The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY..
Gold In New York closed at 49,
Cotton closed nominal; middlinss z4!c'
-co,,on In Liverpool closed frmi uplanus
1lad sales $4,000 bales
Tho Memphis Avalanche says that Greeley
and Brown will carry Tennessee by eignty
thousandmajorlty.
Colonel Dyke, of the Tallahassee Florldi-
an. and member OF the National Democratic
ccmmi,tee, is greatly in favor of Greeley.
in Mississippi the name by which tne
Liberal candidate for President is commonly
known Is Old Honesty. 1t Is very correct
epithet.
"A dispatch from New York to the Cincln-
natl Gazette says sit Is reported that Horace
Greeley has received letter from Hon. Jei-
ferson Davis congratulsting him on his nomina-
ton, and promising to support the Clncinnall
ticket" Fudge!
Chattanooga stirred the ire of Olive Logan
recently. She was required to pay for deliver
Ing her lecture ten dollars city lax, hiteeh
dollars State tax, fifteen dollars county and
six dollars fees to sheriff and clerk. Total,
forty.six dollars. The people growied De-
cause Olive lectured the second night IN
walking suit, instead Of full dress.
-Theorlzers on earthquakes and volcanic
disturbances will find bit Of Interesting IN
formation In the news from Iceland. Mont
Hecls is always In a. mild state OF eruption.
but on the 18th, 18th and 18th of April there
was an unusual commolion, with volcanic
ahocks in some paris of the island. 1t hap
pens that the great California earthquakes
commenced on the 18th OF April; and were
most severe on that day. These phenomena,
widely separated by distance as they are, may
be connected by scientific thinkers.
The Great Western Telegraph Company
has paid the first instalment OF S5OO.OoO ior
the Manufacture OF a new ocean cable. The
work is to be done in England and the project
Ia fairly started. The company has capltal
equal to ss,76o,ooo, and it proposes to>iay
cable from England to New York, by way OF
Bermuda, With branch line to st. Thomas,
ard a subseoueur extension to Brazil. The
estimated cost of making and laying the cable
ia equivalent to the amount OF the capital,
and, as practical guarantee, the directors
have stipulated that the contractors shall take
ope-ihlrd Ot the whole number OF shares.
Agreements have also been made with the
Great Northern Telegraph Company to secure
the transatlantic traffic of Denmark, Norway,
Sweden, Russia, China and Japan; and when
the Great Northern Company establishes It's
projected North Atlantic line, a joint agree
ment will be made by which the new cable
company will enjoy the Important advantage
of duplicate route between England and
America. 1t is also proposed to establish
tariff of charges c@nideraoiy lower than those
of the existing companies.
"A writer In the last Appletons' Journal
gives short but interesting account Of TIC
great American Sahara, the desert region
lying midway between the Mississippi River
and the Pacific Ocean. Over this treeless
waste no birds fly; on 1t no life is found but the
gray brittle sage brush and the narrow belt OF
green that skirts the margins of the unfre.
qnent streams. And yet, arid, shruoless, des-
olste as this vast tract-twelve times the area
OF New England-ls by nature, there is but
little doubt out that, by proper irrigation and
tree planting, it can be made productive. The
writer In the Journal advocates artesian wells
like those that have been 80 successfully sunk
by the French In Algeria. We see, by the San
Diego Union, that these wells are likely to be
soon tested practically. A number OF capital
Isis seriously entertain the idea of rpclaiming
at least portion of the Colorado Desert by
this means. The project to render the south
ern and eastern borders Of this desert arabic Is
no new one. In 1856. and again 10 1859,
proposal to turn the Colorado River upon 1t
was favoraby reported upon in the United
States Congress. The plan now proposed by
the gentlemen who entertain the idea of sink
ing wells, is to 60 before Congress and ask
grant Of land, In the event of their finding
water.
The United States Supreme Court has
given q decision which Is intended to define
the American doctrine as to the relations of
Church and State. The case before the court
was that ofa Presbyterian Church In Louis.
Vile which had become divided through old
troubles relating to slavery and the civil war.
Alter various proceedings before the estab-
lished tribunals of the church-the Presby-
terry, the Synod and the General Assembly
the dispute was taken into the courts; first
Into the State Courts of Kentucky, and after
ward to the United States Circuit Court; the
decisions in the State Courts being oil in favor
of one party, and in the United States Court
Of the other. Finally, the case was brought
before the Supreme Court OF the United
States, which decided, substantially, that no
court has power to interfere with the action
of the General Assembly, which is the sn-
preme judicatory of the Presbyterian Church.
Its decisions, whether right or wrong, must
be accepted as final in all church matters, and
civil tribunals have not the authority even to
inquire whether, under the constitution of
the church, the Assembly has Jurisdiction
over cases brought before it, or whether Its
action Is In conformity to the rules and pre-
oedents of the church. From this it would
appear that In any church the decision OF the
ecclesiastical judicatory which is recognized
as OF the highest authority, cannot be over
ruled BY any civil court.
LABOR strikes are the order of the day on
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