The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-02-07
OBJ GbafleStn1t 9ems.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1872.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

-Jle new 1OTh Cotloh ueANS' S-~~~~
strong; uplands 2Ssc.; sales 325 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed strongi up
lands ll3allad; aales $4,000 bales. A furthe
advance demanded on yarns and fabrics a
Manchester.
-Advices from Halifax, n. g., yesterday re
port considerable damage to shipping by
southeast gale.
A bill Is before the Usah Legislature pro
yidipg that boys of fifteen and girls Of twelve
may marry, with the consent OF their parents
The infde.s of Massachusetts, have sub
scribed thirty thousand dollars for the erec
tlon Of building for their use In Boston, to b'
named Paine's Memorial Hall.
-Camels have been imported into Nevada
and are being used there as beasts OF burden
They have deserts enough in Nevada 10 make
them feel at home.
"A. general Indian outbreak along the
plains Is feared at Santa Fe. Three stage
coach robberies and murders have recently oc'
CURED at different points.
The new iron ferry boat Fulton, at New
York, sprung aleak yesterday in the middle
of the stream and sunk. The passengers were
r6acnady !&--cE s%- = - y" -
-AFrench savant, in a paper son the Al
teration of Well Water by Proximity Of Buria
Grounds, y asserts that distance Of one hun
dred and fifty yards is insufficient to protect
water from contamination with organic mat
ter from cemeteries.
1T has been decided In New York by the
commission of appeals in the case OF Rawson
agai..,t the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
that the Limitation of liability to one hun
dred dollars for loss of baggage Is not con-
tract, and awarded the plaintiff four thousand
dollars damages for her baggage lost by the
defendant. 6! 81 . g. - - ~
-Pere Gratry, after Pere Hyacinthe, the
most conspicuous opponent of Papal infalt-
bility in France, has just written q. letter to
the Archbishop of Paris, announcing his COM
plete assent to the definition of infsluoility by
the G,umenlcal Council. Pere Gratry has been
dangerously ill. and bis first act on becoming
con7alescent is one of submission to the au-
thorfty of his church.
ylovernor Warmoth, of Louisiana, yes
terday appeared bef.re the Congressional in-
yestlVatlng committee at New Orleans. After
protesting against the investigation as an In
reference with Statesrights, he made an
elaborate argument, going to show that If ne
and his partisans were sinners, his opponents
of the eother Radical faction we're certainly no
saints.
The carnival celebration, at New Orleans,
on Mardl Gras (next Tuesday, promises TO be
the erands st affair ever known In that city.
The Mysiick Krewe OF Comus are to have an
imposing allegorlcal procession, and crowds
fromcfar and near are fockiug to the city to
omin the festivities. The Grand Duke Alexis
wlrl,arrive there in the nick of time.
M. Garnier has at length sent in his report
of the state of the TuieIies. Not stone of
the ancient building can be made to serve
again: the whole edifce Is 30 completely cal
clned that the stones crumble away at the
slightest touch. The general opinion il that
the palace was ill-placed, serving as mask to
the far finer construction, of the Louvre. NJ.
GARNER, therefore, proposes to rebuild the
two pavllons only, leaving the space between
them to be occupied by open columns, through
which the palace OF the Louvre, with It's great
sduare and gardens, may be seen all down the
Champs ysees.
The celebrated lady physician. Miss Fow-
ler, in practice at Orange, N. j., was. recently
married, aud is now Mrs. Ormsby. She is "a
sister of Fowler, the phrenologlst, and has
met with extraordinary success as medical
practitioner OF the homeopathic school. Her in
core from her practice has for years past
been from fifteen 10 twenty thousand dollars
per year. She treats patients Of both sexes,
has the names of over six hundred families on
her practice books, and more business than
all the half dozen male doctors of the place
put together. In carrying on herproiession
she drives between forty and fifty miles every
day. She is remarkably successful as doc
tor, She, is handsome woman of forty,
clear-headed, light-hearted, strong-wiled, vi
yacious and intellectual. Her husband Is
New York merchant.
"A proposition has been made to the gov
ernment, by the Kansas Pacific Railroad, look
ing to the utilization Of the buffdlSes, which
now roam in vast herds upon our Western
plains. This plan Is simply to reserve large
tracts of ground for the purpose OF breeding
and rearing the animals, which are to be
ucorraled" therein as cattle are "corraled" In
Texas. The uses Of the buffalo to civilization
are two-fold. In the first place, If not too old,
the buffalo serves for very good eating-i in
fact, In the way OF steak he cannot be sur
passed, unless, indeed, an epicure should pre-
fer the ''baunch." Then, again, his shaggy
covering, reduced to ''robe, becomes very
valuable. On the whole, the buffalo or bison,
unlike most undomestlcated animals, is useful
to man In various ways, and the idea of thus
utilizing 1t strikes us as being ; good one.
Certainly lovers of good eating would be glad
to be able to order of their butcher buffalo meat
for breakfast or dinner, as they now do in the
matter of more familiar but less juicy ami
mails.
Probably the swiftest locomotion possible
to man without too much risk to life is that
achieved by what are termed sslce-boats.n On
tie Hudson River, near Poughkeepse, the
other day, one of these boats, the river being
frozen over to the depth of Several inches.
sailed for distance of eight miles. This dis.
tance was made in the extraordinary time Of
eight minutes. The wind was blowing gale,
and the boat carried full sail. To say that it
went with the swiftness of the wind would fail
10 express its rate of speed. The men on