The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-20
TRAVELLER.


State Items
Mail Stopped.-We regret to have to announce
to our readers that no mails have been received
at this place since Friday last. We have no regu-
son assigned for not delivering the mails any
longer at this place. We very much deplore ths
deprivation to our citizens The loss Of our mail
this state OF things will not long exist. Cannot
our Charleston contemporaries devise some way of
having their papers delivered at this place until
we can get postmaster2 Their subscribers here
would feel greatly indebted Kingstree Star.
A correspondent from Bennettsville, writing to
the Marion Crescent under date of july 12tb.
says:
II will premise by saying that everything in the
way OF farming bears the marks OF carelessness,
neglect, and slovenly culture, which, together
with the defective seed, cold weather, and heavy
rains OF the early spring, and the recent drought
have produced anything but flattering prospect
for q crop this year. The best crops have seen
are those Immediately around your village, and
few others will approach anything like half q
crog; e.2.ao,,u ,-o., -
not believe there can possibly be made more than
half the quantity Of corn that WAS made last year
Some have ~ planted none some barely enough to
Drop, and very few indeed have planted with
view OF selling corn"
At a mass meeting Of the citizens of Chester
District, the following preamble aud resolutions
were adopted:
Whereas, The late war has closed, leaving the
citizens Of this District, and the South generally
impoyerished by the emancipation OF their slaves
and the destruction OF their property, and most
Of our citizens are involved in debt, not perhaps
their ability to pay if given
Whereas, The protection afforded debtors by
the law commonly known as the ''Stay Law" has
been removed BY the action of the highest judi
Resolued, That we the people of Chester Dis
triot, determined to abide, like good citizens, by
Ss Of rds but
that must necessarily result from the general and
may be done, do respectfully suggest to the Gov
ernor, and through him to the Legislature OF the
arrest, il possible, the general and indisorimnate
sacrifice Of property at public sales.
Resolued, That we do earnestly recommend and
zens of our district both debtors and creditors,
that they meet In a spirit Of accommodation and
forbearance- debtors paving as they may be.
my, and the creditors giving such reasonable in
dulgencies as may be compatible with their press
ing necessities; firmly believing that the true
interests Of both parties will thus be most surely
reached. GILES J. PATTERSON.
n. r: EAVES.
T. W. MOORE.
JULIUS MILLS.
o. BARBER.
A. B. BROWN.
Chester Standard.
Monday, the 10th met, was the hottest day
Of the season, the thermometer, suspended
in the coolest spot to be found, indicating at P.
M. a temperature OF 80 degrees Chester Stand
ard.
(From the Sumter Ne,o,l
Court Of Common Pleas.-His Honor Judge A.
Aldrich arrived in Sumter on tho afternoon OF
| Sunday last, and opened the court of General
Sessions and Common Pleas for this District on
Monday, the 10th, at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
Owing to the fact OF their having been some in
formaity, or Noncompliance of the law, in regard
Of the business of the Court which would have
| been, under other circumstances, transacted, was
dispensed with, and the jnries having been dis
| charged, His Honor confined himself to such mat
ters, OF minor Importance, as could be attended
| to without them.
As Judge Aldrich has been brought, since his
accession to the Bench 30 prominently before the
people Of the State, on account Of his former &C.
tion in regard to holding his Courts and the fear
less and firm position he assumed in reference to
| the Stay Law, there was exhibited, on the part OF
| those who attended the Court, universal and
eminently proper desire to hear his opening
charge. Throughout the whole delivery Of the
same he was listened to by the large audience
with marked attention and respect and we are
much pleased to be able to chronicle the fact that
he effected q most complete and able viudic alton
OF his official course, and proved the utter ground
lessness OF the hasty charges made against him
in the public prints for his refusal to open the
Courts at the regularly appointed time.
| We regret that we cannot present his charge
IN ertenso in this ISSUE The already crowded
state OF our columns forbids our attempt to do il
| 1t in full next week.
1t was, in oil respects, most admirable and we'll
timed II was delivered with dignity and grace,
and was throughout most clear, forcble, eloquent,
and just. It demonstrated most clearly the fact
| that iu him the State has another Judge,-sdded
to the long line of illustrious names which have
graced her Judiciary--who will never tarnish her
honor, or fall below the high standard Of excel
lence and learning prescribed for her 80 highly
| elevated pubic men.
We were .oh pleased at his Honor's remarks
In reference to the present unsettled condition OF
affairs between the whites and blacks. Emenat.
Ing as they did, from so distinguished and learned
source, they are calculated to do much good
end It is our earnest hope that ere long the peo.
pie will recognize the truth OF the assertion that
the real happiness and true welfare OF both races
are involved in orbearance-humanity-k
treatment, and equal justice. Outrages an6
wrongs must bring disaster.
An organization Of counterfeiters. reaohinl
from tho st. Lawrence to the Rocky Mountains
has been disclosed by the arrest Il parties Il
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