The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-07-06

| says tnaI III Inc TTeSluenG nau any pre-
ference for Governor of Ohio he did not
indicate it, and it feels pretty sure he
took no part in the contest, directly OF
indirectly.
The Hon. B. F. Turner, colored mem
Der of Congress from Alabama, has ap.
pointed John Gee,a colored boy employed
in the Office of the Selma Times, a cadet
to West Point-both congressman and
his appointee having been before the war
slaves of DR.. Gee, of Selma.
About three thousand public schools
have been established under the present
common school system in Mississippi dur
ing the past six months, with upward of
eighty thousand pupils under the tuition
Of nearly four thousand teachers. This
may be considered as some atonement for
a good deal of rascally legislation by the
State Government. Gov. Davis ofTexas
perhaps the best of all the Southern
Governors-reports school population
of over one hundred and sixty thousand
In that State, the larger part Of whom are
without any educational advantage what
ever. The Legislature failed to make any
appropriation for schools at the last ses-
sion but from the Income of the perman-
ent school fund and other sources about
half million dollars is available for edu-
cational purposes. Maryland has thirteen
hundred and sixty schools, fcrty thousand
one hundred and ffty-one scholars in at
tendance, and fourteen hundred and twen-
ty-seven teachers. The average duration
of schools in Navada is eight months and
eighteen days. Male teachers there aver
age $l25.59 and female teachers $97,97
month-higher wager propably than
are paid in any other State. The Legis-
lature of Kansas refused to pass a bill
prohibiting corporal punishment in the
public schools Of that State- 7. San.
A newspaper at Legonier, Ind. ,adver-
tises for ''good, reliable and competent
practical printer who must furnish
satisfactory reference as to honesty, in
tegrity and sobriety,'' and yet be ''in
full harmony with the spirit Of progress
sive Democracy" We don't like to dis
courage the Legonier man, but how can
he expect to find such opposite and ire
concilable qualities combined in one in
dividual
AS for the National Intelligencer, it
has no faith in any attempt at political
reform, which does not strike at present
utter debasement of the suffrage. Such
being the case, and seeing nc present
prospects of a movement in this direct
ion, the paper has now quit politics al
together Editorial Of the National In
telligencer.
The Ohio Democrats are worried about
their nominee for Governor. Some OF
them loudly assert that the nomination
belonged to Ewing instead of McCooki
that the latter really received 22l votes
in all while Ewlng's total was 243, and
that the error was made in footing up the
figures 10y the Secretary. But what's
the odds anyhow? McCook will be beat
en- by 40, 900 probably, while Ewing's
nomination would not change the result
500 votes.
The Westchester Jeffersonian concluds
bitter article on the New Departure
plank of the Pennsylvania Democratic
platform, as follows: Our suggestion is
that there should be another convention
called, to expunge this odious and incon-
sistent resolution, treating it as the IA
nous resolutions Of censure against An
drew Jackson were treated, by drawing
black lines around and through it.
One Armstrong, a DELEGATE to the Ohio
State Democratic Convention, being ask
ed by farmer from the rural districts
what this talk "of a new policy on the
part of the Democracy meant, replied
'We propose to take the rotten eggs
from under the old Democratic hen, upon
which she has been setting for the past
six years without Matching anything, ard
give her a lot of fresh eggs out Of which
to hatch a rousting victory. There seems
to be some difficulty in getting the old
hen to set on fresh eggs.
Mr.. Shellabarger in a recent speech at
Springfield, Ohio, said of that portion of
the Democratic Columbus platform which
as an offset to the acceptance of the
amendments, declared that they should
be interpreted by the rule of strict con
struction, as proclaimed by the Demo
cratic fathers" resolutions of ITS -
said
Precisely this strict construction is
the doctrine which the immortal words
Of the iilustrious Chief Justice. Marshall
rendred heresy when In Gibbons vs. Og-
don, he denounced it as having mot one
scribed it. 1t is the doctrine denounced
by every truly great court, forum and
statesman ever since. 1t is the identical
doctrine In logical result, for the enforce
ment of which Davis, the present leader
of the south half of the Democratic par
| ty, went out of the United Staes TO make
constitution at Montgomery; and for
the overthrow ofwhich this leader of the
north half of the party was sent out of
the United States to Canada, and pre-
cisely this principle of their platform,
the men who made rebel skeletons at
Gettysburg and Vicksburg and Appoto-
max. made to be Democratic skeletons
| forever.