The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-23
state Items.

TRADE OF SrAnrASpunu.-As most Of lilo lle
crops have been laid by we are pleased to n,
INT h our strorts nro again enlivcncd oycry day.
pose Of trHlo md barter. Tho time has one on,
more arrived, that there is bread In tho land.
WHICH mleh Inc Bulierlngs OF tho poor women and CHI
drei, can Dc reuved tor, such scencs Of utto
dcstitmtion and absolute want, as has boon wit
messed, within tho last two yours, would touc
Inc R,, hardest heart with sorrow and sympathy
tho bitterness OF want has PASSED away
s1rnHs s5pus'qG. tho .c whole Of last Winter an'
S aa pe epSs Seou Sa this boo town ,0T was EoC
searelly o. money prevented it from being n,ucl
larger tE & We arc looking with pleasing solcitud
lor large e. increase OF trado for tho noxt Mint
nus OF direct and continuous limo OF railroad.
from Charleston and AuguLtH-tho former about
Sr t%o mum nrSH h ana twenty-five miles lat
continuous line OF about ono hlintrod and siIt,
,ia mi!es; thus making direct railroad communica.
am ,U %nn uss e about thTco hundred
great advantage to tho trado OF this town, that ali
INC pest mountain gaps of Tonnessoo and NORTH
moro favorable to tho trade and travel of this place
than TO- any othor town In this State, It ia from
twenty to thirty miles to tho North Carolina limo
tr9is section of our own District and yory larre
aud fertile country stretching ovcr many of tho
, rietl counties OF North Carolina and Tennessee.
Thus arc We in position, could we command Tho
necessary appliances of commerce. to carry on n'o n
large nnti profitable trado with all that part of Tho
GIoMntry Imy behind W. embracing portions OF three
cotton plaptl1 jn Suvyiaufmcr HAS tilurs or iuss
planted; and, TO add 10 thcse cheering D respects
tue belief is general TINT tho bread crop is pcnti-
full. Tho prospects, therefore, are worry flatterng
TINT very active trado will DO carried OH at this
place for tho next eight or nno months.
AS tho Charleston Press, We know. wish to pro-
sea-" wo respectfully sugges; that they notice bis
and similar topics they will always find in all their
country exchanges, Charleston must not hatter
itself TINT. because it is in South Carolina il will
necessarily obtain oil the trado Of South Carolina.
without Nh effort on her part, to secure the conf,
deuce and hold out proper Inducements TO the peo-
the good old city-wo loyo hor more than all the
world-but, tho universal law ill., to buy cheap anil
soil dear; Trade Is trade, let it bo with whom il
wiu-lnd money is money let il como whence n
may.-CdrottnG S0ar7dn.
MEETING OF THE FnEEDMEN-A largo meetinp
OF the freedmen OF this town and the Vicinity was
held in tho Court House on Tuesday evening, tho
18Th inst. Wo believe it was called prncjpaliv 10
hear nh address from Robert Houston. OF PI;la.
delphia, who said ti,at ho WAS acting under in
structions from, tho Central Executive Committee
rho roniop 9en aein party A. Washington
Houston read an address with much proprioty
and was we'll received by the colored peoplc pre-
thing objectionable. hIr. P6inior and tho eJ;-
tor of this, paper, Rfter repeated calls, made
some remarks which appeared to 10 received
III lICuuS bpIlI. Inc la9t speaker
preacher Rico (coloredl, whose quaint savings
brought down the house." producing Bomo Iittln
mcrriment. Tho house was crowded, nclutlin.
felus iu seesd IL 10 n4aro tSrno Tn.S S,fons good
slightest asperity was c1hibte.. This is not to
be wondered at, for tho colorcd people of our dis
sero, and We attribute this to the generally kind
treatment they receive from tho people OF Spar
tanburg. From all We can lcarn they will vote for
convention and delegates, but who arc their can
tlnt the whites will have large majority in th,
district, If they au register who nro not tlisfran-
Ghiscd which, for their own good, they will surely
do.-Ldro,iad Spartan.
DAnIsu BURGLARY. storo of Mr. Horny
Sampson was visited by n band OF burglars ou
Friday night, that challenges and puts to d,ght ali
other affairs OF the kind to be iound in the chrou
tclcs OF the people" of this town or any other
previous reconnaissance of the premises had satis
fled tho parties that there was mode OF gaining
acccss to tho interior OF tho store through a win
dow IN the rear OF the building. After removing
ono or two bricks from tho window Franc stt one
largo lever WAS inserted bctwcon tho stlle OF th
window and THO siil, forcibly ripping OFF tho for
mer; they then bent the iron bar OF tho shutters
to such nn c1tont as to enable q small boy to bo
inserted in tho aperture. The atore being thus
entered, the bar on tho interior Of tho back
and deliberately loaded their boats living at the
wharf. Ono Of tho boats was seen going up the
SSampit, and another toward the waecanaw,
boing loaded at tho wharf. colored man, VIM
Picket by namc, who cried, "Stop thief" was shot
by one OF thieves, and wounded, we boliovo in tho
leg. In their flight, they capsized the boat at tho
wharf, and negro man was arrested in tho boat
as also another, who says ho is tho owner Mr. 81
says he has clue to other parties, and hopes
eventually to DO successful ofncting their arrest
He thinks that there are white men CONCERNED.
who, porhaps planned the affair." Somo few of
tho goods have been recovered from tho capsized
nOat @ o. % e0urse very much damaged b1t hc fears
Ii the Doldest and most complete burglary that has
cyer boen known in our town, nnd shows the de-
sgn, M , OF superior inteuigence in consnmmating
WHOLESALE robbery, not very characteristic Of tho
such depredations. -
Mr. sampson has usually boen careful in pro-
occasion above mentioned, it so happened that tho
store was tcnantless, aud verify the conseaueuces
have been disastrous. -Geo5geto,on Times,
SAD GAsUALTy;-Wc learn that Mira. McIvor, vito
District, was shot and killed, on Saturday night
last, by her ittlo son, under the following circum
stances Tho family had retired quito carly, when
hlra; Mclroy Was aroused by noiso in tho poultry
Her littlo boy bcing noar by aho Immediately
awoks him, told him to get the gun aud so and
Tnt s StIs f. TiG little boy
in tho meantime had proceeded him 10 tho ward.
ana was standing near tho poultry house, whom
her. son r,, came ans, out Of the house with the
was i'll tho yard, supposed the object which no
saw at the poultry house to bo the rogue and tho
ealse Of the lalso, raisod ha gun and firol, put
ting tho load in her head. Tho fatal mistake was
soon found OUT pIompt medical attention fur.
nished, and oyery effort made 10 save her life. She
lived until Sunday morning about II O'Clock, whom
her spirit departed for it's otornai home
Sho leaves O devoted husband, family Of chill
dron, and largo cirole OF acquaintance 10 mourn
her losu.- Florence Gazette,
AocIDENT.,Wa rogret to loarn that Miles Par
rott, formerly alaSe OF Oliver Psrrott Of this
District, and who was on his way TO his work near
Wilmington, met with a serious accident at Ibis
htoppeu, he jumped Oh ON O IIiu 'U sauu,. rnav
gaYo way and throw him back undcr the train,
which passed over ono leg, neHrly seyerng it,
above tho knec-joint. DIS. Washington, King
and Jarrott, kindly offered to caro- for his inIuros
and his leg was takon of, aud his wound dressed.
Florence GazeHe.
SunAn CRops IN LoUIsIARA.-A recent letter