The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-26

|eSpfes were sold.
Ste. Marie, who will be remembered as the in
strument Of the arrest of John Il. Surratt in Italy,
and who was one Of the witnesses against the
prisoner during the trial last summer, has filed
his claim for the full reward offered for the arrest
of the parties implicated il the assassination of
Mr. Lincoln. General King, Of Wisconsin, who
was Minister to Rome at the time OF Surratt's ar
rest, but who is now in this country, says that
when he gave Ste. Marie money to bear his e1-
penses to this country, the informer remarked
that he was now even with 8 Irratt for having sup
planted him in the affections of o young lady in
MARYLAND, that he had long desired revenge and
that he now hoped to obtain it.
"A correspondent gives the following descrip-
ton Of the musical part of the service in q church
near Carlisle, England when the psalm is given
out, the clergyman tunes a small violin, and hay
ing afterwards touched q bass fddle, hands the
larger instrument over to one Of the parishioners.
Each then draws his bow across the strings, and,
all being in order, the player Of the bass gives out
the ~versesto be sung, the two musicians are joined
by q few parishioners, and the small party go
through the psalm. The clergyman then aban-
dons the violin, returns to the reading desk until
another psalm requires him to resume his instru-
ment, and again goes through the tuning process
preparatory to the psalm singing"
The Courant, Of Rotterdam, makes q new
point against capital punishment. 1t says the gal
lows is too expensive an institution to be main
tanned BY o small State. In the last budget of the
Minister Of Justice one item is 7046 forms for pay
and pensions to executioDers. As sentences OF
capital punishment are, on the average, only
carried out in Holland once in ten years, each exc
cution may be said to cost 70, 400 forms for execu-
TONERS alone, not reckoning other expenses. The
cost of prisoner to the State, on the other hand,
is fifty cents q day, and supposing that he is de-
tanned for twenty years, which Is the maximum
period, in prison, he would have cost 1850 dorins
only, or about a twentieth of the sum he would
have cost if he had been executed. Thus, accord
ing to the Courant, the dispute about capital pun
ishment has an economic as well as an humanita-
ran side, and can be argued as a simple question
OF profit and loss.
"A foreign paper relates the following anecdote:
'M. Bosco, the well-known c%onjuror spent the
winter Of 1850 in Berlin, and was one day sum-
moned to appear at the palace, in order to exhibit
his art before the present King, at that time
Prince heyent, ana the court. AInonS otuer ap-
paratus he had a terrestrial globe, upon which
Prussia was made to appear extremely small.
Bosco advanced to the Prince, who was sitting on
an armchair in the front row. and asked him to
take the globe in his hands. The Prince did SO,
when, to his establishment, the formerly little
Prussia began to assume much larger dimensions.
sYour royal highness perceives,' said Bosco, how
Prussia will become aggrandized under your
hands, The trick was loudly applauded at the
time. but little did the spectators imagine that
what was intended as q courtly jest was destined
to become political earnest within seven years IRON
that lime"
jim London the houses number more than SoO,
900, and the streets, if placed in line, would e1-
tend from Liverpool to New York, and are lighted
at night by $4,000 gas lamps, consuming every
twenty four hours about 13,O0O,00O cubic feet OF
gas. OF the water supply A. 1888, 1913 gallons are
used per day. The travelling public sustains 5000
psbs and 1902 olnibuses, Decides all the other