The Legislature Has Passed And

the Governor has sigued a bilí repeahng the law oreating a "County Superintendent of Common Schools," and substituting a township system of superintendence instead. By the provisions of the law each townahip iu the State is to elect a " Superintendent of Schools,' at the ensuing annual township meeting, who is to hold his office for one year. 8uch superintendent is to be chairman of the board of school inspectora ; is to examine all persons offering themselves as teachers in the township (without the assistance of the other inspector), for which purpose he shall hold at least two meetings a year ; shall grant certificates in the forui to be prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction ; shall visit each of the schools in his township at least twice a year, examining as to discipline, mode of instruction, etc. ; make annual reports and discharge clerical duties iniposed by the law. He is prohibited trom acting as a book agent or from receiving any gift or reward for recommending the purchase of any library book, school book, r school furniture. He is to receive two dollars a day for each day necessarily devoted to the discharge of the duties of his office, to be paid from the township treasury, with provisión for necessary stationery, postage, and printing. The success of the system will depend entirely upou the superiutendents chosen, making it important that the best man ohosen in each town, a man of good education and of Bound and disoreet judgment ; a man who knows what a school and a teacher should be, and who will administer the duties of his office conscientiously and free from personal prejudice. Unless such officers are obtained the new system will soon fall into greater disrepute than the one it supersedes. The expense of the system will bc greater than under the county system ; but as it will fall upon the towns who will have the services of the office, our city and other cities which have heretofore largely paid the salaries of the County Superintendent, without furnishing any of his work, will be financially relie ved. Heretofore our city district has paid about one-sixth of the expense of running the County Superintendence-system ; and " all for nothing." - As the law in question repeals section 648 of the compiled laws, and amends section 649, a questien will be raised as to what will become of the school inspector holding over in each township, the old ofiicer having been a two years one. The inspector hereafter holds but for one year. - - m - k - ■ w The able and exhaustivo sppech made by Senator Peter White, of Marquette, before the joint-couimittee on railroads and publio lands, in favor of the Marquette and Mackinac Railroad bill, secured the passage of the bill by the Senate. Senator White is evidentlj thoroughly posted in the resources and needs of the Upper Península, and the ways and methods for the promotion of the interests of that section. The bill in question ought to beoome a law. Without the construction of the railroad in question the lands appropriated are worthless to the State. With the railroad the interests of the Upper Poninsula will become merged in the interests of the State, jealosies allayed, and harmony and unity established. - Thia evening Senator White is to read a paper on " The Pictured Rocks and the Manitous of Lake Superior," in Representativo Hall. The following indorsement of the Hon. Peter White, one of the Democratie oandidates for Eegent of the University, is from the Northwestern Mining Journal, and certainly cominends him to the electors of the State who would see the University placed ia safe and good hands : Support Him.- The Hon. Peter White, of Marquette, has been nominated for the responBiblé office of Itegent of the State Uuiversity, and we trust will be Bupported by his fellowcitizens of the Upper Península, reanüess of party. Mr. White is tui emiuently sound, practical business man, just such a man as is needed to engineer the financial affaiis of tlie University, and should the bilí creating a school of mining and technology become a ]aw, his practical commou sense, extensive acquaintance with our home iudustry, and knowledge of the kind of education requisito to make men successful mine engineers - rather than book-crammed, incompetent theorists - will be of great value to the State at large; and his election will be slmply a just recognition ot the claims of the Upper Pemnula to some voice in the guidauce of the destiuies of a prospectivo educational department in whose succesa we, as a mining people, are particularly interested. Let the Upper Península give Mr. White a solid vote. " M I I I ► ■■ JuDOE Emmons (of Detroit, and a Republican) has instructed tho grand jury, at Memphis, ïenn., tliat the Civil Kights bilí so far as it undertakes to regúlate hotels, theaters, or places of amusement, is unconstitutional ; that neither the original Coustitution nor the recent araendments give Cougress any authority to enact sucb. laws. lf his decisión 13 sustained, as it uiust be, one bone of atrife and contention between the national and local authorities will ba removed. Hon. W. D. Williams, formerly of this county (Lima), and a gradúate of the University, has been nominated for the Twelfth circuit by conventions of both political parties, a tribute both to hi popularity and ability. His "caliing and election" uiay be considered eure. Neither branch of the Legislatura has yet solved the liquor question, and just now it looks as though no constitutional amendment will be substituted, or düfoctivu laws improved.