The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-28

wealthy Spaniard has just left the necessary funds
for saying fourteen Thousand masses, ten thousand
Of which are for his ancestors, two thousand for
. himself, and as many for the repose Of souls in
pmgatory generally.
Says New York letter: ssNoyelty upon novelty
fs Snnouncelat the Ritualist Church Of st. Abans
The newest is penitential service, every Wednes-
{ day evening, when the lights are extinguishcd on
! the altar, the miser.re sung, and various other
picturesque peculiarities are INDUCED In"
Lerd BRouaHToN has v1itten letter Mr.
GiADsrosU, a1pressing his dissatisfaction with the
{ anime. and saying that the true
contss is to give household suffrage. He proposed
himself in 1929, but unfortu tunately if. made no
part Of the Reform Bll, passed soon after. ::
The emancipation Of the Russian serh is still far
Hom being completed According to an :of6cial
return just published, there we're at the beginning
Of the present year no fewer than s.965, 40 peas
1 ants still under o6igatim; while the number! Of
those who had sbsensf reed from their obligations
mp to that date Il 5, SID, s6OO7. .,::sr7s..,
Professor ANDERSON, tie soi-disanl 'sWizard Of
1 at present it il Dublin. he
IN 8 state OF mental dis
res; that he is Pestered 70 death BY
putit ibutors, who deny his right
teaziss ons scriptural grounds: Thou shalt not
suffer witch to live s'..I &: II .z;,;
railroad sprojected fffoma Caltersyille, Ga, to-
Van Vert, IN the same State. The route was re-
I cent surveyed By Cblorab .WSWHTE, andthe
8 grades found easy. Its estimated cost s1S,6S SO
pers This road lwill bring the finest slate
quarry IN the country into market, and win run
= +b,,o,,oh a rich: nnTnfrp ss,5S S3,s;s. :.
: sixty buildings were destroyed by the great fire
stBohweb, Canada, on Monday night, including
eseyen hotels and two printing Offices The loss is
% one thousand dollars in gold;
: asostm tie sufferers are Americans, who weretfo
The most part engaged in oil speculations. Their
property. WAS mostly insured. sasS -
"a. decree. Of divorce has been granted in the
Supreme Court, New York, upon the report of the
in Che case Of RoBERT Il. NEWELL Us.
AnxH Ia.acp iMEsESK NswE11s; The plaintiff in
this ACTON 81 better known under the non dc phnae
of OppHEusC. KzRs = The. defendant is the well
known questTian actress, now forming in Paris.
1at recent term Of the Ashland co Common:
pleas Use was disposed of where 8 young man
wss plaintiff, and s former sweetheart defendant,
I He had, while courtIng her, made her presents to
value Of about $500. She, however, Tilted him
and married another. The jury returned verdict
sor the smounshe had presented her, and six cents
damages. s'ss -: y 80
Another steamboat was sunk Id the Mississippi
RiveG ON the dSth instant. ST. Louis steamboat
men. boast that the Mississippi is the greatest
highway of steam nay CATION n the world. the.
rate which boats have bean going down on that
,fstresm. .fo SONS months past, iit win soon. be
Z questonM her the amount Of steam tonnage is
greater on the Mississippi or;under it.. -
1he Menheds Witness, Of Thursday, says every
fhing isstIl icahour d-there. The earth is like q
of several feet, the rivers are
ooxered with thick, solid ice, and the snow from
: two % three feet deep, with every now and then
ssnowrshoeing noWas ever. 1t is not thus in Cana
da West, NhereRnow has almost departed, and the
. ice has left the lakes and rivers.
The Supreme Court Of the District Of Columbia,
Win soon render final decision in the case involv-
ing the Civil Rights bill that occurred in Washing
ton six or eight weeks ago. It win be remembered
that Judge WILLIE holding that the act is not ap-
plicabla in the District Of Columbia, returned two
negro boys to their former Maryland vwusr or
master. This extraordinary decision IN be re-
versed by the Court sitting in full bench, Chief
Justice CouLamR, and Associate Judges FISHER
and OIN uniting in opposition.
In ITALY, at PaailIpo a superintendent Of public
works was detected IN the crime Of stealing
powder. Aparty of.pohce paid hima visit, and
found ample proofs of his crime. On seeing that
his frauds we're discovered he found pretext for
entering q room where about :aix ,quintals Of
powder were stored, and setting fire thereto, blew
himself, the. police, and all else who were neal,
into eternity. OF sixty-three persons who were
am the spot at the time; twenty were found dead,
eleven wounded, seven unhurt, and the rest no.
wherelonly mangled fragments remained Of
them. g:-ssz55>g
Eight years since, a lad named EDWARD GRIFFIN,
left his mothers house in Toronto, Canada, before
he had attained his fourteenth year, visited De-
troit, where he procured situation as bell-boy'
in hotel; afterwards went, to Chicago, Cincin-
natl, st. Louis and other places, and finally find
ing his way to Memphis, obtained a place as
brakeman on the Memphis & Ohio Railroad. In
this capacity he was operating until Monday last,
when he received letter from his mother in Cana
dn, stating that IL grandfather there had died
and left him q fortune of $50, 600: Heimmediately
resigned his situation and started North.
On motion Of Mr. JACOBS, member ot the phi
lanthropic Young Mems Christian Association, the
Chicago board Of trade, on the 18th instant, re-
scinded it's vote to contribute the munifcent sum
of $1,000 to the starving women and children Of
aome of the Southern States. Concluding rightly
that it was hoggish to give paltry thousand dol
lara the board concluded to 60 the whole hog, and
TO eiye nothing. The only evidence Of lberaity
afforded in the whole transaction was given by a
gentleman who offered to give 500 towards the
fnnd. Justice requires it to be added that he pro-
noaed to give this only on condition that it should
be laid out in arsenic instead OF food Tor the des-
titute Southerners.
An association has been formed by the negroes
Of Virginia called ssThe Loyal Political Society.
The object of this society is to employ and sene
throughout the State of Virginia lecturers to en-
Kshten the country negroes as to their newly
acquired privileges, and as to what they should
and for VII ON they should vote in the approaching
elections. The initiation fee is twenty-five cents
and each member will be required to contribute