The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-31

y OlcAens mas d neaVy gray mous-
ta.as hdD5tte. Inc latter spreading out like a
broom, which, when re speaks, has that rapid
motion peculiar to q he-goat when nibbing
straw /"
Mr.. Charles Dickens has an efectual mode OF
dealing with the numerous applications for his
autograph. The process is somewhat summary.
Applicants receive u printed answer saying, ''To
comply with your modest request would not be
reasonably possible" To ~envelop, direct, and
mail these curt replies the services OF three secre-
taries are constantly required.
Rev. Robert :. Breckenridge, Radical, has ad-
dressed q letter to President johnson, asking a
pardon for General John G. Breckenridge, late
Vice-president o. the Confederacy, who is now in
Paris in very reduced circumstances. He urges
that General Hreckinridge was mistaken in his
political views, but that his high character as q
man entities him to executive clemency.
"A young man who six years ago joined the
Oneida Community, but who has withdrawn, tax
ins with HIM 5000, which he deposited in the Com
munity when he joined it, now threatens a suit to
recover s9150-the amount due, as he claims, FOL
six years services at $500 a year, and the interest
on his $500. There have been several suits OF this
sort against other communicate Separat!sts
Shakers and similar societies, but they have beer
generally decided against the claimants.
General Grant has been formally nominated
for the Presidency, by the leading merchants o.
New York, and the following committee has beer
appointed to take measures for securing his cleo.
ton William B. Aston, James Brown, Peter Coop
er. James H. Banker, Robert L. Stuart, William T
Blodgett, John Cocarane, S. B. Chittenden, vii
liam E. Dodge, James Harper, C. K. Garrison
Moses H. Grinnel, Hamilton Fish, John Q. Jones
Henry Tilton, Jonathan Sturges, Moses Taylor
Samuel Wetmore, John E.. Williams, Frederick S
Winston, William II. Webb, Benjamin B. Sherman
F.B. Cutting, C. Vanderbilt, Alexander T. Stew
art, Chairman.
-Experiments are soon to be made at Cher
bourg with an enormou cannon weighing thirty
eight tons, and having a bore Of sixteen and a hal
inches. 1t was in the exhibition, and has JUS
reached Cherbourg by special train. The trans
port of this mass Of metal from Batignoles t.
Cherbourg cost thirty-seven hundred francs. Th'
movable platform and carriage of this monste
gun weigh twenty tons, the total weight being
.ffty-eight tons. The trial, it is said, will take plac'
on board the Rochambeau. Two forms Of pro
~ieotiles will be used-the cylindrical and the conf
csl--the former for piercing irou-clads at shor
range, and the other for firing at long dis tance
"A new figure in the German" is known q
Gle Cant" The head or leading couple com
mence the figure by dancing q galop once roun'
the room, after which the lady distributes to eacl
gentleman a pair Of ladies' light evening gloves
asd the gentleman presents to each lady a pair 0
pentlemens gloves of crange-colored dog-skin
Then each couple waltz round the room a fe,
times, when Two lines are formed-the ladies o.
one side of the room and the gentlemen opposite
The next movement is the famous forward two,
when O gersral exchange OF gloves takes place, tn
eentlemsntteceiving from the ladies their dog-skil
gloves, and they in return presenting each lad,