The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-03
NEWS OF THE D4Y.

The farmers In Texas have commenced
ploughing.
Old John Harper has four racers In train
ing for the coming season.
The death of Lord Lytton has causeda
great demand in the libraries for his novels.
Tho census shows that there are 5000
slaves in Cuba.
The leading dancer in .''Leo and LOTUS"
stlNew York, gets two hundred and fifty dol
lars ln gold week.
The approaching marriage of Prince Al
bert, of Prussia, Is announced. he Is
nephew of Emperor William, and Is thirty six
years Of age.
The estimate Is made that since, and In
Guiding the Chicago fire, the United States
has lost over $500, 900 by great fires In the
various cities.
The Gilbert elevated railway, (the newest
quick-transit scheme in New York; it isun
derstood, will be pushed with vigor. London
capitalists are said to have made an offer on
Thursday to take the frst s5,ooo,ooo bonds.
-uThe Federalist" Is the name of weekly
paper Just started in New York, which
proposes to wipe out what is left of the
States and hand over the railroad interests Of
the country 10 the general government. 1.-THE
Inperlaist," another Journal started in New
York year or go ago, was little ahead OF
time. It remains TO be seen If the Federalist
Is In the like category.
AT meeting OF the Bar Association In
New York, on Thursday evening, Mr.. Evarts,
the president briefly but feelipgly called the
attention OF the association to the needs OF
Judge Taney's daughters, now elderly ladies',
and who wers forced to labor maHual)v tor
living, when their father had given over thir-
ty years to the country, and expressed LIS own
feeling that the bar of the country would do
something for their fathers sake.
"A New York letter of Wednesday, says:
''This afternoon Mr.. Hoyt formerly second
vlce-president Of the Gold Room, took formal
leave OF his associates, and will henceforth
devote himself to preaching the gospel,
Southern congregation having extended to
him call. [Mr. Hoyt entered the ministry
some years ago.] The members of the board
responded to his address by presenting him
with a purse containing fifteen hundred dol
lars.n - snas
while warlike movements on an inefect-
i've scale have been In progress against the re-
bellious Modoc Indians In Oregon, the friends
OF the peace policy have taken advantage of
the recent defeat Of the troops at Lake Tule
to move to the front, and that policy Is now to
supersede, experimentally at least, the rifle
and the howltzer. peace commission, con-
sistng OF Eon. A. B. Meacham, late superin.
tendent Of Indian affairs for Oregon. T. B.
ODonnell, present superintendent for that
State, and Rev. Mr.. WILDER, Indian agent at
simcoe, Wyoming Territory, has been organ
lied and authorized by the government to
proceed at once 10 the scene of difficulty,
charged with full power to adjust all troubles.
Atthe same timeit appears that Captain Jack
is also paciacally disposed, and has managed
tooonvey 10 the beleaguerlng troops iHtelli-
gence of his anxiety for "blg talk, ;" and 1t is
not unlikely that he may make terms before
the special peace commission reaches the seat
Of war. 1t is stated, however, that the rebel
llous savages are amply supplied, and in a po.
sltlou to give trouble for long time should
the difficulty remain unadjusted.
The case Of VIM. N. Tweed, chief OF the
Tanmany Ring, for completely In frauds upon
the New York treasury, was opened before
the Court of Oyer and Terminer, in that city
on the 18th Of January and submitted to the
Jury on Thursday, the 3otb. On Friday the
Jury returned into court and announced that
they could not agree, and were discharged.
It lie stated that the announcement created no
sensation, except among the counsel for the
defence, who we're rejoiced, and the counsel
for the prosecution, who we're very mad.
Difficulty In obtaining jury which will agree
one way or another In Important cases is an
impeachment to justice perhaps not peculiar
to New York, but after all that has been said
and sworn to In the Temmany buslu.ss. and
the revolution In the New York City Govern
ment which followed the discovery of the
frauds. 1t is hard to realize how a Jury can
get away from verdict Of some sort. The
Tsmmany frauds were unearthed in July,
1871, and OF all the various legal devices en-
pleyed to bring the alleged ringleaders to
Justice since, none, 1t seems, have succeeded.
Every effort of the law has been met by
airoit mapeuyres to stave of trial. The trial
of-Mayor Hall came at last, and gave promise
Of verdict, but the jury disagreed. The
same Issue illustrates the trial Of Tweed, aud
the whole affair Is as If it had never been
opened.
Since bis change alike Of ecclesiastical
and social position, Pere Hyaclnthe, as he