The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-23
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The New York Sun wants Alaska made q
penal colony.
General Butler has nominated Grant for
President in 1872.
E-Brisham Young g. Co. are hard at work
building three sections of the Pacific Railroad
1t is understood that President Johnson
will take no part in the ceremonies OF the In
auguration.
general Grant has been specializing in
real estate. Ie made $4,000 by the recent
sale of his house in Washington.
The sheriff of Oneida County, New York,
lately had to execute murderer. Being ten
der-hearted man, he gave the criminal chloro-
form before he put the rope around his neck.
Thereupon Re has been indicted for malfeas-
ance in Office. 1t is not easy to see how he
was false to his official duties in administering
the chlorororm; but it occurs to Us that he
might be indicte for murder il it could be
shown that he administered chloroform enough
to kill The man. H had no legal right to take
the fellows life in any way except by the rope;
and if he had killed him in any other way, as
with bludgeon, or with arsenic, he would
certainly have been held for murder.
A Washington letter February LII says
public rumors are rapidly assuming an auther-
tic shape in reference to the more important
Cabinet positions. Undoubtedly leading IA
ideals have become decidedly more cheerful
within a day or two past. stated the other
day that the "slate" had been divulged to
some of them. It is now confidently stated
that the makeup receives the appreciation OF
such differently classified men as Sumner and
Stanton on the one band, and Bingham and
TrumbuIl on the other. Indeed, it is predict
ed. with moro than usual audacity, that at
laast two of these worthless will themselves oc-
cupy conspicuous positions, although hereto
fore regarded as ant,podes to each other in the
class: .ication Of wings"
The Pneumatic Dispatch Company, OF New
York, has been boring under Broadway for the
last three weeks without knowledge of the pub
Lln.-A cellar Vas hrasas "a. e.se-d, aitr cne wotH
81 boring the tunnel commenced. The men
having charge of the work are party OF En-
glish miners, who were but recently engage
in the construction Of the pneumatic railroad
tube" under The streets Of London. Earth was
first removed in front OF the cellar, and the
men gradually worked out into the centre OF
Broadway. The earth is not dug out, but
pressed away By . shield, exactly the diameter
of Che tunnel The shield is forced ahead by
means of number of screws on the rear OF the
shield, worked by leavers, the displaced earth
exuding through the trap-doors in the shield.
The progress made is necessarily slow, about
ten inches per day completed. Bricklayers
follow in the re of the shield, and line the
tunnel with hard brick, to prevent the earth
from caving in. The principle by which the
cars will be propelled is stated to be as follows:
An ordinary railroad track is laid at the bottom
of the tube, over which the cars are propelled
by o current of air and made to return by the
creation of vacuum. fange. closely fitting
TO the sides Of the tunnel, is fitted to one end
ofeach car, upon the surface of which the air
acts in propelling the car. The current of air
will be supplied by immense tan-wheels,
worked by steam at each endt i;e route.
New Orleans is beginning to experience
the effects of a tolerable cotton. crop and high
prices for the staple. The streets OF the city
present an appearance moro like that before
the war. Hotels are crowded, theatres do q
good business, and the wholesale stores which
supply the planting community with material
and subsistence are making large sales. The
country residents a1e once more seen IN the
city, not in want Of money, but with pockets
full of it. Old accounts. which have long been
marked of as bad debts, have in many cases
been voluntarily settled. Money is beginning
to come back into the city, and healthy
commercial activity is stirred up. An evidence
Of prosperity, which must be sincerely regret
ted except as it indicates the return Of
palmy days, is the rapid increase OF gam
bling. The rattle of tho ivory checks OF
faro banks and the click of the roulette ball
can be heard at every turn. while the nasal
twang OF the keno dealer is unceasing through
the night in the lower part Of the city. This
is natural result of the gratifying approach
Of easy times. and though it is not a.pleasant
or promising feature, it is not to be compared
in fatal effect with the burden of bad legisla-
ton which the city has to sustain. Political
adventurers are expending an amount of labor
which could make. q dozen honest fortunes to
secure by public plunder share Of the new
wealth OF the State. In the name Of loyalty
and patriotism. they are putting trammels |
upon the reviying commerce, loading the State |
with ye1atious laws, and endangerinS the
credit of the commonwealth. When Louisiana
can overcome this. as she has the other diff
culties in the way Of trade, she may expect to
realize in full her old prosperity.
Mrs. General Grant is coming in for The
full share of attention at the hands of the Jcu-
k,nses of the rress. Don Platt. of the Cincin-
natl Commercial, lately cal,d on her,and gives
this first rate notice: Il found her disnitied,
MISUNDERSTANDING woman, who insisted, in q
pleasant way upon knowing my name and
place of abode. wss satisfied to 6nd that she
remembered both when I came to take my
leave. These officials and Official lions see you
as Adam saw the beasts OF the fields and the
fowls OF the air, as they fed before him to be
named. We are lost Individually in our class.
The classes are of three sor 's-senators. meE
bars OF. the House. and tas-ras and Robert
tail. As necessarily come under the latter |
cl 1875, am dismissed as Mr.. Pratt, or Mr.
Platt, or Mr.. Spratt, or any othor combination
of sounds that resemble my name. And
going home, take grim pleasure in driT-
ing my pen through the official insect, and