The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-07
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and entertain them STILL have i'll my quiet
wav endeavor.d to disseminate them, believing
that the course indicated is for tho best interests
| of our whole people. Our people tired to adjust
| these difficulties, under the Presidential plan
without iuceess. Car Governor applied to the
Supreme Court of the United States 10 stay the OK
ecution Of the unconstitutional acts OF Congress-
and was told that tho Court has 40 jurisdiction OF
| the question. The Executive and Judicial Depart
ments OF the Government having been applied 10 III
vain il would seem to be the part otwisdom to make
the best possible terms with the Legislative Depart
ment Congress represents the people of the North,
and has shown that it has both the power aud tho
will control the whole question of Reconstruction
We now unders...:il what Is required OF us as
| conditions precelslt to full restoration
70 our position in the Union and the protection OF
tbe constitutions think we should promptly ac-
cent the terms proposed, and render the Military
Bill s.inoperative in said State" All who are al
lowed vote should vote ''for convention" and
| the best men they can get as delegates to that
convention, "who will appreciate our condition
and do for us the best that circumstances sur
rounding them at the time will permit" BY pur-
suing this course, our political affairs will soon be
quiet capital and skilled labor will come into our
State and ere long Georgia will again be properly
designated as an Empire State" Our people,
thus becoming prosperous, Will have the means to
reward labor it deserves, and they will cheer
| fully do so. They establish a system which
will enable our active population to receive the
benefit of common school education. Such
would be "consummation devoutly to be wish
ed" hope the time is not far distant when every
citizen of Georgia will possess the means OF pro-
curing the rudiments OF ! good English education
Il is the duty of the whites to facilitate the educa-
ton of the colored and the duty of all IS to cu-
tiyate relations Of amity and friendship as neigh
bors having common interest and common
destiny The legislation which will benefit the
white man will benefit the colored, and uice cerSa
By acting upon the true theory that we are all one
people in interest, peace and harmony will prevail,
the laborer will be amply rewarded for his tolls,
! Ind the country will be prosperous and happy.
The San Francisco Bulletin says: Consider
able attention has been given of late to the climatic
changes consequent upon denuding forests. In
recent pioneer address, delivered in this city, the
speaker mentioned the noble rod-woods which
could be seen from this point few years ago. cov-
ering the hills in the rear OF Oakland. Not tree
is left, and the hills present an exceedingly bald
and barren aspect 1t is also certain that there is
not now sufficient moisture concentrated on these
hills to germinate a new redwood forest. The
Coast Range is being rapidly stripped of redwood
trees and nature, baffled in its work OF restora-
ton by fire and drought lets the verdure-clad hills
90 back to barrenness. 1t is rare thing to find
new redwood forest springins up anywhere. The
imp,ovident axeman slashes away right and left
the annual fires follow spreading over miles of ter
ritory and thus the young red-woods are killed Off
In so years we shall nave finished up the redwood
forests now confined to q narrow strip OF the coast
range The effect of this wholesale destruction and
waste Of forests is already beginning to be seen
in the climatic changes which follow. Less mois-
ture is concentrated on the hills which have been
stripped. Tho redwood will not grow without ex-
ira moisture, and when loft concentrates it as
necessary condition of its existence. The present
summer has been a singular:y dry one in the
coast range. Years ago it was held that annual
crops, such as wheat and barley, would mature in
those localities even if not drop of rain fell du-
ring the whole season. AMI during the dryest
ture in the spring and summer l)lowlng that ex-
cellent crops we're raised all along the toasc
range, while the same crops were complete fail
ure in the interior valleys. But this year, not
withstanding the heavy rains of the winter, the
late sown crops in the coast range were pretty
near failure. The hills were singularly dry all
the spring and early summer. Whoever has pass
ed along one Of these mountain ranges in midsum-
mer, and has watched the drippings Of the trees
in the morning, could not fail to notice the mpor-
tant Office they fulfil in saving country from
drought and consequent barrenness."
UNpAUNTED BY O hundred ia aiiures, from the |
DAYS Of PARRY and WRANaLE and SCoREsBY and |
to those of our own KANE and HAYES, |
society of fifty wel-known Frenchmen are going |
to make new effort to reach the North Pole. A |
graduate OF the Polytechnic School, young NJ. |
LAMBERT, is the enthusiastic adventurer, for
whose outfit $4,000 francs are to be raised. The
curious point is that NJ. LAMBERT is going to
essay q "route never before tried" This route
we can hardly figure to ourselves, as the common
ly received maps Of high attitudes are crossed in
every direction with the lines which represent the
kee-tracks Of exploring ships. But the spirit of |
Polar adventure is one to be encouraged, not SO
much for what may be found "on the Pole" as
for collateral scientific Iesuts. Let us hope that
the French expedition will go better equipped than
those our own country has sent. Everything, as |
experience shows, depends on previous prepara- |
ton. Two excellent iron steamers ought to ac-
company every such expedition. DIR. HAYES went |
il single wooden schooner, lacking many things;
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object. The Russian Government have, we be- |
lieve, an expedition preparing under Imperial |
auspices from which much may be hoped. Here |
is fine chance for match between France and |
Russia, with the North Pole both stakes and goal
IT Is NOT so surprising that there is such all
universal loss Of art in Paris when we road Of the
growth of schools of design in that city. In the
year 1862 the city inscribed upon it's annual budget
of subvention the sum OF 1900 francs for the dif
ferent classes of design which i'll all had but 1888
pupils. This year the sum Of $4,000 francs has
been devoted to this important branch OF oduca-
ton, and not less than 5000 scholars have been
found worthy of profting by the opportunities
afforded them. Within the past four years moro
than 800 900 francs has been expended upon this
organization. 1t has distributed 32 500 examples
Of design, which have proceeded from both the
primary schools and the classes of adults. At the
present time sixty classes of design are in opera
ton during the day in the boys primary schools,
and classes are being opened in the primary
schools for girls. Thirty-two night schools for
adults are open, seven supported for and devoted
to men, receive the pupils sent by the city author
ties twenty schools supported for and reserved
for women gives gratuitous instruction to young
girls. With such admirable means for perfection
in the art of design, is it to be wondered that
Paris nvents the fashions for all the rest Of the
world?
THE HOME JOURNAL gives its readers long
article Sexual Assimilation in which 1t says
Female physicians are multiplying civil Offices
are filed by women; occupations which have
hitherto been considered exclusively masculine |