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COLUMBIA. Tuesday Morning, Sept. 3,1867. 'Education at tue South. The season is approaching for the ?re-opening of our schools, and the advertising columns of the Pheonix, as well as most of our Southern co >fcemporr.ries, give evidence of an in? creased interest in the subject of edu? cation, and of superior facilities for the education of youth, both in the elementary and more advanced de? partments: Schools for children, academies to prepare pupils for col? lege or university, or for.the practical business duties of life, are rapidly multiplying all through the Southorn States, while the higher institutions of learning are fast recovering from the disastrous effects of the late war. It is truly sad to reflect how many of our young men have, from the de? pleting influences of fonr years' civil etrife, forever boen deprived of tho advantages of a liberal education; ?but this fact should stimulate our energies and efforts to promote the great cause of education of the youth t who have the opportunity left to flt themselves for the future citizens of the country. One great advantage to bo noted in our Southern countiy is, that we -have a large accession of superior in? structors in every department, from tho fact that many whoso means, in the past, enabled them to avail them? selves of the educational benefits conferred by the best institutions of learning in the country, have, by, tho vicissitudes of fortune, been con? strained to offer their services as teachers. And no nobler profession, no more useful employment, could demand the services of these [accom? plished laborers in tho field of educa? tion, from teaching the alphabet to the demonstration of a mathematical problem. All in their respective spheres contribute to tho great work .of training our sons and daughters for the important duties and respon? sibilities of life. The accession of such a class of instructors as we have referred to, will, moreover, preclude tho fancied necessity of sending our children . elsewhere to receive what has been called a first-class and ac? complished education. Especially will this bo the case in regard to fe? male education, for it is to bo ob? served that many ladies of the high? est station, and who have been fitted for the duties they now assume at the best institutions in the country, North and South, are now offering themselves as instructors. In our own State, from the Uni? versity of South Carolina down to iho primary schools, wo have not, in a long experience, observed such rare facilities for tho education of her youth. The different schools of the University aro all directed by compe? tent professors-men in whom our people have tho utmost confidence, both as regards ability and fidelity whilo tho preparatory schools are not surpassed anywhere. Our people are devotedly attached to their State and the promotion of her best interests, and in no way can these bo moro effectually subserved than by sus? taining her educational institutions. The necessity for tito quest of a higher style of education has passed away, we hope, forovor, and every interest of patriotism, every dictate of State pride, should impel ns to elevate and keep in tho first rank tho institutions of learning in South Carolina. If wo do not this, with a returning prosperity among our peo? ple-if we do not now maiutain our own schools nud colleges-wo can expect nothing elso but a return to that * foolish , and depleting system under which our sons and daughters were sent from homo to completa their education. IT PAYS! IT PAYS!-A Washington telegram says that General Grant's attention has been called to tho large number of publio horses, many of them very fine ones, that aro now used by prominent civil officials, and that these officers may be seen any day driving spans of fino animals which aro public proporty, and ave fed on government forage. General Grant's efforts, says tho World, to curtail the expenses of the War Do ?)ortment will soon put a stop to this oak; but there is ono man who put hp horses back in the stable just in timo to escapo a humiliating expo? sure, and that man was Stanton. Beginnina: to Find 'lt Oat' A labor congress has been in ses? sion daring the past week in Chicago. This body was largely composed of radicals, and TepreBented snob an immense constituency that the pass? age of the following resolution is very significant: '.Resolved, That it is the duty ot Congress to Bubject tho Federal se? curities to a taxation equal in amount to that paid by all other kinds of pro? perty for the support of Government, State and national, and that we will not cease our efforts on this, as well as every other Bpeoies of legislation which discriminates in favor of one class as against another, until it shall bo abolished." And the passage of the following shows that there were somo mon of senso in the body: "Whereas, the great staple of tho South (cotton) has been heretofore not only the chief basis of our foreign commerce and exchanges, but tho source of profitable business to a large portion of tho laboring classes of Now England, who -were engaged in its manufacture; and "Whereas nearly every branch of industry in the North and West will suffer more or less, directly or indi? rectly, if tho United States should, as anticipated by some, not only lose tho export cotton trade, but fail to grow enough for our own domestic uso, thus forcing American manufacturers to import cotton from abroad; and "Whereas the British Cottou Sup? ply Association have, for a longtime, boen laboring to bring about such a result, so that, instead of selling cot? ton to England, the United States would have to buy of them cotton, tho growth of British India or Egypt. Be it, therefore, . "Resolved, That this Congress en? dorso and reiterate tho resolution adopted by tho National Labor Con? gress, at Baltimore, last year, to the effect that tho speedy restoration of the agricultural industry of the South? ern States is of vital importance to tho industrial classes of tho North. "Resolved, That the speedy restora? tion of tho Southern States to their proper practical relations in the Union is indispensable to thc restora? tion of their agricultural prosperity." COTTON AND RICE RECEIPTS IN CHARLESTON.-The annual statement of the receipts of cotton and rice in Charleston, for the year ending on tho 31st ultimo, is very encouraging, ns a notable evidence of a recovery, slow though it may be, from the ruinons effects of tho war. Tho re? ceipts of cottou, as we learn from the Mercury, wero: Sea island, 1G,388 bales; uplands, 148,970 bales; against a "receipt, for the previous year, of 5,503 bales sea island and 100,211 bales upland cotton. The receipts of rice are 15,337 tierces, against 4,019 tierces the previous year. This is highly encouraging, and if our labor system'can bo moro efli ciontly organized, and less interfered with by politics nud politicians, we have little doubt but the close of tho next season will exhibit still more gratifying results. i m ? ? NORTH CAROLINA.-Our sister State is fast recovering from thc paralysis caused by the war, and is recuperating her energies with very commendable promptness. The Asheville News gives the following cheering account of tho progress that is being made on thc Western North Carolina Bailroad: "Major Wilson has completed tho survey of the Westorn North Carolina Railroad from Marshall to Paint Rock and will report to the meeting of tho Board of Directors, which convenes at Salisbury on the 29th. The con? tracts for glading the road, it is ex? pected, will bo let out early next month, at the Warm Springs. ^ Mr. J. E. Patton, who has just ar ? rived from the Tennessoo road, in? forms us that they oro driving the work to tho North Carolina lino as fast as possible. They have at least 500 hands employed on tho work. Tho Western North Carolina Railroad Company have takon tho ?800,001) of Stato bonds (tho State's subscription to tho road) at par, and we understand that au agent has gone North to com? plete tho salo of these bonds, which can bc dono on favorablo terms. Tho following card appears in tho Baton Rougo Adv?cale: Sir: Allow mo to pronounco myself as a candi? date for Congress in this District. I will state to tho public my princi? ples: 1. I am in favor of taking tho tax. off of the cotton. 2. I am in favor to computerate tho war debt. 3. I nm in favor of freo trade with all nations. 4. I am in favor of frcoiug all the colored people in Cuba. 5. I am in favor of tho sub? jection of Mexico. G. I ara in favor of freo trade aud sailor's rights. 7. I nm in favor of every man having a fdantation when ho works for it. I tope my connmerous friends will support mo in this undertaking, and clear this couutry of tho troubles it is now in. Your friend, HENRY HAWSON. What a Solatia Carolinian hi Doing. The following extract, from a letter tc a gentleman in Angosta, Ga., from on intelligent planter in this State, we find in the Republican, of that city. They are worthy of the consi? deration of our agricultural friends generally throughout the State: Sometime after the close of the war, I found that my opinions upon the subject of the availability of the labor of tho country, in the person of the black man, differed so widely with many of my best friends-who contended that the labor of tho co? lored race as freedmen could not bo mado available-that I determined to test my own notions; and, for this purpose, left the city and rented a farm, where I might mako the trial upon my own plans. I took the ground: First, that by fair and houest deal? ing with them, we could inspire and restore lost confidence; second, by a system of education, elevate their conceptions of* honor and honesty; third, that it is the duty of the white man, South, to honestly and fairly instruct them ns to their rights ana privileges as citizens, that they may become allied to us, and satisfied to remain among us iu the capacity of laborers. All of which I undertook to carry out, at a very considerable risk to person and property; and am fully satisfied, from actual expe? rience, my theory is right and practi? cal in its widest sense. I got into possession of tho farm I nm now working, on January 1, 1SG7; tho first act was to fit up a building in my yard, which was to be used ex? clusively as a school-houseaud church for the colored people aloue, which I did under protest. I then, 011 my own responsibility, without books or money, employed a talented, accom? plished Southern lady as teacher, at $50 per mouth, and opened a freo school, night and day. I next em? ployed my ten farm hands, aud a practical, honest colored niau as over? seer. My school flourished and increased daily, until now it numbers seventy day, fifty night, and over ono hun? dred Sunday School pupils, and my crop is tho best that has grown on the place for twenty years. And all this has been accomplished without an unpleasant word between me and my laborers, or among themselves; and many who entered the school not knowing their alphabets, are now able, in a pretty respectable way, to write their own letters. The resnlt of this is, if I had land sufficient in any part of the Southern States, I could to-day employ an unlimited number of hands, the pick of tho country; for my interest in and for them they feel a debt of gratitude that no sacrifice would be too great for them to make for mo-they aro ever ready to serve me, and do it with much greater manifest kindness and pleasure than when I had the authority to command them. COLLISION OR SEGREGATION?-A correspondent of tho Now York Times saj's: It is duo to the Southerners to say -and I willingly give them credit for this virtue, because it has not been adequately recognized-that their conduct toward their former slaves lias been marked by great kindness and generosity. Slavery, with nil its evils, at least did not extinguish hu? mano sentiments in tho breast of the master, unless he was by nature a brute. Broken-down planters will pour into your ear their dire prognos? tications, but you will notice that at the same time they will shara their last bushel of corn with thc poor "nigger" thnt cared for or played with Miem in their childhood. Every day witnesses in the South ton thou? sand such instances of practical be? neficence of this kind, that aro very beautiful aud very creditable to human nature. It is among tho possibilities that an entirely different solution of this questiou from any that is now antici? pated, may como about-that instead of a collision of races, there may be a segregation of races. Tho natural habitat of the negro is in that part of the South that most approximates the tropics. It happens, at the same time, that this part is also thnt iu which the blacks, being in tho as? cendancy, will exercise most political power. Thither, therefore, both by instinct and by interest, thoy will tend to gravitate. Wo may, there? fore, seo a re-distribution of the negro population, characterized by an abandonment of tho Northern tier of Southern States, and a concentra? tion on tho States of the Gulf. In this case, tho movement would pro? bably bo accompanied by a counter move of the whites in the Gulf States toward the region vacated by tho negroes. I mention this simply as a possible event, iu case tho antago? nism of the races should show itself moro violent than now appears. Tho Wisconsin papers tell of a zephyr which passed through the town of Mondovia tho other day. "It swept nearly everything in its : path for a space of from oight to I ten rods in width, twisting trees from one to two foot iu diameter, in two, and carrying tho tops some I distance. Tho bodies of largo trees : were distinctly seen at tho height of j 100 feet in air, tossed and whirled ' about with tremendous force. i "Con?l?tcncy. Thou ?rt a Jewel." The Savannah Republican, a con? sistent Republican paper, edited bj & Northern man, denonnces the order imposing a fine on Captain McNeil y for refusing to sell a colored woman a first-class cabin passage on his boat. It says: We brand this act as unjust, sim? ply because tho justice, so-called, cl?alt out to Captuin McNelty, an honest, law-abiding, tax-paying citi z( n of South Carolina, is not the same ns ho would receive under similar cir? cumstances in Massachusetts or any other Northern State, and there is not a Republican or radical in the United States that dare dispute our assertion, or controvert it with stub? born facts. It is not three months since the conductors and drivers on tho city railroads of radical Philadelphia, where there is, perhaps, ono colored citizen to every thousand white peo? ple, wore constantly running their cars off the tracks, and thereby greatly impeding public travel, rather than permit a respectable and tidy colored person to ride in their public conveyances. * * ? We know, also, from personal obser? vation, that tho captains on the steamers that ply between Boston and Bangor, Boston and Portland, and on all the magnificent Long Island Sound boats, positively refuse to allow a colored person to sit at thc first table with the white passengers. We also know that out of all the places of pnblic amusement in radical Boston, with its Republican city go? vernment, there is but one-tho Bos? ton Museum, owned by Hon. Amos Kimball, a Republican-where no distinction is made in tho audience on account of color. Wc also happen to know that, at the time the Prince of Wales' grand ball was given at the Boston Academy of Music, a highly respectable colored man applied to tho committee for a ticket, intending to attend tho soireo with his wife, but was promptly refused. We never recollect, during a residence of twen? ty-six years in Boston, our native city, having seen a person of color seated at one ot the public hotel tables, and though wo are not aware of any statute which forbids the ex? ercising of such a privilege on the part of the colored people of Massa? chusetts, we eau positively assert, aud without fear of contradiction, that were tho colored people ns largely in the majority in Massachu? setts and other Northern States as they are in South Carolina, Georgia, and the other Southern States, the Caucasian prejudice against the negro, judging from the amount we daily seo exhibited there, would bo so strong, that the lines of social demar? cation, about which wo hear so much senseless talk, would bo much more closely drawn than at present. GEN-. CANDY'S OPINIONS.-Gen. Canby, who has just been appointed to the command of the Second Mili? tary District, is said to have remarked yesterday, in conversation with a friend, that ho was not a political pnrtizan, but that ho had studied the reconstruction laws thoroughly and approved them, and that he consi? dered their faithful execution essen? tial to tho welfare of the nation. He thought it the duty of tho Southern people to accept tho terms offered them. He is also said to have ex? pressed his appreciation of thc utility of thc Freedmen's Bureau, and his intention of giving its agents all pro? per and necessary aid in the execu? tion of their work. [ Washington Chronicle. A San Antonia (Texas) paper says: Though wo hoar considerable said about damages to thc cotton by flu army worm, we confidently look fora larger yield in Texas than sho made last year. Though late, tho season has been eminently propitious for the growth of the plant, and the present dry and hot weather, it is hoped, will relievo tho crop, in a largo measure, from its now only remaining enemy, the worm. Of the wool interest, wo can say that Hocks aro reported to be in most excellent health, and with the fine range all over our va3t prairies, a very prosperous season is antici? pated by the producer of wool. In fact, there is but ono draw-back to the picture of prosperity in Texas, and that is furnished by the political situation. TUE BUREAU TO HE EXPOSED.-The proof is being prepared of au amount of fraud and corruption and gross abuse, for political purposes, of tho institution entitled tho Freedmen's Bureau, that will astound tho people, who, relying upon tho high character and Christian reputation of its chief, have been unwilling to believe that his subordinates were everywhere, not only here, but wherever its rami? fications extend, making it the pre? text for wholesale frauds upon both the tax-payers of tho country and upon the freedmen themselves, nnd using its machinery aud disbursing its appropriations for the basest parti zan political purposes. We speak advisedly. -Natiomd Intelligence)'. # ? - A chime of forty-two bells is to be seen and hoard in tho Exposition; it is played with finger keys, like a piano forte, to any tuno. Four years were spent in tho construction of tho instrument. The Italian papers continue to an-' nounce the transit through Milan of convoys of horses and cattle for the Frenen Government; they aro im? ported into France by the Susa Pass. It is also stated that by the 1st of September, the French Government were to receive from the contractors, a fresh supply of 300,000 Chassepot rifles and 1,100,000 pairs of shoes. Few persons now give a warlike con? struction to these facts. Tho general impression is that the Emperor is augmenting his material merely to increase his moral force in continent? al politics. In the case of D. It. Gage, for vio? lation of internal revenue laws, by extortion in office, tho sentence of the court is that he be imprisoned in the jail at Greenville until the 19th of March, 1868, pay a fiuo of $200 and the costs of prosecution, aud, as tho prescribed legal consequence, be forever incapable of holding office under the United States Government. ESCAPED FROM PRISON.-Informa? tion from Savannah states that James Duncan, Commissary of tho Confed? erate Wirz at Anderson ville, escaped from Fort Pulaski last week, lie was iu confinement there, serving n term of fifteen years' imprisonment, to which he was sentenced by n court martial convened at Savannah imme? diately after the close of tho wai*. 15,000 men are steadily at wolli upon tho Pacific Railroad line, and the money already expended har reached the round sum of $35,000, 000. Of this amount about 10,000, 000 have been paid in by private stockholders, about 12,000^000 have been furnished by the United State; Government, and the balauce bor rowed by the company. The Perri?re, of the General Trans Atlantic Company's fleet, which re cent ly won the golden medal at th? I'aris Exposition for superiority ii speed and safety, eclipsed ou he: last passage to Paris all her previou accomplishments, doing tho distano between New York and Havre ii eight days and seventeen hours, tin fastest time on record. FIRE IN ORANGERUKG, S. C.-W regret to learn that the residence o Kev. A. F. Dickson, Pastor of tb Presbyterian Church at Orangeburg was totally consumed by fire about o'clock Saturday afternoon. Ther was no insurance on the building The furniture and most of the librar was fortunately saved. BRIDGING THE PEE DEE.-"We lear that the Pee Deo will soon bo spanne by two noble bridges, ono at Chera1 aud another near Society Hill. It i expected that both of these bridge will bc opened for freight and travi about tho 15th of September. While ten men watch for chance one man makes chances, and whi ten wait for something to turn Ul ono turns something np-so, win ten fail, one succeeds aud is called mau of luck or favorite of fortun There is no luck like pluck, and fo tune most favors those who aro mo indifferent to fortune. Houston was illuminated by hoi fires on the 25th, to keep yello fever away. The Houston journ says, "If he (Yellow Jack) does com we will give him such a rouser to drive him away again." The Tel graph, of the 23d, says the city is i healthy as it ever has been. Among thc new and costly buil ings in New York is that owned 1 James Brown, and situated in Wi street. It is of marble, with frontage of about forty feet, ai cost $1,000,000. Tho entire rent of the building is $180,000 per a num. Quilp, who has beeu reflecting < tho very slender frame-work wi which a fashionable lady often su xiOrts the appearance of plumptitur says it reminds him of the Rom nil nisi bonum-there's nothing her but her bones! The Mexican correspondence tho Now Orleans Picayune says th no less than 500 Imperial office] prisoners of war, French, Austria Belgian and Mexican, have been sh since the 1st of March, and thc wo goes ou. An old woman died in Milwauki tho other day, whose disease coi pletely baffied tho skill of tho phy cians. Upon "opening her stomac a number of largo crabs, alivo ai active, wero found. Applications for bankruptcy in V giniu, during tho last week, exceed tho total number niado since t bankruptcy law passed. Tho Cincinnati Common Conn nas decided by a city ordinance th gas shall cost only two dollars p 1,000 feet A New York misogynist says tl women will not trado at stores win there are female clerks, because th are not treated civilly. In Chicago, tho keno banks i closed by tho authorities, but t players biro a vessel aud go out tho lake to gamble. Gen, Grant has ordered tho d charge of 71 of 140 clerks of the p department. Cato, the oidor, said, 'That w men learned more from fools th fools from wise men.' Paris talks of burning its dead making light of affliction. Nino regular army surgeons lui died within three weeks. Local .TtomB. After an intermission of several weeks, owing to tho excessive heat, Mrs. F. C. Jacobs will resume her lessons in dancing, at tho residence of Mrs. Henry Lyons, on Monday, Sep? tember 16. Mrs. J. was formerly a pupil of Sig. Planci, of this city, and also of Mons. Martel, of Philadel? phia, and during tho timo she has been giving instruction in this city, we believe, has given perfect satisfac? tion. We are indebted to Mr. George W. Parker, whose mily grocery is lo? cated on the old Exchange Pank corner, for a "remembrancer," and au invitation to call again. We'll do so. _ DON'T READ THIS.-Having a com? plete job printing oflice, competent workmen, and superintended by the proprietor himself, we are prepared to execute every description of book and job printing-bill and letter heads, circulars, labels, posters, pro? grammes, business, wedding and in? vitation cards, railroad receipts, checks, drafts, ?fcc. Our friends will find it to their interest (and ours) to give us a call. AUGUSTA AND COLUMBIA RAILROAD. The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel speaks as follows of this road and its connections: "Wc have been frequently interro? gated of late in regard to the pro? gress which has been made in the work upon thia road. The public is becoming somewhat impatient over' tho delay in its completion, and we think justly so. More than a year ago, when the President of the com? pany was urging our pcoplo to au? thorize n city subscription to its stock of $100,000, we were assured that such a subscription would securo the completion of tho road in less than twelve months. Now, after waiting many months over tho time fixed by tho officers of the road for its com? pletion, wo can hear nothing authori? tative which would encourage the hope that it will bo finished within tho next two or three years. "This is a very important road for the welfare of this city, and our peo? ple feel a deep interest in its early construction. They have ^subscribed liberally to tho stock, and by the expression of their approval through the ballot-box, have authorized the City Council to make a largo sub? scription to its stock, at a time when the city was greatly in debt and our people very much impoverished by tho results of the war. We refer now to these things to show tho great concern which the citizens of Au? gusta have manifested in favor of the work, and with the further view of urging those who have control of the work to sparo no efforts to effect its speedy completion. "Tho road from hero to Milledge ville and Macon is progressing rapid? ly, and wo confidently expect that the cars on this line will run through to Macon by the 1st of November. The city is a large stockholder iu this road, aud her subscription to the Columbia Road was very consider? ably influenced by the consideration that the completion of tho Columbia Road would increase the value of her stock in tho Milledgeville connection. If the Columbia Road is not pushed forward, without unnecessary delay, tho tido of travel will have become fixed and settled on the interior line so firmly that it will be difficult to draw it off. By all moans, le as have the Columbia Road ind through at once. " Read Udolpho Wolfe's advertise? ments in to-day's paper. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.- Attention IH call? ed to tho following advertisements, which tro published this morning f r the Crat time: Meeting of Trtto Brotherhood Lodge. Mrs. f. C. Jacobs-Dancing Lessons. Meeting of Palmetto Firo Company. C. Minor-House for Bale. Blakelv A Gibbes-Commission Agents. A. R. Phillips-Auction Sales. Wm. McGtunnis-Cottage for Bent. A fine lot of Desirable Goods have just boon opened by Mr. B. C. Shiver, who still adheres to his proper principle of good articles for littlo money. Bead his adver? tisement, and then examine tho goods. LAUGEST CHECK EVER DRAWN.-lu tho negotiations made a few years since, by the Engligh Government, for a loan of $80,000,000, tho success? ful contractors were . the Messrs. Rothschild, and having bee i sup? ported by the subscriptions of friends, they were of course recognized as the acting firm in that important transaction. In paying tho first deposit toward this amount to the Government, tho check they drew was for tho sum of 80,000,000. This bank check was probably tho largest ever drawn at one private banking house-or, if not, was certainly for a very large sum. Cheever's church, in New York, is to bo used, until Stewart wants it. as a place of "rational amusement," under the auspices of severol gentle? men.