A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . about 150 students, and enjoysa high reputation. The Orphan Asylum is an interestingand highly useful institution, containingabout 200 friendless children. Free Schools have been supported inall parts of the state, at considerableexpense, by the legislature. The an-nual appropriations of money, as eailyas 1828, were nearly 40,000, the num-ber of schools 840, and of pupils 9,000. The Guardhouse, which has been men-tioned among the public buildings, islarge, and the
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . about 150 students, and enjoysa high reputation. The Orphan Asylum is an interestingand highly useful institution, containingabout 200 friendless children. Free Schools have been supported inall parts of the state, at considerableexpense, by the legislature. The an-nual appropriations of money, as eailyas 1828, were nearly 40,000, the num-ber of schools 840, and of pupils 9,000. The Guardhouse, which has been men-tioned among the public buildings, islarge, and the headquarters of the cityguard, a part of which consists of mount-ed men, who form the regular night pa-trol. The Citadel, which was formerly usedas the gnardhouse, is now occupied asthe state military school. The Literary and Philosophical Soci-ety is an association creditable to thestate, and possesses a valuable collectionof specimens in the different departmentsof science. The City Library contains about20,000 volumes. The Apprentices Library containsabout 10,000 volumes, and supplies themembers with a course of 378 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Among the objects in the vicinity ofCharleston worthy of particular atten-tion, is Sullivans Island, which was thescene of important military operationsin the revolutionary war. Fort Moul-trie, which commands the entrance ofthe harbor, was gallantly defended bya very feeble force, against a Britishsquadron sent to take the city. The harbor now presents a scene ofgreat activity. Besides the regular for-eign and coasting vessels, which are nu-merous, steamboats and packet vesselsarrive or depart every day, chiefly forthe transport of passengers. There isa daily line of steamboats to Wilming-ton, North Carolina, and other lines toSavannah and St. Augustine. Regularlines of fine ships sail at stated times forNew York, &c., &c. Railroad carsstart every day on the great track, forseveral impo^ant cities, to which
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