RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, CHARLESTON.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 202, 24 March 1868, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT, CHARLESTON.

(Before Chas. Broad, Esq., R.M.) Monday, March 23. Chas. Ilorton and Richard Williams were each fined twenty shillings, for being drunk and disorderly. Constable Rhodes was again charged on an information preferred by Mary Healy, for unlawfully entering her house, and making use of abusive lan guage.

Mary Hcaly sworn, said—On Monday 9th inst., Constable Rhodes came to my house about half-past four o'clock—he was half drunk. I was lying on the bed. I said, " Constable lihodes, what do you want." He asked mo if I had any brandy or other spirits; 1 said no. He brought in some brandy and we drunk it together, along with some lemonade which I found. After drinking, he laid violent hands on me, and I wanted to put him out, on which he abused me and I could not get him out. He asked me to lend him £2, When the brandy was all drunk, he found two shillings in his pocket, and wanted me to fetch some more brandy. I refused, lie then took off his jacket and cap, and laid down on the bed, and I then took the cap to the Camp, and gave it to Constable O'Mara, and complained that Rhodes was lying on my bed drunk. He was sick over the bed. I went back to the house and shook him up, when he swore at me again, and wanted me to go to bed with him. I went to the Camp and returned with Constables M'Ardle and Frauklyn, and they took him away. Mr Home made the same objection to the information as on the former occasion, viz. I —That the place where alleged abusive language took place was not a public place as required by the statute, but a private house. Mr O'Neill, for the complainant, argued against the objection. His Worship thought the objection was good, but he would rather that the case should proceed, as one side having been heard, it would only be fair that the other side should be heard also, and afterwards he should forward the evidence to the proper authorities. Mr Home then proceeded to cross* examine Mary Healy—The house is of one room with door opening on the street. I sell gingerbeer and cordial, I buy houses and sell them and speculate with my money. We drunk the brandy together. About aweek before this happened Rhodes came about a watch that had been stolen from me. Constable O'Mara said he remem* bered complainant coming to the camp and giving Rhodes' cap. She said he was in her house drunk, he referred her to the sergeant. Cross-examined—complainant was the worse for liquor when she came to the Camp. Constable M'Ardle stated—l was sent by the sergeant to Mary Healy's house on the 9th. It was about 8 o'clock. Constable Rhodes was there, he was as sober as he is now. When I arrived outside I asked for a light and Rhodes hearing my voice said "is that you M'Ardle," and asked me to open the door. When the door was opened a candle was lit, defendant asked for his cap and did not know it had been taken to the Camp. He walked to the camp with me quite sober. Cross-examined—Rhodes said some thing about her snatching away his cap and locking the door upon him. Sergeant Kiley stated that Mary Healy made a complaint to him on 9th instant about Constable Rhodes, and in consequence thereof he despatched two constables to inquiry into the circumstances. He saw Rhodes when he came to the Camp and he was quite sober, and went on duty about half an hour after. Constable Franklyn merely corroborated the evidence of Constable MArdle. Only one witness was called specially for the defence, and that was Detective Rowley, who stated that on Sunday the Bth inst., the plaintiff reported that she had been robbed of a gold wateh and chain, and Constable Rhodes was present when she signed the book. Having to go away he asked Constable Rhodes to look after the matter. At Mr Home's request the defendant was allowed to make a statement, which, however, the Magistrate said he would not make use of. He said he had occasion to summon Mary Healy for a breach of the Licensing Act. On the Monday evening he went to her house to see about the robbery, and having opened the door saw the chain round her neck, and then told her he believed the story of the robbery was an entire fabrication. She gave him some lemonade, and afterwards snatched away his cap, and ran out locking the door on him. He did not take any brandy into the house. The Magistrate said, that even putting aside the objection raised against the information, the whole of the evidence went clearly to exonerate the defendant from the charge; and it appeared to him the affair was a species of trap laid to catch the constable. Information dismissed. Strike Sf Co. v. Berry. —Claim, £6 for two cases of porter. Delivery having been proved, judgment was given for plaintiff. JReid Sf Finlay v. Stetoart £{ Party. — Claim, £l2 14s sd. Judgment for plaintiff by default.

New Ocean Cables.—There are now, besides the Cuba cables and many other smaller ones, two Atlantic cables in operation, a third one on the eve of construction from France to the island of St. Peter's and thence to the United .States, and at the present time, says the New York Herald, a company is being organized to submerge a fourth cable across the Atlantic, of which Brest, in France, and New York will bo the termini. This company is called the " Franco-American Submarine Cable Company," and will organize with a capital stock of £900,000 sterling. One-third of the stock and directors will be given to England, one-third to France, and one-third to the United States. The books have been opened in England, and its share of the stock subscribed. The French bankers, it is said, have guaranteed the subscription of another third. A contract has already been made with the India Rubber and Gutta Percha Telegraph Company of Silvertown, London, for the manufacture of three thousand seven hundred miles of cable, which will support itself in water a distance ■of thirty miles. The contractors have taken the English subscription as an advanced payment, and will at once proceed with the manufacture of the cable, which will probably be laid next summer. This new company have received valuable concessions already, including one from the French Government, giving them for five years all transatlantic business coming this way that touches French wires, and one from the Submarine Telegraph Company across the English channel, who agree to give them all the messages ihat touch their wires en route to Brest. In addition to the above, the Spanish Government talk seriously of laying a cable from Spain to Cuba, and the Colonial Minister at Madrid has been directed by royal decree to take the matter in hand, and he has accordingly invited tenders for a line, to pass southward to the Canaries, across to Porto Eico and Cuba, and thence to Mexico, Panama, and South America. — Panama Star and Herald,

The United States.—ln reference to the distress, prevalent throughout the United States since the war, Ave copy the following from a late edition •of the New York World, which declares " that there are at present 50,000 men out of employment in that -city, that there is a complete stagnation in all the trades, and that there is general poverty and destitution among the laboring classes. Armies of the unemployed crowd the docks and wharves, fill the -employment offices, and flock to the few situations that offer. Of the 4000 jewellers in New York 1500 are unable to find work ; 1000 out of 2500 jewelry-box-makers and 300 out of SOO diamond-setters are idle ; and of the 3000 other persons employed in different branches of the jewelry trade nearly 2000 are adrift. There are 900 engravers in New York who are seeking employment, and but 200 can get it. There are GOOO carpenters, of whom 500 are idle, and. 1000 working for half-wages; the masons and bricklayers are nearly all employed, but cannot work more than half their time ; the 10,000 people in the hat trades are employed from one to three days in the week for small wages, the employers thinking this better than the discharge of one-half or two-thirds of them; the iron trades employ but one-fifth of their force a year ago, and 5000 iron workers are idle ; in ship-building dullness reigns ■supreme, and the ship carpenters, in despair, have long since sought other employment; one-half of the 8000 cigar makers are without employment; of 6000 stevedores or navvies, 4200 are without regular work; among the clerks and other assistants in business houses and retail shops, the destitution is sorrowful, and at least 5000 of them ■are wandering idly about the streets; of house servants, a class that is constantly reinforced by immigration, 3000 want places. This gives an idea of the condition of affairs in the metropolis, and the rule there prevails everywhere. Philadelphia, the leading manufacturing city, has 25,000 idle working people. From "Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis, a similar report comes, while from the South the unfortunate condition of the blacks, who will not work when they get it, and now are without the chance to work if they would, is the constant theme of all our iutelligence. In the agricultural regions of the North there is not the same destitution that prevails in the cities, and there is more chance of procuring labor, so that the unemployed of the cities are urged to go to the country. They will starve if they remain, and may better their condition if they go. Of course, this sad state of affairs is produced by the great stagnation in trade, which, though it apparently brightened up a few weeks ago, seems now more ■dull thau ever."

PiiOTEcrrox is Ameuica. —" Protectionists," says the Melbourne Argus, " cannot possibly object to going to America for the effects of protection. That country has always been held up for admiration and imitation, and the results of the protective experiment which has there been made have been represented as surpassing the most sanguine expectations of those who initiated them. We are supplied by a late American journal with some facts which will certainly help protectionists here to form a more correct opinion of their own system. At Willimantic, in Connecticut, there are extensive thread works. The building is of granite, five storeys high, and has been paid for out of the profits of the company to which the works belong. These profits exceeded 300 per cent, and how they were so high is explained by a paragraph in the Hartford Times: — ' Thread that used to cost the needlewoman four cents a spool, now costs ten—the same as the imported thread of J. and P. Coats. One reason why Coats' thread works more smoothly in the machine, and is better liked than ours, is in the fact that the greater dampness of the English climate is more favourable than our dry air to spinning cotton. Again, the highly electric condition of the atmosphere of the Western World is probably unfavourableto the necessary compactness and smoothness sought for in the fabrication of this article, the strands and fibres being more inclined to rough up and " fly off." ' Is not this a naive admission ? Here is a manufacture which, from physical causes, cannot be brought to perfection in America, but which, by enormous protection, has been made to pay 300 per cent. The duty on imported thread is equal to 70 per cent, in gold. By the help of this the manufacturer is master of the situation. He can and does compel the needlewoman to pay him ten cents for what, with free competition, is only worth four, and at this higher price he can force upon her an inferior article, and one which occupies more of her time to work up. Thus the needlewomen and their customers have been sacrifised, in order to secure a dividend of 300 per cent, for the Connecticut capitalists. It is easy to understand how, under such circumstances as these, there should be a strong party of protectionist manufacturers in the New England States. Those Willimantic Thread Works depend for their existence, not on the enterprise and industry of their proprietors, but on the continuance of an Act of Congress. If it should ever be admitted as a principle upon which Congress should legislate, that needlewomen and their customers ought not to be plundered for the benefit of thread manufacturers, the Willimantic Thread Works must inevitably collapse. The only question is, how long can oue class be taxed at this exorbitant rate, in order to make manufactures, which cannot exist without such help, pay 300 per cent."

Adventure with a Shake:. —An adventure with a shark is thus related in the Illawarra Express : —" So securely was the coffer-dam fixed together, that a diver had to be continually kept under water, assisting those engaged on the surface in their efforts at dislocation. A few mornings ago, during the very oppressive atmosphere experienced, a monster shark—specially lazy and inclined to sleep—took possession of a shaded berth between the temporary stage where the stage is now shipped and a portion of the work in hand. There was no getting him out of it, and the diver had no particular fancy for doing anything to irritate a monster sufficiently expansive in the jaws to take in his head, helmet and all. A few reminders had no effect. At last the diver, armed with a chisel, made a determined stab at about his middle. In an instant the shark returned the attack; but when coming round a leg of the jetty, received such a dig in the head, that he declined further contest, and passed into deep water."

Death op George Marshall the Cricketer,—" The public will learn with regret" (says a Melbourne paper), "of the sudden death yesterday, but after a long illness, of Mr George Marshall, the well-known cricketer. Some years ago, while engaged in a match on the Melbourne Club's ground, he sustained a sunstroke, which was not thought at the time to be serious. Since then, however, his health has continued to decline, and for a long time past he has been able to take only the smallest amount of interest in his favorite game, or in matters of business. Latterly the progress of his disease had become painfully marked. 'George,' as he was familiarly called by every cricketer, was a native of Nottingham, and born in 1829. He was much respected, both within and without the cricketing circle."

Ancient versus Modarn Morter. —AVc have a letter in. the last number of the ' Builder ' wherein the writer very justly calls " the modern compound termed morter a mockery, a delusion." This could not be said of a morter known to the ancient builders, cornpomed of lime, sand, and pulverized bricks. I have found this compound in many buildings that have stood for ages. The boundary wall of Pevensey Castle, in Sussex, was built of a morter composed of the same materials, anditis almost impossible to separate the masses of masonry that have fallen. The aqueduct of Nismes, built by the Romans, was coated on the inside with a morter composed of the same materials, and it is now equal to the hardest stone, after its exposure to the action of water and the atmosphere for over sixteen centuries. The round towers of Ireland that have stood over three thousand years, and are likely to stand as many more, were built of similar materials, and some were built of a concrete or artificial substance resembling bricks, and there cohesiveness may be estimated from the fact that in the year 1786-7 a powder mill exploded within two feet of the Clondalkin Tower, when it firmly stood its ground, though every other structure within its influence was shivered to annihilation, and extended its violence so far as to shatter the windows in some of the streets of Dublin. It would be doing good service if you, or some of yournumerous readers would favour us with a paper on this subject, giving the analysis of these antient morters, and how we should be able to make a similar morter that will not crumbel to dust in a few years.

The Conversation op "Women.— There can be no doubt that, as a rule, the readiness of women in conversation is much greater than that of men. The renowned Mrs Poyser, speaking as the advocate of her sex as against those "poor tongue tied creatures," the men, thanks to Providence that " when she has anything to say she can mostly find words to say it in."' But in this she surely does the ladies less than common justice. So much as this might be said in behalf of a fair proportion of those whom she regards as the more helpless half of society. It is when they have nothing to say that women show their immense superiority in saying it. They can create conversation, which is the great social difficulty. Give a man a subject that he knows anything about, and unless he be really a fool or morbidly reticent he can talk about it so as to make himself fairly intelligible, and perhaps interesting to those for whom the subject has any interest. Those who are possessed of very stammering lips indeed in the general course of social talk, become almost eloquent when their feeling or enthusiasm is excited. Men throw off the slowness and hesitation which cramps all their powers in society, just as they throw off the physical infirmity of stuttering (which is a well known fact) under the influence of some sympathy. But the power of conversation in some women, and not always those of remarkable ability, is the very art of making bricks without straw. They will talk to one by the hour about nothing—that is on no particular subject and with no particular object—and talk coherently, and not foolisbly, and very pleasantly all the time. It would be very difficult, perhaps, for the listener to carry away with him any mental notes of what has been said; he may not be conscious of having gained any new ideas, or of having had his old ones much enlarged ; but he will rise and go his way as one does after a light and wholesome meal, sensibly cheered and refreshed, but retaining no troublesome memories of the ingredients which have composed it.— Blackwoov's JUagazine. A Brute in Petticoats. —It was only a fortnight ago that a country clergyman was charged with the offence of pouring turpentine over the most sensitive organs (in man or animal) of a dog, and now we have a case in which the accused is a woman, where a quart of boiling water is wilfully flung over two cats, causing agony of the most intolerable description. The prisoner is an inmate of St, Martin's Workhouse, employed in the kitchen, and, being annoyed, because the porter's cat quarrel ledHvith a strange one she deliberated filled, a quart jug fromthe kitchen boiler, flung the whole contents over the strange cat, a portion, however, falling on the porter's favorite, which, with howls of pain, sought his master, in whose hands the hair from the scalded flesh came off in quantities. In the meantime the strange cat, howling and screaming, fled higher upstairs, having left large quantifies of its hair along the way it had fled. When the indignant porter took his half denuded cat to the kitchen

to demand a reason tor such inhuman brutality, he found the offender and her companion, another disgrace to the sex > almost convulsed with laughter at the success of their practical lesson on the vice of feline quarrelling. They had given them a lesson that neither cat would be likely to forget in future, whjlo the animals' grotesque contortions, shrieks, and objections to their mode of moral teaching threw the two harridans almost into fits. The secretary to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals prosecuted, and though one individual came forward to speak to the prisoner's humane disposition, Mr. Vaughan very properly committed the unnatural woman to one month's imprisonment, with hard labor.— London paper* Sir John Prankxin's G-rave.--Sir John Pranklin's grave is very probably discovered. Captain Hall, it seems, learned from some Esquimaux whom he met on a sleighing tour that the crew built a brick vault on shore, buried a body, and built up the tomb. Captain Hall, organised an extraordinary force from the whaling vessels, promising 500 dols. to each man to make a visit to the indicated spot. The vessel which brought these meagre details is probably the last of the arrivals for this season from the Arctic fishing grounds ; aud since there will, of course, be none during the winter or spring, it is not likely that we shall have definite information before next summer.— New York Bound Table.