The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-05
Y,hR Aailg News
NEWS SUMMARY.

Cotton closed in Now York yesterday at 27ta2so.
Gold 81. n
Cotton closed in Liverpool yesterday at III a1lld.
for Middiing Uplands.
a Rhort honeymoon is reported by o correspon.
dent OF an Irish pnpor: IA young man, BiItocn
years OF age, named SUrToN, who had boon but
ono day married, was sentenced to months ini-
prisonment for dosertirg bis wfo."
rAnew suspension bridge nboro tho present ono,
~ to bo built at NiuGarn Falls, this summer, by q
: company OF Nav York State capitalists. On tho
American side tho landing viii DO near the gas
works. and opposite, short distance below tho
Clifton House. !sl
4 man named BERrcHINoEn, formerly oTsa.nt
In tho Twelfth Missouri Regiment, and lately in
destitute circumstances, has fallen hcir to for
tuno Of So 600, 900. He Ind siBtor who married q
rich Englishnnn and moved to Cuba, where she
died and Left her immenso fortune to her brothor
:, Tho long oIpcctod conference OF tho foreign
ministers with tho Government Of Japan has takon
place at Osaca, and is reported to have had ontre-
ly satisfactory results Tho ports of Yoddo, osaon,
and Negato. will be oponol on tho first Of January
next. 8: Tho Japanese arc in favor o. progress;
some Americans might profit by thcir example,
Rev. RoDKRr MoFFXT, tho wcll-known mission.
airy Of South Africa, has been, with his devoted
wife, in that 1eld forty years. Ho Is now engaged
In bringing out a carefully revised edition OF tho
Now Testament in the native tongue, and readers,
he ssJ,, aroincreasing on ovory aide. Mr.. MoFFAT
is tho fathor-in=law OF tho lamented DR.. LIVING
sroNE- -
Tho Liberals, haye gained another important
victory in tho House Of Commons, nmondment
depriging all boroughs having ess than TO- 900 in
habtauts, Of tho right OF sending representative
having been cafrtcd by the large majority OF 1877.
= The abolition OF tho "rotten boroughs" will bo q
II s,Q, n,
elections. Il
The treasurer Of tho American Unitarian Asso-
citation reports as followB Tho receipts for the year
ending April so, 1867, including balance of about
$1,000 from the old account woro $177,526 az. The
expenditures were $166, 1873 20, leaving balance of
81, ,942 59. Tho. principal itoms OF o1penso were
$2e072 55 for missionary purposes and in aid OF
feeble societies,
:, rho psnosyiilo Telegraph records the ouro OF o
case Of confirmed consumption in that village by q
surgical operation, in which tho lung WAS opened
+ and tnbe inserted, through which tho matter
from tho absccss was discharged. II Expresses
theopinion that this now practice will revolution
ize tho treatment of this diHoaso and 'opcn tho
door of hopo to tho conBumptivo."
Minister. CLAY i, now negotiating with tho Rus
alan Fur Company for their forts and warehouses;
so that another million is to bo added to tho bill
for walrussia. -Thore is something yet to pay to
keep this territory in order, but sufficient for tho
day iB tho eSi thereof. We have elephant Of
undonbted value upon our hands in tho purchase
OF our oItra Russian empire, and lot us make tho
= MOST Of it. III: .i.s.i:1
p. ALondon paper says TINT thero arc fourteen
royal parks and pleasure-grounds in or about Lon
dom" Tho total estimate OF charges for tho fnan-
oial yesr 1851 is f125 326. The estimate is lni-
ted ito such expenses in the several royal parks
op1 ordo In n1,,ain nfoir fbnrpf
public use, and tho income doriyod from thom
(which amounted last yoar to f4so7). ia paid into
the Consolidated Fund.- .7s
A splep lid executed counterfeit ton dollar note
on tho Third National Bank Of Philadelphia was
detoctod In Albany, New York, on Saturday last
It ia in all respects perfect fac si.e Of the gen-
uino issue, even 10 tho signatures, which aro e1o-
outcd with pom. Tho public can Judge OF tho
dangerous charncter OF this motto from tho fact That
it passed through tho Mechanics and Farmers
Bank Of Rochester without detection. Tho only
Rafo way is to refuse all. ''tons" on tho bank.
Aaterriblo hailstorm occurred near Dubuque,
Iowa, on Friday last, which is reported to have
seriously injured tho crops. Hailstones OF i'm
mense size are said. to have fnllon. Ono man
picked up some "large his fist" another
found ono m inch md hnlf in diameter, md
plenty of them as large henD' eggs vera picked
mp. Poultry OF all kinds wero killed. by them, and
apair Of horses were knocked down in the road.
The hail foil TO average depth of four inches.
in New York, says the E6ening Posi, havo excited
much 'intorcst In different parts OF the country,
and wo hoar that he hos received humorous app-
cations 70 repeat them in other cities and towns
It B understood that he declines oil such inyts-
tions st. this tlme as ho will 80 to Europe in the
3nttor part Of Juno, ON business Ho will, howoIor
return to this country early in tho fall, nnd thon
Intends, wo believe, to lecture during tho fall and
winter.
Among tho followers Of MACMILLAN to Mo1ico
was FIench merchant, who year or two before
had Contracted disease which rendered tho ope-
ration Of trnchcotoiny necessary, nfter which tho
surgeon had introduced into his windpipo canua
or silver tubo end supporter to ,onablo Kim to
breathe. On his journey from Moxico to Vera
Cruz he WAS attacked by btisands, robbed OF oil
he had, stripped naked; and at last, after terri
Bile struggle, tho silver apparatus waB jerkednom
is neck, that lie Boon died literally for want Of
breath.
At recent meeting Of the Colony Historical
Socety, at New Haven, THOMAS II. TnowBnIpas
presented to the Society musket, powder-hurn
and pouch. which had seen service in the old
Fronch war OF 1865, and which were used by his
grandfather, RUTHERFORD TnownnDaE, In resist
ing tho DEtish attack on New HaYon. HEKnY
faC1CdKlBS alSO pfesenteQ' a uuBket, which, with
twenty-four rounds Of cartridges and tho Hessian
who carried thom, were captured on that occaaion
by hts. grandfather, JONAH RorcuKIss, who was
armed Tith only an empty muskot. Mr. HoroH-
H1as alao presented an iron mask-an instrument
Of torture used in tho punishment OF slaves. ia:,
o. The New York Christian Adcocdte sayB' that the
weekly publications. Of ali the brapches OF tho
Methodist Church In the United States amount to
the number of fiftyono, Of which thirty-throe be-
fbnS to the Methodist Episoopai Church North,
South and Canada twenty nro published by the
Church and its missions thirtoen by the Church
South ono each by the two bbdies OF. African
Aethodists. :. Tho .non:Episcopal Methodist
churches OF tho United states publish avo pap ors,
mud those OF Canada four. Tho Ad6ocate adds
'Tn Great Britain wo find four, in Australia two,
and in France ono. Wo thus sos how far in ad-
vance American -MethodiHm is Of Metbodism in
other countries in tho use OF tho influence welded
by the press" f,,t,,,n..:.
:. A Paris correspondent" iB afraid, IL tho truth
must be tod. there is little deception about the
nationality Of somo Of the shows at the Paris E1-
hibltion. somo Of tho foreign rcstaurants-got up
by Fronohmen-hnyo nothing reilly national about |
thsn but ttsT foreign hired waitors, and ono or
two costumed womon. The ktohen in most in
STANCES ID French; tho articles OF food, il foreign
bought in Paris: "IYhen YOU 20 for your thick