The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-23
NEWS OF THE DAF.

-fhe Pope attained his eightieth year last
week.
Carl Schurz's wife and daughter VIII Sui
for Europe On the 30th of June.
Mrs. Horace Greeley and her TWO daugn-
ters are at Angouleme, France.
The recent earthquake has Increased Inc
flow Of the HOT springs Iii California.
The coal fields of Virginia are beginning
to attract the attention OF capitalists. 1t is
said that there are unlimited supplies of coal,
iron and limestone In the Old Dominion,
which need only capital and energy, together
with increased railroad facilities, TO- develop.
Among the things burned in the great fire
at Chicago were forty thousand Bibles. This
information may seem to be. rather late as q
matter of news, but the articles in question
were so seldom used in Chicago that nobody
missed them, and it was only by very patient
investigation that their loss has been very re-
Gently ascertalned.
An Atlanta dispatch of the 18th instant
says: ssTc-day writ of habeas corpus was
Issued by Judge Erskine in the case of Hem
dricks, the United States deputy marsnai,
who came here and endeavored to arrest
peaceable citizens on forged warrants. The
case is set for hearing on Wednesday next,
and It is not improbable that Hendricks VIII
be discharged from arrest, as Lam Informed by
q prominent lawyer that the proof OF mis-
rascality Is not accessible"
Judge Jere. Black has been interviewed
at Washington on the political situation. He
disspproves of Mr.. Greeley as candidate for
Democrats, shut (he says) +. tell you what
we are going to do. The platform put forth at
Cincinnati is broad, fair, democratic platform.
There Is nothing passive in that. Now, II the
convention that meets at Baltimore finds In Its
wisdom that Greeley fits the platform, we will
make the best fight for him we can. have
no question but when the canvass warns up,
and men take sides as men are wont to do,
that the entire Democratic party will be found
striving for the right"
Postmaster Jones, of New York, tells
onnd Campaign .tary-- En--Hnrs"a -n-ANiAy'
Some time ago one Norton, cashier OF the
postofdce, turned out as defaulter, and the
United States Government came down on his
securities, among whom was Horace Greeley,
responsible to the extent of about thirty thou
sand dollars. Greeley wssyery restive under
this obligation, and he is so much ln fear OF
debt, that he actually wanted to give his
check for the whole sum and get 1t off his
mind. Finally meeting OF the endorsers was
held, and Mr.. Greeley put on his spectacles,
took up his bond and dolefully read over the.
conditions. s.They say I write an Internally
bad dhand," said Greeley, shut they can read it
plain enough when it gets on one Of these
things. ~.
THE latest freak of the woman movement
is the letter of Tennie G. Claflin, In which she
applies for the colonelcy of the Ninth New
York Regiment, protesting that 1t would be
wrong to the memory of It's dead leader to
select as Its successor any one lacking the
magnetic influence he possessed ever soldiers.
She will accept the position, and pledge her
sell, II elected, to give such impetus to re-
cruiting that In thirty days the regiment will
be ..he foremost In the State. "There can be
no objection" she SAYS ITO me, except that /
am woman; but Joan Of Arc was woman,
and while don't pretend to have her military
genius, 1t has always been my desire to be-
come actively connected with the service. In
the whole rules and tactics am we'll versed.'
Among the good passages Of Greeley's
life, is his advocacy of the claims OF the widow
of the Irish poet, G. G.. Halplne. Halpine
died suddenly In the possession of ON Office
worth $4,000 year, out Of which, with a
poets want Of thrift, he had saved nothing
except some partial payments on good house
in Lexington avenue. He lett half dozen
orphan children, who would have been re-
duced to extreme poverty In few weeks but
for Horace Greele'ys influence. Gfeeley went
personally, telegraphed and sent messages to
Albany, insisting that Fenton should put Jones
or some Of Halpine's friends in the registers
Office and let the profits accrue for tho whole
OF the unexplred term in favor of Halpine's
family. Fenton had no great friendship for
Halpine, and was 10th to give away an Office
of such value for mere sentimentality when
1t would have been Of the highest use to him
as an ambitious politician. Greeley showed
great force and industry in bringing influ-
ences to bear upon Fsnton, and among other
things, he telegraphed to Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan, AMI the leading generals oil the
army, imploriug them, on behalf of COM
rade, to send dispatches to Fenton at Albany,
urging him to do right by the widow and fam
lily. So Industrious were these things done
that Patrick Jones was made trustee of the
office, and the whole proceeds thereof for the |
remainder Of the term were secured to the be- !
reaved family.
Tho Pail Mall Gazette has made the dis |
covery that disturbances of the Interior forces |
Of the earth have remarkable connection |
with political changes. Thus In 1855 the |
resignstton of the Aberdeen Ministry was tol- |
lowed by serious eruption of VesuvIus. ]
When Lord Derby resigned in 1859 the same |
volcano made another demonstration. After |
the Trent affair, and the release of Mason and
slidell, Tore del Greco, at the base of yesu-
vlus, was destroyed by stream of lava. On
November IL, 1867, another eruption of vesu-
vius began, and on December l3 the Fenians
attempted to blow up Clerkenwell Prison. |
This eruption continued until February, 1868, |
when, Lord Derby resigned and the Dlsraen |
Ministry coming into power, the mountain |
ceased its mutteriDgs. Mount Etna, too,
has been affected by the political disturb |
laces In England on several occasions. In
1872, when the Reform bill was passed, Etna
,0jled over and destroyed the neighborIng