The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-06-26

lc Ildics, dt oil average salary VI iouiece" w.
lars and fifty cents per month; and seven dur
ing the present term, employing eight teach,
ers, two male, and six female, the salaries oil
females the same as before, and the males al
thirty dollars per month each. We also have
one high school,, employing three teachers,
one male, and two females, and an additional
male portion OF. the time; the females at an
average salary of eighteen dollars per month;
one Of the males at thirty-six dollars and fifty
cents, and the other at the rate of about forty
dollars per month. The above salaries, it will
be remembered, are for teaching-time only.
The maximum salary that we have paid during
the year has been at the rate of five hundred
dollars per year. and the minimum fourteen
dollars per month; maximum for females TWEEN
ty dollars. and minimum for males, thirty dol
lars per month"
In Ohio rapid Improvements are being made
in their Common School System, but yet much
remains to be done; but it will be seen by the
above extracts flor example the city of Ports
mouth) that where the whole people have uni
ted in efforts to make the Common Schools
what they should be, they are fully equal
to the best Select Schools, and supersede
them.
The 9th question, of Mr.. Galloway has q
bearing upon the character aud usefulness of
the schools, and is as follows: Show are your
schools classified-what has been the number
for the past year-how many teachers have
been employed for the same time, and how
many of each sex?"
The answer from Evansville ia.
81 can scarcely undertake to give you the de-
tails Of classification. The Juvenile Depart
ment in the Male School, fills a room, and
These pass then to the Junior Department, as
they advance ia learning. This Department
occupies two rooms, and may contain 80 to
loo. Thence they are taken as they advance.
to the Senior Department, which occupies two
rooms of the principal, or as it is Familiarity
called, the "Apparatus Room" The female
Department is essentially the same in classifi-
cation. One popularity Of our system is that
tcriting is taught by one who teaches nothing
else, except singing. He has room at each
school, and the forenoon is spent at the fe-
male, and the afternoon at the male. A half
day in each week, in each school, is devoted to
instruction in Vocal Music In the male
school there are six teachers, including the
Principal. The female is taught BY six fe-
males, the teacher of writing and singing act
ing as superintendent thereof, so far as gov
eminent and general supervision are conce I'm
ed. This makes fourteen in ali, being seven
males and six females. The number Of schol-
airs in attendance for the past year, at any one
time has been about 800.
From the city of Portsmouth, as follows:
1.-THE school placed under the superintend.
ence of the principal of the Male Department,
and accommodated in one building, is divided
into three Departments, and these Departments
are again sub-divided into grades, with strict
regard to the attainment Of the pupils. The
division is as follows:
The Male Department into grades; the Fe-
male Department into 3 grades; Primary, or in
mt, composed almost wholly Of boys and
girls INN q TO years of age) grades; making
in all nine r.-adss, which, occupying different
rooms. are laugh, BY nine teachers, all of
whom are females, except the teachers of the
first and second grades of the Male Depart
ment."
The answers to this question from Cleveland
and Sandusky, are given above, in answer to
the 4th question, and from Dayton it is an
''There are, at present, three schools of the
same class. In each of these there are two Ju-
nior Departments for boys, and one for girls,
in which Orthog;a phy, Reading, and Writing
are taught-and two Senior Departments, one
for boys and one for girls, in which the higher
branches are taught.
There is also one German School, in which
there is one teacher, and the same branches
are taught as in English"
Having given above an idea Of the character
of the schools. let us now look at their cost
The 9th question Of MIR. Galloway is the fol-
lowing
"What has been the ANNUAL average eX.
pense of tuition for each scholar?" The ans
wer from GAINESVILLE is "about six dolla So
From Portsmouth 'four dollarsand eighty five
cents" The answer from Cleveland is sswith-
in fraction OF three dollars and fifty cents"
From Sandusky city. the answer is, "The en-
tire tuition per scholar for one entire year am
cunts to four dollars and seventy five cents.
which you will readily see is less than one
half that would be required to obtain the same
amount Of schooling by Select School,"
In the State of New York it appears by the
report Of the Superintendent of Common
Schools. that tn average length of time their
schools were kept, was eight months-and
that the aveage cost of tuition for each child
that attended any portion of that time was so
cents and five mills, and that the average cost
to each child for the whole expense of the
schools. including pay and board of teachers.
repairs and building of school houses, Fuel,
Stationary, Text Books and Supervision. was
less than 81 ,76. The whole number Of chill
dren that attended school some part of the
time was 7Si,347. But as some portion of
Of this number attended only part of the
eight months that the schools were kept open