The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-03-18
THE CANTON FEMALE ACADDMY.

ANEN $50 AA
per%intendence of Mr.. JAMES F. COUP, as
Principal, and competent Assistants. Mr..
Gould is a graduate of Harvard University
and has been engaged in teaching for 25
years in the city Of Baltimore, and four or five
in Pendleton South Carolina. He is a teach
er by profession, and by the arrangements
made with him his interest is intimately iden-
tilted with the prosperity of the institution
over which he presides. lie comes recommen-
dcd 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 tho Hon. John G..
Calhoun, as an accomplished scholar, and a
Notwithstanding with these qualities a
talent for maintaining discipline apG 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, 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 a
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 innen apron.
For FALL AND WINTER
Dress of Wooden or Worsted Of any des.
%criPtion, 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 or social parties.
The Trustees are gratifed in announcing,
that with the means at their disposal, they will
be enabled, commencing with the next regular
session, to afford gtatuitous instructlonto all 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 S. per session,
for each. Its to be understood, however, that
if the pupil should be taught any other branch
es of the higher classes, she will be charged al
the full rates of that class. 1t has been deemec
| ~ AoJiOnf tN aIODt ~ n ruIa that mn DunlI mn,
der the age Of six years shall be received fol
gratuitous instruction.
The scholastic year consisting often months
will be divided into two sessions Of five months
each, commencing respectively on the first o
October and March of every year. AT thu
close of the Summer Session a public exami
nation will be held, after which there will bt
a vacation during the months of August ant
September. Pupils will be received at any
time, and will only be charged from the timC
of entrances; but after that no charge will b.
made for q 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 tn
South during the whole year; and for morality
intelligence and refinement, its citizens ma,
we'll compare with those of any interior tow
in the State.
1t is the aim of the Principal and Trustee
to build up and permanently establish an inst
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 t
be had any where else of a more thorough an
extended course; thus sparing our people tn
expense and sacrifice Of feeling incurred j
sending their children abroad. Situated as ou
Academy is, in the midst of a wealthy an
intelligent population, at a healthy point, cor
nected with all the principal places Of til
State by stage and mail facilities, and col
Quoted by competent teachers, we see 4
good reason why our most sanguine HOPE
Should not be realized. We call on our fello
citizens Of this and The neighboring counties
= give our Academy a fair trial, and if four
deserving, to sustain an institution here
home, where they can watch over the healt
comfort and progress of their daughters durir
their course Of education-pledging o%urselv,
that no efforts shall be spared to render II wo
thy Of patronage.
w. r. HILL,