Adams Sentinel, The (Newspaper) - February 15, 1831, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania At pur annum JJ advance or 50 if nut paid within the vear PUBLISHED BY ROBE11T G M S Advertisements per square lor 3 per s I'ur Resist with can the spirit of the principles of tin XV 15 PROCLAMATION concerned will take notice that Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania have appointed a CIRCUIT COURT to be held ai Gettysburg for the county of Adams by the Judges of the same commence on Monday the day of February next WM S COBEAN Sheriff Sheriff's Office burg Jan 11 1831 5 lc 1ST OF CAUSES at issue in the Circuit Court of Adams County and for Trial at a Circuit Court to be held at Gettysburg for said County on the Third Monday being the day of February 1831 The Carlisle Bank vs Nicholas man David Wilson and John Garvin Esq Trustees of Moses Gourley an In- solvent Debtor vs Abraham Scott David Wit hero w vs Peur Eply The Bank of Gettysburg vs James Dobbin Administrator de bonis non with the will annexed of Alexander Dobbin deceased Martin Ebert vs James D Paxton Thaddeus Stevens and Frederick Kepley Thaddeus Stevens vs Martin Getz and John Duncan Daniel Deardorff vs Philip Graft Commonwealth vs Jacob Lefever Anthony Deardorff vs John L Fuller GEO WELSH Clerk Jan 11 1831 tc LIST OF JURORS FOR CIRCUIT COURT Borough James A Thompson John vin George Shryock Jacob Ziegler Robert G Harper Mountpleasant John Diehl Hezekiah Houghtelin Wm son John Staly Thomas Orr Andrew art John Marshall John Mickley jr Wm Berwick Geo Henry John Smith Geo Hersh Daniel Diehl Mountjoy Frederick Diehl Liberty Samuel Wm Scott vid Kicker Samuel Arthur John Lehman Joseph Latshaw Simon Becker Nathan Wright Henry Fehl Reading Albert Job Dicks Franklin Valentine Flohr Adam S E Duncan David MiddlecofF Germany Alfred Cole Hamilton Michael Geiselman Straban Jacob Taughinbaugh Jacob Grass John Thomas Henry Jacob Worlz John star Heagy Cumberland Peter Eppley Latimore John Wolford 11 you bright orbs that tfin the Be each a blissful dwelling Where kindred spirits Whom fate hath torn asunder here How sweet it were at once to die And this dreary world afar M soul in soul to cleave the sky And soar away star to star But oh how dark how drear and lone Would seem the brightest world If through radiant We failed to meet the loved of tins If there no more those ties could twine Which death alone had power or Th OHO stars would then in mockery shine More hateful they shine It cannot ho each hope and fear That li the eye or clouds the brow Proclaims there is a happier Than the bleak world which claims us now There is a voice by sorrow heard When heaviest weighs life's Calling chain That voice is the Almighty's word The pure in heart shall meet Wives Speaking of the middle ranks of life a good writer ob- serves There we behold woman in all her glory not a doll to carry silks and jewels not a puppet to be dangled by fops an idol for profane adoration to-day discarded to-morrow always jostled out of the place which nature and society would assign her by sensuality or by contempt admired but not respected desired but not ed ruling by passion not affection irn parting her weakness not her cy to the sex she would exalt the source and mirror of vanity e see her as a wife partaking the cares and cheering the anxiety of a husband dividing the labors by her domestic diligence spreading cheerfulness around her for his sake sharing the decent refinements of the world without being of them placing all her pride all her joy all her happiness in the merited bation of the man she loves As a mother we find her affectionate the ardent instructress of the children she has tended from training them up to thought tue to meditation and ad- dressing them as rational beings and preparing them to become men and men in their turn Mechanics ters make the best wives in the world s TO all persons concerned that the Subscribers have been appointed AUDITORS to settle and apportion the of the Estate of SAMUEL JACOBS late of Hamilton township deceased among Creditors of said deceased and that they will meet for that purpose at the house of Joseph Woods in the town of Berlin on day he of February at 10 clock where all persons j rested will please attend WM PATTERSON GEORGE BROWN CORNELIUS SMITH Jan 1 1 Puo AND CON Pro There is a world where no haven of safely against the tempests of life a little world of joy and love of innocence and tranquility Suspicions are not there nor sies nor falsehood with her double tongue nor the venom of Peace it with outspread wings Plenty there When a man enters it be his rows and cares and disappointments he openeth his heart to confidence and to pleasure not mingled with remorse This world is the well ordered home of a virtuous and amiable woman Contra How long did Adam re- main in Paradise before he sinned asked an amiable sposa to her loving husband till be got a an- the husband the Head Henri Though says an old author may improve their heads in the company of their own sex we may affirm that the company and conversation of women is per school for the To KE NOTICE that I have plied to the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas Adams county for the benefit of the Insolvent Laws of this Commonwealth and they have ted of April for the hearing of rne and my Creditors at the Courthouse in the borough of MICHAEL MENICH Feb 1 I S Friends and he has purchased ihv uf JAS A SON in and thai he is prepared to manufacture in 1 the and keep on hand the 4 HATS respectfully solicits the of the Public New Question in ing to the census of New Hampshire one of every fifty of tht colored lation is and dumb of the white population the are only in the proportion of one to every one sand nine hundred and The fact is a curious our and cannot he explained upon the principle which solved the problem why should eat more ihan black ones the all things turn bib own thoughts No is so and as of an outraged con science when passion subsides and gives space lo rants and are unable to en- dure They in ry shade the ghosts oi and rinse eyes but to be lorn asunder by hurried away jo The terrors of ibe of REPORT OF OS Read in the ol Jim 27 PS P The Commit tec on to whom were referred much of the message of the Governor as relates to tho of a general system of education Thru attention has been directed to he whether it IKS expedient at this time that some general system should be adopted and if so to the abor of compiling the of such n system as they might deem it to recommend As to the mere question of ex- pediency their reflect in a full clear conviction lican as is the Government and subject at it is to ling will of the people it requires no deduction or lengthened argument to strate will should sound and illumined bv a suitable and seasonable education That such a Government to be stable must rest upon the virtue aud gence and I hut a nation to con- prosperous and happy must plant deep and wide those moral that direct u.s in our duty as individuals and as members of a With us the capability of a people to ern themselves is undergoing an experiment To be successful the means must be placed within their reach bv which they may be- come acquainted with the nature of their form of Government and guarded against that corruption that when once seated ses the decay if all free instil With us every iuni is eligible to aud every one should be enabled to prepare himself so as honorably and faithfully to dis- charge the functions of that office to which the exigencies of his eminent or the of his follow citizens may him With UP the people enjoy to the ex- tent the elective franchise Thai it mav be prudently and exercised they must be instructed to appreciate tiie value of that pliancy oi dangerous men And when the aye in which we live is so strongly marked by all old tions appear heaving from their and all new ones seem unsettled if we would be pre- served from that change for the worse that has been the fate who have preceded us ers for general education liy this not only would the cause of iI education be promoted but those to whom are entrusted the important instructing our youth and who in of some Uy our it is required of old the destinies of our state would receive that support and that respect to which they would justly be entitled Your committee wen further of opinion that to secure the permanent establishment as soon as may be convenient to future prosperity of any system of education provide for establishment of schools throughout the in such manner as that the poor may be aught and thai the arts and sciences shall be promoted in one or more of learning From the date of that i ament down till he fourth of A- no legislative provision ol a ire no al nature was made was arsed entitled Then er an act An act to provide tor the education of the poor From the passage of this to so recent a period as no further at tempt to fulfil the requirements of the constitution was made Then however an act was sed entitled An act to provide more ally for the education of the poor gratis and for laying the foundation of a general system of education throughout this commonwealth tins art the one of tiie Ith of April was repealed yet the act of March not suffered to go into and was repealed in two years and the former one revived and is now in force the only and lame provision of a general we have upon so important a subject This act only provides for the education of those children between the ages of live and twelve as if in that period they would learn enough to enable them to act their part in rhc several stations in winch they may be through with to and credit to the state of which they are citizens are contemplated within its provisions parents are unible for their education as if by distinction between the wealthy and the poor the latter would more eagerly adopt the provisions of an act thus obnoxious to them None are pre- pared enjoy its provisions until they have first been of their poverty and privilege and to judge rightly of men and the commissioners of their county things else be led io the j And not until and approved to be within its letter does the assessor give them leave to attend any school convenient and errors us iu the hands of uie people are their own destinies That they may they have only to be ed to and they fan to de- termine for their good So early as the vear 1770 our sitter State then a province led the in de within neighborhood in some measure tiie our free They have an equalising it the They would con- found all ranks classes distinctions ir the establishment system of Common and approves of 5 were opened to Hence that feeling so peculiarly manifest a- us that will acknowledge no child within and j ity has loo often disposition competent teachers were Beared and a fund with the poor to suffer their children to grow adequate to the support of up and unlearned rather than In the of i hie them in their opinion by accepting alms provided by law tor the instruction f public act has not had the of her then she has been full its fi amors exi N and 1 by Ohio and several other tar short of that system that the With me legislatures oi those Mules of tho youth of our rising commonwealth demands And hence it is only all other inu e n held aa on- ly secondary to a right of their citizens and have provided j pie means for their that upon hook special enactments have been made this time has dnia done She at limited however to the has been engaged in encouragement of promoting her agriculture and increasing the physical comfort aud convenience improving the face territory or drawing from the bosom of tho earth wealth that has been secreted aires in her J ier sister commonwealths have not been behind her But in tiie strife of ding-states which should be foremost in the cultivation of the mind or which lead in tiie improvement of the human heart she has scarce been seen or felt or heard In those spates wherein common schools have been established the advancement of the in- ual and mural powers of people have kept pace with their advance in tion and in greatness But wilh us the mind has been neglected a long career of prosperity too by tiie degraded state a- mongst us By the tact that of Jour children tiie and years it it tint umre tlian two and fifty thousand been within a during the a large can neither ur and m the of u.s f ly and of Philadelphia and to the ues of Lancaster and far as your committee have become acquainted with their they believe they have been highly beneficial Appropriations have also been made annually to the aid of colleges universities and academies yet from their nature the uf those institutions can only be enjoyed by the few the great mass from many causes being necessarily ded Tiie private throughout our state have been found inadequate to the wants of our people Jn many places some ment is wanting to an uneducated people to persuade them their children in the population is too sparse to port schools and wherever schools have been are made of their in- owing in the want competent and by which their better mav he secured and that lh periods during which they are opened mav only be longer but succeed each other with more To remedy these evils the of been ol at ill t ir 111 of a jn it must derive its from means other than voluntary contribution or tax alone In the states in which common schools been opened t huir support hns been provided for in various ways in Massachusetts tho several towns are compelled to raise the money by taxation In Connecticut they are supported by a common fund and in New York by a common school fund of the proceeds of which annual distribution is made amongst their several school districts on condition of heir raising by taxation a sum equal to their distributive share of that fund fn Connecticut their common school fund amounts to In New York their fund amounts to about and during the last year scholars were taught an average of 8 months and at the expense of The latter system was left optional with people dopt and in the first few years but few schools were established bur they have gradually increased and arc now extended over all the vast territory of that State Your committee deeming it no ment to profit by the example of other states recommend the system we may adopt in a way somewhat similar to that of New York that a common school fund shall be funned and any deficiency shall be ded for by the districts hereafter to be Thus whilst the common fund will operate as a great inducement to the support of schools the contributions of those ed in each district will ensure a deeper rest in the success of their schools than might prevail were they altogether dependant upon the donations of the public The means for the establishment of such a fund they believe to be within the reach of this legis- lature without a resort to taxation or to the concerns of the wealth From the most accurate information they have been able to obtain there is due the commonwealth from the holders of patented lands a sum exceeding two millions of dollars and that notwithstanding the low rate that land is now sold hy the state from lands yet vacant and unappropriated a very considerable sum in addition to the above can be raised The payments from these sources to the treasury have been annually increasing and during last year amounted to If the money tints arising were transferred and pledged to the support of common schools within three years or four at the utmost the fund would increase to a sum sufficiently large thereafter to warrant the yearly dis- of a considerable sum to their port and that sum would increase with the increase of Use fund and the spread of the schools throughout the state This your committee believe would be decidedly preferable to that of taxation if the latter would be adopted there is too much reason to fear that the act so providing for a fund would become obnoxious and soon be repealed and if such would not be the result yet a fund could not fluid be raised that for many years would warrant a distribution Your com- have been governed in the belief that a system to be effectual must commence op- within three or four years The setting isido of tho proceeds from land for the support of schools will in some sure have the good effect of seen ring the ment of the money thus due at as early a period as those who are delinquent may find it practicable This disposition will be moted when they are assured that they are but providing for the future welfare of their children that the money thus paid after ving aided in the common operations of and in great purposes of internal improvement will flow back to them again securing to children a good education and making diem wiser and better citizens And hy this disposition of the money thus arising your committee no will ho felt as before mentioned It js recommended that the money thus paid should be loaned to tiie common wealth at an annual interest of 5 per otherwise directed and that until the fund shall have increased the upon the sums shall be loaned in hk until that Jo ho of the paid and the we have rance of our state lie prosperous The chains and HOW IT v be and in the full of operation but surplus by in event of a iV We lo the the oi Ins a second antenng He who rejoices in beauty of youth how precarious tro K T J i eany executed at in a tv the Office of the Adams Sentinel j io tht in Three young men have been each X Y for
