The amount expended, the pupils taught and the number of teachers are about the same in each district, and the schools are efficiently and economically managed, the annual expense in each school being about $5,000. A principal and seven assistants are employed in each, and the average daily attendance in each is about three hundred.

THE TOWN OF CORTLANDT.

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The Peekskill Military Academy is delightfully situated upon Oak Hill, a high eminence overlooking the surrounding country and commands an extended view of the ever changing scenery of the Hudson.

The Academy was built with a capital stock of $7,000, subscribed by the inhabitants of Peekskill, and is under a Board of Trustees and the Regents of the University of the State of New York. The building, originally erected in 1835, and enlarged within the past twenty years by various important additions, is surrounded by over six acres of ground and many fine old trees, and presents one of the most attractive and prominent objects of note in the town. It is, too, to no little extent, associated with its local history, for during its forty years successful career, many prominent citizens have been educated within its walls and many more from distant parts; and we find among its 1,800 of either teachers or taught, the names of some well known throughout our State, viz: Gen. J. W. Husted, Hon. C. M. Depew and others. It was for thirty years, until 1873, under its well known principal, Albert Wells, Esq., and has since that date been conducted by Col. Charles J. Wright, A. M., and Robert Donald, A. M., associate principals. At present it has one hundred students, among whom even Japan has a representation. The present valuation of its property is about $75,000. The following is its Board of Trustees: Hon.