The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-09
CHI 4 R ES TON.
NEWS SU.H.E4RY.
Gold closed al lS6i@1SSa.


"A colony of New Yo~l, farmers has settled In
Virginia.
CUBA has discovered petroleum twelve miles
from HwanO-
-Immoas, pca. bads have beas discovered in
Novada.
an American weekly newspaper is tobe started
In Par.s.
Dumas, Jr., has made 5000 from his "Ileas
de Mauamo Aubray."
New orleans is cutting up It's FIVE dollar bills
to max. Change.
Two tons OF sponge are prepared daily fer
beldilg at Lebanon, y. Il.
Rom, coatlins 215, ,573 inhabitants, az increase
Of twe2ty por cent. N tea yelrs.
N w Jscsey .avS H. ga Domocyat:c majority
OH IL. coz IT, i It's Assembly c.ec,ion
-R.ca Go.d-be4r.n. Qaarlz Is re ported 70 nave
beea discovered - S:aaiey Count, y. Q.
-CJrti..a's mother died last month. She dis
Owned .cr sol wls1 he commenced lis Lie CT ad-
veature.
lac managing od;tor Of the London Times is
mid tina saae sa!Ary as the President Of the Unlted
States.
-Tnere is some talk Of substituting the Prus-
sian helmet for the sIoucaod hat worn by our
army.
The cause Of the dreadful famine in India
was tno cfort TO raise cotton and the consequent
small supply OF rice.
Aataoay Trolops AMI Edmund Yates are going
to emulate D.ciels, snl give readings from their
own WORKS.
Boston pays $500 week FOR its gas, and is
going TO peuioa the next Legislature for leave 70
build new works.
The steamship propontis, which sailed from
Norfolk Va, q few days ago, tor Liverpool, took
ou. cargo OF cotton, corn, dour, rosin, TOBACCO,
&C., vaued at over $3.50 900.
~ New Haven paper says moro mon are out OF
employment IN that city now than before within
ths last ten years, aad that the lea ling mannfsc-
turers are .elucing Their forces.
-rhe famous horse Loadsrone, bred by John
Hlrper, of KJ4tucky, and purchased two years
nyo b. 81. NJ. SlAIorl OF NV York, tor $500, d-ed
oa S4tuc1ay, So;4 ut.
-E1iscopaAaIs are about t. foucd college al
sau Jyso. a.livraia, the land hav.ng bean givea
and building tu-d OF 500. .00) having been
raised
Dickens very seldom writes. He dictates,
walking arJunQ tho room. he volumes which
eaca Mt tho world are phonosrapaicaly taken
doGn by his secretary.
Buff 10 huniJg by rail is the last achievement
BY the Ulion Pacific Railway. A train followed up
herd and the iteilcn shot at and allied COW.
The train was then stopped and the game basSed
-lha New York Post suggests thltrailroad cars
ba provided each with 4 number Of axes, so tnat
in oase OF o smash, the victims might not perish
Tor want OF means to extricaie themselves.
The ''B!ack Crook" is drawing to its clo:e in
New York. II is to be fllloSed By another Spec
tacular," with different title. McDonoughs
'B.ack Crook" viii open on the 10th, IN New Or
leans.
Manchester didn't sell 8 yard Of calico at the
Paris Exposition, and no. half dozen Of the Eng
lish exhibitors sold enough to cover their ex-
penses. But tho Burton brewers made enormous
sales.
"A new style OF lady's shoe, for the Southern
market, is made at Lynn, Mass, witL the sole as
thin as wafer. and tho heel very high and taper
inS at the end to the circumference Of o three
cent piece.
-rhe two sons of the late Senator Douglas, Ro-
bslt N. and Stephen A., have been visiting their
rotations in Raleigh, n. c., as wo learn from the
Standard. Their ages a-e nineteen and seventeen
respectively.
An eminent English lawyer, Mr. Kenneth Ma
caulay, @. G., VINO died last July, eft will which
is contained in these words: "one thousand
poulds to M brother Ton all the residue to my
dearest vile alb ,olltely. Kth. Macaulay."
-Wi.kcss Spirit OF the Times says that party
OF Americans have sono 10 get letter' OF marqle
from Theodore, OF Abyssinia, and suggests that
when they sink one of the Cuuardcrs of the Hook
thsv preset her chronometer to the Smithsonian
Institute.
Ono hundred tubes ara to be sent TO Abys-
Binil for use i'll siUking wells after the method
first mp.oyed in our aru,y -lriviog down the
tube to the requ.sit depth, and tea clearing out
the earth and mud, when roda valve compete
the pump.
lie British steamship Levant, six hundred
and nllet' TONS, tine first OF q lie expected to be
establish d be:weeL Savannah aud Liverpool, by
Messrs. Brigham. Hoist s. Co., was cleared By that
firm OF Thursday, with cargo Of one Thousand
two hun Ired and fity-one bales OF upland cotton,
valued at s91 Ill Is.
-O-e OF Wesyon'S oI5 shoes, with proper attes-
tation OF its genuincness, was received by mail at
Portland, Mime, With the following inscription on
the tag attached to the package: Zone Of Weston's
shoes, procured at enormous expense by the clti-
zens OF Cleveland, Onlo, and presented by them
to the citizens of Portland, Maine, as monumen:
to the enterprise Of ono OF its ciEzens.''
-{iovernor ,ownlow, in published card, gives
q fat deaial to the testimony OF Detective Bakor
before thu impeachment Committee, wherein
Brownlow is said to have been cogniZant OF g let
ter written oy Andrew johnson 20 JEFF DAVIS. The
Go oernor further says that be docs not boeve Mr..
johnson ever wrote letter 10 jeff Davis or '.any
other man." giving aid aud comfort to the rebel.
Lion.
The Round Table Association announce that
they will begin on the 1st OF January tLo pu5,ca-
ton OF io1nal to ba called Tho Week, which
Will consist exclusively Of extracts from journals OF
this and othor countries. II viii be G kind Of
weekly eptomo OF public opinion, and, if conduct
ei with industry and ability, cannot fail to bo an
interesting cn1 vllulb.e pspaz to great many
parsons. journal Of similar kind, called tub-
lie Opinion, has been for soms years printed in Eng
land.
The New York correspondent Of the Phi!1del-
phia Ladsor SAYS: 'Sevoral additional slspeasons
wero reported II tho stroot on Thursday after
noon-amoag the rest the wholesale grocery house
OF Beusley, Burton & Co., Nos "A and 16 -eaver-
street. Ticir .iabltles arc understood to be very
larse-somo sGy not less than 4 quarter Ct & mil
lion dollars. The frequent recurrence Of these
announcements within the few days past is exer-
cising very depro ssing influence in almost every
department of trade, and creating unpleasant ap-
proheasions OF .drther embarrassment in the fu-
ture."
In the case Of John c. BIaine, the alleged
Chesapeake ''pirate," who is now confined in the
Kings County tN. " pcai:entiary, Attorney-Gen-
era stanbery has refused to interfere, he having
sorlo time ago boop appealed to for his opinion as
30 whether the prisoner could DC included IN the
terms granted to tho Confederatas at the suIren-