Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-10
THE POLITICAL SITUATION TO.
.sa DAY.

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While the dispatches presented here
with are not startling they are In the
main interesting. In South Carolina
General Ruger seems determined to
sustain the Chamberlain Government
notwithstanding the adverse rulings Of
the Supreme Court Of that State. Why
the military persists in this course has
never been satisfactorily explained.
There is no evidence that the Court
(everv member of which belongs to
the Republican partly, has been
guilty Of undue Partially towards the
Democrats. Ar~ IL
There is less excitement throughout
the East regarding the presidential
contest than has obtained for some
time past The people seem TO be set
Ting down to the conviction that the
proper authorities al Washington will
Determine the whole question in q
manne at once just and acceptable to
the country. The proposition to allow
the Supreme Court OF the United
States to pass upon the subject ap-
pears to be growing in popular favor.
The majority of that tribunal are Re
publicsns. If the Democrats are will
ing to accept their decision the Repub-
licans, it would seem, ought no. OBJ
ject.
Leading Republicans In Washington
are not disposed to view the Oregon
case as especially embarrassing. They
argue that Cronin, the Democratic
Elector, lost whatever advantage the
Governors certificate gave him by
failing to act with the two Republican
Electors In the State college. This is
of course a euestioH for legal minds,
but It is our own opinion that his GER
tiicate will serve as a bar to the an
nouncement Of the general result in
favor Of Hayes and Wheeler by the
President of the Senate. On the face
of the returns, as certified from the sew.
eral. States, Tilden has ls5 votes and
Hayes 1874. This showing Is exclusive
of the double returns sent up from
three or four of the Southern States
To what extent these double returns
and the Oregon vote will influence the
final result Is something that 20 one,
not possessing tho gift of prophecy,
can we'll foretell. The general abate-
.ment of the election excitement in the
East, we think, il to be viewed just at
this juncture as one of the most hope
full signs of the times. When mems
blood and brains are suffered to cool
the danger Of mistakes being commit
ted Is not nearly 80 imminent.
COMMON SENSE IN EDUCATION.
4 "A school director of a rural town
ship of an interior county in Pennsyl.
vania, who describes himself as a
friend of education because he knows
the want Of It, read a paper recently at
= tsachers' meeting which is more re.
plete with common sense than is usual
with compositions of the kind. 1t is
especially interesting because OF the
hints it gives US not only Of the growth
of the public school system In that
State, but of the difficulties It was
COM PEELED to meet and overcome. The
achool directors Of forty years ago
Mr.. Wilhelm tells us, took no Interest
in the system, and . large part of The
people ives opposed to It.. The teach
srs we're only remarkable for 'theiI
bad tongues, their long fingers and the
hoop-pole punishment they inflicted
on the children" MI. Wilhelm goei
further, and gives an instance Of .
teacher who tried a miider discipline
and was compelled to rslinquish hi,
school because Of such sR unheard ol
innovation. .'That was the beginning
OF . new era" says the director, 1.-THE
impressions he made remain, and o.
the victim Of the rod grew up they be-
gan whore he wal obliged to leave off,
As . consequence Of the introduction
at a little sense into the pre-
vailing notions of education inhuman.
ity was banished from the school,
room, and the public school system
became the very bulwark Of the State
Enmities ceased aud prsjudices disap-
peared. A greater interest was taken
In the schools and a better class OF
teachers employed. Now there is no
better school system in any of the
States than In Pennsylvania, but in no
part OF the country must the people
fail to remember that m school
education Is oDly In its infancy. The
system needs all the encouragement
which school officers. teachers and pa
rents can give it, and, above all. It
1t needs that practical common sense
which in . few years. comparatively,
has raised the public schools Of Penn
~svlvania from what thew were to what