The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-11-03
Our Charleston Correspondence.
CHARLESTON. October q,

S6AhGEoIOnJ oCoopCA Aosv'
Our "City by the Sea" never sparkled more
these passing pleasant October days. The rough
freckles left on her fair face by the ha-dships
of war have yielded in a great measure to the
emollient influences of peace; the tattered
dress of 1864 and 1865 has been patched and
painted into a semblance of the old taste and
neatness and there is an elasticity in her stride
as she moves forward on her prosperous career,
that tells of recuperating health and power.
There are a certain class of people you know,
who Irishman-like, are always for crossing
bridge before they come to it-chronic grum-
blers who look at the world through the green
goggles of melancholy, and imagine it to be en-
route for perdition at locomotive speed. Char
lesion has her share of this dilapidated crop,
but when the eye of common sense looks around
the city-and sees the signs of trade-sees
wholesale establishments stocked with every
variety of goods in demand stores filed with
retail buyers, and merchants from the country
pencil in hand checking off their larger orders !
sees the wharves freighted with merchandise
unloaded from three great lines of steamships,
to say nothing of smaller craft; sees vessels by
the score receiving cargoes of cotton, phosphates
and rice for various ports in the United States
and Europe sees handsome buildings in pro-
cess of construction, and the waste places filling
up sees banks whose capital is abundant and
whose dividends are sure and profitable; sees
manufacturing companies in successful opera
tion, and mechanics busily employed in their
various trades sees hotels filling in advance of
the season with tourists, and business men from
the North and West, and two theatrical COM
panies drawing nightly audiences and dollars
sees the elegant toilettes that are perambula-
ted on our thoroughfares, and the handsome
equipages that roll through our streets-when
the eye of common sense looks on all these evl-
dences of prosperity, it is impossible not to be
encouraged, and to feel that we are on the high
road to prosperity, the diseased croakers to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
True, money is a little tight just now, and he
who wants to borrow the filthy lucre must needs
pay an unusal discount; but then you know
cotton is down the factors are carrying all they
dare; and planters are holding back for better
prices. The real business of the year has not
fairly commenced nor will it do so, until the
estimated three millions of bales are on the rail
and on the steamship hurrying to unlock the
Golfers of the world and secure for the South its
annual treasure.
The winter season opens gaily. Our Acade-
my of Music-one of the most elegant and
commodious theatrical structures in the south
ern country-has been leased by Laura Keene,
the well known New York actress and man
ageress; and Hibernian Hall is already nightly
occupied by travelling troupes of one kind and
another. We are promised hepresence during
the winter, of some of the brightest dramatic
stars of the country, and those who have not
seen Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, and Joe
Jefferson, the Rip Van Wrinkle of the world,
will doubtless have an opportunity to do 80.
The Fair of the State Agricultural Society to
be held here the first week in November will
doubtless be an event of usual interest Large
sums of money are being expended in prepara..
tions; great building covering large area OF
and premiums will be distributed to the amount
of ten thousand dollars for the best exhibition
of machinery, productions of agriculture, man
ufactures and art of every kind. Twenty-Five
thousand visitors are expected and arrange
ments are being made for their entertainment.
The railroads will bring visitors free and-and
charge them only on their return. Very fine
racing stock is expected to be present. and we
shall probably have q renewal of the old time
competition which has made the Charleston
track famous in the sporting circles of the coun-
As matter of prudence it will be advisable
for visitors to secure accommodations IN ad-
vance by applying to one or the other of the
hotels. Messrs. Parker & Pond, the proprie--
tors of the Mills House, have just completed
extraordinary arrangements. They have re-
newed the house from top to bottom filled Its
rooms with the most elegant and luxurious OF
furniture, painted, papered, mirrored, carpetted
and curtained to the extent of forty thousand
dollars; made their parlors marvels of beauty,
turned their halls into spacious promenades,
and opened dining room, merely to see which
makes one wish his tasting apparatus was q mile
long These gentlemen have made hotel keep
ing q scientific study, and between French
cooks, splendid markets, careful attendance,
choice apartments and immaculate cleanliness,
there is no reason why man, woman and child
should not feel themselves perfectly at home
under their spacious roof 1t is the place OF
places in which to domiciliate when the stranger
comes to Charleston.
The State election which has just taken place,
although not resulting in the success of the Re-
form ticket as regards the Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor, has given general satisfaction
to the community inasmuch as it promises to
effect q decided improvement in the State Leg
islature. If, as is estimated, forty Conservative
and intelligent members have been elected by
the Reform party, they will constitute sutfi"
cient minority to check in great measure the
designs of extreme Radicals, and oppose the
ignorance and corruption which has brought
the legislation of South Carolina into disgrace
The official result will not be known for at least
ten days, and even then it may be materially
modified by the rascalities which occurred at
many of the polls and have become the subject
of protest. The Radicals claim three colored
members of Congress. The conduct at the bal
lot boxes on many of the Islands was decidedly
loose. At more than one precinct negro women
voted for their husbands, and their husbands
voted somewhere else. Boys under age also
voted. while in a score of places armed bodies
of blacks prevented others of their race from
casting ballots for the opposition. 1t is proper
to add, however, that where such scenes oc-
Cured there were not more than five or ten
white men against as many hundred negroes
and resistance was therefore useless. In
Charleston, the day was as peaceful as II II
were Sunday.