CHARLESTON NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 200, 21 March 1868, Page 3

CHARLESTON NEWS.

Of all the many damp and dismal days og the season, this Thursday, is by many degress the dampest and dismalest. Yet " Our own Correspondent," we presume, is expected to furnish his daily buget of news, as if any possible thing of the sort could be squeezed out of a day like this, a day which disposes mankind to relinquish life and degenerate into mere vogitation. Charleston too is so situated that there is not even the chance excitement of a flood to look forward to and the Nile is too well-conducted a river to overflow its banks. We certainly have never seen the town present such a woe-begone aspect as it does today, nobody venturing abroad in the streets unless imeratively called forth by business. In the course of a tour round, your correspondent remarked that even the hotel bars, had an unwonted deserted appearance, and that the attendant maids looked almost dull, as if the curl had been taken out of them by the damp, the smiles, received in exchange for Sunday silver coin, lacking their usual piquant vivacity. Strolling into a well-known haunt, he found that the circumstance of being alone in a howling wilderness of a deserted billiard room on such a day, is not of itself calculated to cause any ■extraordinary exhiliration of ones •spirits, nor is the matter much improved by struggling unsuccessfully against damp cushions and a depressingly facetious marker, who perchance is your antagonist, and whryifter kindly giving you 25 and a miss in baulk, goes in and scores the game in two breaks. We do not altogether despair however, of having something to chronicle before the coach leaves ; for going by our own personal sensations, we should nofe be altogether overwhelmed with surprise to hear of some individual blessed or cursed, with less or more nerve than ourselves, making a hurried exit on the edge of a razor, like the old my itches used to be represented going to heaven or some other place on a broomstick. WARDEN'S COURT. -(Before G-. W. Lighband, Esq., J.P.) Thursday, March 19. Silverston and Party «. Burke and others. Plaintiffs claimed a dissolution of partnership with defendants, but there being no appearance the case was struck out. John Blackley v. A. Johnstone. This was a summonsfor takingpossession of a portion of plaintiffs claim. Judgment for the defendants, who have to measure off the claim accurately from their original pegs. Wm. Murrey and John Smith v. M'Donncll and Party. This was a summons for refusing to acknowledge plaintiffs as shareholders in an extended claim recently granted to the Pah&iki Crushing Company. It appeared that though the plaintiffs sold their shares in the Company previous to the granting of the extended claim, their miners rights had been used on the occasion in consequence of the new share-holders being absent. Judgment was reserved to next day. Pat Lawlor v. Moore and Party. This was a summons for removing a peg, and encroaching on plaintiffs claim Decision reserved until Warden has visited the ground. Thos. Mylchrist and Alex. Thompson v. Kerriush and party. This was a summons for removing certain registered tailings, but judgment was given for the defendants with £2 2s professional costs. Friday March 20. The Warden gave a decision in the case heard the day before of Murray and Smith v. M'Donell and Party. He gave judgment for the plaintiffs to be equal shareholders in the claim. Defendants to pay the costs of Court and £2 2s professional costs. Mr M'Donell gave notice of appeal.