The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-18
THE LABOR STRIKE IN NEW YORK
BREAKING. UP.
Beginning OF the Long Branch Season.
The Radical Summer Mecca-Mr. Ben
nett's Fuueral-The Future OF the
Herald-Arrival OF the Heated Term.

nett's Funeral-The Future OF tn,
Herald-ArrIval Of the Heated Term
tFRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, June IL.
The labor strikers are not going to achieve
| the great triumph they anticipated. The
| 'eight hours' demonstration on Monday wal
failure. Instead of thirty thousand men II
line, there were less than three. Many trade!
refused to join the procession at the last mo
ment. Yesterday the cause was still further
demoralized by the caving in OF the employees
of Singers sewing machine factory, over ff
teen hundred in number. These men returned
to ten hours labor, their old hours, and aban
doned the eXaction of twenty per cent. ad
vance in wages, after having stayed away
from work one week. They adopted Bet o.
resolutions humiiatlDg themselves In the dust
which doubtless was the price of their en-
ployers forgiveness. The present strike will
prove only q partial victory. Some Of the
strikers have succeeded; others still hold out
but many have returned to work minus 9
couple of weeks wages. The sympathy OF
the community Is usually with the working:
the present movement has deprived II OF
much of The outside moral support which ls
necessary to its success. Still the great ques.
ton ls BY no means settled. The working
men surrender because their ammunition has
gwen out, but they surrender sullenly, and
with determination to renew the war at the
earliest opportunity.
watering place, Long Branch, yesterday by
the advent there of the President and his
train sf domestics, military secretaries, bull
dogs and horses and political hangers on. The
court took possession oil the handsome cottage
BY the sea and others In Its neighborho0d,
and for the coming two months there Will be
the seat OF government OF the United States
A brilliant season is expected at the Branch
this year. It is true that two of the three
ruling spirits of the great fashionable resort
in the past have been snnffed out. FISK, VINO
did more to build mp Long Branch than any
other man except Grant, ls dead. HelmDold
Ia in a lunalic asylum. But II they can reap
near no more, they at least established the
notoriety of the place before they left, and 1t
can now flourish without them.
All the hotels will open for the reception OF
guests next Saturday. New steamboat and
railroad connections with New York and
Philadelphia have been perfected. The
through Journey can now be made between
this city and the Branch in an hour andthree-
quarters. During the past winter and sprlDg
over hundred new and expensive villas have
been erected by private gentlemen. Some OF
the diplomatic corps have rented cottages for
the season, and the rich theatrical people
have gone there In greater numbers than
ever. Still, Long Branch is not In favor with
sour best families" It Is munlacently pat
ronized by the shoddy people. The polltl-
clans and the sporting fraternity. Fisk, Grant
and Helmbold, are very fair types Of The
classes which frequent 1t most and give tone
TO It's society," Our ''arlstocracy," whether
of birth or intellect. lnslinctively shrink from
such associates. Probably Newport is the
watering place most favored by the exclu-
eives. It has lost something cf Its summer
business of late years, but has gained more
proportionately In heavy respectablity.,
After lying In state for two weeks, the re-
mains of Dr. Bennett, of the Herald. will be
buried ln Greenwood Cemetery tomorrow.
steamer yesterday, and first heard OF his
father's death from the Sandy Hook pilot.
Though he had been summoned nome In haste,
he had not expecIgu rue HUT nsws 80 soon.
He had the monrnfnl satisfaction, however,
of looking upon his fathers face once more.
The keeping of body 30 long before burial Is
unusual. The embalming wes only partially
successful, and decay, assisted by the not
weather, has been rapid. The countenance OF
the deceased is said 70 have changed 30 mucn
as scarcely to be recognizable.
The Younger Bennett becomes sole owner
and publisher Of the Herald. Hitherto ne mas
shown more interest In sporting matters tnan
Journalism. It remains 70 be seen If, with the
possession of great position, ne VIII ieei tns
The weight of the new responsibility, ana WILL
turn from bis pleasures to duty as Prlnce
Harry did when he became king: lt haroiy
seems probable, though, that Mr.. Bennett Will
take his fathers place. II he ever mad any
taste for Journalism he would have exhibited
1t before now. The report is that the property
is given to him on condition That lC snall
never 90 out of the family. Mr.. Bennett, Jr.,
has had the advantages of liberal education
and better social surroundings than his lather,
and it may reasonably BIZ expected that ne
will elevate the Herald TO higher plane than
that 1t has 80 long occupied. With ITS cir.
culation and notoriety, and the money behlnd
IL, it might aspire to be the real "Thunderer'
In American journalism.
+ We have summer weather at last. Up to the
latter part of last week, the: days were cool,
and overcoats were necessary for evening out
door wear. With the heat came swarms OF
mosouitoes-six weeks at least before their
time, and fleas innumerable. Southern Visl-
tors are arriving 10 great numbers, and scat
tering of to the watering places and moun-
tains. You would be surprised to Know Oh
the hundreds Of Southern families who spend
the entire summer In the mountain villages OF
Vermont and Western Massachusetts. and
along the banks of the Connecticut and Nara
pansstt. It would almost seem as II mere
were no mountains and rivers worth vlslClng
in the South. AS of old, what Is made at
home In the winter is brought here to build
up the great North In the summer time:
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