Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1856-12-25

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preston, never to be erased. Let it form
Il regular study in every school, from the
highest College 70 the lowest District
School in the land, and ere long our coun-
try will be noted for its musical talents, rs
it is now for its Liberty. Then we might
expect some Mozarts and Beethoyens, the
productions of whose giant minds will long
continue to live in the songs of their ma
tive land, as that of the memory of the
"Father of his Country" will be cherished
in sweet remembrance by every true heart
of this glorious Republic, over which the
music of the stars and stripes have long
echoed and will wave, as "the land of the
free and the home of the brave"
We have said that the science Of music
shouH form a regular study in every
school, and we again reiterate it, know
ing the happy results that would flow from
such a course. Music alleviates labor
and cheers the heart. When the mind
has been overtasked 10y some intricate
problem in mathematics, or the |transla-
ton of some of the more obscure texts of
Greek or Latin, how refreshing to Join in
full chorus in some enlivcning melody,
and, for the time, throw aside the more
dull and difficult studies with which the
mind has been burdencd for hours. Or,
when Silly twilight steals on, after the
laborS of a summer day are DER, to gather
round in a social group, and join in COM
nor chorus in some ~fayorite melody.
Does this not rcvive-docs it not cnliven
does it not create Il thirst for more
sweet strains?
And when the long winter nights close
in-when the earth is mantled in IA carpet
of purest white, and the shrill blasts of the
storn-king are ever and anon Ginning
the requiem of the former, which has Just
been waited ON the passing gale, when
without there is nothing to be heard save
fierce howlings of the wind, is it not then
recreation, when housed up, to surround
the blazing hearth, and break forth in
those harmonious strains which charm the
i~ntuitive ear, and bid the clouds of des-
pondency disappear which have, as it
were, dimmed the mental vision, and
cause the deepening gloom to be trans
placed by the cheerful and awakening
countenance, as tho a beam of sunlight
had found its way through the darkness
by which the domiCil was enveloped.
IT'S music of this sort which can alone
recall pleasing "reminiscences, and carry
us back to scenes replete with bright anti
cipations, tho a curtain is now drawn be-
tween, and some of the voices that used
to chime are hushed in death, while
others are separated by rugged noun
tains, rolling rivers, and broad extended
plains.
We look forward, and hope the day is
not far distant, when music, both as a sci
ence and as an art, will receive the atten-
ton which its importance demands. MOI
that it demands more attention than many
other of the sciences, but we live in a pro-
gressive age, in an age when literature,
science and art are rapidly advancing to-
ward their acme, and among the pleasing
arts we. class Music No. l.; one in which
the amateur finds scope to range, and
points in which to excel; one in which
nature is not a silent and inattentive audi
tor one which does not debar the unfor-
tunate whose eyes are closed to the light
of day and the beauties of nature, but
rather invite him to participate and call
forth all that is noble in his nature; one
before which the wild beasts of the forest
are led forth as lambs one which has a
tendency to enervate, enliven and cheer.
Its powers are as various as the objects
which engage it. Is the occasion one of
sadness, we go to the long list of minors,
and there call forth one to proclaim the
death-knell, or portray the feelings of the
forsaken, the detected or the melancholy.
Does the solemnity of the Church make a
demand, the storehouse is full ample and
adequate. Does the gay circle of youth,
with bright and cheerful c%ountenance,
wish for a strain to add joy to their mirth-
~fulness, or melody to their merry-ringing
laugh, take the major key and unlock the
repository in which the musical composers
of both ancient and modern times have
stored their productions, and they have
enough and to spare.
Any emergency can be met by drawing
from the musical reservoir. May each
and every one draw frequently and copi-
ously from this fount, until the strains of
music shall echo and re-echo from every
hill and grove of the country diversified.
RINOLA.
PLATEAU House., Dec. Is, 1856.
Nebraska Territory.
Hon. Bird b. Chapman, delegate in
Congress from Nebraska, arrived in this