The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-13

future, and that no capital execution shall ever
again occur in England.
A Texas exchange asks "What are the most
lasting obigations2 and answers: obligations te
pay which the last Texas Legislature handed
down to posterity unimpaired."
Judge BALLARD, Of the United States Supreme
Court in Kentucky, yesterday deposed from office
A. Fl. HuBBARD, United States Commissioner at
Lexington, for transcending his authority.
During the month of February and March the
Freedmen's Bureau restored to owners in Tennes'
see eleven plantations, containing 24OO acres
thirty-fye plantations, acres not given twenty:
four houses and lots ;one grist mill one stable
The Newbern IN. C.) Commercial says that 8
whale, some forty feet long, captured on Satur
day last of Beaufort harbor, and .towed into port
It is said thatI forty barrels of oil will be got from
him.
The Treasurer Of Coshocton County, Ohio, was
SOME time ago found by the Sheriff in the Office
gagged and bound. and $22 600 Of the county mo-
ney gone. 1t now turns out that the Treasure
and the Sheriff were the ssgang" Of thieves.
"a watch has been manufactured in Paris which
is wound up by simply opening the case to note
the time. It only requires to be opened once q
month 70 keep it always going, and it is perhaps
the nearest approach toperpetual motion yet in
vented.
The Western and Atlantic (Ga.) Railroad paid
$50 900 into the State Treasury for the months of
January and February last each. March did not
pay expenses, owing to The blockade. The road
under good management, is worth about half q
million year to the State.
The New York Times says: soThe difference in
the death-rate between this city and Brooklyn
during the past week, speaks volumes against tho
evils Of overcrowding in our tenement houses. In
Brooklyn the proportion was 17.A per 1000 inhabi.
tants, and in New York it was 1882"
At q fun meeting of the New Orleans Associated
Press, held in that city on the Sd instant it was
determined to discontinue the Monday morning
edition Of the following Journals Of that city:
the Picayrtne, the Crescent, the Bee and the
Tines.
A dispatch from New London Conn.,, April 9,
says; "a prize fight for $1,000 came off to-day on
Fishers Island between GEORGE RooKE, OF Prov
dence, aud CHARLES Collins, of New York. After
fighting sixteen rounds. in an hour and fifteen
minutes, COLLINS was declared the winner, in con-
sequence OF foul blow"
The American Board of Foreign Missions during
the year ending February 18Th, received in dona-
tons from the people Of the United States s175,
COS is. This is $, ,070 SO more than the receipts
Of the previous year, but is reported to be much
less than the increased expenses Of the Board Of
Missions demand
Accompany in boring for oil on the Leesburg
pile, eighteen miles: from Alexandria, Va, at a
depth Of ninety feet discovered silver, and at 109
feet oil in greater abundance than in any Pennsyl-
vania wells at that depth. They have also come
upon gold vein, and they propose to bore to o
depth of 400 feet for oil.
paper published in Manila states that when
the hull Of the Spanish iron-clad Nuneancia was
cleaned at Otahite, the workmen found a large
piece Of electric wire around the Screw which had
been attached to one of the torpedoes in the har
Dor OF Callao. Had the wire performed the duty
for which it was intended, there would probably
be no NtlnsanciG in existence now.
A merchant of Boston, when in Lyons France,
was so much pleased with the fountain which
stands in front Of the Hotel de Vile, that he was
induced to order its counterpart for Boston Com
mon. It is in bronze, twenty-five feet high, and
exceedingly beautiful. The colossal figures at the
base are splendid specimens of art. It is now on
its way.
at o meeting tef the Palestine Exploration So
ciety. held in Oxford, England, Sir HENRY RAW
INasoN gave it as his opinion that tho excavations
going on and contemplated at Jerusalem would
give knowledge Of Jewish history, from the time
Of SOLOMON down to the destruction of the city,
more full and perfect than we have of any period
of Grecian or Roman history.
Joof rn,nhar off Notio,, tho adtoro an.
nounce that they will not hes s.ter specially advo
cate the claims Of the colored race, the rights OF
the black man having been secured by law. This
is the first crumb of real comfort we have had in
some time. A prospect of the cessation of Radical
agitation will have an effect nearly as beneficial on
thecredlt Of ths country as the early resumption
Of specie payments.
We learn from the Richmond Dispatch that
convention Of gentlemen representing the rail
roads between Kingsvile and New York, was held
in that city last week. They adopted new
tariff Of through passenger rates. These are not
published, as they do not go into operation until
next month, and may possibly be modified by q
meeting to be held in New York before that time.
The passengers on the Great Eastern, just ar
rived at New York, have had a guy time, Mr. Du
CHAnLU delivering two lectures on the voyage,
while Captain ANDERSON gave lecture on the At
lantic cable, and the night Of the great storm the
ships crew gave negro minstrel entertainment.
Two daily papers were published by the passengers
during the trip. of which was called the Ocean
Times while The other was the Great Eastern
Daily Telegraph, A grand billiard match was in
dulged in between some parties of ladies and gen
tlemen, in which the ladies came off victorious.
races, &C., were indulged in.
The first Sunday School in Richmond was
originated in 1916, by Miss Polly BoLLEs, and
taught BY her in the same room in which she
taught her day school, on Franklin street, between
Nineteenth and Twentieth. She subsequently,
taught in the basement of house occupied by
MIR. JOHN ENDEBs from thence it was removed to
q commodiors warehouse, and afterwards merged
into the regular Church School at tho sscld Meet
ing House, corner Of Nineteenth and Franklin
streets.
The Washington Star says: ssToo sudden and
wholesome conversion of the lately defeated
Southern mslcontents to Republicanism would be
suspicious, and not nearly as hopeful for the po-
tical future of the South as the indications that
their change of attitude in reference to negro suf
fraage and other questions involved in the scheme
of reconstruction under the military bills is being
gradually and painfully accomplished, and meets
with considerable opposition from some in whom
The old rebel spirit is still unconquered The press
and people are taking sides for and against recon-
struction aud every day the dividing line is being
mora shar1ly defined In Richmond the Times
may be taken as the exponent Of the Impractical
be, hard-headed school Of old fogy politicians,
while the Wh,g represents their opponents"