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

Post Office Notice.
pOsr OFFICE
CHARLESTON, S. C., July g. 1867.
After to-day tho mails for Northeastern Railroad
will close at O'Clock AM, and to-day md aflcr-
wards they expected to reach tho Railroad
Station' at 2:I0 O'Clock P.aT, and to DO ready for
delivery at this Office at $3.50 o'clock PM
STANLEY q. TROTr, PM
PosToFFIcE NoIICE.--An evening mail for hu-
gusta and Savannah, and for distribution beyond
those Offices will close daily at tho Postoftce al
half-past O'Clock.
THE City Treasurer will continue 10 receive the
amounts due for City Taxes for 1867 until lst Oc.
tober.
LIME, CEMENT. &c, &c.--We direct attention 10
the advertisement of Messrs. OLNEY & Co. in an
other column. They aro in receipt of limc pas-
ter, cement, &c., which they oiler at the lowest
rates.
srEcIMEH OF native animals can be seen OH to-
morrow at the famous restaurant of HARM SHER-
HAMMER, where fno lunch is served daily from IL
to O'Clock, and liquors of superior quality. An
invitation is extended to tho public free
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ACCIDENT on THE STEAMER RooxLANp.-Tle
steamer Rock3aad, of tho Mount Pleasant Ferry
Line, had her machinery deranged during her
morning trip from the city yesterday. She in,-
mediatcy put back 10 her wharf, and the damage
investigated; il proved to be but slight and sho
will soon rosumc her usual trips.
DAN. CAsTELLo.--Wc werc erroniousy informed
concerning tho location of DAMS Pavilion. Gen.
CLrrz has kindly granted him permission to erect
his canvas walls the Citadel Green, anu tho
fapca on uIr
where he could announce to Tho community the
wonders OF the coming show.
"THE SOUTHERN CRoss."-Wc published poem
under tho abovo name few weeks ago, viii I'll APP
pears to have found much favor, and we have been
repeatedly asked for the nnmc Of the author We
have no information on the subject, snye that we
have the assurance of the friend who sent it to u.s.
that 1t was written by lady OF this State. If this
should ever reach her eyes, We hopo she will be
encouraged to venture upon another trip to Mount
Helicon.
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND
CHARLEsTos-Tho links that unite these cities
are being gradually drawn closer. The fine steam
ors Plot Boy, Captain W.. T.. McNE1rY and
Fannie, Captain FEM PECK, arc now making tri-
weakly trips, leaving each city every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday mornings. Thcso steam
ers are thorough sea- going vessels, and are COM
manded by Captains to whom ga life on the oooan
wave has no terrors. The accommodations for
both freight and passengers are ample, and the
trip made safe, short and pleasant
Rev. JOSEPH Cross, ID. D., We learn fell victim
to yellow fever in Texas. DIR. Cross was an Eng
lshmAn hy hrti,, L"t eu,i6, at.,t Uuteu
States at an early age. IIe was widely known as
minister, first of the NJ. T.. Church, and afterward
OF the NJ E. Church, South, having been connect
ed with some six eight Conferences at different
times, il wo remember correctly
About 1854 he camo TO Charleston and for
several years had pastoral Charge OF Trinity and
then Of Bethel Methodist Church. He nfterward
was President OF the Spartanbnrg Female College.
During tho war lie chiefly labored in Tennessee as
Chaplain in til" Confederate army. Immediately
after its close he took orders in the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and al the lime of his death
WAS Rector in Houston Texas.
DIR. CROSS was man of large talent and high
culture. He WAS profoundly vcrsed in theology
aud well road in the entire department of bellies
lettres. Able as an orator, and sometimes bril-
Kant he was more pleasing to The intellectual man
than to the unnformed masses. Ho had studied
rhetoric as a science aud pracised it as an art.
His sentence never was faulty, and his thought.
gorgeously clad, always impressed the mind OF tho
hoarer.
ne was voluminous writor, and his books,
while giving evidence of but little originality al
ways boro testimony of pationt industry, applied
BY mind capable OF apprcciating in and cullipg
from others all that is good.
notwithstanding all tho gifts with which boun-
teous nature had endowed him, ho canuot bo eaid
10 have been to any considerable dogreo suc-
cessful man; and caro- and trouble scem' to haro
boon his constant companions through life.
n IaaUa in oil, a..
large number of friends TO mourn his loss Re.
quiescat ia pace.
The MORRIS STREET FREE CoLoREp School,
This building, which was occupied for nearly two
years by the Freedmens Bureau as school Tor the
coored children Of tho city, was recently surreu-
dered to the Board Of Commissioners On tho re-
organization-of tho Public Schools, among other
changes il was determined to devote tho Morris
Street School House to The tuition of tho colorcd
children. Tne school was opened for this pur-
pose last week, and though the attendance was
slim on the first day, it Las since steadily incroas-
cd, and there are now nearly four hundred pupils
enrolled, willie others received daily. Since
the rcoccupation OF the school by the Board il has
been thoroughly rehtted, and is now the best
and most complete school building in the city.
Tho Board have spared no pains to bring the
Morris Street School to perfection. Tho services OF
an experienced corps OF teachers have been OBJ
tained and tho facilities for both tho intellectual
and physical culture Of tho pupils are uneqnaled BY
any school in the city The location or 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 boon taken TO
render the pupils comfortable, and largo play
ground on either sdo Of the building affords ample
space for the recreation Of the pupils durlDg tho
recess.
The first floor Of the building is assigned to tho
Primary Department, where the colored children
Of both sexes are taught their A B C's. piauo
In this department discourses sweet sounds, who
the voices Of the children unto in singing the
hymns, which part Of the exercises. The second
and third floors assigned to the female and male
grammar departments. Attached 10 each story are
four comfortable class.rooms we'll ventilated and
furnished with stoves. Five classes can be easily
managed by tho teachers, as ono remains in the
large room, but on an emergency others could be
added.
The school has accommodations Tor 800 or 900
pupils, and though only fraction OF that number
has been enrolled yet the Board anticipate a full
attendance in q short time. There are nnmbers
OF coored children i'm tho civ vbo do not attend