The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-26
NEWS SUMMARY.

The gross receipts Of the Paris Exposition
smoant to 81, 800, COO.
New Orleans is ten miles long, following the
curves of the Mississippi.
-Ristori will go from Havana to New Orleans
returning East next April.
Citizens Of Pensacola who were driven away
by the fever, are returning home.
Tho Bank OF England has one hundred NIL
lions Of cancelled notes locked up.
Every grave in Trinity and st. PauI's church
yards, New York, is worth two thousand dollars.
The banana crop in louisiana surpasses that
Of previous years, and the fruit is as good as that
from abroad
-Carme and Gayraud are playing match, ten
games of three hundred points each, French ca
rom, in New York.
The Prince of Wales astonished Frankfort, and
left all manner of scandalous stories behind him
after his two days visit.
"A consolidation of all the railway lines from
New York to Chicago is talked of, their capltais
amounting to 15O,OO0,0O0.
Out of 1900 volumes Of the Dickens novels IN
the Mercantile Library, New York, only two re-
mained on its shelves on Tuesday.
The Tribune made $4,000 out of its party last
campaign as pay for publishing meetings. Quite
moderate price for Radical patriotism
The Democratic gain in the State of Wiscon-
sin the last election IS little 1000. They also
make some gains in the State Legislature.
1t is estimated that 10000 dwelling houses
will have to be removed to make room for railroad
improvements now going forward in London.
Government has sold to menagerie nine OF
the famous camels imported for beasts of burden
several years since, and sent to the Southwest.
If the United States bonds are paid in green
backs, the STAN, act will be unnecessary, and
the salaries of an army Of Revenue Collectors
abolished.
The reno al of Governor Jer' and the
appointment of Superintendent Of hegistrstion
Hurlbut in his stead, is rumor floating around
the Georgia press.
"A colored church in Chicago recently tried con-
yicted and expelled one of its members for adul-
terry, and the criminal smashed the head OIL one VI
his Judges on the way home.
"A company of French nuns, twenty-four in
number, and eighteen missionaries, arrived Ill
New York by the French steamer on Wednesday
in charge Of the Bishop Of Galveston.
"A piano on exhibition at the Paris Exposition
can be used as bed, bureau, washstand and book
case-the stool also being fitted with drawers,
looking-glass, work-box and writing desk.
A ring has been made in Portland of Georgia
co,d inland with iron from one Of the fetters of
Bonniyard, Of Chillon, and containing an amethyst
from Mount Mica, in Oxford County, Maine.
The subject of Charles Dickens lecture before
the New York Press Club will be "The Life OF q
Reporter" As "Boz" began his literary career as
a reporter, he will treat the subject con dnaore.
Miss Pendergast, of Western New York, en-
lows the envable distinction, in the newspapers,
Of having received more attention in Europe the
past Summer than any other young lady from
America.
Tho American Consul at Rome, according to
the correspondent of the London Telegraph, has
recelyed several death warnings from the Junta on
account Of his manifested sympathy with the Pom
-several small lots of cotton have been seizeo
a. St Louis for nregula,ity in shipment or VIOLA
t;on of the revenue law. kilograms have also neeh
sent TO New York, ordering the seizure OF otner
cotton shipped from st. Louis.
IT has been decided that, after the elections
and conventions in the Southern States have been
beld. the number Of military posts shan DO
diminished, and the troops consolidated at centrai
noints, with q view to economy In the cost Vi
transportation and subsistence.
The New York Times acknowledges the dsas-
trous effect of ignorant suffrage in the South ana
sovs that il an educational qualification had been
reop;red Of the Convention delegates, "the Con-
st;tntions emanating from them would be more
likely to command respect and to be respectaDle'
THE New York Herald explodes as follows
mshoas OF ne oulous matter have been lately drlv-
ino scross the earth's orbit, reboundlng from the
elasticity OF osI atmospheric armor, or rasses Gu
this matter consumed by combustion resulting
from the contact, or from the heat gensrateo Dy
the friction OF their flight" It only means meteors
The London Saturday Review thinks an Eng
lsh peer would dislike the position of minister to
this country. where he would be expected to give
precedence to every Western Senator and be slap
mad ON the back by evory Western Representa-
tiye.n But it considers that Mr.. Thornton wouio
be none too fastidious for that sort OF thing.
The Emperor Of Austria travels with his suite
in his Parisan journey, in special train built ex
pressly for the occasion. 1t consists OF four Sd
looms. the first OF which is hung with cloth dra
perv the second with satin, and the third Wilt
damask. The walls OF the fourth, or Imperial car
riaee are covered with mirrors in richly-carved
gold frames.
Brigham Young not content with one attack
ON civilization and Christianity, Is after the LITTLE
God OF Love- j. late order this beast OF pro
phet orders the young men OF Utah to MARI,
'rieht off" all t. unmarried girls, and not ALLOW
themselves to be- guided by love, but marrv as the.
come. Lo7e he prono1nces as q humbug, ant
winds up with saying thas if after a certain time
% Lov
A dispatch from Washington says: 1.-The ire
euent occurrence of assassinations In Utah has
attracted the attention Of General Sherman, who
determined upon summary procedure be
therefore telegraphed to Brigham Young that nc
(Young) would be held personally responsible foc
any assassinations which might thereafter take
place in Utah. This telegram somewhat alarmed
Young, and it is believed that good effect will
follow the prompt action taken by General Sher-
man."
The subject of a ship canal through Florida Is
avain being discussed, as means Of intercommu.
rication between the Gulf and Atlantic, cutting
the level Florida peninsula in two, from about Oh
at Fernandina, on the Atlantic coast and opening
into thu Gulf at Cedar Keys, where there Is gooc
and safe harbor, or else using the ST. Johns river
to about opposite ST. Augustine, and tnen uSglne
across to Cedar Keys. The New York Journal o
Commerce thinks that Congress will probably b'
asked to favor these projects.
The reported safety OF Livingstone, the Afri
can explorer, affords most agreeable illustrator
OF the wisdom of doubt. The evidence of hi
death seemed to be very direct and exolict; it WA
asserted by one of the men who had been Will
him in his travels, and who pretended to hav'
been a witness of it. The story was generally be
Ieved in England and only few scientific mel
and African travellers, who were better able thar
the community at large to estimate the value o
African testimony, have refused to give it ere
dance The resnlt fnllv vindinatns their hnlinr