New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-05

'"") o my ElafS'ss cable gnis--sone n them vtff
maTr'areblc-GePerd mt FOR place. salary and promo
non, HTon twelve suon ~ n the surface with
the sosn Of an election n tAs city. II becomes .ti1
\ mere daaGeurs when i,ese yourg laiss are sub
Joct 10 ne daily Inspection Of such Of these
cheese, rom any motive TO yst item AMI when they
are oblges % pain Of Dcu ring them IL. will which
may rec UT N dHmlsssl to trsa. them sometimes With
something n're than courtesy. And yet the matsiiL
conditions Of tAis stale Of affairs emit IN tweny cut cf
the twenty-five Wards Of tie city Teachers are cN-
pected to lee prcsen,--and present-hrom twenty
70 forty minutes re ore the hour FOR openrg :heir
schools. Most Of hem detained m hour two,
sometimes three holn-ala closing, by a system of
keeping refractory children after school which is 20
fatal to the health of The scholar is Illegal AID
unjust 10 the teacher. They sutee. too, during
sci col hours to BE- Interrupted IN then d,sirs by any
bloated druukard WHO msy happen to have demanded
a Tiuste,slip in return Sr valuable services rendered
hs parry at the polls on the day of electico. Ballot
suffer- and strikers VIII be paid in what manner they
choose. Within a yea. there has been more than one
instance 10 which Trustee in state of bcasty iooxi-
cation has very seriously disoomposed the counte-
naI &c Of school.
Theie are few teachers who have NO; been more "
less arro, cd in this way-who have not felt at Least
compelled to listen 10 long stores, MT abou, schod
II att,rs. 70 which they would never have thought Il
lt,tirg had not tie infection come fiOm an IGsectori
to endure twadte Of geantry which they would
have treated disgusting were i not hat Trustee
a Con nsst rer guilty OF it.
Still There great competition for the position. II
OF the vtp few honorable escapes irom s;arya,oa
open TO in this Christian o,y-one Of the bees
Iaid of the most respectable. Salaries Of from SO
n year TO Il eco actually paid to women b. tho
Government OF the City of NewYork. There is hope
4 for oav far II,
And in teaching hcic is large opportunity for the de-
ycopmept of much that is very beautiful in womanly
nature Many noble girl the labor of whose slender
fingers would be of but little avail, sustains
fatherless family, and while she is the pride
and comfort of widows heart IL sort o.
superior being To hundred little urchins whs
could hardly have greater regard for an angel OF Light
were one to come down to them, than they have for
her, aud would give all their playthings and put them
selves on starvation allowance of mischief beside, just
for one kind word iicm her. The ciylizng influence
cxoted in the public schools on Children who 1--we un'
der the most uuciyizng influences in the miserable
| holes which they Learn TO call home, is immense.
Acting at time when heart and brain are facie snA
receptive it can scarcely fail to mollfy materially the
hard krocks Of the rising generation of Short Boys.
| Lite backs aching under the blows of rum and q
father. ard little hearts cut and bleeding by mchcfs
few heart .warm, human words from "tho teacher"
80 that they can enjoy play and the sunshine again.
The saddle 4 wounds which mortas have received in
these lat yeas have not been given nursed before
S,bastopol We need not the ocean for Florence
Nghtirgaes.
| And now, if locking in upon this earnest field, Q
trustee, inspector, OF a commissioner should happen
be pie At ed with the brown eyes of brave young
girl as he her herocaly slcing bread anil butter
| from the service of the city; if he should sraigbway
feel a very audsbe interest in the progress of Class
c, which strangely enough happens 10 be hers and
greatly tie identifying of her cheeks and the dismay
Of hoI soul besatogly asks her how they were get
iirg along with the multiplication table; should she
chokngy refer him to the class its IT. and ike tho
fires If Hob, DllndeD, "glOw redder yet" when she
saw one boy make face at another before they had
finished the third line of it, should the class, wonder
ing why he looking at the teacher So" make q
mistake in the fifth line and increase her confusios
until her fingers clached the book convulsively and
she could only half-arcuate Perhaps would you try
them On common things Sir Ia branch much pur.
sued IN the scLool il includes every thing, from the
number of child possesses to the peculiarties
Of ap yoar should he, ON the seventeenth questios
in these COMMON things, ark the prettiest little girl il
the class ho VIVA the father of his country and tho
little thing with shake of her soft, golden cuhs. and
sparkle of her loving blue eyes, fash CLEAN Of sun
shine all around the she ted out in her sweet
cbil9.> dice "Washington the Potomac River"
should these large so suiused eJes quite MI at THIS
strange mistake and A" one Of the school officers
leave the room 70 considerably and With such pleas
ant bow if be should come the next day. and the next
and the next and talk with her mornings, until she DID
| not blush so much and meet her at Normal School.
his rnpd gathering of seven hundred girls every Satur-
| doy morning TO roote SONS in algebra which they
have rot learned aud talk about who is manicd and
WHO il going to be- and all the other things that they
lave leaned should 10 meet her, too, at evening
scLcol someines and treat her in the very kindest
and teuder,st way until she should thank heaven.
night and morning, COR sending her such a friend;
should she look at lis handsome face and listen TO his
winning words and think how happy his wife must be
| 10 have such husbaId should there be an esamna-
tion of the school, and almost all the boys in her cass
mind her and 10 school with their faces washed
that Ornng and the parents come erowdng the ales,
ard eer all the questioning over, the Suponntend-
cit asy few words of graceful encouragement aud
hoIs fths particular is almost paternnl hiend should
then in his speech "take occasion TO express himself
espscinly rlsesed with the deserved commentator
(Which lis excellent friend the City Supenntshdent
| had parsed uyon the performance OF GAS L,
should lie learn that she bad written some rhyiss ones
uron tine for her children in the suDdayS Dol, aud
ten her that she postess, and ask h'H 20 "r'e
soue verses Gor him. and 10 him. and abor. hun, ana
sbc. with flushed neck and pipitatng hsar ana d
trcast thrilled with pleasure at this grateful hcuon %
easily teruGdod 10 promise that she W'an' 'n"''I.
.Le yrie more rhymcs--a dozen or tive, 10 hin-.hi
v,rv faeile fuleome rhymes; should he on taAns
| - a.L b.r # he uclt publish than, and she r'H