FEMALE SEMINARIES. Rutgers' Female Institute. City of New York. TRUSTEES. Isaac Ferris, D. D., Joseph Hoxie, John H. Williams, Irad Hawley, Thomas Williams, jr., William H. Falls, J. K. Hardenbrook, M. D., J. K. Herrick, Thomson Price George W. Betts, James Rowe, Jared L. Moore, William Henry Crosby, John Harper, Morris Franklin. Charles E. West, A. M., Professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry, Principal.-13 Assistants. Miss Rosine Giraud, French Instructress. Miss Elizabeth I. Burr, Instructress in Drawing and Painting. E. Ives, jr., Professor of Music. Number of Pupils, January, 1840-450. This Institution is situated in Madison-street, one door east of Clinton-street, N. Y., on an elevation, where it enjoys a free circulation of air, while it is retired in a degree from the noise and bustle of a thoroughfare. Its object is, to impart a thorough knowledge of those branches which constitute a useful education, and as far as practicable on the principle of analysis. It is under the general supervision of a Board of fifteen Trustees, who visit it by Committees every month, and examine each depart. ment. Yonkers Female Seminary and Boarding School. George W. Bleecker, Principal. "This Institution is situated on the bank of the Hudson river, a quarter of a mile north of the village of Yonkers, Westchester county, N. Y. Its healthy situation, commanding prospect, pleasant retired walks extending over many acres shaded by forest trees, and its easy access from the city, being only seventeen miles distant from the city, recommend this location to public patronage." Astoria Female Institute. Astoria, Long Island. Rev. John W. Brown, A. M., Rector. Rev. Caleb Clapp, A. M., Chaplain, and 1st Assistant Teacher. A. Kamera, Instructer on the Piano and Organ. Madame Servatius, Instructer in French. St. Ann's Female Institute, Flushing, Long-Island. Rev. John F. Schroeder, Principal. Fulton Female Seminary. Miss M. C. Maynard, Principal. Principal Female Seminaries, Miss Arabella Clark, 45 Mercer-street. Mrs. Okill, Corner of Ninth and Mercer-streets. Miss Oram, 90 Perry-street. Miss Morgan, Corner of East Broadway and Market-sts. Mrs. Starr, Bleecker-street. Mrs. E. Smith, 5th Avenue. Miss Mary Doty, 66 East Broadway. Mrs. S. C. Reid, Corner 14th-street and 7th Avenue. Mrs. Brown, Laight-street. Mrs. Mulligan, 43 Walker-street. Miss Forbes, Abingdon Square. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, Houstoun-street. Misses Marshall, 375 Broome-street. Mrs. Roberts, 101 Mercer-street. Miss Martha Comstock, Division-street. Brooklyn. Young Ladies Schools. Theodore Dwight, jr., 155 Adams-street. Mr. Demarest-26 Nassau.street. OTHER FEMALE SEMINARIES. Names and Locations, of some of the most noted Female Seminaries in this Town or Village. Utica Whitesboro' F. Seminary Whitesboro' Name. Albany county. State. Albany Female Seminary Albany Albany Female Academy do Allegany county. Female Seminary ...... Broome county. Female Institute. • Angelica Clinton Seminary Boarding School • Binghamton Female Seminary ...... do do Female Boarding School Vernon Waterville Seminary Onondaga county. ... . Waterville Skaneateles F. Seminary Skaneateles Geneva F. Academy.... Geneva Orange county. Albion F. Academy Otsego county. Newburgh do · Albion Cooperstown F. Semi'ry Cooperstown Rensselaer county. ... Jamaica Troy Female Seminary Troy Saratoga county • Schodack Saratoga Spring Academy Saratoga Sp'ng do Waterford F. Seminary Waterford Schenectady do....... Female Academy -Schenectady • Riverhead ..Ithaca Sackett's Harbor Acad. Madison county. Sackett's Har. Female Academy Westchester county. Mt. Pleasant F. SeminarySing Sing Young Ladies' Board ing School,.. Hamilton Academy... Hamilton Rochester Rochester F. Academy do Seward Female Academy Yates county. White Plains · Penn Yan COMMON SCHOOLS. Abstract of the Annual Report of JOHN C. SPENCER, Superintendent of Common Schools to the Legislature, February 10, 1840. THE CONDITION OF THE COMMON SCHOOLS OF THE STATE. The number of School Districts. The number of these on the 31st day of December, 1838, from which reports were received by the Commissioners was, Whole districts, 7,983 Parts of districts, 4,288 Assuming two parts to make a whole, 2,144 Total number reporting, 10,127 The number reported on the 31st December, 1837, was 9,830 Showing an increase during the year 1838, of The number stated by the Commissioners as existing on the first The number in 1837, of districts estimated in the same way, was 10,706 10,583 Showing an increase of 123 As some of the joint districts consist of parts of two towns, others of three, and others of four towns, it is impossible to state accurately the whole number of districts. The usual practice has been to consider two parts as making a district: and this is the nearest approxi. mation to accuracy that can be obtained. Number of children instructed. The number of children reported as having been instructed in the common schools during the year 1838, is The number instructed in 1837, was 557,229 528,913 Showing an increase during the year 1838, of. The average number that attended school in each district, in 1838, was 55. In 1837, it was 53 seventy-nine ninety-eights. The average term during which schools were taught by qualified teachers, during 1838, was 8 months. In the city of New-York, schools were kept the whole year; in the county of Kings, they were kept an average term of 11 months. The Expenditure of the School Moneys. The following sums were raised during the year 1838, for the support of common schools, applicable only to the payment of teachers' wages, viz: Raised by the Boards of Supervisors of the counties, Appropriated by the State, $110,000 00 110,000 00 The Trustees of school districts received in 1838, and applied to the payment of teachers' wages, the whole of the above sum of The amount paid by individuals for teachers' wages during the same year, was exceeding the amount so paid in 1837, by $43,602 22 The total amount of expenditures of school moneys reported, therefore, is $374,411 61 521,477 49 $895,889 10 In order to ascertain the actual expense of maintaining the common schools, the following estimated amounts should be added to the above: 1. Interest on money invested in school-houses, which is obtained by allowing $200 as the average cost of a school-house, that is, one for each of the 10,127 reporting districts, which gives a principal of $2,025,400, which at 6 per cent. produces the amount stated. 2. Annual expense of books, slates, and stationery, for 557,229 scholars, at $1 each, 3. Fuel for 10,127 school-houses, at $10 each, 4. Fees of collectors on the amount raised by tax, $244,685 85. $121,524 00 557,229 00 101,270 00 6,117 14 5. Fees for collecting rate-bills, $521,477 49, at per cent., the sum allowed by law, 5 26,073 85 6. Repairs of school-houses, $5 for each, 50,625 00 12,345 00 |