The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-18
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Professor De MILL, OF Dalhousle college, hall
fax N. S., is said to be the author of the Dodge
Climb papers, in Ra,pers' Monthly.
The OYSTER traders resumed with the advent OF
septernber. and is very active. Philadelphia sends
ont NO less than six to seven hundred vessels.
JOHN G. SAKE says that it is q common notion in
Boston that if person is born in that city, 1t is
unnecessary for that favored mortal to be "born
again."
A California cucumber, raised in Rock Island
County. Illinois, measured three feet and two
inches in length and one foot one inch in circum-
ference at the butt.
fellow by the name of GREaAN has been ar
rested in Belefonte, Pennsylvania, and bound
over 10 answer at Court for stealing tombstones
from tine cemetery.
The Union League of Philadelphia has offered
number Of premiums, amounting to about
thousand 1olars, for the best essays on the sub
ject Of bringing primary meetings for making
nominations for Office under the control OF system
and law.
The Hartford Deaf and Dumb Asylum had, last
year, an average attendance of 224 pupils, and its
whole number was 260. The receipts of the insti-
tuition were s59,779, and the expenses s47, $50,
while the permanent fund now amounts to
s2s5, 1888.
The State debt of Pennsylvania has been re-
duced within the fiscal year ending September l,
S1,74, 644.50, which is handsome decrease, when
it is remembered that there are no Stat, taxes on
real estate, the revenue being principally from
licenses and special duties.
The London Saturday Reuisto comments on the
remarkable fact that no sooner had the Emperor
of the French returned from Salzburg than he be-
gan to take measures to reassure Europe. His
speeches, however, have not had the effect which
was manifestly intended. The general feeling in
Europe is not one of pacific character.
A dispatch from Leavenworth states that Gen.
SHERIDAN, on Thursday, relieved Gen. HANCOCK Of
the command of the Department of the Missouri,
and that the latter officer was to start immediate
lyfor Washington in obedience to the orders Of
Gen. GRANT. It is further stated that Gen. SHERI-
DAN would speedily start for Washington also.
The English papers are laughing st story in
the Paris journals that the late Duke Of North
cumberland had an annual income Of four million
pounds sterling, and that his brother refused to
accept payment Of one hundred thousand pounds
voted him for having acted as ambassador of
England at the coronation Of CHARLES u, but
had the order for the sum framed and glazed, and
kept it so till his death, thereby losing both the
money and the interest on it.
The Houston (Texas) Journal gives the follow
ing account of the prominent rebel politicians OF
that State Judge OLDHAM is practicing law In
Houston; WIeFkLL is engaged in the same busi-
ness in England; REAGAN has got married and
gone to farming; GRAHAM has also taken wife,
and returned to his nati"e State, Alabama;
BRANCH has been elected to Congress, but was not
allowed to take his seat; LUBBOCK is in partner
ship with his son in the auction business in Hous-
ton; General WAUI lis practcing law in Galveston;
GRAY is building houses at Houston.
Of General HaRTsUFF, SHERDAN's Adjutant-
General, the New Orleans Times Of Saturday says:
The soldier stands almost without a rival, among
the Federal military officers who have held COM
mand in Louisiana, in the high respect and esteem
of our people. Since coming among US, he has
had delicate and responsible duties to discharge as
Adjutant- General of the Fifth Military District;
but while strictly enforcing all orders and regua-
tions Of his superior officers and OF the Govern
ment, his intercourse with civilians has been
characterized with such unusual and agreeable
genality and polteness as to win the hearts OF all
with whom he has come il contact
The sensational story of, Fenian brig, which
cleared hum Srw York wrCn troJp5 betonsiAe OF
the army of the republic, together with muskets
and munitions Of war, is said to have stirred up
Lord STANLEY to make complaint to Mr. SEWARD,
and if it is possible to spin few rods more OF
correspondence about the question, it will proba-
bly, be done. The story ran that when this
mythical brig arrived on the Irish coast she found
30 many obstacles to the success Of her mission
IL. tba o4f
without further demonstration. Since then moth
ing has bean heard from her. Any information as
to her whereabouts will probably be thankfully re-
oeived by the two governments.
The cable announces the death, in Paris, Of
LOUIS DESIRE VERoN, celebrated French journal
ist. VERoN was born in 1873. and became physi-
clan IN 1928 The next year he was director of the
oper In 1928, after considerable literary expert
ence, he gave UP the practice OF medicine and
became an editor Of the Qsioiiienhe. In March, |
1881, he became director Of the opera at Paris, |
which position he held for five years. In 1874, |
after an unsuccessful attempt to be elected to the
Chamber Of Deputies, VERoN assumed the editor |
ship of the Constitutionnei. In 1849 he supported
LOUIS NAPOLEON, and in 1851, after the coup Geat,
he was elected to the Corps Legisatt, and re-
elected in 1857. s.sss
One Of the oldest eastern journalists, WIELfiM 7
HAaADoRN, ESQ.,, died on Monday morning at /
Harlem, in the seventy-sixth yearioi his age Mr.
HAGADoRN was, for more than forty years. con-
nected with the public press. In 1923 he became
the editor of the Newark InteGigsacer, newspaper
which supported the administration Of General
JAcKsoN but this was not the earliest period of his
experience as an editor. The Albany Patriot,
daily paper established by GEORGE and CHARLES
GoIpN, and the first daily sheet issued in Albany,
had previously employed him in its editorial de-
partment. Recently he was engaged in conduct
ing the Troy Budgef, a war Democratic paper. MIR.
HAGADosN as an editor, held respectable rank,
and was esteemed for the mildness Of his manner
and his constancy to The principles he professed.
The Border State Republican Convention, to
which reference is made in our editorial this
morning, assembled in the Frort-street Theatre,
Baltimore, on Thursday Delegates we're present
from Delaware, Tennessee, Missouri Kentucky,
District Of Columbia, and Maryland for the pur-
pose in the language Of the cali of the Convention.
esto advance the cause Of Manhood Suffrage and
demand Of Congress the passage OF the SUMNER
WILSON Bill" There was no diatnetion on ac-
count Of race or color in the Convention. & tom
porary organization was effected, with Hon LEWIS
THoMps,N, of Delaware, in TIE chair; JAlsEs W. |
CLAYTON, of Maryland, Secretary, Speeches were
madeby Hon. Mcssrs. MAYNARD CREswE1I and
others. Letters from white and colored spofti-
clans OF note we're received and read. A preamble
and resolutions were adopted declaring that it is
the duty of Congress to secure equal rights to all
men in all the States of the Union.
Kladderadatsch, the great comic paper OF Beiln,
has among a series of Illustrations of the Exposi-
ton, very funny thing to- see. 1t is picture OF
the earth, supposed to be taken from the sun