The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-20

! proud, even in their poverty, g be dependent on
foreign assistance to rear their shattered house
| hold gods. Peace has not brought plenty, but
with tho requisite energy and industry future OF
contontment is sure, where the results Of honest
labor are considered not derogatory to character,
and the fortune made by the hands Of toll viii con-
| fer credit upon its possessor.
The present is dark hour, bat We have much
to be thankful fo1, and although our progress has
not been as rapid in the olden time yet we have
been steadily emerging from our desolate condi-
ton into the fullness of former days. On every
side are to be seen marks Of progress that would
shame the veriest croaker in the land. The street
| railway, now an undoubted success; the new
buildings, the well filed stores, and the brisk
trade done in some localities, all exhibit signs OF
progress that are most cheering.
| The Spring trade promises well; merchants
have all laid in extensive stocks, and the few buy
ers who have arrived express themselves well
pleased With the prospect and think that old
Charleston will soon regain her former supremacy
| and be able once more to compete favorably with
Northern cities. The different sections Of country
that formerly bought from Charleston are fast re-
turning to their old allegiance-one trip North has
| satisfied the merchants that more money can be
spent than can be saved, and by dealing with
Charlestonians. they not only obtain their goods
/
| thei, expenditures.
Charleston merchants have always been re-
nowned for their iberality, and their customers
Will find it to be to their interest to return to their
old haunts It is true the credit system has FOR
tunately become played out, but they can obtain
as good terms, and can buy as cheap goods in this
market as in the larger cities at the North. The
facilities for communication with the city arc
far superior to those Of the past season, and
reepondingly large trade is expected BY those who
are posted. Everything denotes the fulflment Of
this phrophecy. The hotels are gradually being
filed, and the strange fsces seen along tho streets
bring "reminiscences of the happy days when
Charleston was the great business centre of the
cotton States. Already the wholesale stores have
commenced their night work, and the lights
! cleaning brightly from the different doorways,
prove that there is life in the old land yet, and
that trade is by no means SO defunct as the croak-
ers proclaim. In former days merchants from this
State, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and the
Gulf States focked to this market and an extern
aive business was done by our large merchants.
This trade is now being gradually revived and every
successive season brings some Of the wanderers
back to their fold and the time is not far distant
when Charleston Will resume her place Us the
Queen City Of the South. 'sy
TRAGEDY IN SAvANNAH.-The Savannah Herald,
OF the 18th inst, says:
Shortly after ten o'clock yesterday morning, our
community were startled by the intelligence that
! horrible murder had been committed and that
afterwards the murderer had immediately taken
| his own life. gE
The melancholy affair took place in the kitchen
attached to the sour House, dining saloon, and
the principal actor was Frenchnan named Alfred
Meuilot, who was the chief cook in that establish
ment. His victim was young man named Philip
Judge, about twenty years of age, who, up to with
in q short time SINCE had been employed there as
1 The Coroner, DR.. Robt. P. Myers was summon
ed, and at about eleven o'clock, having procured
jury, proceeded to an examination, from which it
appeared that Judge had been dismissed from the
establishment short time since, and that the pro-
prietor had given orders not to allow him in the
Fatally for him, he went there yesterday morn
| ing, and taking a cup, asked the pantry yman for
some milk and sugar. and was about to 60 to the
coffee urn, when Meuillot told him that the proprie-
tor did not allow him to come there, whereupon
he told the Frenckman to ego to hell.' The latter,
who held knife in his hand at the time, said if
| knife into him. The boy made use Of the express
sion again, when, true to his threat, the enraged
Meuillot plunged the knife into the body of Judge
inficting an Instantly mortal wound. The knife
used was q long carving lnife, which IVES very
! sharp, and entered the right SIDE, penetrating to
the aP 66g eRa iq i with hdsa an s NJ
ground and expired almost instantly.
When the murderer saw what he done, heleaned
yeg bood5 dGSSh
his own breast, he plunged it in six or seven
times in the region Of the heart. Laying the knife
on the taole, he fell dead upon the floor.
After the inquest friends took charge Of the
bodies and had them inferred. That Of Judge was
taken in charge BY Messrs. Philip Callahan and
| James Kerrigan, in whose employ he had been,
and by whom handsome metallic coffin was Oh.
receiving vault at the Cathedral Cemetery to await
the order Of his friends in New York, where he
has an uncle living, and, we belisve, one sister.
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