New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-28
Teachers Salaries

RES OF the male teachers. There is already n
very considerable disparity between the COM
pensation received by male and female teachers
occupying corresponding places and performing
equal duties, and there seems no good reason
why still greater difference should be made
If the male teachers did more or better work,
there would be some grounds for still further
increasing their salary but it is not so the
female teachers perform their duties as faith
fully and successfully as their male rivals, if
not more so. This can be proved by an exam
ination of the corresponding classes in the male
and female departments of almost any of our
schools
Some difference in salary we know there must
be, to mark the superiority of the lords of Gre
alton, which certainly does not appear in their
teaching. Their services, it seems, are worth
more, because, they being more, and being
more because men, having it all their own way.
have so decided, Might in this case, makes
right-or rather, takes the place of it.
| 1t is urged, in favor Of this old fogyish and
unjust custom, that the education of men costs
more than that of women that men have fami-
| lies to support, and that there is more difficulty
| in securing their services, on account of their
having so many more resources, The last ar
gument is the only one of any weight in the
| present instance; for the fact that we hayemale
I
School, settles the cast arguments and as we
| have more female than male teachers who have
| families to support, the second reason falls to
| the ground, With regard to the third and most
! important, viz the difficulty of securing com
petent male teachers, at the present rate Of COM
pensation, we have only to say, raise the sal
arieS until they IRE sufieieaf-but raise them
| all in a corresponding ratio
| There is more hard work done in the primary
department than in any Of the others; and the
labor, too, is more injurious to the health, there
| being necessity to talk almost necessarily in
order TO accomplish anything. Little children
require to be taught every thing orally: and to
maintain discipline among them, the vigilance
| OF the teacher must never dag, though her
| strength does. The accommodations, too, in
| those departments, are quite Inferior the rooms
| being smaller, and the number of pupils much
greater, than in higher departments Yet we
| hear nothing about raising the salary of the
poor, over-worked primary teachers True,
| they perform their work faithfully while their
health lasts; but when it fails and they be-
| come unfit for service, it is always easy to fill
| their places-a circumstance which materially
decreases the marketable value of their labors
| This applying q commercial test to the SER
| vices Of teachers is rather diseouragng, and
| calculated to dampen the enthusiasm with which
many of them enter upon the performance of
! their duties. To raise the salaries of certain
class of teachers because their schools are in
tcrior, seems like offering premium for inef-
| ficiency.
Raise the salaries all round gentlemen; that
IS the better way. '*'~
The Alabama State Sentinel welcomes back
an old friend into the ranks of the editorial
corpse, tells him that he & wields pen as hut
few can WELD, and that % as long as he is en-.
gagged in promulgating exploded defunct whig
doctrines, his name will be unthought of and un-
sung We are hound to suppose that the
intention of this unique paragraph was friendly,
but it certainly caps our conceptions of rhetoric
and intellectual gymnastics. win the gentle
man who is welcomed in the SO editorial corpse"
let us know how he fiourishes and what kind Of
a pen it is that he wields as but few can
wied' We feel anxious.
MRs PARrMdToN The Doctor has been on
a visit to the North and just returned While
there he spent few days with Mrs Partington,
and says that one morning, just rs they had sat
down to breakfast, Ike told his mother that Mrs.
Moody had got the Saint Anthony S Fire
Dear me !" said the good old lady, raising
her silver speetacles, :" dear me, how distrust-
lal' When did she catch it Why don't they
get one Of Mr. Burnems Fire Delineators and
give her Dear me, how shocking"
While his mother vas speaking Ike stole two
humps of sugar,
Late java papers say that the celebrated lady
! traveller, Nine Ida Pseiffer, had left Amboyna
anu the Island of Saparoea, accompanied by ten
natives, with whom she proceeded to Makariki,
ana thence by foot through Ceram.
! few days since, on the New York aud Erie
Railroads a train left Corning for the city of
New York, consisting of sevonty-six cars, drawn
hy single engine, loaded with eighi hunaied
Ho@and feet Of lumber.
The citizens of Wilmington rendered Seore.
tary Dobbin public dinner during his recent
visit to North Carolina. 1t was declined on
account Of the necessity for an immediate return
10 Washington,
The friends of Nina, the favorite Southern
mare who was recently beaten by Red Eye, the
! Virginia nag, have offered to run another race
against the latter for either $1,000 or $4,000 a
side
| Mr. Gilbert, Of the firm Of Mckinney & Gil
bert, Cincinnati, few days since had $500 in
money and $4,000 i'll certificates of stock, stolen
from his valse while on a railroad train,
! a mail from the Salt Lake region was received
at independence, Missouri, on the 25th ult.,
icing the first entirely through the Valley for
many months
| On the authority of the Cincinnati Gazette,
we learn that $500, 900 has been subscribed in
that city for the Nincennes and Paducah road,
! $50 miles
The steamship Washington sailed from New
York on the 18th for Bremen, ria Southampton,
with Ito passengers and 100000 in specie.
Daniel W. Whitney has recovered $500 dam
ages from the Hudson River Railroad Company
for injuries received on the road
On the 10Th of Marchv Chinese theatre at
/ Whnmpoa was destroyed by fire, and sixty
| females persisted in the flames.
The Secretary Of the Navyis again at his post
81 Washington, eftst btisf visit Il bis dPtnisii
| il sgsiA csfsiss.