Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-05-18
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HARRISBURG, May 9, 1855.
The Legislature adjourned yesterday,
leaving the Hill as quiet and rural as New
Berliu and Suntury after Court-not
lessening the duties of some of the De-
,,rtmerts, but atforlirg more leisure to
nsrform them. Wherefore, blessed be the
Sth of May.
t. has been long and disturbed session,
and of course, much important business
..s deferred till near close, and then as
usual bills were rushed through by the
hundred, Ike shot from shovel. When
the record is slowly unrolled by the State
Printer, the public will have better
,b,nce to see what has been hauled TO
shore by the sweep of the legislative seine,
The Governor signed the bill for the sale
of the main line, which f1es the minimum
,-;cs at seven and half millions, and will
shortly publish notices inviting bids. The
hill % abolish the Canal board, did not get
through. A supplement to the school law
was put through at the eleventh hour after
beius under incubation nearly all winter.
It was shorn of one half its proportions,
including sections making preliminary ar
yapsements for the establishment of State
Normal Schools for the education of teach
ers, but enough that was indispensable
was LEFT, and will relieve the Department
here from embarrassing difficulties, and
prove a salutary benefit to the system at
large The School Journal is to be sent
to every board of directors in the State, as
a medium for communicating the decis-
ions. explanations and instructions OF the
Departmcnt-to the manifest relief OF the
labor and expense here, and the uniform
md permanent benefit of the Schools all
over the State. Power is also conferred
on the Courts to create independent dis
tricts, and thus help lift "Alt Berks' out
of some Of her incipient difficulties i n or
g.uizing her Schools. The County Su-
perintendency can also be put on its legs,
if directors are willing, and the present
incumbents enabled to work at better ad-
vantage, and the Department to command
the services of capable and efficient men,
in the room of incompetent and negligent
officers. The Superintendency escaped
destruction in the House by barely three
votes, and in the Senate, ether essential
features we're carried only by the most
earnest and importunate appeals In behalf
of the necessities of the system aud the
detail. of it, administration How strange
that system, that in the language Of Gov
Pollock, "would ultimately prove the
crowning glory of the Commonwealth
has had, and still has, to work its way
against the current, instead of with it.
But every inch gained is SO much vantage
ground for greater progress hereafter
The omnibus system is no longer tcler-
ated, and special legislation much restrict
ed, yet the volume of laws for this year,
will be somewhat bulky. This will be the
case for years to come and is not at all
strange, when the territory, population,
and undeveloped wealth of the Common
wealth is taken into consideration, and it
is remembered that the State is waking
up as never before from her prolonged and
seemingly immovable lethargy-and the
rousiug of dormant mind, will result in
work for the Legislature, equal to the mag
nitude of the demands of this transition
and progressive epoch,
Have been initiated in the mysteries
Of Harrisburg markets-and however
drowsy we may feel when reused at three
or four o'clock in the morning, Market
Square will open your eyes wide enough
Butter at 37i to 40 cts. per pound, Is cts.
for a pair Of chickens, and every thing
else in like proportion, but no, of cores
ponding quality, has induced the " State
robbers'-=a, We on the Hill are sometimes
politely termed-to seriously think of as
signing their salarie. to the Market House
in advance, upon condition that Market
House keeps them in vttals," without
bringing them in debt at the end of the
year H.c.H.