The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-01-12

pils. And to allow 4O TO scnOOI, oO
schools would be required and the cost OF
teachers at 5000 each would be $4,000.
The amount Of surplus of the Poor School
Fund would be required to build and re-
pair school houses, SO that only the annual
receipts 81, 7O0-could be had to pay
teachers. This would leave ST., 300 to
be provided for by taxation. The Aca-
denies receive $500 year this we have
not taken into tie account, for with due
Difference TO those who think otherwise,
there cannot be a system Of free schools
established which does not comprehend
High Schools or Academies. The reasons
why, we have not room in this connexion,
to recount-hut they are insurmountable
from the nature of the case and these
would require some $4,000 to he raised
by taxation, in addition TO the donation now
rec elved, thus forming sum of 81 $500
to be levied on the taxable property, and
this too, when 5000 is assumed as the paw
for each teacher Of the primary schools,
which is not enough.
The personal property Of the county
amounts to about 81 500 400 which added
to the amount Of Real Estate, given above,
makes an aggregate of $5,O66,000. upon
which the SIS 500 must be raised, and it
would require tax of upwards of 30 CTS.
in the hundred dollars to raise il. The
above calculations are made at the mo-
ment of writing, and may not be correct
- the amounts OF acres and assessments are
correct according to the books of the
county.
Jhe Pnrlor Journai.-Ths Publisher @ {
The Parlor Iourna II. NJ. Garland
J,-anrounces that he has associated
Mrs. Margaret Pig-o, with hnm in the
editorial management of his paper. AS
"katr IIarebcll," formerly OF the w est
ern Continent, and as s'Gret.a' OF the
Magazines. she. is known to the general
reader most favoraply, and her name
should b. tower Of ssrangth' to the
PAPER She is a. beautiful writer, and
we proph'>y thai l'aIilnor" has at las, a
literary pap'r that will flourish
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FEoM CAlIrorNIA.~1h he Ne W York
Tribune has late news from San Francis
co, 10 the effect thai Peter II. Bnrnct.
has been elected Governor Of California,
John .McDouga', Lieut.. Governor. and
that Geo. w. VIZ, sht, and Edward Gil
bert have been elected to Congress They
ar. all locoiocos. No United States Sem
ators have yet been elected.
KEsrrcK, LEc1snATuRE.-Thcir United
States Senators and the Slave Subject
In the Lower House OF the Kentucky
Legislature, on the I'd inst Mr.. Silnn;s
offered the following resolutions, lin keep
ing with the Union sentiments of Gov.
Crittenden's mcssage,) which We're re-
ferred to a sclt ct committee.
Resolved, That the union of the sover-
cfgn States Of this republic is the only sure
foundation Of its strength and greatness,
and to the American patriot is nearer and
dcaror than any local, sectional, or frac-
'ional interest whatever, arising from geo.
graphical divisions Or party icuds, and that
every effort to dissolve it is at cnmtv with
the principles OF the revolution, and is
totally destructive to oar highest social
and political happiness-to our national
prosperity, and to our well earned fame.
Resolved, That The union of these States
was cemented in revolutionary blood, and
is above all price, and that Kentucky w Il
stand by it as the most sacred duty, while
she remembers the struggles of rs, and
the parting adlnonitions OF the father of
his country
Resolved, That We have fall confidence
in the patriotism of our Senators and Rep
resentatives IN Congress assembled, and
that upon this question they will be true
and unyielding in their devotion 10 the
Union.
THE Present YEAR. = A German news
paper has recently published a prophecy
by Renedictine monk, who died in 1s47,
the purrort of which is that the present
year, 1850, will be one of unusual pros
perI'y The different scots of christianity
VIII IN that year accord. The Sultan will
be poisoned (Aboul Mcdill had better take
rare) and his empire will become christian.
fuss'a Will suffer much from a war-like
na.,on OF the east. A German Prince
w'il found an eastern empire. Grain,
lruit, lentils and other vrvetables will be
SO plentiful that the barns will he UNI
able to contain them. The disease oil the
sweet potato will everywhere cease, and
Old men will NOT remember ouch q vear Of