The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-07


homicide.
The tunnel on the Albany and susquehann'
Railroad will be finished on June next. lt VII
be e22O0 feet long.
The report of the Minister of Finance, M. foulD
will. it is said show that this years receipts VII
exceed tho expenses by about fifty millions o.
francs.
Ice cutting will soon begin in Maine. Immense
ice houses are located at Farmingdale, P!ttston
and Richmond, holding from 5000 to 20,OOO tens
each.
A Catholic Fair, held in the Music Hall, Boston
recently, for the benefit OF Boston college ana tne
Church of the Immaculate Conception, netteo
$3O,72s IS.
In W;ndha,n County, Conn.,, last week, judge
refused divorce to a couple who had been mar.
.ied but two weeks, on the ground that they had
not yet given matrimony fair trial.
A Mobile paper says rents are falling daily and
the cottage houses which were held at $50 few
months ago are now offered at $50 per month.
great many small dwellings, have been erected dl-
ring the past months which may account for the
fell in rents.
Nessrs. Ross1H1 FEDERICO R1cc1, the ibrettists
P1AvE and SoIERA, and the choreograph SAM
LEON. have all received the order of Alexander
Nevesky from the Emperor of Russia. This deco.
ration is in each case provided with the not un-
pleasant addition Of one Thousand roubles pension.
The monthly report Of agriculture for December
contains fiscal estimate Of the corn crop of 1866
The total result is $780, 900 bushels. In the
eleven States not hitherto reported 1885, ,OOC
bushels against 274, ,000, 900 bushels in 1859.
OF nine daily newspapers, published in Boston
,,, md N
twenty eight magazines there remains the Mission.
ary Herald, Christian Examiner and North dnaert-
can Rsoiess. Of the weekly Press, which number.
ed thirty-fve, twelve only are now printed.
The artesian wells at Genel]s and Passy, in
France, emit steam-the temperature of the va
ters, which come from $500 feet depth, being eigh-
ty-fve degrees Fahrenheit whilst that Of the at
mosphere at the surface averages thirty slx de-
grees.
CRA1as Telegraph News Association have leased
the New Orleans and Balize telegraph line for a
term of years. This line intercepts vessels five to
ten hours sail below New Orleans, giving the as
sociation great advantage in obtaining news from
Cuba, Mexico and Texas.
The new line Of steamers between Germany and
the United States touching at Southampton, will
sail from the Hanoverian port Of Gusteminde
twice a week with the Prussian mail. TIE capital
of the company which is to enjoy the monopoly OF
carrying the Prussian mail, is seven million
thalers.
The New York World, Of the Sc, has special dis
patches announcing that the Cotton Supply Ad-
ministration Company Of Algiers has received from
New Orleans and South Carolina twenty hogsheads
Of Sea Island and middling cotton seed, to be dis
tributed gratuitously amoug the inhabitants Of
Algiers.
A negro in Prince George recently attempted to
steal house. Awaiting himself of the absence
OF his employer, DR.. STANDS, he pulled down
the house and was hauling the imber away, for
the purpose OF fitting up domicl elsewhere,
when the sudden return Of the Doctor stopped
further proceedings.
The Baton Rouge Comet understands that the
Bass levee, in Carroll Parish, is far from being
complete, and that serious apprehensions are en-
tertained as to its safety. At the last accounts
two thousand laborers we're at work upon it, and
protection levees were being built around it to
keep the river hom encroaching too severely
upon it.
One Of the hotel keepers in Memphis prepared
dinner for four hundred persons, and expected the
Congressional excursion party to eat it; but some
malicious member Of the reception committee took
the e1cursionists to another hotel and left land
lord No. in very uncomfortable frame Of mind,
with large quantity Of "cold yittles" on hand.
General F. E. SPINNER, known to some by the
so.l6riquet Of the Watchdog OF the Treasury,
while he may be successful in keeping watch and
ward over the public funds Of the Government,
was unable st the Presidents reception on New
Years Day, TO protect his own private person from
the onslaught Of skillful pickpocket, who, in the
pressure Of the crowd, managed to appropriate
his pocket-book, containing between $40 and $50,
beades pair Of sleeve-buttons and papers Of con-
siderable value.
Among the guests present at the farewell dinner
given by Mr. B1aE1ow at Paris, we observe the
names Of Drs. T. W. EVANS, WIN. e. JOHNSTON, I.
MnF1IER, WALTER CARY, ENo, J. MARION SIMS, of
South Carolina; G. PORTER, REYLANp, W. DAY, G..
Y BucKNA1L, T. EVANS, j. W. CRANE. Pretty well
for American Doctors. There was nearly as many
ladies present an gentlemen. The total number OF
guests present was over 2S0.
Prince A1.THuR having now reached his six
teenth year, QUEEN VICTORIA has determined that
he shall enter the Royal Military Academy at
Woolwich, as gentleman cadet The Prince OF
Wales is general in the army, and Colonel OF the
Tenth Husaars. Prince ALFRED is captain in
lie navy; and it is intended that Prince ARTHUR
ahall be prepared for commission in either the
engineers or artillery. The royal family will thus
be connected with nearly every branch of the SER
vice.
Another company has been organized by ex-
Governor CURTIN, Of Pennsylvania, and General
R,,vrro TNaLrJs formerly Chief Ouartermnster of
the "armies operating against Richmond =" to fur-
ther investigate the auriferous regions in the
Reighborhood Of Great Falls, on The Potomac. All
the companies already organized assert that they
are at least paying the expenses OF mining, and
many that they are making handsome profit over
and above the cost of the labor necessarily re-