Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1821-10-06


purchase. For damaging states, To-
ing pencils, uegligencies, &c. sc. they,
are sometimes fined in tickets. The
children value these tickets highly,
both for the honor which the number
Of them confers, aud tho substantial
profit they afford.
All the scholars live at the mission
house. where they are both clothed
and fed gratuitously. unless their pa
rents choose to pay the expense which
Is not often the case. Besides the Iite-
rary, religious, aud moral instruction
which they receive, they are taught
practical farming, and are initiated
into habits OF industry, an art and vir-
tue unknown among savages. They
all eat IN spacious hail attached to
the rear OF the mansion, the boys at
one table and the girls at another, at
which the pastor, teacher, and the la
dies Of the family preside. The order
and decency observed at their meals e.
| qually surprised and pleased me-. The
boys occupy several detached cabins
as lodging roomss which form the
right wing of the mission house; the
| girls spacious one on the left, where
they are accompanied by daughter of
MIR. Hoyt. They, 10 the day, sit and
work in the NUN building, where they
form husys interesting, and pleasing
! groups, around some of the ladies Of
the family.
What is learned in the school room
is net the most considerable, nor, con-
sideriaS the situation Of the nation, the
most important part of their education.
| They are made practical farmers I'm
der the direction of an excellent mana.
ger, by which means they give direcl
support to the institutions, aud procure
Important advantages to themselves.
Every Monday morning the Iabors
OF the week are assigned 10 each, the
boys being mustered hefnfe the hous,,
aud the girls assembled within it,
The former, accoldins to heir employ.
ments, ere denominated hoe boys, a.re
boys, plough boys, Sc. and am ,pg The
latter are divided the duties If cardins.
spinning, cooi,iGs, aad h.use work,
and making and mendiog tie garments
ut the scholars. Every morning III
the week afterwards the boys are ,um-
moned into line by the sound of
whistle. After the roll IS called, the
| classes are desisnated by naming their
| aVocations, when The members of each
step out Of the runks, and enter upon
their several employmen,s with great
| spirit and alacrity. They remain in
the school Elk hours Il dny, and work
four. / went round to y:sit them u,
their several iabofs in the wood and in
the field, and found them every where
busy and cheerful. TiIey seemed by
their manner 10 require DO other recre.
alton: A prudent we'll regulated sys.
ten Of moral discipline appeared com
| pletely to supersede the necessity Of e.
very kind of corporal punishment or
physical coercion. The utmost har-
mouy rsigned throughout. Neither
ldleness nor games gave them occasion
for feuds and dissenticns. Their affee-
! ton for their teachers seemed to be uu-
| bounded. l have seen the BOYS, hy
half dozens. surround MIR. Chamber
lain when he came in fatigued, clasp
him round the neck and arms, all ca.
ger to tell or ask something, and en-
| gage his attention, aud when he had
! good hrmoredly shaken of cHe set he
would be Immediately surrounded by
! another, ciamornas as blaekbireis. "A
command. however, would always re-
duce them instantly TO order ami place.
Play is occasionally allow ed, One
boy will throw upa sonrd or shiogle,
which will come TO The ground with
half dozen arrows sticking in it
Bathing in the fine clear streams of
Cbiehamauguh is permitted twice a
| week. Indeed an Indian would not
dispense With this, for they are se!u-
| pulously attentive 10 cleanliness An
Indian child runs into the water as M
turally as duck. have seen them
particularly among the Chickasa ws
, rec six years old, up TO their ehins
in the stream of bold creek. Col.
Me'Ss, the Indian agent, asked Che
rokee girl why she did not marry IA
white man who paid his addresses to
her; she replied, that she could not en-
| dUre white men, they were SO dirty,
never, as she understood, bathing ia
the creeks as the red people did,
have seen the girls at their several
employments forming circles round
some of the ladies Of the family, begui.
ling the time by singing and CONVERSE
ton, and seeming, as TO doubt they
resliy were, very happy. The while
children of the mission family are
treated in all respects as the Indian
children are. Indeed ap exemption
from apy part Of The To,Ifine of dufv