New-York tribune., 1869-04-17
TpRox AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT


LANDS.
IFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT
COLUMBIA. April 13-Progress is beginning
be the order OF the day souhpogress both material
or financial and social few facts will illustrate this
month ago a savings bank established In this city,
the first formed here, although the need OF one
has long been felt The President is Gen. Wade Hamp
ton OF military renown and the officers and directors
the most prominent citizens OF the place One week ago
was established the first Building and Loan Association
ever formed In the direction Of this too, are most
OF the leading citizens Of Columbia; and, at the same
The appointment OF Charles NJ wilder 70 be Postmas
ter OF Columbia and the equanimltyi might almost say
favorable indications OF healthier public sentiment.
wilder is a white qnadroon being threeogIth' we
ter by trade. and has always stood we'll Ho Is te east
obleoti9hape to ehe % we1 y, s "a nassibe 10 bc
urged against him-and both are urged-are that he Is
enable him to read and write fairly but nothing beyond
this There OF unprncped white men m his
been received by tho citizens OF Columbia as far more
bitter W than the appointment OF Wilder negro tho1sh
handsome wife Of his color and reoees IN four OF
five children whose skins are faer than al hdlahs ana
whose hair Is as straight.
Just before the adjournment o the recent Legislature
the Judiciary Committee OF the House obtained the use OF
the hall arguments upon the question ~ womnns
right 10 Thus the Legislature Itself became audit
ofs OF tho hearing Only outsider APPEARED before
the Committee and that one was a woman and that
woman coored Louisa Rawlns mulatto OF Charles
ton appeared present the claims Of her sex 70 the
right 10 vote Her line OF argument that the new
Consttuon declares ALI citizens have the right vote
women that right, for eiicn Is nowhere defined as
being any male than female She does not AK
stands pe properly ADMINISTERED II is the argument OF
Mira Becker Although 30 much prominence was gwen
10 this hearing OF aTgament g ,h9 committee u''i"0u 70
An agricultural Convention is announced for the 2sth
inst 20 held here for the purpose Of free discussion
general and the organization OF state Agreutntai
has not been revived until now since the peace D.ie
gates are being appointed In all the countes so lhat wa
whole State Will probably be represented 1t proposed
TO give Fair every year, have an address 1enVefen
at II, and 10 issue weekly newspaper devoted 70 cur
| in view, among which the purchase OF fertilizers
and the Importation Of white laeorers-lmmig from
that OF Newberry Countyhas been for several months
snSS who ~ 70 come as ed iaborers gentleman con
nected with that society told me that ms German RAhu
negro will and some OF them viii do so per cent more
THIS mp the price OF German labor ana runs uo
The planters OF the interior OF tho statethe cotton
and corn growing pOrtlons-freduenty nna tnS nes sr
prefer TO work for certain part of the crop ana
it also The usual nd gveb H band SU M feeds him
self When they contract for money, tho price Is w OF
sla month for mem women and boys hire for aDont ~
mon % o naI o h paw the food and quantity Of II
are specified In the written c0ntfaet gehofah' "Po' VI
The nicia m6rtuary reports OF the City OF Charleston
gives ms 2Os ms tho number OF deaths during l6s OF
The population Of the city 10000 Is about evenly divided
half white and half coored-t appears thst th9 % rs
me white t is less than two per cent Moro Ghaoy one
coored person in every twenty -four dies yearly WhiS Y
Tho whites only one In every hftyone dies yearly lhs
ratio may DO safely assumed As applicable al o'er 'ne
| State. ,o ,ror, IN conts
70 SIS; that is common and good lands gentleman IN
Horny County offers 1900 acres at prices maknE 20 Snn
The average This Is poor land, however About Alken
famed FOR s health there hundreds OF acres III ots
NJ yarous sizes offered now for sale at " an acre M
more AT s9 and from these figures the prices range a
y even as high go for good lands In oeonse anG
ns 90 the price OF mountain lands Is from Us 10 t anu
have seen 400 bushels Of potatoes, and crop OF DEANS
hesIdes crown on one Tho prices or lands ho"oV
er are 80 per cent higher than they were year ago. anu
4 catill looking