The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-06-23

ceive more than one hundred dollars
per year each for their services"
We would direct the attention of the
School Commissioner and the Boards of
District Trustees within the limits of
the Pari shes of ST. Helena and ST. Lu kes
to the unequivocal meaning of this Act
1t is not contemplated that independent
schools are to be maintained, but to enable
the Trustees and Board of School Exam
liners to increase the efficiency, and pro.
long the scholastic year of the State Free
Common Schools under their charge and
to exc out the funds derived from the
poll and local taxes and the State appro-
priation.
The correspondent of the Charleston
Ne,cs writing from Columbia says;
The elements here are shaping them
selves into, organized opposition to the
reform policy of Governor Chamberlain
Some of his former political associates of
the better class reluctatc against the cred
it which he las gained by firmly adher-
ing to the promises which he and they
made in the campaign, and by his really
seeking to promote the interests of the
people. They have become apprehensive
zoo, that in trying to Improve the name
and credit of his party he may split it to
pieces. This is remarkable as involving
the admission that the extirpation of bad
properties, the extrusion of bad persons,
from political organization, with a
corresponding effort to infuse good quail.
ties into it, aud bring into active party
life less exceptionable sort of men, will
weaken and perhaps overthrow it. Prac-
ticaliy, the say, they party is only held
together by the cohesive power of plum
der and the prevalence of corrupt practi.
ces. They are less concerned at the
increase of his personal and political rep
utation, but are fully alive to the dangers
of his SO clearing the field that they will
haven longer standing place in il.
Everything points to dertcrm ined
purpose next winter to head him of, and
II possible bring him to account.
Between now and then, however come
the public trials, and the mode in which
they are conducted, the results which will
be reached, the lights to be thrown upon
the parties connected with them, W ill have
most important effect upon the eyenrs
of the future. The prosecutions in the
name of the State of offenders against its
majesty and rights, and against the
resources and property of the people, in
exposure of the long uninterrupted
career of ofimpositlons, frauds and outrap-
es upon them, will be at the same time
the test of the sincerity, heartiness, abili
ty and lncorruptness OF those who have
instituted them. The actions which are
to he conducted in the countyswill thus
have double interest, and be at once
the ordeal of the refuted criminals and
the touchstone of their prosecutors.
Those who arc charged with this re-
sponsible duty cannot escape Its necessa-
ry consequences. If I am not greatly
mistaken, events are working an opening
in this State for the return of the conser-
vatives to their just and proper influence
and power. The outside pressure of
opinion and sentiment bearing upou our
fortunes, the decided character of the
elections all over the country, co-opera-
ting with the convictions that have tax
en- deep root in all classes in the State
itself, that Radical government here is
a failure, a shame and a fraud, all fully
exposed. will work wonders when they
are free to act