The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-27
NEWS sU M M A RY,

1o04.
Cotton in New York closed shade firme
and in fair demand. Sales 400 bales at 32s;
SO cents.
in Liverpool on Saturday cotton closed
buoyani and advancing. Sales $4,000 bales
uplands, on the spot, 12}a125d; ahoat, 19td.
The Appletons, publishers, New York, have
sold over five hundred thousand volumes O.
their edition of Dickens works.
The trial OF General Cole, indicted for the
murder OF L. d. Hlscock, the alleged seducel
of his wife, has commenced at Albany, New
York.
General D. E. Sickles, delegate at large fol
New York, is named in many quarters for the
post of President of the Republican Chicago
Convention.
The English journals received by the last
foreign mail. which brings our advices down to
April 11th, express great joy at the intelligence
OF DR.. Lvingstone's safety.
The Paris correspondent Of the Morning
Post writes: 1.-THE rich American, Mr.. Pea
body, on leaving the Pope, left five millions of
francs for the Ponti6cal treasury"
"A frst-class daily newspaper 10 English, it
is stated, is soon to be published in Hamburg.
Five hundred thousand persons i'll Northern
Germany, it is estimated, are able to read the
English language.
The London Spectator thinks the present
British Ministry determined to hold on to pow
er, notwithstanding their recent defeat and
says that Nh. Disraeh will not quit Office ''until
taken out by the collar"
The St. James Hotel, o new establishment,
under the charge Of the Stetsons, has been
opened in Boston. It has four hundred rooms.
Two thousand friends Of the proprietors were
present at the opening and lunch on the occa-
sion.
The Prussian schoolship Niobe, which ar
rived at New York Tuesday, is the first Prus-
sian war vessel that has ever visited the
United States. She Is sailing frigate, and
carries twenty-five guns, most Of them smooth
bore.
"A physician, in Chicago, was called, q few
days ago, to testify as medical expert in the
United States Court in that city. He refused
to testify unless he received fees as an expert
to the amount OF s25. The judge decided he
was right, and the fees were paid.
We read or new and dreadful cases OF acci-
dents from kerosene-one in Norfolk, another
in St. Louis, by which mother sustained
friehtful injuries which will probably provo
fatal, and her daughter was killed. The cause
in both cases was the use of the oil to kindle
fires.
General T. G. Hindman was brought before
in
Rock, Arkansas, on the 18th instant, on an in
dictment for treason. The case was continued
until the next term of the court, and General
Hindman was held to bail in the sum of $4,000,
which he gave at once.
The Right Rev. Cicero D. Hawks, D. D.,
died in ST. Louis last Sunday, at the age OF
ffty-six years. For more than twenty years
he filed the Office of Bishop of the Episcopal
Church for the diocese Of Missouri. He was
native of North Carolina, and brother of the
late DR.. Hawks, formerly pastor OF Christ
Church in Baltimore.
"A Miss Nellie de Mare, Of New York city.
has agreed to walk from Jersey city to Phlla-
delphia in thirty-six hours, for one thousand
dollars. The task is to be performed between
the 18th and 22d of May, and the route is to
be over what is known as the old post road.
The lady is to have body-suard accompany
ing her all the way through.
Brazil is determined to encourage imml-
grafton. It now offers to build comfortable
honse and clear Six acres Of land for every i'm
migrant who will give guarantee that he
will occupy the house and till the land. Of
course the location of the house and land WILL
enter considerably into the estimate the imml-
grant will place upon their value.
The great Erie struggle seems to have
ended A compromise was effected between
the conflicting interests, and no objection was
made to the bill, which has just passed the
New York Legislature. The Tribune says the
termination of these difficulties has already had
O. favorable effect on the market, and opera
+ions for an advance are made with great
confidence.
In an appeal for grand rally in behalf OF
protection, signed by Peter Cooper, OF New
York. occur these words "It is Of great im-
poriance that advantage should be taken OF
the brief administration Of Mr.. Wade to get
through Congress an adequate and well adj
iusted tariff" So the manufacturing interest
is to be brought to bear against Mr. Johnson,
and to assist ir his election from office. The
necessities" are accumulating upon the
Senate.
The Mormons have recently held synod
III London, in which it was stated that in that
city there are nine Mormon churches, one hun
dred and seven elders, ffty-three priests,
tventy-four teachers, thirty deacons, and q
membership which swells the total number OF
London Mormons TO one thousand one hun
dred and severty-two. All these live right un-
der the nose of the English Government, and
carry out their principles the same US If they
were at Salt Lake CITY.
ON the same day that Ml. Dickens left
New York City for his home. in England,
another English novelist, Mr.. Anthony Troll
lope, standing in the next immediate rank
after Thackeray and Dickens, stepped on shore
from the Scotia. Mr.. Tro!lope is well known
in America by his works, and perhaps he has
not had his equal in description OF English
clerical life and manners III this century. Troll
lone will remain in New York few days be-
fore leaving for tour of the States.
"A New York letter, of the 22d instant, says;
GAS the impeachment trial draws to close
tha ,,erera1 nnblc interest in it seems to re-