Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-07-27


bankrupt. and poor school teachers ant
other public servants are compelled t(
hawk their warrants around and sacrilct
them in order to raise funds. They are
generally bought up by agents Of those
who have the keys Of the vaults, and ar,
easily cashed when they are wrcnched from
the poor holder at a good round shave
This is the manner in which our high.
minded public officers realize fortunes in 4
short term.
! City Councils have been quarreling for
some time back on the important question
"shall the dogs 90 muzzled, or unmuz-
zled," and the cdniacifes were likely to
turn h;t-ti.es inter Sc, when one Solon Of
the party settled the question by resolu-
ton declaring "mamma dogs" as our little
son calls them, outlawed, and to be banish-
ed from our streets which We doubt not
will curtail the race in few years.
Public attention has been called in
many ways, for number of years back,
to the subject of Music in the Public
Schools, as branch of every day instruc-
ton. The advantages in regard to health !;
its effects on the spirits of the Children as
delightful recreation; its influence when
brought into the family, forming one Of
the strongest incentives to that social in
tercoursc too rare even among households;
and above all, the influence it must exer-
else in making the praise Of the sanctuary
what we can all imagine they should be,
but which we have never realized-all de-
maud it. But though all are agreed in
this, the question has been, how can i. be
accomplished and | am bound to say
that the solution of this has been delayed
by those who profess to teach. The mo-
ment the subject receives the least coun-
tenance, host of ignorant pretenders
swarm for the schools, and by shilling
subscriptions, and selling quantities of in
tolerable clap-traps, Juvenile Music Books,
manage to raise fifty or hundred dollars
for three months nosing, and then desert
the field for some one else. The Control
lers got half an idea at last, and appoint
ed a professor for the Normal School, but
instead Of selecting teacher fit for the
situation, they thrust into the chair most
incompetent man ,and the expectation based
on that scheme has fallen through their
own Ignorance.
But the subject is likely to get fair re-
presentation At last, anI .iIiuk /" H.
than five years, We shall have music in
our public schools.
Mr.. Thomas Bishop, singer Of reputa-
ton, and teacher of very thorough cha
racter has settled among and devoted his
time to vocal teaching entirely. OF his
success with private classes l am not
to speak, AMI only as regards the pub
lie scho OILS can it interest any one beyond
his friends. His first effort in that cpa-
city demonstrated the fact that VIC have
the consummation of our hopes within our
reach | attended and assisted at the ex-
animation Of class in one of our gram
mar schools which had been under him
for only t,co months, and was equally sur
priscd and delighted with the success of
his system-that of Wilhcm as taught by
Mr.. HulIah in the English schools. The
seed is sown, public opinion must place
Mr. Bishop at the Normal school, the gra-
duates of which will carry sound theory
into the schools they may be called to
teach, and in a very few years we shall
have what the most sangulno have long
ceased to hope for-music IN the public
schools. Yours S. II. +.