The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-13
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NEWS SUMMARY.

Gold closed at 455
General WrGFALL is living at No. 50 Gloucester
Place, Portland square, London. He is practcing
law, and will not return to America.
1t is announced that New Haven minister, OF
twenty-five years standing, has been obliged to
leave his pulpit and so to work as 4 carpenter to
get means to support his family.
Ex-Governor THOMAS Brown, of Florida, died Ill
Tallahassee few days since, i'll the eighty-second
year Of his age. He had lived i'll the State over
forty years. and filed many positions of honor and
trust.
The Colombia Congress, il is stated extended
the Panama Railroad Company franchise for
ninety-nne years, for the consideration of one
million dollars cash, gold, and annual payments oi
a Quarter OF million dollars from date.
About 10000 barrels of mackerel have been
landed at Gloucester, Mass, from the Gulf OF st.
Lawrence during the season, and some of The fish
ing vessels still remain there, sending home what
they catch by steamers.
The Illinois State Register says: 'The drought
still continues, and corn, for the most part Is
damaged beyond help. Even should copious rams
now visit us, Illinois will not yield over nall an
average crop this year, and it is doubtful If mat
ters are not even worse"
One of the principal hop-raising regions of the
United States is Sauk County, Wisconsin, where
over three-quarters of a million of dollars were
paid ont for hops last year. Twice that sum will
be realized from the crop of this year, which is
better and larger than that of the last.
SANTA anna at last accounts was still confined
in San Juan d'Ulloa. NJ. OTTENBoURG, DIAz, five
other generals, and many prominent civilians, ap-
pesled in vain to JUAREz to spare O'T'oGAN's life.
Admiral TEaETHoFF arrived at Vera Cruz on the
26th ult, and was to leave for the capital the next
day. :
The servant girls of Troy held monster mass
meeting Saturday night to protest against any
further demand for money for the Fenlans. Ihey
passed resolutions severely denouncing the man
ner in which previous contributions had been ex-
pended, and question the propriety of attempting
to rberate Ireland by subjugatins Canada.
religious clambake near Boston entertained
some five thousand people. The bake consisted
of one hundred and sixty bushels of clans, six
hundred pounds of fish, fourteen barrels sweet
potatoes, five barrels Irish potatoes, two thousand
ears corn, five barrels crackers, one hundred and
twenty pounds pork, etc.
An English lady advertised recently in the London
Standard for housemaid. The next day she sent
letter to the editor of the paper, stating that she
had received 1S0 replies to the advertisement,
many of them containing documents that required
to be returned to their owners. The lady implored
her correspondents to desist from further reply.
According to the Springfield Republican, Hon.
MIR. CoLFAx is the ladies' man. 1t says: mo
other of our public men is so largely the reposlto-
nv Of the feminine affections, and we're woman
suffrage established next year, the gallant speaker
would surely win the prize from even Gen. GRANT
or Judge CHASE"
The Postmaster. General hopes soon to have pos
tai treaty with Spain that will enable him to open
an American postal department in Cuba. At pres
ent sixty thousand dollars worth Of postal matter
goes from this county 70 Cuba without there be-
ing an American agent to take charge of it after
its arrival
The Journal Of Commerce, of the 7th instant,
gays that New York firm have just received the
first hogshead Of tobacco of the new crop. 1t was
grown in Hart county, Kentucky, and shipped to
them by ANDREW GRAHAM, Of Louisville. The
.owna. says this is earlier than for many years
before
The academic exercises at the Virginia Military
Institute have been resumed. General Smith, Su-
perintendent, addressed the corps on the morning
Of the 9th. Three companies have been organ
lied. The number Of cadets increases daily, and
it is supposed the fourth company will be formed
next week. The prospects Of this institution are
quite fattering.
Upwards of 10000 Cretan families, mostly
women and children and old men, have been sent
to Greece Athens, Syria, and all other Grecian
cities, have become 80 many huge relief commit
tees. The Grecian ladies particularly are inde-
fatigable in charitable zeal, but cannot afford all
the relief needed, without the assistance Of Chris
tim nations.
A Knoxville dentist got whipping in the street
the other day for an alleged insultto lady pa
tient. The assailant was the lady's betrothed. He
was arrested and fined for tho assault, and the law
was satisfied by spontaneous greenbacks from
spectators in the court room. The dentist ex-
planned that was sometimes necessary to put his
arms around the necks OF his patients when work.
ing on the teeth, but did not assert that it was
necessary TO squeeze their hands or talk love to
them. His name is P. II. CALDWELL.
The Nashville Press makes the following state
ment as to the shipment Of corn northward ga
most noticeable feature in commercial matters here
is the present large shipment of corn to the North
The sending of corn to Louisville and Cincinnati is
something almost beyond the memory Of the oldest
inhabitant. The cause is simply that better
price, by some twenty cents, is paid in Cincinnati
than in Nashville. Several carloads of corn are
now shipped North daily over the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad.
The New York HerdldS correspondent has had a
long conversation with WENDELL PHILLIPS, and
details the result in a letter which was published
on Wednesday morning. Mr.. PHILLIPS firmly be-
ieves that impeachment will follow Immediately
on the reassembling of Congress, and that Presi-
dent JOHNSON would not so persistently court such
a course if he were not prepared and determined
to resist it. He believes that McCLELLANs report
ed recall has something to do with it. The late
amnesty he considers reasonable and an effort to
build up another rebellion. He favors neither
CHASE nor SHERIDAN for President, but THAD
STEVENS in his choice.
There is q new sensation in New Bedford Mass
in the way of haunted house. The demonstra-
ding over the house from garret to cellar; but it
is very industrious, keeping up its perambulatins
in broad daylight as we'll as at the usual wtching
hours. Though perfectly invisible, it is unable to
pass through key-holes, and the doors are seen
to swing and heard to slam as it goes from room
to room. It's attentions are principally directed
to tenement, inhabited by a lady, with her chill
dren and husband, whose former husband lost his
life in the army, and she recognises the tramp as
the peculiar step of the departed, and imagines
that he is displeased with her present marriage.
The footballs have sometimes come close to her
in the day time. The mysterious spirit has never
done any injury to person or property, and, the
whole, is very wel-behaved ghost.
The presence of Russian agents in the Slavonic
provinces has lately given the Austrian Govern
ment considerable anxiety. They are numerous,
not only in Eastern Galicia, where the Ruthenans,