The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-17
NEW 9 3 U MI M A r Y.
OFFICE No. IS HAYNE-S7REEE.

the spot SD; to arrive 81.
The Ballard House IN Richmond has been
closed.
"A new evening paper is to be established
in New York under the editorship OF MIR. Young,
Of the Albion.
The lower house of the Minnesota Legisla-
ture has passed bill, leaving capital punish
ment at the discretion of juries.
The California Legislature are considering
a proposition to remove the capital Of that
State from Sacramento to San Jose.
Nearly every physician in New York has
under treatment one or more broken bones or
sprains caused by slippery sidewalks.
The United States Senate has rejected the
nomination OF the venerable General Coombs
for United States marshal of Kentucky.
Tine New Orleans Bulletin rejoices over the
arrival Of 49, S52 bushels Of corn in that city, by
barges down the Mississippi, from Cairo.
Private letters from Chicago state that
Mrs. Lincoln Is insane beyond all doubt. Her
mania IS for selling, and dread lest she come
to want.
Sir Morton Peto in 1868 had an estate
worth nearly s., ,OOO, 900, and business balance
Of over $4,000, 900. He is now hopelessly in
solvent.
Connecticut is opposed to spectators. The
Dickens ticket spectators in New Haven have
come to grief. They were arrested for peddling
without licenses.
"A greenback Of mammoth poster size,
bearing portrait Of MIR. Pendleton: is one the
devices at the West to secure the nomination
Of that gentleman.
"A new style of scarf pin is finished with
imitation human heads, the eyes Of which open
or close at the will OF the owner by means OF
an eleotro-motor.
1.-The Boston ice crop this season is the
largest and best ever gathered. Ice twenty
two inches in thickness was cut at Wenham
Lake on Saturday.
Jacob Thompson has sold all his property
in Mississippi, which used to be worth over
million dollars, for $4,000, and that there is
prospect that his selt-exile will be perpetual.
The latest musical sensation in New York
State is young woman of Batavia, who plays
two airs with her right hand, one with her
left, and sings fourth, simultaneously. Sweet
medley.
The mayor of st. Louis has vetoed a Il
repeating the Sunday liquor law passed by the
councils Of that city. he says he would sign
bill allowing the billiard saloons to be kept
open on Sunday.
The project is revived to tunnel the Niaga-
"a River at the shortest or ssing between Fort
Erie and the American side. The cost, it is
said, will be far less than the estimated cost of
bridge at the same location.
A bill has been reported in the Pennsylva-
mia Legislature prohibiting the use of oil or
explosive fluids for Lighting purposes in rail
road cars; also against the practice Of locking
the doors of cars when travelling.
The Portuguese Government has author
ICED certain responsible parties to construct a
telegraphic cable across the Auantic, to be run
from Falmouth, England, to Oporto, thence to
the Azores, and from those islands to the coast
Of the United States.
The new revolution in Hayti is extending,
and the revolutionists we're, at last advices, ad-
vancing on Cape Hsytien. Three hundred OF
salnave's followers had been captured, and
that Salnave would be overthrown.
The New York World says that Mr. Bel
mont is Of Mr.. Pendleton's opinion in regard to
the payment Of the principal Of the FIVE
twenties in greenbscks, though differing from
him as to the Importance of it as practical
question now, or for some years to come.
The election Of General Beatty, the Repub-
hcan candidate for Congress in the Eighth
District Of Ohio, by an increased Republican
majority, has been attributed in part to the
fact that he favored the Butler-Pendleton plan
Of paying the national bonds in greenbacks.
With reference to the boot and shoe busi-
ness in Boston, the Traveller Of that city, says.
"There is an increase Of buyers Of boots and
shoes in this market, including some represen.
tatives Of Southern houses, and the amount of
sales the past week has been as large as was ex-
pected'
Heretofore the city railways of Philadel-
phia have always given out tree passes to the
City Councils. This year they do not, and in
revenge the City Councils have passed an ordi-
nance that where the fare is seven cents they
shall pay one cent for each passenger to the
city treasury. The companies hesitate whether
to give out the passes, reduce the fare or pay
the tax.
.-.he canvass in New Hampshire is being
conducted with great energy by both parties.
Previous to 1858 the Democracy generally car
ried New Hampshire. Since March, 1855 they
have been annually defeated, and it would
indicate remarkable change Of political
opinion If the tiie which has so long set in
one direction should be in any degree turned
backward.
According to one Professor Delisser,
series of celestial and terrestrial phenomena is
at hand. On the night of the 9th Of February,
in the western heavens, there will be a con-
junction Of the moon with Jupiter and Venus;
and three nights later Jupiter will pass Venus
by only twenty-three seconds Of a degree. The
result of these copjunctions and perturbations
will be atmospheric commotion-electrical dis
charges, heavy gales, high tides, earthquakes,
and nobody knows what besides. Moreover,
the whole year will be fearful for it's storms, in
undations, eruptions, quakings Of the earth,
&c. We shall see and hear Of those things if
they occur.
Sergeant Bates, the pedestrian, and bearer
Of the United States flag from vicksburg to