The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-12-05
NUMBER Az.

the fact is already established here, thai
almost every person cantearn TO singand
read music with great facility, even III
less than dozen lessons. ! had the
pleasure Of being present on two occa'
sons Of taking lessons, and have no
hesltancy in asserting, that never before
have witnessed such rapid improvement
TO see class of respectable size, each
one in the class takingup pieces entirely
new to the whole. ..class, and singing tho
four parts off with remarks able ease, at
sight, and with more tact, grace and ex.
preston than is common in old choirs,
is what have never before seen in Win!
chester, nor anywhere else; and have
been present on many similar occasions
Of vocal performance. ..r
Prof. l.. C. Evereit's manner OF lee!
turing and imparling instruction is deci.
dedly superior to anything have ever
witnessed from any other teacher OF vo.
cal music. His easy and instructive il:
Illustrations on the black board, his fore:
Bile and lucid manner Of explanation, the
attractive manner in which the pupil ia
led on, step by step, in the delightful
and heavenly science, the lively interest
he so happily infhsesi in the class, and the
entire control he naturally and agreeably
exercises over them, at once give him q
decided superiority, and ensure rapid and
thorough improvement.
No humJug IN his case-though this
is an age Of humbuggery and deception.
On The contrary, he goes beyond his
pledges, and surpasses the expectation Of
the most sanguine. ... ..g r...T'
Never before have / known the Chro-
matte scale introduced. tits new thing
to us here. ' TO- ..". t.al we
find that even we who thought we
knew a thing or Two about music are
just peS'HHIhS " ooo 10 HouioA"oo go
ces" and feel its Inspiration. -e.J .e
1t is truly gratifying that another and
larger class has been raised, and that,
too, principally by the agency Of several
of our clever ladies, TO whom we should
feel under lasting obligations for their
noble and praiseworthy conduct in this,
as in every instance where failure is abou,
to be made and they come up to our res
{ cue.-lor they are always more energetic
and successful in any good cause than we
poor men, after we think we have done
r our very best. q. ''.''~ "
| The many notices OF Ptofs. L. C. &
. A. B. Everett, in connection with two
c other brothers, 10 be seen in most Of the
. leading papers North and South, speak
\ of them in the highest and most com.
0 mendable terms, of their already success.
full efforts as teachers and composers Of
F.. sacred music, and their great and lauda Z.
bic enterprise Of effecting reformation
+. throughout the South in the knowledge
: and practice Of science so much neg.
If lected, and Of such ncalculable impor.
IS lance and utility.
/. The brothers Mason, who have done
n so much for the musical world, are not
!. more highly complimented by the papers
o Of their own latitude than the brothers
lr Everett now are by the same papers, and
by the press wherever they have BEEN
y In Washington, Baltimore and Rich:
N mond, and other cities still farther North
l. the press is only awarding to them wha
or they richly merit-the preference over al
in others engaged in teaching the science o
i. vocal music.
t. Success TO them in an enterprise so no
70 ble-so elevated-so sublime in itself
ne as that Of elevating to its legitimate pc
i. sition the beauty and efficacy Of scenc
Of that engages the attention Of celestia
ty chors in harmonious strains Of sublimi
ut ty beyond description. and beyond mor,a
S. conception. .' AN OBSERVER.
n. The whole number Of cigars expor
n. ted from Havana up to the 18th o
mt August. the present year, was 94,9S5,
Of coo of which 20,6sl,OO0 were cleare,
mt for this country; 100000 to Grea
ass pr;,,;,. ~ 733.OO tn HAMBURG An