The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-31
CURRENT TOPICS.

The New York Herald, in one Of it's editori
paragraphs, remarks: Snow that slavery is abolish
ed, and the war is over, and Congress has put th
machinery for the reconstruction of the South
motion, and GREELEY has given straw bailfor JEFF
DAVIS, will not somebody set to work and recor
struct Parson BRowNLow, OF Tennessee2 Accord
ing to all accounts his militia, under the pretenc
of preserving the peace, are keeping the Who'll
country in state of disorganization and terror
His recent brief address to the Blacks like al hi
violent harangues, was calculated to do mschie
and to incite disturbances. He needs reconstruc
tion as badly as the most uprepentant rebel of til
South"
That tho French Academy should have elected
M. JULES FAvRE, the very head and front Of tn,
Opposition, to scat its august Board, rebounds
infinitely to it's credit aud is one Of the most Sill,
gular exhibitions We have seen in long time O.
the triumphs Of merit over party and prejudice
He was elected By vote of 20 to IL, and owes
this snceess it is said, to his wonderful purity o.
language. NJ. FAvaE has not been as successful
at the Bar as NJ. BERRYER, NJ. LAcHAUD, or M.
ALLoN, because he lacks their fire and heart. His
style is cold and caustic, but elegant and finished
in the extreme. From the beginning to the end Of
hisspeech there s not fault of rhetoric, Of style
Of good taste, nor amoment'of hesitation, nor a
false word, nor On idea smothered in O bad choice
Of words. N. JULES FAyRE is man of great mo-
raj courage, and dares to say more than any other
man in the Chamber. He is aggressive in his
person. in his style, in his attitude He is less 30
OF fha Ror' of,l ha o. lo
my. He looks afty-six years Of age, and carries a
large quantity of grey, nearly white hair on his
head. He is TALL thick-set, hard-looking man,
who rarely miles, and has neither oongeniaity nor
companionship in him. He labors necessarily,
and is never tired.
CoLoRED EDUCATION is favorite topic with our
Radical exchanges. We are glad also to see these
schools, but fail to be equally surprised at their
rise and rapid growth. Northern philanthropic,
missionary and political societies send men and
money out here to gather the young negroes into
school-houses and the said freedmen consent to
be taught by the teachers sent them. What is
there 80 wonderful in all this2 There need be no
limit, for some years to come, to the number Of
colored schools and scholars; all thai is needed to
multiply them both indefinitely, is plenty Of pow
der, and you can teach the young idea how to
shoot. At the beginning Of this year the Bureau
reported $50 day schools and 247 night schools for
colored people. OF these schools SS3 were SELF
supporting, and 2so were partly supported by tie
freedmen, who owned 2S6 school-houses. OF the
teachers, 972 were white and 45S were colored.
The number Of pupils in the schools at that time
was ~ 1893, Of whom 40 were white The average
attendance was sc, 0,24. Fifteen thousand two hun
dTed and forty-eight pupils paid for their tuition.
Ten thousand two hundred and sixty-six were over
fifteen years of age Only 29O2 were free before
the war. The New York Eoening Posi- estimates
that there is one negro undel going education for
the State Of New York the attendance at school is
officially given at about one in every four Of the
whole population.
AS we have reason to believe that everything
relating to matrimony, is endowed with special
interest to q very large class OF our most highly
esteemed readers, wo have no hesitation in giving
the following scrap Of census" In the year 1866
there we're $4,000 couples married in the United
States male and female, 10000; or one marriage
to every "a inhabitants OF all ages and conditions.
The marriage statistics for the City Of Philadel-
phs during the sane year tAas gysp RX the
ges 70S7 an increase of 223 over the previous year.
or the men married. 1887 were natives Of the Uni
ed States and of these 1856 married women OF
the United States, $50 married foreign women,
and 20 married women whose nativities were un-
known. The foreign men married numbered 276O;
OF whom 696 were married to women Of the United
States, 2O55 to foreign women, and 9 to women
whose nativities were unknown. or the women
married 1874 were natives Of tho United States.
OF these 1856 married men Of the United States,
696 married foreign men, and "a married men
whose nativities were unknown. The women of
foreign blrth married numbered 2445. or these,
9S2 married men of the United States, 2055 mar
ried foreign men, and SO married men whose ma
tivities were unknown"
Monuments are tho order OF the day. Sandwich
are about to erect one in honor Of Cap
tain CooK, as slight atonement for the conduct
Of their forefathers in eating him. This is all
right enough. And We suppose it is feeling OF
somewhat similar oompunction induces the city OF
R. L. to talk Of erecting at expense
Of one thousand dollars, massive rough boulder,
as memorial Of two Of the States greatest sons,
CANoN1cus and MIANToNoHtAH. Or is Rhode Is
land 80 poor, that she must turn to her ante
historic, semi-sayage annals, for the subject of
canonical boalder2
The New York Herald, for what reason Me are at
o loss to know, continues To denounce CHASE, UN-
DERwooD, GREELEY, GEaR1TT SMITH, and all who
were pro1inately or remotely instrumental in the
release Of Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS, on what it per-
sists in terming 'sslraw bail" Nor is it satisfied
with mere abuse and vituperation, but it is doing
all it can to stir up the worst passions Of the mo-
BILE uugus, by editorial leaders, such as the one
contained in the Herald " Monday last, headed:
"No Treason-The National Debt a National
lar course Of the Herald and must confess that, &C
custoned as we are, and long have been, to the
vagaries and sudden summersaults OF that versa
tile and many.sided sheet, we cannot but be sur
ised at its present bitter ana agraIian attitude.
or course it is CALLING that Mr.. GREELEY should
have got $50. 600 worth OF advertising from Cop
perhead municipal corporation, and extremely un-
palatable to sensation writer like the Herald to
have been outdone by the tribune in the JEFF.
DAVIS bail business; but these cannot be plead MS
adequate reasons for proposing Reputation of the
national debt. We can also understand that the
Herald may have as one of tho objects in Wow
in this crusa @, to damage Chief Justice CHAsE's
chalces for the next Presidency. But this again,
it would seem to US, could be managed in some
less equivocal manner. To talk of impeaching
CHASE for net appointing Registers OF Bankruptcy,
as the Herald has been doing, and fol- not having
tried Mr.. DAVIS, is simple fatuity.
THE CROPS.
TaE CoTToN CRops.-We learn from merchant
of this city, who has just returned from visit to
several OF the Eastern counties of North Carolina
that the nlanfers Of that section have failed to get