The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-26
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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Cold closed in New York yesterday at 49,
a1a%.
Cotton was firm; sales 1900 bales; upland
2311 cents.
i'm Liverpool cotton WAS steady. with sales O
1000 bales; uplands l1,id; Orleans 11hallad.
The Khedive is coloring o meerschaum sait
to be worth, with its diamond ornaments, $40, 600
The British government, when 1t took posses
Sion Of the telegraph lines, retained all the female
operators, and also employed fifty new ones.
"A Pittsburg lady and her little daughter wen
to heaven the other evening on the wings o
name from an exploded Kerosene lamp.
Senator Sumner Is said to be preparing bill
to strike out the word "white' from the title Of
the Presidential Mansion. so as to thoroughly
conform 10 the Fifteenth amendment.
Mamma Grant is described as 80 well-pre-
served old lady OF seventy. rather below the me-
dunn height, with clear, sharp eye, and neatly
yet plainly dressed.'
Owing to the dismissal OF the appeals OF the
Supreme Court OF the legal-tender cases, there Is
no case before the court involving the constltu-
tionality OF the legaltender law, and it will take
more than year to bring up new test case.
Admiral Rous, one Of the chief turf authori-
ties In England, mentions in recent letter that
between 1858 and 1868 the turf was "a rattling
trade" and adduces in proof Of this assertion the
fact that two OF his friends won respectively 95,-
900 and s115, 900 on single races.
The United States Supreme court will adjourn
Tor tile present term on the Both instant. Chief
Justice Chase will preside in The United States
Circuit Court at Richmond on the first Of May.
tn Arc and Jnctica RFau-
ley to New Orleans. to hold court.
The Prussian Government has military maps
Of every foot OF its territory, so complete that
every hill, ravine, brooklet, field and forest is de-
uneated with perfect accuracy. 1t Is common
boast OF Prussian military men, that within
eight days $4,000 men can be concentrated to the
defence OF any single point within the k'nsaom'
Experiments made In Germany by the militia
ry authorities show that sheet OF Ice three
inches thick affords perfectly safe passage for
infantry or horses, marching In single file, and
for lirht carriages with thickness Of six inches
Il viii bear all sorts of wagons and cannon. The
strength Of the ice may be increased by covering
~ With straw and laying planks under the wagon
wheels.
A gentleman lately wrote to Mr.. Carlyle to
settle controversy about the religion OF che au'
thor oil ''SarLOE hcS1lIuob- oHo eSNS~ $500 f-
blank whether he, was Pantheist or not The
following was the characteristic reply dated
March I. 1870: 90. never was, nor Pot-thest
either, For tile rest, never mind these poor peo
ple So for as they don't mean well, the damage
Is all their own.-T. c."
The cutting of the Isthmus Of Corinth Is to be
undertaken by NJ Plat, engineer Of the Serv:an
railways and by NJ. Chollet, Of Paris. III. Behic
e. member OF the French Senate, and the Marquis
de Pleact, Deputy Governor OF the Bank OF
France, ore interested In the enterprise In old OF
which the Greek Chambers. have granted con-
oession OF 90 years. and the right OF constructing
railways uniting Corinth and Athens with the
Turkish lines.
"A plan for uniform railroad gauge Is under
consideration by railroad men and members o!
Congress Five.sixths Of the roads already have
the same gauge-four feet eight and onehalf
tnches To bring the other sixth to this 1t Is pro-
posed that, after given day mo road shall be
post road that does not conform to this gauge
The expenses Of changing will not exceed $500
mile and as there are less than 5000 miles Of road
requiring alteration, the whole cost Of the work
would not exceed S+,oo0,ooo.
Nine. Patti Is said to have discovered behind
the scence OF the ST. Petersburg Opera. House
youthful prodigy. The child Ia question, little
girl nine years Of age, had heard Nine. Patti sew
eral times in the part Of Raroherita and initiated
her singing to such perfection that once, on max
ing her exit, Nine. thought that the repetition OF
the notes she had just been singing must be the
work o; an echo. Finding, however, that 1t pro-
eeeded from clever, well.endowed little girl, she
offered to adopt the young songstress; and this
proposition having been declined by the parents,
she procured her admission into the St. Peters
burg Conservatore. The name OF the interesting
little phenomenon Is Adler.
Commodore vanderbils Is turning his atten:
tion to the erection OF q magnificent structure OF
iron and glass on Fourth Avenue, New York. fer
the use OF the cars Of his several lines OF railway.
Tho edi6oe, when completed will be the largest,
,moss costly and imposing building OF the kind on
this continent. The weight OF iron to be used
will be over 100000 pounds. 1t will require
100 0oosquare feet OF glass in the roof alono, and
$4,000 square feet OF galvanized corrugated iron
TO cover the roof The roof over the carhouse
will extend over al area limited south and west
by the office buildings east by Fourth Avenue,
and north by line thirty feet six inches south OF
Forty fifth street. The entire length OF the roof
will be six hundred and nftytwo feet, and it will
be one hundred, and ninety nine feet two Inches
In width between the walls, and supported by
thirty-two arched trusses placed twenty feet four
inches apart. The great arches will set upon the
foundation, whose upper face Is two feet below
the surface Of the ground, rising to an elevation
OF ninetJfon feet from the sprlnging line TO the
~eStrados Of the arch. This depot is Intended to
accommodate the trains OF the Harlem, Hudson
Rirer and New York Central Railroads. The car
h0u,e VIII have Accommodations for twelve
etuge trains, while If it be necessary, double or
even treble that number can be accommodated.
1t is expected to be open to the public by Janu.
ary, 1871.
notwithstanding the adjournment Of the Mo-
Yar.and trial for the week, the gossip concerning
the chief actors in the case is not diminished
Should Mcfarland be acquitted hc will .ass,tuta
proceedings to lnvalidate the Indiana divoro, On
the ground that it was obtained without any no.
tifeation being served on him. Mrs. Richardson IS
consequently very anxious that he be convicted
aud sent to prison for life, but Is evidently pfepar