The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-09
ykP 1at1g Venus.
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 0, 1866.
VARIOUS ITEMS.

VARIOUS ITEMS.
Great agitation prevailsin Athens.
Southern Kansas is growing cotton with SUCCESS.
Two shilling bank notos to bo issued at
A New York court decides that cash means
specie.
A wealthy planter Of Mississippi ia ut New York
urging emigrants to go South instead Of West.
Twenty rabbits introduced into Australia in 1852
have yielded $4,000 head for consumption.
Cuba has purchased two monitors Of tho Unitod
States for 81, f,0000o0.
:" Victoria has fitted up an elegant smoking room
Tor her servants,
creascd Mt the rato Of 55 u cent.
man in Port ,ni, who had fourteen stores
burned ut tho lato fire, has eleven Of them rebuilt
=, Fashionable marriages in Now York keop Brown,
bee. "' "
Three-fourths of the Philadelphia Ledger is
owned by brokers in TINT oily.
The merchants of New York arc to extend relief
TO the sufferers at Quebec.
A little item of three miles of solid rock vet OBJ
etructs the Hoosac tunnel.
Il, Matilda Heron Stoepol has contributed $4,000
worth or very old lace to tho st. Louis Southern
Relief Fair.
Naudini's salary at tho Paris opera is ITO, 900
francs.
Michigan is blessed with Aools Of wild turkeys.
Thereu be war alang the whole line next month.
L: In tho jail OF Ronnssalner County there are FIVE
prisoners charged with murder.
Tho widow of "Old John Brown" is receiving aid
nom England-not Now England.
The Bishop Of Pennsylvania says that England
is not only the mother OF nations but also Of
churches.
The Lewiston Me-, Journal-an cnterprisine,
sparkling, paper-publishos births as well as mar
rsges and deaths.
A distinguished London physician has beon
living for twenty years one meal O day and on
Joys the best Of health.
An impudent writer classfes American brides as
sentimental, speculative, anxious, accommodate
ing, unresisting and inquisitive."
General Neal Dow got into hot water when no
different from the workingnen Of America.
The New Bedford Mercury mercuriaiIy inquiries
what effect tho death Of the Tycoon will have upon
Japan backing.
A hopeful young lawyer says that any young
lady who possesses one thousand acres of land pre-
sents sufficient grounds for attachment.
One Of the Manchester steam fire engines is going
to the Great Exhibition, accompanied by o brass
band.
A Paris doctor ian American by birth) with an
income Of S100, 600 per annum, is continually en-
family.
A New Orleans lady lately received by the same
mail letter from the summit of the Rocky Noun
tains and another from New Zealand.
At the present moment the language and ltera-
ture Of one-third of the human race 1.-THE Chinese)
PoBsess an expositor in but one university and
that Of recent creation.
The Toledo Blade thinks the real soldiers Of the
country could be better represented in Paris than
by the New York seventh-any old regiment that
1nw three years service would do it.
Fourteen Governments in the centre Of Russia
with population Of a, 100000 nhabitants, al
ness and drunkenness.
The Paris Steele thinks that further opposition
on the part OF President Johnson to the progress
Or American reconstruction under the conatitu-
tional amendment would be ''unwise and big with
the most deplorable consequences"
It is estimated at the Treasury Department that
about 9nethird Of the entire number Of Assessors
moved since the adjournment Of Congress.
We have received from the American News 90.
Vol. I Of "The Life Of Simon Bolivar, Libarator
Bolivia, carefully written from authentic i and nm
published documents, by DR.. Iarrazabal, with
ed IN New York. and forms an octave Of close but
iegible print It takes wide survey Of South
American Independence, and is written in some
difficult task to compendiate the lives of heroes
much more that prodigy among mortals-Simon
Bolivarl How enclose in limits, vastness2 How
from the spirit of God, who had destined that ge-
Life of Bolivar-honorablie undertaking.
achievement" 80 begins the work. and the author
has little respect for his predecessors in the writ
ing Of this one life; n. e; Monglaue, who fur
con, being sorey taken to task for his derelictions
The present volume begins with Bolivars birth in
l7sS (taking In one chapter, however retrospect
I've view Of the colonial vassalage Of the South
American states), and comes down to the creation
Southern fervor and is impressed with the digni-
ty OF his subject, and he seems to have made ex-
tended preparations for his encompassing the his
torical limits of his theme. The portrait OF Boil
var, facing the tito, Represents not very pleasing
face above the bespangled uniform Of a general.
Poland.
It is difficult to te at this distance, what is the
actual condition Of affairs in Poland. There is
very little reliance to be placed in the statements
received through Russian sources, and it is very
difficult to know whether or not the accounts given
by Polish sympathzers arc or are not overdrawn
One thing only is certain and that is that the Rus
sian oppression is intolerabe and the sufferngs of
che Poles extreme. Tho Courier des Eats Uiiis