The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-08

1850 bales; receipts, 445 bales, e4porIs, oo''
MOBILE, July S.wCotton- Sales $50 bales; closed
firm; Low Middling 214c.; receipts, 80 bales.
SAVANNAH July Cotton quiet and easy; sales
SO bales; Low Middling 21a21s receipts, III bales
NEW ORLEANS, July '6.-Cotton dull and unset
tied; sales 1000 bales; low midding 2sa2s3 receipts
1888 bales; exports 6644 bales. Sugar, only retail
trade; fair 134. Molasses, market bare. Flour
stock light; single extra $40 75a$1l Corn Is que.
%s light stock m sss5s g. Hae rm
at s23 IS. Bacon 10s, 12s and l33c for shou1aeEs
sides and clear sides. Gold 139. Sterling 49sa55.
New York sight premium.
state Items.
SALE DAY IN JuLY.-Last Monday was sale
| day, and duller one we have'neyer seen
very few persons in attendance. Several
tracts of land were sold by the Sheriff, at the
suit of the State, for taxes, which DID not
bring enough to pay the costs.
GBarn,reU Sentinel.
I REPORTED MURDER.-We learn that the
gang of robbers who infest the upper part OF
this District have committed another atroclous
murder on the person of q MIR. Bush. we
have not been able to learn any of the par
ticulars connected with the affair, but their
object, as heretofore, was money. In the scu1-
ae that ensued, it is said that a: colored man,
l. in Mr. Bush's employ, and who interfered IN
his behalf, was beaten nearly to death
Bolin, the murderer of Mr.. johnson, VINO Is
supposed to be the leader Of this oand Oh des-
peradoes, has been arrested.-Ibid.
We learn that Bishop Davis has appointed
the Rev. Mr. Pringle to perform occasional
monthly services in several Districts OF the
State now unprovided with the Episcopal min
listrations. The congregation of Christ Church,
ldepriyed of their own place of worship, at pre-
sent assemble in the chapel Of the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary, kindly loaned 1or their
use. The services there, we understand wall
be continued, although reduced to Two sundays
month, viz: the second and fourth Sundays
in the morning, as observation-disclosures.
THE FOURTH OF JULY-Yesterday was the
ssglorious Fourth''-the ninety y-6rst anniversary
of the independence of the United States. The
day passed off very quietly here, without any
| of the noisy demonstrations which signahzeo
i its observance in some sections Of the country
| We had no observances, civic or military, and
the oStars and Stripes floating from the top
of the Market House was the most conspicuous
reminder of the day, once SO brimful OF noisy
| patriotism.-A5bepilleP Press.
Our FoURTH.-The day in this town was
celebrated by the Comet Fire Engine Company
with a parade and barbecue. which passed OF
in the most satisfactory and agreeable manner.
| GOrangeburg Ne,rs.
An old lady, living in the eastern section OF
this District, over eighty years Of age, and
who has seen better days after hoeing cotton
one whole day last week in the hot sun, walked
to this place on the following day, adistance OF
twelve miles, for three pounds Of bacon ana
tten pounds.of -four. She expressed her gra-
titude for that much. The fact that an old
| lady, eighty years of age, is reduced to such
| circumstances that she has to labor in the cot
ton field in the hot-broiling sun for quart of
meal is sufficient. The flour and bacon she re-
eeived was q; portion of the contribution from
Washington county, Md.-Lacnaster Ledger.
| The commencement exercises Of the Laurens-
| vile Female College were closed on last We'd
nesday. Degrees and honors were conferred
| upon the graduating members. The addresses
and orations on the occasion wcrc worthy of aii
nraise, q The President, Rev. Saml j. Price,
delivered the diplomas, and the whole pro-
ceedings were extremely creditable to both
pupils and teachers
MURDER IN North CARoLINA.-The New
| bern Republican furnishes the horrible state
ment that FIVE. persons were murdered by
colored fends near that city. A detachment Of
| United States soldiers sent to that spot found
| that Mr. ;Foscue, his wife, one married
daughter, and two grand children, were killed
| in o shocking mann er. Miss Foscue, with her
niece, though badly wounded, escaped, and
gave the alarm, but no arrests had been made
though the whole country was on the lookout.
/ THE, Pail Nall Gazette has an interesting
summary of the British oil fisheries: "Sixty
years since there was feet of sixty whalers
sailing from the Humber, but that number has
dwindled, down to a few ships, and the total
number of whaling vessels in the United King
| dom has become reduced from one hundred
and sixty to considerably less than third Of
THAT number. As whale oil must be had, and
as it is said there is demand for more than
can be obtained, it will naturally be asked how
the trade has fallen Of. Some say the whales
are not SO plentiful as they were half q
century ago. That is one answer; and
there are also those who affirm that the
trade has fallen off, owing to q series of
bsd;years having discouraged enterprise. We
| have beside US notes of various misfor-
tunes that befell the whaling feet. The bad
years seem to have begun in 1886, when FIVE
of the Hull vessels were lost, and the ships
sailing from the port Of London obtained no
fish. :. Next year there was no improvement
in the fishery; eight Of the Hull boats return
ed empty, seven Of the Peterhead ships came
home clean, and the ships of other ports were
equally unfortunate -Kirkcaldy had four out
of five ships clean, while the Montrose ships
came home as empty as they left. The four
following years with the exception of slight
improvement in 1S4S), were almost equally
bad. These years gave such blow to the
trade that some of the ports, such as Liver
pool, Grimsby and London, gave up the ven-
ture altogether; while Hull, instead of having
sixty ships, was in 1S4O represented by two,
Dpndee by three instead of nine, Newcastle
sent out one instead of five, and so on Since
these dates there has been, on the average,
only one really good year in every three, and
that would seem not to pay sufficiently well to
bring back the trade to its old point of pros
perity. The gains of the whale fishery are
very large when the ships are successful, but
a few bad years soon run away with the profit
After quoting an extract from the World
the Richmond Wing remarks:
The World is the organ of the Northern De
mocracy, and when it speaks of "our policy,
it means the policy Of the Democratic party
AS we interpret its language, it intends to soy
that the worse the people of the South are
treated by the party in power, the better i
will be for the Democratic party, since the
causes of complaint and the grounds of objec
ton against the Republican party will b'
strengthened in proportion to the outrages they
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