The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-03

those offices, will close daily at the Postof6ce at
halfpast o'clock.
TaE City Treasurer will continue to receive the
amounts due for Cit Taxes for 1867 until 1st oc-
tober.
LIME CEMENT, &c., !ac.-We direct attention to
the advertisement Of Messrs. OLNEY & Co. in an
other column They are in receipt OF lime, plas-
ter, cement, &c., which they offer at the lowest
rates.
SPECIMEN of native animals can be seen on to-
morrow at the famous restaurant of HARM & SHER-
HAMMER, where fine lunch is served daily from l.
to 1 O'Clock, and liquors of superior quality. An
invitation is extended to the public FREE
ACCIDENT ON THE STEAMER RocKLAND.-The
steamer Rocktand, of the Mount Pleasant Ferry
Line, had her machinery deranged during her
morning trip from the city yesterday. She inn
mediately put back to her wharf, and the damage
investigated; it proved to be but slight, and she
viii soon resume her usual trips.
DAN. CAsTELLo.-We we're erroniousiy informed
concerning the location of DAMS Pavilion. Gen.
CLITz has kindly granted him permission to erect
his canvas walls on the Citadel Green and the
fence on Meeting street was designed as place
where he could announce to the community the
wonders of the coming show.
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"THE SOUTHERN Cross" We published poem
under the above name, few weeks ago, which ap-
pears to have found much favor, and we have been
Ill.
have no information ON the subject, saYe that We
have the assurance Of the friend who sent it to U.S.
that it was written by lady of this State II thi-
should ever reach heeeyes We hope she will be
encouraged to venture upon another trip to Mount
Heheon.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND
CHARLEsToN.-The links that unite these cities
are being gradually drawn closer. The fine steam
ers PAIot Boy, Captain w. T. McNELTY, and
Fannie, Captain FEM PECK, are now making tri-
weekly trips, leaving each city every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday mornings These steam
ers are thorough sea-going vessels, and are COM
mauded by Captains to whom 'a life on the ocean
wave' hasSno terrors. The accommodations for
both freight and passengers are ample, and the
trip made safe, short and pleasant.
Rev. JOSEPH Cross, D. D., we learn, fell victim |
to yellow fever in Texas. DIR. Cross was an Eng
hshman by birth, but emigrated to the United
States at an early age. He was widely known as a
minister, first Of the NJ. E. Church, and afterward
of the NJ. E. Church, South, having been connect
ed with some six or eight Conferences at different
times, If We remember correctly.
About 1854 he came to Charleston, and for
several years had pastoral charge of Trinity, and
then of Bethel Methodist Church. He afterward
was President of the Spartanburg Female College
During the war he chiefly labored in Tennessee as
Chaplain in the Confederate army. Immediately
after it's close he took orders in the Protestant
Episcopal Church. and at the time of his death
was Rector in Houston, Texas.
DIR. Cross was man of large talent and high
culture He was profoundly versed in theology
and well read in the entire department of bellies
lettres. Able as an orator, and sometimes bril-
liant, he was more pleasing to the intellectual man
than to the uninformed masses. He had studied
rhetoric as science and practsed it as an art.
His sentence never was faulty, and his thought,
gorgeously cad, always impressed the mind of the
hearer.
He was a voluminous writer, and his books,
while giving evidence Of but itto originality, al
ways bore testimony of patient industry, applied
by mind capable of approaching in and culling
from others all that is good.
Notwithstanding all the gifts with which boun-
teous nature had endowed him, he canuot be said
TO hare been to any considerable degree sue
cessful man; and care and trouble seem to have
been his constant companions through life.
He leaves in this city and throughout the State
large number of friends to mourn his loss. Re.
quiescat in pace.
The MORRIS STREET FREE CoLoRED SCHOOL,
This building, which was occupied for nearly two
years by the Freedmens Bureau as schooltor the
colored children Of the city, recently surren-
dered to the Board of Commissioners. On the re-
organization.of the Public Schools, among other
changes il was determined to devote the Morris
Street School House to the tuition of the colored
children. Tne school was opened for this pur
pose last week, and though the attendance was
slim on the first day, it has since steadily increas
ed, and there are now nearly four hundred pupils
enrolled, while others are received daily. Since
the reoccupation of the school by the Board it has
been thoroughly reftted, and is now the best
The Board have spared no pains to bring the
Morris Street School to perfection. Theseryices Of
an experienced corps Of teachers have been Oh
tanned, and the facilities for both the intellectual
and physical culture u the pupils are unequslled by
any school in the city, The location OF this school
renders it admirably suited for the purposes in
tended, as the houses in the vicinity are occupied
principally by colored persons. In the arrange
ment Of the school, great care has been taken to
render the pupils comfortable, and large play
ground on either side of the building affords ample
space for the recreation Of the pupils during the
recess.
The first floor of the building is assigned to the
Primary Department, where the colored children
OF both sexes are taught their A B C's. "A piano
In this department discouses sweet sounds, while
the voices OF the children unite in singing the
hymns, which are part OF the exercises The second
and third floors are assigned to the female and male
grammar departments. Attachedto each story are
four comfortable class rooms we'll ventilated and |
furnished with stoves. Five classes can be essilv
omanaged by the teachers, as one remains in the |
large room, but on all emergency others could lie |
added.
The school has accommodations for 800 or oJO |
pupils, and though only fraction of that number
has been enrolled. yet the Board anticipate full |
attendance in short time. There are numbers |
of colored children in the city who do not attend |
any school, but spend their time in idleness It is
for these equally with the more studious, that |
this free school was organized The advantages |
ola good education are now appreciated by the
most ignorant, and We strongly urge upon the
colored citizens to send their children to some
school, We do not wish to ignore the many
other schools in the city, they are ably managed,
and have achieved great success, but none can
equal that in Morris street in point OF comfort and
in the facilities offered for the bodily and mental
culture OF the scholars The building was con-
structed for schoolhouse is well ventilated, and |