The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-08-21


52OO7 and females 22, ,2s2; cost of labor, s17sto9,
1876; annual value of products, s54, ,94s.
APPOINTMENTS.
Tho President to-day appointed VIM. G. Dicker-
son United States Marshal for the District of
Georgia. Thos. r. Carroll, Assessor of Internal
Revenue for the First District of Maryland; Hooper
G. Hicks Appraiser of Merchandise OF Port Of Bal
tmore, Nd; Anthony B. Nenorton, Collector Of
Internal Revenue, Fourteenth District of Texas;
VIM: NJ Gray, Assessor Of Internal Revenue,
Fourth District Of Georgia, and Augustus Garfield,
Of New Jersey, United States Consul ut Foo Chow
China.
special telegraphic dispatch to the Augusta
Constitutiondlist, dated Petersburg 18th, says:
The first railroad through train since the 10th of
last August, came into Petersburg Friday after
noon.
Railroad communication between Petersburg,
Raleigh, Washington, and points South, is now COM
pleted. ~
The Petersburg Express says there is constant
trouble between the soldiers, white citizens, and
negroes. -..
The planters are sending into Petersburg large
amount of cotton. Sales made at 81 cents.
The Petersburg and Weldon railroad will be open
in q day or two b.
a dispatch dated st. Louis, August is, says Gen.
The Baltimore Sun, OF the 18th, says that South
Carolina Bank notes are selling at eighteen cents
on the dollar in that city.
TRIAL TRIP THE DICTATOR.
PORTLAND, Aug. 14.-The Dictator arrived at fifty
five minutes past four o'clock The race from Ports
mouth was well contested fifty miesrun The Aga
mentions made the distance in five hours and ten
minutes, at rate of nearly ten knots an hour The
Dictator was mile md half behind her whom they
arrived off Portland, and should have an allowance
OF seventeen minutes for the stoppage of her ma
chinery on account Of the heating of tho crank
PIN At forty-hve minutes past two o'clock the
Dictator hauled off and bore down the bay for n
SAIL so that tho party might arrive at the expect
ed hour-fve o'clock. The Dictator is somewhat
foul, and the Agamenticus clean. The vessels are
evidently fairly matched for speed. The officers
of each claim decided superiority in sailing for
| their respective vessels.
Mayor Mcclellan with the members of the city
government, went down on o tender to the Dicta-
tor to receive Admiral Farragut. and suite, about
twenty-five in number, including the ladies'. The
| reception was quiet social, and Informal Return
ing to the city, the party taken to the drebe
House in carriages. After tea they were driven
about to view the city. Tomorrow morning the
Admiral proposes to return I'd Portsmouth In tile
Agamenticus at nine o'clock, in which event no
public reception will be held.
TERRIBLE nAILhoAD EXPLOSION.
NEW HAVEN, August 15-A frightful railroad
| disaster occurred this morning, on the Housato-
mic River Railroad.
The morning freight train, going up the Housa-
tonic Railroad, became disabled several miles
above Bridgeport, and the 1890 train following
found it on the tr ack, and hitched on and backed
| towards Bridgeport with it.
new engine was out for trial on the track, and
| coming up about three miles above Bridgeport.
| ran into the rear of the passenger train.
Tho locomotive struck the hind car, and split it
| burst just as it reached the second car from tho
| rear, making awful havoc.
Seven were killed outright, and eleven were
terribly mangled and scalded. President Charles
| Hunt, OF the Housatonic Road, was on board.
Everything is now being done for the relief of the
passengers.