The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-08
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
The Axrieultural Fair In November
The Postomce-CrOps-Hegr Labor
The University-Bones found under
the Ruins OF tho CITY.
,ysox QUIZ OWN CORRESPONDENCE

IFRoM oUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
COLUMBIA, June THE City Council is a.
ready engaged upon the matter Of providing a
suitable place and necessary buildings for the
first annual fair Of the State Agricultural and
Mech anical Society, which is to be held on the
10Th of November. The first point-the agree
mept upon q lot for the fair-has not yet been
decided; but the probabilities just now point
toward, selecting the University grounds lying
in front oi the campus Of that institution. A
committee OF the Council ia cooperating with
the committee Of the society, aad the M after
will be attended to in due time. The objec-
ton to using the old FAIR Grounds is that the
| land ls in cultivation, and the cotton VIII not
be gathered in time to erect buildings for the
fair.
TIE PosToFPIoE.
The inauguration of the negro regim at the
postofice has been the absorbing topic for
nearly week. At first Wilder aud his corps
OF clerks we're in the gravest confusion. Mails
kept coming in iaster than they could be dis
nibuted. Distributed mail-matter was put
into wong places Deliverable matchmaker Was
sent to the wrong address. For day or two
the coolest prapks were played BY the alpha
bet. Ms and W's. rs and F's, P's, Us, DIS
and Rs were mixed up in utter disregard OF
primers and pedaeogues. lp couple OF days
change for the better came-names OF the
same letter got together. and went out toeeth-
er; such as Symmers. Suber and Saluda Facto-
ry, all to the same person. 1t ls probably with
in bounds to say that mistakes of this kind
wrong dellverles-occurr in hundreds Of
cases. Delays we're by thousands.
Mr.. Leaphart, the former assistant post
master, was implored to give helping hand.
Early in the week Wilder begged him to accept
his former position upon his Own conditions
that is, to take in his own corps Of subordi-
mates. This offer. on account of business re-
lations, was put off until the end Of the week.
To-day the community rejoices IN the proba-
bility Of it's being accepted. II 80, order,
promptness and accuracy are to be looked for.
Under the regime of the past week an outraged
community has-had substa ntlal reason to cry
out against the nuisance Of such corps OF
clerks; and it has cried out. With the re-
employment of the former assistant. and his
experienced CORPS OF white clerks, will come a
new and agreeable phase Of the matter.
Wilder will have secured degree OF respect
aud confidence with the community, which
could never be his we're he to succumb to the
dictation of party influence in retaining incom-
petent employees in the posioffice.
The jam OF negroes at the general delivery
during the past week has been unprecedented
They seem 10 take for granted that negro
clerk in the postofice ought to have more let
ters for negroes toan white one. Is there
not some way In which this might be so2 The
inquiry is suggested by the circumstance en-
tlrely.
THE CROPS.
The hopes of farmers may be quoted as firm,
with an upward tendency. The warm weather
OF the past ten days has given an opportunity
to work the crops we'll, and the results are de.
cidsdly favorable. Cotton is becoming healthy;
and, although not as thick as desirable, may
be said to be almost enough except in few
places. This thin stand has, in addition to its
thinness, tue advantage in many cases OF
strong fertilizers; 80 that we may reasonably
count on very fine yield to the stalk. And il
general there appears no reason now why the
yield Of cotton shall not be at least fair. With
the most favorable conditions Of good seasons
and late fall, it may be good, il not fine.
The partial success Of few Of the freedmen
last year has induced good many Of them to
venture upon planting for themselves-rent-
ing lands and conducting the business by
themselves. At this, failure is almost certain.
As laborers they are working as usual; that
is to say. like free negroes always work. A
practical planter estimates that one slave did
as much work as three freedmen will do.
Dreamers about negro educability imagin
that there is an experiment being made with
negro labor. It is no experiment at all. Three
thousand years just past are full Of proofs
upon the question. When forced by other
men to do 80, the negro will work, otherwise
time, has been so in oil times since then. and
is 80 to-day. The North American Indian will
90 to wock about as soon as the negro.
ITEMS.
At the University initiatory steps are beng
taken towards the examination and commence
ment-now known as the Public Day-whlch are
to close the present session. The examination
opens on the 18th, aud closes on the 26th; the
Public Day comes on Tuesday, the 295h in
slant. The annual iestivity, usually known as
commencement ball, ls to be given at the Co
lumbia Hotel on the night Of the Public Day.
Day before yesterday were found under the
ruins of Kinsler's Hall, in this city, burned by
Shermsn's army in 1865, the bones Of man.
a dlce-box and die, also an axe, were found
with them. These facts somehow have Gre
ated the general impression that the bones are
those Of one OF Shermans enterprising defen l.
ers Of the Union; and it is notorious fact that
the axe was very freelv used by those de end
ers while in the capital Of South Carolina.
There is one fact, however, that initiates
against the correctness Of this general conclu-
sion-the bones are those Of negro.
CoRsAIR.