The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-09
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SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY ., 1857.

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SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1867
LOCAL MATTERS.
To PRrNTERs.-A good compositor-a steady, re-
iiablo man-can secure employment by application
at this Office.
The steamship Pioneer has been detained, and
the mail will, therefore, not close till IL NJ. on
Monday.
CouRr OF CHANcERr- Chancellor LEssENE pre-
siding.-Beyond few motions Of reference to the
Masters and tho continued calling Of the Docket,
nothing of interest transpred. ~
AT regular meeting Of the Board of Commits
sionsrs Of Public Buildings for Charleston District
held the 7th instant, tho following officers we're
elected, viz:
cHAs. NJ. FURaiAN, Chairman
VI. TOBIAS, Secretary and Treasurer. .f
The first Tuesday df each month was adopted as
the day Of regular meeting.
The STEAMSHIP CAn1oTTA.-About midday yes
terday this steamship arrived here from New York
after somewhat boisterors passage, and attend
ed with some delay in consequence Of tho difficult
working Of the nlachinery, which has just been
overhauled. She is consigned to Messrs. STREET
BROTHERS & Co., who will immediately load her
for New York. Her freight and passenger capacity
are excellent, and her commander, Captain CHAs.
Co1LINs is an officer Of much experience and re-
putation.
Rrur Cuap
ciesy celebrates it's Fifty-seventh Anniversary to-
morrow night, at the Citadel Square Baptist
Church. Addresses Will be delivered by Rev. L.
CurHRERT, and the Rev. ]. L. G1RAaDEAU, and the
annual report Of the Board OF Managers be read
by N. r. MIDDLETON, LII. D. gv
This Society has been enabled, in it's long and
useful career, to effect great good, and thero
few soldiers who do not remember gratefully the
efforts made by the managers to furnish them
with Bibles during the war. The Association is at
present in crippled condition, and an earnest ap
peal is made to its friends to come forward and as
sist it. BY tho payment Of 50 IN annual member
ship is secured, and all who entertain kindly feel
ines toward the Society, are requested to enroll
themselves as members. AZ "s
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CIRCULAR, CHUncH.-The few remaining mem
bers Of this corporation, desrous Of preserving
their identity as church, united some time since
in building Lecture Room, where they could
worship again in one body This Lecture Room
has been completed for some time, and is amply
sufficient to accommodate the congregation, being
seventy feet long and twenty ak broad, and con-
tanning thTty-six pews.. It was built under the
supervision Of MI. G. W. STYLES, the contractor,
and the workmanship is worthy of all praise.
The Rev. ". n. ADAMS has accepted call to
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ship of the Most High tomorrow. Mr.. ADAMS is
a Northerner by birth, but has lived in the South,
and graduated at Southern Theological Senina-
", and brings with him unexceptonal references
as to capabi]ity, standing, &c. We trust that he
may be enabled by his influence and teaching to
collect the congregation, and ultimately to rebuild
MAYORS CouRr, February 8.-A. Cunningham, q
colored carter, who is more fond Of wetting his
whistle than Watering his horse, and who, under
this pleasant way Of passing his time, got disor-
derly and ghty riotous, was fined SO.
An individual who was trying to dispose Of two
copper pumps, which he said he bought some eight
months ago, was examined, and the Mayor decided
to discharge him but to detain the pumps.
A young man, who had an alteration with the
doorkeeper Of ballroom in which a blow was
passed, was fined $40.
Five young men, who we're reported as noisy and
riotous at the Same entertainment, we're also made
to pay IS each.
o. s. CouRT-7n Admirably. Hon. Gro s. BRY-
AN presiding United States us The Schooner
Grupeshot- Libel-On motion Of ". E. M1roHELL,
Esq. proctor for the respondents, it is ordered
that GEo. G. TREscoTT, JOHN TuomY and JNo. FUR
CURSOR be appointed appraisers, and that they do
proceed to make true and just appraisement Of
the schooner Grdpeshok, and report the same to
this Honorable Court. It is further ordered that
upon the return Of the said appraisement the re-
spondents in this case do enter into bond in the
full amount Of the value Of the said schooner so
appraised, with good and sufficient security, to the
Clerk Of this Court, and that upon the execution
OF said stipulation the said schooner be released
from arrest.
In the case Of Mrs. MARY HART rs DECoTEs & |
SAlAs, and the same Ds. SALAs & Co., in which tho
DEGREES had been pronounced by the Judge in
favor Of the ibellants, and from which decroes an
appeal had been taken by Messrs. PORTER & Cox
NER, proctors for respondentst, it was ordered on
motion of Messrs. CAMPBELL & SEABRooK, proctors
for bsllants that the appeal bond be entered into
before the Clerk of the Court by Ia H. to-day.
1aRRovEMEeTs. II n accordance with hiresolutions
passed by the City Council, the workmen, under
the direction Of the COMMITTEE have been lately
engaged in improving the public grounds. This
is particularly noticeable in the Upper Wards, for
the Mall had degenerated into an menclosed com
mon liable to the depredations Of the numerous
COWS who are to be found in that section
It is the intention Of the authorities to reclaim
this square possible, and they design fencing it
IN, furnishing it with seats, setting out trees, and
ehectlng general change. The first steps to-
ward this have been taken, and the laborers were
employed Yesterday in digging up some Of the
trees in Ahen's Square, in order to transplant
them U to the Mall Aiken's Square was perhaps,
The only public park that did not suffer during the
hainp ed 1,r