The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-28
Personal.
-Mr. James Gordon Bennett, ST., is very III
and is not expected to recover.

MIR. James Gordon Bennett, Sr., is very III
and is not expected to recover.
There are rumors that Horace Greeley is
very i'll, perhaps incurably SO. 1t is said that
his constant mental labor is beginning to tell
upon his physical frame.
Daniel Mcfarland has returned to New
York from Chicago. He says the proceedings
he has initiated there for undoing his wlfe's
divorce will be pressed, and he is confident of
a favorable issue. He says his friends have
placed abundant funds at his command to de-
fray the necessary expenses. is understood
that for the present he will connect himself
with one of the literary weeklies.
Brigham Young openly confesses that he
does not 60 to the Bible for pelygamy, and that
his belief in the sacred Scriptures is very limit
ed. In one of his sermons, or addresses. he
said: ''You believe Adam was made of the
dust of this earth This do not believe. You
can write that information to the States if you
please-that have publicly declared that do
not believe that portion of the Bible as the
Christian world do. never did, and never
want to; because have come to understand
ing, and banished from my mind all the. baby
stories my mother taught me when was a
child"
The Jolly old sea-dog Robson is about
ready to weigh anchor and start on his Sin
specting' tour to Long Branch and other fash
ionable watering-places. The yacht America
is rapidly approaching completion. Her cabin
is being elegantly fitted up with accommoda-
tions for dozen or more first-class landsmen,
and every comfort will be provided to alleviate
the pangs OF the fresh ones. when they are
fairly "dancing on the main" The wine
lockers and provision-rooms are capacious,
and as Uncle Sam will foot the bills, there eau
be no reasonable fear of their being empty at
any lime after the cruising season Of the rosy
Secretary and the festive Vice-Admiral be-
gins.
Dickens was strongly averse to spiritual
ism, but believed in and practiced mesmerlsm,
and placed the little heroine Of his unfinished
story under mesmeric influence, which would
have been one of the most striking features
of the Mystery. Mr.. Dickens was not only a
powerful magnetizer, personally relieving
pain and curing disease, but he sometimes
sent magnetized OF mesmerlzed paper to per-
sons who wrote requesting him to do so, and
they declared that it acted as strongly and
benefcially as if he were present. This, OF
course, will be attributed to imagination, but
tha power of 80 operating upon peoples
imagination as to soothe their pains and cure
their diseases, is gift Of considerable value.
Sixty miles beyond st. Paul is farm worked
by seven sisters. The parents of these girls
were both invallds and very poor. They went
from Ohio to Minnesota barely three years ago
for their health. Under the homestead law
the family secured a pre-emption claim OF the
usual hundred and sixty acres. Moved by a
natural sympathy for family so unfortunately
situated, their neighbors helped them to put
| up log house, and they were able to hire men
10 split rails for fencing and to plough the
land All the rest of the work has been done
by the seven girls, and last year they sold nine
hundred bushels or potatoes, FIVE hundred
bushels of corn, two hundred and fifty bushels
of wheat, and some six hundred Of miscellane-
ous vegetable. They are now comfortably of,
and find time to read books and newspa-
pers.
| John Morrissey's new house at Saratoga is
said to be by far the most gorgeous house for
play on the continent. The main floor is divid-
ed into three rooms, two of which are devoted
| to play and one for dining. The fitting up OF
the rooms are simply magnificent. The floors
are covered with scarlet and white velvet
tapestry. The furniture, sldeboards, cornices,
mantels and mirror frames are French cheval,
inlaid with gold. The curtains are silk and
damask. The monogram ~. NJ" flames out
on all sides. Over the massive mirrors are
carved tigers heads with mouths wide open
to devour, an emblem of the tiger persons
will fight within the walls. The chandeliers
are gold gilt, and the brackets are FURNISHED
in the same STYLE On the saloon floor there
are one hundred and twenty-five lights, and
two hundred and seventy in all the house.
Private staircases lead 10 rooms aloft and
these rooms, on the two stories above the par
lors, are gorgeously fitted up for guests. The
lower floor is for kitchen, wine cellar, laundry
and for domestic uses. The clubhouse cost
$40, ,000 A lot near is owned by church.
The parish would not sell, but the ground Is
rented to Morrissey for ten years, at $1,000 a
year, to- give room and light for the club
house.
When Edward B. Ketchum got his ticket
oEleave and shook the odor of Sing Sing from
his person and returned to New York, it was
hoped his thirst for speculative ventures was
at an end. Such, however, was not the fact.
In the prime OF life and possessed of keen,
analytical faculties, he could not abstain from
participation in the at times almost maddening
operations of Wall street. 1t was like return
ing to the old homestead; he could not
conquer himself, and since his return be
has been not only one Of the heaviest, but
one of the most reckless manipulators on
Change. It is estimated that his operations
since his release from durance aggregate
ten million dollars. Last May, Ketchum
bought largely when gold rose from ll4
10 l54; then the gold market became dull;
then Ketchum was bear in the market and
made largely, hundreds Of thousands of ofdollars;
then he became bull from q theory OF his
own that the imports would be large, and
that there would be no disturbing influen ces
of political economy; then he lost. and finally
irretrevably. During these operations $780,