The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-01-25
Polaski-Tts Fducational Facilities.

important railroad connections and the
fertile domain by which St is enviroued. is
struck with establishment that it has no ad-
equate facilities for the sducation Of youth
That this great want is not attributable 10
the 'illiberality Of your citizens, is album
dainty attested by the crumbling ruins Of 1
your college Buildings, which stand as
men1oFials Of the xandalisms Of those
sfApostles ofrFreedom and Intelligsnoe,s' I
whessparsd neither the works Of art. nor
the halls Of learning. and often, MOI even
the temples of God.
I was recently -informed. by an intelii-
gent gentleman .ofsyonr city, that GILES
County, by sending her sons and daugh-
ters to distant points 70 be educated, is ex-
pending. annually. net less than $4,000 !
Not only should this money be retained at
home. but the sum could be doubled aud
trebled BY making your town an education
al centre for the surrounding youths Of
4 less favored communities.
4 I venture to affirm that no other enter
prise would contribute more to the progress
and PROSPERITY Of your town, than the es-
tablisbmentof good schools. Nor would
the benefoial results be confined alone to
those who have children to educate the
effects would be felt in every branch of in
/ dustry sin the enhanced value Of property,
and in the moral and intellectual improve
meat Of your eemmunitv. See what won-
ders such enterprises are working in other
/ places. Think what a vast amount of pros
perity is br9ughtto Columbia by her zee
hundred students. Look at Lebanon, built
on 8. rock, surrounded by cedar glades
with no railroad. no navigable. streams
/ within that vortex which draws all the
trade to the Capital. Yet by means Of
her schools, she, stands conspicuous for
the prosperity and refinement of her eiti-
zens, and has won, and wears the proud
| appelation of. 'fthe Athens Of Tennessee,
I.saw, sometime since, frem your col
umns, an article noticing a meeting held
by your citizens, having for its object, the
building up Of a first class male school in
I your town. and I Twas pleased to note the
I generous proposition Of one Of your patri-
otto citizehs; The raising of the large
sum necessary to the full completion Of
sach an enterprise, I should judge to be
I somewhat difficult at this peculiar time Of
Radical misrulez-of1 short. crops and heavy
taxes. While large sum is desirable it is
not absolutely necessary for the Inaugural
ton Of such an undertaking. What the
South really needs, in respect to education,
is less Of the name and more of the sub
8tance-fewer "sheep-skins'' and more
: ''scholars ''-fewer ''one-horse" Colleges,
: and more good High Schools and Acade-
mics. 1t is in the latter that the solid
foundation must be laid for the educational
superstructure, else the subsequent ca
reer of The boyat College, though it resul;
IN the farce Of graduation, can never. be
productive Of thorough scholarship
j Schools, like all animated and vegetable
nature, cannot spring forth at once in full
perfection. like Minerva from the brain o.
. Jupiter The 5talwart giant Of the forest
q was first tender shoot, and then s slender
, sapling beforeit became great tree-the
d maturity of manhood is preceded by help
e less infancy and tender youth-even oul
s comfortable homes hate grown to thei
present proportions, by additions mad,
from time to time, as the wants and neces
n sites of The Increasing family demanded
s and as the means Of our ancestors gradu
, ally en,bled them to crafty their taste
u Justeo, institutions Of learning have the
II novioiate aud their gradations, from th
e common school to the Academy or Hig
School, the College aud the University
Al What you first need is house for tie &C
commodation Of the school population o
$ yuor immediate vicinity. A sabsta1tia
4 building 40 xsI8, with al !. Is K IS 70
3. the primary department., would cost, proba
,e bIy} some $1,000. This could be furnish
ed with good iron framed school furniture
stoves, etc., for about $500 more, thus
re baildiug, well furnished, Of Sufficient ca
Of pscity to accommodate eighty or hundFe
al students, could be had for S2O0O Such
d building might be SO located and erected
2h that it could beleasily converted into res
T. idehee fora professor. upon the subse
r queut completion of your College baild
OF ings- ta
ry These crude thoughts are hastily pen
n ned. notih.a spirit Of diatatiou. but tia
r. they may elicit something from those VII
he know. moreapd feel more. in reference I
lis this imqoTisat enterprise, thaa yOuroorre'
20 pondent,e rse WILSON
= Hos. EDaUED CooPER.-congress has
!. ing changed The time for the meeting {
= Che 40th Congress it is probable that Co
= Browulow will order 40 election Tor men
= beFs thereto. sometime in February. Th
= term for which Mr. Cooper was eleote
viii expire on the 4th of March next, an