The Portland daily press., 1862-11-29
Correspondence Of the Press.l
Letter from Bangor.
BANGOR. Nov. 2S.

BANGOR, Nov. %, 1852.
Teachers Associdtion-Lumber Mil.
Dear Press The Teachers State Associa-
ton, which closed its fourth annual session
here on the 26th, was highly productive of
good, as the hundreds of teachers present will
cheerfully testify. You have been informed
Of the preliminary and second days proceed
ings On Tuesday evening, Hon. Noah Woods,
of Gardiner, gave an admirable essay on the
agency and committee systems of conducting
schools. He is wholly opposed to the common
mode of putting the selection of teachers and
management of schools, into the hands of per-
haps prejudiced and ignorant men, subject to
the ickleness of office. To him, the suprin-
tending committee system is the best adapted
to the wants OF our Maine schools, and better
qualities our teachers for their positions, since
they must become experts in order to pass the
proper examination. His arguments were
well conceived and enforced. Prof. Smyth,
of Bowdoin College, expressed similar ideas
of the two systems. Portland, Bath, Angus
ia, Bangor, Hallowell, Brunswick, Biddeiord,
and comparatively few other towns in our
State, have the committee system, wholly or
partially in operation. The result is manifest
In the increase and progress of their schools.
On the same evening Prof Lyiord, of Water
vile. who for many years was Principal OF the
Boys High School in your city, gave an ad-
dress on the "Methods in Education" which
enforced on teachers the Importance of per-
sonal morality, application and example, as
calculated to make the pupil all that is desira-
bic. Reason and nature cannot be disregard
ed in moulding the human mind
On that evening also, resolutions were
passed, making the Maine Teacher the organ
of the Assoc iation, and altering the constitu-
tion so as to consider ali persons who are of
educational pursuits members thereof (Que-
ry raised by member of the Association
Gan an individual forced against lamp post
at night, looking after stars be said to be of
educational pursuits9) Prof. Briggs "as he
is sometimes called" tcide introduction by
President) delivered Poe's Raven in a very
decided manner and sublime style.
On Wednesday morning we were favored
with a discussion of the modes of teaching
pupils to read, and some illustrations thereof
About three hundred have been in attend
ance upon the Convention, which, at noon of
the 22d, adjourned to meet next February or
March, at Augusta, at call of its President,
Mr.. Weston, as we understand to press school
matters home to the Legislature. Let the ball
move on.
Yesterday afternoon We had the pleasure of
visiting one of the largest and best saw mills
in the country, situated about two miles below
this city, on the river road. 1t is owned by
Messrs. Hinkley & Egery, of this place, who
have spared nothing necessary to perfect es-
tablishment. In company with friend from
New York, who probably buys as much lum-
Der in Maine as "any other man." we were
shown about the mill, which really claims the
attention of the visitor. 1t is, as it were,
monument to mechanical ingenuity. As we en-
ter the lower story of the mill, we can but no.
tice the perfect and powerful machinery, and
its motive force. BY patent device of their