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Mit EnlrIxoR: As you have solicited correspondente to your most invalua- I ble and worthy paper, I have there- I fore concluded to giVe 3 on dd the public a few of my views on the sub je'dt of Ediktioti and the Free School i system in Sotith Carolina, which sub- i ject 1 thing does not receive the atten- 1 tion of the press and public it should, 1 as it is one of the greatest of all sub- 1 jects, and in view gf that fatct It should 1 regelve as niuch.or more of our atten tion than any .other. Let us first no-. tice the grand and noblo, intent of the Free School system in out State, and the high alm-and philanthropic prhici ples on which it is. founded. In my judgement it Is -one of the most Judo. clous laws that was ever enacted In A merica. Its intent is to educate the risig generations and by so doing qual ify and nake, useful citizens out of them, over which depends the future destinies of this country,elher for good or evil. Now, in order that. they may advance: and build up these high and enviable institutions of ours that we have lived under and grew to be such a grand and significant satelite among the grand constelations of nations, Now by~ view of the grand responsibility that they may be preparedl to meet all the cares incident to them in assuming the high and enviable trust that will in the near future have to answer, we must educate them, it is a duty we owe them, and it is something they have a right to exact of us, both in a moral and legal poiut of view. Now if we fail to do this we will be held account able before God and generations yet unborn, anid our names will descend into future ages as being crimnals of blackest.dye. Let us take a view of the .ence colossai powers of Greece and Rome, with their profound sages, phi losophers, orators and statesmen, and their magnifientt palaces, and .the sway of whose powers entwined the worl and suibjugated. It. ,No~w was It knowledge that give those people so much sway and power o~a theresidue of the world, and that has caused their names to transcendl through many-dark and. perplexing ages .of the' world1 down to the present .time, with as much instre and glory- as they once possensed Nrow that our namema ro down to inture agesalke, we e lo a thing thAt will be more instrumen al in achieving such for us long af er our bodies have been .decompose< U their mother earth, than by educa ing the generations. Now to achlev< his grand end every one that has thi cast conception of these facts shoulh lo every thing in their power toadvnc< nd build up this dowli-trodden causi >f education, upon which depends th< >Wetpettuity of these American histitu lons of ours which has doie so niuel or the world and for religion, sobrie y and itegrity. Last, but not least, so npchk for lib1 rties and prlvilliges which has beet o instrumental in rende'iing this,. ou ,lorious country, one of the greates ountrics on the globe, and wher vith Its present glorious commoi chool system the humblest citizen caI )Cctpy the highest office inl the gift is Goverwnment; Still with all thes acts, and hundreds of others, ther re sone that seem to be opposed t Kdueation and the Free School system Vo all such persons I woild say tha he mistake is with them and not wiLl he Free School system. I will admit that the common Seh > 'pstem has rather been depended o oo much as the sole means of educa Ing the youths of our country, an hereby rendered rather pernicious t ,hat class. But I can sc daily th1 hey are beginning to see the pom hat it will riot do io depend solely o t to educate their children. It is fA .9o inadequate to accomplisk so gran i work, and they are only adopthig is a basis on which to' found our te mnonthe schools. And in my judg ment it it one of the best school bast )r educational basis In the world. J ,as been the meians of placing maniy poor and destitute boy and girl in hig ind enviable positions in btisiness anl aoeiety. Iln fact it is doing one of th randest works on earth. So let t ill do everything in our power to pre. 'his grand cause until there will nC >e oie youth in this broad land of oim .hat GodIhas blessed is so copious! with, by casting. our lots here, bi what will or can possess, if not a cla: dec education, a p~ractical one. An when this grandl object is achieved the we are llkely to have a coumty morie fre from crime, mntemperance, dissipatior poverty and rusin, for Daniel Webst( said. in one of his venerable ex pressiont 'that there was nothing that woul [end to the advancing and building ti c~f the Ameriean institutions more tha ,he educating of. the rising geniers Aons." So in the view ->f all these fact Let every lover of knowledge, and 01 ry father and mother unite In th trandl work in educating those wh ~eem tQ disregard that .that. Qoncerm ~he welfare of their dear ones, a much, up to the point of their duti( to-wardl their children And that ia luty they owe to themi as muchl so a it is to feed and clothe them. It uint il then that there will be. a genera hifrussioni of knowle'dge. It is to' b loped that the (lays of ignorance ar a umubered (in Pickens county; nud tha ;here will be a school at every eros rond ltke ydifrsaht Eksley, kind the en it PickensOC. HI. Niew Cohrmsa. t [Forthe essatger.. The CerksuAs Aain. EDITOR OF M ssM.-itat. I will give a fe* tbord points froiM the Censis return of 15800 pTlieNtu at'e 484 Townships in tho State. '' cueville is 325th in population, and 24th in corn prodriction ; lEs ley 25th ; in all grain (itcludig rice) Easley is 60th, DAusville a 61st. Only one Township in the - State grows over 100,000 bushes corn, wheat and oats, that one is - in Spartanburg county, and has a . population of 4,400. Four raises t over 100,000 bitshels rice; one of i these in Beaufort reports' 285,000 I bushels. Twenty-seven in the state report one bale of cotton or over for each in habitant; 7 of these ate in Marlboro. No Township grows D 60,000 bushels grain (out side the . rice region) with 1,700 people, ex t cept Dacusville. Though Saluada in Greenville, reportd 78,000 witl 1,939 people, and 300 bales of cot ton. One in Aiken with 1,80( " people grows 68,000' bushels o d grain and 1,900 bale* of cotton, o Pumpkintown reportsabout 33,00( t bushols grain and 88 bales cotton t( it 840 people. Old Dacusville is higi up toward the top of the list %ol productive Townships, and doe wonderfully,consideri ing one-tliir of her 'territory is uninhabitabl4 hills and hollows. Is When we can double our pro duction we may feel independen1 of the 'gaunt wolf' hunger. d We should renenber that a re e port from one crop, does i)ot al s ways give the true standing of th< is various sections of the State it ot point of productiveness, by reasox of partial drouths, freshets an( storms. The Pickens correspondent say~ d 'let cotton and corn dry up.' Yoa ni may say to him they have dried ii 0 some 384 Trownships in the State a, and are rnot -"dinmnition" wet ii 'the other hundred. s, d ... ,-SUBsCRIBER. p .N. B. I ought to ha~ve said the; n were always dry in 384 or there about, and are now dry in all. I h e doubts it, let him travel a littl ethrough the county ; or advertis o rnoney to loan, or provisions fo 8 sale on timne.' S. ~ -Every man could, .have a wit a if hie only maiden.effort.. But a las he won't. - R. D. GARRETT, Watch Maker and Jeweler e Main St.',G eetivllle, S.'C. ,t Watches, Jewelry,&e., Repaired a Reas~nable prices-Work Gusrariteed SWatledk and Chains Replated witl 6 001(d or Silver. --:. - A nice 14ue poi Chdstmas Present on hand, and at lowest rates. Dec 21-tf CLO TI INCl SHO ES; 7*j7*Ip'ON I&CO, GREENVILLE, 8. C. De 2c 21.-1y THE GUANO, CHIANGED TO .I8 offered for Sale by W. M. Hagood & Co. At $35.00 per Ton, Payable Nov. 1st., without Interest. Feb. 1-ti