The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-15
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
The air-Results, Material and Moral.
Figures-Personal Notabilitfes--Other
Items.
rrRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT


The State Agricultural and Mechanical Fair
is over, and well over.
In It's material results, this Fair Is important.
In all the departments OF productive industry, a
stimulus has been given that has only just begun
to produce resuts-although the results thus far
are in themselves highly credltable to all parties
concerned.
An enumeration OF the articles presented, after
the full lists already published in THB NEWS,
would be unnecessary; but few figures, as ex-
amples, may be given to indicate the scale OF the
affair. or horses and mules there were so en-
tered OF cattle ~ head; Of swine, 49, Of goats, s.
sheep, !, and of poultry about 1Oo
Other departments were represented in some
what the same ratio; and these figures may serve
to compare the Fair with others in other places.
There were some things In themselves signl1-
cant OF progress. A new bee-gum, or palace, was
entered by DR.. Turnipseed OF Richland County.
This has been registered in Washington for
patent The novelty consist In On arrangement
to prevent worms. South Carolina made clock
was on exhibition by X. Brandt, OF Chester. W.
G. Embleton, of Columbia, exhibited specimens
of his own engraving. c. T. Mason, OF Sumter,
entered an electric fan for kerosene lamps. Mrs.
NJ A. Holmes, OF Columbia, entered specimen
OF okra hemp. Major NJ. r. Clarke, Of Richland,
model Of movable fence. Mrs. f. Finley, OF Rich
land, some Irish potato starch There was on ex-
hbitlon photograph picture taken by new pro-
cess discovered by Mr.. Richard Of Columbia. R. c.
Shiver, of this city, exhibited specimens Of the
ramie fabric, both unspun and In cloth. Or this
ramie Colonel Joel Foster, OF Spartanburg, says
he can make more money with 1t at three cents
a pound, than he can with cotton at twenty; and
that the price Of ramie Is ten cents. That is to
say, he can make more than three times as much
by raising ramie as he can By raising cotton.
Ramie is good deal like fax, In the mode OF pre-
pairing it. NJ. R. Clarke already once mentioned)
had at the Fair specimen OF manufactured
honey, which he claims he can manufacture at
ten cents pound, while real bee.made honey
sells at near twenty.
These are but specimens; but they indicate
day OF endeavor and Of new pursuits.
]. Wash Watts, Of Laurens, took nineteen
prlzes-the largest number taken by one man
mostly for stock.
C. j. Stolbrand, OF the State Penltentlary, took
prize for the best brooms.
The Ursuline Convent OF vala Crucls-a Catho-
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for q specimen OF feather work.
In its moral results the Fair has been an abund-
ant success Reconstruction OF the most vitality
important kind has been effected. South Carolina
has met again-the first time since the war-and
out Of these three days OF intercourse have grown
new hopes, new resolves, new plans, and new i'm
pctus and definite idea has grown up in the
minds and hearts OF our people that has no equal
in their history since the war. This Fair has
made history for our State. The era Is auspicous,
and the future will mark and remember 1t.
Among the men OF distinction present at this
gathering Of our people, were General wade
Hampton, whom South Carolina delights to honor;
General r. II. Anderson, whose war record Is full
OF honor: Generals John Bratton, Johnson lia-
good, John S. Preston, NJ. C. Butler f. p. Alexan-
der, and John d. Kennedy; Ex-Governor NJ. L.
Bonham, whose service won both civic and mill
tary honors; DR.. E. b. Turnipseed who received
the honor Of knghthood- Order OF St. Catherine
from the Car OF Russia for his professional SER
vices in the Crimean war; Professor George W.
Morse, of Grccnvlllc, q relative of DR.. Morse, OF
telegraph fame; T. G. Clemson, the champion OF
professional education for farmers; General Bum
ford, commandant OF the post at Columbia.
The merchants of Charleston were represented
by Mr.. W. G.. Whden, OF Whilden Co.; Colonel
b. F. Evans, OF Walker Evans & Cogswell, and
Mr.. w. S. Henerey.
The least successful feature OF the Fair was the
eXtemporiZed equestrian exercises, which con-
sumcd several hours of the afternoon OF the last
day. These were protracted by preliminary evo-
utions that well-nigh exhausted the patience Of
very indulgent and large concourse Of people. The
riding was good in general; but the feats under
taken were evidently beyon the skill OF the horses
entered. They Knocked down the bars ten times
as often as they cleared them. After all 1t was
not very easy to see what 1t was all abOut-what
agricultural end was subservcd by these ex-
crcises.
The crowd became larger from first to last,
each day improving on the preceding. The
figures were, as we'll as one could determine from
a general calculation, about these: First day,
$500; second day, 800, and third day, 5000.
The Board OF Trustees OF the State University
have requested Professor Rivers to continue in
the chair Of Ancient Languages "for some
months" longer. 1t Is understood that he will
consent to stay until the first OF January. His
reelection would give general satisfaction.
Mr.. Pelham again announces his intention to
resume the publication OF his Southern Gurdlan,
which, it will be remembered, was suspended by
Sherman in 1865. 1t is to be daily, and enters
the field as the rival OF the Phoenix He has
issued and circulates subscription lists. 1t IS ru-
mored that he intends to bring 1t out early in the
session Of the Legislature.
Another escape from General Stolbrand's PEN
tentlary-another recruit to the Grand Army Of
the Republic, 1t is said. CoRsAlR.
A San Francisco paper describes the music
In Chinese theatre OF that city as follows: "Im-
aginc yourself In q boiler mandatory when four
hundred men are putting in rvets, II mammoth
tin .shnn next door on one side and fOrtY-s stamp