The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-03-29
HEWS OF THE DAY.

,--A'WpM9u OLD II. mrs. COmWouoio YOU
derbrlt Fis sister OF the vile OF Bishop NC
TysIre, ofthe Methodist Church South.
: i-Lncca will follow Nilsson's example and
spend the.summer at Newport, with Liebhart,
OF the Rublnsteln Wieniauski troupe, asa COM
paniou.. .-i: 4s~
When The new postofice in Boston Is
completed, the various newspapers will re-
ceive their exchanges direct by pneumatic
tubes. :,
-Charleston, w. Va, offers ten thousand
dollars and exemption from taxation LOT ten
years to any company that will establish a
car factory there to employ Of least one num-
d.ed men. sS|
There are some indications that the trade
organizations Of New York will abandon their
proposed strike, on account of the inauepiclous
nature OF the season, building operations being
dull, &c.
/. The will of the late Euperoref the French
has been proved in England. The personal
WHICH -I,uoucurcus uwUru 10 uo teoo
chan fi2o, coo, he left to the Empress without
reserve. The French imperial crown, which
he did not possess, he bequeaihed to the
Pr..'ce Imperial.
Commodore Vanderbilt's half million for
the Methodist College in Tennessee has SET
the Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville
editors, who want 1t located Ia their respec-
tive cities, by the ears. Knoxville will give
five acres for site, while the Chattanooga
man s.cals him. with tender Of the whole
of Lookout Mountain, with It's fine View OF
oh T,,lo fhrNUn In
The freight blockade In the Southwest is
causing serious Inconvenience to merchants
and shippers. Immense quantities of freight
are piled up at all the leading business CEN
tres, and In some cases notices have been
Issued refusing to receive any more goods.
The pressure ls occasioned by the Increased
movements OF the spring trade, and by the
deficiency of the rolling stock OF many Of the
railroad companies.
The executions which have recently taken
place In this section of the country engaged
the exclusive attention Of the public for
time, 80 that the paying Of the death penalty
In other quarters has passed almost without
notice. A murdereruhas just been hanged N
California whose crime was at once cruel and
cowardly. The culpzit was John A. Wright,
native OF Iowa, who went to California several
years since. Some time ago he attacked Ed
ward Faust, an inefensive and qulet old
man, and LETT him dead by the roadside. For
committing this crime Wright was tried, and
being dound guilty was sentenced to suffer
death. On the morning of his execution, as
the hour approached at which he was to meet
h!s fate, the prisoner showed no sign OF fear
a. emotion. He breakfasted heartily, and
laughed and joked with his friends as they sat
in full view of the scafold. On being sum-
moned by the officers TO prepare for death, he
bade jovial farewell TO the Inmates OF the
prison. and then partook of the sacrament.
Bic. e.monnted the machinery OF death without
mantfesung the least fear or trepdstlon, and
he emaintained his boldness 10 the last, His
fall on the drop was like that OF an inanlmate
substance, and death was instantaneous.
The case of O'Brien, whose sentence to
suffer death has been commuted by President
Grant, promises to be enveloped In numer-
ousI complications. It Is suggested that coun-
sci Tor the murderer might ask for his dis.
charge on writ OF habeas corpus, on the
ground that the President has no power to
sentence criminal to any punishment, and
that the conditions which he appended to his
pardon, to the efrecttha O'Brlen should agree
20 submit to Imprisonment for lite. are void.
Bome acts have been passed by Congress regu-
lating the exercise oftlis power by the Presi-
dent In cases arising In the army and navy,
but there is no law relating to its limi-
tatlon outside of those branches OF
.tha service. In q. case of q similar char
acter under President Filmors's administra-
tion, the opinion Of the court was that the
pardonlng power of the President, given him
by the constitution, should be determined by
precedent, and, as the right of the King of
England to commute sentences or grant con-
ditional pardons was undouoted, 1t was Reces-
sary to conclude that the pardoning power of
the President should be as broad. Mr.. JUS
ties Mclean dlssented from this opinion, and
held that, as the President was nowhere given
power to pronounce sentence upon a man, it
was q power that could not be Inferred, and
that, therefore, the condition Of the pardon
was void, the pardon absolute, and the maa
should be discharged. There is little doubt
that the present court would sustain the opin.
lon referred to, but the decision OF the court
would be an interesting one to all lawyers.
Musical gossip is rife 10 New York. Nine.
Lucca, 1t is now understood, remains In the
country another season, having signed con-