The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-31
CHI A RLES S ON.
THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 81, 1867.
NEWS SUMMARY.


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1t is reported that the Grand Duchy of Baden
will soon Join the Confederation of the North Ger
man States.
Galveston suffered loss of s5O0OOO from the
late storm in damage to town property, shipping,
goods. &c.
San Francisco harbor is being improved, and
the construction of a sea wall of granite has been
begun around it.
Tho Ohio WINE makers are now busily at work,
and the newspapers of that State estimate that its
wine crop this year will be the largest it has ever
had.
"A company of New York capitalists have
contract to furnish the Austrian Government with
three million dollars worth of breech-loading
rifles.
The Wing says there are only three hundred
persons in Richmond who return incomes over
$500, and two hundred who return incomes from
$100 to $780,
The New Orleans papers contain long ac-
count of the destructive storm in Texas. The
damage done to property so fer as heard from Is
very great.
Peter Lorillard, of New York, who recently
died at Saratoga, was one of the wealthest men OF
Tue uetrOpOuS. 110 i0@'0S Oil SS''S~' ~ - -'
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-Juarez will hold the dead body of Maximilian
till his title to the Presidency Of Mexico shall be
recognized by the European powers, or at least by
Austria.
The Jews constitute so large and influential
an element at San Francisco that school holidays
and vacations are coming to be governed by the
Jewish holidays and festivals.
Five hundred miles of the Union Pacific Rail-
road have been completed. Seventeen miles more
will carry the road to the Eastern base OF the
Rocky Mountains.
"A famine in Scandinavia is among the latest
misfortunes reported from Europe. Bad harvests
last year caused it, and the people are asking for
aid from the surrounding countries.
The Eight-Hour Carpenters League in San
Francisco Aourishes. All hands get as much work
as they want, and employers find as many hands
as they desire on the eight-hour system.
Carlyle has evolved another political article.
which he calls ssBul in the Whales Belly" De-
mocracy is the whale, and England is the Jonah,
and Carlyle describes the manner OF digestion.
The New York Times is already beginning to
talk about what the Republicans would do upon
eany vital iss1e," and what they will do next year.
1t evidently gives up this election in advance.
The Prince Imperial of France did very pref
ty thing at Bayonne, when he ordered the release
OF several unfortunate soldiers who had got into
the calaboose He is a chip of the old block
in witness.
The Richmond papers announce the death
of Rev. Robert Fl. Andrews, pastor of st. Pat
rick's (Cathofc) Church, in that city, one OF
the most faithful and beloved Of the clergy OF
that city.
1t is rumored that FRINGE Gortschakof is
about to we'd divorced lady, aged twenty-four
wears. The Prince is now seventy. Further, the
Emperor is said to be very eager for the wedding
to take place. as near relative of his is interested
in the lady.
The Fenian Colonels Warran and Nagle are to
be tried Immediately at Dublin. The British Gov
ernment has refused the application for their
release, which was made by the United States
authorities. The latter have directed that counsel
be employed for the defence Of the prisoners.
Returns from thirty-four counties in California
render it certain that both Sprague and Fitzger-
aid, the Democratic candidates for Judges, are
chosen by handsome majorities. The Radicals
have not redeemed the State, as they said they
would, after the contest for Governor resulted in
their defeat.
The Tribune says: ''The Ritualists are it is
said, rapidly increasing in New York. The latest
accession to their ranks is the parish of the An
nunciaticn, Fourteenth street, Of which DR.. Sea-
bury has been SO long the rector. The services
are almost entirely choral, and the boys wear sur
plices, as at st. Adams"
"A pretty fair estimate of the magnitude of the
national debt may be formed when the fact is
called to mind that, in recent statement, cleri-
cal error occurred Of some thirteen millions OF dol
lars. When clerk has room for making trifiing
error like that, it may be assumed that the entire
debt must be moderately large.
The French ladies are now giving up gilt for
Ivory. Not only are ivory dgrafes worn on man
ties, but large and small ivory beads are now mix
ed with jet fringes for n burning, and with crystal
for evening toilettes. Very light palm leaves dot
ted with gold beginning to take the place of the
gilt leaves and acorns are now seen decorating
every hat.
@-Ihe total count of the recent vote in Louisi
ana is 1914. The vote for convention was 75,-
0S3; against convention, 1905; blank e6. The de-
legates elected are notified to assemble in conven-
tion at the Mechanics Institute, in New Orleans,
Saturday, Esd of November, for the purpose of
framing State Constitution and civil govern
ment in accordance with the terms prescribed by
Congress.
-Green-room gossip at New York says that
Edwin Forrest is soon to marry the young actress,
Miss Lille, as the play bills style her, who has
been supporting him at the Broadway. She is
twenty, and the eminent tragcdian is over sixty.
She was left an orphan and Forrest took her as an
infant and reared her. He adopted her at first as
his daughter, but his and her affections changing
in character, he is to make her his wife.
The Abyssinian reconnoitering party under
command Of Colonel Merewether, left Bombay in
three steamers on September 17th 1t consists Of
one hundred rank and file 21st Bombay native
infantry, and forty troopers Sd Bombay cavalry
with officers of engineers, &c. Tho principal OBJ
jects are to find suitable harbor and shore for de-
barkation and location OF some two hundred
steamers and transports, and good route and
post inland ON the high land, some sixty miles from
the shore.
"A Madrid paper says scientific researches have
established the fact that the Pyrenees have, in
the last twenty years, lost thirty metres IL altl-
tude. Supposing the depression to continue, our
worthy contemporary calculates that, after the
lapse of one thousand years, the chain that sepa-
rates Spain from France will realize the celebrated
words II ny a plus de Pyrenees, by disappearing
altogether, in which case the Ebro will fall into
the Bay Of Bscay, instead of emptying itself into
the Mediterranean.
General Beauregard has lef Washington. He
went as agent for parties who went to buy the
New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad. An effort
was made to arrange for its purchase in New Or
leans, but without success. His visit to Washing
ton put matters into such shape that the Govern
Inent will probably make the SALE The price to
be paid ls S2SS'OOO. During is stay he visited
General Lees old home at rlington Heights,
now devoted to the freedmen villages, and last
resting place for departed soldiers
The two mercantile failures, says the New York