Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-01-24
COLUMBIA, SOUTH oARoL1HA 9lsT JANUARY 1857
The Rural Southerner.

The University.
The number Of students increases few every
week; and at present rate of increase will reach a
hundred in month or two.
Caution.
Beast Butler has indicted Brick Pomeroy for IL
bel. Brick ought to have remembered the old
ldage: Play with mud and you are sure to get dir
led or words to that effect.
Folks ought to be cautious
Cold.
The coldest day Of the season was Saturday the
9th. The Thermometer is said to have stood at
l4' Fahrenheit, early in the morning. in this city.
We see by the telegraph that, at Fortress Mon
roe, the day was pronounced the coolest known in
Ten years, navigation being at q stand-stil.
Tiltersens.
We told the Man about Town what we told our
readers that the classical name for the every
hoop-skirt now so much worn, was.
Ne plus ultra, with the emphasis on the ne-and
be straightway informed us that the popular name
for them was 7Iztaeens, with the emphasis on the
last syllable
We wonder?
State Money.
Ten days ago the discount on State money in
Charleston was ten per cent Now it is five
There ought to be none. There is more reasonfor
a discount in large city than anywhere else, but
in this case there is none anywhere
For legislators and their bone-and-sinew constit-
uents who have taxes to pay, to shirk and dodge
the very money they themselves have created looks
good deal like triing with grave responsibilities,
with honor, and jeopardizing State cred
it and character.
We wonder if it is honest
In Columbia, the number of those who take itat
par, we believe, is on the increase
The maxim of many of our citizens is, when
merchant will not take State money at par let him
keep his goods
That is our hand; but it don't spite anybody
much
The Eight Way.
A Mr.. Clark, merchant of Hartford, Connecti-
cut, pays the expenses Of one of the Freedman
Schools in Columbia, as private enterprise. That
is he pays the salary-$l2OO we believe it s-of
the teacher of the School, furnishes textbooks, and
meets all incidental expenses pertaining to the es-
tabfishment.
This is going to work in the right way. 1t is
genuine philanthropy and is worth forty times as
much as the elective franchise that the maniacs in
Congress are trying to cram down the poor negro's
throat.
WeSfeel free to make this statement and these
comments, though the subject of them lives in the
heart of New England Yankeedom; and we con-
slider him entitled to honorable mention the more,
because he halls from such locality Were the
same spirit manifested by the Radicals in general,
it would be appreciated in the South, and quickly
and the result would in few months
be that the famous Constitutional Amendment
would be speedily recognized as the harmless joke
of pitiable lunatic fend. Reconstruction would
be tangible idea.
Negro Schools.
There are three buildings in Columbia appropri-
ated to the use of teaching the juvenile freedmen.
In these are taught eleven Schools and in these
eleven schools are taught about eight hundred
(SOO) pupils.
There are in the State, (outsde of Charleston,
that is, thirty-one teachers and about two thous.
and $4,000 pupils There are, in Columbia, as
above stated, eleven teachers and eight hundred
pupils in Greenvile three teachers and about
hundred and fifty (l5O) pupils; in Anderson, one
teacher and about hundred pupils; in Lexington,
one teacher and ninety-seven pupils; at Bolton,
one teacher and thirty-6ve pupils in Orangeburg
two teachers and about two hundred (2OO) pupils;
at Aiken, one teacher and hundred and five (lO5)
pupils; in SUMTER Kershaw, and that part of the
State in general, eleven teachers and about five
hundred (5OO) pupils.
In these schools there are taught Spelling, Read
ing, Writing, Arithmetic and Geography.
The schools here in Columbia are at all times
open to visitors We have not availed ourself of
that privilege yet; but when we do, we will con-
our impressions.
The Bureau is about to build large house for
the purpose Of teaching the freedmen The con-
tract is to be let out on the first of May and the
work to be pushed on Immediately thereafter. 1t
is to be located upon the square north of and ad-
joining that of the Odd Fellows Schoolhouse,
near Sidney Park, on the western or river side of
the city, The building will contain four large rooms
and we presume will be amply large for all the uses
of the Bureau at this locality
DR.. Wright is Deputy Superintendent of Edu-
cation here.
The visit of Generals Howard, Scott, and Sew
ell, mentioned few weeks ago, revived the flag
ging enthusiasm of these academical darkies WON
derfuny. The new year starts off with much rea-
sonable encouragement
We cordially wish these institutions all success.
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