The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-25

email gram crops are SIS quite fourishing con.
dition, and hopes are entertained Of o beautiful
3 harvest. This 81 encouraging, andsweS eShope the
afaictions that We read throughout the South
sstaaed " the many eontlb butions ne are.
as apeonle, receiving; and that:na q short time ne
win 1be able at least to keep starvation from our
dool ~ 80 -. -
The Earl Of Dunmore caught on his property in
the 1aleof Harris, in the Hebrides; some twenty or
{ & thirty salmon these he marked and carried alive
in his yacht to the opposite side Of the island,
where they were turned into q lake. hShe course
& sof the same season Ii which they were transport
ed, it was ,ascertained that some Oft tthesegery fish
I had come back again, oil theway home, . circuit
of forty miles atleast, tho pathloss waters
Of the broad Atlantic, passing several rivers in
their journey up which they might m have gone had
Z; they not preferred their natiYe stream.
The Washington correspondent Of the Baltimore
Z Sun ssys SANToRDr rCoNovER ALIAS CHARLES A.
{ .DuHRAM, WhoMas SsnYatea tofs perjury over Two
monins ago, is stu confined in the jail Of this Dis
rica q 30 months have elapsed since the Court
oyefTuled the last motion iof new trial, and yet
he has not been sentenced. The reason for the
delay has not transpred, and surmisesare nu1ner-
ous. Itcsa hardly ba possiha,, as is supposed by
some that the sentence is deferred in order that
CoNoyER may be used as witness against SUR.
fwhsn the Case Of the latter shall be taken up.
That would be preposteT 8" :sss:-is'
The Rockingham Register says: ssIhe tide sot
life, with quickened movement, begins to flow In
This direction from the States north and west of
us. We are seeing new and strange faces every
day; and the population seeking our exceedingly
genial and hospitabe sectionz is Of the very best
kind. We met on the streets the other day gen
tlemsn hom Pannsyl ylyania, Who had come to buy
land andto ms he his home in Rockingham. This
gentleman will bring with him a family Of ten
children, large proportion Of whom are hardy
boys: BE Is, besides, q superior mechanic, mill
wright ? & =.
The: London Sporting Gazette says that at the
approaching Croxton1 Park races novelty in stee-
pie chasing win be introduced, consisting of a
sweepstakes for hunters, foul miles from point to
point the course to be unhagged the riders not to
Obliged to wear colors, and to be allowed to go be
where they yike-provided they do not ride more
than one hundred yards along road-the lowest
weight to be twelve stone seven pounds. This ar
1angement IS intended to afford farmers chance
Of showing the capabilities Of their horses, with
out mourning the expenses attendant upon racing.
In the Circuit Court, New York, a case was tried
on Thursday, in which the plaintiff sought to re-
cover of the Adams Express Company the sum Of
5000 in legal tender notes, which in March, 1868,
were delivered by plaintiff to defendants agent at
Boston, to be conveyed to New. Orleans, but which
were never delivered there, owing to- the burning
OF the steamer in which Che money was, at the
wharf in the last named city, soon after her
arrival. The court, after hearing the plaintiff
evidence, dismissed the complaint, On the ground
that no negligence on the part Of the company's
agent had been proved. =
or the Louisiana creyasses, the Ibervlte; Soalth
Of the 18th, reports TIVE additional ones the first
at the Courtney and Woods plantation, in the
upper part e& West Baton Rouge, and tho other at
Scott's plantation, above Bayou Sara in the Parish
Of Pointe Coupee. It says both breaks are on the
westafnbslk the river, and will .we fear, drown
out the few spots that were still above water on the
Crosse Tete. All the section of country below
Piaquemfne to the Bayou Iafourche, will no doubt
) be more overfowed than it has been since 1923.
We have had occasion to meet some ofthe citizens
I Of Crosse Tete, Fordoche, Grand River and Bayou
Goula. All giyesad reports. On the Pordoohe
and Crosse Tete, cattle, horses mules, hogs and
poultry have been destroyed in large numbers.
The stock remaining on the Crosse Teto had been
driven. 70 the highest points. The now breaks
above reported may occasion the loss of this stock
fn none Of it can be brought out except by boats,
and this ia nearly impracticable.