The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-11-09

not only in the South, but in their own State. The
Democracy met them on their issue, and have
gloriously swept everything before them. The
result against the Radical party on that issue is
overwhelming." The Washington National In
telligencer says ga survey of the field is glad
dening to the hear Of every friend Of Republican
institutions and Democratic government We
we're upon the verge Of an abyss, into which the
passions and reckless madness of Radical rulers
threatened to plunge us and involve us all in IRE
trievable ruin. Thank Heaven, we have escaped"
Massachusetts has sent two lads to Gen. Rob't
E. Lees College.
MIR. Emanuel Hernandez, an old citizen OF
Pensacola, died on the 2Sth inst.
George P. Kane, the celebrated former Police
Marshal of Baltimore, is visiting in Atlanta.
The Louisiana Convention meets on the 2Sd,
instant, and the Virginia Convention on December
Sd.
The New Era says that during the month Of
October, 2191 bales Of cotton were shipped from
Atlanta.
Wendell Phillips has been delivering lecture
at the Hub upon the ''dawdling" Congress and
other matters.
An Ex-Federal @. NJ, now mail contractor
in Tennessee, has been arrested charged with
stealing, by forged claims about $4,000.
Gen. Basil Duke is regular contributor to
the New York Sunday News. He will soon write a
story of the late war-scene laid in Kentucky.
Owing to poor business the two Tallahassee
papers have agreed to suspend their semi-weekly
editions, and publish weekly henceforth.
-Ristcri is playing in Richmond, and the papers
say that the appearance of her audiences reminds
them Of Richmond as it was before the war. u
The Fernandina Courier says bananas are
grown in that city, and are superior to those we
receive from the West Indies, being larger and
sweeter.
"A Pittsburg dispatch announces Dan Rice
sspayed out" 1t says: Dan Rice closes his engage
ment here tonight, and will, it is sad retire for
good from the show business.
Throughout the war, says the London Satur-
day Review, the name OF Farragut was scarcely
less honorable in England, than those of Lee,
Stuart, and Stonewan Jackson.
The people Of Apalachicola have held meet
ing and offered to issue town bonds to the amount
of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to in
sure railroad to that city.
The Cuba Telegraph Company will soon erect
line Of telegraph between Jacksonville and st.
Augustine. It is expected to be in working order
about the last Of this month.
The young scion OF wealthy father who is
now going through bankruptcy, and who recently
'sdid" Horace Greeley out of thirteen thousand
dollars, is Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.
The Mexican Government refuses to hold any
intercourse with the Ministers and Consuls of for
eign Governments. General Santa Anna has been
released, and has arrived in Havana.
The Albany lNew York; Argus claims over
forty thousand Democratic majority in that State.
It claims, further, majority of the Assembly,
and st least fifteen out of the thirty Senator's
-Anlan named Belts, just out Of prison at La
Grange Georgia, for killing man, shot Mr.. j. B.
Emnlons, in Albany Georgia, on Sunday night,
killing him instantly. The murderer made his
escape.
Hon James NJ. Mason, ex-senator from Virginia
has published letter, setting forth the advan-
tages OF Canada, as place Of refuge for Souther-
ners. Mr.. Mason has established his home in that
country.
The physicians of Georgia are requested to
meet in convention, in Atlanta on the 26th Of No
vember, to organize the State Auxiliary Society of
the National Medical ASSOCIATION OF the United
States OF America.
Sir Hugh Pollock, late private in United
States cavalry regiment in Texas sailed from New
3Yort last week in the steamship Columbia, for
GLASGOW, to take possession Of the baronetcy he
has lately inheriteds
The New Orleans Ricayune says there is at
this time an Unprecedented amount of real estate
thrown upon the market in Mat city, for rent or
for s4le. Prices demanded are, but little. if any,
less than those asked last year.
The new issue of Moxon's Miniature Poets"
will contain poem by Sir Walter Scott, written
nv him in Miss Wordsworth's album, on the eve of
his departure for the continent, just before his
dea;h. and never before in print. The poem in
ore.tion is the last that he ever wrote.
-Adyices from the West Indies furnish details
of the very heavy losses sustained by tornado
which swept recently across the Danish West In
ilia Islands of st. Thomas. The town OF st. Thom-
as ia said to have been laid in ruins. Fifty YES
sel, ara ashore aud the loss Of life and the de-
strlcton OF property is immnese.
The food riots at Exeter, England, owing to
the large number Of men thrown out OF employ
ment by the great depression in the iron interest,"
have extended to Administer, twenty-four miles
from Exeter, where the premises OF the corn deal
e1s have been burned. The local militia have been
called out at Exeter, and regular troops have been
sent to the same point.
About four days ago coiored woman living
on the Louisville Road, about two miles from
Savannah became mother-not of one child, but
of three. Two of the infants are black as ebony,
and the other, curious to relate, is white as the
pllrest Caucasian. The woman herself is very
black as is also her husband. The facts are vouch-
e6 for by gentleman we'll known in Savannah who
ssw the infants.
Our reports from Crete are received uia Wash
ipeton. From this source We learn that the Gre
tsns are preparing for winter campaign against
the Turks, and that now they are no longer en-
b,rrasse6 by the presence Of their women and
children, they propose to prosecute the war with
greater energy than heretofore, and declare they
will not lay down their arms until Crete is annex
ed to Greece.
According to the London Examiner, Ireland
contains three millions OF people less to-day than
j. did when the Corn Laws were repealed. Some
lave perished by famine; many more have sue
sumbed to the crueler fate of protracted desti-
tuition and disease; great numbers have immigrat-
ed to England; and multitude, unexampled in
the history of modern times, have been driven
across the ocean, bearing with them hearts full of
Bitterness, and too often Of resentment against