The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-03-02
The Printing Office as q School.

For Il young man who is not alto
gc.her q fool, who has had the advan-
tages of an ordinary education, the
printing office is undoubtedly capital
school for intellectual advancement.
In regard>to general knowledge, no
GLASS of men who labor for q living
can approach the printer. Tho
studious among them, if their natural
gifts be not below the level of medi-
ocrity, have equal chances with the
members of tho so called professions,
to acquire both worldly honors and
literary fame. From the days Of
Caxton to those of Franklin, and from
his day to our own, the craft has pro-
duccd eminent men in every profess
sion and in every walk of life.
A good printer is generally critic,
not only of language and punctuation,
but of the intrinsic literary merits of
whatever comes under hand. 1t is
impossible that he should be other
wise, since so grcat a part Of hio life is
made up, as it were, of facts that
enforce reflection. The labor that EN-.
ploys his hands gives his mind neither
exercise nor care. His fingers move
intuitively to the exact points re.
quiste for the proper appointment of
his work, while his mind seizes the
idea sought to be conveyed by tho
writer whose work he is engaged on,
and is only expelled therefrom after
his Judgment has passed. sentence upon
its merits, ~
Many one, without knowing it,
possibly owes some unknown compost
tor or proof reader m. oh more rep
utation as writer than he would be
willing to acknowledge. If, by
changing the reading of sentence
without effecting it's meaning, he can
give it strength of smoothness, good
printer asks no question about tho
matter but changes it at once.
There are some printers, it is true,
who can never learn the plainest rules
Of composition or punctuation. To
such one might we use the identical
words spoken by a well-known divine,
speaking to a young, but particularly
silly candidate for ministerial orders :
"Young man, you have made o
mistake you have beon called to
another-the cornfcld. " f"#
MOVEMENTS OF, THE ADMrNlsrRA-
rIoN.-Two members Of the Ways
and Means Committee had some talk
last evening with the President, and
the remarks made were to be reported
to tho full committee. He said that
last fall ho was Of opinion that we
would do better to 60 on as rapidly as
possible in buying up and cancelling
our bonds so as to reduce our debt,
and in this view had recommended
that We hold our tax and tariff rates
generally at the present figures 50 as
have large surplus for use by the
Secretary Of Treasury in cutting down
the Indebtedness. Hc had thought a
good deal about this matter, he con-
tinued, and had somewhat changed his
opinions asto the policy that should
be pursued. He was satisfied that it
would be better for the country to
have reduction of taxation, that the
people were anxious for it and that
Congress could not we'll do less than
meet this expectation. In his opinion
we might make reduction of twenty
millions in the receipts from internal
revenue, and he would very readily
sign bills looking to suoh a reduction
if passed by Congress. Something
was said about the Funding bill now
before the Senate, and he remarked
that ne himself was not so confident
dent aa come persons seems to be that
we can negotiate a par loan at four
and half or five per cent interest.
It might be we'll to pass the bill, but
he doubted if we could do much
under it this year.
The Ways and Means Committee
this morning discussed the question
Of reducing taxation, and generally
agreed to revise The Tax bill with the
view of making a deduction of thirty
millions. Wash. Cor. Baltimore I'D.
Vertiser. t"
THE FATE OF HOME ENTERpRIss
At THE HANDS OF THE PREsENI
REGImE.--According to the eduoa-
tional bill recently adopted by the
present Legislature, tho following
persons compose the Committee on
Textbooks /; Governor Scott, Messrs
X. Tomlinson, Jillson, Maxwell (col-
ored) and Smalls (colored.) We
learn that at meeting, held on
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