The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-23
NEWS SU.HKA RI.

men IN the Ponthcal service, wnlle tnere are auou
twenty Englishmen.
The birthday of the Prince of Wales was to be
the date of a recommencement of the festivities OF
the English Court.
There has been a fearful cyclone at Hong
Kong, China. The damage inflicted by it is esti.
mated at ten million of dollars.
A Yankee has purchased an island in the Ohio
river anu stocked it with black cats, to raise the
animale ior tue sake Of the fur.
The Fresh Consul at Turin has had his win
dows smashed BY Garibaldian mob, and similar
demonstrations have been made at Milan.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Boyd of Kent ucky, claim
to be the oldest couple in the country. They are
respectively ITO and LOT, and have boy Of 80.
The Collingwood, which cost Great Britain
about s1OO, 600, has just been sold for S617S los.
The bargaining must have been close for the los.
"A rumor comes from New Orleans that the
Ghioni opera troupe, containing more than twenty
persons have been murdered by Mexican banditti.
"A Partisan house, which sells goods as low as
any other establishment, executes bond, well Sc
cured, to refund the whole OF the purchase money
thirty years after date.
-Mormondom expects large influx Of English
men next Summer. Brigham Young is taking
means to procure passage money for them, and OF
course will get it.
The Radicals are all taking the back track on
the cotton tax question. Colfax now comes out in
favor of its repeal. Boutwell, has also brought his
judicial mind to the same point.
The Alabama Convention, by vote OF So to
so, has adopted resolution appointing Special
Committee to inquire into the expediency of re-
moving the State Capitol from Montgomery.
The Reconstruction Convention OF Alabama
removal of the Cotton Tax, and that all taxes paid
since the 1st Of September be returned to the pro-
ducer.
M Brucke mas observed that difused solar
light, instead Of being perfectly white, is tinged
with red. The light of burning magnesium,
which appears to be so like sunlight has tinge
OF violet.
One of the oil farms that the owner refused, q
wear or two since, tc sell for $500 900, has been
sold for one-sixth that sum, and every one won
ders who could have been stupid enough to pay
such price.
The yellow fever subscription funds were clos
ed in New York on the 18th inst, on the reported
discontinuance of the fever. Between sS00O0 and
500 600 have been collected and forwarded 10 Gal
weston and New Orleans.
The Turkish Government has just had an iron
paddle gunboat launched at Glasgow. The vessel
is Of 1000 tons burden, is very FAST going twenty
one miles per hour on her trial trip and is armed
with five Armstrong guns.
Darling, the Radical candidate for Mayor Of
New York, accepts his nomination In letter in
which he figures out his triumphant election as "a
candidate confessedly not Objectionable" The
chief objection will be the lack of votes.
The art-and-curiosty collection of the French
Vice-Consul at New York did not bring good prices.
On cham used by Napoleon at Malmaison, only
ten dollars were bid; and two suits Of armor, cost
ing $4,000, only brought s25. The owner preferred
to keep them.
"A daily paper, to advocate the views of the
Ritualists in the Episcopal Church, will soon be
issued in New York Mr.. Hecker, formerly of The
Churchman, is said to be providing the funds, and
among the distinguished names mentioned in con-
nection with the editorship are those of DR.. Dix,
Bishop Southgate, and Rev. John Henry Hop
kins.
The London Times loudly praises Miss Kel
logg's Marguerite, in which character she made
her debut on the London stage. 1t says that she
l'achieved brilliant and legitimate success, and
that ''there WAS evidently not dissentient opin-
ion as to the merits q the new singer, who was
called before the lamps after every act and over
wnelmed with applause"
Charles Dickens arrived in Boston on Tuesday
evening, about seven o'clock, having been taken
aboard of chartered tug-boat at Hull and thus
coming IN half hour ahead of the Cuba. He was
met on the tug-boat by Oliver Wendell Holiness
Josiah Quincy, Mr.. Fields Collector Russell and
his agent Dolby. A large crowd was assembled on
the dock to receive him, but he drove Immediately
to his hotel.
MIR. Reed chief constructor of the British
navy, has designed a vessel intended to carry 600
Founders and plates fifteen inches thick. He pur-
poses furnishing her with engines which will drive
her at the rate Of fourteen to fifteen knots, md if
the Admiralty should approve his plans, and direct
the work to be proceeded with, by 1869 England
will possess an engine absolutely impenetrable to
the artillery of the present day, and capable of
collectively annihilating every war vessel now
ahoat.
Twelve hundred tons of steel rails have been
laid, in place Of iron ones, on the Boston and
Providence Railroad. At Roxbury, near the repair
shop, they have been in use upwards of year, at
q point where one hundred and twenty trains or
locomotives pass over them daily, and as yet there
Is no perceptible wearing away. Iron rails had to
be relaid seventeen times year at the same place.
As fast as the iron rails wear out, on any portion
Of the route, the Company intend to replace them
with steel ones.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald says: Considerable private caucusng
-
Secretaryship Of the Senate. A strong pressure
will be brought to have Colonel Forney displaced,
to make room for selection from the West. 1t is
argued by prominent persons from that region
that their section Of the country is not fairly repre-
sented in the public Offices, hence they propose an
onslaught in force to carry out their idea of an
equal distribution
The Nation says that the refusal of the courtto
recognize the naturalization Of Warren and grant
him mixed jury, raises momentous question
'The question at stake" it asserts 'vitally affects
100000 of the Irish race in America It affects
the existence of the Uniied States as great
power. 1t strikes at the whole foundation Of tn.
vast political fabric-the American republic. That
qeesnon is, whether the American republic can
carry out the principle upon which it is founded
the ADOPTION as citizens, the fullest sense Of the
term, OF all who, complying with specified 1egua-
tions, aoIure on oath all other temporal ALE
giances, and swear devotion to the commonwealth
adopting them"
The presidential question assumes new as
poets. The ferocious zeal of Thurlow Weed in he.
half Of General Grant has excited some suspicion,
and led to investigation. 1t has resulted in the
discovery that Mr. Weed is not really friendly to
General Grant, but that the veteran politician de.
sires to use the successful General to batter down
the Radicals, hoping that possibly Grant and
Chase may be made to enact the parts toward each
other of the Kilkenny cats. Mr.. Weed has never
given up the idea Of the Philadelphia Convention.