The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-26

- ". ". AsTOR, son OF JOIN y. DR., ls pupn o
THOMPSON, the sculptor. A Psyche of his is VOL
spoken Of.
The New York Tribune estimates the expense:
Of both sexes who attond the 1900 balls of tho sea
81, in that city at Sc, IL, 900.
MARION HAR14AND's rs lnnybank," published
few weeks since by SHELDON & Co., has reached
sale OF more than Il, 900 copies
The Chicago Eoeniag Post (Radical), of January
18, says that Governor Orr, Of South Carolina, is
in Washington, very obsequious and oily.
The coal trade of Pennsylvania during tho past
wear amounted to 1925, ,sG3.17 tons, which wonld
amount to the enormous sum of SCI, ,S96, 80o
A. q. LEE, of Prairie du nocher, Randolph Coun-
ty, Illinois, turns out to be the winner OF the
Crosby Opera House, and not JOHN MEYER o1
Chicago, as previously reported.
The receipts of tho Chicago theatres last year
were as follows Mov1cNR's, s120,!45; WooD's
Musuem, s144, ,2s9; CRosBY's Opera-house, $3.50
Varieties, $40, ,33446. Total, $3.50, ,095.
The magistrates in Derbyshire, England, have
just sentenced JEM MACE, JOE Goss, and three
other less notorious pugilists, to months inprs-
onment, with hard labor, for taking part in prize
fight.
a second 6QlC1Ou VI JdpaL.cSeIAfoAAoA NS.ioeA
airy has been published at Hong Kong by japan
ese gentleman. The whole edition OF one thou
sand was sold within few days Of it's publication.
The widest bridge in the world, which spans the
Thames from, Battersea to Pimlico, was opened on
the 25th ult. for traffic. It is one hundred and
ten feet wide with space enough for eight lines OF
rails.
The Leayenworth Times says that there can no
longer remain the shadow Of doubt that the In
dams are preparing fcra grand onslaught on the
whites OF the border. The massacre near Fort
Phil Kearney vas but the beginning Of series OF
outrsges planned by some Of their leaders,
Miss HELEN FAUCET, who played the original
Pauline to MAcnEADy's Claude Melnotte, when
s'The Lady Of Lyons" was first brought out in Lon
don, has lately repeated The part in reappear-
ance in the Drury Lane Theatre.
SMACK" of the Cincinnati Commercial, writes
that Gen. sHERMAN, when last heard from, was
heartily sick of diplomacy. He told a friend that
he always liked to obey orders, but he be damned
if he was going to ride Thousand miles on mule
to hunt for JUAREz or AlAxD1n1AN either.
Rev. Mr. ScHAUFFLER, writing from Germany to
the New York ConqregaGonalist, says: sand here |
NAV nots one Of the excellencies Of German
churches. Nobody has his own pew, h-refore
everybody has equal title to a seat, and the poor
never fee! themselves excluded"
In Harlem peculiar ornament of white lace and
cardboard hung just outside the street door, sig
mites the birth OF child; and for the period OF sx
weeks after birth, while such badge is visible, no
tax collector or creditor Of any kind is allowed to
demand payment.
MIR. MCPHERSON, Surveyor Of Monterey County,
California, says that Mt. Diabola, for miles in e1-
tent, is one conglomerate mass, formed of fossils
Of marino animals and plants, showing that at
some period the sea had it's banks or beds along
and over this ridge three thousand feet above its
level
JOHN BALDWIN Of Berea, Ohio, q few days since
handed to President WHEELER, of the Baldwin
UniYersity,a a deed for forty acres of quarry, as
centenary donation to tie University. For this
property it is said he mas been offered some two
thousand dollars an acre. It is regarded by friends
Of the University as worth at least one hundred
thousand dollars.
The Treasurer Of the late Southern Relief Fair
at st. Louis publishes statement from which it
appears that the total receipts OF the grand fair
amounted to S136, ,756.66 expenses to S1O e43.58.
Balance to be credited to the charity, $780, 49,
or this s124, 1858 was paid to the Distributing
Committee, the remainder being applied to the
relief Of applicants, OF sent in goods to the South
The other day (says an English paper) q meet
ing Of the islanders of Yalentis was held to give
an expression of loyalty to the Crown and Consti-
tuition at this juncture particularly with regard to
their readiness to defend the Atlantic cable from
hostile interference. The Knight of Kerry adj
drsssod the people, and everything went off salts
hctorily.
Mr. 8. &. GouyERNEUR, of Frederick County,
Md, who is the grandson of President MONROE,
and who has in his possession many OF the I'M
portant papers Of that distinguished patriot and
statesman, is now preparing for pubication On awork
from the pen of Mr. MONROE, addressed to his
countrvmen, and written after he had retired from
public life, full of years and honors.
AWashington correspondent says the late decl-
sion Of the Supreme Court on tie Test Oath will
undoubtedly influence the action OF thu Executive
to some practical extent, and we may confidently
expect that the South will be relieved from the al-
ternative of having either the few small civil Of
fees there filed by itinerant Yankees, or be de-
priyed Of mail and other facilities altogether.
The New Orleans Telegraph learns that all con-
tracts Of levee building are rapidly completing,
and that but short time will elapse before
the works will be able to resist the Gather Of
Waters" with effect. The sMarengo" levee has
been put in such complete and splendid condition
as to defy the rise OF waters. Bass" levee is un-
der fair way of being finished in time, while con-
tracts have -besn taken to rebuild and repair the
iCross Bayou" leyee.
Cincinnati is troubled about itB water. A 'spe-
crliar favor and bouquet" distinguishes all the
water from the hydrants, attributable to the re-
fuse washed down from the slaughter-houscs by
Deer Greek, near the mouth Of which tho pipes
take up the supply for the use Of the city. The
theory is advanced that the snow lying about the
Ohio and it's tributaries, from Pttsburg down, ab-
serbs the impurities from the smoke which con-
tnually fills the atmosphere in all that region.
Adyices from Brazil state that the new COM
mander of the Brazilian feet on the Parana River
had departed for the seat of war to supersede Ia
xAtDARE. The Paraguay and Parana Rivers had
risen 80 with the rains that the allied camp was
partly under water. The Paraguayans were still
busy fortifying. The new British Admiral had ar
rived in the Platte River.
Many Canadian clergymen are Of a strong ritual
istio tendency. One OF them has oi6ciated at a
marriage in white silk gown; another has openly
declared the doctrine of confession; a third has
published the sPriests Prayer Book, in which
the doctrine OF confession, plenary absolution,
and prayers for the dead, are maintained. mhc
Bishop Of Toronto declares he secs nothing OIL
jectionabl, in all this.
It is stated, says q telegram to the New York
Tribune from Chicago, that in best informed cir
cles that CROSBY holds the tickets for the three
chief prizes next after the first, and it is not cer-
tain that he has not that also It also turns out