The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-17

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nent. 81. 80,
ARENA. table game Of billiards was played
in .isw York city on Tuesday evening between
William Goldthwaite, the we'll known profess
sion i player, and young man named Motifs
Da:G. The game was for s250, on the same
tcssiss As The national tour3sment, LOO points
~, ,ush- shot barredy and. saroms counting
th. %. The score at the close stood GoldtA-
waite, 400, DAILY $40. Mr.. Goldthwa,te ran
out on the twenty-third inning, making his
average slightly above Rfty-two.t SThrea OF his
runs were respectively Jag. 102 and ,Hs, and
seven others exceeded fifty each. The loser'
notwithstanding :, his overwhelming defeat,
made the very respectable average OF sixteen.
The hotels OF Cincinnati are filled With the
delegates who have repaired thither from the
States OF Kentucky, Tennessee and South Caro-
fna to consult with the business men Of Gin
cinnaa asto the plan Of building the proposed
route and termini OF the great Southern rail-
way, which our Cincinnati contemp mporsries say
is universally regarded to be q A1ed faot. These
gentlemen say they have never known public
enterprise to awaken such universal and pro-
found interest The gentlemen who haye'e gone
there to ipYite investigation and compare notes
With thsconmercial men Of Cincinnati.are rep
resented % men Of wealth and position tsstsrr
ribly in earnest" andIMling and anxious to
rendeca hearty aco-operations in Sll matters
looking IT, The, cons a ton rkrssd ma.
result. Governor Scotts Of ,Ssuth Carolina, 8
large sddsgasohh fnm Knoxville and the board b, = :
ofsldsrmsn, board Of ,ssrsds. and ehsmber eil
commerce Of Charleston, South iCascaina, st1i
rived wednesday evening. At teao clock Thurs
dsy . public meeting nos held ct che rooms OF
the hasta II trade, abste the7isiting commit
tS9 YEH,tQ pFgssut their claims TO the Gin
oinnSh CITY Council. chamber of commerce,
board q trade, and ybusiDeas men generally,
The people are urged by most Of the Cinoin-
natl press to Ietn6 opportunity pass to further
the interests oftfts enterprise. q :
:. 4fHe spfsKdefsmny have measured strength
vffk thS BtoSnnl family. and been overthrown-
ho9SoNtnota and drsSoons: The contest was
nominally over the mayoralty Of Providence,
but in Aefect it convulsed ali Rhode Island.-
The preliminary battle was in the nominating
ceaEsasion- Mayor Doyle, brether-in-law OF
Sprseue, was put up fof renotnination by the
sptague, family. The convention, however,
nominateafs Brown man--George L. Clsr ke--
whereupon the Doyle men bolted, and put
him in the field. The Democrats meantime
nominated Colonel Van Slyek. who was eharg-
ed BY sprsgue, 1ny bis Senate speech, it
wiz be So remembered, with bringing up his
men at Bull Run like q flock Of sheep. The
campaign was now entered upon with vigor
and it seemed ID be question which OF
the stwo million dollar families, the Browns or
the Spragues, would bleed the most freely in
behalf of their respective champions. But
spHAfently the Spragne men found the odds
too heavy for them, and on the night before the
eleStfon DOYLE Withdrew from the canvass,
giving the curious reason that he did not wish
to be q party to the "pubhc debauchment"
going on in the canvass. The election, resulted
inflyurof the snti-Sprague candidate by alarge
majority, though the Sprague men made rally
in the course Of the day, hoping to carry the
field by coup -de-main. The result of this
opening battle OF the war is regular Bull Run
disaster for Sprague, but perhaps he may rally
and organize yet FOR victory.
Mr.. W. W. Corcoran, a rich retired banker
Of Washington, has executed deed trans
ferring to board of nine trustees the spacious
and beautiful building erected by hun several
years ago on the corner Of Pennsylvania Ave-
nue. and Seventeenth-street for an Art Deposi-
tory, together with the ground upon which it
is situated, and all the back rents due on ac'
count Of its use and occupancy by the govern
ment, to be held by them in perpetuity as
free picture gallery for the City Of Washington.
The amount due by the government on ac-
count Of rents will reach nearly 100000. Mr..
Corcoran gave also his large and splendid COL
lection of paintings and works OF art, valued at
many thousands OF dollars, to be placed in
the buildings above referred to as nu-
oleus for q still more extensive collec-
tion, which can hardly fail to grow up
under suah favorable auspices. The gentle
men named as trustees are Messrs. James III.
Carlisle, DR.. ]. @. Hall, George W. Riggs, An
thony Hyde, James @. Mcclure, James G.
Berret. Joseph q. Kennedy, and Henry D.
Cooke, OF New York. and William T. Walters, Of
Baltimore. The value Of the property trans
ferred to them as above is estimated to be
worth at least 100000. In addition to this,