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A Bill Is Pending In The Senate

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Day
27
Month
January
Year
1865
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Public Domain
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pjovidjrg for (lio election of County SuperintendjDUoí Schools, nnd deSbiog thuir power and duties, lts provisión nro very good in the ma!n, and its pas sage iuto a ]aw will tend lo give us unííorinly beíter teachers and schools than under the sysíem oí inxpeoMon by townslnp inspectora. There is, however, one feütura in the bilí which must impair its usefulneoP, and that is tho sectiou allowing the Supervisors to fis the Halary of the Suporiutendent as low as 2 per duy, and to limit the nnmbor of days Bervice to one for each district und township. Any man competent to tako the oiBco of Ooonty Superintendent, can pecuro a place any day ffith more than the maximum salary of 4, eaying nothing of tho $2 per day ; the smallest Union Schools aro now psying the maximum] and one day to a district is something of a farce. If we are to have County Superintendonts lot tho provisions of the act bo liberal onough to secure al least half respectable ability and efficiency. Ï3?" The Executivo Couimittee of the State Agricultura! Society, at its recent sesaion at Lausing, pissed a rèsolution reoommendiiin; the ealo of the State Agricultnral Collogo - farm and buildings, and the purehase of a farra ia a more gct-atable location. Id accordanoe with this recommondatioa a bilí has beon in troduced into tho Legislaturo, providing for sueh sale. If tho Legidlaturo would consult the real educado-nal interesta of the State, il would attach the Agiicultural College to tho Univeraity, and save duplicating professorships, appr.ratus, &c. An experimental favm could be attached, and for a tithe of the tóóliey the college now costs the State, it could be run as a department, and the number of student immediately iaoroaaed tonfold. Ük3ír We notice that the Houso tho other day, by neaily a unanimons vote, inyited the delegation of colored persons who presented a petition asking that the right of suffragu be extended to " American citizous of Afrioan descèflt" within the bur. Th ia is an honor that we babeüeve neithor brauch of the Legiskturo has heretofore conferred upon potitionors or committees of citizeus. Verily, tho vvorld wags. - The colored committes deolioed to accept the uivitation, on the groiicd that they were christian gentlemen, and feared that tho "evil eommunijation" niight inj ure their reputation. More onsiblü than their "white brothera." &3T Blair has been, and como, and gono ogain, and peace is not vet. It is said he had a frendly interview with Jeff. Davis, and that ho Irought an autograph letter from the rebel ehief, expressing a wi'luigness to appoiut peaeo commjesioners whenever our go?erninent would givs assurance that they would be received ; and, aíso, that he has carried back a reply from Prieident Lincoln based on tho " To Whom it May Oon oern letter." We vouch for tho truth of neither of these rumors, and advise our follow liables to get ready for the next draft. It is nsar at linnd. EiP We havo receivod from the Ad juiaut General of Maj. Gen. Hancock, a circular setting forth tho claims of the General's new corps, with another circular, over IIancock's own autograph, inviting us to notice it from time to time in our paper. Gen. Hancock is a brilliant offioer, and his corps is entitled to receive its fuil sharo of recruits ; but, then, as the circular giving "particulars'' is published &b au advertisement in many of tho Iiopublicau papers of the State, nnd no intimation is given that our nvi ted notices are to be paid for, we refer anxious iriquiror to the "official orgaus." I3F" The Supremo Court couveued at Lansiug, on Tucsday, for the purpose of hearing the argument, in the oontestod eleetion case frora tliis onunty, Twiï-ciiiïi- vs. BtoDOET. Attorney Generul Win liams, and Messrs. Rl-ssbh, Kniqfit, and Ex-Gov. Blaih appear for Twitciikll, and Messrs. Loïiirop and Rombyk for Blodget. This oase will be deterrained upon tho Dakcd constitutional question, and the decisión is looked for with inucü interest, If the soldiere' voting law ia held constitutional, other cases to be heard will hrtoWe Uw illegalities aud frauds under the law. JC3 Now that Butler out of the way, aud the whole subject of exebanges plaoed in th handa oi Gen. G-rant, i?e may hope that our brave eoldiers who have been bo long gtarving in rebel prisons and cattle yards, will oon be permitted to se thuir homes. . mwm C3C" The Senate has pnssed a bilí iuflieting a Metropolitan Poüce upom tlio city of Detroit. This is carrying out the modern Republican doctrine of contraüzrition. Tbe nation muet swul'ow up the States, nnd tho öiates compénsate tliernuelve by swalloaing muuici paüvif.). ' JC2L" Bufo re tlie eleotion, it waa god Bgaingt Secrotary Stanton, that ono of liis r.easons for refusing a, general eschange of prisoners, waa that wo were Keeping large numbcr of rebels out of active service, and could afford to let our i uufortunate soldiers suffer for the accomplishment of sueb fi good. Thia same outrageous poücy was avowed by Senator I IIale, in his place in the Senato, a few days sinoe. He said bo did notbelieveit expediont alwaya to exchaiigo in the present eonditión of tho coutest. Everyinan released by us was tít to be put into the field ngaingt us, and thus swell the ranks of the rcbül army. It was to our interest to keep the rebel forco in tho field as small as p ssiblo, and if we coold by retaliation secure fair treatment for our prisoners in tho South, this woald be tho wisest polioy. Wlmt say those who have sona and brothers languishing in robel prisona to eucb a monstrous doctrine ? fHp" Tho House has passed a joint resolution fixing tho duty on book and newspaper at 3 per cent ad vakrem, instead of the exorbitant and prohibitory duly imposed by the present tariff law. It ia to be hoped that the Senate will mmediately, and thon farewell to tho manufacturera' tuonoply. We i trust that the Press will mark tach I tor who votes against the resolutioifc - We are glad to notice that no i Michigan membara voted agaiDst tho j resolulion. LS A 6re out in the Smith sonian Institute on Tuesday afternoon, which destroyed all but six of Stanley's aboriginal portraits, 160 in number. - Mr. Stanlet bad just offered the collec;ion to our State, nnd petitions, nUraerously signed, ha?o boen presented to the Legislature, asking that it be purchascd and deposited in the Uuiversity of Michigan The portruits possessed gretit hietorical interest and value, and the losa to the country can not be mado good. JÊ3T" Gen. Bütlkk was ordered to report at Lowcll, instead of which be went to Washington, where he bas oeeupied his time in throwing dirt upon otber officer before Ihe conduct of the War Committee, urging the appointmeot of negro cadets to West Point, and writing bullying letters to members of Congrega. In this latter role he will hardly suoeeed as well as he has io bullyiug junior officers or civiliuua who have come in his way. E" The Snows, Jo?iah and bis son W. D., who used to flourish extensively in this State, have turned üp in Arkan sas, where the father, Josiah, is reported to have made a fortune, and tho son has been elected to Ihe Hni-ted State Senate by the bogüs Legislature. These new States are "bigthings," buL then we will keep quiet in this instance if Josiah will pay a small bill wo have held agaiuet hini these many yoars. L2L" Clumknts Las given noties thnt ha will in'.roduco into tho House a bilí to legaliza the action of tho corporato authorities of the city of Ann Arbor, in issuing bonds or certificates of indebtedness to aid in tho enlargemont of the medical collego. Wo presumo that no objeetions v, UI bo made to the passage of the UU HsST Rcpresantative Fielps, from tho new Stato Of Louisiana, stabbed Judge Kelley, of Pa., a few dnys ago. A Eepubücan quurrel. 1 - - - in nm HyZL Ata heavy nuclion sale of wool in Now York, on Wednesday, XX and XXX Michigan íleoce, sold at Ö0a95J.

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