The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF IdG DAt.
Hon. Horatio Seymour is going 10 florioa.
Amt of the three hundred and seventy
nine sludents of Princeton College one hum
dred and seventy have recently become con-
yerted and Joined the church.
t-On the 10th of December vessel named
the Gleassannox arrived at Honolulu on
VOYAGE from Macao, China, to Punta Arenas,
Central America, with six hundred ana
eiahty-fve Cinnamon on board, VINO mad oeen
entered on the ships msulfest as personal
effects. all: to be taken to Punta Arenas. Tne
discipline on board was that Of the old-time
slayers which sailed from the coast Of Africa.
1T Is proposed to tunnel the Ohio and Mis-
slsslppl Rivers near their Junction, in order to
facilitate railroad movements. company
iorTthat purpose has been formed, with a
capital OF $40, ,0OO, 900, and has applied to Con-
gress for an act of Incorporation. Among the
capitalists who have lent the scheme their
support are Thomas Scott (of course) and j.
N.McCullagh. OF Pennsylvania, ]. Plerpont
Morgan, of New York, General Burnside, W.
B. Curtin and W. F. Coolbaugh, of Illinois.
1t appears that England has just been
visited with an extraordinary visitation OF
cold weather, causing not only great dis.
tress:l but hundreds of deaths. Weather 30
unnatural in England found many OF the poor
unprovlded with sufficient comfort and pro-
lection, and hence the widely extended SUI
ferlng and many fatalities. 1t has been but
day or two since one of the fercest storms OF
L. kho pr;t tuith
wrecks. Truly has this been calamltous,
winter on both sides OF the Atlantic.
"A few days since batch of some forty or
fifty youthful Chinese women arrived at San
Francisco. from China, In the steamer Colo
RADIO. The newaspread like wild-are among
the youthful male Cinnamon In the Chinese
Quarter, and, attlred In their best clothes,
they focked to.the wharf to witness the ex-
hilaratIng spectacle of the landing OF the
Chinese damsels. After the customhouse ir.
spectors had examined the new arrivals, the
auttering bevy we're transferred IN express
wagons to jackson street, where they were
to be sold to those desiring wife. The pros
pect of getting wives was what caused the
agitation ,amongothe Chinese young men on
the occasion, and doubtless they have all been
happily suited ere thls.
An Importation of five hundred thousand
salmon eggs from the River Rhine Ia expected
daily In New York. Two hundred aud ffty
thousand were purchased by tho United
States Government at forty dollars thou
sand. The other quarter of million is
present to the United States from the Gov
ernment of Germany. Upon their arrival In
New York they will be conveyed to the hatch
ing houses on the Hudson and similar places
on the Connecticut River. DR.. Slack, the fish
commissioner of New Jersey, has several
Thousand young salmon from the Sacramento
River, California, which are to be placed in
the susquehauna. The steamer with the Ger
man importation left Brsmen on the 18th of
January, and is now due.
-Emigralion 10 Samana has commenced.
The steamer Tybee has left New York for the
new Wonderland,i treighted with fortune.
hunters, great expectations, and generally
miscellaneous cargo. A hotel has been ship
ped in sections, with three carpenters TO erect
it, and in a few days after arrival the Hotel de
Grant OF. Baez will loom up as the first trl-
umphal column in the march of 8 new civlllSa-
uol. Men ambitious of speedy distinction,
whose prophetic minds havo said they were
to be governors, collectors, or captains oil
hundreds, have taken passage, while COM
mittee OF the company's own selection accom-
pany the expedition 70 study the topography
of samana, select site for the city OF the tu-
ture, oversee the frat building operations,
and snperintend the corps of surveyors In the
arrangement OF docks, wharves, warehouses,
and cspltoline buildings.
The annual charity ball took place at the
Academy OF Music, in New York. on Tuesday
night. The ball may be said 10 be the social
event OF the season. It is charity become
fashionable for brief space. The dresses
were the most costly that money can buy,
SOME even imported from Worth, of Parls,
and the Jewelry was such as only New York
can show. The papers, of course, give the
usual full and elaborate description OF the
scenes and Incidents, and deliver the custom.
cry annua! homily on the discrepancy of one
hundred thousand dollars spent on dress to
procure ten or twelve thousand for the poor.
That may pass. Better get 1t that way than
not at all. Tickets TO this ball were eagerly
purchased. The ticket office closed early,
sale Of boxes and premiums OF eighty, and
one hundred dollars, were freely offered the
lucky possessors. We give the net receipts OF
these balls since 1864: 1865, ss.s0l 81; 1866,
sl20o2 25; 1867, $ls,447 80; 1868, sl2,O5S 3s;
1859, isl5,s2l so; 1870, sl6,67l At; 1871, sll,-
s88 SO; 1872. $l2, ,754 IL.
,-The New York Times states, on the au-
thority of customhouse officer, that the gov
ernment has accepted the $780, 600 offered by