65. Section one hundred, chapter four hundred and eighty, laws of 1847, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 100. It shall be the duty of the said trustees, after the expiration of the said thirty days, to deliver the said tax list and warrant to the collector of the district, and such collector is hereby authorised and directed, upon receiving his warrant, for two successive weeks, to receive such taxes as may be voluntarily paid to him; and in case the whole amount shall not be so paid in, the collector shall proceed forthwith to collect the same. He shall receive for his services, on all sums paid in as aforesaid, one per cent, and upon all sums collected by him after the expiration of the time mentioned, five per cent; and in case a levy and sale shall be necessarily made by such collector, he shall be entitled to travelling fees at the rate of six cents per mile, to be computed from the school house in such district. § 6. Subdivision fourteen, section eighty-two, chapter four hundred and eighty, laws of one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, is here. by amended so as to read as follows: 11. Every teacher shall be deemed a qualified teacher, who shall hold a certificate dated within one year, from the town superintendent of common schools for the town in which such teacher shall be employed, or who shall have in possession a state or county certificate of qualification, or a diploma from the State Normal school. § 12. Subdivision eight, section eighty-two, chapter four hundred and eighty, laws of one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 8. To pay the wages of such teachers when qualified, by giving them orders on the town superintendents for the public money belonging to their districts, so far as such moneys shall be sufficient for that purpose; and to collect the residue of such wages, from all persons liable therefor. 13. Whenever any money is paid into the treasury of the state for or on account of the common school fund, it shall be the duty of the comptroller to credit the common school fund with interest on the sum so paid in, at the rate of six per cent per annum, for the time the same shall remain in the treasury. 14. To deliver such rate bill, with the warrant § 14. Any person appointed to the office of annexed, after the same shall have been made town superintendent by the justices of the peace, out and signed by them, to the collector of the shall hold his office till the first Monday of Nodistrict, who shall execute the same in like man- vember following the next annual town meeting, ner with other warrants directed by such trus- and whenever the office of town superintendent tees, to such collector for the collection of dis-shall be vacant for any cause, or before the time trict taxes; and the collector to whom any such of the annual town meeting, shall be held by a rate bill and warrant shall be delivered for col-person so appointed, the electors of the town at lection, shall possess the same power, be entitled such town meeting shall choose a town superinto the same fees, and subject to the same restric-tendent to fill such vacancy, or to supercede such tions and liabilities with their bail and sureties, appointee; and the person so elected shall enter as by this title is provided in proceedings to col- upon the duties of the office on the first Monday lect school district taxes. of November following his election, and shall hold his office for the term of two years. § 7. Section one hundred and five, chapter four hundred and eighty, laws of one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: § 15. Whenever it shall be satisfactorily proven to the State Superintendent that any county or town superintendent, or other school officer, has 105. Where the necessary fuel for the school embezzled the public money, or any money of any district shall not be provided, by means coming into his hands for school purposes, or has of a tax on the inhabitants of the district or oth-been guilty of the wilful violation of any law, or erwise, it shall be the duty of the trustees to provide the necessary fuel, and levy a tax upon the inhabitants of the district to pay for the same. neglect of any duty or of disobeying any decision, order or regulation of the department of common schools, the state superintendent is hereby authorised to remove such officer from such office by . an order under the seal of office of the secretary of state. 8. Subdivisions three and four, section one hundred and sixteen, chapter four hundred and eighty, laws of 1847, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 16. Sections fifteen, eighty-three, one hun3. The number of children taught in the dis-dred and six, one hundred and seven, one huntrict during such year. 4. The number of children residing in the district on the last day of December previous to the making of such report, over the age of five years, and under sixteen years of age, (except Indian children otherwise provided for by law) and the names of the parents or other persons with whom such children shall respectively reside, and the number of children residing with each. § 9. The trustees of any school district may expend in the repair of the school house a sum not exceeding ten dollars in any one year, and the same may be levied and collected by a separate tax, or added to any tax authorised to be levied and collected. Every town superintendent, during his continuance in office, shall be deemed a qualified teacher. § 10. Town superintendents are hereby authorised to administer oaths in all cases relating to school district affairs or controversies, but shall not be entitled to charge any fees therefor. dred and eight, one hundred and thirty-two, of chapter four hundred and eighty, laws of eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and section three, chapter two hundred and fifty-eight, laws of eigh teen hundred and forty-seven are hereby repealed. The Records of Eternity. The pulsations of the air, once set in motion by the human voice, cease not to exist with the sounds to which they gave rise. Strong and audible as they may be, in the immediate neighborhood of the speaker, and at the immediate moment of utterance, their quickly attenuated force soon becomes inaudible to human ears. The motions they have impressed on the particles of one portion of our atmosphere, are communicated to constantly increasing numbers, but the quantity of motion, measured in the same direction, receives no addition. Each atom loses as much as it gives, and regains again from others, portions of those motions which they, in turn, give up. But these ærial pulses, unseen by the keenest eye, unheard by the acutest ear, unperceived by human senses, are yet demonstrated to exist, by human reason; and in some few and limited instances, by calling to our aid the most refined and comprehensive instrument of human thought their courses are traced, and their intensities are measured. * Thus considered, what a strange chaos is this wide atmosphere we breathe? Every atom, impressed with good and with ill, retains at once the motions which philosophers and sages have imparted to it, mixed and combined in ten thousand ways with all that is worthless and base The air itself is one vast library, on whose pages are forever written all that man has ever said, or even whispered! There, in their mutable but unerring characters, mixed with the earliest as well as the latest sights of mortality, stand forever recorded vows unredeemed, promises unfulfilled -perpetuating, in the united movements of each particle, the testimony of man's changeful will! Hon. JOSEPH R. CHANDLER, President of Board of Directors of Girard College, Philadelphia. JOHN S. HART, A. M., President Central High School, Philadelphia. ALFRED E. WRIGHT, Editor of " Wright's Casket and TOWNSEND HAINES, State Sup. of Public Schools of Dr. T. F. KING. State Supt. of Public Schools of New- Hon. HENRY BARNARD, Com. of Public Schools of Rhode Island. SETH P. BEERS, State Supt. of Public Schools of Con. necticut, WILLIAM G. CROSBY, Secretary of Board of Educa tion, Maine. RICHARD S. RUST, Com. of Public Schools, N. H. Hon. IRA MAYHEW, Supt. of Public Instruction, State of Michigan. SAMUEL GALLOWAY, State Supt. of Public Schools, Ohio. ROBERT J. BRECKENBRIDGE, D. D., Sup. of Pub. lic Schools. Kentucky. Hon. HORACE MANN, for 12 yeras secretary of Board of Education, Mass. S S. RANDALL, Esq, for 11 years Dep. Sup. of Public Ex-Governor HORACE EATON, of Vermont. Judge WILLARD HALL, Delaware. D. L. SWAIN, A. M., President of the University of Other names, not yet received, will be appended to the call, as they come in from a distance. Teachers' Wages. But, if the air we breathe is the never failing historian of the sentiments we have uttered, earth, One great and serious obstacle to the advanceair and ocean are in like manner the eternal witment of sound education among us, consists, benesses of the acts we have done. The same principle of the equality of action and re-action, ap-yond all question, in the meagre and scanty complies to them; whatever motion is communicated pensation which is accorded, under a false view to any of their particles, is transmitted to all of economy, to those who are disposed to devote themselves to the business of teaching, as a around it, the share of each being diminished by profession. It is believed that there is no calling, their number, and depending jointly on the numwithin the comprehensive circle of social civiliber and position of those acted upon by the orig-zation, above that of the common day-laborer, inal source of disturbance. No motion, impressed which promises less, in a pecuniary point of by natural causes, or by human agency is ever view, than that of the instructor of youth-none obliterated. which offers less substantial inducements to genius, talent and worth. And yet we apprehend, few will be found so destitute of judgment and candor, as to allege that in all the requisites of character, ability, mental culture, persevering effort, time, study and knowledge, the teacher in any respect, if suitably qualified for his profession, falls behind the great body of those who. fill up the ranks and participate in the rich rewards of the other and more favored classes of society. * * * * * If the Almighty stamped on the brow of the earliest murderer the indelible and visible marks of his guilt, he has also established laws by which every succeeding criminal is not less irrevocably chained to the testimony of his crime; for every atom of his mortal frame, through whatever changes its several particles may migrate, will still retain, adhering to it through every combination, some movement, derived from that very muscular effort by which the crime itself was perpetrated!-Babbage's Ninth Bridgewater Trea tise. National Convention of the Friends of It is, at least, a little singular that in this respect the march of modern civilization has fallen far behind that of ancient times. Adam Smith tells us, and history confirms the assertion, that prior to the invention of the art of printing, in the fifteenth century, the sole employment by which a man of letters could avail himself of his The undersigned, deeming that the great cause of Popular Education in the United States, may talents was that of a public or private teacherbe advanced, and the exertions of its friends by the verbal communication to others of the custrengthened and systematised, by mutual con-rious and useful knowledge he might have acsultation and deliberation, respectfully request quired. Isocrates in his celebrated discourse: the friends of Common Schools, and of Universal Education throughout the Union, to meet in Convention, at the city of Philadelphia, on Wednesday the 22d day of August next, at ten o'clock, A. M., for the promotion of this paramount interest of our Republican Institutions. Rt. Rev. ALONZO POTTER, D. D., Philadelphia. GEORGE M. WHARTON, Esq., President of Board of Comptrollers of Public Schools, County of Philadelphia. against the Sophists, reproaches the teachers of his own time with inconsistency, in that "they make the most magnificent promises to their scholars, and undertake to teach them to be wise, to be happy, and to be just, and in return for so important a service they stipulate the paltry reward of four or five minas," (between $80 and $100.) "They who teach wisdom," he continues provisions of the act, and will be found useful for reference : INLAND POSTAGE.-Letters, not exceeding half miles, 10 cents. an ounce, not over 300 miles, 5 cents; over 300 ceeding an ounce, double these rates. Any fracOver half an ounce and not extional excess over an ounce is always counted as an ounce. Ship Letters, delivered where received, 6 cents; if conveyed by mail, 2 cents added to the usual Postage. On letters deposited in a post office for ship, 1 cent. Handbills, Circulars and Advertisements, not exceeding one sheet, unsealed, any distance, three cents; prepaid. "ought certainly to be wise themselves; but if any man were to sell such a bargain, for such a price, he would be convicted of the most evident folly." Isocrates himself, we are informed, demanded ten minas, or about $150 from each of those persons who attended his course of lectures on Rhetoric at Athens. He must have made therefore, from the hundred pupils who we are assured participated in the benefits of his teaching during a single season, the comfortable sum of at least fifteen thousand dollars. Indeed Plutarch expressly informs us that a thousand minas was his usual price of teaching. Many other eminent teachers in those times appear to have acquired great fortunes. Gorgias, we are told, made a present to the temple of Delphi, of his own statue, (probably not the size of life, as the mines of California were then unknown,) in solid not exceeding 1900 square inches, under 100 Newspapers, sent from the office of publication, gold. His way of living, as well as that of Hip-miles, or within the State, 1 cent; over 100 miles, pias and Protagoras, two other eminent teachers and out of the State, 14 cents. of that day, is represented by Plato as splendid inches, the same Over 1900 square even to ostentation. Plato himself is said to have Transient newspapers the same rates, prepaid. rates as pamphlet-postage. lived with a good deal of magnificence. Aristotle after having been tutor to Alexander and Pamphlets of all descriptions, not exceeding most munificently rewarded both by his illustri- one ounce, 2 cents a copy; for each additional trious pupil and his father, Philip of Macedon, half ounce, is not counted; if a half ounce or ounce, 1 cent. A fractional excess less than a thought it worth while, notwithstanding, to remore, it is counted as an ounce. turn to Athens, in order to resume teaching. The most eminent among the scientific men of this golden age, of literature, appear always to have enjoyed a degree of consideration much superior to any of the like profession in more modern times. The Athenians sent Carneades, the Academic, and Diogenes, the Stoic, upon a solemn embassy to Rome. Drop Letters, two cents. Letters advertised are charged the cost of advertising, not to exceed four cents. Letter-carriers in cities, receive on letters not over two cents; on newspapers and pamphlets, half a cent. Way letters, one cent extra. not. a single half ounce or less, prepaid or not,-the For Bremen, by American steamers, 24 cents, usual inland postage to be added. steamers, United States inland postage, any disFor other foreign countries, if sent by British tance, five cents a single half ounce; 10 cents an ounce, prepaid. FOREIGN AND SEA POSTAGE.-Letters.-For the These particulars gathered principally from U. States territories on the Pacific, for a single Adam Smith's well known work on the Wealth half ounce or less, 40 cents, prepaid or not. of Nations, sufficiently indicate not cnly the high For Havana 12, Chagres 20 cents, Panama 30 consideration with which the instruction of youthcents, pre-paid. was regarded among the most civilized nations of antiquity, but the opinion of this philo- United States, to or from Great Britain or Ire The whole postage from any post-office in the sophic statesman, of the short-sighted penurious-land, by American or English mail steamers, for ness which characterises our modern times in a single half ounce or less, 24 cents, prepaid or this respect. The average amount of compensation received by the best qualified male teachers in our public and private elementary institutions of learning would not, we apprehend, reach five hundred dollars per annum; and if a man, with a family to provide for, educate and support, can succeed in obtaining twice this sum for devoting himself assiduously and entirely to the instruction of young gentlemen and ladies in our higher institutions, he does well. Is this the case in the British mail, the whole postage, from any If sent by American steamers, to go through any other profession? Where is the lawyer, the United States post-office, is 21 cents a single half physician, the divine, the legislator, the archi-ounce, prepaid. If sent by American steamers, tect, the artist, the painter the sculptor, the mu- all letters for France, Holland, the Netherlands sician, thoroughly trained to his calling and ca- and Spain, must be prepaid pable of excelling in it, who will be satisfied with such a compensation? Is it not high time, more elevated conceptions of the dignity and importance of the teachers calling, were beginning to prevail? The laborer, in this, the most respon sible. department of human exertion, is surely worthy of his hire; and ungrudgingly, fairly liberally, should it be meted out to him.-Southern Journal of Ed. The New Postage Law. Newspapers and Pamphlets.-Sea postage three to or from Great Britain or Ireland, the total cents, besides inland postage, both prepaid. But a newspaper two cents, and on a pamphlet one postage from any United States post-office is, on cent for each ounce or fractional excess, both prepaid. Sea postage on prices current, three cents, with inland postage added. THE PRESS.-Douglas Jerrold says the power of the press is as boundless as that of society. It We find in the New-York papers, the follow-reaches the throne-it is enclosed in the cottage. ing summary of the rates of Postage under the It can pull down injustice, however lofty, and act of March last, purporting to be from the as-raise up lowliness, however deep. It castigates sistant Postmaster in that city-which embodies crimes which the law can only punish without in a brief and no doubt correct shape, all the repressing them. Wherever an eye can see, or §3. The said several clerks for services under this act, shall be entitled to receive therefor the following fees: for filing every such mortgage or copy six cents; for entering the same in books as afoisesaid, six cents. § 4. This act shall take effect within thirty days after its The subscriber has a large quantity of blank books for sale for entering chattel mortgages according to the above law. a hand can write, there is the press. 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[No. III. may possess genius, and yet be a bad reader, it is Every exercise in elocution, therefore, accord- We are of opinion that sufficient importance has not been attached to the practice of ELOCUTION as a means of cultivating feeling and taste; and we are quite certain that no adequate use has been made of it, as an instrument to that end, in the common modes of education prevalent at our schools and colleges. In this respect, we cannot help thinking that the learned and respectable persons who have the charge of such seminaries have omitted one of the most efficacious branches in the whole range of intellectual, social and moral culture. It must be remembered, however, that men equally learned-and whose names, (if mere authority is to be called in,) will carrry much higher weight-have always looked upon Elocution as one of the most powerful agents that could be brought into requisition, for awakening the dormant feelings, overcoming indifference, and stirring the very depths of the heart. Lord Jeffrey, the illustrious editor of the Edinburgh Review, on his inauguration as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, with a direct view to these effects, established an anuual prize of a gold me- The most important requisites of the elocutiondal valued at ten guineas, for the best specimen ist indeed are those which immediately refer to of animated and effective elocution from the stu- feeling and taste, as well as thought. The merely dents of literature and philosophy. Lord Broug- mechanical ability of voice and action to give exham made the same theme one of the topics of pression to every mode and modification of ideas his inaugural discourse at the same celebrated must, of course, be acquired by the pupil. They seat of learning. Sir Walter Scott observed, in are indispensible; as grammatical accuracy and one of his dramatic criticisms, that the person who perspicuity and correctness of style are essential could truly represent by voice and gesture the to the writer. But of far higher moment are such creations of Shakspeare must have a sensibility requisites as the following, namely: that the pupil only inferior to that of the immortal Bard of Avon should thoroughly understand and fully appreciate himself. A distinguished writer in the North the exact amount and kind of meaning and feelAmerican Review was so impressed with a simi-ing contained in the passage she is called upon to lar conviction, as to declare that although a man read; that she should be entirely and exclusively 1 |