PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

PEMBROKE SCHOOL, BALTIMORE, December 4th, 1866.

Pembroke School has been in operation since September,
1863. During the first year the number of students was
66, the second year 96, the third year 90, the fourth year
107, in the third month of the session.

The average age of students is about 13 years. Probably
no Private School in Baltimore has ever secured so large a
patronage in so short a time.

It is the design of the Principal to erect upon ground
already secured for the purpose, a commodious School Build-
ing,which, in adaptation to its object, shal] be equal, if not
superior to any Private Institution in the City.

JAS. C. KINEAR, Principal.

PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN CECIL COUNTY— F. A. Ems,
President.—The select Female Schools at Fair Hill and Zion
have been established by the Rev. J. H. Johns, a Presbyte-
rian Clergyman, and are taught by young ladies, two at
Fair Hill and one at Zion. The teacher at Fair Hill receives
$300 a year and her board; the other, being a teacher of
Drawing and Music, receives a salary somewhat higher.
The teacher at Zion receives a salary of $300 and her board.
It is the design of the patrons of these Schools, as I under-
stand, to place them under the charge of the School Board
so soon as we are prepared to establish graded Schools in
their localities, and the necessary buildings can be supplied.
The other schools, named in the Report, are all small schools,
kept by ladies in their own houses, except that of B. F.
Heath, in Port Deposit, who has, I believe, some 30 or 35
scholars.

PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN DORCHESTER COUNTY—
ROBERT F. THOMPSON, President.—The Female Seminary in
Cambridge is very flourishing, and the Academy is prosper-
ous, though not so successful as it ought to be in a town as
large as Cambridge, Private Schools are poorly maintained!.
Some 8 schools were started the Fall term as subscription
schools, but the most of them closed for want of support and
on account of sickness, before the end of the term; I there-
fore make no report above.

PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN HOWARD COUNTY—S. K.
DASHIELI,, President.—I addressed a circular to each Private'