The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-21

Messing German histrionics, will do wel to bear
in mind that this is tho last entertainment of the
kind this season. Tho programme offers tempt.
ing attraction.
THE PIc-NIC OF the German School will come OF
to-day, according to announcement. Wo wish tho
little folks great deal Of pleasure, and if we can
compass it, hope to mako uso of tho kind invita-
tion rendered us by the committee and spend
Pfngstmontag with them auf alte yaterlmn-
p scho Weise.
The EXERCISES Of Messrs. PELor & SuERrEspEs
Commercial School will commence this evening at
eight o'clock, at Masonic Hail. corner King and
Wentworth streets. Mr.. STEPHEN l.. PELor's
pupils, who have not completed their course of
instruction, are requested to attend. See adver-
tisement .'..' .~'
LARGE SHIP AND CAHdo.-The American sh in
Hudson Capt POTTER which has been loading
for few weeks past for. liverpool by Messsrs
WILLIS, & CHIsoLM, has nearly completed her
cargo--wanting about ono hundred bales cotton
to fill mp. She is tho largest merchant vessel that
has taken in freight here since tho termination Of
hosiics, being about 1l3O tons, asld will carry
some 1000 balos cotton and is now bending her
sails, preparatory to going to sea.
LIE uhhFES OF THE DEAD-A
meeting of the Ladies' Association, to comnemo-
rate the Confederate dead, will be held at tho
English Lutheran Church, corner Archdalc and
Clifford streets, this evening, at five oclocs. The
Rev. MIR. WIanTMAN will deliver an address to the
ladies of tho association. We are requested to
say, however, that the Church will be open to ALL
and it is most desirable that the ladies' of Charles
ton-all who take an interest in the welfare of the
association shall show, by their presence there
that they have not forgotten our gallant dead.
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THE u s. Monitor Sguando left this harbor on
Thursday in convoy of the q. s. Steamer Lenapee,
bound for Philadelphia, where she will go out of
commission and be laid up at Lesque Island. The
Squando is the frat light draught monitor which
ever has been south OF Fortress Monroe. She
arrived here August I'd, 1865.
The following is list of her officers:
Lieutenant Geo: P. Ryan, o. s. N, Command
ing. ,sayr,t' = "''.
Ensigns: R. H. Lanphier, A. A. Frazen, Charles
Asst Surgeon B. Semig. '..'"
Paymaster, Geo. w. SelIew.
Engmeers: Second Assistant John Doyle in
charge, Third Assistant Engineers: e.: A. Robiis
SOD, =. Collins, @. D. Dyce, L. Galloway.
Carpenter, Geo. E. Anderson.
The JEWISH PENTEcosT, or ;ShebuoM, commence
ed on Saturday night, and will terminate this
evening at starlight. 1t is observed by the Israel
ties agreeably ito the Divine command "And We
shall count unto you from the morrow after the
Sabbath: :tfrst day of Passoyer) from the day that
ye brought the sheaf of the wave Offering. There
shallbe seven complete Sabbaths. Even unto tho
morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye num-
ber fifty: days" From the counting of 'weeke."
therefore, this festival derives it's name it being
literally a 'Feasts of Weeks" On the tiftietb
day, or morrow after the seven complete weeks,
nff,r el-I
fruits of the land and we Gun readily understand
the feelings of an agricultural people at having
the blessing of God on the fruits of their labor,
and how readily they must have brought portion
thereof as an Offering unto Him. But besides
this, the first day of the festival is the anniversary
OF the most important event that occurred to
Israel, the giving OF tho ten commandments from
the heights OF Sinai-the Law, also poetically
callod "the Light" This eight" they have pre-
served from generation to- generation. 1t has |
been with them throughout all their Journeys, |
even In the land OF their enemies; and, although
centuries have rolled by, it still exists ss an Gin
heritance OF the congregation OF Jacob"
In Europe, the syhagogues are taatefallly decor
ated with flowers and branches suitably 'celebra-
ting the vernal feast.
AcCIRENT AND ConoSER's ISotEsr.ZAn accdent
occurred Friday last en- East Bay, q little above
Broadistreet, which has been attended with
serioust consequences. DIR. r.. A. KMLooH wae'
drfVing In his buggy, andfound tho street OBJ
sstrpcted by dray the draymap refusing to give
sufficient room for the buggy to pass. Tho doc
tor, thinking that the necessary space would be
afforded him, as the sidewalk was olose upon his
right. made the attempt to pass but failed in
taking mp his horse in time to prevent a. coliisen
The drayhah, feeling that he was at fault moved
off hufriedly, and thus escaped arrest ....;.
DIR. ks little son, aged three years, and &C.
coored servant, aged twenty Ave, were with him in
the buggy. The horse fol-, and stuck in the soft
mud (abounding in that part OF East Bay-street). 4
The occupants of the vehicle were quickly liber.
ated:Rithout apparent injury. The. coloEed boy
Adam, however, upon reaching homo, began to
suffer from pulmonary hemorrhage, which, in
spite of medical meansj proved fatal late in the
evening. Tho post-mortem examination, nade
by Drs. EDWARD GEDpINas and r., a, KINIooH,
disclosed general ndema of both lungs; with OK
tensye chronic disease Of tho heart The Heart
was hypertrophied aad tho mitral and semilu-
ner valves andch diseased; The medical opin |
ion vas that fhe ellock kand, excitement, con-
sequent upon the accident, so acted upon the dis
eased heart as to- produce tho acute .qdema of the
lung which was tho .imrlediate cause OF death.
The verdict of the CoronGr's Jury was, "death |
from disease Of heart. '''"7'-'----~-----