Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-06-28
THE NEWS.

AT HoME.-Two points in relation to teachers
and pupils have come to our notice in the pas,
week, which cannot fail to interest many Of the
readers of the ENQUIRER. We would be glad to
have, briefly and to the point, the opinion Of
any intelligent and experienced teacher or pu'
pill on either or both of these SUBJECTS. The vo-
cation of the teacher is iuestimably important /;
the wants of the scholar are equally so; and
any light thrown upon their relative duties will
be genuine kindness to the public and posterity.
No. 1.-The first case relates to the recent de.
cision of a New Orleans judge. The parents of
a child prosecuted its teacher for inhicting cor
poreal punishment upon the child. The rod was
used with no uncommon severity; it was just
such case as happens in our old.6eld schools
every day. But the judge decided that rhippng
the child, whether much or little, was an as
sumption of parental authority on the part of
the teacher; and, therefore, an illegal proce-
dure on his part He could, said the judge, ex-
pei the refractory pupil, but not punish it bodily.
This decision brings the old 'birchen rod,' which
most of US remember very distinctly, into some
disgrace. The judge argued that it was bar
barous practice kept up by those who do not
have the ability to govern children in sch ool
otherwise. We are we'll aware that the excessive
use, or abuse, of the rod by either teachers or
parents, will develop fear, deceit lying, stubborn
ness, hate /; but in the other extreme when the
child comes to learn that it is in no danger of
one barrier is broken down for the
entrance of vice into the rebellious heart. No.
2.-The secoud case is a Recommendation from
the superintendent of schools in New York city
70 the Board Of Education, forbidding the assigu-
neut Of out.of school lessons to children in the
primary schools, to single hours study This
is founded on the doctrine Of
Spurzheim, that ''health should be the basis
the ornament Of early education"
The idea is to take nothing from the young,
,liant and juicy body, that will thwart its full
md happy development. The World, new and
'sriedly interesting paper just started in the
,reat Gotham, commenting upon it, says:
'sThe life of o child is almost purely vegeta-
i've at first, the whole of the vital forces being
expended in the growth of the bodily organs.
rhe dawn of intellect is gradual, aud its de.
'eopment slow; nature consenting to spare
o it but small portion of the energy which she
$ concentrating in mere growth and animal
unctions. If, during the earlier periods, the
ind ha ctip tod; int -.
It the expense of the constitution. Throughout
he whole season of growth, education should he
70 managed as to allow the vital forces the fullest
'lay in perfecting the machine by which energy
s afterwards to be generated to sustain thought
md volitiop. When relieved of the double tax
equired for growth and the repair of waste, |
lothing is required for the body but to repair its
Iaily waste, the vital power can drive the men
al machinery with more Vigor and continuity"
The Homestead Bill, which has become law,
'laces all the public lands down at the merely
'ominal value of twenty-five cents per acre
fe spoke week or two ago, in our news article, |
# the tide of immigration setting in to this
ountiy, especially from Ireland and this Bill
7ill supply them with homes in the North West
lmost without money and without price,
'hus the laboriug class of that section is in |
reased; in u short while these raw Conuausbts !
ecome naturalzed; they vote; the power of
he North swells into gigantic proportions. Ever
ince our country has been an ''asylum for th he
ersecuted and oppressed of all nations" the !
'orth has received the greater numbtc of immi-
rants. This has had tendency to lower the
taudard Of intelligence and virtue among her |
eople. Herein we have reason for their radi |
al and "higher law" procliviles. Those very
nen who have thus paid n premium upon the
Introduction Of labor at the North, have appro-
'riated largely the money of the Government to
eturn the captured Africans, instead of appren
icing them to Southern planters and thus have, |
n intention at least if not in reality, put bar.
ier to the manifold progress of Southern in
lustry.
The Army Appropriation Bill, the navy Bill
md other measures necessary to carrying on the
mighty machinery Of our vast Republic, have !
,een passed by Congress. The question of |
evenue is to be left unsettled until the next
ession-that is, a revision of the Tariff. 1t is |,
hought that the Tariff of 1916 will be re enac. |
ed then. This will give specific duties to Penn.
ylvania on iron, coal, &C.. and of course the
keystone in the arch will then be ':sold set"
Hon. Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury,
as made report to Congress setting forth the
nancial condition of the country. He says that
be resources of the fiscal year ending June 80
s61, will be in round numbers sixty FIVE million
ollars. The ordinary expenses will amount to
evenly five million; the extraordinary to ten,
eachiug eighty five million. Add to this the
wenty millions in Treasury notes, the reissue
which Mr.. Cobb says is indispensable, and
'e have the expenses of the government swell