Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-02-15
Education I'm rffchrgnn.

Michigan has long been Justly cslebrated
for IFS excellent system OF Public Tnstruc.
ton, embracing State University, a Nor
nal School, and Agricultural College, and
her improved system of Common Schools.
which include the Union and Graded
Schools Of her cities and villages, ali Of
which are substantially free. She has also
noble system Of asylums, including Re-
form School for juvenile delinquenss, aud
asylums for the Insane, end tho Deaf and
Dumb, and the Blind, which also derive
their support from the State. Besides these
she has several Literary Colleges under de-
nomina'ional patronage, and first class
Commercial College at Albion, VIII CHI under
The Presidency Of Hon. Ira Mayhem, has
acquired national reputation, and whose
patronage is derived not merely from Mich
igan and adjacent States. but from the ex
treme portions Of the Union. including New
England, the Gulf States and several States
west of the Mississippi Aside from the
Albion Commercial College, deserved'y en-.
Toying this wide celebrity, there are several
other Commercial Schools in the State,
whose patronage is chiefly local. On the
whole, probably no other State in the Union
has so good school system, OF is provided
with such ample facilities for obtaining
good literary. medical, legal or business ed
ucation as the Peninsular State.
TnE New York Ioa no more than
utters the truth when it exclsims 1.-The
sole object Of the species OF robbery miss
named protection is to keep up OF carry up
prices, that is, 10 prevent all consumers
from getting as many goods for the same
money as they would If trade were left free.
The manufacturers being confcssedly una
bic to make goods as cheaply rs they can be
| imported, having confessedly gone into un,
profitable branches OF business, have the
npudence to ask that other people shall! be
compelled 10 make up their losses. And
this legal robbery of some 20 reward the
bad mana cement Of others, is called protcc-
ton. We should prefer to SEQ the laborers
Of the country protected in their right to
the free use Of their wages, and against the
unjust compulsion TO pay more than goods
are worth because few rich owners Of fac
tories would suffer BY low prices. The
slavery which we have abolished took FROM
the negroes ell their earnings beyond bare
subsistence, and give tho surplus to their
masters; but the tariff transfers that system
TO the North and takes the earnings Of white
laborers to give to few Republican mag
mates. Down with this odious aristocracy
| in legislation
The Milwaukee Wisconsin tells story OF
. little boy, about nino yeare old, named
Edward Murphy, getting buried in snow
drift in the street the other day. while on
his way to school. He was not missed TILL
afternoon, when search was made, and by
the assistance Of his dog he WAS recovered
mud dug out. Remarkable as it may seem,
he experienced little discontinue from his
exposure, and when taken out suffered little
inconvenience beyond q stiffness of the
limbs. lie had sat down, and the snow
yielded beneath hun, making q soft bed
The falling snow covered him up, yet he
felt little fear, as he said he knew his folks
would come for him. lie said that all the
time be was there (somc four hours he was
very warm, and the snow kept melting before
his face SO that he could breathe quite as
easily as he could out Of the snow
|
The SEASON OF HEAVY SNows.-This win.
ter will be noted hereafter as q season OF
great and frcfnent SHOWS, as snow storms
have happened in very unusual pacss, and
to very extraordinary extent. Or the heavy
SHOWS throughout the whole northern coun
try the people in these attitudes are Of
course well informed, but we have had re-
cords Of them also. showing that they have
extended from Great Britain westward to
the Pacific Ocean, and our continent as far
south us Texas. The recent fall of snow in
Louisiana was such phenomenon rs to sci
the newspaper scribes at work overhauling
their old meteorological tables, and they
have found but five such occurrences wishin
the past eighty five years.