Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-10

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THE POLITICAL SITUATION TO.
~ee DAY.
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 curse has
never been satisfactorily explained.
There is no evidence that the Court
(every member of which belongs to
the Republican partly, has been
guilty Of undue partially towards the
Democrats. AG
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 COM iction that the
proper authorities at Washington will
determine the whole question in a
manner 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
publicans. 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 az especially embarrassing. They
argue that Cronin, the Democratic
Elector, lost whatever advantage the
Governors certificate ave him by
falling to act with the two Republican
Electors In the State college. This is
of course a euestion for legal minds,
but it is our own opinion that his GER
tificate will serve as a bar to the an
nounceinent 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 1855 votes and
Hayes 1874. This showing Is exclusive
of the double returns sent up from
w. AE
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 DO 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.
A school director of a rural town
ship of an interior county in Pennsyl.
vania, who describes himself as a
friend of education because be knows
the want Of 1t, read a paper recently at
u teachers 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
compelled to meet and overcome. The
school directors Of forty years ago,
Mr.. Wilhelm tells us, took no interest
in the system, and a large part of the
people was opposed to it. The teach
srs were only remarkable for their
bad tongues, their long fingers and the
hoop-pole punishment they inflicted
on the children" Mr.. Wilhelm goes
further, and gives an instance of a
teacher who tried a mflder discipline
and was compelled to relinquish his
school because of such al unheard of
innovation. "That was the beginning
OF . new era" says the director, ''the
impressions he made remain, and as
the victim Of the rod grew up they be-
gan where he was obliged to leave Off"
AS q consequence Of the introduction
at a little common sense into the pre-.
yailing 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 prejudices 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 common school
education is only in its infancy. The
system needs all the encou rao