The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-03
NEWS SUMMARY.

Cotton closed in New York dull at 29as0c. for
for Mindlng Uplands. Gold closed at s4{.
Cotton in Liverpool was quoted at 12Ba1Sd. for
Middlind Uplands.
The locomotive now runs four hundred and fifty
miles west of st. Louis and the track is being laid
at the rate of mile every day.
The Jefferson (Texas) Bulletin says upwards Of
two hundred thousand rabbits were drowned
near the banks of Big Cypress Bayou during the
late flood.
The bridge over Franklin street, Richmond, con-
meeting the Ballard House and Exchange Hotel,
has bean removed.
The white vote Of North Carolina, under the Re-
construction Act, is estimated at $4,000, and the
colored vote at 95.000..
Very fine leather is now manufactured at San
Antonio, Texas, in large quantities, and cheaper
than it can be obtained in Yankeedom.
The Chinese women who are to wait on the res
4aurant Of the Paris exhibition were purchased it
is said, in Canton, for $50 each.
A steamer with eight barges, carrying one thou
sand two hundred tons OF freight, arrived at Al
bany on last Wednesday, the first Of the season.
Mr.. SyAN1s1Aus JULIEN, the first Chinese scholar
in Europe, and member Of the French Institute,
has been decorated by the Emperor of Russia with
the insignia Of the grand cross Of the order of St.
Stanislaus.
The Richmond Dispatch, Of the 29th, says: ''The
State Auditor day or two since gave to THOMAS
P..CopEs, Of Accomac, the sum Of $500 in payment
for his negro man Sam, convicted in the County
Court o' o'Accomao, in 1882 Of felony and sentenced
to transportation"
Dispatches from San Luis Potosi report that
there was good reason to telieve that MA1nn-
LIAM, finding himself cornHred, the Liberal troops
being in front and rear ofhim, and his main sub
: sistence for supplies haing on the meagre crops
in.his neighborhood, had offered to surrender.
The. answer WIS refusal to treat with traitors.
oThe freshet in Red River has been the most e1-
tensive and disastrous ever known, the water
being ak feet higher than the highest mark yet
reached since the settlement Of that country.
Nearly all the stock along the upper river has been
destroyed, while fences and farm houses have
beencsyspt away. This rich section Of the coun-
Try has been converted into almost waste.
The city engineer Of Chicago, accompanied by
three newspaper reporters, made boat voyage
through the lake tunnel 9 few days ago. Their
boat filed with ", ,ar,. and all hands were obliged
to perform considerable portion Of the journey by
Rzding in three feet Of ioe-cod water. One OF two
OF the party nesriy succumbed to the cold and e1-
hxustic1. .-...i. i.-,,,..5,, -.
s. The steatnship Francis Wrtgh, (Which sailed
from New York for Key West id the service Of the
International Ocean Telegraph Company, cafrieda q
corps Of operators, finesmen and laborers, besides
horses, wagons, forage and rations, to begin the
operation of laying 4 scable from key West to
Hsvans. { The company ID Under the management
Of Gen. BALDY SAITB.- e {,iH-3.2
viekghurg adsioes state that q negro settlement
opposite that city, known as Desoto, had been
ovsraoWed Every effort vas made by citizens Of
vicksbmg to reach the unfortunate inhabitants,
but, despitee every rendered, some eighty
are known to hsye perished in the waters. The
houses. and shsnties. have been swept sway, and
the entire populat Of She settlement left home
less and destitute. -.
The British; Government ia serionsly considering
the project Of making the whole telegraph system
a branch Of the Postofice. In Bagium, where
every PostofRoe has it's wire, q message OF twenty
words is sent to any part Of the kingdom for ten
cents. In Switzerland, under the same system,
both messages ard money orders can be sent at
very low rates, and people send. more messages
than letters. ~ y
The Melbourne Age, ;of January 266ttt 26t, says: s'As
the. customs boat was going: from Queensclif to
the bark Arctic, an enormous shark rushed at the
steer-oar,, seized it with his teeth, and nearly
Knocked the. oozswaiini overheard The shark
made second bite At the oar, taking a piece out
OF sha.blaae. The men describe the monster as
being the largest shark they had ever seen, and es-
innate its length as being over twenty feet.
Z Icebegs have made their. appearance 80 thickly
i'm The Atlantic Ocean that vessels between this
country and Europe find some difficulty in avoid
ing them. captain who arrived at New York on
Thursday, from Liverpool, reports that during
1oegy weather, when off the eastern edge Of the
Banks, he became environed by twenty lone large
bergs, some thirty-6ve or forty feet high, and
shout two hundred feet Long. It was only by good
sesmanship that the ship got clear Of them.
A steamer lying at anchor in the Thames, lately
hook on board twelve boxes Of silver bullion, sent
by thu Messrs.' RorHsmmDs, 800 pounds in each.
They were stowed in the hold, the hold looked, and
tha customary watch set-yet in the night two OF
these heavy boxes containing So 600, were hauled
on deck and lowered into barge which was fasten-
ed alongside, and which can nowhere be found. It
is tina mystery Of the river.
The New York Gazette says that from all that
can be gathered, the exodus from this country to
the Paris exhibition viii be much smaller than
was at first anticipated Aside from the Ameri-
cans who would have gone to Europe for sum-
mer's trip, had there teen no exhibition, the ex-
hibitors. and those who viii make the visit to the
exhibition purely for business purposes, there will
be fewer Americans going to Paris this spring than
Hhe Parisians expect, or the owners OF the trans
atlantic steamboat lines will like. = -.
The Committee appointed by the Rhode Island
Legislature to procure statues Of ROGER WILLIAMS
and General NATHANIEL GREENE for the National
Hall Of statuary at Washington, have contracted
with FRANKLIN SUMMONS to execute 8 statue Of
WILLIAMS, and with q. z. BROWN for statue Of
GREENE. The statues are to be marble, six feet in
heiRth, and are to cost $4,000. This is the first
State to contract for statues under the Congress
ional resolution providing for National Gallery
in the Old Representatives Hal.
Hon. A. G. BROWN, the distinguished colleague
of JEFFERSON DAVIS as United States Senator from
Mississippi before the war, after secession cap
tain in the Confederate army; and then Senator
from his State in the Confederate Congress, who
since the war has lived in profound retirement has
come out in favor Of the prompt use Of suffrage
under the military bill to reorganize our State gov
ernments. When States Rights Democrats ano
consistent and self-sacrifcing Contederates OF the
ability and patriotism of A. G. BROWN counsel such
q course, it would Seem that smaller men need fee
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