Education in New Albany

On Monday morning next, Sept. 3d, at 9 o'clock, the Public Schools of New Albany will be opened for the fall and winter term of 1866-67. We are gratified to learn that the schools will be commenced under the most favorable auspices, and with an able corps of teachers in every department. The Trustees have exercises unusual care and rigor in the selection of both Principals and Assistants; they have looked to qualification intellectual, moral, and social in their choice; and we believe that the schools will be conducted in a manner eminently satisfactory to the parents of the pupils and the Board of Trustees.. It is the duty of every parent who designs sending his or her children to the public Schools, to have them there promptly at the opening of the schools on Monday. This will enable the teachers to grade them at once, and thus prevent confusion and dissatisfaction in the future. Another duty of parents is to aid teachers by their influence at home in the discipline of the schools. This can be done easily, and will prove invaluable in the aid it will afford teacher in the proper government of the pupils. It will prove equally advantageious to the scholar, as it will bring him under that healthy and proper control which inspire ambition and begets diligence in study.. The number of Public Schools in the city, including Scribner High School, is seven. A very comfortable and commodious school house has been built during the present year in West Union, thus affording the people in that part of the city advantages they have never before enjoyed. During the coming season anther school house is to be built on Upper Spring street, near Vincennes.. ...J. B. Reynolds, Principal, Scribner High School; Charles Cross, Principal, No. 1 Grammar School--Lower Market Street; John N. Payne, Principal No. 2 Grammar School--Upper Main Street; Mr. P. N. Allbright, Principal No. 3 Grammar School--Lower Spring Street; Mr. L. Y. Bailey, Principal No. 4 Grammar School--Upper Fourth Street; Miss H. N. Critchlowe, Teacher [the only one] No. 5--Lower Albany; Miss Mary E. Durgin, Teacher [the only one] at No. 6--West Union. [Teachers at the schools are also listed...]...