The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-02-25
THE SCHOOL BILL.

interest is taken in this matter throughout
the State, and it will doubtless receive that
consideration which its importance demands.
1t provides that each township in the State
shall form but one school district, divided in
to as many sub-districts as necessary; that
on the second Monday of April there shall be
three school directors elected in each sub
district, who shall employ teachers, contract
TOR building school houses, number the schol-
ars, &C.; thaton director from each Of these
sub-districts, together with the township
clerk, shall constitute the Board Of Education,
who shall be body corporate. and be invest
ed with the title and care Of all school houses
and school property in that township; have
the control of all central or high schools;
create, change and alter the ub.districts at
pleasure; forward to the county auditor the
number of scholars in their township, and
have general charge over the educational
interests of the township; that the county
auditor shall forward to the State Auditor ar
abstract of all school returns from the several
townships in his county; that the State Au-
ditor shall annually levy and asses two mills
upon the dollar, on the grand list Of the taxa
BILE property of the State, for State common
school fund, which sum, when collected. shall
be annually distributed to the several coun-
ties of the State in proportion to the enume-
ration of scholars, and be applied exclusively
to the support of common schools.
The bill also provides for schools for color
ed children when the number exceeds thirty
in any township; for the election, at the town.
ship elections, of State Commissioner, who
shall perform the duties of State SuPerntend-
ent of common schools, and for the establish
ment Of school Libraries by the levying of a
tax of on ,-tenth of mill on the dollar. The
several acts creating special school districts,
and the act for the better regulation of schools
in cities, &C., are left untouched by this bill.
Such are some ofthe general features of the
bill as it passed the Senate. Its heart-its
real iiue principle, is the provision for levying
a tax of two mills on the dollar for q CON-
mon school fund. This, as the grand list now
stands, would raise very nearly one million OF
dollars-a little over one dollar per annum for
each person in the State between five and
twenty-one years of age, and not much, if
any, exceeding the amount now raised in va
rious ways for the support of schools. 1t an
efficient common school system is to be sup
ported at all, it cannot be done for less sum
than here proposed. The question is one of
school system or no school system, and be-
tween these alternatives no patriot Will pause
to choose. Society has the same right to
take measures to preserve its continued we'll
being as an individual has, and the most efii-
tba apl,, IN acrOmDll sl
this object, will be to secure the proper culti-
vation of the intellectual and moral natures
of those who will soon form both its body and
soul. Such result, we believe, will be pro-
duced by the system contemplated by the bill
now before the House, and we therefore hope
it will become law.-O. S. Journal.
we have been much amused in reading
GRAY's opinion of BENNETT and SANDERS.
The Plain Dealer plainly desires to poke a
little fun at them. Read the following, and
then sh 1T your eyes and reflect that the Dem
ocratic Revie,p declares that the Nep York
Herald is the ORGAN of the Democratic party!
What compliment to be led by such pa
per! But read the Plain Dealer:
GEORGE N. SANDERS AND JAMES GORDON
BEyNETr.-The editor of the Democratic
Review and the editor of the New York Her
aid are the most extraordinary men in this
country, if not in the world, and this fact we
gather from the sayings of the gentleman
themselves.
The last Review contains a life like por.
trait of Bennett, with graphic history OF
the man by Sanders, and we hardly know
which TO admire most, Bennett or his bi.
ographer.
After paving the way for the introduction
of his ,hnro,,by writing down the Washing
ton Unloa& fusty and old fogy organ' he
says: =
"Hbw different from all this is the New
York Herald! Never hesitating at new
idea till the vanguard has carried the out
posts of the opposite party and success isl prob
able-never clinging to an old and broker
SQUAD of ideas after they have once beer
thoroughly beaten-i; is original without be-
ing fanatic, liberal but not anarchic, conser'
vatve generally but never irreclamably des
potic. Its editor seems to know better thar
any man the theory of sin medic tathtmu'
his" or "the middle of the road is no ditch
MIR. r. is always "safe." Other papers may
live upon the public breast, Mr.. Bennett is
wholly indebted for his wealth and power to
himself and his resources. He may be justly
considered the publicist general OF the mali
body of the Democratic party, tor the Heral1
is virtually the organ of that party, aud more
perccp,ivc aad more powerful as an organ
than any in the world, 1t has lis errors be
yond doubt, but compared with the LondoT
Times it is immaculate; compared with its CO
temporary,the Tribune, it is white it is more
it is genial erratic like kitten or widow
but never malicious and always graceful 1t
style has the raciness, freshness and COR a
necessary to make possible rreading of tn
mor"c...ng newspaper e!..tarlals, and may b