The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-23
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being q holiday.
Cotton at Liverpool yesterday closed firm:
uplands I'D; Orleans 124d. Sales $4,000 bales.
The New York Sun wants Alaska made
penal COLONY.
General Butler has nominated Grant for
President in 1872
E-Brieham Young & 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.
-Geperal Grant has been specializing in
real estate He 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 he has boon indicted for malfeas-
ance in Office. 1t is not easy to see how he
was false TO his official duties in administering
the chloroform; but it occurs to us that he
might be indicte for murder if it could be
shown that he administered chloroform enough
to kill the man. He 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 budgeon, or with arsenic, he would
certainly have been held for murder.
A Washington letter (Februarv ~ says
public rumors are rapidly assuming an authen-
tic shape in reference to the more i'm portant
Cabinet positions. Undoubtedly leading Ra-
dicals have become decidedly more cheerful
within day or two past. I stated the other
day that the s'sate" had been divulged to
some Of them. 1t is now confidently stated
that the makeup receives the appreciation Of
such differently classified men as Sumner and
Stanton on the one hand, and Bingham and
Trunnbull on the other. Indeed, it is predict
ed, with more than usual audacity, that at
least two Of these worthless will themselves oc-
cupy conspicuous positions, although hereto
fore regarded as antlpodes to each other in the
classification Of wings"
The Pneumatic Dispatch Company, Of New
York, has been boring under Broadway for the
last three weeks without knowledge of the pub
lie. A cellar was hired where by degrees the
necessary machinery was placed, and the work
OF boring the tunnel commenced. The men
having charge of the work are party of En-
glish miners, who were but recently enga Led
in the construction of the ''pncumatic railroad
tube" under the streets Of London. Earth was
first removed in front Of the collar 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 the tunnel. The shield is forced ahead by
means of q 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 current Of air and made to return by the
creation Q: a vacuum. A flange, closely fitting
to the sides Of tine tunnel, is fitted to one end
of each Car, upon the surface of which the air
acts in propelling the car. The current of air
will be supplied by immense fan-wheels,
worked by st cam at each end Of the route.
New Orleans is beginning to experience
the effects Of q tolerable cotton crop and high
prices for the staple. The streets Of the city
present ON appearance moro like that before
the war. Hotels are crowded. theatres do o
good business, and the wholesale stores which
supply the planting community with material
and subsistence are making large sales. The
country residents are once more seen in the
ctr. not in want of money, but with pockets
Full of it. Old accounts, which have long been
marked off as bad debts, have in many cases
been voluntarily settled. Money is beginning
10 come back into the city, and o 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, ls the rapid increase OF gam
bling. The rattle OF the ivory checks of
faro banks and the olick of the roulette ball
can be hoard 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 O. pleasant
or promising feature. it is not to be compared
in fatal effect with the burden of bad legisle-
tion which the city has to sustain. Political
adventurers are expending on amount Of labor
which could make dozen honest fortunes to
secure by public plumber share Of the new
wealth or the State. In the name of LOYALTY
and patriotism. they are putting trammels
upon the revlving commerce. loading the State
with vexatious laws, and endangering the
credit of the commonwealth. When Louisiana
can overcome this, as she has the other diff
oulties 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 Jen-
kinses of the Lress. Don Platt. of the Cincin-
natl Commercial, lately call,d on her, ,and gives
this first rate notice: Il found her q tlignified
matronly-looking woman, who insisted, in q
pleasant way, upon knowing my name and
place Of abode. I was satisfied to find that she
remembered both when came to take my
leave. These officials and Official lions see yor
as Adam saw the beasts Of the fields and the
fowls of the air. as they fed before him to bt
named. We are lost individually in our class
The. classes are OF three s0rs-senators, mem.
bars of the House. and tag-rag and Robert
tail. AS necessarily come under the latter
cl ,ss, ann dismissed as Mr.. Pratt, or Mr.