The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-10-04
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the war, and particularly of late, she is making
rapid strides towards the attainment of her former
prosperity. Much of the lethargy which the stag
nation of business during the summer, and the un-
healthy condition of the city for the past few weeks
had occasioned, is disappearing before the influx
Of trade, and the COOL bracing breezes Of Fall cot
ton, yet king is re-asserting its sway and through
all the ramifcations of life, commercial and social
is its permeating influences producing new energy.
Bales upon bales of the staple are already finding
their way hither, and making glad the hearts of
the people, from the humbest carrier who tolls in
its transportation up to the moro fortunate mer-
chant who measures his commissions by hundreds
and thousands Of dollars. Vessel after vessel is
bearing it away, and bringing in return the COM
modities and luxuries of life. The effect of this
traffic is visible in the brilliant display Of The
goods, wares and merchandise with which the
stores of Meeting and King Streets are absolutely
plethoric.
Charleston has every reason, but one, to be SAN
guine of great material prosperity. Her advan-
tages for trade have always been recognized as
superior to those Of any other seaport south of
Baltimore, excepting New Orleans, and the COM
petion of the Cincinnati Railroad, the prospect of
which is by no means bad, will lend an incalcula-
BILE impetus TO her growth. She needs but one
thing and that is the confidence which political
quiet would give. Had the people Of the North
accepted the invitations Of her merchants to settle
amongst them, and been magnanimous enough to
employ some of their surplus capital in developing
the resources of this State instead Of engendering
and encouraging political strife and commotion,
the waste places Of the country back of US would
have olossomed like the rose. and this city itself
would had been free from many of the melancholy
traces it retains of Its sufferinga during the war.
But ii has been otherwise ordained, and SO our
eyes nre yet saddened with the sight of the shape
less ruins of hundreds of once happy homes, and
our hearts yet falter with fear for the future.
Not the least difficulty under which We have
heretofore labored, hos been the apprehensions
felt by strangers with regard to the health Of the
city. These are now nearly dispelled. The main
tenance of quarantine regulations has clearly
demonstrated the practicability of protecting us in
future from the pestilence which has chiefly afflicted
us in the past for since 1853 the yellow fever has ap-
peared only in sporadic cases, o majority Of which
were imported. The health Of Charleston will now,
under ordinary circumstances, compare favorably
with that of any other city in the South. 1t is
true, that for the past four weeks, We have suffer-
ed from the visitation of singular epidemic, which
has prevailed more generally than uny other dis
ease has ever been known to do here, still it has
proved fatal in very few cases. and then only when
combined with some other malady. It's symptoms
were those of the break-bone fever of very mild
type, its origin purely local, perhaps malarious,
and am happy to say that it is rapidly disappear
ing
case, which will probably excite considerable
interest, is in preparation in the District Court of
the United States. During the war, the Gas Com
pany of Charleston returned, under orders Of the
Receiver of the Confederate States 3776 shares in
that orporation-representing in the aggregate
Dor value of S94, ,150-for sequestration, as the
property of stockholders resident at the North,
and then alien enemies. These shares were sold,
and are now in the possession, by purchase or
transfer, of merchants and Others natives of this
state. Inc ELOCkuOluer6, NuOoc iuIOA Co'o "OAS
thus disposed of, recently demanded the surrender
of the shares on the ground that the sale was le-
gal. The demand was refused, but the Gas Com
pany proposed tossue new shares to the claimants,
in order to avoid the litigation with which it was
threatened. To this they object, on the ground,
that such issue would, by duplicating the shares,
whilst the capital stock of the Company remained
limited by its charter, proportionately reduce the
dividends of the legitimate shareholders and thus
violate their rights Accordingly they have fled
Bill for Injunction and Relief, in the merits OF
which all of the questions necessarily involved will
be tried, and amongst them, Judge Bryan will be
called to decide whether the Sequestraton Acts OF
the late Confederate States con protect the parties
who purchased under the sale of its Receiver.
1t will interest your Catholic readers to know
that the new Chapel Room, which has been built
on Queen Street, in the rear of the spot occupied
by the ruins of ST. Finbars Cathedral, will be
secrated tomorrow. The services, which promise
to be very interesting, will be conducted under the
auspices of Bishop Lynch, to whose energy the ac-
complishment Of the work is principally due. The
labor of rebuilding the Cathedral will not be de
layed, and when it is completed, the Chapel will
be used as @ school-house.
A new s0eak-ly paper in the interest of The
American citizens of African descent, and chris
tened the ssCharleston Journal" has been started
in this city. have not yet been favored with
glance at its columns, but am thoroughly satisfied
that it will prove gnoble failure. Those of our
colored people who con read, are perfectly satis-
fed with the "Courier" and "News" and those
who cannot, are utterly unconcerned about the
publication of any literature which does not tickle
their fancies with such elegant, chaste and truth
full illustrations as appear in Harper's Journal OF
Civilization.
Max strakosch, the itinerant prince Of the mu-
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