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.. m 1 ^ " ???M. - - -? <na? .r-^^^i ^--1??-^--?? _<s_-^Lr~ " * ^ , UNION C. II., SbUTII CA^ ^ SCHOOLS FOB THE SOUTH. The following extracts from the speech ol Sooator Brown, of Georgia, on the Eduoatioual Bill, will bo read with interest and general satisfaction : WHAT TIIE SOUTH RISKED. When we went into the struggle of 18G1 Wo were well uwaro that if wc failed wo hue nrded our title to our slaves, and that abol ittou was a possibility. At the cud of tin struggle, when wo surrendered our uruiiei and the theu President of the Uuited Suites adopted a polioy, without ceusulting Con gross, of rocoustructiug the Uuiou, he required us to call couventions in the South brn States ; and the Congress* having sub iuitted to the States the Thirteenth Cuusti lutional Amendment, we adopted it. There States,1 as well arthe North / of <hett^L'P~*C)^?S' ogreed ?Cthe cod* P J iwHJd - and |,e that 8,lver^ 8houId bo abo1I broviaion t/? Put iut0 the CoU8\UuLlioQ, a fition Tho *orevcr guaranteed the abostop Front11 tbe ncor? hod taken ono more out the ri ?l) a s'ave bc wa3 a frccduian withTk r ii/ts of a citizen. JLnon foilf ? . rt to the State/1 a ProP?*ltlou by Congress toent ThVt0 adoPt tbe Fourteenth Arneud'It amendment declared him to bc \rt j kr.i^n ofcher words, it declared all P v/n or naturalized in the .United I A f*il /? citizens of tho United States the ne-roiState whereiu they reside. Then i, ? .mad made one more advance step. >roni bcinf fir * But ?? a 'rccduiao be was uow a cut' " .it was soon fouml that this was not enoue ,r ^ m i v * ol7 Kravo questions were i a nml 0 whether u raco who had beeu slaves and . _ , , , . . A .;.ii . tljus freed aud made citizens wero izens of I a tbc r'ebt8 the original citwhether tP18 couutl7 i iu other words, ^ off III iv bad tbo "obt 10 voto and hold HtJpwcljMJd (Congress had to tako ono more uJlep- That step was to propose the FifjsVenth Constitutional Amendmenit, which Til laruQtcsd to tho race the right to vote.? irlien the. negro advanced ouo further step, vopom being a citizen without rights as to t tiug aud holdiug office ho was made wjl A CITIZEN FREE AND INDEPENDENT, i ^ 1 f V? fill t Vl A ritrlltc nf anw a^Iiap r> i f innn a f lUf "" *"v v* WUJ vivitiuu \/i gale Unitcl States. Of course, 1 uicau lo. JJQ rights, Ho was uiadc tho legal equal of 1 gyy a ad evory other citizou of this Uniou. u <iial ri ghts must take care of themselves ; u lithcr the Congress uor auy other govcrub ental power cuu regulate theui. But all v is legal rights --ere guaranteed. Then 1 hat was the s ,?.us ? llere aro four milI i on persons, formerly slaves, then frcedmcn, jjhen citizens without all the rights of citi: tionship; then lull fledged citizens with cvf aftiiUV l " ,1 i "I1* 1 ITUS, without education, incorporated into society as part of the citizeus of the United States and of the States in which they lived. WHAT THE SOUTH LOST. A grave problem arises here for solution. They must be educated; but we arc not ablo to educate them. Why not? \Vc claimed to be a W3althy people before tbe war. So wc were ; but we lost, according to tho best cstiuiates, about $2,000,000,000 iu the value of our slaves. It was that much gold value, our own under the Constitution of the United States, which we lost by the war, and it was gone forever. That impoverished us to that extent, and it was a very heavy draught. Then wo had to support the Confederate uruiics for four years, without a dollar of help, out of our substance. True, wc issued Confederate bonds and wotes ; they were paid out for our substauee, ^ but at the end of the war they wero repudiated aod they became as ashes in our bauds. We lost, then, not only two billions " ' slaves, but wc lost about two billions more in the snpport of our armies for four years. Then wc lost immense amounts in the destruction of property by the armies outside of what was necessary to teed aud clothe theui.? Hut 'hat was uot all. At the end of the struggle we had to roturn to the Unio-i pud resume our position ancktukc upon ourselves pltr j'ISt proportion, according to our means, of the war debt contracted by the (Jovernuicflt iu the suppression of what is known ns the rebellion. Then, I say, with these draughts upon us we arc notable to educate these four millious of poople' that were turned loose among us. As I have already Htated, during the period of slavery it was not our policy to educate them ; it was incompatible, as we thought, with the relation existing bet wecu the two races. Now ' j that they aie citizens we all agree that it is 1. our policy to educate thorn. As they are ) citizens, let us make them tho best citizens we can. I am glad to see that they show a strong disposition to do everything in their power for the educatiou of their children. SCHOOLS FOR TtlF. SOUTH. Then I say the provision of the hill that gives for ten years at least tho advantage to the States where there is most illiteracy is a just and a wise provision, and I thank the Senators from New Kngland, and the other wealthier States for the sense of justice they exhibit in coming forward and showing a willingness to aid in the education of these people. Wc all agree that it is important that they be educated. Yoa will agree with mo that wo in the Southern States arc not now able to cducato them, and our own children. They were set free as a necessity ol the Uuion. You so regarded it. Then it is proper that the Union should come forward, and with its vast resources aid in _. - their education, and I nui glad to see a movement made that looks in that direction I confess I have better hopes for the race ^ for tho future than I had when cinancipaft tion took placo. They have shown ucapac ity to receive education, and a disposition m to elevate themselves that is exceeding bj j^ft gratifying, not ouly tome, but to every right , thinking Southern man ; and [ wish you t( W understand that we harbor no hostility to tho race in the South There are inani reasons why we should not, no good reason why we should. They were raised with u f they played with us aschil iron. Uudortl . slavery system the relatious were kind.1 Whoa the war came oil it was supposed t many that thoy would rise ia iusurrectu and soua disband our uruiies. They at i time.over behaved with more loyalty to u ^ or with uiore propriety. Since the ond the war, wheu, as wo thought, you very u , wisely gave them the ballot, they have e j ercised the rights of freemen with a 1110 j craticn that probably no other raco wou have douo. Therefore, I say it is our du iu the South especially, and I think you iu the North as well, to encourage them, at as they are now citizens, to elevate the and make theui the best citizens possible. Tit K CAUSE OF 1LI.ITEKACV. But at T ?*?ted a wliilc 111 ava givi . you a reason yhy there is Y>? rPdifUerauce oT illiteracy now in our section it is uot only duo to the fact that wo die not have the couimou-school systems in the Southern States prior to emancipation, bul that the four millions of frecduien were ad ded to our population as citizens there with out education, Then we must appeal toyoi not ouly now t>ut in tho future to be libera towards the South in aiding in the cducatioi of these people. I kuow there have beer complaints that they uiay have been cheat ed in some instances at the ballot-box. Ig noracce uiay be cheated anywhere. Doubt less, Senators, you have seeu the more ig noraut class cheated in your owu States.? If you would guard against this effectually in the future, educate them; teach them tc know their rights, and, knowing llicui,thcy will uiaiutaiu them. It is necessary to educate them, further more, for the reason that they do not. now understand, as iguoranoc does uot nay where understand, tho theory aud form and spirit of our Govemmedt. Education will euublo them to understuud it. We must give it tt them. We uiust teach them what is the nature of tho Govorumcnt, what nro tlx principles of tho Constitution of the United States, and, uow that we all agree that it is to be perpetual in future, we must tend them to love the Union and to be ready t( stand by and defend it, and I believe tlx senators from New England wi'l agree will, me when I say we must teach.them also thai the Uuion is a uuion of States, and thatwt must uot destroy the States. When tlx States arc destroyed there is 110 longer tlx Uuion of our'fathers. As the Uuion is t< be indissoluble the States which form tlx Union?aud without which it cannot b< maintained?must forever remain in lcstruct iblo, aud they must coutinue iu the exorcist of all the reserved rights which they nov States. THE NEED OF EDUCATION. Therefore, it is necessary to teach all cit izens, white and colored, aud to teach llieii children, the importance 01 maintaining llfpublic.in institutions in the purity it which they originally catno from the hand: of the frauicrs of our Constitution, and U maintain the ballct-box in its purity also I announced in my own State to the electors who were to vote on my case tho ncxi day, that 1 was for a free ballot and a fail count. I want to sec the day come whet that will be so everywhere, not only in Loui siana, South Carolina, l'Jorida aud Georgia but in New York, Massachusetts, Ohio aui Indiana as well. Let it be so everywhere Let us educate our people, white aud color ed, up to the point where they uudcrstum the proper uso of the ballot; then let it b* free to all, aud let the ballots be fairb counted when deposited. Having referroi to the struggle that brought about the pi es cut state of things, [ will add that what ever I may have thought of tho term you dictated to us, 1 have accepted theui and 1 have all the while advocated carry j ing (horn out iu letter aud in spirit in gout I faith, in practice as well as iu theory.? Whenever the \\holo mass of the people art educated there is no danger in doing this Until they are educated there will bo im positions practiced upon ignorance in ever section of this country, and probably in ov cry State iu the Union. TIIK "BTIUCT CUN8TUI;CTION" VIEW. Some objection has been raised on the consti tulional question. It has been said that th StikLes alntiA mm ifiko. r?lin.r<n? nf tl?i? (Im the Federal Government has nothing to do wit (lie education of tlie people. Well, under tli strictest rules of construction of tlio old State ltights school, prior to the war, possibly so; bu we do not live under the Constitution thnt w lived under them. The amendments made n the termination of the struggle have very grcal ly enlarged the powers of this Government.Again, 1 think, the constitutional objection cai not apply to this bill, for the reason that it i mainly a proposition to dispose of the pVoccetl of the public lauds, and so far as those proceed arc concerned there never has been a time whe the Government did not have the right to di< pose of them. As far back as I8d'? there was law passed for the distribution of the surpli funds in the treasury, and in 1811 to dislribul the net proceeds of public lands, the Congrc: recognizing the fact that they belonged to tl States. Then in the organization of new Stati and Territories large amounts of the public d< main have been set apart for the use of collegi nnd schools there, recognizing the power of Coi gicss to use a portion of the land for this pu pose. Then, ngain, the act of 18G2, of which I lur been speaking, which appropiates a ccrta amount of the public lands in aid of agricti tural colleges, is another use of the public d main for that purpose which has not been o jectod to. After all that has been done, wl may not we now appropriate the future procee of the public lands ami the Patent Office to tli sacrcil purpose ? 1 ltut 1 believe there is another provision of t Constitution that 11103' have some bearing hot i "The United Slates shall guarantee to eve , Stale in this Union a Republican form of gu eminent" is tho language of the Constitution. If I be right in the position I took in tho coi : ineiiccment of this argument, that this govet ! incut cannot be pcr| ctualed as a republic wit . out the education of the whole innss of the p< j pie, then to appropriate money foi the cducati of the masses of the people would be a bell mode of guaranteeing a Republican form of g< I oriimeilt than to undertake to make agmvruni i by the use of the army and the sword. 9 s; Important Laws Passed by the Last Legislator?. 10 SEED COTTON. lie it < meted, That Section 1 of an Aet >y entitled -An Act. to proliit it the sale of seed col; , >n tou between the time of the setting ami the vie- * 10 ,n8 ?' l'J0 huh, ami to regulate tlie sale of seed ? ia cotton," approved June 8. 1877, be, ami .the 1 same is hereby, amended by striking out in the'- | last line of the section the last three words ^ n* thereof, to wit, "of any day," so that said section X- shall read : "That on and after the passage of " J. this Act it shall not be lawful fot any person to , U buy or sell, or receive by way of barter cxclntuge or tratiic of any sort, any seed cotton between the hours of sundown nod sunrise." rs Approved Deeember 24, 1880. til nvr IVAITL'MT O I r pa - Ul i/i< Uii x c/\iiW. He it enacted, ?J-c., That all lands new on tbe list of dclinqueui lands and ^11 lauds heretofore auclflaffds, oi'Thosu having a lOgal or equitable right or interest therein, on the payment of the w taxes which may be due and unpaid thereonKTith costs, but without penalties; Provided, That " said payment shall bu made on or beforo the P' dlst day of. May, 1881, in gold or silver coin, United States Treasury notes or national bank notes : And Provitled Further, Tftul this Act ?' shall not apply to any lands which, by virtue 18 of any Act of the General Assembly, have become assets of tho State iu charge of the Sink* 11 itig Fund Commission. Approved December 24, 1880. 18 ANTI-DUELLING. hl tr Whereat, great uncertainty has heretofore existod in this Elate in tho administration of the hi law in regard to duelling; and whereas, it is |c therefore proper and expedient /bat the law in e( regard to the sr.me should be plai-yly dcclated, ;r that it may be known iu the future.: in lie it enacted by the Senate and blouse of Kep- p, rescntativcs of the State of Soutii Carolina, now Ul r met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the 5, authority of the same : u, ! Skction 1. That Section seven (7) of the one Bl - hundred and twenty-eighth Chapter of the Ueni cral Statutes, entitled "Of offences against the , person," be, and the same is hereby amended, p( , ',o as to read as follows : "Skctjon 7. Whoever c< | shall challenge ai.sihcr fu fight at sword, pistol, Uj ' rapier, or any other deadly weapon, or wliegdiull tc ' accept any such ohall^uge, shall for every such A, > offence, on conviction thereof, be deprived of rt , the ri<*ht of suffrage and be disabled forever } from holding any office of profit or honor in this State, nnd shall be imprisoned in (lie l'eniieu' tiary for a term not exceeding two years, at tbe i discretion of the Court. And in case any perL son shall kill another in any duel with a deadly ^ > weapon, or shall intiic'. a wound or wounds upou U| , any person in any duul so as the person or pevsons so wounded shull thereof die within lite 3 space of six months then uext following, that ,0 3 such person so killing another or so wounding ^ J any | crson or persous whereby 3ucli person or 0 . persons so wounded sln^l die as aforesaid, being ^ tlicrcof convicted, shall* suffer death as iu the ,j case of wiltul murder." ' j ' Skc. 2. That Section 8 of the sail Chapter of ' the General Statutes be, and the same is hereby uiueiided, so as to road as follows : "StstrrioN 8. bally deliver AViy lu?"c}e intended iuj or purnui'l ino to hn mio^i I!??%<*.? ai? **?!?/* oUull I r- e> ? ? ? r> " *?>? ?? |c present at the fighting of. any duel as a second (| r or aid or givo countenance thereto, shall, for j0 r every such offence, on couviction thereof, be for5 over disabled from holding any ollice of profit 8) 1 or honor in this State, and shall be imprisoned 4 in the Penitentiary for a term not exceeding ) two years, nt the discretion of the Court, and shall be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dol[ hlr9-" t! Ski:. !). That from and aficr the passage of this I' Act all members elected to the tieneral Asscin- jj i bly, and all officers now required to take and ^ . subscribe the oath prcscribcil in Art. 11, Section sj d() of the Constitution of the State, shall, in ad- ' j dition thereto, take the following oath, before (entering upon the duties of their respective of fices, to ho administered in like manner as the jr - oath now required : '-I do solemnly swear (or } affirm, as the case may be,) that I have not, ^ , since the first day of'January, A. L). 1HH1, en- ^ gaged in a duel within or without the State, ei- >\ thcr as principal or second, or be.en present 1 thereat as a parly thereto in behalf of either of o the principals in such due), and that i will not, n _ during the term of office to which I have been a elected, (or appointed, as the case may bo.) ^ engage in a duel as principal, or aid and abet in (| > such duel as sccon I, or as a party thereto iu behalf of either principal or otherwise." To 1 which shall bo added iu the case of all officers . charged with.the preservation of the peace, the J , following: "And I will, to the extentof my abil- h ily, enforce the penalties prescribed by law p against duelling, and will not fail to bring to jus- f, - tice all persons offending against the said law h yr that may come within my view or knowledge." T Ski:. 4. That this Act shull not nffeel indict- fi inents now pending for offences under the law ti as it now exists, or indictments that inay be p brought for offences committed before the passage \ of tliis Act. . c c v ? THE LIQUOR LICENSE. } e lie it enacted by the Senate ami House ft Reps resentatives of the State of Souili Carolina, now it met and sitting in general Assembly, and by the e authority of the same : it Skction 1. That from and after the passage 1- of this Ac', no license for the sale of spirituous - or intoxicating liquors shull be granted in South , i- Carolina outside of the incorporated cities, towns is and villages of the Stale, and it shall be unlaw Is till for any person or persons to sell such liquors Is without a license so to do. n Sue. '2. No license for the sale of intoxicating ' j- liquors shall l>e grained by any municipal aua Ihoritics in any city, town or village in this is fc'tatc, except upon the payment by the person e applying for the same to the treasurer of the sb county in which such city, town or village is ic. situated, the sum of one hundred dollurs, in adi's dition to the license charged by such city, towu o- ur village, formic use of such county, to dc upas plied to the ordinary expenses of the county: a- Provided, that all licenses for the sale of intoxr icating liquors granted within ttie limits of the City of Charleston the said sum of one hundred vc dollars shall be paid by the parties obtaining in such licenses to the treasurer of the said city il- instead of to the treasurer of the County of o- Charleston: Provided, however, that the amount b- now charged by the said City Council of Charlesly ton for a license for the sale of inloxicatiug ds liquors shall not be roduccd in conssquence of lis the forcguing provision, but that the aggregate of the license fees charged under this Act, and ho under the ordinances of the said city for the c. sale of intoxicating liquors within the limits rv of Milifl nitv ulifill tint- Q1 ftnv liinn ItA hmu iKnn >v two hundred dollars. ? Se?:. 3. That hereafter tho sale of all wines, in- fruits prepared with spirituous liquors hitters a- or others beverages of which spirituous liquors h- form nn ingredient, bo, and tho same is hereby, 20- prohibitc I within the limits of this State, except on in the incorporate limits of cities, towns and ler villages, where they shall only tie sold under the iv- same terms as intoxicating liquors as provided lee for in .Section 2 hereof. Sec. 4. Any person violating any of the pro term <?f not lees " BtK^mn9|^in fined and imprisoned, jjsAfifl^HNitbe Court trying tbe case. s'M^^HACt shall toot take affect as to granted in any county, c.ly, until such licenses nun granted ?- ^KBthing in tbie Aot contained shall J? r"9r^? ttfthorlse the Issuing of any 11'' ' mf 8>?'* fadoxicating liquors, in B^uy| or Tillage, within this State, j'1' liei tlieBB^ of such liquors is now or may qjB^H^Kprohibited, either under Act of 1 ' or by ordinaoce of the rvH>ttivi.s e^micipnl authorities or said city, lu t 1eK5m&Odl ARTlilt OF THK TOWN ;v rEuF UNION. t '^^Jft fhe Inlehdaut and Wardens 11,0 vii ofdlHra are hereby empowered to and corporations i limiiR'yuj ? ?!d wl aiever, >1 bin thenUiits of the town of Union, to take it a license from the Intendantand wardens of ie.ftfti4 town, who are hereby authorized to iirose a ly.isonnble charge or tux for the conduct r the satue.v Sbu. 2t?'That the Town Council of the town r Union sluill have power to impose nn annual ix upon tbe property in said town, to wit : pon all real and personal properly not exceedig twenty five cents on the value of one liunundred dollars?the Stnto assessment to be iken as tbe basis of taxatiou. Sec. 8. That ^the said town of Uniou shall ave power, and are hereby authorized, to cooact for the erection within t:>e limits of said iwn of a building containing rooms for public Dill, council chamber, fire engine and prisoners' ick-up, and tower for town clock ; and to this id may issue tj*? bonds of said town, payable i twenty years, with coupons attached drawing iterest at a rate uot exceeding seven per cent, er annum, and payable on tbe first day of Janary of every year until the maturity of said juds : Provided, That the entire issueof bonds nder this Act shall not exceed the priucipal> im of ten thousand dollars. StO. 4. Tliat the Town Counoil of the said iwnjof Union are hereby empowered to require Brsons convicted of violations of town ordinuuis, nnd sentenced to imprisonment, to work pon the public streets of said town during tbe irm of such imprisonment : Provided, That ly prisoner may commute for sucli work at the ite of fifty cents per day. Approved Dec 28, 1880. CONCHALKD WEAPONS Section 1. Uj it enacted. &o., That any person trrying a pistol, dirk, dagger, sluiig-shot, metal nuckles, razor, or other similar deadly weapon malty used forjtho intiieiion of personal injury, incealed about liis person shall bo guilty of a lisdemeauor, and upon conviction thereof beire a Court of competent jurisdiction shall for:it to the County the weapon so carried contoled nnd be fined in a sum nut more than two li ml red dollars, or imprisoned for not more tan twelve months, or both, in the discretion f the Court. Sec. 2. It sltsll be the duty of every Trial ustice, Sheriff, Constable or other peace officer i.cause al]^ persons violating this Act to he prosioini ion AMveoT. Skc. 3. In all convictions hereunder the fine nposed shall, if collected, be paid into the trcasry of the County wherein the prosecution is icaicd. Sec. 4. Nothing herein contained shall bo conrued *to apply to peace officers while in the jtual discharge of their duties ns such ofiicers. or to persons carrying concealed weapons while pon their cwn prcuiisCS. Skc. 5. That if any person be oouvicted of isault, assault and battery, or assault and littery with intent to kill, or of ninnslaughsr. and it shall appear upon the trial that le assault, assault and battery, assault and littery "with intent to kill, or manslaughter, lull have been committed with a deadly capon Qf the character specified in Seeon I of this Act, carried concealed upon tlie erson of the defendant so convicted the presid>g Judge shall, in addition to the punishment rovided by law for such assault, assault and attcry. assault utul battery with intent to ill, ,or manslaughter inflict further punish ?T_", upon the person so convicted of conA lent in the penitentiary for uot less ^X ( three months no.- more than twelve iontae, with or without liurd labor, or fined in sum of not loss than two hundred dollars, or nth fiued and imprisoned at the discretion of ne said Judge. Approved December24,4880. The Ont.y Thing to he Done?We ngfrec with udge Tourgee in the opinion he expresses in is famous book "A Fool's Errand." that a mtasks was made in giving the negro the ballot beire lie was ready for it. What 1ms been done, owevcr, iu this matter cannot now be recalled, 'he only thing to be done, ns far ns we can see, s for the better classes to divide and a fair porion of them to become the allies and lenders of he negroes. Should this be done, the negroes rill not long remain t ho adherents of one politial party. They will separate, nnd their Btrength rill be divided between the two great parties. Vhen this takes place South Carolina will no I anger be threatened with negro rule. The conrol of the government will be assured to those rho are filled by education and experience to nanngc the Slate's affairs.?Ar. O. Times. <0. The \Vrather for January.?The Hackenack Avoather man says: "During the month of lanunry Ihe weather will he very peculiar over he whole country. In Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan it will be decidedly warm>r than in I ho .same month last year, and in all he Southorn States it will be decidedly colder. L'he heaviest snows will fall in Illinois, Indiana md Virginia. Tho heavies*, rains will fall in lYiscmuiin and Michigan. It will be unusually Iry along the Atlantic canst from Maine to North Carolina. More rain will fall in Montreal, Catiidn, than in Doston, Mass. The most peculiar feature of Ihe weather in this section will be that )ur sharpest days will be followed by rain, md onr mildest days will be followed by light mows." ? . ?.. ? ?_ Learn to bk Short.?Long visits, long stories, long exhortations, long prayers, nnd long editorials, seldom profit those who have to do with them. Life is short. Time is short. Moments are precious. Loam to condense, abridge and intonsify. Wo can endure inany an ache and ill if it is soon ovor, while even I leasures grow insipid and pain unindurable, if they *:e protracted beyond the limits of reason and 'convenience. Learn to be short. Lon off branches; stick to tho main facts in your case. If y?u speak toll your message ami hold y'ur penf'e; boil down two words into one, and three nto 'two. Always learn to be short. . A Nrono Kitten by a wiiitk Boy in Viiioinia.?Richmond, December 27.?During an altercation lost Friday in Halifax County, Vn., between Marion Wimhish, a white boy aged 17, and a negro boy about tho possession of an axe, the negro attempted to assault Wirnbish with ? hoe, when tho latter dealt him a blow on tlx neck with the axe almost severing the negro'> head from his body. The negro died iu nbou ten minutes.. Tie Trustees of school District No. II ?nil ? the Trustees of the Academies hare united their Schools iu the Mule and Female Academies in the town ot Union, where, by giving to the pupi.H * 1 their share of the free soltool fund, lliey will Ul be nble to establish schools of lugh grade ut low M' rates of tuition. " They have secured the services of competent J* and experienced teachers in both, schools who ttt will give their undivided attentiou to the work of instruction. T* Speoial attcution will be paid to reading and Spelling. ? J* lu many of the classes the new method of y' teaching on the blackboard, without books, will 11 bo adopted. The course will embrace all the English ln branches?Analyses of the best English Au-( 8' thors, Mathematics and the Classics. Latin' 1 taught according to the latest and best tueth- Ul ods, giving the Continental pronunciation.? Tlioruutrh instruction and conversations in Fairi'j Vork of nil kinds and Calisthenics ?t (he Female Academy, without extra charge. Fkmalk Acaukmy. Mrs M. C. Mnpsie Principal. cc Mrs. M. CGibbes Assistant. Mrs. Gilliam Music Teacher. ? Malk Acaukmy. Mr. U. F. Bailey . ..Priucipa l)??ct Moore Assisian jn Mr. Bnilcy, a geulteiuen of retineuient and ?l( culture, has becu liberally educated at Harvard (< has established a reputation in Uuion as a n, successful teacher and disciplinarian. Doct. Moore is un experienced teacher, to which Doct. Beaty, Duct. Bates aud others bear a| willing testimony. rt Mrs. Gibbes, a native of Union, lias shown rure talents in teaching childreu in our town, t|) and bus had much experience in the graded cf school in Florida. (|| Mrs. Gilliam is an accomplished music Tench- w er and has giveu entire satisfaction to her paIrons. 0I Mrs. Mnssie, being a stranger, refers to the 01 Faculty of Wotford College, to the Re. J. D. 01 McCullough, Hon. Cltas. l'elty and others, of Spartanburg, to Hev. 11. D. Smart aud Mrs. Col. D NlcKissick of Upion. G From the tnany letters received by the Trus- ki tecs endorsiug Mrs. Mossio.they take the liberty di by publishing I he following front Dr. James li. D Carlisle, President Wotford College : 8< Si'aktasnuho, 8. C. Dec. 28, 1880. ti Col.. J no. L. Yuunu?My Dear Sir .?Your let- m tercauic to hand last night and I take pleasure al in answering. With reference to Mrs. Massie, ot it gives me great pleasure to bear the most em ki phatic testimony to her worth ns a teacher and ol a christian lady. 1 fell it n privilege to send w tny only daughter to her for years. Sho is en- nj (husinstic and devoted?a "born-teacher," 1 pi thiuk. I do not,know n teacher into whose tc hands I would sooner entrust a daughter. 1 most certainly will congratulate any community which secures her. 1 consider her entirely com- T< petenl to teach the usual branches?indeed, to teach thoroughly anything which she professes hl to teach. I write hurriedly to save tb>?. ? -" (fj but wish to be undera'".-1 "" ' ? ^ the fullest Very respccfully yours. J AS. 11. CARLISLE. 10 _ ' + tc S>/mt rtn J, FrR.'HTlllfcM ?* Elegant ne'w Desks'of improved pattern and, j, other necessary school-room furniture have been ei ordered, which will add much to the comfort of b< the pupil9. Tim Tr?wfnn? lttvvit <1 of or mi n Pil If Hiinnrtrfpil by I lie Patrons, to maintain schools of as high ^ grade in Union as may be found in the State. JS For fuithcr information, as to board and rates tl of tuition, apply to J. I\ MULL1NAX, Sec'y of Boards of Trustees. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford's School. Wc call attention to the advertisement of Mr. and Mrs. ClilTord, who have concluded to establish a private O Female School in this town, of the highest grade and at very moderate prices for tuition. It seems nlninst on- ri necessary for us to s|K.-ak of thcahilitios of Mr. and Mrs. ClitTord ; their reputation is estahllshcd in this County For seven years Mrs, Clifford has been the.Princlpal of our Female Academy and given most gratifying satlsfac- tl tion. When she first took charge of the Academy it had V only SEVEN scholars, hut hy the most untiring energy and alfectInnate devotion to the moral, social, aud educational interests of the girls placed und -r her care she made the school oncof tl?o moat flourishing lu tlie State?the regu- ^ lar attendance of scholars having risen to nearly seventy t and rapidly increasing. She has but few superiors as a C Teaclier and wc have seldom soon moro general and sin. j cere affection exist between Teacher and Pupils than j lias been evinced between Mrs, Clifford ami her scholars ^ The Male School- n The male school of this town will commence p its next session on Monday, lOtli. Mr. B. F. f Bailey, the Principal, lias been assistant in the f school for two yenrs and is one of the most ac- a comp!ishcd gentlemen in the State, also a mosl I thorough Teacher, while Dr. Moore, the as \ sistnnt elect, has had many yenrs experience 1 as a Tenchcr and is fully competent to fill the 1 department assigned him. We can safely re- v commend our male school under charge of these ^ gentlemen, as highly worthy the patronage of *our citizens. We doubt much if any school in the State has superior facilities for imparting a } high grade of education. j CHAPTER OF CRIME8. Tiir 1!uurai, Murder ov a Man and iiis Wifb. ( ?Allentown, l*a., December 27.?Jacob Gogel i and his wife Anna, residing four miles from , Bethlehem, Pa., were found dead in their bed j this morning. Their heads were nearly severed ' from their bodies, and a bloody axe was found i in the apartment. The walls were sploshed with , blood, and altogether the room presented n ( shocking sight. Joseph Snyder, who boarded with the flogels, was believed to be the murder-/ cr. lie was caught by an infuriated rocb soon after the discovery of tho crime and was hanged i "to the nearest tree. Gogel was a day laborer about 40 years of age, nnd leaves three children. The motive for the double murder is unknown. A Christmas Murder in New Mexico. ? Donver, December 27.?At a Christmas festival held here on Christmas Kve several Mexicans created a disturbance, which was quelled by A. M. Conkliug, editor of the Sun. Shortly aftei w.ird while Conkling and his wife were leaving church, two Mexicans seized him by the arms, while a third fired three shots, killing him instantly.? The assailnnts fled to a small town in the vicinity, where they are guarded by 2,000 Mexicans. A large posse of Americans, well armed, intend to get the murderers into custody even if they have to fight for thcui. A Handsome Murderess in Texas.?Gallatin, Tenn., December 27.?A report of the murder of George Martin in Robertson County is recieved. Mr. and Mrs. Hester are under arrest. Mr. Hester snys I nut while he and Martin were at work in the field Mrs. Heater came to them, and when Martin made some jocular allusion to a divorce suit recently begun by Hester, she i drew a revolver and shot him dead. Mrs. liesj ter says her husband did the talking, and he j and Martin hnd conspired to ruin hep reputat tion. She is but 22 years old, has only been married a year and is very handsome. ) V .. I.I ...III ' -I ' . Ex-Gor. 8omr a* a Moidirm.?Toledo, O.,' eoember 26?At Napoleon, Ohio, loot uight, ou. K. K. Scott, one of the carpct-b?g Goverire of South Carolina, and now a residout of apolcon, Ohio, 'shot and killed a young mnu tmed Di tiry. The affair was the result of a jarrel iu relation to the son of General Scott, rury was a clerk in a drug store, lie was a lung man of good standing in the community, id was to have been tunrried ou Tuesday next. Tiihkatm of Lynching.?Cincinnati, December 5.?A dispatch t'roiu loledo to the Commercial tied lost night says: "The shooting of Walter . Drury at Napoleon, Ohio, by Gen. Robert K. :ott, formerly colonel of the Sixty-eighth Ohio ifuutry and afterwards Governor ot South Carina, occurred this morning. Intense exciteent prevails and the danger of lynching is so real that a company of military to-night guards it* hold where Scott is detained l>y the sheriff nder arrest." Pakticulahs or tiikCrinr.?Napoleon, Ohio, ecember *2<>.?The following ore the pnrticulat s r the murder of young Drury hy U. K. .Scott, rm of s??th rury was clerk in Knowluiul's drug store, and slebrnted Christmas Eve with several young nnpuuioiis. iimong thein being Scott's son, who rank too much and not wishing his parents to ie him intoxicated accepted an offer of Drury ishare the latter's bed at the drug eton . about I o'clock a geutlcmiu scot by Mrs. Scott to ud her sou discovered his wherenbouts, but foil ig to induce him to go home returned to the otcLnnd reported the facts to tien. Scott. The cnoral then went to the store, called Drury up nd asked for his son. Drury denied that sung Scott was there. The father insisted on .ring to the bed-room. Drury preceded him id on reaching the doer of the room turned >und and refused to admit Scott. The Gen mil rew a revolver and fired, as ho claims nccidendly, the ball pnssiDg through Drury's brain, utsiug instant death. Scott got his sod and reirued to the hotel, reported the shooting and us arrested and taken to Defiance for safe coping, there beiug much exoilemcnt and talk lynching here, llis preliminary trial occurs 1 Monday. Drury wns to havo been married i Tuesday. R. K. Scott 8bxt to Jam..?Napoleon Ohio, eceraber 29.?Squire l'ayton, before whom exovbrnor Scott was examined on the charge of illing young Drury, pronounced the deed muror in the first degree, and Scott was taken to efiance jail. DuriDg the preliminary hearing soil's appearance was full of sorrow and dejecon. He pleaded not guilty to the chargo of iurdor in tlie first degree. The evidence was lout the same as that produced before the corner, only uiore complete. It sets forth tho illing nnd tiie excited and remorseful condition f Scott immediately After the deed. Evidence as also produced making Scott say some time ;o that he would shoot dead in liis tracks any arson who would in anv wav influence his son i drink or would sell liiui intoxicating liquor. Tiik SrAUTAKiiufia and Amikvillk Railroad > uk Sold.?Judge Bond lias ordered the Sparirg and Askeville Railroad to be sold on the rat Monday in Ajgrft next,, Jfcg IjNiPffe ?- v io Uuited States Circuit Court at Charlotte, orth Carolina. The principal question in-' rived was whether tho mortgage bonds wero > be postponed to the claims of contractors ondF ' > mechanics' liens, which latter were filed subndgc Rood held (hat the morlgAge bonds were milled to priority, and ordered the railroad to b sold by tho trustees of the mortgage deed. A Serious Accident.?As the north ound freight train from Charlotte, on tho forth Carolina Kiilroal, wis approaching io city this morning, just beyond tho Sa:ui junction the engineer in charge, Mr. 8 !. Orgain, saw a white woman run upon ie track just in front of his engine. At !io time the train was moving at tho r.ito f about tweuty uiiles per hour. Mr. (Drain at once sounded the alarm whistle and eversod his engine, but the distance bcween the poor wouiau aud the engino was 30 short. Mr. Orgain says she took no noico whatever of the whistle, but began to ralk at more rapid pace right iu tho ccnar of the track. She was picked up by tho lilot and thrown back on top of it. The.roinan at once went out and took hold of ; he woman and held her until tho train i ould be stopped. Mr. Orgain finding her . juries of a serious nature had her placed n a car and brought her to the city. ' On ler arrival hero it was found that the wo an was deaf and dumb. She was recog1i7.fi.1 hv friends as Louisa Walker, of Cruil -J J brd couuty ; aged about 45 3cars. It was ouiid that her skull was slightly fractured, nd portions of her body badly bruised.? t is feared that she cnunot survive. Miss iValkcr was educated at the Deaf aud Dumb Instituto in ltdeigh years ago.? Icr brother aud sister, both deaf and dumb, vcrc killed some years ago on the North Jarolina llailroad, between High Point aud 1 alucsto .vu.? Greensboro Patriot. Another Negro Exodus.?IIou. Geo. iVilliauis, (colored) member of tho Ohio , Legislature, has just returned from New if oik, whither lie went for consultation in a project looking to a new exodus of jolored people troui the Southdru States.? Mr. Williams says a party of capitalists in Sew York have purchased over half a milium acres of land iu New Mexico, partly mineral and partly agricultural, and their plan is, duriug the coming year, to send irusworthy agents among Southern negroes lor the purpose of culling good material to . form colonies on this land. The negroes chosen for this project will be men of some means, sound health, and, in a word, men inspected as for an army. Land is to be sold to these colonists ut $1,25 per acre, aud time given thcui to pay fur it, and assistance iu tho way of reduced railroad rates will also be arranged. The parties engaged in this scheme are enthusiasts, aud bay that, ? inasmuch as the colony lands are in nearly the same latitude as South Carolina, tho. emigrants will be enabled to cultivate cottou aud other sjuii tropicr 1 crops with which they arc familiar. Tbc idea is to make this colony a hoir.o where colored people can have an opportunity of laboring, edu-. eating their childreu and making them all it is possible for colored men to become under fuvorablo auspices, Mr. Williams leuves, for New Mexico this week to inspect theso. lands.? Columbus ( O.) Special to Chicago Timet. Jones thinks a man is fortunate who ha,< his will coutested after death only. He. says his will has been contested ever sinc?\ he wedded Mrs. J. .