The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-29

ETY. supports number of primary and
intermediate
SCHOOLS,
and with the government schools there Is
q we'll attended institution of learning
in every settlement. Besides the chill
dren of settlers, number of those OF
the natives attend. There is, thanks to
this American society, no lack Of educa-
tional facilities, although the government
schools are said to be much injured by
political wire-working obtruding on their
1t III very rare to meet q
Liberian who cannot read and write, and
most OF them have progressed much
further. Besides these, there is Liberia
College, supported and controlled by the
New York Colonization Society and
another body; the alexandria High
School, supported by somebody else, and
the Monrovia Seminary, under the aug
pices Of the A. M. Il. Church Missionary
Society, and of which Rev. Royal j.
kellogg is principal. The Liberians
manifest the same inertness regarding
theic schools that they do about every
thingel Politics are allowed to mix in
the public schools, and the appropriation
for their support is spoken Of as merely
nominal"
LIBERIA COLLEGE,
albeit it has turned out "the best men in
the country" has been allowed to Ian
guish Of late years, for, as ! gather, lack
of efficiency in the board of trustees
and president, DR.. Pinney has been re-
Gently sent out from America to take
charge of it, and while he rushes ener-
getically about deTising Improvements,
&c, the Liberians, for whose benefit he
is working, stand back and stare and ex-
press tie opinion that he is crazy. l
think that Mr.. Kellogg, who has recently
come out, has adopted the best plan. 1t
is probable that much of the Liberian's
constitutional dislike to doing anything
for themselves, is due to their having
learned to depend 81 much on their
American hackers. Mr.. Kellogg is
teaching that most valuable of all lessons
Independence. All who are able to
pay for the instruction of their children
are required TO do so. The system in
vogue in public schools in America has
been adopted in this institution, which
has been opened since I have been here.
The scholars had already acquired the
drill, marching, &C., when visited a
week after the opening, and operations
were well under weigh. There were
ninety scholars, (all pay divided up in-
to appropriate classes and departments,
and they seemed generally intelligent and
well advanced for their respective ages.
The instructors skip about" in the les
sons, and the pupils answers give evil
dence. that they understand what they
say, and have not merely learned by rote.
Generally, I think that
THE COMING GENERATION OF LIBERIANs
promises to be considerable i'm
proyemeut on the present one. Mr.. Kel-
logg has introduced number of novel
ties beyond those already stated, ,Tinclud'
ing Che telephone in miniature form,
This gentleman cannot fail to make q
good impression upon all who are
brought into contact with him. 1t is en-
'couraging to see that he is already being
much looked up to, as he may be able to
exert most beneficial influence. He
seems just Yankee enough TO set an ex-
ample of shrewdness, energy and enter
prise, and true man enough 10 teach
morality, honor and the arts and sciences
along with them. Probably one of the
chief causes of
: LIBERIAN BACKwARDNEss
is that in the arrogance of newly ac-
.quired social equality, they have refused
to heed counsel, and shut out white
men VINO, better educated and more ex-
perienced, might have taught them
something: doubt if it would be ad-
visable to change the laws regarding
white men as yet. The Caucasian has g
trick ofsshoving weaker and less intel
ligent pkoele to the wall when brought in
to contact with them, and we're he allowed
to oyerrnn this country, with his superb
or advantages, it would not be long be-
fore the colored brother would be either
relegatsd to his former back seat, OF fore
ed to move on. As. before mentioned,
the few white men here have invariably
gone far ahead and made thousands,
while the Liberians were slowly accu.
mulsting hundreds. In this state of af-
fairs such men as Bishop Penick and Mr..
Kellogg, who can act as the peoples ex-
emplars without being their rivals,
must be of inestimable benefit.
NO "pRUKEN AND DIsoRDERLYs."
Monrovia, and in fact all of the towns
through Liberia, seen. to be very orderly
and quiet. I have not seen a single
drunken or disorderly person. A munich
pal police system is maintained, how
ever. In Monrovia there are fifteen
policemen, who wear no uniforms or
badge of authority. They stand on
corners and expectorate, however, as
gracefully and vigilantly as any other
guardians of the peace, although the
American officer does possess great ad-
vantage in having club to swing on a
red cord. There are jails in nearly
every settlement, but they rarely confine
anybody except petty criminals. / think
the most the jailer has to do is to keep
COWS out of the building. 1t resembles
the ordinary country Jail in fhe South,
but, from what saw, / can't see why any
man should stay in unless he wanted to-.
TIE JUDICIAL SYSTEM
resembles that of South Carolina.
There is first the magistrates court, then
come the monthly and probate courts for
each county; from this appeal may be
taken to court of quarter sessions, and
from it to the Supreme Court which sits
in Monrovia, and is composed of chief
justice and two associates. The courts
seem to have little to do, there being not
much litigation. Although number
of petty larcenies are being constantly
perpesrated, the 'bush" is SO handy that
the depredators, who are generally
natives, flee thereto, and escape, even
should pursuit be made. Petty assaults
are usually disposed of by the nagis..
trates. Petty thieving is source of
great annoyance to planters, natives and
others picking small quantities of green
coffee while passing along, which they
find plenty of storekeepers to purchase.