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^^^?5t?. yx.?New Semes. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, APRIL 2G, 1878. NUMBER 17. ? - . _ _! _. f <? . 11 . ' m ' For tlio Times. Whit* Teachers of Colored Sohoola. Some over-nice people will purse up (lie cornorg of (heir mouths an?l give a shrug of (heir shoulders when they simply rend the caption <o this arliclc, but such as they have niy leave (o iay it down?it is not writcn for their perusal at all?knowing well that such nice people aro .generally weak minded and opinionated, and it would simply be a waste of timo to try to convince them that they may possibly be wrong in anything I-think people of strong sterling sense ; in other words, people who think, and nvho look beyond the present time, to the future, which looms up in tho distance before *is, sometimes very brightly, and wltcrnntlng with light shades; Wilt trgffc wlVn me in what I shall say. It is a settled fact that thcro is a large proportion of our population colored, and out of this mass quite a number of children arc growing up iu our ycry midst in ignorance, simply from the want of efficient teachers. It is quite true that the colored schools have been run when the other public schools were opened, but in almost every instance they have been taught by colored teachers who were wholly unfitted for the task?being barely able to spell, and could not read tlio simplest sentence correctly. Our beloved Hampton has tried to impress upon the minds of the pcoplo the importance of educating the colored children, and I think and believe ho would express the same opinion, -that they should receive instruction from our own native whites, who understand the negro nature, and can give tlicm right ideas of our government? tbu laws of our laud?and instil in their young pliant minds a sense of their moral obligations to God, and also teach them, as we do our own little ones, to love and honor Hampton, the man above all others South Carolina should feel proud of.? Any teacher who feels a keen interest in his or her school, can find ample time for these impromptu way side lessons, often of great importance to the young minds intrusted to their euidanco. Where is the siriinrrpp \vlir? prtinpu among us for a school would ever care whether the children loved their country or their country's leader. They simply couic for the salary. They, no doubt, do their work well, so far ns books go; but I think in teaching colored children, as 1 said before, they shoal^*tj$-^ugtru??. ted rightly concerning.lho government of our crs to teach the colored schools ? The reason can be summed up in one word?Incompetency ! Not one colored teacher in Jwenty is competent for the duties devolving upon them, for in cvciy instance where the children have been taught by colored teachers (that has come under my observation) tliey would have been much better oft' at home, at work. They are often taken from important work at home, to be sent to school, and the going to school has simply been a farce?a throwing away of public money. The white people are taxed to keep up the colored schools as well as the while, and I think it right and proper thai the money should find its way back into our own pockets, and while benefitting us also w.m be a lasting benefit to the negro children who are growing up in our midst in such woful ignorance. When our colored population are better educated, our jails and penitentiaries will , not be so crowded, and crime will not be such a common thing ; for we all know that education is what makes the man or woman. Our little children who are lisping so sweetly around our firesides will not have the trouble and annoyance with free labor, if tho young generation of colored children are educated that we are having, for I fir inly believe were the colored people's minds more cultivated, they would regard their oaths more sacred and solemn and make better servants for us, in every way. Now tlicro are a great many people who arc really needy and are fully competent to teach, but because they cannot procure a white sc 100I will not teach at all. In proef of it, only mark the squabbling, the fussing and hard feelings, where three or four apply for a school. The trustees cannot give white schools to all who apply, but if they cannot get a white school tliey fold their hands in idleness and sutler want, before they are morally brave enough to do that whTlh"Wffy ecrolly-desire to do, and which <hcir conscience tolls them is no wrong. A great many ladies have to teach a servant Almost every kind of household work after they hire them. It is cither to cook a certain dish, milk, wash, iron, sew, knit, and a thousand other things too numerous to mention. Where is the diferencc, now, if wc teach I hem from books ? <)ulv this, in the first instance we have the lronblo of teaching tlion with the almost certain probability of their leaving us as soon as we have fitted them for the work, in addition to having to pay them a salary. In the last named case wc receive the salary, and of the two I 1 would myself much prefer to draw the salary; J.utt people's taste differs you know. 1 think a day is coming when those persons who fail to recognize one who is willing to faithfully discharge a duty in this respect, will see their error?to call it no harsher name. Anything new is generally looked upon by narrow-minded persons with disfavor, and it is at present a little out of the common way for a white person to teacli a colored school, hut such persons may possess their souls in patienco for the newness of the tiling will soon wear otT. Did they but know it, some of the very Jlrst people in the lower Counties, are teachers of puhlio schools? and they fool as any other right thinking persons would, that thoy are doing a service to their State, hct us throw to t ho winds such silly ideas that it is disgraceful to touch colored children to rend, for all cannot got white schools ; and if we are needy?and there are few who are not --let. us put our hands to this work nail while doing our Stale a service, benefit ourselves also. JvTHIT FORT. TALMAOE ON THE SQUTH. The llov. T. Do Witt Taluiagc has returned to his home in lJrooklyn from his receut jaunt through the South, and ou the evening of the 22d ultimo gavo one of his pceuliar "Friday night Talks" to his congregation. lie said : Speaking to you every Friday night on the secular affairs of the wcok, from religious standpoint, I have thought it might be appropriate to talk to you to night about what I have sccu aud enjoyed at the South. On a bend of the Mississippi lliver, one hundred miles from the mouth, sits the Crescent City. Put dowu as the eighth or ninth city of the Union, New Orleaus is (Mend to none in granoffel nttmotie ouiua. There arc ten public square?, statucd with the forms of Henry Clay, Audrew Jackson, and other public favorites. Her shell roads for fast teams a-elatter and a ring with the hoofs and tires of tray cnuinaire. Her Ksnln uaile and Rampart, and Claiborne and Canal streets,two hundred feet wide, lined by trees thataluiost interlock their branches overhead. The Customhouse, granitic and pillared.? Iler St. Charles Ilotel, with rotunda world renewed, and Corinthian pillars, between which S S. Prentiss, the impassioned orator of the Southwest, thundered against Mississippi repudiation. Elaborated and majestic St. Louis Cathedral, St. John the Baptist and St. Alphousus, of the Catholics ; the Temple Sinai of the Israelites, with its tinted cupolas; the Trinity of the Episcopalians, and Dr. Palmer's magnificent church of the Presbyterians. The elcvcu thousand hydrants pouring their refreshment into the lips of the city. The immense shipping, making her the first cotton market of the land, with an ever widening comtnerei;.! prospect. A city of extraordinary, salubrity notwithstanding its febrile reputation ; the bill of mortality, inclusive of yellow fever eases, smaller than in most of the northern cities of the snuio size.? But the arch enemy docs large work there sometimes, and thirty-three cemeteries tell iL. _? -o 1 me tsturv ui ins acnicvcmenls. let the i dead sleep more beautifully than anywhere 1 I know of. Each ceinctry is white with i the palaces of the dead. The departed are I buried above ground on account of the fact i that the spade at so shalluw a depth opens ' tttft. Yuiu.oi' the waters. I like to sec Death < us fdr^^^ossible cheated of his prey.? < fi s 'ffit ill1 "Mfl j(tl -1 to part with our friends under the most s Christian circumstances, and it is well when their beloved forms can be placed amid I bright suirouudiugs ; it makes no difference I to them, but makes a great difference to us 1 who survive. The marble cannot be too i white, nor the trees too umbrageous, nor the" flowers too witellingly redolent. Set the fountains atoss. Deek the spot with im- i mortcllcs. Let the willows weep, and the 1 magnolias breathe their benediction, ('his- i el the monument with all the graces of \ sculpture; it will be a solace to those ( that tarry here bereft, and give added glo- ' ries to the resurrection, I should like to i see the snowdrift of the crumbling'slabs on i the morning of the archangel's trumpet. Into that city, brilliant with the living and solemn with the dead, I dropped by the rail train from Cincinnati, week before last. i? tiw. /.r 1 Oiicc a year, on Shrove Tuesday, the city rises into a scene of hilarity not equalled on the continent. The law relaxes during that day, and the city is put upon its honor, and the whole jubilant population do as the}' please, and for the most part do right. A gent Ionian, who is a close observer, said, during all that day and all that night, he saw not one case of drunkenness or of impropriety. 1 wish we had something like that here?one great holiday, fifty Fourth of J ulys sounding in one salvo, fifty Thanksgiving Days stuffed into one turkey.? [Laughter.] Life is heavcy for multitudes of our people, and they need more frequent letup. Hero fun is elevating and educational. I am always afraid of a man who cannot laugh, lie is sure to steal something. [Laughter.] The most solemnlooking man I ever knew borrowed of me twenty five dollars, and through pure delicacy of feeling never mentioned the subject again ! [l*u ghtcr.] The world wants not so much broader smiles as deeper laughter H' i.i ... n_j >L.i . ii.-v. ?? mini iu uuu imil. one grout oiarui uras might march through all the earth, until the downcast arc compelled to look up, and the shawled sick shall gaze jubilant out of the window, and the misanthrope that growls and groans over the world' simperlections shall explode into uncontrollable guffaw at the world's merriment. We have the best cd books for authority : "A merry heart docth good like medicine," and it is high time that people understand that there is no war between the (lospel of Jesus Christ and honest-hearted mirth. At the close of that carnival 1 first saw the city of New Orleans?not a draggled and bloodshot populace, hut men and women hotter, stronger, wiser for their innocent glee. A more glorious Sabbath never dawned on earth than the following Sabhath.? The worship of (lod began before six o'clock; in the temple of the morning the feathered choirs standing amid bushes of jasmine and orange, the oriole noting as preceptor. 1 said as soon as 1 came out of my room and looked into the sunshine, after a night of such thuDilcriug and tempest as I never saw, "This must be something of the sensation we will havo when the bestormcd nights of earth eud iu the sunburst celestial." The most cheerful city of the South today is New Orleans. She is rejoicing in the rescue from years of uurighteous gov-j eminent. Just how the State of Jxiuisiana has been badgered, and her every idea of sclf-govcruicut insulted, can be appreciated only by those who couic face to faco with the facts. While some of the best patriots of the North went down with right -motives to mingle in the reconstruction'of the State governments of the South^ many of itnat pngiiiiiti-m win; tML',uasiOg^r?a^iT?T*' ing politicians of the North, who, rffter being stoned out of Northern waters, crawled up on the beach at the South to sun themselves. [Applause.] The Southern States had enough dishonest men of their owu without any importation. The day of trouble has passed. Louisiana and South Carolina, for the most part, arc freo. Governor Nichols of the one, and Governor Wade Hampton of the other, have the confidence of the great masses of the people. There is only one word that can describe the feeling of the South to-day, and that word is "Hope". They recovered from the first discouragement of ruined fortunes, and are expecting better oucs than they lost, and they will have them. My opinion is that the largest fortunes arc yet to be made at the South, because there is more room to make them, greater reaches of country to be developed, and more geniality of climate ready to smile upon great industries. So I change Horace Greeley's famous advice, "Go West," and say to our young people, "Go Sou'.h." [Applause.] During my two weeks stay at the South, mingling with all classes of people, and iu perpetual conversation, often incognito, 1 heard not one unkind word towards the North or Northern people. [Applause.] My opinion is that if to-day a Northern man gets hanged at the South it is because he deserves to be hanged. [Applause.] Those congressional politicians who are enlarging upon the belligerent state of the South must have >omc bad design, or be President-making. There is no spirit of fight iu the South. 1 Jo not speak of what I know. My observation is that there is not so much need frflMfrni'Miratf ifia norm snaufirbc-T&ftr- structed towards the South. [Applause.] No man on a lecturing platform to-day, in tlie South, can make any allusion implying loyalty to the United States government, but liis voice will be drowned out L) the uproar of enthusiasm. There is 110 more use for Federal military at New Orleans than in Brooklyn. And yet there arc men hereabouts who are still cursing President Ilaycs because lie withdrew the military, and have not found out in the last fourteen years that the war is over. Let our newspapers and our platforms quit stirring up the old strifes, riiere is now absolutely nothing to fight about. Peace ! from Passamaquoddy Bay to Lake Pontchartrain. Let thero be peace The hospitalities of that Citv of-New Orleans are unbounded. At ftic olegant home and amid the accomplished family of the lion. K. ?T. Ellis, member of Congress, I had a good specimen of that Southern hospitality which greeted me everywhere? a hospitality not made up of hard constraints or suffocating proprieties, but genial, hearty, exuberant and memorable forever. May the richest peace of God rest 011 all the homos that 1 visited. Mobile, with its beautiful churches; Macon, the eify of mansions; Augusta, the city of cultured and polished homes; Charleston, the city of historic memories?all pass before my mind tonight in grateful and stirring reminiscences. ? .# ? A CllAM'K FOlt T11K Bovs.?There is not a profession that is not overcrowded? there is not a phase of mercantile pursuit that is not overdone. There is 110 chance lor the coming men in any of the industries of life in the towns or cities. Lawyers, doctors, ministers and mechanics arc starving to death, and thousands of them arc competent in their callings. But there is a chance for the boys, after nil. We need men ; wo need honest men. We need men who will fear God and bow to the principles of right. We need them at the iieail of affairs. Wo need them in the office of J'resident and in the Senate of the nation. They must be men who will not buy their way into office or sell their votes to keep them from the penitentiary. This kind of men this nation must have if it continues a republic, and in this sphere there is room enough for all the boys that are frolicking about the hearthstone or coasting 011 their sleds down the snowy hillsides, lloysgrow up to be men.? 11/stem liuriiL Watch the old radical leaders and 6cc that they do not even attempt a ro-*??unization of their party. They will do nothing above board, openly, but if possible they >1 .1. ..1 < >1? ?? r?ictii i i i^y ^iiliiei lllt:u liigi.'llier III Ulltof-tlie-way places nml organize for tlie campaign. Watch them?bo "wise as serpents ami harmless as doves." A young holy rcbukinglv aiks us: ' Which i< worse, to lace tight or to get i tight?" Wo give it up?we never laced. i LAWS OF THE STATE. AN ACT to amend Chapter CVII, Title 1. Part III, of the General Statutes, llclatlhg to Attorneys, Solicitors and Counsellors. Be it cnactal by the Senate aud House ,of Representatives of tho State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly and by the authority of the same: Section 1. That Chapter CVII, Title 1, l'art 1, of tho General Statutes, relating to attorneys, solicitors aud counsellors, be amended as follows: Strike out Scctiou 2 aud insert the ful^numi, |n h* nj "J J* ale citizen of tho ago of twenty-onc-years, having read law iu the office of any practicing attorney of good standing in the State for the period of two yours, or graduated at nnv r/w. ..1-... TT-i.-J MMJ vvu^mauu >un CI.UUUI III IIIU UllllCU States, an J shall produce the certificate of a practicing attorney of good staudiug in this State that he is a person of good moral character, shall, on examination in open court hv three members of the bar appointed by the Supreme Court for that purpose, who shall eertifiy that he possesses the requisite learning and ability, bo admitted, if the examination be satisfactory to the Court, to practice in all of the courts of this State as an attorney, solicitor and counsellor, upon taking the oath prescribed by the Constitution." Ses. 2. Strike out Section 4 and insert the following to be known as Section 4 : "That no license to practice as an attorney, solicitor or counselor shall hereafter be granted except by the Supreme Court." Approved March 12, 1878. AN ACT to Establish and Charter a Ferry Across Broad River at Jjockiiart Siioals, in Union County. lie it enacted by the Seuate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That a public ferry be, and is hereby, cs tablishcd aud chartered to reach across Eroad River at Lockhart Shoals, iu Uuiou County, and that said ferry be vested in J. C lough Farrar and Charles I). Farrar, their heirs and assigns, for the term of twentyone years, aud that the following rates of trill be eh.-irmwl ny.l railLintjul b\?? ammiy uiules or oxen, fifty cents ; for every carriage, wagon or cart drawn by two horses, mules or oxen, twenty-five cents; for every buggy, cart or vehicle drawn by one horse, mule or ox, twenty ccuts; for every foot passenger, five ccuts ; lor every single horse, mulo or cow, five cents ; for every hog, sheep or goat, two and a half cents. Approved March 1, 1878. An act Regulating the Mode of Conducting Capital Executions. lie it enacted by the Senate aud House of Representatives of the State of South Caroliua, now met aud sitting iu General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, when the punishment of death is inflicted upon any person pursuant to the sentence of uuy Court, the execution shall take placo within the jail or the snclosurc of the jail of the County wherein such execution shall be made if the same can there take place in such manner. That no oue shall be allowed to be nrescnt at such execution except the Sheriff of the County or his deputy, and his assistants, the clergy, the State Solicitor, the attorney or attorneys who defended the convict, the iauiily of the convict, and not more than ten discreet persons to be named by the Sheriff; which said ten persons shall be summoned by the Sheriff and be required to be present. Approved March 1, 1878. An act to Provide for the Assessment of Ileal Ivstate in the Several Counties of this State in the Year 1878. Jic it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, no ? met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That an assessment of the real estate in the Counties of this State shall be made in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight at the same time that the assessment of personal property is made, and in the manner and according to the rules prescribed for tl?3 assessment of real property ii,a a ??~.i ?ii i ? in vni; nuv ii;uuuu ?ni ivuw ana puns ui Acts providing for the assessment and taxation of property into one Act and to amend the same, approved March 19, 1871, and the Acts amendatory thereof. Approved Mareli 1, 1878. an a?t to Prevent Public Officers from Issuing Checks Fxcept upon Funds Actually to Thoir Credit, or from Paying the Same. Suction I. />>: it enacted by the Senate and House of lleprese.utativcs of the Stave of South Carolina, now nut and sitting in (icncral Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the Hoard of County Commissioners shall draw orders on the County Treasurer for all accounts against tho County which they have allowed, but they shall draw no orders until after the monthly report of Ihc Treasurer lias been received by I them, and unless bo has reported the fuudsin the treasury to pay the same; and the County Commissioners shall inform tho County Treasurer of the orders drawu, in whose favor, the amount and the ordor inwhich thoy are drawn. A violation of this Section shall bo deemed a misdemeanor, punishable, on couviction thereof io nny Court of competent jurisdiction, by Quo and imprisonment, at the discretion of tho Court. It shall not be lawful for any t ? * " v/?uu%.j iitaouivr iu pay an oruer ot llic Hoard of County Commissioners unless drawn in conformity with this Section; and; it is mado the duty of tho Comptroller fl > > i' i WHjft 1.1. ' 111 provisions of thisttoctiou winch may como or bo brought to his notice, to report tho offender to the Attorney Geucrnl for prosecution, or to the Governor for dismissal, ns the case may be. Sec. 2. It shall not be lawful for any State or County officer to issuo any certificate of indebtedness : Provided, That this Act shall not apply to the issuing cr*" tickets to jurors or witnesses for their attendance upon the Circuit Courts. Sec. 3. It shall not be lawful for any Stato officer to draw a warrant or check for any public debt except upon niouey then actually to his credit on that account in tho hauds of some bank or public officer. Approved February 18, 1877. An Act to Reduce the Pay of Witnesses in State Cases. Section 1. lie it enacted by the Rcnato " and House of Representatives of the Stato of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act no fees or other compensation shall be allowed to nnv witness houml over or summoned to testily in any case in the Court of General Sessions, uuless the Circuit Judge who tried the cause in which the witness was summoned shall certify that feuch witness was material, and in that caso the witness shall be allowed fifty cents for each day of his attendance, and five cents per mile, one way, for ncecssary travel:? Provided, however, That in Courts of Trial Justices they shall receive no fees or compensation whatever. Sec. 2. That all Acts and parts of Acts , , Approved March 5, 1878. An Act to Apportion the Taxes on Property in which tho Title or an Interest Therein has been Transferred Subsequent to Assessment. Section 1. lie it enacted by tho Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority ol the same, That when, before tho expiration of the period for the payment of taxes on any real or personal property, tho title or an interest iu such real or personal property, or any pirt thereof, shall nave become transferred to or vested in any person not the owner at the time said property was assessed for taxation, it shall be the duty of the County Auditor, upon tho application of tho person acquiring such title or interest subsequent to assessment, and before the period for paying taxes has expired, to apportion tho share of taxes due by the original owner upon that portion of or interest in the property acquired subsequent to assessment by the party so applying, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer to receive from the party so applying the proportionate share of taxes upon such part or interest so acquired since assessment as estimated by the Auditor and. give receipt lor the same, which receipt shall discharge such portion or interest from the taxes so assessed. Sue. 2. All Acts or parts of Act repugnant to the provisions of this Act aro heroby repealed. Approved March 1,1878. An Act to Amend an Act Entitled "An, Act to Enforce the payment of the l'oll. Tax." Section 1. Be. it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in Ccucral Assembly, and by the authority of t imu*>ion Tli-il ?ool inn fnvt /v4 ??? A a* Iswl viivouuiv, -a. nuv wvvvivi m iii ov Ul Ull ' An Act to enforce the payment of the poll tax," which became u law oa tho 21st of February, 187d, be nml the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the words ' double the amount of their poll tax," the words "and all costs and expenses occasioned by such refusal or neglect," and by striking out the words "three days" in said Section and inserting in lieu thereof the words "ten days." Sbo. 2. That Section 2 of said Act be, and the same is hereby amended by insert! if. J ? n I t . iii>; a nor me wurus "uouoic rax, as oitcn as tlicy occur, the words "and all costs and expenses aforesaid." Approved March 1, 1878. The executive mansion at Frankfort, Kyis a rickety old cdiiiec, built in 1808, and two of the workmen engaged in its construction, Mctcalf and Letcher, afterward occupied it as governors, the former working on the masonry, the other carrying mortar in a hod for the bricklayers.