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some regulations as circumstances appeared to 

 demand. 



In addition to the school, a public library was or- 

 ganized. This, we believe, was originated by the 

 public spirit of Mr. Robert Marion, formerly a 

 member of Congress from the Charleston district. 

 The first house used for the purpose had been a 

 chapel of ease to the parish church, about two miles 

 to the west of the villaofe. After the erection of 

 the church in Pineville, this chapel became useless, 

 and it was taken down and rebuilt in Pineville. A 

 partition wall divided it Into two rooms, whereof the 

 inner one was set apart for the reception of books, 

 and the outer, being a sort of ante-chamber, was 

 used on public occasions as a town hall. In this 

 room the patriots usually celebrated the Fourth of 

 July, and on that day the walls, which had formerly 

 reechoed only to the sound of anthems and holy 

 songs, were made to resound with the noise of rev- 

 elry and uproarious patriotism. In 1826 a new 

 library building was erected, and the old one, being 

 sold at public auction, was purchased by a person 

 who used the materials for the construction of a 

 livery stable. As it is fashionable to call all libra- 

 ries select, we suppose we must apply the epithet to 

 this one also. But as we cannot find any catalogue 

 of books which exceeds a thousand volumes, we 

 are constrained to add that it does not appear to re- 

 flect much credit on the literary enterprise of the 



