The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-30

two against tho measure.
It is seid thsS tho University Press, OF Cam
bridge Massachusetts, has press, made in Paris
tho peeuliarity Of which is thai the sheets go II
at one end and come out at the other, printed OF
both sides. The Atlantic and Young Folks ST
printed on it.
project has been started to tunnel beneath th
st. Clair River at Detroit, End lay single trscl
sixty feet beneath the surface OF the water no 3:
to enable the cars of the Great Western and Mich
igan Central ~cads to make actual connections.
is estimated that the cost will be q, 500 cOo, ant
the time required will be from two to thee years
The Mobile Register says that under the process:
OF lerelling the fortifcations about MobDo, which
has been going on for the last eight or ten months
the inner ine Of entertainments, which passed
through the outskirts OF the city, has pretty vel
disappeared, the erabenkmonts having been shoY
elled down and the ditehes allied up.
Several Of the large drygoods Embellishments Il
New York have established detective force, which
is employed to look aftor the clerks. The detec
tyes visit all sorts of places, and If CLERK is seer
where be should not bs, 3 quiet dismissal and snt
reasons given" follows at once.
In the Kentucky Senate, last week, MIR
BIGGER offered a resolution that the refusal o
Congress to sanction payment to loyal men OF com
pensation Tor slaves who had enlisted is . breaci
Of pGghted faith, and that it wnrrants the South
ern States in rcpudiating the national debt.
The GAINESVILLE 1fnses says that, in q case O.
poison from laudanum in that place, the patient
was saved when apparently Lear death, and un'
able to swallow, by injecting atropina, prepara
ton Of belladonna, through an incision. in the
akin. The antidote was further administered
Though the mouth when The patient got able tc
swallow.
A Chicago paper gives credit to the gossip that
BB1aNoI1 on the stage has perfect horror Of the
female artists. In all scenes requiring contact
Of hands, or the platonic embraces common t.
operstic culminations, the great tenor exclams to
the astocished inamorata: sDon't touch me
Don't touch mel. You make me so nerrousl"
The Postof6ce Department has just ordered the
payment of twenty thousand dollars to e. P. HAnr
& Co., Of Memphis, for the transportation Of mails
from Memphis to Duyslps Bluff, from July, 1853.
For two Of these years the mail was army mail,
carried within the army lines, and upon boats
regularly chartered by the Government, upon
which it was specially ordered that mails should be
carried free.
The New Orleahs Investigating Committee en-
Saturday examined the Washington correspondent
Of the New York Times, who sent out General
SHERDAN's garbled dispatch last summer. He
stated that tine President gave him an order On
the War Department for General SHERDANs dis
patch, and that he got it from one of the clerks
there, thus charging Hpona clerk the nesponsibii-
ty Of garblng it.
The New Haven Register says that "about 90
Southern negroes passed through here, on their
way to Massachusetts, where places have been Sc
cured for them by Mr.. E. A. NEwA1L, the agent Of
the Freedman's Bureau, at Springfield. Had they
had tho misfortune to be poor whites they would
have starved in Massachusetts before they would
have been found places"
The Houston (Te1as) Telegraph says that tho
Eureka Hills are now turning out fno sheetingB
and drills, and will, in few days, put in the mag
ket their various goods, both cotton ani wool, and
test the question Of profit and loss. The Houston
City Nihs win be erected this spring. Much Of
the material is already on the ground. The 1na-
ohinery is aaid to be very ne costing some eighty
Thousand dollars.
A celebrated wholesale merchant In London
<Eng.) has presented to the proprietors Of tnee
Telegraph printing press which cost $25, ,OOO as u
token CT appreciation. In doing 80, he accom-
panied the gift by letter which said: SIN your.
paper, by judicious advertising, first built the
foundation of a fortune-and il your paper, by
judicious advertising, L have a,nassed the fortune
which enables me to offer this testimony OF regard
and good will"
GARBALDI, at the request OF an American friend,
has written letter giving his opinion or tho sf-
fairs OF the United States. He applauds the cleo
ton ofiSolored deputies to the Massachusetts, Le-
gisl.ture, and earnestly expresses his hope for the
preservation End future harmony ct tho Union,
and urges the President to come to terms with
Congress. (Mr. GAErBALDI ls much better judge
OF Bologna sausages and tobacco, than OF Ameri-
can institutions; and he had better take Crispn's
advice, and stick to his last-mihtary adventure
Over s. 600, 900 in mutilated and worn out notes
have been returned to the Tres Eury, where they
are placed IN an immense rorol,ing iron cylinder,
carefully locked, through which heated stream
OF acids passes, 80 that the ink is completely re-
moved, and mass Of pulp remains. This is
bleached and manufactured into envelopes tor the
use OF tho Treasury Department. Large amounts
of mutil.ted and worn out fractional currency are
thus decomposed, and reconstructed into enrel.
opes.
Thoro are large impor tations Of Canary birds in
the German steamers. The birds come principal
~ from the Hartz mountains in Hanover. The
number Of them that arrived here in the past wear
is estimated by large importers at from, Is 600 to
10000, worth s6o.oe0 OF $4,000. The mortality
among the birds on the passage is more than
twenty fire per cent. In this country thov ara
bred to some extent. One man in Phiadelphia
last ,ear raised three hundred, and another in
Buffalo ono hundred aud fifty. Several persons in
New York, New Jersey, &C., raise smaller num-
bers.
The .to.s,nal de r4g1Sc,at4re says the statistics
OF Franco for 1866 are not very brilliant. The corn
crop is below the average. Vino will be abund-
ant, but of very ordinary quality. Potatoes are
rotting in the storehouses; in many instances
fears are entertained Of not being abc to preserve
sufficient for the next planting. Olives will fur
nish better crop than was expected. Tobacco is
effected with the rot Walnuts and chestnuts have
prod1tced the ordinary quantity. The disasters Of