Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-06
OUR PRIVATE scHooLs
Their Prosperity and Popular intellectual
Progress.

Not the least of misfortunes that befel
the South in the first years of the past de-
cade was the suspension of schools and
closingof Observation-Disclosures. Southern
youths, in the North and in Europe, were
recalled, and those at home were suffered
ex-Hecessitdte to grow up in ignorance.
There is a very perceptible difference be-
tween the manners, bearing and general
intelligence Of the "young men of the
upon the duties of manhood ten years
ago. All educated people have marked
the -retrogression in intelligence, and ali
have deplored it. But the South has
evinced no greater energy in the repro
duction of its physical than educational
resources, and if fields have been
carefully cultivated, houses repaired
and fences rebuilt, no less en-
I and intelligence has been
developed in the re-establishment Of
schools and educational institutions. Col
leges that are richly endowed like the
Universities Of Mississippi and Alabama
nave been seized upon, in many instances,
by knaves and adventurers, and rem
dered utterly valueless, but schools are
even more numerous now than before.
If the South continues TO prosper its in
stitutions Of learning will soon transcend
in all elements OF excellence, and in the
number of attendants those that existed
before the war. The infusion of a vast
deal of ignorance into the mass OF voting
populations has excited many to greater
efforts directed TO the attainment of in
tellectusl superiority. To b extent
that Federal law can equalize races,
equality is perfect, and there has
resulted among the most ignorant whites
an ~snxiety to elevate their children in
the scale of intellectual humanity stron-
ger than was ever operative before.
Never before were their schools of such
unmiXed excellence maintained in this
CITY. II has been asserted, even by John
Randolph, that public free schools de-
prived parents of the strongest possible
incentive to Industry. Whether this OBJ
lection be tensble or not, the excellent
Free Schools of Memphis, maintained at
great cost, nave only multiplied and i'm
proved the self-sustaining private acade-
mics of Memphis. Prof. NigUs is a peer
less teacher. His seat Of learning and
philosophy is on Wellington street, near
Beale. Nj. Rhett has won a reputation
in this city in social and professional life
which no gentleman over before achieved
within the briet period of four years. He
YOUTHS in this city. The Armour
Institute, 27I Madison street, und ? the
supervision of Miss Emily b. Armour;
the Elmwood Academy, at the northeast
corner of the cemetery, managed by the
learned I. J. GirardeaU the Park Avenue
Academy, on the Memphis and Charles
tonr railroad, W. L. Miller, MA, Princi-
pal; Mrs. Mays excellent school known
as the Turley English and French Fe-
male INSTITUTED, corner Wellington and
Linden; the Memphis Female College, 2S2
Adams street, VIM. Carroll, AN, Prin-
cipal; st. Mary's School, 35S Poplar street,
in charge of the accomplished Mrs. Mary
L. Pope; the Lee Academy, on Adams
street, under the direction of that distin-
guished teacher, Mrs. NJ. A. z. Nor
gan, than whom there is not one
more thoroughly trained for her
work; and the Gaines Institute, l09
Madison street, conducted by those skill
full and thoroughly trained principals,
Misses V. d. and NJ. w. Bowers-all
these schools, their advertisements APP
pearing in the APPEAL this morning, are
as honorable TO the people that sustain as
to the distinguished instructors of youths
who conduct them. The next generation
of Memphis business men and house
wives will surely transcend in all quail
ties tina refined intelligence confers the
men and women of our day.