Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-04-10
South oarolina collaga.


upwards of one hundred students We
were under theimpression that there was
sentiment prevailing among the students
that made the preservation of the interest
of the College of highest concern. That
the reputation of the institution has suffered
very much of late, is fact painfully appa-
rent to the friends of the College. But
with the present able Faculty, one of the
ablest IN the United States, it was generally
thought that the students themselves, they
upon whom the institution was shedding
its inapprcciablc blessing, to whom the
welfare of the college should be dearest
would wisely and patriotcal y do everything
in their power to sustain an Alma Mater,
upon whom their State had muni6cently
expended SO much of its treasure. Can It
be possible, that in this, public sentiment
was in error? We fear so, when the trivial
school boy craving for one day of holiday
leads them to set at defiance the authority
OF the Faculty. Itshould be struggle on
the part of the students to exact every day
from the Faculty. They are at an age
when the importance of education should
be appreciated A school boy who |. ,st not
yet had his eyes opened to the immense
difference between ignorance and intelli-
gcncc, who would reject pearl as readily
as nc would a stone, might be expected to
regard teachers and professors as cxacting
task-masters, against whose authority it
would be spirited to rebel. But, is it not
sufficient to humiliate Carolinians, to sec
the young men of the State dealing such
stunning blows at the institution it should
be their duty to defend? Arc the young
men, into whose hands the State must soon
pass, not yet animated with the aspirations
of men, that instead of exacting service
from professors, they should be qucrulous
about days rest, and gravely proceeding
to insubordination, because they cannot OBJ
tain it? The boys at YorSville in their re-
bellion may be termed fast, but when yonng
Carolina in College and in the Citadel re-
bels-it is evidence of tardy development
i he appears not yet to have reached the
point of capacity to appreciate education,
and, instead of being .tast, is alarmingly
SiO1o.
But if the young men of the College
have to be treated like boys, and it becomes
necessary to punish them, however deeply
the necessity may be lamonted, the nerve
that administers the punishment must com
mand the admiration of all. We are pleased
to learn from the Carolinan that the Fac
ulty acted with perfect unanimity. They
have taken one step. The next step, which
will be a contamination of the punishment
and do more towards discipline than even
the suspension itself, will be the examina-
tion when they rcturn for re-admission.-
That examination should be most rigid
and searching one, and if any be unprc-
pared TO reassume their position, they should
be promptly rejected. Suspension without
such am examination would just be giving
them--that for which they rebellcd-
day. 1t should be made matter of diff
Guilty to rc-entcr College after suspension.
So far as we can learn, the action of the
Faculty meets with general and hearty
APPROVAL W'insJoro Rcgister.
HoRRIBLE.--The Barnwcll Sentinel
gives the following letter from a correspon-
dent:
WILLIsroN, March %, 1858.-Dear
Bronson: l have never before witnessed
such melancholy occurrence as transpired
yesterday morning, at the house of Jacob
q. Kitchen, some six miles above this place
The circumstances Of the case are as fol-
lows: 1t seems that Jacob Kitchen and
one 1ierriR had an alteration about some
matter, when Whitfield Kitchen, the son
OF Jacob Kitchen, came out Of room near
by, and made an attempt to stab his father.
The stcp-mother met him, and prevailed on
him to shut up his knife, and told his faith
or to go off, which he did, to the kitchen.
The son, however, and Herrin, pursued
him, and stabbing fight ensued between
the father and son, and Herrin gathered
up cudgel and struck the father as his son
left him, son the iuficting desperate stab
and Herrin q blow with the club, of which
he died ina few minutes The son also
received wound in the chest from his
fathers knife. He is yet alive, but there
is no hope Of his recovery HerriG ran af
ter physioiae, but on his return found
Kitchen dead. lie Immediately fed. The
above occurrences was the result of liquor.
How much longer are unlicensed grog-shops
to be tolerated in the district?
HoRRIBIE MASSACRE horrible mas
sacre was committed about the 7th ult, by
some Mexicans at Dona Ana, New Mexico.
Eleven Indians, four men, five women and
two children were literally cut to pieces,
and that without the least provocation. -
They were carrying wood into the settle
ments as we understand, and trading it for
corn and such other produce as would keep
them from starving, endeayoring, in an
honest way, to got something to eat, when
they were attacked by these cut-throats and
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