Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Last Monday week was the annual visitation of the schools in this town. Within a few years, new school houses have been erected, and new arrangements have been added. The schools for young girls have been opened, and the schools for the boys have been put under new regulations.

At the visitation, the school committee were accompanied by the selectmen, overseers and principal town officers, with private gentlemen and the clergy.

In the west school under master Hacker, pleasing specimens of reading and writing were given. The art of writing is here taught with great success.

In the center writing school under Mr. Gray great improvements were visible, and among the youth was the son of a free African, named Titus Caesar Augustus, who distinguished himself among the scholars.

In the eastern school under master Lang, the children were small, in some degree owing to the convenient private schools near the common, at which the larger boys complete their school education, and study English grammar, navigation, French, surveying, drawing, &c.

In the grammar school under master Rogers, we have some of our most promising youth, who study the learned languages, English grammar, geography, mathematics and penmanship, from whom we have the greatest expectations.

By the continued care of the committee, and the fidelity of the masters, we expect to render our public schools a distinguished honor to the town, and adequate to the highest purposes of their institution. Their importance is universally acknowledged, and we trust that they will have the patronage of all good citizens. Their present success is an agreeable subject of public congratulation.