Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-03


Successful in life, full of honors, and pros
trate Only under the weight of years, he ha
been laid in the grave by grateful! country
men and weeping friends, with all the so
lemnities and respectful observances due t.
such an occasion. He was the last of tn
distinguished trio, who by their ability, in
tegrty, and courage rendered the South Car
olna Delegation in Congress, during the wa
of 1912, so distinguished and influential
Together they labored nobly and eficienti.
in those days of fearful excitement and tryln:
difficulty, for the welfare and honor OF thel
country. The Navy, which it was MIR
Cheves' peculiar care to develope and cher
ish-the Navy, bearing its flag and leaving
its name triumphant upon every sea, taugh
the proud foe lesson of justice, to recog
nize America as an equal among the nations
of the earth. The war honorably closec
and peace establishment settled, he retired
from the Speakers chair to serve his State
in the Judiciary Department, until called or
by President Monroe to administer the Bank
of the United States Absent ten years, he
returned in 1929 to the quiet of his native
hills, proclaiming to the South the danger
which he had perceived afar off, simultane
ously with his distinguished compeer in the
tendency of Federal Legislation. Beyonc
occasional counsel, he declined all participa
ton in public life, until the year 1867
Then, at the age of seventy-four, he appear
ed at Nashville as a member of the South
ern Convention, intent to perform to the last
his part, by warning his countrymen against
the policy of majority in Congress, which,
substituting expediency for principle, was
gradually sappingthe Constitution and threat
eniug ultimately the rights Of the States.-
His last public act was signing the Ordinance
of 1S52-passed by the State Convention,
of which he was member. Past the age oi
four-score years, having long survived his
great co.laborers and worthy colleagues,
Lowndes and Calhoun, he, too, is gone. Like
them, he has left US, in his upright example
in all public stations, in the loftiness, the
purity, the simplicity of his character, in
the truth, and power, and grandeur of his
eloquence, legacy of priceless wealth.
TIE South CAROLINA CoLLEGE.-This
Institution, so deservedly cherished by the
people Of the State for its usefulness, as we'll
as its reuown, has undergone, since your ad,
iournment, severe trial, owing to the indis-
cretion of youth and some mistaken notions
of honor, which have obtained among the
students, together with the want of aptitude
and power to administer the laws of the Col
lcgc, which unhapply characterized the Pre-
sident, man distinguished for science, and
otherwise of practical usefulness, who, as
Professor of Mathematics, was emiuently
competent, able and valuable. Called to-
gether at an extraordinary meeting in the
month of June, the Board of Trustees deem,
ed it essential to the due performance Of
their trust to re-organize the Government Of
the College. Accordingly, the members OF
the Faculty were invited to resign. Presl
dent McCay had previously rendered his
resignation, and the exercises of the College
were suspended till the lst of October, thus
making the annual vacation eighteen days
longer than usual, and dispensing, necessa
rily, with the June examination. Assem-
bling again in the month of September, al
no little personal inconvenience, the Boarc
of Trustees have deemed it wise to restore
the greater number of the Professors to the
duties of the Faculty, assigning to each in
dividual the charge of the various branches
, of learning in such order, as, it is supposed
will ensure, hereafter, their greater useful
ness and efficiency. BY a temporary ar
rangemcnt, which was ordered by the Boarc
of Trustees, the duties of the Mathematical
Department have been assigned to the Pro
fessors of Natural Science, and of Chemistry
1t is to be hoped that this important chail
will be definitely filed before the close o.
the year However universally it be admit
ted, that the Classics should constitute the
leading feature in the leading Literary In
stitution Of the State, yet in community o
planters and farmers, where agriculture pre-
walls, even in connection with the Learned
professions, the importance of Geometry
Trigorometry, Surveying, Mensuration anc
! Mechanics, cannot be overlooked in compile
ting the education of youth, nor should We
fail Of inviting the students to due under
standing of Astronomy, Natural and Expert
mental Philosophy, Natural History anc
! General Science. Again, Chemistry, Geol
ogy, Mineralogy and Mcteorology, with lee
lures and experiments on the application o
Chemistry, Geology and Electricity to agrl
culture, constitute an essential branch to
which Professor is provided. Until june
the President of the College was, also, Pro
fessor of Mathematics. Since September
the Professors Lcconte have attended to tht
duties of this chair in conjunction with thci
own.
As regards discipline, it would be deroga
tory to the Just influence Of parents, suppo
sing them to have done their duty to thell
children at home, and humiiating TO oul
common nature, to maintain that intelligent
and nearly grown young gentleman, neee
strict surveillance at College; to be kept il
order by the force of authority, whilst they
are profting by the ample means to pursue
the higher mathematics, and to accomplish
themselves in classical literature, which the
State has so wisely and literally furnished