Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-09-26
EDrGATION

Schools have been few, and generally
| poor, and of course ignorance is abund-
| ant. The handsome daughter of a hard
| shell Baptist clergyman was visited by a
| sutton. As her father entered the room,
she stepped to the mantle piece, took up
an old pipe, shook out the ashes, and
turned to the old gentleman with the
inquiry-'Daddy, is you any baccy p
A woman who in political strife had
| heard much of the tariff, learned that a
railroad was being built toward her
town. Having collected her buds, she
turned her back upon her home. As
she stepped into neighbOrs, she re-
| marked that they S'might as well put
| off, for that internal old tariff was COM
ing :" There are some excellent schools
in the large towns but there was no
school system in operation till the Re
publicans came to. power. The laws re-
lating to education were never executed
There was a log schOolhouse here and
there, but they were not used.
TIE ARTS, ETC.
In agriculture and all the arts, Missis-
sippians are about fifty years behind
New Workers. The houses are very
simple. Two features are universal. A
large hall runs entirely through every
house, and the chimney is outside The
Capital yards at Jackson contain four
acres, and cattle and hogs are allowed to
run in them freely.
POLITICAL NOTIONS.
The State of Mississippi was settled
by mushroom aristOcracy, and they
have been educated by slavery Before
the war some of the people were almost
princes Though they are all now poor.
Five or six persons, and those not of
the better sort, governed a county, and a
very small number governed the State.
During the war, the men, unwilling to
become soldiers themselves, constituted
vigilance committees to drive others in
to the army. If men fled to the sWamps,
they were pursued by trained dogs. Mr..
Tarbell knows many who bear the marks
of the bites inflicted by such dogs, and
other victims carry buck shot in their
bodies. Mr.. T. is not surprised when
he hears the eX-slave holders and the ex-
officers Of Mississippi declare republics
failure, and express a preference for
the One-man power.
KU-KLUX KHAN.
It has sometimes been denied that any
such organization existed in the South,
as that designated hereabouts by the
name of Ku-KluX Khan. But in June
last large number of persons were
tried at Jackson, on the charge Of be-
longing to such an order, and sixty of
them pleaded guilty. The brotherhood
style Themselves the "United Sons of
76." About the streets the Order is
simply as . RObinsOns;" as. " Have YOU
ever heard of Robinson ?" The Khan
embraces men of all conditions; plant
tiers, merchants, senators, lawyers, min
listers, etc. There are $4,000 of them in
Mississippi. Their oath pledges them
''white mans government or to CON
tend for that result According to their
constitution of the Grand Lodge of
Mississippi, which lies before me, the
''inferiOr races ought never to be allowed
to shine in government"
The report of the superintendent of
public education opp. Sc "a indicates
numerous instances in which teachers
had been maltreated and school-hOuses
burned. The following passage, relating
tOLOwnds county, is a specimen: ''Sev-
eral of our teachers have been visited by
disguised men known as the Ku KluX.
All the teachers were white, and all of
Southern birth, except Mr.. F. x x
In nearly every case the teachers could
do nothing but obey the demand of the
Ku KluX and close school. One teacher
is a Southern gentleman and Congre-
gatiOnal minister On one occasion he
went from home several miles and
preached to the cOlOred people; the Ku
KluX called on him at midnight and or
dered him to close his school, taught on
his own farm and in his own house.
They also told him he would not be al
lowed to preach any more.
The following shows the style Of
these outlaws
HEADQUARTERS, X. X. X.
March 3, ISL.
Mr.. S.-As it is customary for our Order,
etc.
preference to the white race, as God or
dalncd Guilty.
Charge :, etc.
1t is an established rule of the Order
never to give a man moro than three days
to leave the country, etc
1o"f7' ct%',+
Chiefof the Ku IIuN Khan.
XII KUN COSTUME.
Judge TarbeIl exhibited a Ku KluX
costume. 1t was taken from n Captain
of the Order, who was shot. and it was
stained with his blood. A benevolent
looking gentleman put on this garb and
was Transformed by it into something
most fierce and hideous.
SCHOOLS.
But notwithstanding all opposition
in less than eighteen months from the
Inauguration of the system of free pub
lie schools, there were in the State ). 450
such schools. 1t is a sad fact that near
ly 10000 Of the voting population
over 10, 900 of them whites-arc unable
to read the ballots which they cast.
ROUGH RELIGION.
The standard of religious character is
low and strange. The Judge knows
couple Of ministers named Crosby and
Gaddis who were candidates for a GER
tain pulpit Both appeared in the church
on a certain day, and each performed
specimen service. Gaddis was a rough
sort of man. but was possessed of much
strong sense and was probably a Chris
tan. Crosby was a smoother sort of
man, and showed the best, first. After
the trial services, the latter was elected
by the church. Gaddis put himself un-
der his broad-brimmcd hat, and with
drew. After riding two or three miles
he broke out, ''Well, reckon Brother
Crosby thinks he's raised hell to-day,
sut'n' certain.
HARDSHELL CEREMONIES.
They have in that region a worthy
class of religiOnists known as the, Hard
shell Baptists, called sometimes more
respectfully, Primitive Baptists. The