The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-24

at the shrine OF New England BrRhmlnism.
Consequently. Boston is outraged and iudig-
nant, aud in the recklessness of it's anger has
launched crushing thunderbolt at Prince
Arthurs head. The irate Common Council
has refused to extend to the Prince the hos
pitaities of the city
Think for moment of the terrible conse-
quences with which this action of the Bos-
tonian Councimen is fraught It distinctly
hints that the Prince should refrain from
visiting the modern Athens. Because he un-
wisely preferred New York to Boston, he is
TO be forever debarred from gazing upon the
fierce Sumner in his native lair. His feet
are never to linger beside the sacred frog
pond or to press the struggling grasses of the
Common. Not for him shall the great organ
pipe and growl its discord of vast sounds.
Emerson will write no mystical conundrums
in his praise neither will Mrs. Stowe delight
him with fresh scandals invented expressly
in his honor Terribly has Boston avenged
its slighted dignity. 1t has made the Princes
visit to his American consins an empty and
improbable failure. What though he shall
ride over the concrete pavement of Fifth
avenue, climb the multudinous steps of the
Capitol, or even clasp the clammy and august
hand of Grant! These be but empty joys if
he is shut out, like some disconsolate though
princely peri, from the gates of Boston.
EDUCATION OF OOLORED PEOPLE.
From the Baltimore American.
The Superintendent of Public Educa-
tion in the State of Maryland, in his annual
report to the Governor, calls attention to the
fact that, under the provision of the Public
School law setting aside the total amount of
taxes paid by the colored people of each
county for the support of schools for colored
children, there has been paid in--in the
entire State outside of Baltimore city-the
beggarly ssum of $951 27 during the last
year. Only six out of the twenty counties
have contributed to the fund, and Washing
ton and Frederick counties, in which there is
a numerous colored population, have for
warded $63S, or more than two.thirds of the
whole sum. OF all the counties on the West
ern Shore of the bay, where at least one
third of the colored population of the State
resides, but one, Anne Arundel, is repre-
sented in the list, whilst on the Eastern
Shore Queen Anne's, Talbot, and Worcester
only have complied with the law. There
are in the counties of this State some
where about two hundred thousand
colored people, who have, at low
estimate, fifty thousand children, growing up
in ignorance, whom it is the duty as well as
the interest of the public to educate and for
this purpose the State has paid the last year
the sum of $951'27, or less than two cents for
each child. Is not such an exposition a dis
grace to the State? The law giving this pro-
portion of the taxes for the education of
colored children is but at best sham. The
Legislature that passed the school tax was
forced to do something by puSlic sentiment,
but it did the least it possibly could do. 1t
created q distinction that is applied to no
other class of our population, and in effect
said that because the colored people were
poor, and paid directly but a small portion
of taxes, therefore they should have only
| the minutest portion of the school fund. The
same rule applied to the poorer classes of the
white population would just as effectually ex-
| clude their children from the public schools
| But even the small amount which the law al
lowed has been withheld in fifteen out of the
twenty-one counties of the State, and most
entirely withheld in those counties in which
| the largest portion of the colored population
resides The Superintendent of Public Edu-
cation advises the counties to follow the ex-
ample of Baltimore in educating the colored
! children, and adds the cogent argument of
self-interest, that though this will cost some
money, it will "cost more to educate them for
the penitentiary, and in it. The argument
does not reach the higher place of the duty of
the State to educate its children; but, per-
haps, it is the most effective that can be ad-
dressed at present to our Legislature. We
hope it may be sufficient to relieve our State
from the odium of permitting nearly one.
third of its population to grow up in igno
rance, shut out from all facilities for educa
ton, and furnishing, because of that very
ignorance, still larger proportion of pauper
ism and vice.