The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-08
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NEWS SUMMARY.

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7 Cotton closed in liverpool on the 9Th at 1ssd.
The New York market was dull at 300. for Mid
ding Uplauds. Gold closed at 34i. -.
The Senate Of the Virginia Legislature have
passed Bill by vote Of twenty five to four to call
/ . Convention Of the State on the second Monday
in May next. @
The New Hampshire election il takes place March
18th.
Miss BRAppons new magazine; BelqraSosa, is ad-
.vertised for sale.
Fires are prevalent in the woods in various parts
OF the State; destroying much property. ,e
]. Gen. JosEPH'E. JOHNSTON, last week. was invited
TO take seat on the hoor Of the Louisiana House
OF Representatives. 4 5..,- 4Ei,
The tax on cotton, under the new law enacted
last week, is 2a cents pound, instead Of 8 cents
as heretofore! ar:i!* ,,=.2,ss.. 1s.l '7.25
BnowN1ow threatens to return to private life, and
the Boston Post offers its coincidence to private
The: HUDSON: N. y end ,sevvto.r,', Macs, E:s ::-s
National Banks have been taken in charge Of by
the Comptroller Of the Currency:
Canadian eggs, under the new tariff will have to
pay; s duty Of zone cent per dozen. Our national
debt win be paid. !.
There are about forty candidates for Governor
OF Iowa. Gen. BAKER, Congressman GRnNE11
and Col MERRH1 are the leading competitors.
Gem GLEEsoN, who is now military director Of
the Fenian Brotherhood, has given a contract for
two Thousand uniforms to alarge clothing firm. in
New. Fork y: @ : 5 n.
His said that Prince SALE sA1m German Off
Ger, who served in the United States army during
the recent wal, lis now in command Of NAxnr1IIANs
forces garrisoned in the city Of orizaba li.
Statistics show that the Northwest contains one
sixth of the improved land Of the country, and
produce one-haK Of the entire bulk of the products
of the United States. Ss..i
The -Scandinayians Of Chicago recently caves
grand ball, IN which numbers Of Danish, Norwe-
gian, and Swedish men and women appeared in
their old national costumes.
Some e1-Fredericksburg dar1ies voted at the
election in Georgetown. One old fellow however,
declined; saying, 'oThey jist' put the names down,
and the next thing is tax on every nigger that
voted-n s.ss4.s
The British steamship Mexican, dispatched from
Baltimore to Liverpool by TIE Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, and which Jeff Cape Henry on
The LIST ufamo, arrived off Queenstown IN the 10th,
The Chinese 1mve nutaerous diseases Of the eyes;
every fifth man having some ocular defect, and
every fifteenth losing his sight altogether. They.
attribute it to the excessive use Of rice and con-
etant shaving. 81. tt5.s .te
The Gainesville CLAY Ne,o Era says that, with
9 favorable season, the cotton crop of Alaehua
County win far exceed that Of 1866, as q much
greater area Of land will be planted with the staple.
Better raise less cotton and more corn.
In the Maryland legislature, the other day, Mr..
APPIEMAN (Repuhlitan) offered resolutions CON
demning the election ct the 6 notorious rebel and
traitor = General CUsrzs LEE to the Presidency of
the State Agricultural College. Rejected. II. .s..
It is stated in the New York Tribune that under
the provisions Of the Naval Appropriation Bill,
passed at the late session Of Congress, at least
10000 employees IN the Government Navy Yards
dgEng the ghaEg there are
22oo 900 prop, OF vineyards in France, 1000
varieties Of vine cultivated 1000 acres Of land
devoted to vineyards, and in 1864 the crop was
1,s2o 600, 600 gallons Of wine, worth 100000 0oO
Two large foating cisterns constructed at Cher
boure, have arrived OF Hare, on their. way to
Paris. They are intended to supply the aquariums
OF the Exhibition with sea water and during it's
continuance Will make constant trips between tho
sea and Paris. a.. q.
Senator WADE, of Ohio, who has been elected
President of the Senate, was born at West Spring
field, Massachusetts, and is sixty-six years OF age
He went to Ohio when about twenty-one years old,
after receiving common school education. !: He is
an extreme Radical
We learn that the: Right Rev. Bishop Qu1N1AN,
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we believe, the Stateh Of Alabama and Florida, has
been commissioned by Governor PATTON as one OF
the representatives of Alabama at the PERKS Ex-
poaiton.: II; n,fe st1ss- ssr,s; e%&S tts
HARPER & Brothers will publish i1nmediately
the new Bankrupt Bill, with notes, forms Of pro-
cedure, and a collection OF all the american and
English decisions upen the law Of bankruptcy,
adapted to the use Of the lawyer and merchant by
EDWIN JAMES. ;s,., s =. .si.syl;l :;
The New York correspondent Of the Philadelphia
Ledger Says se1tade Of all kinds remains ruinoualy
dull Go where you viii the complaint is uniform,
Many dry goods and grocery firms are behind with
their notes, and mott few suspensions are reported
among the smaller houses" ! s: ;Ss:si 's' Z
The st. Panla Pioneer says: tfsqme people are
verdant enough to. ask, Can Congress- do so and
SOP Why certainly they can. "a railroad conduc-
5or once accosted LOLA MoNgEz thus. Madam, you
cannot smoke in the CAR But you see cam re-
piled LOLA, for am doing it.. This is Congress
,sional logic" .=., 1s";::t!. y. 81 ,sss
cotemporary, aDuding to the numerous cases
OF suicide, and numbering OF children by mothers
IN the Northwest says: ssWhen the fathers in that
country Determine to tar and feather every fanati-
cal lecturer they catch in the act of haraneuine
silly people on the subject Of spiritualism, h.e-
1oV1sm aud damphooism generally, the throats
OF their children will be sate.n .' H.:
Inc New York Assembly on Wednesday voted
down proposition to let negroes in that State vote
Tor delegates to the constitutional convention.
Yet majority Of this same New York Legislature
are in favor Of thrusting negro suffrage upon their
countrymen in the South aud not ,aply that, but
IN favor also Of keeping them out Of the Union
until they consent to it. .,5s.a
through the courtesy Of Mr.. RoBERr Rowr1L, Of
1nls city. we have been permitted says the Louis
vile Journal, to examine copy Of the A,lstu,a-
sian, published at; Melbourne, Australia, the
largest paper in the world. It contains two
pages Of five columns each, and if printed On q
engle sheet would be nine feet long BY three wide.
meerschann pipe manufa ctured in this coun-
ny, and designed for the Paris Exhibition: is now
20 be seen in New York. The pipe itself is eleven
1nones IN length, and the amber mouth-piece eight
inches long and two inches thick. The carving on
the funk Of the pipe represents the meeting Of
Macbeth and Banquo with the witches. on their
wsy- to the battlefield. surmounting the bowl
sHAKarEARE e is represented seated on : cha;,
looking down upon the scene. & ,a: AZ: ----
The Rabbits OF Europe are to assemble IN connc;, @
IN Paris neNyear, in order that the great sanbe-
drim may take place in conjunction With the mi:
versal Exhibition. The Central Jewish Committen.
Of Paris has taken the initiative Of the meetinp
which will be especially called Oh to decide tha III;
lowing Questions The aintinn ~ 4l,si --.,.,t..