The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-05-03
Charleston, 8. G.
Correspondence ofthe Herald. ]

CHARLESTON, $. c., April -, 1872
The Heather = Provisions Busiaess--Df Cur
,ency-bIurde-IMr. Calhoun.
Mr. BENNETT: .
DEAR SIR,
The weather is now fne--the thermometer rang
ing from % to ~ IN the day. with cool nights. Bus
ness has been very dull for the spring. with prices Of
provisions and almost every thing else down to no.
thing. Green peas have become stale with 49,
strawberries are almost ont OF date, and fine large
blackberries may be had for cents per quart Eggs
are at 10 cents per dozen the best hams for Ia
cents per h. sugar at toe cants a, retail Cat ave
ton IL to So choice caret wine at So per dosea
and prime sardines at 90 cents case Those who
have money consequently can live cheap; but there
is nothing doing in the city to give employment e
he few mechanics who are here, and many arc eav-
ing us probably for ever-and the time has nearly
arrived when all those who can afford it (and man
who cannoD are turning their faces toward your
great city, to bask in your cool shades and riot in
your luxuries till the cool season returns to as
The line ships will now go full of 6nssengers till
the last of July, though not many probably will
go north as in previous years-lacking the means.
An effort is making to reduce the passage to New
York by railroad, (Which now exceeds $40, while
the best ships carry and find at S25) How il will
effect grand union of all the railroad and seapp-
boat interests and reduction OF passage, the great
thorou2hfare will be upon old ocean. There naad
be great blindness to their own interests if th0D
companies do not do something 10 secure the in
nlense travel TO the north their tariff of prices -
high that none but those who compelled by busi-
ness emergencies will go with them.
The present contractors for carrying the mail from
this city TO Wilmington are about giving up their
contract or rather, 1t expires shortly, and they d
not intend to renew. II is now hoped that Hsrnden
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the mail service but the state Of the treasury - saeh
that it is probable increase the present mig
gardly amount Will be submitted 10 If it be kaf
done cheaper. Only $4,000 per annum is allowed
for 100 miles conveyance on as bad if not the wort
piece of coast between you and us, where ii ID ne
ceseary, with such boats now employed, that
four should be kept constantly in the service Of the
| company, and frequent interruptions now occur OF
| the mail yet the last winter has been improve
| nient on the previous one--partly from the mild-
ness OF the winter and partly from the threatened
Washington some time since Something, In the
present state Of the country, should be done to ex-
peditc the mail on the seaboard or at Least make X
as regular as possible But little can be hoped until
| a railroad is constructed between Charleston and
| Wilmington. A few Of the West India steamers
could easily put the country TO some trouble = cOpa-
municae with the north and south, in case q a rup-
ure; as III the low countries, an army or even the
the mail could hardly progress IN summer from the
ravages OF local tevers. We hope for the best
Our currency is still sound, scarcely new feature
TO be found in the banking world, except thai .Ss
| banks now no longer take checks in payment OF
notes just at the close OF bank ing hours TIN cause.
| the cause.
| We now have four cases for murder in our Jail.
and several others for hgh-handed rascaities, for
| gerry, perjury, NC.
Mr. Calhoun is most unquestonably in the feld
for the presidency, with Maty TO pull the wirce.
! who is now going to the Hermitage to secure the
corporation Of sod Hickory" Mr.. Benton lies
| low at Washington, and Me*rs. Calhoun, Wright
and Woodbury. evidently understand each other.
We shall wait to PEE how the Herald stands in the
! blsncss of President making. 1t is almost the
| only paper heard of here north of Washington.
! Temperance Houses" and Temperance Halh"
all the rage here Jus now, and the liquor shofA
one after another, giving way to the Washing-
| onians. IIsev Jason Whitman, from savannah
has been here Iboring in the cause he is son Of
the aged patriarch at East Bridgeweter, MaB., Who
is E6 years old. Mr.. w. is spending the winter in
| the south for his health, having labored with too
| much zeal for the spread of Unarianism-h his ia
vorite scheme of salvation. lie was formerly So
dietary of the American Unitarian Assocation,ro
siding al Bottom, but has flock at Portland, Me.
He is an able divine, and popular LECTURER ON tho
1 ''sieam engine in breeches'' principle.
| Yours, at length.