The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-27
NEWS SUMMARY.

Cotton closed in New York lower; sales 5000, at
16lc.
Cotton closed in Liverpool dull at Sd. for Mid
ding U glands.
A gentleman of Ashvile N. c., has ordered
ffty-six thousand grape Cuttings with the view OF
establishing large vineyard in that vicinity.
Oscar Newman, German citizen OF Richmond,
has been appointed an agent for the State o. Vlr-
gpia, to visit Germany and influence emigration
therefrom.
1t is reported that Thurlow Weed has been
offered 81, 100000 to secure patent for Howe's
needle sewing machine for another ten years, the
old one expiring next Autumn.
"A cable dispatch states that General Dix, our
Minister in France, has proposed to the Emperor
Napoleon that the United States be represented
in the contemplated European Conference
The distille.s and druggists propose to hold a
convention in Washington on the 10th or 18th OF
next month for the purposes of having changes
made in the internal revenue laws relating to alco
hol and distilled spirits.
Official advces from Havana received at the
State Department represent that cholera prevails
to considerable extent in Cuba. From October
14th to November 18th there were in the city oi
Havana 5S4 cnolera cases, 241 deaths. No cases
have as yet been reported in the interior OF the
Island.
The New Orleans Picayune is opposed to
procuring white labor" 1t says: 'We want
white mea here to go to work themselves snd not
procure labor. The system Of mercantile farming
which has 80 long cursed the South, and bred
debt and idleness, must cease, or our decay Will
become ruin"
The Manchester Fenians were excited on Sat-
urday morning, in accordance with their senten'
ces. This intelligence created great excitement
among the Irish population in New York, and alarge
meeting was held in that city on Saturday night,
protesting against the infringement OF the rights
Of the Irish-born American citizens.
ALI the Garibad.ans held as prisoners by the
Pspal authorities have been released Transports
have been ordere1 to leave Toulon FOR Cvta Veccha,
where they will take on board one division OF the
French exp dictionary force and return with 1t TO
France GaribaidI is said to be lying seriously LII
at varigno, where he is imprisoned.
"A woman in France, in good circumstances,
knowing that the man she loved was In love with
another woman, and too poor to marry, destroyed
herself and left her property to the man, that ne
might make her rival his wife. She is certainly
the most magnanimous woman the world has yet
produced, and her name was Elise de Bareille.
"A few weeks since man approached the rope
to which Is attached the balloon in which every
body in Paris is making ascensions He drew
knife, when the attendant asked him his lnten-
ton. NY wife" he replied, 'is up in the balloon,
and I'd give hundred francs for the privilege OF
cutting the rope" The offer Of the monster was
refused.
Pope Plus the Ninth has accepted Napoleon's
plan of conference on the Italo-Roman question,
and the assemblage will be organized in Munich on
the 11th of December. Italy, Bavaria and Wur-
temturg have given their adhesion to the confer
ence. It is denied in Paris that General Dix ap-
Piled for representation for the United States in
the assemblage.
The New York Tribune thinks that when the
present rage for pedestrainism subsidies, good
muscular trial could be had by two men laying a
WAGER to decide which can saw the most wood TOR
poor familes-.he timber to be contributed by
those enthusiastic admirers of muscle who are
now yenturing their spare stamps upon the endur-
ance Of pedestrians.
-Maior-General Ord of District No. 4, has
arrested the friends and relatives OF Colonel Robert
A. Smith, late of~the 10th Mississippi Confederate
Regiment, who were about TO place on the grave
of the dead soldier q small monument sent BY
his brother from Scotland. The Mississippi edi-
tors are busting General Ord's jacket in q lively
style for this petty piece OF tyranny.
The Fortieth Congress, which reassembed at
Washington on Thursday, is composed Of one hun
dred and ninety-three members in the House, and
the Senate Of ffty-four. In the popular branch
the political division is into one hundred and for-
ty.four Republicans arr frrty-nine Of the opposi-
ton. In the Senate the Republicans number for
ty.two to twelve Democrats and Conservatives.
A demonstration of sympathy for the Fenians
executed on Saturday at Manchester, took place at
London yesterday. Some three thousand persons
marched in procession to Hyde Park where
speeches were made consisting of strong appe.ls
to the sympathies u those present, coupled with
denunciation OF tts haste with which the -tence
condemning the men to death was carried out.
Good order prevailed.
The following figures illustrate the magnitude
Of Liverpool: The Mersey Docks and Harbor
Board received last year ss5l, ,S11; the Town Coun-
Gil has borrowed on its water account e. 0O9, ,99i
on It's sanitary account, G62S 755; On various i'm
provement accounts, s591, ,24S and on the public
parks account SSSS, $50, making total Of f3,613S
5AS. Against this is setof Of &2S6, 4S4 invested
in consos and other securities. The council has
still unexercised borrowing powers to the extent
Of 100000.
The party of engineers who have been survey
ing the Union Pacific Railroad through the Rocky
Mountains for the past eight months, has return
ed to Omaha. The party lost two men, killed by
Indians, this Summer, and suffered much from
cold, want Of water, and grass for their animals.
They bring specimen Of fine bituminous coal, of
which there is great abundance near the survey
ed route. The surveys made show that the road
is feasible, with grades not exceeding those on the
Pennsylvania Central
The report of General Grant mentions the re-
markable fact that during the past year no fewer
than 900 men have deserted from the army.
The greater part of these desertons, we presume,
occurred on the plains, where it is well known that
men often enlist in Westward bound regiments for
the express purpose Of getting cheap and safe
conveyance to the mining regions. The number
oirecruits during the year 81 900, so that the
assertions reach the enormous ratio of nearly |
forty per cent of the enrollments.
The trial Of Phillips, at Richmond, for the |
murder of his wife, which is Justly considered one
Of the most celebrated causes on record, has at
tracted large crowds Of ladies and gentlemen du- |
ring the whole investigation. 1t was given to the
jury on Thursday; they failed to agree, ten being
in favor OF conviction and two against it. There
being no prospect of their finding verdict, the
jury was discharged on Friday afternoon and the
prisoner remanded to jail, to be tried again at the
April term Of the court. The evidence was alto
gether circumstsntial against him, but was very
strong.
kilograms from Havana contain items of news
from Porto RICO, Hayti, st. Domingo, Jamaica and
Venezuela. Fearful results were apprehended in
Porto Rico from the nundations caused by the