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

late here at par, as currency. This soci- !
ETY. sur ports number Of primary and
intermediate
SCHOOLS,
and with the government schools there is |
we'll attended institution of learning |
in every settlement. Besides the chill
dEen 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
sch0ols are said TO be much injured by
political wire-working obtruding ON their
management. II is very rare to meet q
Liberian who cannot read and write, aud
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 Monroye Seminary, under the aus
pices Of the A. M. +. Church Missionary
Society, and of which Rev. Royal j.
Kellogg is principal. The Liberians
manifest the same inertness regarding
their schools that they do about every.
thing else. Politics are allowed to mix in
the public schools. and the appropriation
for their support is spoken of as 'mcrely
nominal"
LIBERIA COLLEGE,
albeit it hns turned cut "the best men in
the country" has been allowed 10 Ian
guish of late years, for, as gather, lack
of efficiency in the board of trustees
and president. DR.. Pinuey has been re-
Gently sent ont from America to take
charge Of it, and while he rushcs cner-
getically about devising improvements,
&c, the Liberans, for whose benefit he
is working, stand back and stare and ex-
press the opinion that he is crazy. !
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 30. The system in
vogue in public schools in America has
been adopted in this institution, which
has been opened since have been here.
| The scholars had already acquired the
drill, marching, &C., when visited a
week after the opening, aud operations
were we'll under weigh. There were
ninety scholars, (all pay,) divided up in
to appropriate classes and departments
and they seemed generally intelligent and
we'll advanced for their respective ages
The instructors "saip about" in the les.
sons, and the pupils answers give evi.
dence that they understand what they
soy, and have not merely learned BY rote
Generally, I think that
THE COMING GENERATION OF LIBERIANs
promises TO be g considerable i'm
proyement on the present one. Mr.. Kel
logg has introduced number of novel
. ties 5eyond those already stated, includ
!, Ing the telephone in miniature form
This gentleman cannot fail to make {
good impression upon all who are
, brought into contGct with him. It is en-
couraging to see that he is already being
much looked up to, rs he may be able tS
exert most beneficial influence. Ht
:; e5ems just YaHkee enough to set an ex
ample "f shrewdness, energy and enter
prise, AMI true man enough 10 teach
morality, honor and the arts and science.
along with them. Probably one of tn,
} chief csuses of
LIBERIAN 8ACKwARDNEsy
: is that In the arrogance of newly &C
quired social equality, they have refused
to heed counsel, and shut out white
men who, better educated and more ex
narienned, might EerA taught then
something. i doubt If it would be adj
visable to change tho laws regarding
white men IS yet. The Caucasian has {
: trick ofashoying weaker and less intel
ligent ps se to the wall when brought in
to contact with them, and were ne allowed
TO overrnn this country, with his superi
er advantages. /. would nct be long be-
fore the colored brother would be either
relegated to his former back seat, or fore
ed TO move on. AS before mentioned
: tho few white men here have invariably
gone far ahead and made thousands
while the Liberians were slowly accu,
mnlating hundreds. In this state of af
fairs such men as Bishop Penick and MIR
Kellogg, who can act as the peoples ex.
emplars without being their rivals
must be of inestima5le benefit.
NO "DRUKEN AND DIsoRDERLYs."
Monrovia, and in fact all of the towns
through Liberia, seem to be very orderly
end quiet. have not seen e single
drunken or disorderly person. A mupici-
pal police system ip maintained, how.
ever. In Monrovia there aro fifteen
policemen, who wear no uniforms or
badge of authority. They stand on
corners and expectorate, however, as
gracefully aud vigilantly as any other
guardians of tho peace, although the
American officer does possess great ad.
vantage In having club to swing on
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. It resembles
the ordinary country jail in the South,
but, ffnm what I saw, / cau't see why any
man ;Sould stay in unles: he wanted to-.
4 THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM
resembles that of South Carolinn.
There is frat the magistrates court, then
como tho monthly and probate courts for
each county; from thia appeal may be
taken to court of quarter sessions, and
from 1t to the Sapreme Court which sits
in Monrovia, and 10 composed of chief
Justice and two associates. Tho courts
seem to have little to do, there being not
much litigation. Although number
OF petty larcenies are being constantly
| perpetrated, the "busbn is so handy that
the depr-Iators, who are generally
natives, fee thereto, and escape, even
should pursuit be inads. Petty assaults
arc usually disposed of by the magis.
trates. Petty thieving ia . source of
great annoyance to planters, natives and
others picking email quantities of green
coffee while passing along, which they
/ nnu plenty or 5torekeepers 10 purchase.
Even in Liberia, therefore, the much
malIgned shotgun is greatly relied on as
an enforcer of the rights OF property.
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