The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-18
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.

FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
Probable Damage to Cotton by the
Frost Prospects or the State Unlversi. .
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Cheatang-Scmater Sprague nnd the
South Carolina Money Market.
{HRoM QUIZ SPECIAL eohRKsPoNpENT.l
COLUMBIA, May 17.-Forebodings about the
cotton crop gain strength fTom day to day.
The press of the county seats tenn with state
ments Of damage; and these come, / think,
from every part Of the State. I gather in gen.
eral that the severest loss is farthest north;
and that the damage decreases as we go south,
the coast having suffered very little. "A gen
tleman who plants in Abbeville estimates that
his crop is injured to the extent OF one fifth.
II we assume this to be q representative fact,
we see that the damage done in York and the
Piedmont region generally {where, how
ever, comparatively little cotton is grown)
must be immense, while that in Rarn-
well and the southern limit Of upland cot
ton the injury is comparatively trivial. One
unfavOrable circumstance attending this mis-
hap is the scarcity of cotton seed with which
to replant. An order for cotton seed, at what
ever price, has been received in Columbia from
the Savannah side Of this State. And in Green
vile, gentleman writes that he thinks there
will be very little replanting there because Of
the want Of seed. It is to be remembered in
this connection, before we hastily conclude
that the cotton yield is to be much curtailed
by this frost, that cotton which survives q
stress of weather like this always turns out to
be far more vigorous and prolific than when
the stand is good. This fact is well known to
cotton planters. It demonstrates another
point which might be useful to planters--that
they generally have too much cotton when
they thin out.
TIE UNIVERSITY.
The disposition, 80 far as ascertained, of the
Board Of Trustees of this institution lis favorable
to q liberal and conservative policy. They real
ize tn at they have difficult and delicate trust
reposed in them and they seem disposed to
manage that trust in such way as shall best
secure to the State the fullest advantages Of
the University. They are aware that extreme
steps tfor which there was at one time some
ignorant clamor,) would materially curtail the
patronage of the instituton and to that extent
impair it's usefulness. Such course would
also. unquestionably, react against the party
whose extremists at one time were clamoring
for it. Guided, then, by the highest
interests of the State and the sonndest
principles of State economy, to say
nothing Of political interests, thcy would
have been directed to the policy already fore
shadowed. In view Of this conservative policy
of the board, as gathered from their liberal in
dividual opinions, the friends Of the institution
throughout the State now look with increasing
confidence and hope to it's future. The Uni
versity is going on in regular operation with
sixty odd students in daily attendance; and.
with the facts ana rfuturu prvrpeuts,i .sxsy-
nro, it excited no little surprise here that the
Phoenix last Tuesday morning should speak Of
the Uniyersity OF South Carolina sas being in a.
condition similar to- that 81 the state
institutions Of Alabama and OF North
Carolina. Now. the facts are that both
those State institutions have been in effect
closed by course OF administration
directly opposed to that which the Trus-.
tees Of the University Of South Carolina
seem inclined to adopt In both Alabama
and North Carolina they have 80 upset
things by turning out the former professors
and turning in adventurers and politicians,
as to make it impossible for the citizens Of
these States to patronize their own State in
stitntons; and the result is that. as I1amdn-
formed, there are about ten students in the
former, and t1o in the latter. This is the re-
suit that the Trustees lof the. University Of
South Carolina manifest disposition TO avoid
II possible; and the best wishes OF our com-
munity second that Opposition. ~ "i't.t
-c TTKMs.
The finding OF shrimp in the waters Of the
Congaree at this place Is noteworthy fact.
Dr.. Geiger has o specimen preserved which
was found last Monday. It seems to be a COM
mon shrimp (crang0sEuulgdris,) having, how
ever. four instead OF two long antennR. This
creature, in fresh water. is clearly out OF it's
usual habitat; but instances are known to have
are known to h8yg been fonnd id the Bantee
thirty or forty miles above salt water.
The disposition to cheat grows upon our
people. Within the past few days Two cases Of
''foxed. butter have been detected in the o.
lumbia market. The wretches contrive I'd
plaster good butter over lump OF refuse tall
low, rancid butter, and such stut1, and will sell
it only in the mass. We are getting Yankee
iaed rapidly. 'a ~ @r. 'ta&y
Senator Sprague is represented as saying
that he would have to pay twenty-five per cent.
year for money in Columbia. He must have
gotten his figures from Ghylock q Co.; for the
usual price Of money here is one-and-a-hali
per cent. . month on short time, and one per
iospt. . month on, longer time. This is twelve
and eighteen par cent. per annunn, instead Of
twenty -fve. if@ ConsAra.s
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THE BnoAD AAD MARROW GAU0Rs.-The bat
tween Stephenson and Bl unel, the genius Of the
North has triuxnphed over the man OF many
defeats. and ha, added another to the list 81
failures already 90 large. The Great Western
expensive broad gauge, they are laying down
the more convenient narrow gauge. Ae re-
gards the Midland distriots OF England, the
broad gauge lie already thing oY the past.
Since the Lat inst. the Great Western Railway
Company have ceased 10 rnn any broad gauge
| passenger trains between London and Birming.