The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-05
NEWS SUMMARY.

TO NEWS DEALERS % Genus
NEWS SUMMARY.
Cotton closed in New York with further de-
cline; 20 for Middling Uplands. Gold quoted
at 1sS3.
Cotton in Liverpool closed at 12sd. for Aiddling
Rev. DR.. SEARS has resigned the presidency OF
Brown University, R. L, to accept the general
agency of the PEABODY Southern educational move
ment.
It is stated that the Governor Of Delaware will
probably appoint MIR. THOMAS A. BAHARD, son OF
the former Senator of that name, as the successor
OF the deceased RIDDLE.
German count is under arrest in Louisville,
Kentucky, for marrying three women there, two In
Baltimore, and an entire brigade Of ladies' in New
York The papers say he has "wife on the brain"
The. New Berne IN. o. Commercial recon-
mends. General R. F. HoKE as the successor OF Dr.
PHILIPS, as Professor Of Mathematics in the UNI
versity OF the State. General HoKE is an accom-
plished gentleman and gallant soldier. his ap-
pointment would give great satisfaction.
It is reported that King GEORGE, Of Greece, ls to
marry q niece of Queen VICTORIA. We have no
kind of objection to such an arrangement, hut can
not see exactly where the sniece" is to come from,
seeing. that her Majesty never had either brother
or sister. es..,ge .sazs. .zssssy.z..t=
JOHN CA1LEN, with his team, left Cedar Falls,
Iowa, for his home, six miles out on the prairie,
during severe storm last week. He lost his way,
although the track showed he had been eightyr rods
from his own house, and awas found frozen to
death ON the open prairie, three days after. The
horses were badly frozen. ..5...asTi
SUMMER, the sarrtorial, says the Richmond En-
aminer, having settled the cut OF diplomatic
breeches, lis. thought by his friends to have
worthily wound up his life, and they hint that his
place msv be otherwise filed next winter. We do
not belieyeit. He will appear in c new role in De-
cember, astonishing the world Sarto,' ResaT.us.
HORACE GRzEIEu gets Of q good thing now and
then. In q lecture recently delivered on "Adver-
tising, he said :::'some men vino know enough to
advertise, are yet so narrow minded as to conine
their advertisements to Journals Of their own
creed and party. IF they. do not choose to trade
with any but men Of like faith, this is wise; but
they desire the whole public for customers, it Is
otherwise" a.s@a
The, ;Je,oish: Messenger, OF March 2sth, publishes
the following list Of companies in which Jews "do
not insure. p The Manhattan, Germania, Republic,
Niagara, Hanover, International, North American,
Of New York. The #+tna. Phoenix Merchants, and
City, Of Hartford. The Phoenix, Of Brooklyn. We
ara glad that the good physic is working. An
insurance agent IN Philadelphia adyertises that he
viii take no more risks for any company which re-
fuses risks on the property of Israelites.
Russia is greatly admired by pea5irSple IN tne
United STATES, but this 'admira eeS scarcely De
caused by the treatment OF the Poles by their hus
sis,. oc- c:;a=a-s-A recent official return states
hat.sincsI86S, .l8,6s3 inhabitants of the Polish
PROVINCES Of Russia, including 164 women, have
bean baniahed to Siberia, 49, 7s0 to the steppes Of
tbs UraL and u. .76S, including 21s women, to the
interior OF Russia. Besides these, 2,416 Poles
have BEEN sent to the penal regiments, and ,4sS
hanged and shot for political offences.
: The news fom Mexico comes by way of Havana,
and is dated at Mexico city on the 18th ultimo.
The Liberals were almost under the walls of the
capital and prevented supplies from entering.
MA1nm11Ax's army at Queretaro was completely
enyironed by the Liberals. General DIAz had COM
menced beseiging Puebla. The people in Vera
Cruz we're disposed to insist on surrender of the
place to the Liberal forces outside. Over three
hundred persons were in prison in Mexico city, for
e1prsssing sympathy with the Liberals and failing
to pay their quota OF the forced loans. MAxnnr-
1ANs Governor of tnejcity had resigned and intend
ed to leave for Europe.
Senator GEORGE Read RIDDLE, Of Delaware, died
nf Warrington on Thursday evening: He was born
in Newcastle, Delaware, in 1917, studied engineer
ing, and worked for some years on canals and rail-
roadsin Pehnsy ylyania and Delaware. i The great
work st .Hapers Ferry was executed under his
He afterward studied law and
was slnittedit the Delaware Bar in 1848. In 1850
he mas elected to Congress, from Delaware, and re-
elected in 1852. He was delegate to the Demo-
cratic Conventions OF 1874, 1913 and1S he was
aarward elected to the Senate for the term ending
in 1862 During his Senatorial career he has steadi
" acted with the Democratic minority.
-KoesUrH still resides in-Turin. He has grown
pramaturely Old and bears in his person the marks
Of the crael Sdisappointments and vicissitudes
which have marked his life. His hair and beard,
which many win remember as glossy black, have
been o several years as white as silver his form,
onos 90 erect, is bowed with grief and suffering,
and u profound melancholy, since the death of his
xife5 with: whom he buried all his hopes, marks
his whole dennsanor But his voice is still soft and
sweet, and hisdoye still beams with that sad and
tender light which gave so much Of it's wonderful
heanty7 to his face. He is poor, powerless and
Among the numerous public notices pasted upon
the huge blackboard at the door Of the: court
house says The Petersburg (Ya.) Lader, is one TO
~ ot-,eso,t l&bot on tho Qd dav nf Anri naxt the