The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-27
FROM TIE STATE CAPITAE.

The Rumored Removal Of DIR. j. w. Park
er fron the Lunatic Asylum = Cotton
Fraud-Ce c nsus Appointments Bec
Culture-The Incoming VVeek-Items.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
COLUMBIA, April 26.-The rumor that reach
ed The NEWS few days ago, to the effect that
DR. Parker had been removed from the super
intendepcy Of the State Lunatic Asylum, turns
out, as The News suggested, to be untrue. 1t
is known that immense party pressure was
brought to bear upon the Governor, in order to
bring about the removal in question; but a
conviction that his party is not the
only power in South Carolina seems to
be taken shape in the Governors mind,
and this conviction induced him to refuse, in
this case, to follow the dictation of his party.
He may be willing to serve his party to the ut
most of his power, but not when, as here, all
the odium must fall upon his individual shoul-
dcrs. How aver it be, DR.. Enser does not take
the place Of DR.. Parker in the Asylum. The
Investigating Committee, appointed to 6nd a
reason for this rem moval, have failed to find
even pretext, and hence it is that the Cover
nor is unwilling to become personally reponsi.
BILE for an act 80 fragrant.
THE COTTON FRAUD.
The discovery of false packing in nineteen
bales OF cotton, offered for sale last Friday,
has caused ood deal OF talk in this place.
Blakely & Gibbes, who made the discovery,
made narrow escape, as the trade was almost
concluded when an impulse of caution induced
Mr.. Gibbes to make another probe -sampling.
The party offering the cotton AYERS, with fair
show of credibillty, that he was not aware OF
the fraud; and explains that the freedmen did
the packing and designed the fraud, in order
to increase their share-one-half-in the CROP
This part of the business is undergoing inves-
tigation. The cotton camc from Abbeville,
aud the party selling it is said to stand we'll
there.
THE CENsUs APPOINTMENTS.
The statement Of the Phoenix that these ap-
pointments by the Governor would be
generally approved" has had the effect Of
stirring up good deal Of comment. In addi-
ton to what the Anderson Intelligencer has so
pointedly said about it, I hear on all hands
that the approval Of these appointments is linn
tied to the Radicals, and many Of them about
Columbia are anything but pleased with them.
I have yet to hear the first man, white or
black, except the writer Of the paragraph in
question, who thinks the appointment of P.
Epstin for Richland census-taker good one.
From the testimony of tho Intelligencer, it ap-
than even Richland.
BEE CULTURE.
A gentleman living few miles above Colum-
bia is developing this new branch of industry
as regular pursuit. Hitherto bees have been
raised for the purpose of supplying the family
with honey for home use, and generally falling
to do this. This gentleman has thoroughly
prepared the subject by study and two years
of experiment.; has purchased Langstroth's
right to mako the patent hive for this county:
is growing pasturage for his boess lvpo. II.
a few years to have o large business. Inform.-
alton derived from intelligent bee-raisers in
the Northwest, show that one intelligent
and Industrious man can easily manage Ave
hundred hives; some say, q thousand, but let
us be safe. One raiser in Illinois averages
thirty pounds Of honey year to the hive.
This amounts to fifteen thousand pounds of
honey ito say nothing of the wax) a year.
The price of honey in New York is about twen-
ty.five cents a pound-let us say twenty cents
pound. This makes the nice little yield of
$4,000 year for one mans work, allowing the
wax to pay the expenses of hives and box
ing. This new branch OF industry is one OF
those to be developed in this new order Of
things. It is one Of those that require brains
and skill more and muscle less-one of those
that the intelligent white man can do himself,
and 90 dispense with the services of the negro
to q great extent-one of those that the man
who owns land and nothing else, Of whom there
are hundreds in the State, can develope without
much capital-one Of those that women can
manage with success, as Miss Tupper has de-
monstrated in the Northwest. Along with bee
culture 60 the production Of garden vegetables,
fruits, pinders, grapes, and score of other
things that require more brains than muscle to
produce; and our people must fall into these
one by one, for such is the demand of the hour.
The change in the laws Of labor demands a
CORES ponding change in the direction OF that
labor. The negro remains among us to plod;
and the white man loses the advantage Of his
superior brain If he attempt to compete with
the negro in mere muscle. Both are useful in
their respective waysvand there is ample room
for both, but they must be sorted ont.
THE INCOMING WEEK.
number OF attractions are already gazett-
ed for the coming week. The central idea,
take it, is the State Agricultural Convention,
from which 30 much is reasonably expected
This comes, as already stated, on Wednesday,
the 26th, at eleven o'clock. The place is Caro-
lima Hall.
Second in Importance is the annual meeting
Of the stockholders Of the Greerville and 90.
lumbia Railroad Company, which takes place
at 10 A. M, on the 29th instant.
OF less material importance. bat for literary
and reading people far more interesting. is the
brace OF lectures to be delivered on the 26th
and 27th, at s p. NJ, by VIM. Pinckney Starke.
The subject is Egypt and the Holy Land" "
They ere to be livered at the Nickerson
House. Colonel Starke's irepu tation for accu-
rate and thorough information, reoondite learn
ing, humor and brilliancy as sdcoateur, viii
secure him o large house
On the 27th. ALSO, will be held the annual