The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent., 1850-01-04
lHISSISSIPPI MILIT.aRY SCTEN-
ITFIC .4ND LITERARY
q. W. Sz1 rK~ rE~E JrE~ mz-
Near Rapmona Hinds Coinltn.


YHVHE plan and discipline of the School. also
Il the text books and uniform worn bv the
Cadets, are the same as that adopted al the Uni
ted States Military Academy at West Poinl.
The Faculty has been orgonzed, ana consists
OF fCoL. Z. II. GoLDsBoRouGH. Superintendent
ard President Of the Board Professor o! Civil
and Military Engineering and General tactics.
JOINS NERSoS, a. ~, Professor Of Mathematics
and Natural Philosophy.
q. w. GIBBONS, a. b., Professor Of the Ancient
Languages and English Literature
4. HANSUM, Professor of Moral and Mental
Philosophy, ard Principal OF the Preparatory
Department.
guage and Drawing.
Educated al West Point
The Students, on entering, will be required
to bring with them one trunk, one clothes bag,
SIX shirts, three pair drawers, six pair socks tWo
black stocks, two pair high quartered shoes, one
TIN tumber, one tooth brush, small tooth comb,
hair and backing brushes, and blacking-all to
be marked with the name in full or initials.
The session Will commence on the Isl Sep
tember, 1919.
EXPENSES.
The expenses Of a Cadet, including board,
tuiton, furnishing uniform clothes, caps, books.
stationery, use Of arms. fuel, lights. washing
mendng, Sc, for five months, Zone session.
will be SI2O
These articles are fixed to fair and egnita-
be limit, with no extra charges at all, and are
the same is those 81 the Alabama Military In
s;itute.
little School is row open for tie reception
Of Students, ot rom 10 Ii u years Of aye.
The expenses OF opening the institute being
very great, and falling Individually Oh the Su-
perintendent payment Tor first session viii be
required in advance
VlsITERs-The Governor Of Tie State; Hon
W A LAKE. Il !, Coleman Esq, Nickaburg; L
II Stone, Esq hinds county: L J Wharton,
ESQ Raymond; Col VIM Smith Clinton; Maj
J Peyton, Raymond; Col Iegrand. ilnds CO;
r Il Archer, Esq. Port Gibson; DR. ID NJ Dan
cpv, Raymond; L IL Coleman, Madison; L Nj
Gaines, Esq Natchez; Rev L Butler, Port Glib
son; Gen VI Du.lie'd, Jackson, Gen p Henry
Madison; Gen & VI Price. Jackson; Gen I
Holmes, E Mason. Esq, Eicksburg; Hon ] NJ
Taylor, Clinton; Mai Geo Work, Kinds; Dir t ]
!. Caichings. Bottoms; II Beauchamp, Esq
/ Utica; A r Green ESD Newtown; J \ Scott
Washington con.;y: II w Nick Vcksburg L
ontgomery Madison county; Il Kinds, Jelier-
son county; Gibeon Gibson. Warren county.
COURSE OF STUDIES
Preparatory Departn u.-Lalin Grammar
/ (Anthou's) Latin Reade,, Caesar. (hnbon -
Virgil, (Anthon's) .our books, Greek Grammar
and Reader, SaiIust, Geography, (MtcheI's,l
anG us-5 Of the globes; History, (Nil?son 81
English Grammar, (BuIlion's,) Arithmetic AM
& Elementary Algebra, (Davies'.) Composition
EIocution. aud Tactics, as applied to Drilling
Reading and Writing perfectly.
Fourth Class Ereyhmau.-livy Virgil, Ci
cero's OratonS, Greek Reader, NenuIhon's 5 An
abasis, Bourlon's Algebra, Lcvizac's Frenct
Grammar and Charles MI, first part Of Draw
ing (Geomctrical and Topograp pdicai.) Davies
Surveying and Geometry, Astronomy, History
Composition, Elocuiion, and Taciics, as applied
to the school Of the soldier
Third Class Sopl0morc.- Juvenal, Horace
Maiara, ls and I'd vol j. the application OF Alge
bra to Geometry. Trigonometry, Natural Philo
sophy, "a part Of Drawing, (laDt>capa IA pen
ell, &c French and Spanish languages, As
fronomy, Rollins History Of English Literature
Modern and Ancient History, the use OF lin
small Sword and Tactics, as applied to the du
ties of commissioned and commissioned q
ticers.
Seco,.! -.Iunilr-C dc Otficiir
Tacitus, Eurinides, Horace, Descriptive Gcen
etry. Davies Shades and Shadows and Perspec
tive Analytical Geometry. Moral and Menta
Philosophy Geology, Chemistry, Sd part Draw
ng, Chuman figure.) French and Spanish Ian
guageS, use d Ordnance and broad Swold, an
Tactics, as applied TO the duties Of the battalion
Tirst Class- Sea,or.- Moral & Mental Phi
losophv, Bellies Ietires Military and Civil Engi
neering, the attack, approach, end defence {
fortified places, General Drawing, Different In
tenfai Calxuli General History Of the Unite
states, Ancient Geography, Political Eeonom
and Laws Of Nations. and the General Mi,itar
Science, as instructed at West Point.
CHAS. II. GGLDSBORCUGH,
Superintendent VI. NJ. |.
August 2i, lS49. 52-Om