Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-11-22
COLUMBIA. 8. c.. 18TH Nov, 1855.

In our market, eggs sell at forty five cents
Dozen 81. .f'. h
"Eggs is eggs" .....'-.-.....-''
Graniteville.
The Carolinian says Of this Factory:
"New and the most improved of English
machinery has been introduced, which gives
the factory about double its former capacity,
or the result of twenty four thousand (24,.
000) spindles."
Let Lowell and Lawrence look to their
laurels
New Novel. .. .....,..
Mrs. Terhups, better known in the lite.
rary world as Marion Harlaud, has just
gotten out new novel, called Sunnybank
We have not read it. Don't expect to-
Marion Harland has written seven novels
previous to this one,-Alone, Hidden Path,
Moss Side, Husbands and Homes, Meme.
sis, Miriam, and Husks She is a native
of Richmond, but married Northern man,
. preacher. ...~..a.,
spoon Butler. .....-...
| Hon. A. J. Requier, native of Charles
top, recently of Mobile, now living in N.
Y made speech two weeks ago, in Brock
ly1 to the Democrats Among the hits
the re is the following ou Butler: "Benja.
mia F. Butler [hisses] has, for instance, as
seems generally supposed, a peculiar moral
conception on the subject of the Eighth
Commandment. He thinks it ought to be
amended by striking out the word 'not'-
the words are, Thou shalt not steal Great
laughter and applause This is not alto
gether an original idea: several enterpri.
sing, but less fortunate, ipquirers at Sing
Sing had previously veulured 90 the same
progressive theory"
Will there be found nobody to defend the
conViots at Slug Sing against such injurious,
disparaging, and unjust comparisons9" e7'7'
Negro Education. ...,.. X
In Columbia we have largo establish.
ment devoted to the education of freedmen.
In this establishment are Dr. Wright, the
Superintendent, and bis corps Of nine
teachers. DR.. Wrightis an assistant super.
intendent only, being Subordinate to R.
Tomlinson of Charleston, who is State Su, .
perintendent of Education of freedmen in
South Carolina. The corps of teachers are
all nothern ladies, unmarried, and young.
They are employed by the New York Branch
of the American Freedmen's Union Com
mission; and are We presume from that
state. They teach four classes of boys ag.
gregatlng two hundred apd eight (20S) boys,
and four classes of girls aggregating two.
hundred aud sixty six (266O girls; making
in all our.hundred and seventy-four (474)
pupils. Of these 474, thirty are over si1-
teen years of age, and none under six years.
The branches taught to these pupils are
Spelling, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic
(mental and written) and Geography. The
daily session is FIVE hours-from nine until
two.
These figures are from the monthly re.
port of October Some increase in number
of pupils is expected during the present
month.
In Oraugeburg there are both Day and
Night-School. The Day School consists
Of. two teachers, and seventy. one (7I pu-
pils-thirty. four (34) boys and thirty seven
(3D girls. The Night Schools taught by
the same teachers and consists of hundred
and twenty (12O) pupils-a hundred (100)
males and twenty (2O) females, these being
older than the pupils of the Day School
These Schools are maintained by the New
England Branch of the American F. q.
| Com mission.
In Aiken there is one school taught by
a northern teacher, employed by the New
York Branch, who teaches q hundred and
FIVE (1O5) pupils, of which forty. two (42)
are boys and sixty-three (63) are girls
In Anderson there is teacher employed
by the New York Branch, who teaches
hundred and twenty-seveu (l27) pupils
fOrty-uine (49) boys and seventy-eight (7s)
girls.
In Spartauburg are two colored teachers
who give instruction to hundred and fifty
q50 pupils-seventy (7O boys and eighty
(SO) girls. ... ...0
In Kershaw District there are six schools
and six teachers of whom four are residents
of the District and two are northern. These
schools are maintained by the New England
Branch of the American F. U. Commission.
We have not been able to learn the number
of pupils 10 attendance. -
To recapitulate; within the jurisdiction
of the assistantsuperintendent established
in Columbia, We find fifteen (15) schools
eight (S) in Columbia, two (2) in Orange
burg, one in Aiken, one in Anderson, two
(2) in Spartanburg. These fifteen schools
have in them one thousand and forty seven
(1047) pupils, of which FIVE hundred and
three (5O3) are boys and fvehundred and
forty-four (544) are girls. .... ..
If We were to estimate the six schools in
Kershaw at the same rate, the twenty one
schools would present an aggregate of four
teen hundred and sixty.fve (l465) pupils,
-seven-hundred and four (7O4) boys and
seven-hundred and sixty-one (76l) girls.
The annual session of these schools con-
tiuues from the first of October this year un-
til the first of July next year.
Considerable increase of numbers is OK.