The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-04-28

report OF the Industrial Home School was read
at the meeting OF the society held on Saturday
last:
First quarterly report OF the Georgetown
Auxiliary Industrial Home School. This
branch OF Home School was first inaugurated
the 20 h OF November last by a thanksgiv wing
dinner, given to the poor children Of the city,
as has been previously stated In other reports,
but little reeapitulation may not here be
amiss.
The object Of the dinner was very generally
published, and ELECTED an attendance OF over
hundred children. The histories of eighty
seven were obtained, and many OF them sub.
December 2, 1867, at Market street chapel
q place quite unsuitable, but the best we could
do In the case, as many regarded the enterprise
as hopeless experiment.
We employed a teacher at a salary of as.
The school was open FIVE days In week from
ten until two O'Clock, when q dinner was regu-
larry served to the children. The average daily
dition to the dinner and Instruction, most OF
them received clothing. Our fuel, and most OF
the food, was given; also money from others.
and few were obliged to work very hard to
obtain the means TO carry on the enterprise.
At the end of December we were able to pay
commence The new year. The facts prove the
experiment success, and we decided to go
forward.
The matron and teacher was re-engageN at
m advance of Is n month. The girls were
taught sewing, cleaning, &C.; and the boys
also learned TO mend their clothes, to knit,
and to pay some attention to their personal
appearance. The daily contact Of people far
above them In the social scale seemed to in
spire In them feelings of emulation, and the
manifest Improvement In every way was, In
itself, reward for us.
The receipts for January, including balance,
About this time the smofe, cold and
distance of the school from the homes of
all became intolerable to the children,
teachers and managers, and It was decided to
move, which was accomplished February 10,
street. Il is a large oid.fsshioned residence sd
The hrst floor consists OF n wide hall and
two rooms; these we occupy for shop and
kitchen purposes, and the floor above Is used
kitchen that will be used this summer Il we
remain at the same place; and quite n large
| yard. Here fortune has attended US, Our
| fuel was replenished by benevolencc, and
many housckeepers' goods were given us. The
interest OF influential gentlemen was secured,
and the corporation gave us 800, making the
receipts for February, tl|s,Glj expenses, tsl.2
About the first OF March the shop which had
been contemplated from the first was opened.
and superintendent employed at IL a day, to
serve in Georgetown half the time. The re.
ceipts for March we're slGo IS; expenses, sll2.7s;
balance, SILL. Fifty dollars Of this sum was
appropriated BY the original society. The In.
| creased outlay, 1t Is proper to state, was owing
| to the purchase OF school and other furniture
and stoves for the Home, and for tools and
stock for the shop. For the last two months
the cooking has been done at the school, by
the children, under the supervision OF the ma
| tron.
! (ApriD ~ %; leaving balance of san Sew
eral bills are to be paid, and our matrOn's
salary $500 and our rent (Sl0,l and VIC ask for
| further relief this month OF go.
We have monthly subscriptions to the
amount of eli that we can depend on, AS well
as very generous donations. The shops are
not yet self supporting, though their earnings
cant, and 1t Is reasonable to suppose that they
". W. BLkcKFonp, Scc'y.
The RIVER FRoNT-RiLEy's wHARF.-Ar.
| rived-SteamerC Columbia, Harper, from Balti.
more, with passengers and merchandise to
! district merchants. Schrs. Mansion, White,
from Philadelphia, with 1875 tons of coal for
Creek, Va, with oysters and produce con.
signed to order; sloop star, Landon, from
Annamessex, with oysters for market.
folk, Va; Pervade, Phillips; and Jane, Ri
| ley, Meredith, down light
Johnson's Whdrf.-Arrived-Quit number
of small vessels arrived, bringing about 5000
tlo8kl3 per hundred, and the latter for tTD
1850 per thousand.
roH'e ,,, WhaIt:mArriycd-Steamer Guiding
wood for market. Schrs Ben. Stokley, Hell.
man, from Salisbury, with lumber for VIM.
McLain; Chas. A. Jones, Griffin, from Boston,
| with ice for the Washington and Georgetown
Ice Company Founder, Skinner, Machodoct
with wood Tor the same company. Sailed
Schr. Marion +; Rockhall, Capt. Rockhall, to
Berry's Whdrf.-Arrlvcd-Sc Oceanus,
Satterly, from Maiden, N. Y. with curb-stones
for Mr.. Nicholas Acker; Lnlarookh, Freeman,
| Peter Berry; Moses Vannamc, Nanname, from
| N. Y, with 400 bales Of hay for the Washing.
ton Georgetown Railroad Company. CLEARED
The Schr. Moses Nanname, was tOwcd to
| Georgetown, by the steam-tug Ariel Capt. II,
NJ. Green, where she will take In q cargo OF
coal for n. Y, This is the first trip for this
| fine tug In its new business.
Sunday afternoon, on the four O'Clock trip OF
the steamer Thomas Collycr to Alexandria,
she met with an accident which did her consid-
cradle damage. Upon entering the dock at
| In violent contact with the wharf posts, and
were ripped of twelve or hiteen feet, thereby
loo SEEMING q large portion OF the deck, and
proportion. large number OF passengers
were on board, and for the time being some
alarm was experienced as to the extent Of the
accident. She had to lay OFT yesterday, for re-
pairs, but will endeayor to make her regular
| trips to-day,
MEETING At UNION LEAGUE HALL-AD
DRESS or I. j. MAcKAr, Esq, ON THE POLiTi
| CAL SITUATION IN SoUTH CARoLISA.-Union
League Hall was densely packed last evening
| to listen to the delivery OF an address by Mr.
Mackay, a native Of South Carolina, on the
| political situation in that State.
| The speaker was introduced to the audience
by Major ". o. Morse.
| Mr.. Mackay said that South Carolina had
long been in the hands OF the few. but new
| era had dawned, and now the destinies of the
State were In the hands Of the people. lie
traced the political history of the State from
| Its formation to the present time. BY the
| constitution OF 1910 no white man could cast
ballot unless he owned property to the
amount ufseveral thousand dollars, The states
In discussing the rights Of the state that they
| forgot the rights Of the People, The people Of
| South Carolina bad never even voted for u
President OF the United States.
The State had furnished few or no facilities
| for education. The small school fund had
been almost exclusively distributed among the
wealthy. Free schools among the masses
| might have proved dangerous to the rule oil
| the Few. In making n slave OF the black man
1t was necessary to make setf OF the poor
white He did not enter upon this subject to
| disparage South Carolina. He had been born
on her soil, and condemned only the system
which had degraded her citizens. But all fell
with the battlements Of Sumter.
He then spoke OF the reconstruction convcn.
| ton. The convention consisted of 100 mem.
beers, O2 of whom were colored. Their deiber-
ations were marked with great ability and
| courtesy. This was the first convention ever
assembled In the State which had submitted
It's action to the people. He read several sec
| lions OF the constitution to demonstrate Its
| liberal character.
| The opposition had made great efforts to de.
feat the constitution. They had nominated
| their best men, and expended great deal OF
money, The Republicans were poor, without
daily newspaper In the State.
He spoke OF the class Of persons known as
"sandhillers,N who had been mentally and
morally degraded through the Influence OF