
that no efforts shall be spared TO render il wor-
Thy of patronage.
w. r. HILL,
II. LATHAM,
JNO. T. CAMERON,
JAS. PRIESTLEY,
J. J. PUGH,
W. MONTGOMERY,
Trustees
Canton, Madison Co. Mis-. Jan. l5h l848.
RATES OF TUITION,
For session of five Months.
Primary Department. - Including, Spelling,
Reading, Writing aud Arithmctic,-to pupils
Of Madison county over six years old, grati';
and English Grammar or Geography may be
added on the terms above stated-to all Others,
$1,000
JUNIOR CiGss-Includng C Geography, English
Historv Elements of Dotany and