The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-27
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Gold closed in Now York yesterday ut 1i3iaIi3i.
Cotton closed in New York yesterday at ~.
General GRANTS father is speaking on The DEM
ocratc side in tho Ohio canvass.
Mrs. Ton THUMB promonados broadway IN Gack
silk dress and basque, jockey hat and dark kid
gloves
Tho Now York Leader is responsible for the fol-
lowing: A Cal,ott Ballad-"Still SO gently DER me
stealing" spirited composition.
Arrests OF suspected Fcnnn emissarics continue
in Dublin. Tho latest nrrcst il lint of James WAL
TON, supposed to be all agent of tho L. D.. from |
tho United States.
YALLASDIoHhM, in speech Friday evening, !
claimed that tho soldiers pensions and bountcs
sacred public debt, and should be paid. lie
denounced National Banks gross swindlc.
JOHN II. SunRaTT, who WAS indisposod recent
ly, has entirely recovered his health. His sister
ANNA, visits hm nj tho Jail almost every day,
spending half hour or moro in his coll on cncl
occasion.
statue OF tho Empress JOSEPHINE has recently
boen crocod in Paris. u is tho work OF ihr srup.
tor DuRRAr, ami represents the Empress stumbling,
clothed in the costume OF hur limo. ly her sidn
tho imperial CROWN rests upon cushion, which is
supported by tripol Of Grccian form. III her
right hand the Empress holds flowers OF tho An.
tillcs.
Speaker CoLFA1, in q recent speech in Ohio,
quite positive that tho idcs of November would
SEQ tho President arraignod before tho Senate Of
tho United States, charged with not faithfully ex-
ccu,ing tho laws OF tho United States, aud usurp-
ing power in issuing his last proclamation Of am
nesty.
General LooAH in recent speech, undertook to
show that JEFF. DAVIS would havo done no worse
in tho Presidential chair ihnn ANDREW JOHNSON.
SO says Radical paper Upon this remarks tho
Pact Tgr toE rl,al
JEFFEnsoS DAVIS worId have dono, for he was all
ardent supporter o; DAVIS and advocate of South
ern resistance in 1861.
Tho Washington E'.!r saya: Next month a series
OF experiments vii: bo mado at Fortress Monroe
with heavy ordnance against iron, brick, and earth
work, to test tho penetrating powers Of large guns
with diHorcnt kinds of procctiles. These expert
ments will bo much more extensive than those of
former years. and will doubtless attract much nt-
tention among ordnance mon.
Wh 81. PRIrcHARD, OF St. Louis, brought a suit
in tho Circuit Court, against BARTON ABEL, United
States informal Revenue Collector, for the recovery
Of certain sum obtained by tho latter by tho
seizure aud distrant Of tho formers goods under
tho Income Tax Laws. ho plaintil claims Tint
said laws are unconstitutional, and designs to lest
tho matter before tho courts Tho will go to
the United States Supreme Court
Tho transformation Of tho firearms in tho italian
ment has decided that tho Borsaglicri shall 10 The
frat provided with needle guns, md in order to ar
rive Immediately at uniformity in the exercise of
the new musket, tho Minister of War has ordered
each of the fortyye battaltons Of those troops to
send an officer and three sergeants to a special
school established in the former capital of Italy.
In the United States Superior Court, at Saco,
Me-, tho great patent suit brought against tho
principal cotton manufacturing companies OF New
< Srfkx of &I,a
WooDMAN patents for seifstopping cotton cards,
and which WAS referred by consent OF tho parties,
has been decided in favor of the complaInants
thereby fully sustaining the WoopMAN patents.
This decision, which is final, is Of tho most
important ever givon in tho country, tho patents
in question having been in litigation over twolvo
years and immense interests being involved.
Tho failure OF the English tea honso of MCNEIL
LAS Co. caused great excitomont in Hnnkow,
thu 4a5Ss toasn H1S5s s5s mob Gf eighty
him. No man-of-war was IN port at tho time. h,ncr;
cans think the Unitod States should havo n GIN
Doat on the fangtse Kinng- at onco to protect the
iAse interests at stake On that river Tho imports
II hankoW by American steamers for tho Quarter
ending in juno amount to $4,000 900 in vaInc
Waters, while England and tho United statos arc
increasing theirs.
The Honolulu Commercial Adue,fise. ia cncour-
aged by tho experience OF tho China steamship
line to believe that tho Sandwich Islands oyentu
oily will be included in tho regular sailing truck
because In tho first two Voyages the steamers wcro
unable TO follow tho great circle route OH account
OF heavy weather in high attitudes Tho editor
says the circuit made by the stcamors for San
francisco via Honolulu to Hongkon- thencc
to YokhhanIa and back TO san Francisco, while
IL ahortons the timo, gives tho vossole the nd
vantage OF favoring winds and currents for the
round voyage.
The Richmond Dispatch OF the 25th inst speak
ing OF the WAsHIsoroH Monument in Canitsl
Square of that city, says "The statues OF NELSON
and LEWIS, which have boen lying at the base OF
the monument for somo time past will bo elevated
to the pedestals appropriated for them to-day
ihere will be no ceremony, 30 far aa We can learn
The statues will be simply uncased and then plac.
ed In position. As they are very massive weigh
ing some four or Eve tons each tho task Of pl,c
ing them In position will be ono OF considerable
magnitude. Workmen wero busily engaged ves-
terday afternoon making tho necessary prepara
tions, and the undertaking will no doubt DO
accomplished to-day"
The latest sensation, Bays the New York Tribune
truly speaking, ia tho production Of letter from
aoVefnor ORR wholly and heartily indorsing Con.
sral sIoKtEs. he declares that Gonorsl Ortler M
10 was, 30 far "a South Carolina ia concernod nm
absolute necessity, and that he dccpy roprats tbo
course taken by tho President and is advisors
Ho believes that HAD not General s1oKIrg issuoJ
this order, moro troops would haro been called fo
TO proserVe tho public records aud protect aberiea
IN executing civil process at tho order or thourht
ieas or henrtoss creditors" II appears TINT This
ao-called tyrannical order was, according to the
dovernors own showing, IN act of condign charity
winch MIR. JOHNSON has uselessly orerborne and |
undone. What has the President to say?
we are glad to learn that the efficacy Of the |
pTesident's amnesty proclamation in removing the |
political disability of citizen is about to be test
cd in Court Of the United States. Tho Mont
somery Aaa, Of the 22d inst, says: ''The Hon.
.. =: MOE, Of this city, yesterday went bofore
the Board OF Registration, subscribed to n regis.
traton oath, and claimed tho right to register as
voter under tho lnte amnesty proclamation of
PRESIDENT JOHNSON, and was refused. Judge RICE
WIN az onco test the constitutionality of tho law
ano the proclamation before tho United states
court This 10 tho fret case under the proclama-
uon and We arc glad to know TINT tho mattor ia to
% teeted and decided by tho legal tribunals. Tho
amaaSlt was made botoro W. n. WYATT, United
States Commissioner"
iho National Intetfigenccr OF Tuesday hns tho
oho~ing What was uttered by General suEp,.