The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-30
NEW s s U M M "A R Y,
OFFICE No. 1s HA AYNE-STREEE

with sales OF fUUO pdioS do Ao2S' AoA AA-A>-S>-oN
In Liverpool cotton closed quiet, with sales
OF 12,0OO bales; prices unchanged.
Over one-seventh of the land in Mississippi
ia advertised for sale under executions.
England pays s1O0 q year for each OF its
soldiers, France f4O, and Prus sia only ESQ.
The Richmond Wing says: s'We have sat-
isfactory information that General Schoneld
will order new registration before the vote Is
taken on the new constitution"
Dan Rice announces himself candidate
for President, and the Now York World irrev-
erently says he is used to swinging round the
circle.
"A portrait of Jefferson, seid to be the last
original picture since the burning OF the
Smithsonian Gallery, is offered for sale to the
Kentucky Legislature.
Mail robberies are becoming so frequent
in Texas that the people are refusing to avail
themselves Of the assistance Of the postoffice
in communicating with then friends.
"A bill is pending before the New York Leg
islature prohibiting the marriage of first
cousins under heavy penalty OF fine and inn
prisonment
Large numbers Of bones Of an extinct race
of human beings have been exhumed in digging
for the foundation Of cathedral at San Anto-
mo, Texas.
The Marion Star went to press this week
day earlier than Usual, to give those employed
in it's Office ean opportunity Of enjoying the
circus"lll
The Mobile Times has removed the names
OF Grant and FessendeD from the head Of its
editorial columns as its ticket for President
and vice-Presdent.
1T is frequently the case in Canada that IN
digging wells for drinking water salt veins are
struck, which bring ip large Sums of money
to their owners, but have bad effect on their
habits.
Good field hands cannot have very hard
time in Loaisians. They are offered fifteen
dollars month, rations, quarters, peck OF
meal and Eve pounds Of pork weekly, and an
acre Of LAND to work on their own account.
The Avenir National, in its issue Of the
9Th instant, said: ut is noon, and We are
writing these lines by the light Of a lamp
Never did 30 black sky surround Paris. One
would think the sun was extinguished forever"
Saws the Tribune: "There is vast amount
of stationery furnished to Congress, which the
members would be much more stationary II
they did not drink"
The New York Tribune informs Messrs.
Julian and Chandler "thst if the people want
ed blackguardism, they could get it at cheap
er rate than $4,000 year, mileage and station
cry"
The gas company in Jackson, Mississippi,
cut off the supply OF light from the Recon-
struction Convention, because it would not
ftlrnish security for the payment Of the gas
bill.
"A Partisan left directions before his death
that copy Of one Of the Paris morning papers
should be placed on his tomb every day. The
eccentric request lie duly carried out, and on
his grave may be seen heap OF musty old
papers.
Is. G.. Reid, Esq, senior editor and propri-
etor Of the Montgomery Advertiser, retired
from his connection with that paper on the Oath
instant. He disposed Of his interest in the
establishment to Messrs. w. W. and B. II.
Screws.
"A letter was received at the Treasury De-
partment at Washington, on Saturday, from
Catholic priest at st. Vincent's College, Los
Angeles, California, enclosing 5000 conscience
money from party there desiring to make
restitution to the government.
The London (Eng.) Advertiser says that
Garibaldi had requested the report to be con-
tradicted that he had returned any answer to
An address forwarded to him by the Fenians,
and he moreover states that on this subject he
would support the government.
I'm the Atlanta convention last week, col
ored delegate grew excited and said, "May
God have mercy" when he was raped to Or
der by the chrirman, who stated that 'the
person the gentleman called upon was not in
the house."
Unless Mr.. Delmonico, whose name may
be familiar to some of our readers in connec-
ton with an eating house in New York, had
apologlged to the sportsman's club Of that
city, he would have been prosecuted for viola
tion Of propriety and infraction of the game
laws in furnishing trout at recent public
breakfast.
The only public library in Alaska consists
Of about fifteen hundred volumes, with govern
msnt records, maps and manuscripts. The only
American volume is copy of Wendell Phillips
speeches. The other volumes are printed in
Russian, with a sprinkling of the Swedish, Ger
man and French.
The Central Grant Club, of St. Louis, Mis-
souri,, has issued q manifesto in favor of Grant
for the Presidency, assigning, among other
reasons for this preference, that Grants views
on reconstruction are in accord with those of
the Radicals; that he will know no distinction
of race or color, and that he twill settle up
the Alabama claims"
The London Daily News, in its City Arti-
Gle. says it was stated that English and Cor
man holders had returned to the Nsw York
market q very large amount of United States
bonds in consequence OF the disgust excited
by General Buffers motion for paying off the
Five-twenty bonds in American currency, and
by the discussions on the subject which have
since been continued to the serious injury Of
American credit.
The troubles in Hayt are thickening. Sal
nave, the new President who went to Cape
Haytien with q large force to put down the re-
bellion in that quarter, has demanded rein
forcements. There appears also to be serious
dissatisfaction at Aux Cages. A terrific fight,
it is said had occurred on the frontiers, and as
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