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

Probable Damage to Cotton by tho
Frost Prospects OF the State Universi.
ty-Fresh-water Shrtm Pm q Q t
Cheating-senator sprague and the
South Carolina Money Market.
Trpox QUE SPECIAL colREsFoHDETT.]
COLUMBIA, May 17.-Forebodings about the
cotton crop gain strength from day to day.
The press of the county seats tesm with state
ments OF damage; and these come, I think,
from every part Of the State. ] 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 AbbeYille estimates that
his crop is injured to the extent Of one-fifth.
II we assume this to be 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 ID comparatively trivial. One
unfavorable circumstance attending this mis-
hap is the scarcity Of cotton seed with which
to repIant. An order for cotton seed, at what
ever price. has been received in Columbia from
the Savannah side Of this State. And il Green
vile, a 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 curtaAed
by this frost, that cotton which survives a
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. 1t demonstrates another
point which might be useful to planters-that
they generally have too much cotton when
they thin out.
THR UNIvTRsIIY.
The disposition, 80 far as ascertained, Of the
Board OF Trustees of this institution, ,is favorable
TO lioeral and conservative policy. They real
ize th at they have q 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 (for which there was at one time some
ignorant clamor,) would materially curtail the
patronage Of the institdtion and TO that extent
impair it's usefulness. Such a course would
also, unquestionably, react against the party
whose extremists at one time we're clamoring
for it. Guided, then, by the highest
interests of the State and the soundeet
principles OF State economy, to ssy
nothing Of political interests, they 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
'ividual opinions, the friends Of the institution
throughout the State now look with increasing
confideacs and hope to its future. The Uni
versity is going on in regular operation with
sixty odd students in daily attendance; and,
with the facts and future prospects as thoy
are, it excited no little surprise here that the
Phoenix last Tuesday morning should speak Of
the University of South Carolina as being in
condition similar to that OF 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
stitutions; and the result is that, as am in
formed, there are about ten students in the
formsr, and too in the latter. This is the re-
suit that the Trustees Of the University OF
South Carolina manifest disposition 10 avoid
il possible; and the best wishes Of our COM
munity second that opposition.
IuNs.
The finding o. a shrimp in the waters OF the
Congarse ss this place is noteworthy fact.
DR.. Geiger has . specimen preserved which
wss found last Monday. 1t seems to be COM
mon shrimp (craa9on uugdrts,) having, how
ever, four instead Of two long antenne. This
cressure, in fresh water, is clearly out Of it's
usual hdbitai. but instances are known to have
occurred before. Nomadic shrimps Like this
are known to have been found in the Santee
thirty or forty miles above salt water.
The disposition to cheat grows upon our
people, WItuu tuO Poos k0W ooyo wv Ooooo ~
"foxed" butter have been detected in the Co
lun,bia market. The wretches contrive to
plaster good butter over lump Of refuse tai
low, raucid butter, and such stuff, and will sell
it only in the mass. We are getting Yankee
lied rapidly.
Senator sprague is represented as saying
that he Hould have to pay twenty-five per cent.
year for money in Columbia. He must have
gotten his figures from shylock & Co.; for the
usual price Of money here is one-and-a-half
per cent. month on short time, aud one per
cent. month on longer time. This is twelve
and eighteen par cent. per annum, instead OF.
twenty-five. CoRsAR.
THE BROAD AND NARROW GAuaRs.-The bat
tie Of the gauges is over. In the fight be-
tween Stephenson and Brunei, the genius Of the
North has triumphed over the man of many
defeats, and has added another to The list Of
failures already 30 large. The Great Western
has 1iyen in Rt Last and in the plaOe of the