The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-29
N e W s s UM MAR

SWellS at the, seaside.
The New York News Association has Sc
0 ured the monopoly of the new French cable.
Tie New York papers gay that John Rus
sell Young, with II..y Goulds assistance, is
about 10 v',....lsh penny morning paper.
The first through car from Sacramento to
New York city, arrived on Saturday morning.
in six and half days; exclusive Of stoppages.
AS the time approaches for the Harvard
and Oxford international boat race, interest in
the event increases in England. Betting is
said to be in favor Of the Oxford crew.
The yacht Cambria is again triumphant,
having beaten all competitors in the ocean
race of the Royal Yorkshire Yacht Clsb, one
hundred. miles, from Loweshaft to HULL
-Mazzini's expulsion by the Swiss Govern
ment from his residence on the Italian from
tier. is justified by the authorities, ON the
ground of his revolutionary doctrines and the
duties imposed by interr ational law.
The Norfolk papers chronicle the arrival
there on Saturday of q number o: immigrants
Of both sexes, from the interior Of Germany,
bound for Western North Carolina. They
landed in Norfolk from the New York steamer
Though the colored m IN have never had
their pictures either on the bank notes or the
postage stamps, they are now getting their
full share of such notoriety on the new tobacco
stamps about to be issued. The colored man
is displayed on these stamps in all his phases
and conditions.
The case of the young American citizen
Warren, who was knocked on the head by the
gendarmes and put in prison, during the riots
in Paris last month, for being accidentally in
the street at the wrong time, is about to be
iudicially investigated, and the Journal asks q
suspension OF public Judgment until it is de-
,cided. anh
Bishop Cummins, Of Kentucky, notwith-
standing the demand of Bishop Whitehouse, of
Illinois. that he should not do so, preached in
Trinity Churuh. Ciicnso. on SUNDAY Dorulug
and evening. The church was filed. Bishop
Cummins publishes letter explaining his
course in regard to the difficulty between him
self and Bishop Whitehouse, to which is ap-
pended letter from Brishop Whitehouse to
himself. The letter is bitter in it's tone, pro-
testing against Bishop Cummins visiting Bish-
op Warehouses; diocese to oficiate in any
manner within it's bounds.
There is now in course CT construction, in
q new yard in East Boston, a ship of one thon-
sand tons, and all the timbers~ of which she is
composed are bent by machinery to exactly At
the molds. The timbers are all beyelled before
being bent, and these frame timbers, together
with the beams and knees, are framed and fas-
tened in combination, tefore beng raised, and
the details OF clamps. waterways, kelsons. &C.,
progress toward completion as the frames are
put up. When these are all in place the vessel
will be nearly ready for launching. This
working Of frame lines outside and deck lines
inside at the same time, is original, and is
considered much stronger and more COM
pact than any other mode IT wooden ship
building
---,The French cable at Duxbury, Massachu-
setts, was spliced to the deep-sea cable at abcu;
sunrise on Friday. From II to O'clock the
people poured in rapidly to the beach. A swarm
OF small vessels hoveSed around the feet, and
when 1t anchored q large number ofvisitors
boarded the Cbiltern, all OF whom were hospi-
tably entertained. The shore end was landed
at s o'clock, amid the booming OF artillery on
f. the vessels and the cheers Of the multitude on
sshore. The people caught hold Of the cable
and helped pull itup to the cable house, where
it was rsplced to the land cable. which is run in
q trench to Duxbury. About six O'Clock all the
arrangements we're successfully carried out,
and the best Of feeling prevailed. The cable is
In perfect working order. Messages were sent
quite animated. Teiegroph men are construct
ing two land routes Of wire. As a'solid asaur.
ance Of the effect Of the enterprise, jtis stated
that the value OF real estate in Duxbury has
advanced one hundred per cent In thirty days,
Where are NJ new Developments in relation
to the defalcati0n of Mr.. r. w. Ballard. seere-.
4ary Of the Security Fire Insurance Company
.aof New York. It is not probable that any, pros
eouion will bs'commenoed against the default-
ing officer, his sureties being amply able to
secure the company against all loss. No part
OF the $6S 900 was used by Mr. Ballard, except
in stock speculatiOns, and no has appropriated
noportion OF the amount to, his own private
use. The defalcation, 1t seems, is not a mat
terof recent date, nor was the missing sum all
taken at one time. Two years ago Mr..
Ballard received notice from his broker,
that unless $4,000 additional margin was
supplied him he would be compelled to sell
ontstiie stocks then in his hands belong ng
to him tBaIlard,) and in order to prevent sale
thereof ct a aoss, Mr.. Ballard forwarded to the
broker $4,000 OF funds belonging to the COM
apany.. The specuiataon on the secretarys part
proYea TO be 2 rulpous one. aud he has since
,fhen used the 'company's funds from time tame to
@tinfS III the hope that his i'll luck would bs re-
trieved. until the total amounted to, A8s COO
tho esqH found to. be .paiss,pg by the Finance
Committee. Mr.. Ballard is ncw at his hone
In Connecticut, and, it Is said, !, deeply morti
fled at the position In which he finds himself
HE nnads clean breast OF all his unfortunats
itransacti0nse ~ p n .lf 9-lgg7fS sH .a
~--Seventeen years ago the Postmaster Of New
York CITY, Mr.. Isaac v. Fowler, abs.racted a
considerable amount of money belonging ia
.dhs soyernnent. and fed from the country q
tdeisnifer. Untl short time ago nothing was
4naMn.e Or hisosabseq equent history. He now
turns up at Tepico. Mexico. 40 the light of .
pub ic benefac;or and model citizen. His
romantic ,adveatnres arc related in the New
ian3 sst gs.al@3