The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-12-28

sIof February I'D, 1870, entltled al act w iosu
slate the publication Of all legal and public
HnotIces."
- NEWS OF TIE DAY.
1t IL reported that Rev. DR.. Haight Will
decline the Episcopal bishopric OF hassachu-
setts, to which he was recently chosen.
The Berlin ssm!.ofnoial paper announces
that the military levy In Alsace and Lorraine
hss passed of with tranquility. Between
seven and eight thousand young men nave
bsen enrolled, besides large number OF vol
unteerA
= 4 tunnel for transit between New York
c,tyand Brooklyn il now proposed, in addition
70 the great East River bridge. Street rail-
roadsIn connection are also proposed In order
that the people may get to outlying sections IN
and around Brooklyn.
s--Pere Hyacinthe is about to start a paper
to be called La Repubique Evsngelique. II
Mrs. Hyscinthe's eighty thousand dollars are
going to embark In that enterprise, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser, we are
apprehensive that the result will leave Mrs.
Hyacinthe in anything bat an evangelique
frame, of mind.
At meeting Of the building committee
OF st. Paul's Reformed Church, Ttusvllle, Pa,
1t was resolved to ask OF King William one Of
the French cannon taken by him in the late
war. to be cast as q bell for the new edihce.
Tho following letter from Charles q. Meyer,
the German consul at Philadelphia, tells the
result: ~ am happy to state to you that his
Majesty the Emperor William, In reply to the
petition of ;st. Paul's Reformed Church, at
Tltusvilie, has presented one OF the captured
French cannon to them, Weighing about two
thousand pounds. You viii please communi-
cate this fact to the congregation, and also
state TO them that this piece OF artillery Is now
awaiting transportation at the depot In Berlin.
l. am ready to forward 1t at your convs-
nience.n
r--Ai Warrington telegram says: "Some
sensation has been created here by the an.
nounoement of the Chicago Tribune that 1t
intendsf for the future to adhere to what is still
termed the Liberal Republican party. The
Chicago Tribune is the most powerful and In
fuential Journal Of the Northwest, and Its con-
Ginued adherence to the principles OF the Gin
cinnati platform, In the face of the decisive
msjortties in all the Western States for Gene
raj Grant, has caused considerable surprise
amongst the Western politicians. This action
on the part of the far-seelng men who control
the Tribune is taken as cheering indication
that the principles laid down at Cincinnati
and reafirmed at Baltimore are gaining force
with the people as time rolls on, and that
good fruit Is yet to be borne Of them. This
view ls still further strengthened by the news
ffom New York that the Tribune OF the East
will still be ranged uuder the same banner
With the Tribuns Of the West. That Mr..
Whitelaw Reid Is able TO control the large
amount required to purchase fifty shares Of
the Tribune at the large advance OF twelve
thouSand dollars per share, cannot be regard
ed as q symptom that the advocacy of ''Libe-
raln doctrines In the East does not pay"
"A recent telegram In the NEWS briefly p1en-
toned that junction Of the headings from
the central shaft of the Hoosac Tunnel and
from the east end had been effected, and that
tion to the other. This Is the most important
event 20 far In the history Of that great work.
Two blasts of nItro-glycerine, each from four
teen holes, which required eighty feet in
length OF the explosive, Weighing abouty six
ty.three pounds-the largest quantity ever be-
fore used at one time In the tunnel-made
breaches through which the water run, and
the men of the two gangs conversed. Lamps
held at the opening we're Immediately extin.
guiBhed, so strong was the draft from the end
toward the shaft. The last blast made hole
about q foot In diameter between the
two sections. This was speedily enlarged
by hand.power, and small boy was let
down from the central shaft into the east
end, amid the shouts and cheers of both
gangs. Another person of larger Size followed,
and then the east end reciprocated by sending
up two of the men Of It's gang, who proceeded
to the shaft, and where the first to reach the
top Of the mountain from the east end without
ascending Its slope. Although the engineers
have notyet had an opportunity to verify their
calculations by the result 1t Is certain that the
error Is scarcely more than foot either in
grade or in line, and It may prove to be very
much less. Another fact, which ia likely to
have an important bearing on the matter Of
ventilation, amer the tunnel is finished, is that
the draft from the eastern end into the central
shaft tunnel ls so strong that 1t can only be
likened TO very powerful wind. Work may
row se begun on the west heading of the cen.
trail shaft 30 that on October ls, 1873, II all
goes we'll, there Will be an opening through
the Hoosac mountain from east to west, nearly
Eve miles In length. Not quite half mile west
OF the central shalt remains 10 be pierced. .
IRA New York telegram, describing the
burning of Barnum's Circus and Menagerie In
Fourteenth street, on Christmas Eve, Gays:
The nre was first discovered at 4.l6, bursting
through the roof Of the circus, Immediately
over where the giraffes were kept, and imme-
diately after animals and birds began bowling
and scresching in terrific manner. An
alarm was sounded, which quickly brought
the district engines on the spot. second
and third alarm was sent out, but the flames
spread with such rap!dlty that almost before