Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-01
EDUCATION IN GEORGIA.

Some of our exchanges in Georgia are labor
ing to arouse public sentiment in that State to
the deplorable lack of education among the
people. A writer in the Federal Union says
"A generous patriotism il startled by the
fact rs it stood in 1910. Upwards of thirty
thousand Free white, grown-up citizens in Geor-
gia, unable to read or write word of their
mother tongue! This number equals the en-
tire adult population Of this State, as it stood
seven years after the close of the Revolution
Ton years roll by, 1850 conner, and the number
in that short time has swollen to forty one
thousand! Many have looked with anxiety at
these figures, land surely not without the best
of reasons) who have not noticed the most dis
tressing feature of the case We refer to the
rapidity with which the number of entirely
uneducated frecmen in Georgia increases IL
increases more rapidly than The entire population
does By reference TO the last census, will it
be seen that between 1910 and 1850, the rate
of increase Of the white population was little
under % per cent During the same time, the
rate Of increase Of the number Of adult citizens
in the State, unable TO read and write, was over
2416 per cent"
The whole white population in Georgia in
1850, above twenty years. was two hundred
thousand, and in that year there were forty
one thousand or rather more than one-ffth,
over twenty, unable to read or write! And
yet scarcely day passes in which we do not
hear in Southern speeches or see in Southern
papers extrayagant laudations of the system
which produces such results az this.
THE GREEAvnLE Is C) Patriot dominates
Douglas for the Presidency, on the ground that
he has settled the Slavery question on the
great principles Of the American Revolution y
and il has no doubt that the American People
will elect him by reclamation. Petit should
run as Vice President on the same ticket, for
having settled the meaning Of those great prin-
ciplcs
JuDGE SMITH--Some Of the Caleb Gushing
papcrs are denouncing Judge Smith, Of Wiscon-
sin, rs an Abolitionist. The Milwaukee Dem
oerof says:
"The Abolition functionary' referred to
is an Old Line Democrat, who was Democrat
when this renegade from all parties (Cushine)
was Wing, an Abolitionist, and Tyler
man.
THE EATON (Ga.) Independent Press has a
short way Of dispcsing Of the Cuban Question
aThe American Government it says, should
90 to Spain with the sword in one hand, and
the purse in tho othorn Take this or that
IL you won't sell you shall fight. Tho same
paper, styling itself Democratic, and regarding
itself as an organ Of the great National Demo
cratic party, says Of Mr.. Toombs, he is to-day
the ablest, boldest and most fearless advocate
Of Slavery, and the social system Of tho South,
that there is in America"
AN ANrI-NEBRAsKA STATE CONVENTION in
New York, il is said, will be held in Albany,
July I3th The formal call is not yet issued.
FoREIeN ToURIsTs AND OUR PRESIDENTS
Nothing is more common than for Foreigners,
after visiting our Presidents, TO fall into rap
tures about the beautiful simplicity and free
dom with which they have been received
They, 90 to the White House, expecting to SOC
an array OF supernumerary guards, gentlemen
in black and powdered, solemnIy waiting, coro-
monials and trappings and stately introduc.
tions, after the fashions Of the mummeres Of
the Old World THOR surprise knows no bounds
when they find themselves suddenly, and with
tho slightest possible ceremony, introduced T.
the President, who shakes them by the hand
discourses gracefully Of the weather, asks them
how long since they left their own country and
perhaps BY casual remark shows that he has
read considerably abont il. Overcome by their
emotions, profoundly impressed by such sim
plicity and cisilty in the highest station, they