4G4 A SKETCH OF EDUCATION IX SOUTH CAROLINA, 



lumtlred pupils, at an average annual expense of about $3,600. A female 

 school in Society street, established in 1873, has five teachers and an 

 average attendance of 230 pupils. 



A rAROCHIAL SCHOOL FOR COLORED CHILDREN, 



attached to St. Peter's Church, numbers two teachers and 130 pupils. 



HOLY COMMUNION CHURCH INSTITUTE. 



In the year 1867, the Rev. A. Toomer Porter, D. D., of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church, conceived the idea of establishing a classical school 

 for children of parents in straitened circumstances, the pupils to pay such 

 sums for tuition and board as they might be able, while many were 

 taught gratuitoush^ Its excellence has commended it to general patron- 

 age. The alumni of the school already number over two thousand. Ex- 

 penses have averaged ^18,000 a year, a total of nearly $300,000 during 

 its existence. Its revenues are derived partly from tuition fees, and partly 

 from subscriptions raised at home. and abroad. 



Parties in New York had contributed up to 1881, $43,000, Baltimore 

 and Washington $24,000, Hartford $15,000, Boston $12,000, while other 

 localities had swelled the total from abroad to $108,000. Friends in Eng- 

 land contributed $32,000 more. 



In 1881, the further sums of $12,400 were given by Northern friends, 

 and $4,300 by English philanthropists. The school closed the year free 

 of all debt. Mr. .John Gadsden is principal, with nine male and five 

 female assistants. Attendance in 1881 was 206, of which number 44 

 boarders, and 37 day scholars were beneficiaries. 



CONFEDERATE HOME AND SCHOOL. 



The first practical step for the organization of the Confederate Home 

 and School in Charleston was taken August 12, 1867. On that day, the 

 present and only President which the institution has ever had — Mrs. M. 

 A. Snowden — in company with her pastor, secured the present premises, 

 at the rent of $1,800 per year. To meet this rent there was. but one 

 dollar in hand, the gift of an inmate of a charitable institution in Balti- 

 more. 



Immediately after securing the building, which has been ever since 

 used, a meeting of ladies was called, a constitution adopted, and an organ- 

 ization effected. The following officers were elected : President Mrs. 

 M. A. Snowden ; Vice-President, Miss Sus(in Matilda Middleton ; Secre- 



