Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-08-20
The Normal School.

come teachers, aud embraces the whole cur
riculum of Il liberal education. The zeal
Gus and patriotic Commissioners of Free
Schools in Charleston have not been mere.
ly satisfied i'll extending to upwards of two
thousand children all the advantages of
the most excellent andthorpugl tuition, but
pursuing their laborof loyeaud usefulness,
they now aim to ocducatc teachers, who shall
still further dcvclopc the system, of which
the schools in st. Philip street and Friend
street arc models
The advantages of this school arc not
intended to be confined to Charleston
by an act of the Legislature, passed in
1897, tho State appropriated $4,000 to-
wards the erection and furnishing of the
building, nnda agreed to appropriate the sum
of $4,000 annually for five years for its sup
port, provided the citizens OF Charleston
contributed an equal amount to both these
purposes. The contribution has been made
so as to secure the appropriation by the
State and the school is now in successful
operation. Ia consideration of this. it is
made the duty of the Commissioners to re-
ccivc into the school, free of any charge of
tuition, female pupils from every part of
the State, not exceeding fifteen to each
Congressional District, for the purpose of
being trained as teachers. am very sure.
tfpt as it is the duty, so it would be Il great
qualification to the Commissioners, to re-
ceirc pupils from the State at large.
know that they arc desirous that all parts
of the State should reap portion Of the
harvest Which nowchccrS the heart of every
patriot and philanthropist who visits the
schools, now i'll operation, under Tic new
and improved system of education which
has been introduced, and ] am anxious
that our own District should avail itself o.
the libcrolity of the State and the labors of
the friends of education in Charleston.
1t would be out of place, in this commu-
nlcaton, to dwell upon the advantages and
necessity of female education. They arc
apparent to and acknowledged by all. In
the noble and eloquent address, recently dc
livcrcd by Dir. Ilanckcl in Charlcston,-
the peculiar excellence Of which makes it
an epoch in the history of the Fourth of
July cclebrations,- an elaborate and
philosophical discussion Of the subject, he
finds the stability aud rcrmancncc of GOV
ernmemt to rest mainly upon the influence
and power of individual mon and he is
doubtless right. But where, ! ask, are
such men to be found? How is this inftu-
cncc to be acquired, and this power to be
attained? Not from mere physical cudow-
mcuts-not from mere genius. But it is
mainly through that cultivation of the in
tclIcct and heart which only mothers love
can dcvclopc. And how shall she discharge
this fond duty, without thorough cduca-
ton and discipline of her ownmcntal pow
crs! ! believe there is great force in the
theory, that the elements Of true moral and
intellectual greatness are inherited from the
mother; andif this bctrue, with what car
nestness should every community strive for
the education of it's females!
FEARFuI. TRAGEDY-A WOMAN KILLs
Her Only SOMA tragedy of the most
fearful nature occurred in the town of Ham
den (Fullcr's Hollow n. Y, on Tuesday
night, III the killing of her only son. vii
liam, by Mrs. Margaret Cow. The dcccas
cd and his mother, who is widow, kept
house together He WIS about - years
of age, and is said TO have been ii stout,
athletic young man. Mrs. Cow has given
frequent and unmistakable evidences of in
sanity for Il long time; and so determined
have been her threats that she would kll
her children, thata daughter had been com.
pellcd from fear to leave her mothers roof,
and was living at the time of the homicide
at Mr. Robert Middlcnasts in Franklin.
The son had also been in the habit of we'll
securing his bedroom door on retiring for
the night, fearing that his mother would
enter stealthily aud cndcavor to carry out
her threats, in which, indeed she had been
detected, as we learn, by a young man who
had sometimes slept with the dcccascd.-
On the fatal night it is supposed that he
forgot to fasten it.
From some suspicious appearance at the
house the ncighbors entered it on Wctlncs-
day morning, when the terrible spectacle of
the murdered man presented itself The
body was lying in bed the head terribly
inanglcd by severe blows from slung-sliot
made by tying n heavy stone in the foot of
a.stOcking, which WAS found lying on the
floor of the Yoon. After committing the
fa6I deed, the mother had carefully laid
out the dead body, by washing the blood
from it and placinga olcan napkin under
the load, upon the pillow, anda clean coy,
crlid upon the bed, This actaccomplishcd
and having evidently tried to wash the blood
from the floor, doors, &c, the unfortunate
woman at oneo left nc terrible scene bent
on carrying out her tragic designs to the
fullest cxtbnt. She at once repaired to the
locality where her daughter, lived, (Mr.
Middlcmast's) and then in the woods look.
ing towards the house; watched for ap OPP
to slaY her daugl,t ter, having first