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The Herald. THOS. F. GRENEKER, EDITOR. W. H. WALLACE. ' NEWBERRY. S. C. WR,DNESDAY, AUG. 6, 1879. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. Thd Herald is in the highest respect a Fai 1ly Newspaper, devoted to the material in terests of the people of this County and t he State. It circulates extensively, and as an Advertising ime(ium offers unrivalled ad vantages. For Terms, see first page. An Editor's Work. If any one imagines an editor has an easy time he is far from it. There is no rest for him. Day after day and week after week he is ran sacking his brain for something to write, or for something to write about. No sooner is one issue got out than the "deN'l" begins to yell for "more copy," and sick or well, drunk or sober, the poor editor must supply it : the copy has got to come somehow, and there is no putting it off till to-morrow or next day. No wonder that many break down. The strangest thing about editors is that they don't all commit suicide. Sam'l Clements (Mark Twain), who has had a good deal of experience in editing newspapers, thus speaks of an editor's work: "Nobody, except he has tried, knows what it is to be an editor. It is easy to scribble local rubbish, with the facts all before you ; it is easy to clip selections from other papers; it is easy to string out a cor respondence from any locality; but it is unspeakable hardship to write editorials. Subjects are the trouble -the dTeary lack of them, I mean. Every day, it is drag, drag, drag think, and- worry and suffer-all the world'is a dull blank, and yet the ,-6ditorial columns must be filled. Only give the editor a subject, and his work is done-it is no trouble to write it up ; but fancy how you would feel if you had to pump your brains day after day in the week, fifty-two weeks in the year. It makes one low spirited simply to think of it. The matter that each editor of a daily paper in America writes in the course of a year would fill from four to eight bulky quarto volumes! Fancy what a library an editor's work would make, after twenty or thirty years' ser vice. Yet people often marvel that Dickens, Scott, Bulwer, Dumas, etc., have been able to produice so many -books. If these authors had wrought as voluminously as newspaper edit ors do, the result would b'e some thing to marvel at, indeed. How editors can continue this tremen dous labor, this exhausting con sumption of brain fibre (for their work is creative, and not a merely mechanical laying-up of facts, like reporting) day after day and year after year, is incomprehensible." Yellow Fever Notes. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, has sent a $2,000 check to Mem phis to aid in removing the poor from the city. Yellow Jack does not stop hiss ing and marrying, and the nimble pistol has not forgotten its cunning: Frank Beamish was shot and killed by C. B. Hamner the 30th olt., for kissing Hamner's aunt-it is not stated whether he kissed his sisters and his cousins, too, but it is pre sumed that he did. Last week there were marriage licenses taken out by twenty cou pIes in Memphis. The Yellow Fever still continues at Memphis, though in a modified form. Only four or five are dying per day. The fever has not broken out anywhere else. The Georgia Legislature has passed a law which is aimed at speculations in "futures"; it makes such contracts illegal and void. Capt. F. W. Dawson, Editor of the Charleston Nems and Courier, has gone to Europe for a tovr of several months. War is rather an expensive luxu ry. The Zulu war has already cost England $4,500,000. What a screamer ! is a tribute often paid to a crying baby, but Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup by alleviating the pains of the little one soon stops the crying. DEATH OF AN OLD COUPLE.-TWo old colored servants-A dam and Cloie Garlington-man and wife, died near this place on last Sunday ; aged near one hundred years-the former ninety. nine, and the latter afew years young er. This old couple were owned for a number of years by the late John Garlington, and were freed as his pro perty at the close of the war. They died within a few hours of each other -the man at 9 o'clock in the morn ing, and the woman at the same hour on the evening of same day. F T ~ - 77 r7m.~7,7 ( 'FOR THE HERALD. The common School System of South Carolina. No. 2. Our second reason for believing that the State should support and develop the "Common Free School System" was, that she is essentially pledged to the same. It is unfortunately too true, that dishonesty of every kind has become a very common, matter-of fact, every day affair amongst our people; and that "Vice is a monster of such frightful mien That, to be bated, needs but to be seen; Bat seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Nevertheless, we ask every true lover of his country, whether this fes teri.ng corpse of dishonesty should not now at length be buried, and the moral pestilence arrested, if possible; or shall we rather go on adding infamy to infamy to the great amazement of our latest posterity ? Only a few years ago, our leading politicians, sustained by all the peo pie, repeatedly pledged their solemn words of honor (?), "That this 'Com mon Fiee School System' should be fully developed, and remain forever fostered by the State." Subsequently, the press has been heralding that fact (as a virtue), and parading a partial fulfillment of those pledges all over the world-perhaps, now however, only as a remarkable occurrence of the 19th century! Now, in view of these facts, shall we, by our worse than Cretan falsehood and faithlessness, sustain any itching politician or loquacious old granny in an effort to plunge our oative State into the foul cesspool of infamy again ? Or shall we not rather try to elevate her to that proud peer. age of the past, when King-Arthur like "she reverenced her conscience as her king" ? Those that rashly an swer the former of these two questions in the affirmative, try to plead the ne cessity that then existed for such a promise, in order to rescue the State ; but they ignore several material cir cumstances which invalidate such a pleading, to-wit : 1st. The fulfillment of those pledges will not prove an injury, but a mate rial benefit, both directly and indi. rectly, to the State. 2nd. Promises made even to a rob. ber should be faithfully kept, when no injury will thereby be inflicted upon any party whatever. 3d. The occasional howl of a child less miser, at the extraction of a little money for the educational benefit of the country, should be considered less weighty than the constant cries of a violated faith, and its ensuing stigma of infamy eternal. 4th. If such falsehood should now be proclaimed as S~tate policy in the past, what guarantee have the common poor people now, that you, great pic nic and fireside statesmen who are now so glibly undertaking to falsify your words in the past, are not now pursu ing that same policy of falsehood, and endeavoring, all your protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, to abridge their liberties even to the un speakable degradation of essential slavery ? 5th. But, even if the fulfillment of those pledges should militate against the haughty insolence of a purse proud, faithless, aristocracy, still the same should be pressed on in good faith to completion ; because the ad miration and respect of the whole world, which is now very properly watching us with eagerness and hope, will no doubt console and recompense us in a thousand different ways for whatever loss we may suffer, just so soon as we shall have demonstrated to their satisfaction, that, "Though good faith should have been banished from all the rest of the earth, she has still retained her habitation in the breast of South Carolina." For these five reasons, these pledges should be kept. Our third reason for believing that the "Common Free School System" should be maintained and developed by the State was, "In republics at least, ignorance is the fruitful mother of crime and anarchy; and the same, therefore, should be suppressed by the State. Every honest man-we expect no thing good of the rest-will doubtless readily admit the truth of the follow ing propositions : 1st. Every government that merits m existence should legislate in behalf >f its perpetuity and honor. This Common Free School System"should, herefore, be sustained by tho State, 11l that ceaseless obstinacy to the con rary notwithstanding. 2nd. It has been constantly con ;ended-and principally too, we be ieve, by those very Solons who are row so strangely advocating the demo ition of this "Common Free School system"-"that the most, if not all, f our past danger and degradation as abolished, its enemies themselves be ing judges. 3d. It will probably remain the policy of the country to put ondy those edu cated into office; consequently, an ex clusion from an education is precisely equivalent to an exclusion from oflice. Therefore, every patriot and poor man should see that this "Common Free School System" is sustained by the State, the persevering efforts of every insolent aristocrat and rich office-seek er who "would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven," to the contrary not withstanding. 4th. It is, "in the long run," cheap. er, more efficacious, and, in every way, better to dig up the very rootstock of crime and lawlessness, which is igno rance, than to continue spending time and money in Cutting off its outshoots. Therefore, even in a merely economi cat point of view, this "Common Free School System" should be sustained by the State. 5th. This State education should be regarded, not as a public .poil to be wrangled about and fought over, but as a public measure for the preserra tion and prosperity of the State-for the better protection of every man's person and the greater enhancement, pecuniarily, of every man's property. Therefore, in the interest of common reason at least, we should hear much less of that silly nonsense about one party's receiving a much greater bene fit than another, We shall probably have something more to say under this head in our next article. 6th. A. is a poor man who has re. cognlized the binding law of creation has married and become the father of 8 or 10 children; has worked dili gently from daylight to dark fur many long. venry years; has spent his sub. stance in furnishing citizens to serve the State "in war and in peace"; and now, consequently, has not enough, perhaps, to bury him with decency. Living, he was a pillar in the domes. tic, social, religious, and politic:4 fib ric; dying, he leavcs behind him the memory of a well-spent life, "to ani mate the bosom of his dceendanrts." B, on the other hand, is a muiser, who sets every law of creation at d:fi ance, spurn3 the matrimonial relation. ship, is legitimately childless, auu a "veritable stumbling block and ca:use of offence" to every institution azumnst us tending to render our people hmmrr able, peaceful, and profitable Citizens. "Living, he forreits fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from which he sprang, Unwept, unhonored and unsung." What is true in the widest sense is true also in a restricted sense ; there fore, it follows :That a poor man who has left the example of a good life to those around him, and the lcgacy of five or ten honest, industrious, citizens to the State. deserves, and should re ceive, at least as much official consid eration as that childless miser who will leave. nothing good behind him but his bags of gold. Therefore, this "Common Free School System" should not be abolished, even though some rich man should occasionally receive less tuition than he paid for. Again, the 1st, the 2nd, and the 4th of these propositions arc now very specially commended to the notice of all those that regard the "Common Free School System" as a tax without any commensurate benefit therefrom; the 3d, to the careful consideration of every poor man who now foolishly meditates assisting in the expulsion of even his own helpless children from the priceless inheritance of an educa tion; the 5th, to the continued atten tion of every class of people; and the 6th, to the prayerful consideration of all those that can see no utility except in the acquisition of money, and that would, conseqjuently, legislate solely with reference to men's pecuniary standing. FoR THE llERALD. NRWnElmY, S. C., August 4, 1879. In pm-snance to a call by John B. Carwile and other Superintendents, delegates elected by the different Sun day Schools met at Young Men's Chris tian Association Hall and opened an informal meeting by electing John 0. Peoples, Chairman, and A, C. Jones, Secretary. On motion, a committee of five was appointed, consisting of D. B. Wheeler, J. B. Carwile, John 0. Peoples and J. N. Martin, to request the different Sunday Schools of the County to send representatives here for the purpose of organizing a County Sunday School Convention. The committee was au thorized to name the number of dele gates, time and place of meeting, etc. The following were elected as dele gates to the State Convention, which eets in Spartanburg August 20th: Delegates-Rev. J. Hawkins, Thos. . Greneker, Dr. Wmn. M. Dorrohi. Alternates-Rev. J. C. Boyd, D. B. Wheeler. John B. Carwile. Sunday School Superintendents are requested to furnish John 0. Peoples, hairman, statistics of their schools for the use of delegates at the State Con vntn. All1 na to be brough+ in by Grange Department. NEWBERRY, S. C., Aug. 2nd, 1879. To the Xembers of Newberry Pomo na Grange : I am glad to inform you that every arrangement has been made for the meeting of Pomona Grange at Bush River on the 22nd of this mouth, and a full turn out of all members is earnestly requested, as I am confident all will be interested in the proceed ings, and hospitably and generously entertained. All the neighbors are respectfully. invited to come out, as we will have a public address by the W. N. of State Grang-e, and, also, to take part in our discussion, as the sub ject will he of great interest to all planters. I lave been urged to request that all Sub. Granges send full delegaticns to our Summer Meeting at Chester, on the 12th of August. Fare on all Rail Roads will be 3 cents per mile each way, except the Air Line R. R., which will be full fare on going and return free upon proper certificate. J. S. HAIR, Master Newberry Pomona Grange. Newberry Poimonia Grame.No. 4 ST. LUKE'S, July 11, 1879. The Grange opened in due form by W. M., J. S. Hair. In the absence of the W. 0. and W. T., Bros. Jacob Epting and J. C. H. Rauch were ap pointed to those offices pro ten. The Roll of Subordinate Granges being called, a quorum was found to be present, when the Grange proceed ed to business. Bros. J. A. Mayer, from High Point, and J. W. Folk, from Pomaria, were duly enrolled as members. Account of W. S. for $3.60, and Newberry HERALD. $3.00, for pub lishing Tribute of Respect to Bro. J. P. Aull, dee'd., approved and ordered paid. By request-Bro. J. N. Lipscomb, W. M. State Grange, explained the duties of-Executive Committees. The W. M. announced that the 5th degree would bc conferred at night upon all applicants, when Bros. E. J. Lake, J. W. Folk and J. A. Mayer applied. Bro. Thos. W. IIolloway called the attention of the Grange to the Sum muer Meeting of the State Grange, to be held at Chester in August, and the desire of that Grange that this Grange should send up suggestions as to sub jects of interest to farmers and Granges for discussion. The W. M. ruled that any member of this Grange, whose Subordinate Grange is more than twelve months in arrears for dues, can retain their mem bership in this Grange by making ap plication, provided the Grange vote favorably thereou-this ruling only to apply to those who live more than seven miles from a working Subordi nate Grange. If the member lives within seven miles of a working Grange, he must unite with such (in case his own cannot be revived), and the failure to comply with this ruling will sever his or her membership and the name of such will be stricken from the roll. An invitation from High Point Grange to hold the next regular meet ing at its hall was received and ac cepted. Subject for discussion "Should the emigration of the negro from this country be encouraged" unless the Grange shall conclude to change the subject, and if so, notice - to be given through the Grange Col umn of the Newberry HERALD. The Grange then took a recess of one hour for dinner, to meet after re cess with open doors. After recess the Grange resumed its sitting in the School House, beneath the Grange Hall, and proceeded to the discussion of the stated question, viz : Should the State educate her children, or, in other words, is free public edu cation a benefit to the country. The discussion opened by Bro. R. T. C. Hunter, Lecturer of St. Luke's Grange-Thinks the State ought to educate her children, and that the public school system is advantageousa to the whole people ; that it is nothing1r but just to tax property for this pur pose ; that wherever universal suffrage e prevails universal education is a primea necessity, and there is no way to ob- a tain this except by the free public sys- Ij temn; and, again , general education is s certainly of value to the State, because o it increases the value of property, and t increases her prosperity; for instance, take two pieces of land, all other i things being equal, and that in an in- fi telligent and educated community will a sell for a great deal more than that in anignorant and rude neighborhood.- t Again there is a certain community ofi interest which demands this from pro-J t perty, for in times of trouble the poor i as well as the rich must protect and a defend alike, and property must orb ught to remunerate in some way. o Dur system is no criterion, though if i, properly carried out would certainly a be of benefit. C The Rev. Mr. Bowles being present, o: lthough not a Granger, was called on, Ia: and said : Thought only members par- y icipated, and was not prepared, but p ould say that I heartily favor a pub- w ie school system. The masses must ca be educated in order to elevate them, ii and this can only be done through the la ublic schools, for the poor are not o1 ble, and if left to them their children et ould remain ignorant. Thle rich who ei ave money and power would educate 01 heir children, which would give them ii uch advantage over the masses as to p< lace them in all positions of honor sc and emolument. Every one who has ta the right to vote ought to have suffi- ai .oor receive compensation for public luties performed. Think there should ,e sufficient tax levied to run the chools ten mouths in the year. Don't ike our system because there is not noney enough ; under the present vorkings the schools are only open for 2 or 8 months when they overflow, ifter that no school can he raised. Believe that parents should be forced to send their children to school for a ertain period, as in some of the most -nlightened Eastern countries. Op posed to any half way system ; raise the tax sufficiently to run the schools ten months in each year, and self in terest would force the taxpayers to educato their children, and in a few years we would have an educated mass, 1nd our people would wake up to the importance of education. Bro. Thos. W. Holloway agrees with Hunter and Bowles. Bro. J. A. Sligh-The subject is important, but has two sides, have not rully decided ; don't like the idea of compulsion under free government imacks of monarchy-and don't be ieve it would succeed here; it does in Germany aid other Monarchical Governments; but this is a Republic and we don't like to be dictated to as to whether we shall send our children to school or not. If the question were alone, should the State educate her children, my answer would be yes ; but the mode should be discussed in its m)inutim,. Not in favor of the sys emn of this State : instead of a benefit it has been a curse, the tax being ;quandered and misapplied has led a great many to not send their children to school. Our people are waking up to this subject, because they see that the negro is about to outstrip them in this matter. Would like a system perfectly carried out, but doubt very much whether more tax should be evied or money appropriated. Our people are poor, and although the taxes are much lower than a few years ago, they are too high yet. Don't know whether the schools ought to be open ten months or not, most of farmers re juire the labor of their children on the farm-they have to help make a upport and pay taxes. You may say it will redound to the honor of the tate, enhance the value of property, &c.; but I tell you it will have to be by some other system than ours; it won't do, education is less general ow than before the war. I think 3verybody should be educated. I want to see the time when every far er's son and daughter too shall be ducated-not for professions, but as armers; when every farm house in ill this land can furnish a Legislator; when they shall not be merely hewers f stone and drawers of water, but hall assist in intelligently directing he affairs of Governmtent, Church, and ill things that pertain to the welfare f the people. We have a large class >f ignorant voters, and ignorance will lways cause trouble; but can they be ~ducated so as to appreciate the right hey enjoy, and the responsibilities of ~heir position is a question for serious ~onsideration. Although our system s bad, yet, perhaps, the best thing ve can do is to continue the appro riations and try to make the system anear perfect as possible, but don't .ncrease the appropriations-many id it impossible to pay taxes low as :bey are; and another thing, the State )ly bears the light expense of tuition, while the parent has the burthen of upport to bear. Induce immigration, ower taxes, pass good and wholesome aws, make the country prosperous mnd everybody will educate their chil Iren, and the cry "give us free public schools" will not be heard in the land. Bro. J. R. Irwin-Coincides with ro. Sligh. Bro. E. J. Lake-Think Bro. Sligh s right. Bro. J. Wesley Folk-I have been Sclose observer of schools for 40 years -educated all my children before the var. I think Public Schools ought o be open 5 months in the year, say om 1st December to 1st March, and >y that means give farmers the chance o send their children to school in vinter, and have their work in sum ner. That was the plan when I was a >ov. Bro. M. Werts-I think our system ad, it is too complicated and expen ive, we are a poor people. Education as ever been esteemed by Philosphers nd Legislators as a source of happi ess, and that by it the ship of State s successfully guided, and the shackles f ignorance and vice thrown off. I mn in favor of public schools, provided successful plan can be matured, but unhesitatingly denounce the present ystem as not suited to the wants of ur people. Bro., Folk's plan seems o be good, try it for 6 months and :ive the other 6 to the farm. I think 0 many teachers apply. Let trustees x pay, and number of schools, and tesignate place of holding them. Bro. J. N. Lipscomb-This ques ion instead of two has a hundred sides, is the biggest question now before be people. We can't decide it. There no telling the value of education to man or a people. Education should. e not only mental but physical, not nly intellectual but moral-the mere atellectual without the moral is per. icious and always leads to crime. Aur people do recognize the importance this matter; you may say that we re not alive to this subject, but I tell o we are. Show mec any unlettered rson of 40, and I will show you one -ho would give SI100,000 for an edu tion if he could. I tell you there is o use of any legislation, compulsory s, or anything else needed to wake 2r people educate their children, (ex apt the ability to do so.) Why cv -ybody knows we can 't prosper with t it. It is no use to talk abojt its aportance, it is a slander on the good ~ople of this County and State to as. rt that they arc asleep to the advan ges of education. I don't believe in tything that tends to give Govern tion. Where will the principle stop. Very soon Government will dictate the kind of books our children shall study. and whether those books shall he Catholic or Protestant. I contend that Government has as much right to enforce certain religions opinions as to force education, and although it lms not dared to do so, yet if you give it the power to do one it opens the way for the other; it has no more right to do one than the other. And again, is it possible to have public schools and not corrupt the people ? T:,ke, for instance, the workings of the late war. Why, sirs, in the begin. ning, whenever there was a call for volunteers, and it was advertised that on a certain day there would be a neeting at Dominick's or Jalapa, for the purpose of rai6ing a company ev erybody came, and from 16 to 70 they volunteered, and there was none so craven as to stay away; but when the Government undertook to put all in by conscription, what was the result ? You know very well, every man dodged out who could, and what before had been considered a manly duty became to be considered a servile service. Just so with education, let the Gov ernment undertake to educate the children, it can only do so much and no more, and I tell you that when the 2 or 3 imonths schools have ended, the money having been exhausted, nine tenths of the fathers and mothers will stop right there, and leave the matter to Government and children. In re ference to school tax. All the poll tax and the two mills constitutional tax are devoted to schoolq, but the ex pense don't stop there. You pay the State Superintendent of Education $2,100, his clerk $1,500, his contin gent fund $500, insurance on the University $1,600, Librarian to the University $500, Claflin University $7,500, Cedar Springs $1.500, Bever ly Nash's Normal School $1,500, be sides in this County you pay an addi. tional tax to pay off past due school claims. I tell you that the taxes paid on ac6ailnt of public schools now is more than all the combined expenses of the Government beside, Guberna torial, Judicial, Legislative, Executive and all. Bro. Sligh touched a point I have seen all over this land, the ma jority of our people can not and dare not send their children from 6 to 16 to school, they are obliged to keep them at home to make crops; money has to be raised to pay taxes, and without their labor the tax can't be paid, for agriculture governs all things; .increase taxation and our peo ple will not be able to pay it. If you could take away the tales for schools, you would soon see nice white school houses every 5 miles-it would come. Have compulsory education and the Government will teach what it likes, and farmers will have less influence then th an now, and they have less now than any other class. Legislators pander to Phosphate Companies, Rail Roads and other moneyed corporations, but never to farmers. If Government can devise sompe schemeo that will lighten taxation, and about 1,000 other ifs, then I will listen to many ifs. Bro. Sligh-How much will it take to run the schools ? B3ro. Lipseomb-1,400,000 for one year according to estimate. And I tell you that until that Utopian period whidh we have read about comes there will be peculation whenever large amounts of money are expended under our system. The millennium has not come, and our friends arc preaching doctrine today which a few years ago was unheard among our own people. Public schools work against the inhe rent rights of the citizen. Bro. J. T. P. Crosson-Oan't the appro priations be reduced ? Bro. Lipscomb-Will answer by saying, first, that your Legislature, last session, raised the salary of the State Superinten dent from $1,600 to $2,100. Second, the Legislature is sworn to abide by the Con stitution; the system cap't be perfected, but it can be improved, but not so long as we have such Legislation. We need a Gonvention to remodel the whole thing. Bro. D. Ruff-Am opposed to the free school system; it has never been of any benefit in our community. Bro. Jacob Epting-Can't comprehend the first clause of query. As to the second, say that the public school system has been of very little benefit in our settlement. We have become disgusted with the thing brough the incompetency and impoliteness of ignorant negro School Commissioners. I don't think it is just for negroes to be ed ucated with white men's money ; they wouldn't work roads because they had no wagons to run over them. Our children have to work in the field while negroes go to school. I am not opposed to theiir hav ng education, but I am opposed to their being educated by the labor of myself, my hildren, and my neighbors' children. There s plenty of tax now and too much. Bro. J. A. Mayer-I am not in favor of ublic schools. I get no benefit from it. egroes get it all. Bro. Geo. Dominick--I am in favor of verybody educating the'r own children. B3ro. A. J. Kilgore-Can't say much in avor of public schools-think the system hould be abolished. W. M., J. S. 11air-I think it a duty to ducate, but I don't thinik the public school ystem is just. My idea is that the taxes aid by whites should be applied to the ed cation of unfortunate white people ; that he taxes paid by negroes should be ap plied to negro education. I have no ob ection to the education of negroes, but be ieve it tends to crime. After going to chool they think themselved too good to ork and live by hook and crook. Whr, t least one-third of the money gathered y negroes for the last two months has een by depredating on the fields of the eighborhood gathering blackberries. The ystem should be inquired into, and if we re obliged to adopt it, it should be made s near perfect as possible ; there has been too much ignorance among officials as well s the people in regard to its workings,] ud a pertinent question now is, where is he money that for several years has been ~ollected for that purpose ? I think if peo le were forced to send to school it would e infringing on their rights as free men, Lnd would be a long stride toward centrali cation. All having been called on, the following. ;entlemen made some remarks in reply : Mr. Bowles-It is not the public school ystemi that grinds, but the taxes; people ose sight of national good in selfish motive. hhy, sir, the tax of fatshion is ten times as ~reat as the whole governmental, school, ~ rn l te ae.Th itk snti adalohersm bt iave Too miake icerot i so eve+am hnt in havine tan m.no amoore 'l country, 3 will hurt sone, and if so why don't. they do away with the whole thing. It is not the fault of the system, but of the people ; i it ha- done no good it is their faiult. Brn. Lipqcomb-The Legislature can't be wrong in carrying uu tLhe provisions of the Constitution. The people do fteel the taxes. I have advocated evilling a tonstirutional Gonvention fir.:t, last and at all times Jiro. Siigh--I can't say cl.t I ai oppased to free schools, but am to compelling pa rents to send to school; it is a bad spirit and antagonistic t.o Deinoeratic principlo'. I al opposed to any discrimination ; let all come in, we are all citizens ; let rich aid poor come in alike in the share of tihe be:i efits, everything free for all alike. la re f eence to foreign countries, ihey, perh:..ps, are not so piosperous as we think. Skep ticism is rainpant. Compulsory education is a dangerous power-too much power to be given even to the Demoemiatic Party. Bro. Lipscomb - If N k pattern after one foreign we must pattern after all, Germany, Italy, France, Russia, &c., &c. And again, if the University is opened, as is asked for by some, it will take $50,000 dollars, and you must pay it, dollar for dollar, then Newberry, Due West, Wofford and other Colleges Nill be gone. There is no coer cion necessary, people appreciate :ind will attend to this matter. Take the Phosphate ,Royalty and study it out in all its phases and you find a fit illustration of the work ings of the public school system. Mr. Bowles-I wish to make some solemn remarks. Perhaps there are some present who, having heard me express my opinion at other times, are surprised at the position takeni by me in the argument to-day, there fore I wish to make an explanation. I un derstood this discussion to be for the bene fit of the people. I came to hear it, and in order to bring out the strongest argument of the opponents of the public school sys tern I have argued in their favor. I now declare that I am opposed, in toto, to the whole public school system and think it ought to be abolished. Bro. Edwards, from -- Grange, in Edgefield, said-I came from Edgefield to see and hear how you were getting on, and let me say I Am well pleased and am fully repaid. Here the discussion closed, and the Grange took a recess until 8; o'clock this P. M. At half past 8 o'clock P. M. the Grange resumed its sittings with closed doors. Opened in the 5th Degree, and conterred that degree on Bros. J. W. Folk, J. A. Mayer and E J. Lake. Grange then closed in 5th and opened in 4th degree, and transacted the following business: Resolved, That the thanks of this Grange be returned to St. Luke's Grange and the citizens generally, for the kind hospitality shown us at this meeting. On motion, Ordered that we have a Call Meeting of this Grange at Bush River Church, on Friday before the 4th Sunday in August next, at 10 o'clock A. M. Sub ject for discussion : The best grasses for winter and summer pasture for stock. On motion, Ordered that the Chairman of the Executive Committee select a memn ber of this Grange to prepare an essay on one of the growing crops, to he read at the Call Meeting. On motion, Ordered that the W. S: for ward to the Ex:ecutive Committee of the State Grange the four following subjects for discussion at the Summer Meeting at Chester, to-wit: 1st. Rail Road transportation and the management of Rail Roads in South. Caro lina. 2nd. The importance of clearing out the streams, and thus e-eouragtng fish culture, as well as its benefit to the health of the country. 2d. The best grasses for winter and sum mer pasture for atock. 4th. The best mode or manner of restor ing dormant Granges. There being no other business,-at 11 P. M. the Grange adjourned in due form. J. F. KILGORE, W. S. FOR THE HERALD, Our Washington Letter. .WAsHINGTON, D. C., July 30, 1879. A bout every prominent Republican in Pennsylvania seems to be a candi date for appointment as Minister to Great Britain. I doubt not all of themi will receive "satisfactory assur ances" from Mr. Hayes, who has never been known to deprive any one of the blessed boon of hope until an pointment had to be made. The public debt statement for July will show an increase of five or six millions. The enthusiastic friends of Secretary Sherman say that this is en tirely cansed by his absence from the city. Some few men seem t<> esti mate Mr. Sherman's abilities as high ly as ho himself does. It was not long since tbat he wrote a letter in which he spoke of the impossibility of his accepting a nomination for Governor of Ohio, as the financial affairs of the Government were of the utmost im portance and he could manage them better than any one else. The Secretary's trip to Maine, by the way, does not seem to have been the great success it promised to be. Blaine and the other politicians got out the usual crowds, but the Secre tary was not received with much en thusiasm. Col. Keating, the Memphis editor who did so good service last year during the prevalence of yellow fever, is here direct from Memphis. He thinks that the fever there has spent its force. The people left in the city are so few in number that it will be impossible for it to spread. He re ports the authorities .of Memphis as having the affairs of the city well in band, and that they will be able to aare for all without having to appeal for aid from outside. The cases so ar developed, he says, in no way pre sent the malignant form the fever did ]uring the epidemic of last year. Hie inticipates that within six weeks busi 2ess in Memphis will be going on as asual. We have one case of the fever ecre, but do not anticipate danger romi it. The destructive drought of the last ~ew weeks was broken by fine rain torms a few days ago, and people are >etter natured as vegeetation looks up. Svery growing thing, however, was njured, and fruit is small and insipid 'rom the long thirst. It is announced that Secretaries 'hompson and Sherman and Schurz ill take Ohio in on their way home romi a vacation and make speeches in avor of the Republican ticket. DEM. 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