Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-03-30
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Business in Charleston

Business in Charleston
We take the following paragraphs from the
Charleston Mcrcwy of yesterday. The arti-
Gle in another coluun, from the New Orleans
CrcSccm, is contirmatory Of the falling oft in
the cotton crop this season:
Cotton France, the tariff, Fort Sumter,
and the influx of merchants from the interior
towns OF this State, Georgia and Alabama
have kept our mercantile community upon
the QHi cice during the whole week 1t has
now become a fixed fact that the cotton crop
of lSG0-Gl will be nearly million bales
short, and that all the additions that IN be
made by the influence of the Bears to the
receipts, cannot carry up the crop to four
millions of bales. Galveston acknowledges
that she will be $4,000 bales short Mont
gomcry 10000 bales; Columbus 10000
bales. The total deficiency at the scaports,
including the overland cotton from Memphis,
which is now put into the New Orleans re,
ccpts, is near 1000 bales, and the weekly
receipts will, it is said, increase the dchcicn-
cy. Prices have advanced since these facts
have been known, and it is said that many
very lengthy and apologetic letters have been
written here 10y smcwd European houses
in error in estimating the crop, and imputing
amongst the Cotton States
Foreign frcights have become very dull,
and some engagements have been made to
liverpool at Sd. 80 fill upships that command
at ll-l6d. and Sd. Sterling Exchange still
commands lO7, and sight 81 per cent. for
checks on New York. Out door sales of six
ty-dny bills making at | to per cent pre-
mium Northern trcights are very dull
very little offering; cent. to New York is
now freely taken by sailing vessels, and steam
crs ask 5-l6, but get very little. The slip
Matilda, Capt. Connor, and owned by James
Wclsnan of this city, cleared yesterday for
Havrc, with the following valuable cargo ::
465 bales Sea Island cotton; 2,7S0 bales Up
land cotton 125 ticrccs rice. The total val
uc of the cargo is estimated at SlS4 1876
In stocks and bonds there is very little do
ing. Some investments arc daily making in
our State per cent bonds, at par. The pri-
vatc dispatch received here of the action of
the French Government in recognizing our
Confederate flag commercially, is generally
considered as an indication of what all Eu-
rope will presently do politically. We of the
South have always looked to France as our
friend. In our childhood la Bette Fruucc
and Lafayette were household words and
now, in the childhood of our Confcderacy,
Iiic IiSJ sue u lliuc 10 encourage us IN Ifocng
ourselves from our Northern foes, and to es-
tablish an Independent commerce. is from
France. The receipts of merchandise bought
previous to the twenty, eighth of February,
and shipped by the fifteenth of March, are
daily pouring into our port, and every facility
has been extended to our merchants bv our
worthy Collector and his very efficient al Is,
IN the novel process of entering and deliver
ing. the cargocs received from foreign ports of
thc United States. The receipts have been
heavy of all goods that came under the tariff
of 81, and the immense quantities Of yankee
notions imported would seem to be supply
for years instead of months.
y QUEER PEopLE.- Mambc,S' JJw0m,
discussing n recent book of missionary travels
in Africa, thus aiiudcs TO one of the tribes
which are found in that tc,yu incognHa:
i5ut the strangcst of all the stories told are
of the Dokos, who live among the moist warm
bamboo woods to the south Of Cuifa and Susa
Only four feet high, of dark olive color,
savage and naked, they have neither houses
no. temples, neither fire nor human food
They live only OH ants, mice, and Scrponts,
diversified by few roots and fruits they let
their nails grow long, like talons, the better
to dig for ants, and the more easily to tear in
pieces their favoritc snakes.
They do not marry but live indiscrimina-
ave lives of animals, multiplying very npi5-
~, and with very little maternal instinct
The mother nurses her child for only a short
timc accustoming it to eat ants and scrpcnts
as soon as possible and when it can help it.
self, it wandcrs away where it will, and the
mother thinks no more about it. The DakOs
are Invaluable as slaves, and are taken in large
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colorcd clothes as soon as they come to thu
moist, warm bamboo woods where these hu
man monkeys live, and the poor Dokos caa-
not resist the attraction offered by such supc
rior people. They crowd round them, and
arc taken in thousands
In slavery they arc docile, attached obedi-
mt, with few wants and excellent health
They have only one fault-a love of ants,