" J-
BY DAVID OVER.
f.pbor Slaiids en Golden Feet.
'LVon, my Ud.'qT.ru Hid ly Tlnd leas,
'this is the spriaz. Look for sloes and el
derberries, rats-loaves and others f.,r oint
ment; m irjoraru, sparge, and thyme, wher
ever thou tniyst and emit. These we will
set! to the apothec irieK. In summer, gather !
basketful* of strawberries, bilberries and j
r asp berries, curry thorn to the houses : thev :
wdi yield money. In wmter, iet us gather
a:i i dry lock-, of wool for the saddlers and j
tapestry-makers, and vriths f.r the basket j
am im it mviufaotaurs. From tho able of !
the bountiful God a thousand crumbs are i
falling foi us; these w..- niil pick up. Tiicv :
wi;l give tltoe cheese to thy bread, an l piece !
ot meat lo thy potato*;. (j Jy g.t to work!
I w:!l give thee a iifrle barrow, and a bait
for thy ehau!-.lir.'
Th:s was h:s fir-t eiuy in business on his
own account, an I he worked hard and throve I
well. His separat.un from bis father taught j
limi how to stand on his own legs— au j m . j
portent piece of knowledge in a world tl a t J
"is us full of !c it takings us of meetings; and j
"when they did come together, and the boy j
-counted out his kr>i!'/an-.I the father I
patted him approvingly on the cheek, that
■boy would hi. - -•hangol places with no
prince that ever sax < a throne. Jonas
was at length apprenticed >i girdler, or
'worker in and the old tinker in due
t. ;;e i, leaving his sou the parting advice, -
to 'work, ive and pray,' end ab .x cou
•tatniug a thousand guilders.
Joust apprenticeship passed on pretty
T.i'ioh according to nuivcrs.i! rule: that is lie
did the drudgery of the he;use as well as
IC-arued the trade, and received kicks sJ
cuffs from the journeymen. But iu five !
years hi; ser.itude wis out, -and lie was a I
j uiriieyuim Li uself. lie was now, by tun j
rules of bis guild, obliged to travel for im- 1
provemenf. ho spent five rr six years in g>- i
iug to ami f.o nj.mi the card), and than eame i
icick to Altcrih-c.'■ m accomplished girdler. j
To become a muster, it was necessary to j
•prepare in.. *.u .srer-jo u- a specimen of j
fchnt h cb'nTl auTfae task u'.lottnl to]
1 ia, was to engrave on copper, without rule ;
r compass, t!ic prince's fauuly-eres:, and
then to gild :!•; work i! hlv. This aecoui
f iis'ied, ; was received into the gu;i.l of
masters -,- i.i! iitue: r. uip,strange ceremonies,
*u<i obi-fasbioiieJ feasting—all at the charge
oi the poor Leginucr. Without reckoning
toe heavy ctv -m-'S f Lis mastership, or of
eiofbiitg, ihicu, an I i.iiur t, in the hired
lodging* and Workshops no small sum \va.
requisite for the purcL .-eof different kinds
.£ tools—a lath", an anvii, crucibles, dies,
graving implements, steel pius, hammers,
chisels, twig*, stis.-ors, and also for the
|ar;hi-e el trass and pi neb back ware, cop
per, silver, lend, quicksilver, varnish, briiii
ei -. borax, aud-other things indispi usable
f r labor, lie had also taken, without
|-r. i.iium, an appr'-uiiee, t'e- ci.ii-i of very
poor people-, to help him. He would have
been very glad to put tuo rest of his money
r.ut to tiiien-.S; again, but be had to provide
me means of subsistence foi at least one
year in advance, for he bad to begin with
neither wares uor customers.
Jonas now appeals in .ha character of a
lover, and iu.s wooing is one ot the most
beautiful pictures in tin; book. lli choice
has fallen upon u scrvaut girl whom he had
known iu Lcviio-ul.
O.e tuortiitig Master Jonas bis ap
prcutice with a message. 'Miss Fcnciiel was
,io Come to bun directly: he had found a good
•place f r her.* Muifi.a hastened thither
gladly.
'Hast thou fcu'.J a place for me, dear
Jonas?' asked she, giving him her Land
gracefully. 'Thank Gad! I began to fear
becoming troubif-.some to our kind friend-,
t'oiue, tell ue where?'
lie lo- k-.oi anxiously into her joyous blue
eyes; then, in confusion, down to the ground
(Leu again upwards to the roof of the room,
nnd around the four sides, as though he was
sceLinx something lost.
'Come, tell me, tl.cn,' repeated she.
'Why art thou silent!'
lie collected himself, and began, hesi
tating: 'lt is—but Martha —thou must no 1
be angry, with me.'
surprise, shs smiled. 'Angry with thee
JuuftV. If I would be, and should be,oould
I be?'
♦ListcD, Maltha; I will 6how thee —I must
toll thee —1 kuow a man anxious to have
thy heart and hand—who—even who ,
; oh, Jones, reproach me rather, but do
not make mockery of rnc, a poor maiden."
exclaimed she, shocked or hurt, while her
face lost all its color, and she turned from
him.
~ 'Martha, look at me. He is assuredly no
bad man. I will bring him to tiicv; 1 will
give him to thee myself.'
'No, Jonas, to! From thee, least of all,
can I receive a iorcr.'
'From ine, least of all!' Rsked he, with
visible emotion. 'From mo least of all!
A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &e., &c —Terms: Two Dollars per annum.
And if I dent t know—if 1 would give thee
myself—look at me. Martha! Tell ine.'
litre silenes ensued. She stood before
him with downcast eyes and glowing cheeks •
atu played with her apt on-string. Then, as !
it stiii doubting, she-looked up again, her 1
eyes swimming with tears, and said, with ;
trembling lips: 'What, mast I say, then?'
Jonas took courage, and whispered, half
alou "Dost thou love me with all tby |
heart?"'.
Half uioud, . Martha whispered back, '
"Thy heart knows it."
"Canst tby tieart be satisfied with dtv
bread and salt?"
"Rather salt from thee than tears from
ine!"
"Martha, I will work for thee; wilt thou !
save for me?''
"I will be sparing in everything, except
my own pains!"
•'\V cil, then, darling here i my hand!—
I uke it. \\ iit thou be mine?"
"A as I not thine eight years ago and !
more? Even as a child? Yet no! D !
ought not to be, Jonas."
Alarmed, he looked in iter face and ask" j
cd: "Not be! aud why?"
"Think well over it, Jonas! Da thyself!
no it-justice. Any other burgher's daugh- !
<r r !u the town would be glad to give thee J
her hand ami heart, and a good dowry he- i
aides. Thou might'st iive much better."
".Say nothing about that," cried Jonas, j
stretching out both bis hart Is imploringly, j
"Be still; I shstli feel that 1 am but begin- ;
uinq to live, if thou wilt promise to live I
with titt. 1 '
"Live, then!" said she, in blushing em- j
buraismcut, and gave him her bun 1.
lie took her hand, and at the same time j
clasped his bride to his bosom, that heaved I
with unwonted emotion. She wept on his j
breast in silent joy.
Wo would fain, if we had room, add to j
this the marriage sermon, preached by the j
bridegroom, aud well preached, too; for j
Jonas had knowledge, although, as he said j
hln:- %<? ti'Svef Hi find TialT' so tuucKlii j
books as is lying everywhere about the I
road.
Martha was just the wife for the honest j
son sir le h tttd worker; and, as it frequent
ly happens with such characters, bis affairs j
prcsp-Ti;.! from the date cf his marriage.— j
lie U'tik a large house in a better situation
T r trade, and, having presented the use-!
leas master piece, which nobody would buy,
to the Prince, he was rewarded by the dig- i
nity of "Master girdlt-r to tbfe Court."
Hat still "uprightly arid hardly the court
girdler lived with his wife, just as before;
active in the workshop and warehouse, at
market* and at fairs. Year after voar fled
J y
though, before the lust guilder could be
paid ofF of th • debt on tbe house, days of
joy and of sorrow succeeded each other in
turn. They were all received with grati
tude to God, these as wcil as those."
Yfe now come hastily to the third gene
ration; for Jonas had a son called Yeit
who w>s at first apprenticed to his father,
and then sent to travel as a jiurneyuran.
The patriarch had no education at all: Jo
nas had snatched at his just as opportuni
ties permitted; but Veit x went regularly
through the brief and practical curiieulum
fitted foi a tradesman's son. He was, con
sequently, better informed and more re
fined than cither his father or grandfather;
and spent so much time in gaining a thor
ough insight into the branches connected
with his own business, that Lonest Jouas
was quite puzzled.
"Where did the boy get all these no
tions?" said he. "He did not get them
from me, I'tn sure."
Yeit had a bad opinion of the travelling
custom, and for these reasons:—"How
should these men, most of them badiy
brought up, attain to any greater perfection
in their business if they have left borne aud
school without any preparation for it? No
one can understand, if his understanding
has been developed. From one publican
they go to another, from oue workshop to
another; everywhere they find the old com
mon track—the mechanical, mindless life
of labor, just as in tbe very first place to
which thoy were sent to learn their trade.
At most they acquire dexterity by prac
tice. Now and then they learn a trick
from a master, or get a receipt, which had
been cautiously kept secret; when posses
sod of this they think something of them
selves. Even the character cf these ram
blers is not seldom destroyed by inter
course with their fellows. They learn
drinking and rioting, gambling and licen
tiousness, caballing and debating. Many
are ruined before they return to their na
tive place. Believe me, dearest father, tbe
time of travel is to very few p. true school
for life: oue in whicb, through frequent
change of good and evil days, the head ac
quires experience, tbe thoughts streagtn
i aud clearness, the thoughts strength and
J clearness, the heart courage audgro'iance
iou God. Very few, even of those who
j bring a scientific education with them, can
j gtn much of value for their calling in l'-fe;
i extend their views, transfer and apply to
j their own line of business tl.e inventions
i and discoveries that have been made in oth-
I er departments of art and industry."
Jonas understood little of the refinement ;
jof Ins son, but i.e opened bis eyes wbja j
I 1 eit obtained a lucrative appointment in a
i large ineta!lie manufacture, first in London j
| and tlieu iu Pari*. In a letter informing j
| his parents of this good fortune, were eti
| closed the whole of the savings from his :
| salary. j
| Mr. Jonas shook his head at this ]
; and cried out, deeply moved, yet as though t
1 vexed, while a tear of motherly tenderness
; stole down Martha's cheek: "No! no! by no !
' means! What is the fool thinking of? ]
. He'll waut tho money himself—a siuiple
j ton. Let him wait till he comes to the
j master-piece. What pleases me most in ]
j the story, is his contentment and his Ln- ]
j mility. lie is riot ashamed of his old silver j
| watelryet. It is r.ot everybody that, could
! act so. 'I here must be strong legs to sup
| P°H such extraordinary good luck. These '
' the burseh has!"
After years of absence; the young man !
1 at last walks suddenly into the paternal
. his father's birth-day, and makes j
I them all scream and weep with joy.
i "Hark ye. borsch." exclaimed Jonas, I
j who regarded him tvith fatherly delight, :
"thou soem'st to roe almost too learned, too i
| refined, and too elecaut for Yeit Jordan.
| What turner has cut so neat a piece offttr
i niture out of so coarse a piece of timber." ;
His stay, however, was short. M. and
I Mmc. liellarmc (his employer at Paris,)
j "haJ been loth, almost afrai 1, to let him i
I go. The feeble state of health of the for- ]
j mcr began to be so serious that lie durst not ]
; engage in bulk of his affairs." In the space !
| of a year both felt so complete confidence !
j_iu A eii'* knowledgeoTbaaincowj and -'in drf#
[ honor, that tlicy had taken him as a part
i ner in trade, and in the foundry. Ilence-
J forth, M. Bellarme contributed his capital -
| only; Yeit his knowledge, care and iudift- |
i lry r \
! The'reform of the guilds, and the [estab- !
1 iislimmt of a technological school for the j
I young hind workers—both through the in- i
l strumcßtality of Jonas—we have no room j
to touch; for we must say a parting word |
on the reunion of the family by Yen's re- !
; turn permanently from abroad. Notwith- (
| standing the prosperity of the nuv old coup- j
le, "everything, ay, everything, was as be '
had left it years ago—as he had known it.
from childhood—only Christianc not. There
stood yet the two well scoured old deal ta
bles, wrinkled, though from the protruding j
fibres of the wood; there were the straw bvt
; lomcd stools still: and at the window,'
: Muher Martha's arui-chair, before which i
J '
!as a child, he had repeated his lessons; j
there still hung the same little glass be-i
twecn the windows; and the wall clock u
■ hove the stove sent forth its tic-tac as last
ly as ever. Father Jonas, in his enlarged
workshop, with more journeymen and ap
prentices, smelted and hammered, filed and
formed still, from morning to night, as be
fore. The noble housewife flew about yet ;
as busy as a bee! she had managed the
housekeeping without a servant since Chris- ]
tiane had been grown up. And yet Yeit i
catue tack with the same cheerful disposi- :
: tion that he had ever shown, la the situ- j
i ply furnished rooms which Martha had fit- j
' ted up for him, iu the upper story of the
] bouse, he forgot the splendid hall, the hou- ;
| doirs and ante-chatubers of London, Paris i
and Rellarmo estate; the Gobelin tapestry, !
the gold-framed pictures, the convenience j
j of elegant furniture, aud artificial deliea.-
1 cies of the table ou silver plate."
' Assisted by the patronage of the princd,
he established a great foundry in his native
town, of ball aud cannon, bronze and brass
i and on bis marriage with tho aforesaid
j Cbristiane, the sovereign made a haudsome
present, in a handso me manner, " a3 a
small token of the gratitude to a family
that had teen so useful to the country."
In aiditiou to the hand-workors' school,
there now arose, uuder the auspices of this
{ family, a training-school for teachers, a
I labor-school for females, and other estab- ;
j lishments. The town was embellished: the]
( laud in the neighborhood roso in value; an. i
] cleanliness and barbarism in food.olothing ,
j aud houses, disappeared. "Only old men j
' and women, grown rusty iu tho habits and ]
| the ignorance of inany years, complain that ]
{ the timos are worse; at the sight of a high- i
er civiliaati-->n, they complain of the luxury i
i and tho pride of the world now-a-days:" as
j superstition dies out, they complain of "hu- j
i man incredulity, and the downfall of reli
gion." "The day of judgment," say they,
"is at hand."
But Master Jonas, when seventy years 1
BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY. APRIL 24,18-57.
j had silvered his hair, stood almost equal to
a stiong man of thirty, happy, indeed, by
! the side of the pious Martha, in a circle of
hit children and children's children, honor
ed by 11if- fcllow-eitzens, and hm red by
: his priucc. He often told the sior of his
; bqyhood, how ho used to go about b vking
! with Father Thaddeus, the tinker; and his
! face glowed with iuward satisfaction, when
i bo. the fmtuer toffel with pr*.swi
T changes,itt tSi prondction of which he could
j never hove imagined ho was to have so con
j stderable a share. Then he used to ex
! claim
"Have I not always said it l Clear un
derstanding only iu the head, love to one's
' neighbor iu the heart, srugality in the stom
' acli, and industry in the fingers—then.
Handwork stand* on Golden Feet "
REPORT
OF THE
SELECT COMMITTEE
i Of the Senate, on the bill, entitled "An
Act to' provide Jor the due training; of
Teachers Jur the Common Schools."
'A He Select Committee, to whom was rc
feried Seuate bill No. —, eutitled "An
Act to provide for the cue training of Tea"
übois for the Common .S LutiiW't the State"'
beg leave to report:
That the want of proper Schools for the
education aud training of Teachers for the
Con.mon Schools of tbeStatc bus been long
felt aud acknowledged, ln the infancy of
our Common School System, this .-abject,
although its importance was always conce
ded, was subordinated to the primary ob
ject of scouring u foothold for the system
itself, winch then eacouutered iu manyscc
tious ot the State a bitter and persistent
hostility. But as that system gradually
overcame opposition, aud established itself
upon a permanent basis, those efforts which
in its eatly years had been required for its
advocacy and defence were diretted its im
provement aud extension. Muyh has been
effoctodj, ana the system Ir-Uffmntrf a
vHiere its efficiency and usefulness will be
most increased by the adoption of some
uniform method of Normal instruction.
The policy of Pennsylvania has been to
create ar.d foster, in connexion with her
Common School system, a popular sentiment
upon which that system and ail its improve
ments could lean for support. It is the
opinion of your Committee, that tbey are
not iu advance of that public sentimeut,
are its organ, iu urging upon the Legisla
ture the propriety of engrafting npou the
system, at this time, a suitable meiliod for
the instruction of teachers, which will af
ford the advantages and possess the sym
metry aud efficiency of a State Institution.
It is well known that the 4110 st frequeut
complaints which reach al? who ore inter
ested in Common ir'-chool.s, is of the ignor
ance aud inefficiency of teachers. Gover
nors in their messages, State utid County
Superintendents, and District School Direc
tors have made it the subject of constant
official notice. Without elaborating this
topic, your Committee would refer to the
Reports of the Superintendents of Common
Schools f-'r years past, and more particu
larly to tho Reports of the County Super
intendents for further information. These
documents prove clearly—lst, That the
great want of the Common School system
is "a sufficient number of competent and
well trained teachers"—and Bud, That
public opiuion demands that this want shall
be supplied by the establishment of well
organized Normal Schools under the pat
ronage of the Common wealth.
Should Pennsylvania incorporat a uniform
system of normal instruction iato ber edu
cational policy, she will only be followiug
the lead of some of her sisters. The
subject has engaged the atteution of most
of the States of the Union vLere Common
Schools exist, and some of theui have already
established schools which are rewardiug the
wisdom of their fouuders by elevating tho
standard of education, increasing the effi
ciency of the Common School and improv
ing the character of the teacher. New
England, New York, New Jersey, and
some of the Western States, have tried the
experiment with eminent success, and the
intelligent public sentiineut of those St fts
recognizes in Norman Schools a necessary
part of any well-organized system of gen
eral education. But to Europe is due the
honor of their invention. Prussia is the
mother of Normal Schools, and it is worthy
of Pennsylvania's notice that this system
was conceived and established by the scho
lars and statesmen of that Gttuian Stato,
foremost of the kingdom; of Continental
Europe in general intelligence and virtue,
and in the perfection of Lor educational
system from whence emigrated tbo ancestors
of a large portion of our population. As
early as the year ISSO, Prussia bad over
fifty Normal Schools; Frauco nearly one
Landrad; Great Britain twenty six; and
about one hundred more were scattered
I over other parts of the continont. Since
] that time tlicy have been steadily increasing
j in numbers and efficiency,
i In 1839, Massachusetts bad established
! three Normal Schools; Connecticut cue;
■ New York one, besides special appropria
! tious 11 her numerous ucadatoiet for the
purpose of adding thereto facilities for the
instruction of teachers. New Brunswick
mi t/ifper Ganasfet fiavc eafe one of tEese
schools, both of wltieb are most liberally
supported: and Lower Canada has recently
established three.
Shall the State of Pennsylvania, then,
with her teeming population, her widely
extended territory, no rich iu all elements
of prosperity, destined by nature to be the
crowning glory in tho wide arch of our
Union, fall behind her sisters in this great
work jf progress?
Your committee do not think further
statements or arguments necessary to prove
that the time has arrived to inaugurate a
system of Normal institutions which will
bo worthy of Pennsylvania und of her edu
cational interests.
How shall it be most certainly and wise
ly effected? Your committee aro of opin
ion that the bill now in their ban l< has
been framed to supply the wants of our
Cotuuibn KeLool system, arid is less objec
tionable than any scheme which has here
tofore bocn proposed. They consider that
it possesses the great merit of harmonizing
and adapting itself to that system, without
which no plan of Normal Instruction can
succeed.
It is quite possible that a system of pub
lic education might be constructed whieb,
at first sight, would appear more siinpie,
more symmetrical and more efficient thin
that of Pennsylvania, but experience would
probably show that the improvement was
more apparent than real. Whatever its
faults or merits the system is our own.—
After years of struggle it is finally estab
lished, r not in the affeCtMis, at deSsfTii the"*
knowledge of the people; and anv project
involving organic cltango or material depar
ture from its method of op; ration would only
if adopted, result in confusion and evil.—
But it will be admitted that to reach the
point of excellence which is its destiny, new
parts must le added, although in the ad
dition of such parts, the important truth
must be remembered, tb it to secure their
efficiency and success, they mast conform i 0
its wants as indicated by its own workings
and by public opinion. One of tin se parts
is the Normal s'-bo'd. Theory weald affirm
that the first requisition of a good system of !
education, is the preparation of the teacher,
aud that ihc firs: duty of a State, in the i
creation of such a system, is tho establish
ment of suitable schools tor Ins training.- - j
In Pennsylvania, always cautious iu the work
of progress, practice has settled a different \
policy. For twenty years she has steadily
set her face against such schools as State
Institutions, preferring to devote her en.
ergies and means to pstabli.-h udu foster the
Common Fchool. But now that the Common
School Las fought iis way, r.ot only to re.
cognitiou but to fuvur, tho reliable, social
legislation of public opibion opens tiie way
for the Normal school as its necessary ally ;
aud support. The bill now before your
committee proposes to give legislative
sanction and expression to that public opiu
i<m by establishing Normal schools in such
number and with such efficiency as to extcud
their benefits to the whole Commonwealth,
without imposing upon the people any ad
ditional taxation.
Tbe bill groups the connties'of the State
into twelve Districts, convenient in form, iu
each of which a Normal School may be es
tablished by private enterprise, under tbe
sauctiou of legislative enactment. It is
neither supposed, nor is it perhaps desira*
ble, that under this bill should it become a
law, twelve Normal Schools will at once, or
even in the neat five years, spring into ex
istence. Their establishment will be slow.
The Lancaster district, we are informed,
will come fully up to tbo piovisions of the
bill, by the end of the summer of 1857, or
;or at furthest by January, 185S, if it pass
; this session. During the year 1858 tbe Al
legheny and tbe Chester Districts will prob
ably do the saute, and it may be that three
others will report soon after. In all prob
ability oue of these three will be received
in 1858 or early in 1859, thus enabling tbo
plan to start. But the chief good effect op
the law will bo found in tbe fact, that it
will settle the policy of the State on this
question, and thus relieve those who are de
sirous of investing in this direction, from
the risk of competition, or rather ruin, by
the establishment of institutions supported
by the State Treasury. Again, those
schools will at once, even before recogni
tion under the law, began to produce fruit
| They will take students, and by the superi
j ority of their instructions, each will strive
: to increase the cumber, aol to obtain pub-
lie confidence, so ibat almost from the pas
sage of the act, the plan will be found pro
ductive. Four such schools in 'operation
will do much good.
Neither is it supposed that the Boards or
School Directers throughout the State will
soon or largely neud students, as ?! 10 bill
provides they may, od public account. Nor
is it Jtbivniqu ves® drteirwifl^-
thut they should. It is Tlaitned as the es
pecial merit ui' this hill that the plan it em
bodies, avails itself of private cnte!prise ;
and is designed to be self simporting.
Judging irotn the patronage now received
by tiie numerous small and incomplete
schools scattered over the State, the num
ber of outside students will be quite suffi
cient to fill them all. But when Directors
do begin to send, i r ' will be found to be one
of the best means, in tho opinion of vour
committee, not only to increase tire num
ber of wOO'l teachers, but to vivify and
stimulate every school in the State.
Should tli© hill pass, and twelve schools
be ultimately t roughs into operation, the
number of gradnates will never be found too
great for ihc wants of the community. The
course of study will probably be three years.
I his woii.d graduate one tuird, or twelve
hundred of the whole number annually ou
tie supposition that oaeh school shall have
tiuee hundred students. Of this number
probably than one third or four
hundred, if so many, will permanently be
come teachers. Deaths, removal from the
State, disinclination for tiie profession, and
uiifitne.s.-, will 'ake off large, numbers, so
that, the annual supply wii] probably fall
short of the auuual detuund. Bat even if
ai. should conirune in the profession, our
State can retain the best, and the rest find
employment elsewhere.
One great merit of this bill to which the
committee would invite the attention of the
Legislature is, that it establishes these
Schools upon a basis worthy of its impor
taut oi jfyt, llvwovar obvLjim may be the
policy of suapiug the means for the training
of teachers, to Miit the indications of edu
cational sontimciit and action the
Stale, at this time, the chief danger to be
guarded against is that of lowering the
standard,kd qualification andViZe in these
institutions dowu to that of the hundreds of
small and insufficient schools which will <!e
siie to he included. In the opinion cf your
committee, years of totui inaction on the
subject would be far preferable to a policy
so total.
in concluding their general remarks upnn
| the bill now before them, your Committee
I w iulii urge its passage, because in their
l view, DOW ig the time in give form and diree
i 'ion to the Xorui.il School movement. —
r P; eminent aui entcrpiwng profeasors and
; educational men, have beeu long waiting for
j tiie .State to establish Normal School', de
! -siring naturally an i propulj, a place in
| tliem. 'j hey arc impressed with the fce
i iief that the State will not do so, and tbev
are operating on men of capital and liberal
ity to start private institutions. At. tb's
moment the State, by the passage of such
an act as the one under Consideration, may
without cost unite, control, and render thor.
oughly effective ail such feelings and en
tei prises.
\ otir committee do not deem ir necessary
; or proper in this leport to remark at length
upou the details of the 1 ill. But a few ob
servations upon the 9:h Article of the sth
! Section will not be out of place. It pro
vides that the School Directors of any Dis-
I triet tuay-sotid, and the proper Normal
j School shall receive one student annually,
; alternately, male uud female, at a cost of
uot more than five dollars each per quarter,
to be paid by the said School Directors, the
males not less than sixteen, and the females
j uot loss than fourteen years of age; and
! the 12thSection provides that the students
I so educated shall be liable to devote the
i next three years after their graduation to
| teaching in the Common Schools of the
I Dist riot which defrayed tho expense of their
! instruction, at the medium rate ofcomnen
• .
j sation in snch District: and if not so requi-
J red by their proper District, they shall dc
| vote the same period of time to teaching in
I some other Districts in the State.
These provisions most directly connect
j the plan of the bill with the Common School
system aud tbey deserve especial care and
| atteutii n. their object is two-fold, first*
' to provide a supply for and from
our Common Schools, and second, to stim
ulate and improve all those schools by ex.
tending the prospect of this mark of distinc
tion to every pupil.
! The cost for instruotion io low, (?ilO per
annum) but low as it is, its payment is pure
ly voluntary, thus relieving the whole scop?
■of our system from all unnecessry compul
sion.
Ii conclusion, your committee think that
of the Legislature should not sec proper to
u daptthe pinn "tubodieu : n this bill, its
VOL. 30, NO. 17.
! consideration will open the way to further
investigation of the subject, cud, they Lope,
result io the establishment of a system of
Normal ins tact ton by which the intellectual
trnats of the people will be suy plied, our
common school* raised to the highest stand
ard of excellence, and the blessings of thor
ough, efficient education be extended .to
esery section of oar beloved Common wealth *
The common schools is the life of the State*
for from its bosom must be drawn those
streams of knowledge and virtue which ['re
pare freemen for the high duties of our Ilo
publicn system, and to foster, extend and
perfect it, is the p.a iuest lesson of wisdom
and patriotism.
7. J. COFFEY, Chairman,
WM. W ILK INS,
FRANCIS. JORDAN,
OEO. W. BREWER,
D. A. FINNEY.
A ROT FOCHTF.KS TEARS OLD CONVIC
TED OF MURDER—MR# Sentence to Death
Tuc i orouto (Canada) Globe gives a detailed
account of the trial of a boy, named James
McGarrio, between thirteen and fonrtecu
years old, for the murder of James McCull,
a boy nine years cf age, i u October last, in
the township of Garafraxa, Cs'.-Ja. Ac
, cording to the evidence, the murder was
• most deliberate aud inhuman- Having had
a quarrel with the boy, JlcCnH, ho enticed
him iuto the woods, to get a, pies, and when
there, be.beat him with a ?tick, and after
wards tcfik a pii.ee of broken bottle, cut bis
j t.iro2: witri [t, and inflicted gashes and'cut*
ail oyer his holy. lie then stripped the
: body, hid tt between two logs, and, with
i the clothes tied up in ',a bundle, left the
1 scene. When questioned by McCull's fath
: er, he denieo the murder, but aftcrwaids
' eoufessed ir, giving its horribie details. He
escaped the vigilance of the officers fur two
weeks, but was subsequently captured.
After tiro evidence was heard, the jury
haviiigretired a few minutes, gave a yer
- diet of guiiay of wilful murder. wftL a rec-'
ounueodation to mercy. 'J he Judge, be
| fore passing sentence, asked the boy if' he
I had any thing to say w Ly the sewtcuce of
: death should riot be pass-jd UD ,, n him. lie
replied, "I say they've sworn to alio. Old
Sort says he gave me §5, an 1 he did not,"
Ho tneu seutericcd biiu to suffer death by
I banging, en the lltu day of April inst.,
stating tuat he Kou.d lay the whole facts
before the Executive, but expressed the o-
I pinion that there was no hope of mercy from
' iarter, ou account of the horrible na
ture of his crime. IXiring the whole trial
the prisoner exhibited no signs of sensibil
! itv, and received the sentence with an i;r
of callous an J careless indiff'ren te.
'J he Republican State Judicial ticket was
earrit-d iu Michigan by 10,000 votes.
They elected six out of eight Circuit Judges,
and the Regents of the State University are
Republicans.
The Hon. Juo. Apple ton Las accepted
the office of Assistant Secretary of State,
and Las auuonnced his formal withdrawal
Iroiu all practical connection with the YYaab
iugion Union.
ar-it is easier to praise poverty than to
bear it.
GLF*"Long words, like long dresses, fre
quently hide something wrong about the
understand ing.
E?~lbue faced falsehoods—fibs told by
the ladies in the preent style of bonnets.
H7"The man who carried out his moral
resolutions, did not bring them in agaiu.
£7*"llrmp, it is thought, ou£;k to paka
good noose-paper.
robbery u: .kes a man a thief, a
thousand makes him a hero, or an uuforta
ltate gentleman.
STFThere is an inscription on a tomb
stone at La Point, Lake Superior, which
beads as follows:
Join: Smith, aecider.tly shot as a mark"
of affection by his brother.'
hdy whose sleep was broken
lias Lad it mended.
deacon who took up a eol'-ectioc
ha* laid it down.
KFTbo two neighbors wbo ftK out, h?c
got iu again. Neither of them were in
jured.
it culy ill-tempered men who tar
be passionately m level
Djp"Why is a widower like a bouse i
dil ip'dation! lie wants to be ra-pairwi.
mU who made at irupie-cior ON
the Leai t of a cc-quette has since become -
skillful stone cutter.