The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-04
FROM THE STATE cAPITIL.
The Convention-1h he Past Week-The
county Elections i'm Ktchland-Loc-
lures on Egypt AND ON SPiritualism.

The Conventional he Past Week-The
county Elections in Rtchland-Lec-
lures On Egypt AND on SPiritualism.
[FRoh ouR OWN ooRaRsPoNDEsTl
COLUMBIA, May 8. The Agricultural Con-
yention is felt to have been decided success
to have done quite as much as it was Ieasona-
bic to expect of a body comprising so many,
and in some instances, rival if not directly con-
1icting, interests. Twenty-four counties we're
represented by delegates, and these represent
ed every branch of industry and every sec.
ton ofths state. There were a hundred and
afty-two delegates present. A perusal Of tho
proceedings will show that the who matter
is yst inceptive, and that all the results are
only to grow out Of these beginnings. 1t is,
however, safe to predict that the most vitality
important advantages will come to South Car
oIina, altaough there lie ahead many causes to
interfere With these high ho. .es.
THE PAST WEEK.
The Jam and dlscomforts of overcrowding
made the greater portion Ct the past week
anything but delightful On Tuesday thIre
was a larger crowd than Columbia has known
since the war, and on Wednesday the railroad
men estimate that at least thousand more
we're added. The general estimate ID that
there were here Thursday three thousand VS.
itors. The destitution Of room that Columbia
has felt ever since Sherman's visit, was made
utter by the demand for tbre, thousand addi-
tional berths. The hotels all had crammed
=. hoir nj Ont
capacity of comfort; and by day all through
the city might be seen extemporized picnics
en- fanplle, with rural abandon, upon the sward,
under the trees. and everywhere. BY night
these same picnickers slept wherever fortune
found lodgings for them, aud fortune was kept
busy by them. Private houses were opened
literally, and, after many turpings and many
questions, the great many we're dormitoried-'
somewhere. On Friday morning deluge left,
and on Saturday, the rest.
! .'.:i'> TIE COUNTY ELECTIONS.
The 'tnforrDality" already related in The
N1ws, OF trying to push through tho elections
Of township ofiosrs on the 9th ult. without
far notice, was arrested in the Columbia
Township. There are four townships in Rich-
land County, Columbia being No. 1. The trick
OF posting obscure notices (only one in the city,
and that torn down BY an Intentional accident
immediately, } and one notice in the Phoenix on
the morning Of the election, has been exposed.
The election was stopped by such protest as
the managers could Withstand. In the
three other townships, however, elections were
held; at least the official results are publish
ed in Sunday mornings Ph@nix. The notices
seem to have been regular in the county
townships; at least many Of the parties elected
are our best citlzsns, and this indicates f.Ir-
ness in their selection.
The chairman ofthe Board OF Electors for tho
Columbia Township has thus far published No
explanation Of the unseemly haste with which
our citizens we're about being hurried into an
election, the whites having practically only
few hours; notice, and the blacks regularly or
ganized and instructed how to vote in their
union leagues days before. The community
expects-and has right to expect-some ex-
PLANTATION from this officer. If the facts have
not be.n fairly stated. he owes It to himse.t to
state them fairly, and II they have been fairly
SC9C6Q3 no oWSo " w VIC SooAlAuu''y w SNPA-'S
his part In them, and thus come Out from
among those union league negroes, provided
he wants to come out from among them.
LECTURES.
While tout le monde was busy with railroads
and agriculture and where to sleep, select
few, numbering less than hundred, were
hearing the lectures Of Colonel W. P. Starke,
urementiened in my last. The lecturer made
the m stake Of iecturipg too long at . session
two hours and half each night. The second
evening" was exceedingly interesting. The
lecturer gave life-like sketches Of present-day
life in the Land Of the Lotos and big tomb.
stones. His readings Of Aiereslyphics Or
Hierographics, rather) were intensely inter-
esting aud suggestive. His accounts OF Arab
life aud ofthe Jerusalem OF to-day were as
spicy as o chapter OF q NTe.d,s or Of Tan
ored. His talk about the Plain OF Troy, the
Simois. and the Scamander, brushed the dust
of three Thousand years from the magnificent
dream OF Homer. A Columbia audience has
rarely listened to discourses OF such varied
and curious Information.
Then the Spiritualists have had represen-
tstlve here all the week, who gives lectures to
small audiences from tmeto time-has given
two, believe, the past week. She GAINS to
be OF New Orleans, and is the first regular
olairvoyant medium that has ever exhibited in
Columbia. Several have called upon Madame
Stewart, OF whom some report that they were
soI6i. others say very little about it. Her sue
cess ls very moderate. CoRsAIR.