Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-12-08

engmfted on the University of South Carroll.
ma, and save tho State all cxpcnsc for lands
aud buildings required to be furnished by it.
The buildings Of the University are co,nmodi-
Gus enough to accommodate all students that
may teSire to matriculatc, and tho lands ada.
cent t" aud owned by tho College will furnish
sufficient land for an experimental farm. 1t
is very important it the donation be accepted,
that such legislation shall bc adopted at tho
present session, as will make it available. in.
depcnacntly of, or iii conjunction with the
University
TUE SOUTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
| Was organized early in January last, aud
has now about sixty-livc students, but its nun.
Der Of mmtriculatcs has not been equal to the
expectation o}Aits friends. The Act of last
December, establishing al University, rcquir-
cs further amendment, by providing for Med.
ical and Law Schools as part of the general
system of University education. Many of the
! young men who 20 to the University Of other
Stltcs, to prosecute their studies in these pro
! The orl ortunity, if offered, of pursuing them
here. With one Professor Of law, ami two
| Professors in the Medical Schuo,i in conjunc.
i tioa with the Professor OF Chemistry already
there. these schools could be put into complete
and successful operation, and the hope might
then be reasonably entertained that the n,m-
! her OF students would be largely incrcasrd---
| The Board of Trustees, for reasons which
were doubtless, satisfactory to them. declined,
/ in May last. to I'LL the chair of Nlulcrn Ian
! guagcs. This important branch Of modern
education should not longer go mnprovidrd
| for, aud the Trustees will, doubtless, fill the
vacant chair at their annual meeting in De-
ccmbcr. The Institution, as organized du-
ring the present year, though by law au Uni.
vcrsity," has been practically nothing more
than the College revived No new branches
have been taught, aud so long us provision is
not made Tor teaching the moorn languages,
and for organizing Medical and Law Schools
| SO long vii! tho youth of the State seek other
institutions, where these 'tutics may be pros
ccutcd. Uutil the University can be made
to merit the patronage OF the State, hy en-
ars"d facilities for acquiring knowledge in
| science, languages, aud the learned profcs.
sions, ITS friends cannot expect to command u
general public patronage to sustain it,
| The Board Of Trustees now numbers near
y forty members This makes it II very m.
| wic!dy body. Its numbers destroy all sense
Of individual responsibility in the manage.
mcnt OF the affairs of the University Near.
! ly one. halt OF the Board are Trustees &c of
.dcio, and, with rare exceptions, these er nDicio
rncubers constitute, by reason Of official en-
gagcments which call them to Columbia in
May and December, the mnjprity who attend
its session. 1t WAS found nearly impossible
to secure the attendance Of a quorum Conc
half OF the Board and you provided by law,
! ut the last session, that nine should constitute
u quorum in Board of thrtyninc members
\ smaller body would realize more fully their
responsibility to the State for the proper man
agemcnt Of its principal educational ins,itu-
ton. therefore recommend that the Board
! be reduced to seven members. and appointed
IN such manner as the General Assembly, in
its wisdom, may direct
PURCHASE OF CORN.
| Pursuant to the resolution OF DIST Scptc.n.
Der last, passed by the General Assembly
appointed Col d. Wyatt Aiken, Agent OF The
State, to make purchases Of corn. Having
satisfied himself fully that the double rcstric-
ton Imposed in the resolution rendered it i'm
! possible to effect purchases, he declined thr
appointment. concurrcd fully in his conciu-
sion. that the double restriction rendered the
whole scheme nugatory and have not, there.
fore, appointed another Agent. The rcsolu-
ton rrquirnh that three hundred thousand
dollars of bonds should purchase and deliver
in the State three hundred thousand bushels
OF Corn 1t is reasonably certain that the
! bonds could not have been sold for more than
seventy cents to the dollar, and corn could not
bo purchased, in any market, and delivered
at one dollar per bushcl. The correspondence
between Col. Aiken and myself is herewith
communicated.
! The grain crop Of the State has been gath
cred and you are better prepared now, than
at the extr, session, to determine the dcGccn-
cy, and what will be needed to supply the alb.
sontc wants of the poor. When you have
fixed the amonnt, the grave question arises,
how are you to supply the fluids to purchase
it. The fnvsrsh and unsettled condition Of
public affairs has not tended to appreciate the
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