Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-04-12

CRY AFFARs.-Ata regular meeting of the Com
mon Council last evening Mr.. TENSION, from the
committee to whom was referred resolution to
take into consideration the propriety of reducing
the salaries of the teachers and employees of the
Public Schools, reported
That they have given the matter earnest conside>
ration and are unable to advise any radical mate
rial change on the subject They consider that any
fixed scale of prices would work injuriously, as
there are and always must be differences among
teachers some being far attentive and earnest
than Others and is proper that extra degree of
ability attention, zeal and consequently usefulness
should be remunerated accordingly. Your com
mttee advise that the matter of salaries be left to
the management Of the Board of Education, who
are sworn to act in the matter fairly and to
the best of their Judgment and ability. There
are, however, several points on which your
Committee thinks that the City Council might
speak to the Board of Education in an adj
Visory manner. LIST. Inasmush as there seems 8
great discrepancy between the salaries Of the male
and female teachers to the disadvantage of the lat
ter your committee would suggest that the Board
of Education should look particularly into the mat
ter and TX the salaries Of the female teachers at
fair remuneratiue figures without any reference to
the custom here the practice of other sections of
the country where woman's rights, though inces-
sanity agitated utterly ignored. I'd 1t appears
to your committee that the salaries OF the Superin
tendent and misrepresentation, and some OF the
male teachers, however reasonable at the time
they were fixed, are now disproportionately
high yYour committee deem it unnecessary
70 20 into into any particulars, as it is obvious
to all that owing to the decrease In the value OF
property and the unexampled decline in the pros
perity of the city, and all rents salaries, &C. have
gone down, and while the Council ara debating on
the subject of lowering the salaries of the corpora
tcn officers, they should advise the Board OF Edu-
cation 70 take the same subject into consideration
with regard to their employees, and reduce their
salaries to figures corresponding with the times
Finally, your committee think that the Council
should recommend that the Board of Education
should, in all cases, when practicable, employ
as teachers persons born and reared in the South,
in preference to persons coming among us from
the Northern Eastern States.
Your committee recommend as part OF this
report the following resolutions:
Resolved by the City Council of Nashville, That
the Board of Education be requested to fix the
salaries of the female teachers for the next scholas-
tic year at remunerative figures, without reference
TO the usual custom of paying them IS much less
than the sums usually paid TO male teachers OF
like grade.
That the Board of Education be requested to re
duce the salaries of the Superintendent, the sub
superintendent and of the male teachers where
practicable figures in keeping with the hardness
of the present times.
That the Board of Education be requested to give
preference to their selection of teachers, in all
cases where practicable to persons born, raised or
lnuluaIe4y COuueClcd buS PSOPAS
of the South.
The resolutions were subsequently adopted.
Mr.. CRAIGHEAD presented petition from COM
nittee of the Rock City Guards praying the City
Council to grant them the use OF the rooms &C.
cupied by them an armory free of charge.
Mr. CREIGHTON presented petition from ]. D
THOMAS praying to be allowed to retail domestic
candy in the Market House. The prayer of the
petition was granted.
The bill to appropriate SIPS to cover the Sections
house, was passed on its third reading.
The bill to amend the act regulating the free per
sons of color ia the city, was passed on its third
reading.
The bill from the Board of Aldermen, to amend
the Market House laws, $50 TO allow butchers tt
sell butchers meat at other places than the Marke
House during market hours, was rejected on its
third reading, ayes 6, noes 9.
The bill from the Board of Aldermen to improve
Demsmbrem street was indefinitely postponed
The bill from the Board of Aldermen to autho
rise the purchase of clothing for slaves in the EN-
plov of the city was passed on its third reading.
Mr.. MAxEY offered resolution to reinstate WV
B. HERON, an expelled policeman, which was re
ierred to the Committee on Police.
Mr. BRoDDm introduced bill to elect the Board o.
Education by the people at the same time as TIL
Mayor and members of the City Council are elected
one member from each ward to constitute tn
Board of Education-which was passed on its firs
reading.
Mr.. CRnGHEAD introduced bill to grant the us
of their armory to the Rock City Guards free c
charge. which was passed on its first reading.
TIE bill the better to secure the peace and goo
order of the city was taken up, the vote passing
on its third reading lat the last meetng) reconsit
cred and the bill then indefinitely postponed, aye
9, noes 6.
Mr.. CREIGHTON entered motion to recon slider tn
vote indefinitely postponing the bill.