The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-05-01

ary /, 1874, was SO, ,342, ,50O., Bonds to
the amount OF $2a7. 600. which will be.
como due the present year. have been
provided for In the sale 81 eight per
cent. new bonds. The disbursements
Of the present fiscal year, as estimated
by the Treasurer, aggregate 50, 722, 1866,
OF which 1928. AGO is for public debt and
interest. They aro to be met by re-
ceipts from various sources, and by the
proceeds Of tax of four and hn,f
mills upon the taxable property Of the
State. This moderate tax is levied by
those who pay it, and it will go to sus-
tain the Legitimate wants Of government.
We thinl; this financial exhibit, and the
sum Of taxation and the uses to which it
Is put. will compare favorably, at least,
with even the rose;colorcd rcpresen ia.
tions OF the monetary condition of the
PROSTATE State," as made by the Whit
temorc delegation to the judiciary Com.
mitteo of Congress-
During 1873, 3lS studcpts were ua.
circulated at tue State University of
Georgia, yet only Ito small sum of
So, 900 was asked for it for the present
year, its other resources from fees, inte-
rest on land scrip. &C., making it almos
solf-sustaining. The other colleges of
Georgia are we'll attended; 100 students
matricnlated at Mercer University last
October. Tho Georgia State College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, con.
Quoted in connection with the State
University at Athens. with a branch,
called the North Georgia Agricultural
College, at Dahlonega, educated ia 1873,
free OF charge, nearly 300 students, the
branch at Dahlonega having 177. This
institution has not cost the State cent.
1t was established and is conducted by
the fund derived from the agricultural
land scrip. Compare this with the
South Carolina University, with it's
many professors, few students. low edu-
oasional status and heavy expense.
Compnre the College of Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts, with its splendid and
costless results, with the so.called Claflin
University and the South Carolina agri-
cultural land scrip, locke1 up under
hypothecation in New York, not dollar
OF it having ever been appropriated to
it's destined uses. Georgia supports her
public schools by IN appropriation the
present year Of S250.000. This is meant
to support them three months, and it
docs it we'll It is left to local taxation
to supply the amount supplemental to
this. necessary to curry them on the
other six school months of the year.
This teaches the people to put proper
value on popular education, by their
directly contributing all over certain,
fixed. well-expended amount, to sustain
it. What shameful offence to truth, to
the vigorous educational
system Of Georgia as inferior to that of
poor South Carolina, with it's late la.
mented University, standing only mere
shell and a monument of shame, and it's
tHoiiS oSbOOio uoOuk ~" ~ ClOSS,
although the enormous sum Of $500, 900
has been collected by taxation to keep
them open. Radicalism is equally ex-
pert in falsifying as in stealing No
one need hope to keep down it's inven-
tions. 1t has too much to gain by maxi
ing them. But unpleasant al il the
task. it is duty TO cut off every freshly
raised head Of the monster, hoping an
increase of strength and reinforcements
for it as they increase in number. Geor-
gia is not what she might and ought to
be, but. compared to PROSTATE South
C"rolina, she is as Hyperion to Satyr;
she is at least erect.
Ladies' Memorial Association.
The Memorial Day MAY 10y falling
this year Cd Sunday. the ladies of the
4 Aaeoo;o8;o. ho-.