The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-04-25

0eDt OF gratitude, ueDt t4ial VIII of us
charged one dav or other. | wish could
include your Senator IN the category OF
those who opposed this case. but of course
Mr.. Drum saw the case i'll different
ligh, from that which see ii, and acted
accordingly, would be far from impuiing
to him any bad or unworthy motives IL
his advocacy of the Forrest case, or in
deed in any case. because know him TO
be above that which IS mean or merce-
nary.
WEDNESDAY, April IL, 1850.
This morning the interchangeable and tai
ented judge Porter made a report to the
House, in answer 10 Governor Johnston's s
veto message of the apportionment bill,
in which report, the Judge has refuted
with the power of master mind the po-
sitions assumed by the Governor. The
Constitutional arguments are all met and
ably refuted. and the positions Of unfair
ness of which the Governor complains,
are shown by the report TO be mere CHI
meras of morbid Imagination, without
either facts or reason to sustain them. In
a word, the Governor is "a nsed up man.
as the wings used to sing about Van Bu-
rem in 1910. The rebuke which the
Judge has administered 10 the Governor
is truly terrible. The position of the lat
ter is not only laughable. but pitiable.-
ho Tp1
eternal debt of gratitude for this report,
which comes at time when such an ex-
posure was necessary, and when such
chastisement as the Governor has re-
ceived at the hands of the Judge was
called for on part of some member of the
Democratic party. The Governors mes
sage accompanied by the Judges reply
will be printed for distribution, which L
hope every democratic paper in the Com
monwealth will publish, so that the people
may see and know the ridiculous attitude
his Excelency occupies in reference TO
the apportionment bill, which he has ve-
toed with such flourish of trumpets.-
The House to day are engaged in the
consideration of another apPortionment
bill, the details of which l am not yet in.
formed of. But this much know, tha,
the Senatorial district is the same as in
the former bill, in which Cambria county
feels an interest, that is Cambria, Clear
field, Centre and Blair.
The school law, like The old militia law,
has 10 be patched up every winter, and
according TO rule. the law has been altered
but l fear not amended this winter. L
have not had time 10 examine the bill suf-
hciently, to judge fairly of the character of
the alterations; but if | am correctly in
formed as TO one of the alterations, am
convinced that it requires bur one other
such am nlertdDae,lf, 10 annihilate the COM
mon School system altogether. 1t is this,
that the question shall be decided by the /
people in any district in the State, at the !
spring election, whether the system shall
be continued or not. The law as II stood |
before, made ii imperative upon any dis
trlct after having once accepted, 10 contin-
ue the system. wherever il had been estab-
lished. The common school system of
Pennsylvania, although defective, is, nev-
ertheless the pride and glory of the Com
Strike this down and the
star of hope which burst forth when the
system was first adopted, whose light as
il grew older became more lustrious and
brilliant, will cease 10 shine, and the pro-
gress Of education, which is the best assu /
rance of nations prosperity and greatness
will receive check which will require
y ears Of labor, ard thousands of treasure,
10 re-establish. 1t would have have been
much more honorable to the Legislature if
instead of legislating TO destroy the COM
mon School system, il had passed law,
making it a penal offence on part of any
parent, or guardian, having charge of chill
1ren, not TO send them To- school. am i,
ust been informed, that this mischievious
alteration has been stricken out of the
,ill in the Senate. Thanks to the Senate
or that, for like favors to the people
rom the same body This winter.
Yours in the faith,
CONEMAUGH. (
a Lady Reporfer.-The last exp edrent
hat Ifiy would dream o. rs a means