The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

NJ. DE LAliABT1NE has been appealing again to
the public, asking them to subscribe to the first
four volumes Of his ssMemoirs," which are finished
and ready for press. In the event Of his not living
to complete the entire work, these will form, he
states, separate series.
MIR. JOIN NEAL, Of Portland, Maine, who con-
trbuted to Blaokeoood forty years ago. still devotes
his attention to law practice and literary pursuits,
being frequent writer for the Atlantic Monthly,
and at the ripe age Of seventy-four Is as halo and
hearty most nRen of fifty.
The Now York Euening Post, tho Now York Com
mercial Saduertiser, and the Cincinnati CONNER
ciak, all Of them Republican papers, agree with
the Herald, the Times, the Tribune, and other
Journals OF the same party, in opposing the i'm
peachment Of the President.
The United Kingdom has 258 persons to the
English square mile upon an average; Italy, 225
Florence, 1eO; Prussia, 179 Austria, 1855 Spain,
"a; Turkey 10 United States, II; Russia, 9 Rus
aia in Europe 81 Brazil 8. The population Of
the eight above named sSatss G! the world e1-
ceeds 270000,00O
Major JoHSP. SCOTT, ofFauquier, who has written
narrative OF Colonel MosBYs campaign, has gone
to New York to make arrangements for its pubiica-
ton. He is said to be agreeable writer, and as
Colonel MosB7 had placed all his papers and mem
oranda in his hands he WILL doubtless, produce q
very readable book.
CHARLES W. SLACK, editor Of the Boston COM
nao7s.oeaM (su4NER's weekly organ), who has
written charming addresses about Christianity,
virtue, ETC., and who always deplores the wicked
ness Of the South. is charged by Mr.. A. P. ROLLINS,
in the Boston Post, With having offered him br1be.
There are in Austria 728 inconsistencies and 298
convents the first with 50 abbots 6754 PRIESTS 240
novices, and 1917 lay brothers; and the second
with 519a nuns. Two hundred and eighty-two of
- -, 10 41,o
order IS to sisters Of charity GO to the Piarists,
Al to the Dominicans, AZ to the Benedictines, 26 to
the Basilians and II to the Jesuts:
Mr.. JOSEPH CoRB, ninety-6ve years old, was one
Of the skaters on the Musingum River ut Zanes-
vile on Thursday last. He borrowed q pair Of
tsdnmpeys," the Wood OF which was cut from the
first apple orchard planted in Ohio, at Marietta,
aud struck out first right, then left. After few
turns he challenged juvenile Of seventy to race
but the banter was declined.
Just now there are sold in Paris and elsewhere
small packets Of cards purportine to be s'tickets
for Heaven"-ssbWels dentree pour e ciel.n They
are published by authority-to-wit, by c. IATAuIE,
Edile,r Pontifcale Rue Garanciere, Paris-and
consist Of sixteen embossed cards, on each of
which is an engraving depicting the particular
mode Of reaching Heaven for which that ticket is
good.
The Duke Of Augustenberg has ceded to Prus-
aha his claims to the Duchies of Schleswig and
Holstein. The Grand Duke Of Oldenburg, tho
other claimant, having made the same cession
some time ago, Prussia now holds the Duchies by
virtue Of treaty as well as Of conquest. The claims
of the Elector OF Hesse-Cassel and Of the Duke of
Nassau to their former dominions had previously
. been bought of in the same manner.
Z Prince ALFRED will have some advantage in the
yacht race around the Ise of Wight. which he has
agreed to contest with young BENNETT next
August. The voyage viii be short one, as tho
area Of the island is only one hundred and thirty
s1 square miles and, moreover, the Prince is well
acquainted with every point on tho coast, and fa-
niliar with all the tidal variations and pecnliari-
fsas, ana btaren Island, In New York
harbor.
The following suggestive statistics are taken
from the annual report OF the New York Police De-
partment: Number Of houses of i'll repute in
New York, 721; number Of inmates, 267O; number
Of concert saloons Of bad reputation, rs; number
OF inmates in ditto, 620; drinking saloons in which
female walters are employed, H.; female attend
ants, 1877" The total shows the whole number Of
women Of Known bad character in New York is be-
tween three aud four Thousand.
It is expected that in Austria, shortly, military
service win be made compulsory for all with tho
exception Of such Of the clergy as shall have been
ordained, and only whoIiaave to support their
parents. Liability to service will last from the age
Of II to 35 the first three years in the landsturm
for home service the next three years in the regu-
lar army, then three years furlough three years
in the hrst reserve, and three years in the second
reserve. From the age Of 50 to As the men VIII be-
long to the landsturm, or militia.
Going through the Manchester warehouse saws
an English journal, few things are heard of that
surprise strangers more than the amount or the
salaries paid in some Of them to the heads Of de-
partments- $1,000, $780, $4,000 a year The spe-
cial talent required is, we may suppose rare. The
amount Of money paid annually to France for de-
signs must be very great. One printer alone
pays from n8o0 to *2oQ0a year to designers in
Paris s
Three parsons, the youngest Of whom WAS 81
yeaFa Of age, destroyed themselves in the west Of
England during one week in November. Two Of
.thaae events occurred in Cornwall, where one
JAHEs sHAcKERLEY, 81 years old, hung himself on
tho farm premises OF his brother-in-law, and where
8 woman named HILL, aged 50, of Bodinnick threw
herself into the River Fowey. Both had for eome
time been in desponding condition SO, also, had
widow, In good circumstances named BAsrns.
aged 60, who hung herself at her farm house near
Roekear; South Devon.
The low figures at which crude oil is now SELLING,
at the Eells has induced some Of the companies in
the oil regions to stop work. The Tituayille
Herald says: The Ocean Oil Company, owners Of
the Stephenson Farm, at Petroleum Centre on
which there are some twenty or thirty producing
wells, have shut down all their wells and dischare
cd all their hands, coming to the conclusion that
the OIL is worth more under the ground than
above It., at present prices. The Anderson on
Company, at Petroleum Centre, have decided to
shut down uniess they can bring their employees
down TO 3 much lower figure on their rates for
labor thnn ia now being paid. This company is
one Of the largest in that section, having in the
neighforhood Of twenty wells on the McCIntock
Fasm. There are but two producing wells on the
Story Farm at present, and those are small ones.
The able New York correspondent OF the London
SpeosGto, describes the social position Of the ne
gro at the North IN manner that is not satisfac
cory to that journal The editor remarks that |
our new York correspondent, SITTER detailing with !
Asucn .aanmph very adequate proofs Of the aver
saon 1eas 12ae negro at the North, tells us that |
now, the negro passes out o1 this storv., W.
doubt it, 80 long as the story continues. "a Va.
kse believes say in the Apostles creed and ,r;5a
horh to the negro, Particularly the latter ~
evidently thinks that Christ, il he had saen -
gro, would either have cured him by q tono1 :,
he did the leper, and bid him go and sin no NO.
Or announced distinct law for white relat;on,
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