The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-03
the country, The receipt from postal
SOURCES, and the distribution of patents

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persons engaged in the learned profes.
sions, and the issue and circulatiohsof
newspapers and periodicals, and finally
comparing the number Of voters unable
to read and write. with the political ma.
jorities which determined the elections
in oil the States and in sections in 1860
and 1858. These tables are necessarily
based upon the census Of 1860, and they
show conclusively, that, as Secretary
Boutwell, said many years ago in Massa-
chusetts-the condition of the schools
indicate the condition of the country
The State which gives tho least revenue,
per capita, .(either of internal revenue or
postal receipts,) have the greatest per
centage of illiteraoy. Thirty-nine out
of every 100 grown persons in Tennes-
see, are illiterate. In Ohio, only six out
of every 100. Tho former contributed
in 1860, only IA cents. per capita, to sup.
port the mail service, the latter % cents.
The former, in 1869, paid 81. IL per head
to the Internal Revenue Department,
the latter. Sc. 6.S7, or Ohio pays more than
six times as much as Tennessee, toward
supporting the Government and paying
the national debt. Yet Tennessee has
the largest area, the best soil, climate
and IMMORAL resources, and was admitted
first into the Union. The contrasts are
still greater between other States, where
ignorance of citizens prevails to a greater
extent on the one side and intelligence G
on the other. The political table shows
that in seventeen States in 1860, tho
pluralities or majorities were less than
the number of illitelate votes. The re-
ceipt of the number Of iliterate votes
to-day over the popular vote (491, 275)
which elected Mr.. Lincoln, are 1,043,-
$50, not counting the increase for the
last ten years. President Grants majo-
rity was 800, ,722 less by 1926, 142 than
the number of adult men who were in
1860 unable to read and write. Another
feature of the tables shows that the per.
sons who are able to read and write in
the South, read much less of the current
literature of the day than those in the
North. In several of the States South,
the number OF voters who cannot read
their ballots are greater than those who
can. These tables will soon be published
in some form for general information,
but it is not yet decided how.
The General Land Office has Just re-
ceived returns of the survey of six town
ships in Nebraska, and is informed that
these lands, for the most part, arc first
rate soil, with gently rolling surface,
well watered by small streams. AS these
lands are near the line of the Pacific
sailroad, large influx of settlers may
he relied upon at an early day. Portions
of Nebraska offer splendid Inducements
to the agriculturalist and grazier, and
many have availed themselves the past
year of the advantages afforded by the
homestead and pre-emption laws to OBJ
tain home in this new State Also,
submitted to the Secretary of tho Inte-
rior, for approval, list No. 1, embracing
36. 929 acres, as lands selected in the Ore.
gon City district, Oregon, and enuring
to said State under the Act of Congress
OF July 4, 1866, to aid in the construc-
ton OF o military road from Corvallis to
the Acquima Bay, in said State
HOMO.