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THE MIGNONETTE AND THE OAK I {marked a clijpret\j";otn($ j -: f i A gentle^liW-cyed thidg? 1 H She sowed the scented mignonette />??* ciinnr il o V in Qtlpinff * W|,fT k l,u,V '"V ? * I O And while the tiny grains 6he sowed The stream of thought thus sweetly flowed: .<r c 'rw ^ ; i fc" On this dear bed flie dew 'hall fall. And yon bright sun shall shine ; 'Twill spring, and grow and blossom then, And it will all be mine !" -i- . i . jj* And the fair thing laughed in childish glee To think whhf 'ti harvest hers should te. * : ' j < T f. . ^ ! J I M j | ; I' j kJ I saw a mart an ttcorn plnht' l"pon the hillside bare: 1ii ? No spreading branch, no shading rock Lent friendly shelter ljjere ; -,M 1 And thus as o'er the spot he bow'd I heard him, for lie tliouglit aloud : ; >. ;.rt j j f'-ji ; **.h ?d " Frail thing 1 ere <flos"sy leaf shall grace Thy wide and sturdy bough, . 7/. I may be laid amid the dead As low as thou art now; , , Yet will thou rise in rugged strength . I And crown this barren height at length." Each had a hope; the childish heajt Looked to a summer's joy; g " Thumanly thought, sjtrong &nd mtj Mired, ? LboFed foTritiirlty.'" Each trusts to nature's genial power; He wants a forest, she a flower. Who sows the seeds of heavenly truth, And doubts Almighty power ? Will years less surely bring the oak Than months the summer flower? Then sow, although no fruit you see, God, "in due time," will raise the tree. "Let Us Have Peace." Mr. Editor : I love plain English and if it must be interlarded, I like Dice, clean-cut bits of French. .Latin. Greek, or what you will, apPly used and correctly spelled. But when learned men use technical or foreign words phonetically spelled and sealtered along their pages like squelched berries and flies throueh a very poor fruit cake, it often taxes the patience of readers aod puzzles the judgment of critics. I was lead into this reflection by the phrase, "lashes of teachers," used b\ your learned correspondent, J 11 M., of .Russell Place, whose gravity, I fear, was irritated rather than amused by my innoemt afforts to tickle him with a joke. When I first observed the phrasrefcrred to, I thought it a misprint, and hastened to your printer to get the true text; but there it was od the nicely penned manuscript, plainly written lashes in three several places. Then it t.,_i occurred to me tbai me -average suny-i deacher" of a decade ago did probably get'some lashes in the previous decade; and 1 was about to apostrophise the 15th amendment, when it flashed upon my rn'md that our learned friend had used a French law term, and phoneticised it?not misspelled it! But as I am a plain man, writing for plain people, I will venture to <luc?phnne" it into the plain law French "/nc/jc," and to render that into the plain English *?AvoTfJ-, laa'rty, neglect or omissicm. So that the "lashes of teachers." un-phoned and translated for the benefit of your unlearned readers, means simply the laxity, neglect or omission of touchers to use the proper means at the proper .time to get their money. J, 11. .M's. second paragraph, which Contains fhc whole force or it is argument, I Fill quote entire, pau-ing /it intervals to coivct his errors of statement and inferences : Chap.*cr ***>*. section 1, of the revised statutes oi* Soutli Carolina, makes every school di-tric/ in 'he State, organized in pursuance ther<.-,0,*? ft hody politic and corporate, and may si."' anc' he sued, and be' capable of contracting* 3U'' heing contracted with. This statute does Hminhe power f?f the trustees in con.,nMr'*n? 'he extent of the funds in their ^"Session." but the act of 1878 does so limit 'heir contracting power; and section 40 of s xl'l makes all contracts in excess of the lu'u<L# apportioned to their district, void. This statute does, by irresistible implication, limit the authority of trustees ' to contract to the funds at their disposal. 1 It provides that the county School Commissioner shall be promptly iu- 1 formed by the Superintendent of Education what amount is apportioned to J his county, and that he shall promptly 1 inform the boards of trustees of the several school districts what apportionment is assigned to their respective districts, and that he shall have power < * ? ? i 1 . :r J U . to snoricn me scnoot irrui, u uucu u<-. so as to accommodate it to the funds at his disposal. It, moreover, provides a means by which the schools may be continued in a school district after thfunds assigned to it are exhausted; that is to say, on the application of a certain number of citizens of a school district the trustees shall call a mooting of the oitizens of the school district, which meeting, if the citizens choose, may vota tax upon their school district not to exceed three dollars for each child in the district between the ag?-s of six and sixteen years. In the face of all this, does the mere authority to "contract and be contracted with" imply a power to go beyond what th^y had the means pay wit-h ? It is repugnant to the whnl ' ' - i .: : i eeo .. spirit ot our legisiuwuu muvb amendment of the Constitution, ratified before that date, deprives even the Legislature of the power to put the State in debt without first submitting the proposition to the people at a general election and obtaining their approval. And this great power, so jealously guarded as to be witheld even from the Legisla nulrori tn hplifve lure, we an; ui? was vested in Jim Edwards and Bill Carter, or a school district board merely because it is not expressly witheld from litem. Can absurdity ever go further ? But J. 11. M. proceeds : (Section 38 mikes it the duty of the trustees to employ teachers; section 41 makes it the duty of the Clerk of the Board of Trustees, on the filing of the teachers monthly report, and its approval by saLi Board, lo .draw an- ordgr ia jUtBUaaiftrtika the coutat/^TrSatifiy wf--'thc such tcacEtftft-ete dfiibw ordlrMJote^rfoF represent a debt lawfully'contracted against the county, then what does it represent? Tha'' answer is simple- enough ; If the school hoard had not exhausted the amouat^T tho- apportionment to their school district, their order thus drawu and endorsed was a good fcnfcl valkj'idfaft or'check on the county treasury, aod the money should have awaited its presentation there. But. .if tfteyhad overdraw ht'heir a^'portiorKrieiU, tbe^: their|ordrr. whether endorsed or not, was a spurious draft drawn by, a party hayingno authonty'rso to Hhik. aod without funds to pay it, and like all soetispuftous papci\; t&l.*^aTe T&en taken ' immediately witfi'pOTesT ' back, for adjustment tu the party who drew5 it, ana if that party failed to . adjust it, i then.an appeal should bat? bebh: made to the Court for redress; and there is not a doubt but that such an . appeal would have brought wdi^ga. airiafnst. the malfeasant^ *bfther^.tkaii malfeasant were I."the school -^dtdtrict* board, as in the case hero supposed, or the School Commissiner, or the Gounty Treasurer. But if the party receiving this order or draft, put it ioto.his pocket and there let il sleep for years without notice or protest of its non-pavment, then by every rule of law or equity governing such transactions, and by - very principle ef common sense, and simple natural justice, be did by such /achc. or culpable neglect, lose and forfeit, as he ought to have lost and forfeited, every right which he might at first have ne id unaer it. mis is me case or past Hue school claims. J R. Rl. complacently proceeds : It evidently represents a debt. There can be no doubt of its having been legally contracted. The county, receiving the benefit of the teacher's services, is the debtor The School Commissioner is tne agent of the county, who is selected by the I voters of ihe county, and his endorsement legally obtained upon these school claims legally issued by the Board of trustees, is certainly evidence of indebtedness of the county. If, then, 'he debt was legally contracted, the question of lathe* must be determined by the statute of limitation. ( How far tho school district board could legally contract with teachers, or issue orders on the County Treasury, uDd how far the School Commissioner could legally endorse its order, I think I have already proven to have depended on whether the school district board had exhausted their apportioned fund or not. Neither could the one legally draw nor" the other legally endorse, one cent i 1 *L.i l! ? 1 *. TP T ^4. oeyona itiai num. n jl am uuncvi iu this, then all this ingenious deduction of J R. is sheer nonsense. He labors under a strange hallucination with re> spect to tho responsibility of the people lor the conduct of their officers, and sterns to think that if they elect an officer they are responsible for all that he may di, even if he were to steal a horse, This is not so. The State is only regpousible (or the conduct of its agents or officers in so far as it has invested tlieui with legal authority. When they exceed their legal authority, they are individually liable for their conduct, hut the State is not. Docs not ?/. 11, M know this ? If he does uot, he should not assume to instruct the most ignorant of his countrymen in matters pertaining to law and public economy; if he does know this, he should write with more candor than is exhibited in rhia last and preceding quotations. This dilemma is of his own raising. I have merely drawn it out into clear iight for Mm. ?nd he can take it by either horn. It is ur.nece-sary that I should go through the rest of his article, as this paragraph contains the gist of the whole. S^I have our learned friend to his meditations on the "Revised Statutes," acknowledging his supremacy there. LRat when he rises out of this special iotn <i'u his ,0 intfrpret thp sentiments which should exist between 'Taxpayer and "ChtiZ' n and the high toned gentleu?eD whose public conduct has been, and he, the subject of their animadversion, f exclaim with the indignant sculptor of o.'^> %l^c tutor ultra trepidant." Mr. Editor, I see no U6e in paracrine furthur this controversy with J. R. M. If the people of Kershaw cunty, for whom I write, are not convinced of the iniquity and enormity of this school claim crab upon their property and re* 'Ourc-s, I should write in vain until dooms day to convince them. I, therefore. beg you to make my respectful and final adieus to yonr learned and ingenious correspondent. I fear to await his "coming, lest he may bring one of those sharpened axes of his, and want to chop me with it as he sometimes chop3 the "Revised Statutes." Citizen. 0 WITTER, Ag't, DEALEIt UN FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS. 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YES! 1 BARFIELD'S Is the place to get your CHOICEST I CfiaCIlIIS 1 y, I have on hand an immense stock of he CHOICEST Household and Fam ly erocpries to be found anywhere, conistinp of ?LOUR and LARD, HA MP and BACON, SUGARS and MOLAS ES, SALMOND and MACKEREL )YSTERS and PICKLES, APPLE* and ORANGES. CANDIES and SWEETVIE ATS ot every description, TOYS, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, HARDWARE, FflAfl * 3 A ("I lUJDiiuuu ana uuiuia, md a huodred other articles too numerous to mention. Gall and examine the stock at once. Sold as cheap for the cash as can be found anywhere. Goods delivered free of charge to any house in Camden. decll-3m T. J. BARFIELD. T. ST. Robson & Son, COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND DEALERS IN FERTILIZERS, CHARLESTON,S. 0. Robson's Cotton and Corn Fertilizers, Robson's Compound Acid Phosphate. These ' Fertilizers are compounded of the purest materials, and are manipulated and tested under the supervision of Dr. St. J. Ravenel. We offer these Fertilizers to punters on the most favorable terms. Those ordering immediately will be allowed to the 1st of April to decide which they prefer, cash or time. An order for a car load of eight tons will be sent free of drayage, but for a less amount SI per ton will be charged. On orders for large lots trom Grangers or dealers a liberal discount will be allowed. We take this occasion to return our thanks to those who have so largely patronized the fertilizers offered by us, and in soliciting their continuance, we pledge our best efforts to keep the highest standard of fertilizers adapted to corn and cotton.