The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-31
" E W 8 g U M MAR

Ior upiands ana l28d. for Orleans; sales 1000
bales.
The railroad to the White Sulphur Springs
Will be finished by the let of July. ..t
Two women have been elected members oi
school committee in West Concord. New
Hampshire.
nj The Ohio the third s'eamer Of the Balti.
more and Bremen Line, arrived at the former
port on Sunday.
The State Of Iowa may be regarded as in
an excellent financial condition. It does not
owe oent AMI has surplus Of $639 600 on
hand.
Two of the Peytons, brothers to the Pey-
IONS who run the great White Sulphur, vir-
g1nfa. have leased the Rookbridge Baths, and
wall open them in style in May.
There are no less than three Democratic
candidates in the field for the Mayoralty of
Louisville. The campaign is very active The
g Republicans have made no nominations
Miss Mary Morgan, curl thief, was ar
: rested in New York last week. roll OF curls
were found in her muff. She walked Broad
way afternoonssand hung around the theatres
ut nighS clipping ourls from ladies'. heads.
AT Pawtucket R. l., recently, a velocipede
race was had in a hall, in whioh good time was
made, q half mile, eighteen times around the
hall, having been accomplished in two minutes
aud twenty-sx seconds. The second prize was
won in 2:SS3, and the third IN 2:4O.
-Th, New York Express thinks that nine
tenths os our people eat too much flesh, It ia
positive injury instead OF benefit, when
eaten twice day, even to the hard physical
worker. This community could live on at least
one-half the flesh 1t devours and be all the bet
ter for the change. We are not sure that IL we
ate one-thiri only Of what is now consume ed in
the form Of steaks, joints, outlets, &c., we
would not be the gamers in health and
strenath, as we certainly would in pocket.
The New York Herald OF Sunday, in it g
money report for the previous day, says: ''In
southern securities new South Carolnas were
improved in consequence of legislative action
looking to the prompt pay ment OF the coupons
Prices closed: Georgia SKIES S1AaS2; do. sevens
92ba93; do sevens, interest payable in Geor-
gia, 88a90; North Carolina, ex coupons, 61aa62;
do. new, 572a58t; Alabama eights 9S4 9S&; do.
fves; 6S3a89; DO skies, sterling, 93; South Car
olina xes, 72a73; do. new, 7Oa71; do. register.
ed stock, 6S,66; Savannah sevens, class; do.
New Orleans consols, 1880; do. do. issued to
railroads. 69a7O Mississippi Central Railroad.
fret mortgage. II 1,72; do. second mortgage, 55a
81; Memphis and Charleston, first mortgage,
S9a9l; do. second mortgage, 76a77; do. stock,
Haas; Greenvie and Columbia Railroad.
guaranteed, h?asn"
Tho recent dispat she from Admiral Hoff
/. furnish additional instan ,es Of cruelty on the
Z part of the Haytien revolutiouists. He says
that prisoners taken upon the field of battle
wounded, and in some instances fatally, were,
In common with others not wounded, sho i'm
mediately after com oat. gu lrter ON this side
being scarcely thought o.. Several other per-
sons were shot without any form of trial, upon
the mere denunciation of unknown indvd-
uals, the reason assigned beng For having
talked against the revolution. Upon tho arri-
!. val Of Salnsve's forces before Aux Cayes and
upon the first attack that was made, the nume-
/. rous persons who found themselves in prison
for minor offences ard so-called political
crimes were ordered into the prison court
yard, the sick were carried down, the doors
we're thrown open and discharge Of
Sc musketry was fred into them. This being
found in sufdcie It to kill fast enough, rounds
IL OF grape and canister were directed against
them tn hasten this dreadful butchery. Many
women were thus sacrificed. Ali the people
" who were shot had to stand up facing the firing
party and forced to look upon them while
loading and gong through the man~uvres
preparatory to their execution. In most cases
the first fire only wounded and otherwise shat
tered their limbs. Their being no reserve
party left to hasten their end, they had to wait
ABOUT quarter OF an hour, still standing, be-
Sore the gums were reloaded father and son
we're shot together without any other reason
shan some silly remark made by the latter.
After having useleealy pleaded for the life OF
Il his son, the father requested TO share his fate.
wnicn was gladly accepted by the rebels and
they werc murdered before our eyes under cir
oumstances too horrible to relate
There is lying IN the East River. New
York, the steamship William Taber, fitted up
Tor the purpose OF transporting to the New
York market the caro- asses OF beef cattle from
Texas, whore beef is SO cheap aud plentiful
tnat 1t ls comparatively worthless. The par
ties who have the scheme in hand have moor.
porated themsclxes into what g called '.The
Refrgerating Steamship Company" With n
capital OF 100000. Tho Tabor is vessel OF
"Don' Soo TONS measurement, and is 30 arrang-
eo tnat she will carry 400 tons Of carcasses in
nn"nner as to allow tree circulation "
o""o each carcass. The entire hold OF
p 20 'hed With non-conducting felt,
.,A:N o' ~ 'hlcK"ess and when the proper
20 IN working order. the ships hold
W ,oo'oA Al. an hour and half. The ex-
o "ekioo ol coio is produced oy pres sure
upon oarbonic aoid gas. condeusiny q - :
hqniied form and then allowing il to rev, NO.
ize. This process produced so intense q do.
gree OF GOLD that personal contact with the ca
Or machinery will produce biisters on the f,esb
eimilar to those raised by burns. AS matter
OF course this temperature is altogether un.
necessary for the preservation OF meat. and
would in fact be useless. and it was only pro-
ducsd as an experiment. The refrigerator on
board has cspaaity OF 800 pounds at q time.
and Joe was made and the ship cooled Thu, a.
DAY morning IN one hous and a half. The mir
was reduced to temperature OF "a deuraas
above zero. The air. as it came from the an -.
ply pipe by which the oold air was thrown IN =
enc hold indicated q temperstare 1S deeraaa
Deiow zero. The temperature can be rednoaa