The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-10
NEWS SUMMARY.


Germany has q PEABODY. His name is RtNJA-
MN LEA.
GRANT and DooLITTLE are hoisted es candloates
for 1868, by the Colorado Transcript.
Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE, it is stated, has
become member of the Episcopal Church.
It is said that BEEcHER gets 500 column for
his story.
The belt railway viii III girdies Paris is now conf
plete. The last five miles and half cost So
100000, .2....sa.-
Last 5eek merchant Of Newburyport received
. telegram from Calcutta in two days and five
hours from IFS date, costing $500.
A Cork paper says that for many years there has
not prevailed more destituton than at present ex-
lists among the numerous poor in that city.
Panthers and wolves, driven out of the swamps
by the overAowed rivers, are becoming dangerous
in the hill land Of Jefferson county, Miss.
One firm in San Francisco is shipping from SO,-
600 to $1,000 barrels Of -four to New York by every
steamer.
An Italian paper, not wanting in political sagaci-
ty, recently said: ''schleswg gave us Venice-Lu1-
emburg will give rs Rome"
Coral jewelry is one of the most prominent nov-
elites Of its class in Paris. The rosepnk variety
eAAAASS AsS
weight in gold. ,. ~
Psesidsnt JOHNSON and other. disting guished per
sons are to beinvted to be- present at the inaugu-
ration o the Cay statae at Louisville, on the sOta
Of Msy.ai;.: :li:.si... ti.iif=a
The Emperor and Empress OF Russia will shortly
proaeed to Kissingen to take the waters. They
will afterwards. in all probability, go to Paris to
visit the exhibition.
In Chicago the railway companies and manutac-
turers have decided to pay men by the hour, by
which device q pin is stuck clean through tho
eight-hour bladder.
The seventy-second Annual Council Of tho
Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese OF
Virginia will be held in Staunton on Wednesday,
the 18th day Of May, 1857.
Ths King Of Sweden and Norway has conferred
upon Captain: JOHN ERIossoa, the wel-iuown in
ventor Of the iron monitors, the Grand Cross OF
the Swedish Order Of the Polar Star.
isatated that General GAR1BA1D1 has begun a
three.yomms novel, with priests for its principal
characters and: :Rome:for the scene OF action He
I is also engaged on history Of his public hfe
Nmesteaners week are now employed IN trans
porting Irish and German emigrants from father
land to the happy hunting grounds Of the New
World. And the cry is still they come.
The expected spring ..runh' has not come IN
New York. An descriptions Of y.goods, except
bleaehsd goods and fashionable prints, are still
declining, and the best informed expect further
decineS ,o:j.;csiS - 5g..-.-,..-i :. -
Miss Fox, Of 'srappings', notoriety, contemplates
an early 10 her profession considering her
self released from tahss ubHgation imposed upon
hr bS tS late Dr.: KANE; as described in the book
published q year oetwo ago.
Uncls TonafC Cabin is still selling 1000 copies q
wear. The original publishers have sold $4,000
copies Of it IN all and counting foreign yetions it
IA pr6babre nearly million copies Of tbs famous
book have been printed.
The Prussian, BEssEMER, who only q few years
since advanced his simple, cheap and short meth
Cd Of converting pig iron into malleabe steel, Is
already enjoying from tan income OF $500 GOO per
annum.
Anew and important branch Of Southern indus
Try is developing in:the swamps of North Carolina
and Virginia, from which large quantities of peat
are now extracted. In the Dismal Swamp peat can
be manufactured at q 90 per TON, which now costs
IS in New York., s5s?s sa; So q - -
The British Admiralty has so far awakened 10
the proerassnf naval science thatit is selling its
old wooden vessels Of war. "a single firm has
boueht q. whole staam fleet with q tonnage Of a.
8o5 tons for the sum OF s6s. .OO0 aprice which the
Times considers very eays moderate.
Anegro in Baker county; Ga., becon,ing snraged
at the refusal Of Q dusky dannsel to marry him,
procured gd, snd shot her aa s6e was returning
.ftom town few days ago, where ahe had been to
buy her wedding garments, reparatory to being
-.-:oS s.;
Aeentleman unnamed sfARaAiDsUxR Of Saline cdun-
ty, Arkansas, who went TO- fall for the
purpose OF procuring laborerss has returned with
quite number essdoteh apessenta. he Contem-
plates second voyage soon, for; the purpose OF
procuring more, being quite sanguine Of success
In his'entetprise. =: !! aa.ac -: 81 -
We see by the. Richmond papers, that the York
River Railroad, is nearly completed, and that in
afew days cars win run to the White House. . e. to
the sits on the Pamnnky River, where the White
House used to stand. Cen Mcclellan, it will
be remembered, destroyed the memorable home
OF the Cus1s family, his retreat In July, 1852.
work soon to be published bearing this title:
ssInquiry into the Origin and Course Of Political
Parties in the United States by the late e1-Presi
dent MARrN VAN BuREN; edited by his Sons.'
The work was begun by Mr.. VAN BUREN, twelve
Years after his retirement from the Presidency,
and was written in connection with his own poti-
cal memoirs. The latter come down to the date
OF 1888 81. : 80. ~
bit of sharp practice has been; going on at
H1dson. New. York A man contracted to pur-
chase farm. The sforfeit" was $780, few
weeks subsequent to this transaction third party
came and offered the original owner an advance Of
1850 foT TIE farm. The seller backed water" and
Maid the forfeit, when purchaser numter two
.didn't want to y" Several parties haze been
duped in the same manner within short time.
Secretary SEWARD, gave q dinner to the Japanese
Commissioners, on Saturday eyoning, at his resi-
dencs. All The members Of the Cabinet were pres
emit. except Secretaries STANTON and BROWNING.
Judge O11o, Assistant Secretary Of the Interior,
was also present. After the dinner, the party re-
paired to the drawing-room, whero they we're
Joined BY Baron GEnoLT, Senator SUMNER, and the
Spanish and Mexican Ministers, the latter accom-
panied by the wife Of President JuAREz.
People who ride ip French railway trains are
generally paid t@aH . high rate if killed or in
iured by accidents" On a road along the Medi-
terranean coast there was disaster last winter,
and thecourts have just decrsed exemplary dam
ages to the relatives Of persons who we're killed.
lady whose husband was killed received Sc, 900
in gold, and her son s12, 500; tho widow OF the
eneine-dr and family recovered $4,000; and the
widow OF porter killed on the train gets $1,000,
and, in addition, an annual payment of s12O.
The omission Of Italy from the great O. wers
called to consult on the Luxembourg question. ex
r;tes considerable comment, Surely, with her
newly acquired territory, and her 24,OO0OOo Of
nopniation, she is entitled to rank among the
8. firsf. % This item We cut from an exchange.
Rnt there is nothing remarkable in the "omis-
sion y seeing that only such powers represent
"a 70 were 1arties to the several treaties, which