Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-07-11
THE REMINGTON JOURNAL.
CONFEDERATE STATES or AMERTCA-
WILMINGTON, N. G., SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1861
The Fourth in Charleston.

Vhe Fourth In Charleston.
Happening to have occasion to visit Charleston this
week. were there during the 4th, and certainly i'd
was little the dullest Fourth we have ever SEEN They
say that almost every place is remembered most strong
~ by some peculiar impression or predominatng char
Rcterisc Charleston the 4th leaves the impression
of any undue amount of female coored folks dressed to
DEATH and taking absolute possession of the public places
We must confess that we never saw anything like
it. We understand that in Charleston the 4th has al
ways been quite much the niggers day Christmas
if not more so.
The stores were all closed except occasionally when if
thirsty glass of Lager " might have been obtained
or something stronger. We did not drunken man
on the 4th. Towards the small hours there may have
been some. Next day yesterday We saw one or two
going involuntarily toward the guard house.
The bells chimed all day from the churches We are
not prepared to say whether they have yet arranged
them to work out Dixie or not we think not. At
II o'clock some number of guns was fred somewhere,
we understood at the Citadel by the cadets of the Acad
envy. Steamers run down during the day to Suivan's
Island, and one made excursion around the harbor
A goodly number of people went there, we suppose
Some sat in the hotels and elsewhere and talked
did not talk it, for they appear to have got over the
first burst Of their excitement and good deal Of the
more inhammabe material has gone of.
Business is dull. OF course it is in blockaded sea-
port but they all seem willing to submit to the present
privations. They had expected it and made up their
minds to it, Lemons are not. Neither is there any
Java OF La Guayrs coffee by the bag-only Rio at
"a cents.
We had hoped that MIR. Marchant would have done
something in honor Of the triple advent of the comet the
9TH of july and the we " of the Journal. But he
didn't. There were fireworks nor other public de-
monstraton, beyond the presenting flag We believe to
company-the Charleston Rifles. The niggers, e.
peciay the she Ones were out in fufeather and nehel
Solomon nor the Queen of Shebs could begin to Iool
like them
Standing on the battery you could see, easily, Iarg
steamship away far beyond Sumter, miles beyond, vi
suppose. We take it she was blockading vessel. W.
thought we also saw a smaller one, but could not b
sure Through glass, to say two or three glasses
a great many vessels might have been SEEN
We thought we had seen rain before yesterday, bu
we had never seen anything like the way in which
poured down yesterday afternoon, about hafpast fv
o'clock, while our train somewhere in the vicinit
of Kingstree, South Carolina. When we got HON
everything was dry.
We did not see near so much cotton as in former years
and did see more corn.
We have heard of orators spreading themselve
upon some subject, of men spreading themselves il
the way of Dragging and forth but for good straigh
out spreading" commend US to young lady spread
ing herself over four seats while Others are standing
up Eow quietly she turns two seats to face each Other
put her multtudinous wrappings, bags and bundles al
over one and herself all the other and cooDy an
swers all corners that the seats occupied" We'll
you will see these things you 60 any distance fror
home. We think somehow, that ladies that would &C
that way in a car would do so at home, when not o
their good behaviour, wearing their company look
manner of amiablity. Of course we don't know, bu
then we think so.