The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-09
N e w s S U M M a r Y.
OFFICE No. 1s HAYNE-STREET.

5UuU DdleS III Aoc.
In Liverpool cotton closed yesterday
heavy, with q decline OF fraction. Sales 1900
bales. Uplauds 11sd.
DIR. Robert C. Howell, distinguished
Baptist divine, died at Memphis, Tenn, aged
sixty-seven years.
-Hanlon, the gymnast, who recently became
insane and injured himself, died at Harrisburg,
Pa, on Sunday.
The Democrats carried the municipal elcc-
ton at Louisville on Saturday, the Republicans
running no candidate, but supporting the in
dependent ticket.
1t is stated on good authority that over two
thousand freedmen, mainly in Georgia and Ala
bama, have sent in petitions to the Colonial
ton Society to be sent to Liberia.
Weston, the pedestrian, has accomplished
the task OF walking one hundred and three
miles in twenty-three hours and ffty-ei
minutes, inside OF the allotted time, part Of it
in a heavy snow-storm, with muddy roads,
from Eric to Buffalo.
1t is rrrmored that Colonel st. Leger Gren-
field, the amateur warrior, who espoused the
Confederate cause and who Is personally known
to many of our citizens, has made his escape
from the Dry Tortugas, where he was confined
under sentence for life, on charge OF conspi-
1acy to purn Chicago. We sincerely hope the
report is true, as We never believed that the
colonel hat. been fairly dealt with.
Elizabeth Keckley is q colored person who
has written book, or procured one to be writ
ten. Elizabeth processes to have been, just
before the war, confidential servant OF Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, and since to have occupied the
same position towards Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
These several condolences she publishes TO
whom it may coucern. Behind the Scenes"
is the title OF the book, which is now in press,
and Carleton is the publisher of it.
DIR. DeLeon, in one of his letters to the
New York Citizen on the secret diplomatic his
tory of the Confederacy, states th.t Sir Henry
de Roughton, one Of the wealthiest 5aronets
of England, contributed in all over s2OO, 900 to
the Confederate cause, and that he held at the
close not far from one-tenth of the whole Con-
fedcrate cotton loan. He speaks Of the loan
as thorough job from the beginning, paying
enormous profits to the agents by whom it was
negotiated, but very little to the Confederate
treasury.
Illinois politics are disturbed by the efforts
of the Temperance party, who have become
quite disgusted at having two successive Gov
ernors Of the State heavy and habitual drink
ers and at having hall the representatives in
the United States Senate for the last fifteen
years drunkards. They insist upon having
voice in public matters and as the Sons OF
Temperance and Good Templars have MEM
bership in the State of over fifty thousand, they
are likely to be heard. They are particularly
offended with one of their senators at Washing
ton.
Within the past few weeks quite number
of capitalists from Western cities have invested
largely in real estate in New Orleans for the
purpose OF erecting warehouses, grain eleva-
tors, &c. This is due to she fact that ship
ments Of grain, made by them OF late to Eu-
rope by way of the Mississippi, have proved
very profitable; and they are preparing greatly
to enlarge their operations by this route. II
the Northwest shall once become convinced
that the Pacific trade can be intercepted at
Panama and distributed by way of the Missis-
sippi and the cities OF the West, New York will
find formidable comretitor for that trade OF
which she now enjoy monopoly.
John Grey. q resident of Noble County,
Ohio, said to be the last revolutionary soldier,
died on the 18th OK last month. He was born
at Fairfax Courthouse, Va, 9th of January,
1852, and was consequently in his one hun
dred and sixth year when he died. He had
worked many q day on the Mount Vernon
estate for General Washington. He entered
the continental army at sixteen years of age,
and served till the close Of the war for our in
dependence. He was at the surrender of York
town. Mr. Grey removed to Ohio before it
vas State, and remained there till his death.
The practical effect, in part, of the land
sales to new settlers in Virginia is illustrated
by the following from the Winchester Times OF
last week: 'sOne OF our intelligent real estate
dealers informs us that within the next ten
days there will be paid out in this county, on
account of land purchases made by parties
from the North, between $50, 900 and STE, 900.
One gentleman from Lancaster County, Penn
sylvania, deposited last week in the Shenan-
doah Valley National Bank the sum of s2S,59O,
to be paid out on the first Of April to parties
from whom he had purchased land"
-2Iacaulay, in that celebrated account OF
the trial by impeachment Of Warren Hastings,
has these remarks "Whatever confidence may
be placed in the decision of the peers Oh al
appeal arising out Of an ordinary litigation, it
is certain that no man has the least confidence
in their impartiality, when great public func-
tionary, charged with great State crime, is
brought to the bar. They are all politicians.
There is hardly one among them whose vote
on an impeachment may not be confidently
predicted before witness has been exam
ined.'' Will any future historian apply remarks
like these to the American Senate?
"A Washington letter OF Sunday says: The
ministers and attaches Of number Of the for
eign legations iu this city yesterday, at the
Piney Branch Race Course, indulsed III the
sport of pigeon shooting. England, France,
Prussia Turkey, Italy, and several Of the Ger
man States, were represented, the party being
composed of about fifteen gentlemen and four
teen ladies. The guns used were double bar
relied breech leaders, and the birds we're shot
at rise OF twenty-one yards, while the bounds
were fixed at eighty yards. The first shot was
won by the British minister, Sir Edward
Thornton, who brought down three birds sue
n