The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-04
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

NEWS OF TIE DAY.
THE Lake Erie Iron Works, at Cleveland,
were. Scrned yesterday. Loss heavy.
-Telegraphlc communication will be open
between Key West aud Havana by the first OF
May. ,su.is 1850 a.
The Hon. James L. Orr, the new minister
to Russia, sails from New York on Wed
nesdsy.
t-C.eA. Slocomb, Q prominent citizen and
merchant OF New Orleans, died In that city on
Friday morning, aged forty-one.
The steamship Canadian, of the Allan
line, from New Orleans for Liverpool, put In
atNorfolk. yesterday, for coal and passengers.
Somebody has discovered that Professor
Tyndalps work on the Forms of Water" is de-
fcient In one thing-it does not contain
chapter on tears.
The infant prince Of King Amadeus wss
ehristened on Sunday morning, at Madrid, his
name being Louis Amaedo Fernando. The
Imperial cabinet and the diplomatic corps
were present at the ceremony.
The courthouse at Quebec wec destroyed
BY IRE yesterday, together with all the re-
cords of the province since its foundation, in-
Guiding all title deeds and other Important
documents.
in the United States Senate on Friday last
Mr.. Sawyer presented petition OF citizens OF
South Carolina praying that post route be
established across the Island of st. Helena,
which was referred to the postal committee.
The Evangelical Alliance have Issued
circular calling for conference In New York
City next October, to unite all Christians
against the errors of infdellty and rational
ism, which have been introduced from Eu-
rope.
About seven thousand acres are cleared
OF timber each weekday in this country. OF
the annual crop seventy.tlve milionsof dol
lsrs' worth goes to fuel, and twice as much to
fencing. The locomotives in this country con.
sumo no less than seven hundred thousand
cords year.
"A director OF the Bowery Bank in New
York City was seized Saturday evening In the
Bowery by gang Of thieves; his head closely
enyeloped In shawl, and his pockets robbed
ofhsix hundred dollars. The whole affair oc-
CURED on the sidewalk among throng of
people. The robbers escaped with their
plunder.
The Yale Record says: SIT may be of In
terest to those who heard Professor Tyndall
to know how he dIsposes of the proceeds OF
his lecture. We have 1t, though not from a
direct source, that he has placed fifteen thou
sand dollars In the hands of committee for
the support of one or two young men desiring
to follow. the pursuit of science as profes.
sion; Eve hundred dollars he gives to the
Yale Scientific Club, In order to found prize
In the scientific school to be called the Tyn-
dali prize, and fifteen hundred dollars to the
Young Mems Christian Association Of Wash
ington.p ai
.s+In DR.. Dnrant, the leading spirit OF the
Un!on Pacific and Credit Mobllier rings, is to
be credited, no less q parsonage than Hon.
Thaddeus Stevens, the leader Of the Radical
party up to the time OF his death, also yielded
to the Establishments Of the lobby, and sold
his vote and influence as readily as Colfax,
Kelley, Wilson, Patterson, and the living he
roes of the Credit Mobiller. The ''great COM
moner," however. though no more honest
than the rest, valued his services at higher
figure, and is said 10 have received the round
sum of eighty thousand dollars for leglslatlng
inthe interests OF the lobby.
"A Washington dispatch of Thursday last
says: "Mr. Colfax sent lawyer to the Credit
Mobllier committee, this morning. to conduct
his. case. The Hon. Robert 8. Hale, of New
York, an ex.member of Congress and men,
ber elect of the next House, announced that
he appeared as the counsel of the Vice-Presi-
dent, and that he expected In few days to
prove that Mr.. Colfax received the twelve
hundred dollars deposited In the First Ma
tional Bank of Washington, on June %. 1868,
from some other source than from Oskes
Ames. Some days would be necessary, he
explained, to give Mr.. Coltax time to look
over his papers, and TO get some evidence
from New York. Hr. Colfax,s account, as
entered on the bank register, shows that he
Deposited in the year 1868 nearly forty thous-
and dollars, fact that is strangely iuconsis-
tent with his statement that he is a poor man,
with no income beside his salary, and that
he could not possibly have received 80 large
an amount as twelve hundred dollars from
any source Without remembering It."
Several persons who were passengers on
board OF the steamer Murrillo have made af1-
dayits before the British consul at Cadiz.
Spain. concerning the circumstances con-
nected with the collision with the Northfeet
in the EuglIsh Channel. The collision oc-
urripg during the night, causing severe
shock, which was felt by all on board the Mur-