The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-08
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.

4 AN AVoos
IRON THE STATE CAPITAL.
The Agricultural Fair im November
Tho PostoRlce-Crops-No9r Labor
| Tho UnAvexstty-Rones found under
| the Ruins OF the CITY.
IERoM OUR owF ooRaHsPoNDENT.l :!
CoLUMDIA. June y.--The CITY Council is a.
ready engaged upon che matter Of providing q
suitable place and necessary buildings for the
first annual fair Of the State Agricultural and
Mechanical Society, which is to be held on the
10th of November. The first point-the agree
ment upon lot for the fair-has not yet been
decided; but the probabilities just now point
towards selecting the University grounds lying
| in front Of the campus OF shat institution a
| committee Of the Council is cooperating with
the committee,of the society, and the matter
will be attended to in due time. The OBJ jec-
ton to using the old Fair Grounds is that the
land ls in cultivation, and the cotton Will not
be gathered in time to erect buildings for the
fair. .iH
q, THE PosToFFIcE.
The inauguration Of the negro regime at the
postoface has been the absorbing topic for
nearly week. At first Wilder and his corps
OF clerks were in the gravest confusion. Mails
kept coming I'M faster than they could be dis
t1ibuted. Distributed mail-matter WAS put
into wrong places. Deliverable Matchmaker was
sent to the wrong address. For day or two
the coolest pranKs we're played by the alpha
bet. Ms and WIS, T's and F"s, P's, Js, De
and RS we're mixed up in utter disregard of
primers and pedaeogues. In q couple of days
q change for the better came-names OF the
same letter got together, and went out toeeth-
or; such as Symmers, Suber and saluda Facto-
ry. all to the same person. 1t is probably with
| in bounds to say that mistakes of this kind
wrong deliveries occurred in hundreds Of
cases. Delays we're by thousands.
Mr.. Leaphart the former assistant poet
master, was impl0red to give helping hand.
Early in the week Wilder begged him to acccpt
his former position upon his own conditions
that is, to take in his own corps of subord-
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-
hslity of its being accepted. IF 80, order,
promptness and accuracy are to be;looked for.
Under the regime OF the past week an outraged
community has had substantial reason to CRY
out against the nuisance Of such corps of
clerks; and 1t has cried outs With the re-
employment Of the former assistant and his
experienced corps OF white clerks, will come
new and agreeable phase of the matter.
Wilder will have secured degree of respect
and confidence with the community, which
could never be his were he to suocumb to the
dictation of party influence in retaining incom.
petent employees in the pOstofice.
The jam of negroes at the general delivery
rInCr tt,o uf
They seem 10 take for granted that q Negro
clerk in the postofface ought to have more let
ters for negroes than white one. Is there
not some way IN which this might be so3 The
inquiry is suggested by the circumstance en-
tirely. @'s@s# a,Ns Hse -,
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 well, and the results are de.
cidedly favorable. Cotton is becoming healthy:
and, although not as thick as desirable. may
be said to be almost enough except in, d few
places. This thin stand has; in addition to its
thlnness, the advantage in many cases Of
strong fertilizers; so that We may reasonably
count on very fine yield to the stalk. And in
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 sood,. if not Ane. IL
The partial success of o 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 iagslmost certain.
As laborers they are working as usual; that
is to say. like free negroes always work.
practical planter estimates that one slsye did
as much work as three freedmen will do.
Dreamers shout negro educabiiity imagine
that there is an experiment being made with
negr1 labor. II is no experiment. NJ all. Three
Thousand years Just past are full Of proofs
upon the question. When forced by other
men to do 30, the negro win work. otherwise
he will not. The negro was go in Homer's
time. has been 30 in all times since then, and
is so to-day, The North American Indian will
go to work about as soon as the negro.
ITEMS. of
AZ the University initiatory steps are being
taken towards the exammation and commence,
nent-now known as the Public Day-which are
to close the present session. The examination
opens on the 18th, and closes on the 28th: the
Public Day comes on Tuesday, the 10Th in
stant. The annual testfvity, usually known as
commencement ball, is to be given at the Co,
lumbia Hotel on the night OF the Public Day.
Day before yesterday were found under the
ruins bf Kinsler's Hall. in this city. burned by
shsrmsn's asrny ID 1885. the bones Of man.
With them. These facts somehow haye Gre.
ated the gensral impression that the bones are
those OF one Of Ehermnn'e enterprising daiena-i
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