The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-02-24

have arrived at Chicago, after passage o
twenty-eights days. They bitterly denounct
the MANAGEMENT of the road.
st. Louis lawyers are soon to appear IL
court in black gowns. They think such cos
tune will elevate their dignity, and inspire
the irreyerent client with awe.
Generals Won Moltke and Won Room have
been created Life peers by royal decree, and
win take seats In the Upper Chamber OF the
Prusslan Diet. .gl o. gis.5
The Baltimore papers announce the death
in that city, on the 18th, Of the eldest daugh-
terof the bate Chief Justice Taney, relict Of
J. Mason Campbell, Esq, Of the Baltimore bar.
IL cable dispatch states that General sher-
man and Lieutenant Grant Will go from Naples
to Egypt, and, after making trip through
that country. will return to the United States.
st. Louis and Chicago always have an
issue. Now II is which is the slckliest, and
Chicago Is ahead With one hundred and thirty
eight deaths in thesfast week, of which siss-
teen were from smallpox, as against seventy
In st, Louis and no smallpox. ..
While the Emperor Of Brazil was In Eng
land he arranged for scheme of colonization
of Brazil By English colonlsts. One thousand
two hundred and fifty square miles Of Brazil
ian territory are to be first taken up, and it is
proposed to send out 10000 emigrants an
nualy, the port OF embarkstion being Bristol.
AS clergymen who do their duty run almost
az much rick as medical men, 1t may be con-
solipg to them to know that, Notwithstanding
this disadvantage, they last long time. The
ac,uary of the Clergy Mutual Life Assurance,
In London, states in his last report that the
mortality of the clergy may safely be put at
twenty per cent. less than that OF the rest OF
the community.
1t Ia stated that the representative OF Ja-
nan in the United States desires to send fifteen
American ladies' to his country to teach the
English language and ordinary branches OF
education. Nearly four hundred applications,
mainly from ladies employed In the depart
ments, have already been received. The pay
Is $500 per annum in gold, for three years,
and expenses to Japan and return.
Secretary Boutwell, has received rom an
ANONYMOUS party in New York $ls 80, the
amount, as the writer states, Of duties due on
articles brought through the customhouse
last autumn without being examined. The
gender, a female, adds: "Havlng some years
ago taken the oath of allegiance. suppose It
binds me to keep the revenue as we'll as all
other lave, and therefore send this con-
science money"
The fund for the statue OF Mr.. Horace
Greeley, in New York, does not increase as
promptly as the friends of this distinguished
gentleman might wish. 1t Is true that fifteen
thousand dollars have already been sub
scribed, but this sum Is hardly adequate to the
Importance of the movement. The auoun
called TOR is thirty thousand dollars, and MIR.
Greeley's legion Of admirers should oestir
themselves to place that sum at the disposal
Of the statue committee.
The officers Of the National Insurance
Convention Of The United States have issued
circular letter to the governors Of the various
States, calling for their cooperation in the
labors of the convention. This convention Is
composed of the State insurance officers OF the
country. They seek to remove the chief evils
complained Of by life, fire, and marine insu-
rance companies, and to promote system OF
reciprocity among the insurance bureaus of
the various States. They aim at the enact
ment by concurrent action Of the State soVer.
eighties of law which would have the scope
Of Congressional statute, just and impartial
protecting the insurance interests OF the Wnole
country and infringing upon the interests or
rights of no section.
-Sportsmen are now having an exciting
time in Buckingham County, Vlrglnta.~A
correspondent, writing under date Of the 10th
Instant, describes the great ''pigeon roost' on
the old furnace lands near Canton. He says:
ssThe area of the roost is four square miles,
and to one WHO never saw sight Of the kind
It Is truly amazing. From one hour Of sun
until night the air ls darkened with countless
thousands of the birds flying from all direc-
tions (south Of the rIver) inward 10 the roost.
There is u grandeur indescribable in the mourn
full sound OF rushing wings as the trackless
armies, marshsled in the "viswless wind"
come sweeping to their bivouac. But the
evening sight is not to be compared to that of
the morning when the pigeons are leaving the
roost. Rushing upward from the bushes like
columns OF blue smoke, the rays of the morn
Ing sun paint them with rainbow tints, and a
canopy oyershadows the woods like the sui
INJURIOUS clouds above battlefield. Wheeling
in great divisions in the air, they divide, each
army to Its leader, and the heavens grow
lighter as they disappear 10 refill their cra"s
with acorns."
The last steamer brings the full text Of the
speeches of DIsraeli and Gladstone in the