The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-21

graphic column.
The Empress CAR1oTrA has quite recovered from
her late illness.
Mr.. JOIN RusKrN is candidate for the ox1oro
Protessorship Of Poetry, which will DC 'acan' III
tue spring.
Or o. ". HOLMES it is reported is about to re-
aian tho Parkman Professorship in Harvard Col
lege.
Il is stated that the owners Of line OF steam-
era piying between Boston and Bangor have recoy-
cred 81 900 900 of the Government for steamboats,
lost while under Government charters during the
late war.
Il :s reported that Senator FOSTER will receive
the appointment of Minister to Italy, IN place o.
the Hon. GEORGE P. MiRsH, resigning his fiesl-
dency pro tenn Of the Senate just before the close
OF the present Congress.
A dispatch from Boston says the failure OF the
oldest SOAP manufacturing house is announced
for the amount of 1925 900. The failure OF al pro-
1minent broker some weeks ago is SAID 70 Lave 1eo
to this event.
Jn1pe REpr1ELD, Of Vermont, sailed fof Eng
1an5 IN Wednesday to look after the United States
o1o;roo FIR indemnity for the depredations OF Con-
,ederste vessels during the var, SAILING under inc
Ert;sh fiae. Major GEoRaE a. CHANDLEB, OF Con-
cord N. H. went with him.
The following is BRICK PoAEsoE's last " 1t ls
had to send gamblers and prize fighters to Con-
eress say the Radical papers. It is bad to send
coward. a spoon thief, woman insulter and church
robber to Congress. You pays your moneys you
takes your choice.
The following is an official statement Of the busl-
ness Of the Western Union Telegraph Company
for the month Of November, 1856: Receipts from
all sources s571 Ose.o2; expenses and payments TO
other lines 1922 5O866; net earnings s24S, S,527.S6;
expended for construction s27 ,9S7.76.
The following is the report Of the mail carriers,
Of Detroit Michigan, TO: the month OF December
1cst: Mail letters delivered, S6,069; Newspapers,
22,s25; Letters collected, 5S,673. Tho report for
The quarter ending December 81, is as follows:
Letters delivered, 2sO,771 Newspapers, A3l4;
Letters collected, 16S,817.
When King v1croa's envoy was admitted to Pro
Nono he began to read document commencing
e.Baving heard that your Holiness desires to re-
& commence the negotiations which we're Last year
ntarur.ed-n whereupon the success r OF st. PE-
TER is related to have broken out IN an unaPostoh-
cal rage. with Conanaincia con una bsgad." (" HE
begins with q lie !"
The Bishop Of Verdun, in France, recently de-
coased, died from oyer-eating. BE was gour-
ms6d Of the frst-class, and the amount Of food
consumed by him in single day was sufficient al-
most for the larder Of small hotel When be
dined out he WAS always accompanied by his ser
ysnt who stood behind his chair and signalized to
the host when his master had eaten to within q
few points Of apoplexy.
An application for an injunction, in case in
volying s4O,0O0, is under argument in the United
States District Court in session at Ae1andria, Va,
in suit Of BENJAMIN GATOR, of Baltimore, against
the Central Bank Of Virginia and others. General
BRADLEY JOHNSON, JOSEPH q. BRADLEY and L.
HEsN1ssEY, counsel for plaintiff, and francis l..
SIXTH and a. NJ. BELL for defendants.
The opening sentence of review Of Ecce Homo,
in Le Cbrrespondant, is go deliciouay Frenchy that
we cannot resist the temptation to transcribe it
lsEngland lives entirely upon important ideas.
These, originally derived from Germany, become
clarified and rendered intelligible in France, and
are finally accepted in England, or even promul-
gated there as new.
The cultivation Of sugar in the Sandwich Islands
seems to have been found extremely profitable.
The export, which was s,0O5, ,60s pounds in 1862,
and 5,262 liz pounds in 1853, advanced to 1914 AL
pounds IN 1864. New plantations are being con-
stantly started, and the shipments this year arc
expected to be far larger than the last while the
area of land still untouched by cultivation, but
capable Of producing sugar, is very large
The shipments Of cotton from Nashville to vari-
Gus trade centres over the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, for the period embraced by tho three
mo, this commencing October /, 1866, and ending
January 1, 1867, have been 1883 bales, Of which
number 9043 were shipped during October, $500
during November, and 9456 during December
The receipts Of cotton from localities south OF
Nashville, over the Decatur road have been Il, ,596
bales, Of which 70A bales reached the city during
The month Of December.
The London Times, Of the I'd inst, inreferrng to
NApo1RoN's New Years. speech, says: 'The mind
which guides events must have some foreknowl-
edge Of what a twelve-month may bring about.
Seven years ago few words spoken to the Ambas-
sador Of mighty monarch portended the loss of
the finest province in his masters Empire. This
year the hopes and wishes Of N ApoLEoN for peace
ought to be- equivalent to guarantee OF its con-
tinnance.
FoRNEY says pleasantly Of the choice Of CAME
RON for the Senatorship: 'There has never been
80 studied violation Of public sentiment and
public decency us this nomination" That may be
true, though considering the treatment public SEN
tnent and public decency have had at the hands
Of the Radicals for the last i've years, it is bold
word But Washington dispatch, OF the same
date with this efusion patriotic pus, tell that
1sthe selection of CAMERON is regarded as O GER
tain indication that FoRNEY will be turned out OF
his Secretaryship Of the Senate" Hence these
tears.
The Aln,anack de la Musique, Of Paris, gives the
following list Of salaries paid in fourteen OF the
best artists Of the opera to that city: N. NAUD1N
ITO, 600 francs year; FAuRE, 10000 francs; GuEY-
1ARD, II, 900 francs; V1rLARET, 5000 francs; Mo
RERE, 10000 francs; OB1N, $4,000 francs; BRLyAI,
3s 900 francs; DUaEsrRE, $4,000 francs; and WAnoT,
$4,000 francs. Among the stars of the other sex,
Madame GUEYmAsD receives &, 600 francs; Madame
Sass GO, 900 francs; Madame BETTE, $4,000 francs;
Madame SALv1oN1, $4,000 h-ncs, and Madams
"a 900 francs.
: The Washington Correspondent Of the Baltimore
Gazette, under date January II, says: Governor
ORR is here on business connected with South Ca
rolina, among other things immigration to that
State and the relief Of postmasters who had either
made returns to the Federal Government authori-
ties, which miscarried, or to the Confederate au-
thorities, which are ignored, and who are now har
assed by Government claims. Governor ORR is
not in favor Of the adoption OF the Constitutional
Amendment by South Carolina, or by sny other
State, but faYors graceful submission to anything
ssthe conquerors' demand. He jocularly thinks
REORGANIZATION would be welcomed as an econo-