Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-12-05

ing of twenty, turns out to society in its va
rlous calIings, young men who, as hereto
fore, by their capability and willingness to
be useful, will do credit to their training,
and to the State whose patronage they have
shared.
FREE SCHOOLS.
The FREQ Schools are doing more good
than they have been allowed credit for
Wherever educated gentlemen of the coun-
try have generously interested themselves
in the subject, and with commcndablc zeal
and public spirit have devoted portion of
their energies to the success of the schools,
the law has operated well. AS basis for
4 practical SYSTEM regarding the character
of our population and the geographical pc
cuilarlteS of the State, have not been able
to arrange one more satisfactory. Let its
provisions, with some amendment be faith
fully and judiciously executed with CON
sldcration for those chiefly Interested and
1t will discover itself to our community a
system at once available, useful and credit
able, inviting and rewarding the services of
| qualified teachers, supply of whom, cannot
be too early provided for. The excellent
public school which has been established in
Charleston by the Commissioners of St.
Phillips and st. Nlchacl's, will very soon
furnish a number of young persons who, it
may be hoped, will do something towards
introducing into ether portions of the Stale.
the benefits of the improved system under
which they have been trained ! recon-
mend that provision be made for the cstab-
islment, without delay, of one or morc
Normal Schools, at Which the promising
pupils from the schools below, may be fur
ther educated for the purpose, and to the
| art OF teaching. These are admirable insti-
tutions, and, if well managed, cannot fail to
send forth the young people of the State,
into the busine, OF life, as witnesses of
their usefulacss. They are enincntly enti-
tied to the notice of benevolent and public
spirited citizens of wealth, who may desire
to render useful to their kind, portion OF
the surplus means with which they have
been blessed The first Normal School in
America was founded on an offering of S10,-
600, for the purpose, by DIR. Dwight, a
wealthy citizen of Massachusetts, to which
the State added $40 600, and the thing was
soon accomplished. | have seen that School
i'll successful operation, and freely give YOU
my belief, that State which prctends 10
sustain general system of public educa-
ton, should not remain year without a
school of the kind, for the regular supply
OF competent and accustomed teachers In
order to add effect to the system, by fur
nishing the means for sclf-rcgulation, and
by which may be impaired to it equal use
tulncss in every portion of the State, | re-
commend that the several Boards of Com
mssioncrs of Free Schools be authorized by
law to raise, by assessment on the amount
of general taxes in their respective Election
Districts, sum of money equal to that ap
propriated by the State out of the public
Treasury, to be expended and accounted
for in like manner Whenever the funds
can be raised for the purpose, think it
would contribute to tho welfare of the State
to establish also Marine School, at the
port of Charleston.
ASYLUM FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB AND
TIE BLIND.
transmit the Report of the Principal
of the Asylum for Deaf Mutes and the
Blind. The public works there are in
progress, and | am happy to have it in my
power, by aiding in the expenditure of the
public money, to contribute somewhat to
tho liberal establishment of this high chari-
ty Among the blind, as well as the deaf
and dumb, trades are beginning to occupy
the minds and hands of the pupils, thus as
suring them of their ability to be helpful,
and cultivating wholesome sclfrespect
and cheerful industry. Soon will grow up
a colony of pupils on the lands of the State,
and Society which will be independent
and thriving, by their various trades and
occupations The Commissioners will see
to its regulation in due time. These good
citizens have performed SO well the service
of the State in this regard 80 consistent
and disinterested have been their labors-
SO iudicious their arrangements for the ben
eft of their charge, that have great satis
faction in cooperating with them er-o6icto.
recommend chat they beinvitcd to en-
brace within the sphere of their supervision
the public education, under the Free School
DAVIS; that they be authorized to. organize
and establish one or more Normal Schools
in each Division of ti,e State for the prepa-
aration of teachers, and to introduce and
explain improvements in the methods of in
struction. They should be allowed, while
on duty, during the recess of the Legisla-
ture, the pay and mileage of members
Hitherto, they have received DO compensa-
tion beyond thatwhich arises from the con
sciousness of rendering good service to the
State, and kind Offices to the interesting
objects of their care
DE LA HOWE SCHOOL Az TLGHE.
During the last summer, in making a
military tour through the State, a Ciav wis