The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-27
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NEWS sum MAR

General GRANTS father is speaking on the Dem
ocratic side in the Ohio canvass.
Mrs Tom THUMB promensdes Broadway in black
silk dress and basque, jockey hat and dark kid
gloves.
The New York Leader is responsible for the fol-
lowing: Cahcott Ballad-"Still so gently DER me
stealing" spirited composition.
Arrests of suspected Fenian emssares continue
in Dublin. The latest arrest is hat OF JAMES WAL
TON, supposed to be an agent OF the r. b. from
the United States.
VALLANp1GHAM, in a speech Friday evening,
claimed that the soldiers pensions and Dountles
were sacred public debt, and should be paid. He
denounced National Banks as gross swindle.
JOHN n. SuRRArT, who was indisposed recent
". has entirely recovered bis health. His sister,
ANNA, visits him at the jail almost every day,
spending half hour or more in his cell on each
occasion.
statue of the Empress JOSEPHINE has recently
been erected in Paris 1t is the work of the scup-
tor DURRAY and represents the Empress standing,
clothed in the costume of her time. BY her SIDE
the imperial crown rests upon cushion, which Is
supported by tripod of Grocian form In her
right hand the Empress holds flowers OF the An
titles.
Speaker CoLFAx, in recent speech in Ohio,
said he was in favor of impeachment, and he was
unite positive that the ides of November would
see the President arraigned before the Senate OF
the United States charged with not faithfully ex-
ecuting the laws OF the United States, and usurp-
ing power in issuing his last proclamation Of am
nesty.
General LOGAN, in a recent speech, undertook to
show that JEFF. DAVIS would have done no worse
in the Presidential chair than ANDREW JOHNSON.
30 says Radical paper. Upon this remarks the
Boston Post: General LOGAN ought to know what
JEFFERSON DAVIS would have done, for he was an
ardent supporter of DAVIS and advocate OF South
ern resistance in 1861.
The Washington Star says: Next month series
Of experiments will be made at Fortress Monroe
with heavy ordnance against iron, BRICK and earth
work, to test the penetrating powers OF large guns
with different kinds of projectiles. These expert
ments will be much more extensive than those OF
former years, and will doubtless attract much at
tention among ordnance men.
WM 81. PRITcHAnD, Of st. Louis, brought suit
in the Circuit Court, against BARTON ABEL, United
States Internal Revenue Collector, for the recovery
Of certain sum obtained by the latter by the
seizure and distraint Of the formers goods under
the Income Tax Laws. 1he plaintiff claims that
said laws are unconstitutional and designs to test
the matter before the courts. The case will 60 TO
the United States Supreme Court.
The transformation OF the firearms in the Italian
army has been commenced at Turin The govern
ment has decided that the Bersaglieri shall be the
first provided with needle guns, and in order to ar
rive Immediately at uniformity in the exercise OF
the new musket, the Minister Of War has ordered
each of the forty-fve battafons Of those troops to
send an officer and three sergeants to special
school established in tue former capital Of Italy
In the United States Superior Court, at Saco
Me-, the great patent suit brought against tho
principal cotton manufacturing companies OF New
England by wooDMAN & SHAW, owners Of the
WooDMAN patents for selfstopping cotton cards,
and which was referred by consent of the parties,
has been decided in favor of the complalnants,
thereby fully sustaining th" WooDMAN patents.
This decision, which is final, is one Of the most
important ever given in the country, the patents
in question having been in litigation over twelve
years and immense interests being involved.
The failure Of the English tea house of Mcneil
Lam & Co. caused great excitement in Hankow,
China, among the native losers. A mob of eighty
attacked the British Consul and kicked and bruised
him. Noman-of-war was in port at the time. Ameri-
cans think the United States should have gun
boat on the Yangtse king at once to protect the
large interests at stake that river The imports
at Hankow by American steamers for the quarter
ending in June amount to 100000 in value.
France is Withdrawing her fleet from Chinese
waters, while England and the United States are
increasing theirs.
The Honolulu Commercial Advertiser is encour-
aged BY the experience Of the China steamship
line to believe that the Sandwich Islands eventu
ally will be included in the regular sailing track,
because in the first two voyages the steamers wore
unable to follow the great circle route, on account
of heavy weather in high ,latitudes. The editor
says the circuit made by the steamers for San
Francisco via Honolulu to Hongkons, thence
to Yokohama and back to San Francisco, whilo
it shortens the time gives the vessels the ad-
vantage OF favoring winds and currents for the
round voyage.
The Richmond Dispatch of the 25th inst, speak
ing of the, WASHINGTON Monument in Capital
Square Of that city, says: "The statues OF NELSON
and LEWIS, which have been lying at the base OF
the monument for some time past will be elevated
to the pedestals appropriated for them to-day.
There will be no ceremony, 30 far as we can learn.
The statues will be simply uncased and then plac-
ed in position. AS they are very massive, weigh
ing some four five tons each, the task OF piac-
ing them in position Will be one Of considerable
magnitude. Workmen were busily engaged yes |
terday afternoon making the necessary prepara- |
tions, and the undertaking will no doubt be |
accomplished to-day"
The latest sensation, says the New York Tribune,
truly speaking, is the production OF letter from
Governor ORB wholly and heartily indorsing Cen |
sral SIcK1Es. He declares that General Order No.
10 was, so far as South Carolina is concerned, an |
absolute necessity, and that he deeply regrets the
course taken by the President and his advisers.
He believes that hal not General S1cKLks issued |
this order, more troops would have been called for
to preserve the public records and protect sheriffs
in executing civil process at the order OF Thought
less or heartless creditors" 1t appears that this
so-called tyrannical order was, according to the
Governors own showing, an act of condign charity,
which Mr. JoHNsoN has uselessly overborne and |
undone. What has the President to say?
We s-e glad to learn that the efficacy Of the
Presidents amnesty proclamation in removing the
political disability Of citizen is about to be test
ed in Court Of the United States. The Mont
gomery Maui, Of the 22d inst, says: "The Hon.
8. F. R1oE, Of this city, yesterday went before
the Board Of Registration, subscribed to regis
tration oath, and claimed tho right to register as
voter under the late amnesty proclamation of
President JOHNSON, and was refused. Judge RICE
will at once test the constitutionalty of the law
and the proclamation before the United States
Court This is the first case under the proclama-
ton, and are glad to know that the matter is to
be tested and decided by the legal tribunals. Tho
affidavit was made before W. R. WYATT, United
States Commissioner"
The National Intelagencer of Tuesday has the
following "whst was uttered by General SHER1-
DAN in response to the call of Radical partisans !
last night was not unworthy soldier. How re-
putably it contrasts with the studied and protract