Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-04-04

unimpared at home.
THE PUBLIC EXAMINATION of the school in
this district, came off last Friday and Saturday.
The exercises were very interesting, and gave
the parents of the scholars and the friends of the
school every encouragement, from the manifest
attachments and great proficiency Displayed
We were somewhat disappointed TO learn that
some ofthe scholars had abscnted themselves SO
as TO avoid an examination this occurrence
should doubtless be set down to the fault of the
parents, for they were, or ought to be acquitted
with the fact of their absence yet we can hard
ly suppose a parent could be so misguided as to
countcnance a child in Sinking
We have never been pleased with the arrange
ment and length of the vacations in tho school,
yet we shall reserve our remarks on tina. subject
for some other occasion.
The schools at present in high state ofcul,
ture, and we risk nothing in saying there never
was n select school, taken as whole, in this
place, that could begin to compare with either of
the public schools in this city.
The great sccrctof good school is in having
good teachers, and money should not be spoken
ofin comparison with it. We conclude this ar
tcle by showing the price paid to the teachers of
schools in some of the other States:
The principal of the High School in Boston
receives an annual salary OF S2l00; in \. York
city $1,000; in Philadelphia $4,000: in Bald-
more $1,000; in Salem s 500 in Cambridrc
e 400 in ('EarlnStD,yD 900 III,
ola common school in New York city, from ST.
900 to $500, in Philadelphia, $1,000, in Balti-
more, $3.50, in Cincinnati $780, il Providence,
X. l., 5000. The principal ofthe Union School
in Sandusky City and Massion, Ohio. each re-
ceiye IN annual salary of $500
In this city the principals receive about 5000.
The Illinois papers are discussing their Bank
Question. Their Bill does not suffer an institu-
ton to SO into operation until the securities
(Which are to be State, or L. S, Stocks.) are
deposited with the State Auditor. Their Bank
ing Law, which was passed this last winter, and
is to be submitted to the electors this fall, is as
good Charter as far as safety to the commune
ty is concerned, as we ever read. There is not
much doubt bat that the Charter will be accent
ed, although the advocates of hard money cur
rcncy are hard at work in opposition to it
There is also no doubt but that the assistance
and encouragement that will be extended to her
business men, all over her widespread territory.
will give an impetus to business. that she new.
er enjoyed before. Fourteen years long have
the hard moneycd mon Of Illinois borne irresis
tible sway and they are not so near roalisinq
their golden dreams Of golden currency. as
when they started in the pursuit of what has been
to them delusve phantom Meanwhile worth.
less paper, or al the best, the representative OF
foreign capital, has been the only "Circula,ine
Medium and those who signed these rags -
have lived, and amae>,d uncounted wealth in the
face and eyes OF opposing enactmcnts, and I'M
maturcd laws.
The people Of this State will also, soon be
called upon to express thcir views in relation
to this question; and for tho sake of elicitino
thought, we have thrown out these sentiments