The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-12
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street car tickets.
-Iaborers in Califo1nia are plentier than
work and destitution is feared the coming
winter.
The meanest thing out-counterfeitlne
nickel cents-which is practicod upon an ex'
tensive scale in st. Louis.
Rev. MIR. Punshon, the eloquent English
pulpit orator, has been offered Sl5Oo In Goio
to lecture six times in Boston.
Russia prohibits homeopathic physicians
practicing in her dominions, under penalty Oh
a fine and two years in Siberia.
Trade is still reported as very dull and un-
satisfactory in England. The expected revival
this fall has not taken place.
-Dressmakers are now introducing reversl-
BILE dresses. The idea is borrowed, the tallors
having designed reversible oTercoats several
years since.
The Countess of Castiglione is among the
passengers by the Vile de Paris, at New York.
from Europe; also Mime LAGRANGE and the
Rave family.
The North German bark Clara, Captain
Robs., from Bremen, arrived at Baltimore on
Thursday, having on board some two hundred
.steerage passengers, all in good health.
There is lady in Maine, aged eighty
seven, who has twelve children, ninety-two
grandchildren, one hundred and nineteen
great grandchildren, and eight great. great
grandchildren.
The Radicals begin to despair OF Ohio. IAN
eminent Republican statesman" writes private
" to the Tribune from that State that ne Is
s.not without apprehensions that we shall lose
some members of Congress, and that our State
vote will be diminished"
The Radicals give up Missouri. The re-
,sisters swear everybody who take the oath'
and the Democrats register more votes this
wear than ever before. The Radicals arc IN
cepsed because the registers do their duty.
The Hannibal Courier tRadicaD gives up the
State "to the Democrats by 10000"
The impression Of number OF persons
who have recently visited Utah is that the
Mormons will soon break up, and that Brig
ham Young, who is worth some millions OF
dollars, will go to some other cline, where he
can enioy his wealth and the society OF his ia
4yorite wives.
General Gates, an old and well-Snown
United States army officer, died in New YORK
on Wednesday, in tho leightieth year OF his
age. He served in the Florida war, and Will
be remembered as the captor Of the famous In
dian chief, Osceoa. He also served with dis
ztinction in the subsequent war with Mexico.
"A CORES pondent Of the New York Sun in
Inmates that Artemus Wards will, disposing OF
a large amou mt Of property in England, was
Joke, and that he left no such property. Ii
this be 30, it is q sufficient vindlcation OF the
English exec utors, who have had to suffer
much abuse for not giving an account OF their
proceedings under the Will.
The designs for our new postage stamps
are described as very beautiful. The two cent
stamp has for vignette mail-carrier on
horseback; the three cent, mail train under
steam; the five cent retains the miniature OF
Washington; the ten cent has copy OF the
Signing of the Declaration, from Trumoulrs
painting in the rotunda Of the capitol; and the
thirty cent o surrender scene from the same
artist. familiar to all readers OF the history OF
the Revolution.
The National Unitarian Convention met IN
New York on Wednesday, and WAS largely at
tended, prin cipally by delegates from the New
England States, including many ladies, who
were allowed to vote uI on all questions coming
up. Hon. T. D. Eliot, Of New Bedford, Mass,
presided. He made the opening address, ez-
tending to all associations OF the Umterlan
faith hearty welcome, and soliciting their CO.
operation in all measures looking to the pro-
motion Of their organization.
The subject OF anotbermeeting of Congress
ON the 18th Of this month, in accordance with
the resolution adopted IN September. is begin
ming to engage attention in Washington. The
general opinion seems to be that no session
viii be had this month, but that quorum Will
be here on the 10th prox., and general leglsla-
tive business transacted. Should this pro- g
correct, thereis every probability that Congress
will remain together until the regular meeting
in December. Senators TrumbuI and Fowler
take this view of the probabilities.
The reported contemplated marriage Of Mr..
Seward has excited considerable interest in
fashionable and diplomatic circles at Washing
ton,and many inquiries are made as to the name
of the lady who was to be honored by the Secre-
tary. Some Of the intimate friends of Mr.
Seward deny the report, but without authority.
Rumor has it that there is some truth in it,
and that Miss Olivia Rsiey, daughter OF H. A.
Risley, Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury,
will be the future wife Of the Secretary, if he
should perpetrate mstrimony. She is highly
accomplished lady, Of about twenty-eight years
of age, and the warmest friendship has exist
ed for years between the Risleys and the family
of MIR. Seward, which probably gave rise to the
project.
The speech of Hon. Reverdy johnson tc
the corporation Of Leeds is brief but pointed
in it's direction. he alluded feelingly to The
mutual dependence of America and England
and the ties of consanguinity which bind to
getLer the two countries. "Our dispositions,
said Mr.. Johnson, 'are the same, our religion
els the same, and, above all, as the means b!
(which the others are bound together, oul
Language is the same. That language
wherever spoken, whether spoken by an Eng
s'ishman to an American or by an American
'"to an Engishman, creates at once feelings o
brotherhood; and, speaking from persona
''e1perience, from the moment put my foo
-''on your shores-not now for the first time