The South Carolina School System

New York, July 3.- A letter from Columbia, on the educational interests of South Carolina, says the present common school system of the State, as a system, is oxceedingly good. Although thë money collected for school purpose has often been appropriated to corrupt uses, or squandered by ignorant officers, the numbers of schools and school children has been constantly on the increase since the olose of the war. During the past five years, it is estimated that 200,000 children were in attendance in the public schools, and received the elements of English education. Of this number a little over one-half were colored. The State Superintendent of schools, in conversation with the writer of the lotter, said his department labored under many difficulties. Ainong the moot serious of these was the loóse and irregular way in which the appropriations for school purposes were made, and the ignorance, incompctence and neglect of duty on the part of school officers. Under the law a County Board of School Commissioners are elected and a County Board of Trustees and Examiners appointed by them. In many cases rice-field hands and other negroes, who can neither read nor write, are elected to the office of commissioner. They in turn appoint trustees and exaininers who do not know oue ' ter from another, and the result is that , teachers are selected who should themselves be pupils in some of the primary schools. -The churches in most instanceg are characterized aa mere political ' ohines, in proof of which it is stated that i a large portion of the meinbersoítbe Legislature are ministers in negro ebarob et.