The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-07
NEWS S u M M A r z.


Gold closed in New York on Saturday at
1SSsa1ssl.
Cotton closed heavy with slight decline.
Sales 1900 bales; midding 24aa242c.
Cotton in Liverpool closed heavy. Sales
5000 bales; uplands lid.
General Lafayette McLaws, late Of the Con-
federate army, in association with his brother,
has opened land agency in Augusta.
The chief business marked out for the next
Alabama Legislature is said to be charterins
lottery companies.
Mr.. Seward and several Of his friends are
making preparations to visit Europe immedi-
.ately after Grant takes the Presidential chair.
The new London paper, the sMorning
Summary" has appeared, and is voted stupid.
1t is Tory in politics.
A grand hog killing and packing tourna-
ment, for the championship" has just begun
between the cities Of st. Louis, Chicago and
Cincinnati.
The Mayor Of New Orleans has appointed q
board Of engineers, at the head Of which is
General Beauregard, to devise a plan for the
thorough drainage Of that city and its protec-
ltion from overflow.
On November 18th, at the house of the late
Baron Rothschild, in Paris Is, 900 po,r persons
were each persented with twenty franc piece,
about 81 in gold, making the muniicent sum
Of $4,000 in gold.
From 1853 to July, 1867, $4,000, and in the
fiscal year closing with June, 1S6S $40 900, had
been received from unknown persons at the
Treasury Department in Washington, and cred
tied to the Conscience Fund.-"
Mrs. Grant, as well as the General, has
trials incident to the high station that has
come to her. Already she is annoyed by per-
sons who want to be employed at the White
Eyuse as servants, and the demands made
upon her charity would exhaust a millionaire's
purse.
"A letter in the Baltimore Gazette says:
ssThere need be no longer doubt, in truth,
that Congress will meet on Monday under de-
cidedly improved auspices. ! learn that even
some effort will be made to conclliate the South
by the extremists. The Democratic and DEM
ocratic Conservative members, in the mean
time, seem disposed to let the Radicals paddle
their canoe unmolested by parliamentary inl-
pediments. They say let us quietly look on
and see what will be proposed, but vote as con-
science shall dictate.'"
The sudden resignation of Disraeli, The
British premier, on finding his party so sig
nally defeated in the late elections, necessi-
tates the formation of a new ministry. He be-
ieved the country would not sanction the
measure fer the disestablishment OF the Irish
Church, but finds himself mistaken. He will
now, OF course, lead the opposition in Parlia-
ment, and be really in his proper element, and
where his brilliant talents best shine. MIR.
Gladstone has been summoned by the Queen
possession under the admirable system which
prevails in England Of yielding to the popular
will sraciously and promptly. MIR. Collieri is to
be Attorney General, and Mr. Bright has also
been asked to join the ministry.
"A question Of great interest to Southern
claimants is 10 be decided at the approaching
term Of the United States Court Of Claims in
: Washington. The solicitor for the United
States at the last term interposed the plea, in
reference to the cotton cases and all other cases
Of captured and abandoned property, that the
rebellion was suppressed on the first OF June,
1855, when Kirby Smith surrendered; and as
all claimants under the statute must prefer
their claims in the Court OF Claims within two
years after the suppression Of the rebellion, all
claims preferred after the first of June. 1867,
must be dismissed. 1t is understood that
upon the previous argument the court was
equally divided-two to two. The question It
the coming term will be argued before full
bench Of FIVE judges. The decision may be diff
ferent, when it .is remembered that the late
Congressional action has fixed the date on
which the rebellion was suppressed as the Goth
of August, 1866, the date of the Presidents
proclamation Of peace.
-Butfew persons have an adequate idea Of
the number Of immigrants annually arriving
in the United States, or Of the amount Of
wealth they bring with them. Statsticians
estimate the number Of immigrants from
European States to this country since 1880
at six millions five hundred thousand,
and that their descendants to-day number
fully twenty millions, or about one-half of the
entire population. From 1920 to 1880, the
number OF foreigners who landed on our
shores was "a, ,49O; from 1880 to 1910, 552, ,O00;
from 1910 to 1850. 1.5Ss, 800; from 1850 to 1860,
2,7O7, ,64. The annual average Of immigration
since 1860 is put down by Mr.. Banks at 10000,
and actual investigation has proved that each
emigrant, man, woman and child, represents
from eighty to one hundred dollars. Thus, in
the aggregate, nearly 100000 600 in geld is
added to the money resources Of the country
annually by immigration alone cotempo-
rary says: "But we must look further than
the money value of the immigrant, and con-
slider his productive capacity" Estimating
his labor at five hundred dollars a year, at this
rate our annual immigration would add one
hundred and fifty millions year to the cash
value of the country.
King Ludwig, of Bavaria, has got himself
sent to Coventry in manner which must be
especially trying to boy Of his years. The
late King undertook to form at Munich what
he Was pleased to call the New Round Table,
its knights being such men as Hsyse, Boden-
-stedt, Liebig, &C., on whom he conferred sine
cures, professorships and pensions, designed
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