The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-24
NEWS SUMMARY.


port S-16d 10 arrive 62d.
Mrs. E. A. Pollard has appeared on the Balti-
more stage.
Dickens has been taking midnight notes Oh
New York Police Stations.
Official dining and wineing has commenced In
Washington.
hoo is getting up press to pr'nt ooth sues
OF sheet at the same time.
A buck was shot in Clark County, Wis, the
other day, which weighed three hundred and
thirty-eight pounds.
Napoleon dying" by the Sculptor Vela, has
been purchased for $4,000 by the nephew of the
moribund Emperor.
The agent of an English farmers club wants
to buy 10 600 acres Illinois, and bring over three
hundred families to settle there.
New Albany Indiana, has a musical dog,
which walks over the koyc Of piano fcrte and
howls to his own discordant accompaniment.
Boston, st. Louis, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Cincinnati, are all named in connection with the
Democratic National Convention.
General John S. Preston, of Columbia, was
amongst the visitors Of the President on Wednes-
day last.
Franco has already raised something more
than three million francs for the Pope, and Bel
gium 3S4, ,O0O francs for the same object.
The Emperor Of Austria, not having the
power to decorate the flower girl, Isabel, with the
Order OF the Iron Crown, has given her diamond
ring, which will do quite as well.
Father Hyacinth's First Advent lecture filed
the Church of Notre-Dame to sufocaton. He con-
demnei severely the principle OF compuls 'ry edu-
cation.
Some of the papers are urging the Govern
ment TO cut down the postage stamp to smaller
size and make saving Of paper, ink, muciage,
and weight to be transported through the mails.
Five young fellows in Berlin, Prussia, tried to
90 seven days and nights without sleep. Three
of them died in the attempt, and the others, who
survive get no sympathy in the illness with which
they are paying the penalty Of their foolhardness.
Miss Pugin, daughter of the weli-known
English architect, was lately married with mill
tsry honors. Salutes Of eighteen guns were fired
when she entered the church and when she came
out.
M. Rouher, the French Minister of State re-
Gently declared that "France would never allow
Rome to be taken; and that if Italy attempted
ANYTHING against the Pontihcal territory, she
would always find France in her way.
On tine 18th day Of February next, all officers
Of the Freedmen's Bureau in Maryland, Kentucky,
West Virginia and Tennessee, except the Superin-
tendents of Education, are to be discharged from
the service.
The Detroit Free Press thinks Sheridan
ought to be impeached His offence lies in kiss
ing some five hundred girls in white school, but
preserving dignifed reticence durlng his visit
the next day to similar colored institution.
The President has revoked the order, issued
few days ago, mastering out OF the service Cen
eral R. Z. Scott Assistant Commissioner Of the
Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina. This was
done on the recommendations Of Major-Generei
Howard, General Candy, and others.
The Nashville Banner asserts that at an early
day President johnson vii. issue an address an
nouncine that he is not candidate for re-eec-
ton. The Banner also states that he will take up
his residence at Nashville at the close Of hs pres
emit term of Office.
The London Army and Navy Gazettss'ssys that
the short session of Parliament has<eiven painful
proof that, although England has not had any Sc
rious motion affecting her military administration,
the defects of the maehins have been made but
too manifest
The Salt Lake vedette, speaking of Utah and
its capabilities, has the following: '1t has been
demonstyntd by actual experiment that no State
or te~(-ory IN the Union affords better field, or
Possesses greater advantages than Utah for the
Gu tivation OF the grape, tie mulberry tree, and
the cotton plant"
The latest reports of the Cotton Commission
ers OF India represent Gil 722 as under cot
ton i the central provinces and ,S91 7SO in Bonn
CD>baY In The former here is much the same as
last year, or SIX and half per cent Of the culti-
waited land. In Bombay it is less, the area in
1S66-67 having been 1,97s, ,1s1 acres.
1t is stated that when Grant went to Washing
ton to receive his appointment as Lieutenant
General, he stated to Mr.. Lincoln his plan, which
was to occupy witt the army Of the Potomac the
main Confederate army in Virginia, while Sherman
destroyed the Confederacy. Mr.. Lincoln replied,
ST see; you will hold the legs while Sherman
skins"
-Marquez, the imperiaist leader Of Mexico,
cannot be found, but it is related that brickayer
was sometime since employed by him in building
secret chamber in house, and suspicious are
entertained that The workman was murdered to
insure the secresy Of the apartment whero Mar
quez is now concealed.
Commenting on the feat of German paper
in Chicago in translating and publishing the
Presidents message in few hours Montreal
paper remarks that La Minerve, French paper
published in that city, does as much every night,
receiving long reports of parliamentary proceed
ings and giving them to its readers in the French
language within very short time.
We see that in London both Catholics and
radicals are stirring in the war Of opinion. Under
the Presidency Of Archbishop Manning the for
mer have vowed eternal adherence to the tempo
raj power and their resolve always to obey the
Pope rather than English law, and to resort to any
means they deem expedient to force the ministry
Of England to prop him up.
The London Review states the fact that tho
Queen Of England has caused sand-glass OF
eighteen minutes measure to be fixed IN the pull
pit OF the Chapel Royal, in one Of the districts OF
London, text for dissertation. 1t thinks that
the glass might be put in churches generally, and
that, as a general rule, all that most clergymen
have to say worth saying or hearing might be ex-
pressed in five instead Of eighteen minutes.
Very exquisite champagneis is made in New York
out oiSauterne wine, with ajudicious admixture ol
rock candy to furnish "bead brandy to tickle the
brain, and various essences to give bouquet
and exceedingly good limitations Of the foreign
labels are attached. This production escapes
duty Of course, and generally manages to elude
the tax Of six dollars dozen. It is to impose
this tax, and not from any motive Of advantage tc
the drinkers Of spurious wine that the descent has
been made upon several manufactures. 1t is toe
good business to be broken up
in his speech at the opening of the Mexican
Congress, President Juarez thanked the United
States for the friendly feeling shown and mora
support given to Mexico during the war for indie.
pendence; justified the executions at oueretaro as
necessary acts of justice; returned into the hands
Of Congress the extraordinary powers which he
had assumed, and before they had expired, and
promised that foreigners should be protected
whether treaties were made with their govern.