The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-21

who did not love ger iege lord in q particularly
cxtrnvagant manner, but, on the contrary, signed
for Street and regretted that she was not o 1ree'
woman Street issued an emancipation procialiiila. il
tion on his own account (and Oh hers), stole the
| iady from her home. in Chicago and brought hel
on here, and put up ut q frst-class hotel as Mr'
Steclc and ladY-a most appropriate na1no undei
| the circumstances Freeman underworld TO get
his wife back and failed, whereupon ne mas brougn'
suit against Street for ten thousand dollars DAM
ages as q greenback balm to his wounded heart
The Court has not yeS decided whether or not this
| be too much balm to apply.
The Con ,rossional Commlttee appointed 10 eA-
amino into the revenue frauds are hard at work
here. and were closetod till very late hour last
night in one of the rooms of tho Astor House
THEY have examined a number Of witnesses,
whose testimony goes to prove that poor oid Uncle
| Sam has been swindled on most gigantic scalo,
on thers would be but little chance for the old gem
tleman over to be rich old Uncle Sam, from the
| revenue receipts ut any rate
A number Of ladies of high standing and ! IN. !.
fuence held Temperance meeting last night Of o.
Brooklyn, and it wns resolved that the Excise Law
is a good thing-which may be true-and that IN
toxicating beverages arc bad-whch is not always "a
strictly tho case It VAS moreover resolved tnas n,
stornor sex who indulge in smiles Of a different
Tho worhmen employed in digging q trench
around tho new Court House building in Cham
bers street. were much surprised Yesterday at un-
earthing a half bushe OF human bonos, together
with q couple of skulls that looked as though they
NAV have once belonged to Yoriek md Yorick's
brother, as they grinned most hideously. large
crowd, of course soon gathered around to witness
scene from Hamlet free of CHARGE but the work
men were not well up on the grave-diggcrs parts,
and no Hamlet was there to give them their cues,
wherefore the grinn;ng saulls were put away, and
the grinning crowd dispersed.
Another great pianist has arrived herc hnylng
como all the WY from Rio Janeiro to show us how
tho instrument ought to be playcd-to show us
who have ho1rd TIalberg and Gotschalk, Welhi,
Poznanski, Arthur Napoleon, and Il host OF others;
to play hero whero one cannot stand at any corner
and swing a fishing rod without bringing down q
half dozen first-rate panists Nevertheless, it is
said that Oscar Pficfcr will astonish tho Gotham
tics, and make the piano do decls never dono by
piano before The ladies need not fall III love III
advance with Mr.. Pfeer, for he is drawing in the
double harness of nlatrmony, and his wife, WHO is
with him, is q first-class Rio Janeiro operate
If is said thst Head Centre Stephens sailed for
Europe last Saturday, having first reliuquishcd al
control over the Fonian affairs. 1t would be as
well for tho entire Fenian Circle to follow suit, mud
give up a game that there is not, and never has
been, the ghost of o shadow of chance of VIM
ming.
The authorities seem to be in earnest in their
war upon the army Of Faro, and there is gnash-
ing OF teeth and o hiding Of faro boxes among the
shut up the gambling houses in this city as it
would be to bail out tho atlantic Ocean with pint
cur. People will gamble, people viii drink, and
all the anti-gamblng and excise laws in the world
cannot prevent them from doing rs they please.
Theatres all drawing and skating ponds crowded.