Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-06

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OF this sum there has been expended in building per-
manenf Improvements 1912 81; tor addition 10 ac.
commodate the Female Teacher $3.50; for a brick
Kitchen TO same, and S4i5 SO for lightning rods and
such necessary repairs the building and premises from
time 10 time needed, making in all, in five years
1918 81; to which add the annual appropriation Of
$500 ordered 10 be paid to the Iredegar Free School
and has been paid for this aud last year making 5000
and total Of 81 278 Sd; which deduct from 81
$40, leaves Sc 496 Sc, with which the tuition and sta
tionary charseable and which makes &6296 &c,
aged in five years, yield 81 259 SO per year. 81 259 80
divided by 376-he number OF scholars averaged dur
ing the time makes So IS per scholar; result
which, while il is exceedingly complimentary to the
management of the Board OF Trustees from year to
| year, must be also very gratifying to the Council
Ii may not be anss here 10 add, that the school COM
missoueis Tor this city, OF which OF tins Board s
PEesden and another member, finding it utterly I'M
practicable to carry out the requirements OF the law by
entering the chlidren each i'll his ward or neeibor
hood, to mixed schools, 10 be taught for anything like
the price allowed being CTS per day per wear OF
200 school days, surprising the child lose day from
sickness, &c as we'll as the entire practicable ncom-
pactlbli!ty OF assoclang iee and pay schoars TO-
gether IN cites, have appropriated $3.50 annually by
sending scholars TO this school, which, IL will be seen
increases the pay Tor each scholar 81 81 and that the
aggregate amounts 10 81 IS each per aunum.
We have made these estimates upon the annual
age aiordin2 IN our opinion, the most accurate and
just information OF the practical useulness Of the school
in dfiusIns It's benefits in whole part
10 ma Ike correct daily average is attended with
many and great difficulties the intervention of RAINY
occupation OF the pupils, &C.; we submit, however the
daily average lor the la quarter deducling only "a my
days and holidays as furnished by the Traceisia their
reports and tins has beeu The I'd Of May las BOYS
and 81 girls, making 226 pupils i'll daily attendance
who have been wholly taught cost OF 81 rs each
TO the city, leaving 100 who have been educated in part
and TN winch that sum should be credited at the rate
OF 81 al each
Thus, gentlemen, yoa are instructing well in all
the elementary branches OF plain, but coed English
education IN whole or id part, time under The gu
pOuS, ia
hundred and six pupils annually, and al a cost
to HE city oil SO IS each Hee they ale taught spell
ing reading writing, cypheiInG tthe three first a-
b!es,, and little grammar and dictionary meanings,
hitting them well Tor any branch of mechanics, OF
bhng them to enter the compiling room, in both OF
which respectable situations daily many among
your entepsng and respectable merchants your hardy
and Industrious mechanics grown up men, able to read
Their Bible TO keep their accounts, to enrich their
minds IN knowledge by reading the experience Of 9TH
ers, and at once, and in a mass constituting the pal
iadium OF civil and religious liberty uncompromising
Ices to presteratl and demagoguelsm
10 tins instruction is euperadded, under sklful and
capable instrucess, plain and ornamental neede-work,
by when many OF your interesting women, now wives
ana mnhars, have been taught those highly useful
cotpllshments, from the coat and pantaloons which
cover The person OF their husbands and sons, to the
healiy embroidered dress, richly worked muslin,
~hlch adofns themselves or daughters.
ANA we an that II may be borne IN mind as prepa-
faoiy 10 due and Just appreciation OF the continued
uhremitted and duly adjusted exercise oil mental and
pnyslcai eXer ION which the teachers are called and
exF sced to perform daily, that large majority OF these
pupils thus instructed, male and female when they
entered school were little uDcombed urchns of five or
SIX years. from all kinds of domestic training mental
ana moral the tips of whose tiny fingers were fest used
70 iom each letter OF the alphabet the sand while
thelr tongues were taught TO lisp its name.
what emotions OF gratitude and lhankfulnees to Di-
Vm9 ffovidence must visit to such school awaken
10 the breast OF every patriot and plsnhropst tor the
blessed influence oil our free institutions in opening wide
the portals to preermeni to all who desire to seek
niche In the temple of Fame. and its usefulness.
The attention OF the Board has been called to a |
sarly day, and which, adopted calculated to change
he character of this institution There many features
a the ordinance which commend it highly to the friends