The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-09
Aall4 News.
NEWS SUMMARY.


Cotton closed in Now York steady at zoe. for
Middling Uplands.
Gold closed at las.
Cotton closed in Liverpool steady.
Colonel Charles B. Tebbs, q well known citi-
zen OF Loudon County, Virginia, is dead.
"A Women's Christian Association is to be
established in Chicago.
General Lee has GOO students at his college,
against 400 last year.
General Schenck is Wade's competitor for the
Ohio Senatorship.
General Wigfall is living at No 81 Gloucester
Place, Portland Square, London. He is practising
law, and will not return to America.
Nearly $4,000 acres OF public lands were dispos-
ed Of at the land Offices at San Francisco and
Stockton, California, during August.
1t is said that one.eighth Of the iron and steel
now made in the United States is from the iron
ores OF Lake Superior.
The reciprocity treaty with tho United States
has passed the Sandwich Islsuds Legislature, and
received the Kings approval.
The cultivation Of sorghum, which was quite
extensive in Wisconsin in 1866, has nearly ceased,
the season proving too short for ripening it.
Tho new hotel at Glen Cottage and North Glen
House, on tho White Mountains, New Hampshire,
was burned on Wednesday night.
The important announcement has been mad 9
in Paris that short Dresses will in future only be
worn by young girls.
Friday, being regarded as an unlucky day in
Paris, 2 5000 persons less than usual ride on the
omnibusses in that city on that day.
The thirteenth section OF thirty miles of the
Union Pacific Railroad has been accepted. This
section completes the road 455 miles West from
Omaha, Nebraska.
"A letter from Kossuth has been published at
Turin, in which he declares that no will nover en-
ter into any relations with Russia, s'the execution
or Of Hungary and Poland, and the eternal enemy
Of freedom"
Prussia furnishes every non commissioned
officer in her army with o French grammar, q
French and German dictionary, and a Topographic
cal map Of the North and East Of France. This is
considered significant.
1T is a somewhat curious fact that the author
Of the Bankrupt Bill, the Hon. Thomas Jenckes,
of Rhode Island, was one Of the first applicants
for its benefit in his State. The failure is heavy
and said to be disastrous.
1t ls stated that the commanding officer at
Camden, Arkansas, has proposed to compromise
With the proprietors Of the Eagle by reftting their
Office and paying all damages, the proceedings to
stop there. Referees have the matter in charge.
-Auber, now eighty-fve years old, has written
and is experimenting rehearsals OF a new opera
entitled "Un Jour de Bonheur," which he says
will be his last. He rises and goes to work cat Eve
o'clock In the morning" and drives q span Of very
fast borses in the afternoon.
Sir Moses Monteiore has returned to England
from his philanthropic errand to Roumania, after
an absence Of eight weeks, during which time he
has been entirely successful In the meroiful object
of his journey-the mitigation OF the prosecutions
OF the Jews in Roumania
Mr.. George V. Edes, proprietor Of the Piscata.
quis Observer, printed at Dover, Maine, is over
seventy years of age. but works at the case, set
ticg the finest type without the use Of spectacles.
His editorials 6rst assume form in his ssstick, -
and are thus composed simultaneously in two
senses.
The Wilmington Star montions the case of
a gentleman living in that vicinity who made
$4,000 off his crop Of ground peas last year, and
another who will make from Is, 900 to IL, 900 BUSH
els this year, at prices varying from two to four
dollars per bushel. Why don't some of our plan
ters go into this business?
Two cars Of iron, for the Galveston Road, az
rived at Lawrence, Kansas, on the 25th Of septem-
Der. Twenty car loads OF iron were at Leaven-
worth, and the transportation Of three hundred
oar loads has been contracted for with the Hanni-
bal and st. Joseph Railroad, enough to build about
twenty-five miles.
They have a way of renovating old or deceas-
time in common whiskey, which being absorbed
by them, causes them to swell and become quite
fresh-looking. They arc then carefully pressed or
packed into the neat new boxes, and exposed for
sale as new figs on the street corners.
Tho Richmond Dispatch, in speaking of the
registration in Virginia, says: "Below we give
numbers OF votes registered in each city and
county Of the State at the FIRST registration under
the reconstruction law. It was received too late
to make out an accurate footing up Of the totals.
The aggregate is in the neighborbood OF ZIG, 600
votes. We have prepared o table Of maiorities.
from which it appears that the whites have a ma
jority Of II, 65s in the State"
When the English houses of Parliament we're
building, Sir Charles Barry, the architect, wished
to make the hall Of the House Of Commons large
enough to accommodate all the members. but he
was overruled on the consideration that as tho
attendance in the House of Commons seldom ex-
oeeded two hundred, it was thought better to
endure an occasional crush than to be daily expos
ed to the permanent annoyance Of a comparatively
vacant house with empty benches.
-Oneo of the reports to be laid before Congress at
the next session by the War Department, says the
Washington correspondent Of the New York Times.
October 4, will be tina t showing what relief was ex-
tended to the people Of the South under the acts
passed in the closing days OF last March, after a
long ana snarp hight in the House. It is under!
stood that about a half a million of dollars were
expended, of which nearly one hundred and
twenty-five Thousand won't to Georgia, and some
thing over one hundred thousand to South Caro-
lima. Operations under this act closed in the
latter part Of August.
We learn that the University of Virginia
opened with between 400 and 500 students on the
grounds. The prospects are very good for 600 or
more. In the academic schools a greater propor-
ton Of the students will be in the higher classes
than during the two preceding sessions. This
arises from the fact that Washington College,
Hampton Sidney, Richmond, and Randolph
Macon, as well as the numerous university schools
Of the State, and the revived institutions OF the
gulf and border States, are beginning again to
send their quotas Of well prepared students to the
University. The school Of Engineering and An.
Piled Science has attracted thither a considerable |
number Of students.
The bronze statue Of Edward Everett, executed |
by William w. Story, has arrived at the club"
The Boston Transcript says the representation ia
admirable, and the attitude selected is mcst felici-
tous, exhibiting the orator in one of his most
graceful gestures. The statue is about nine feet
high, and with its appraised hand must prove q con.
tinual remainder of the original. 1t il to be placed
In ths northern part Of the public garden, about
midway between Charles and Arlington streets.
opposite the northern entrance TO the garden from
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