The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-11

Of the agents. and tie prcdigious efforts which
are being made to finish the houses and make
them worthy of the country, we have right
to expect something extraordinary in the way
Of operate entertainments either from the new
opera company or Mr.. Niblo.
DISCIPLINE IN ScnooIs-A GREAT REFORM
DEMANDEp.-We extract the following para
graph from one of our morning contemporaries,
in reference to the mode of discipline practiced
in the schools of Williamsburg, which will apply
pretty much to our whole country, and all our
educational institutions
Mr. Reilly states that about year ago, he took his lit
tie boy then attending school, to witness procession,
the following day. the teacher supposing that the
child played truant punished him. The boy was struck
severe blow the wrist arm, that four weeks af
recently one Of his eISen was again punished in the
SCHOOL, and very seytxe wound the palm of the
clfls hand inflicted He went to the school to rem IN
strate took the child up to the of the principal
teacher and showed the injured hand, which the female
teacher by whom the blow struck hav
niercation followed the principal taking part with the
ssstant Mr. Reilly said he considered he was the ag-
greyed party and entitled to legal remedy had he chosen
to apply for it, and that he much surprised the ag
ressors had turned compliments.
This barbarous, inhuman, and atrocious sys-
tenn of fogging, is a brutal Institution, handed
down to their posterity by the barbarous aud
piratical Saxons, our enterprising ancestors. 1t
does not exist in France. There, in their
schools, academies, and colleges, we find sys-
tenn of discipline founded upon the humane and
rational policy Of appealing to the moral sens-
bilities Of the scholars. There the, young lad or
miss is punished by penalties which reflect up
Of IF fha ~
hand, they are encouraged to obedience and emu
lations in their studies by proper rewards Of
merit and distinction. Between the teach
ers and their scholars in France, we see
the good relations existing of mutual con-
fdence affection, and respect And it is
all the result of the genial policy of discipline
which exists among them. 1t makes the young
lad shivalric generous, frank truthful and man
ly. Contrast this enlightened system with the
brutalizing practice in schools, of aogging, kick
ing, beating, mangling and mutilating which
prevails in Germany England and the United
States and it becomes beyond the power of Ian
guage to express our loathing, adherence and
disgust Of this savage and wretched rule of dis
cipline.
this brutalizing system in the death of an other
wise worthy teacher at Louisville, and in the in
generation in prison, awaiting their trial for
his murder, of two youths who otherwise have
the character Of amiable and promising young
men. But the effects Of this debasing practice
may be seen nearer home in the gangs of DULLES
and ruffans which infest our streets. And as
long as Jogging, manning and mangling con-
tinue branch Of our system of education, so
long will it develope the brutal propensities of
our scholars. 1t is nothing but a savage, bru-
'ralizing and disgusting practice, and there is
no rational excuse or pretence for it whatever.
We have abolished fogging in our navy,
where the recipients of it were hardy
men-abolished it because of its bru-
tality. Shall it be continued in our schools,
where the victims are children, and where the
punishment often cripples them for life, and
deadens and brutalizes their moral sensibilties?
No. Let the work be commenced for thorough
reformation upon this subject, and the result
will soon appear in a higher, nobler and more
manly race of young men, and in the rapid
reduction of the ruffians rowdies aud gallows-
birds which infest the community.
INSTITUTIONS FOR THE RELIEF OF SERVANTS
We see that Bishop Wainwright and others are
moving in behalf of an institution for the relief
of servants, especially servant girls. 1t is pro-
posed to establish sort Of central intelligence
office, for the purpose of procuring good SER
wants good places. This may all be very well;
but from the experience we have had in all cx-
periments of this kind, the most of the benefits
which such such an institution will confer will
be reaped by the managers, secretaries, trea-
mrers, and so forth, of the establishment. The
truth is daily journal like the HERALD, with its
daily circulation of fifty or sixt thousand
copies among all classes of our people-em-
ployers and employees, high and low, rich and
poor, Catholics and Protestants, wings and
democrats, native and adopted citizens-is
the best intelligence Office for servants Of
all descriptions; and for those who want SER
wants, as well as for servants who want stua-
tons. Thus, at the very reasonable charge Of
from twenty-five to fifty cents each, one, two,
and sometimes nearly three hundred servants
in single day procure situations, by the simple
process of small advertisement in our columns.
This is the simplest, cheapest and surest plan