Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-09-12
tho education Of the children Of the Com.

/ ~ The iEOst InulHcTCnt eSlOgI directors
or taxpayers, could bat witness normal
method, Of teaching, as practised here, or
in the common schools Of Washington Pa,
or at MIllersvi.lo, lancaster county, and u
few other points tina, could be named they
would never again sufer the uneducated,
unframed, mechanical teachers who infest
our Common Schools, to ever enter school
house again, even II they would work for
nothing and find theIhsclver aud ins,eaj
Of opposing State Normal schools, would
oiemaad that the Legislature should thus
mplcte her grea: school syste'n.
The great merit, after all, Of this Cana
dian Education Office" is, that it is not
merely complete in itself, but il also the
central exponent and representative Of
grea, system that is in successful and ben
eGcent operation all over the Province,
comforting countless blessings upon the
community The fact is that ia the tran
i,ion stages Of public sentiment, on such
a subject as this, a vigorous, but cautious
and prIdent administration from q con-
trolling central department. is iudispen,a-
blej but after the machinery Is completed
aud in working order-when parents and
directors are awake to their duties and re-
spon.ibliities when we'll furnished school
houses are everywhere erected, and thor
oughly trained teachers in charge Of them,
with suitable text books, and apparatus
j, will be a matter Of comparatively little
! importance whether there be q central de-
partmeut at all or not, except to disburse
the state appropriation, aui digest the an
nual report.
| | noticed in all the halls and r,oms,
pas,-- lizard placards hung on the walls,
labelled, in large letters, "Ths DIRTY
PRACTICE q fsPIrIIyo not Aloped an this
Buikiiny I" The foors we're, in fact, as
clean a. the deck. Of man Of. war thanks
to this dig in the ribs of Brother Jonathan.
The extensive ground, are in charge Of
au english gardener til, front portion
highly ornamental and chaste in style
and other portions set apart for expert
mental purposes in vegetation. l should
ada tha. the entire cost Of the buildings,
furniture and land, Was q fractiJu less than
500, 900.
Returned to the hotel i1 time for the
six o'clock dinner, with a wolfsh appetite;
and slowed away the salmon, roast beef,
aud other subs,autials, with an heroic Per-
severance tha, made Q couple Of hurley,
wins. drinking Englishmeu, opposite, look
as if they wondered what that lean little
Yankee eou.6 want of so much vituais. A,
5 o'clock "tea" was announced, and at 10 (
o'clock We had supper, and retiring to bed
after such course, you may readily i'm
aginc the c0nglonera,e assortment OF
dreams that haunted cur slumbers, and
chased US through more comicsl, bizsrre,
or frightful iucongrities than Cruikshank
or Hogarth ever heard of. I
But my paper has run out and as | am
not half through my story,t mail this now,
and will take another start with fresh
pen and larger supply Of paper. Don't
You feel alarmed IL. /
Schools ~ CANADA In the Conven. /
ton of Norman Schoo. Teachers at Spring /
field, Rev. Mr.. Ormiston, Of Toronto, said .
that the school system of Upper Canada
wss on the Massachusetts, basis com bined
with the excellenci 9f the European sys-
TENS. There are i'll round numbers ,000,-
0oU Of inhabitants in Upper Canada, of
whom sos, 900 are children between the
ages Of five aud sixteen. OF these latter,
2l2 900, or two in every three, are in the
schools, which number about $500. Of
these, 1900 are free and about so separate
or Roman Catholic. There are paid out
in salaries to teachers 500, 900 annually
and :he total expenditure for schools is
about 81 600, 900. The Normal School at
Toronto was established in lSi7, and two
thousand teachers have been educated at I
i,-two.thirds of them being males. l00,.
600 volumes have been distributed to the
public schools for libraries, and this num-
Der will soon be increased by the dissent
nation Of 400, 200 more-Ptiia Bulletin.
The Wings Of the first Battle Ground.
At spirited meeting of the Wings Of
CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS,, held on Tues
day evening, the following persons were
appointed delegates to tho Whig State
Convention, with power to appoin, substi-
,u.es Louis A. Surette, George Haywood
and Daniel Shs;iuck. Tho following res
olu,ious were adopted
Resolved, That, as Whigs. we are, as
we ever have been, opposed to the extern
sion o! slavery into the Territories Of the
United States
Resolved, That, in ;ha approaching