The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-25
NEW sU M M A r Y.

but not higher. Sales 15,0 600 bales.
The use of grapeshot has been abolished
in the British army.
Prussia intends to send naval hee 10 tne
China seas to aid in the suppression OF piracy
The "Gentiles" at Salt Lake City, on e.ec'
ton day. voted eighty-eight for Grant and sew
enty-one for Seymour.
Russia is getting large amount OF breacn-
loading arms manufactured in the Uniteo
States.
The census of 1870, it is said, will show the
nonn,ation of the Unitd States to be forty-two
million.
A slo,OOo diamond necklace. appeared
among the bridal presents at New YORK wed
ding on Thursday.
robert Bonner says his New York Ledger
is to be the "oficial organ" Of President Grant s
administration.
The Di spatch says one thousand bush els
of California, wheat have just been received Dy
one of the mills OF Richmond.
The Car has issued an ukase, by virtue
Of which -.enths of the drinking saloons
now existing in the Russian empire are TO De
suppressed.
1t is proposed to issue German weekly
newspaper in Goldsboro', N. G., so rapidly ls
that part of the country filing up with hardy
German settlers.
The Eagle and Phoenix Cott n Mills, OF
Columbus, Ga, now consume five bales OF cot
ton and from three thousand to four thousand
pounds of wool per day. Over seven thousand
spindles and two hundred and ninety opera
tiyes are constantly kept going.
The Brownsville (Tennessee) Bee says !:
"We are pleased to chronicle the fact that nc
tive steps are being taken to bE::.u large num-
ber one cotton and wooIlen factory In our
town. It is contemplated to raise and COM
.men,e with capital Of 100000: The build
ing operations are expected to commence by
the middle Of February, 1862"
-lhe New York Times publishes letter,
written in April last, from Chief Justice Chase
to Ho,. n. W. billiard, Of Alabama. In 1t MIR.
Chase sa vs. that he agrees with MIR. Hiliard
that the seeded States shave never been other
than States, within the Union since they be-
came parties to the Federal Government, and
that the failure to maintain their assertions OF
indepen dence in the conflict of arms which fo!-
lowed, left them States still within the Union"
This is certainly anti-Radical doctrine.
AT one time woman could hardly walk
through the streets Of San Francisco without
having every one pause to gaze on her; and
child was so rare that once at theatre in the
same city, where woman had taken her IN
FAINT, W hen it began to cry, just as the orches-
-tra began to play, man in the pit cried out,
ssstop those fiddles and let the baby cry;
haven't heard such sound for ten years"
The audi ence applauded this sentiment; the
orchestra stopped. and the baby continued its
.perfor nance amid unbounded enthusiasm.
Fro m official reports it appears that the
amount of railroad iron exported from Eng
land duri pg the month Of September, 1866,
was 1859 tons shipped to the United States d; in
the same month, 1867, IL, ,Ss9 tons, and during
last September 20,6SS tons. The same table
also sho US the amount imrorted for the nine
months ending September, for the same years.
In 1866 there were 70. 405 tons in 1857 1S7, ,8s4
tons in 1868, 2O9. .26s tons. This increase is
rather surprising when the duty on abroad
iron is taken into consideration. Seventy cents
on every one hundred pounds ofiron must be
paid in customs, and forty-fve per cent. OF the
invoced value of all steel rails.
The ne VS. from Cuba is contradictory. The
insurrectionists claim that they have from ten
to twelve thousand men, and that they are in
possession Of the Town of Puerto Principe, but
kilograms received by the government state
that Puerto Principe continues in possession Of
the government troops, with valmasseda COM
mand;ng. Valmasseda ridicules the idea of his
being attacked by reyolutionists, but, on the
contrary, says that he has commenced opera
tions against them. Cuban republicans claim
that the revolutionists arc daily receiving rein
forcements; bat the government claims to have
information to the contrary. The revoiutionists
still hold possession of Bayame and other towns.
A Havana dispatch says there is considerable
excitement in that city and the surrounding
country, but the revolution is thought to be
decreasing, and the general opinion is that it
will die out on the arrival Of troops expected
from Spain.
The Rev. DR.. McCosh, the new English
President of Princeton College, in speech
which he made last week before the National
Christian Association, said that az Gcumeni.
cal Council of Christians (meaning orthodox
Protestant Churches here, in England, France
and throug hout the continent,) would be heli
in the City of New York during the autumn O.
next year. The object of the meeting would
be to produce harmony and good feeling among
the demo limitations of protesting Christians
everywhere. Discussions were to be held upol
the great leading topics which are now agita
ting or may tlen agitate the religious world
Its not to be confined exclusively to the clergy
although some Of the greatest clerical name
in Christendom would be included in the rol
OF guests Lard Shaftesbury had promised t
be present, declaring that nothing could Civ
him greater pleasure than to meet so man
excellent persons in so good cause. Fariou
: authors and journalists OF European fame la
also been invited and were expecte>. to attend
The armies Of Europe, according to tn
estimates of French collector Of statistics
are composed Of 2,557, ,528 soldiers in activ
service, and GIL 1893 drilled reserves. The
are distributed amcng the several nations a
follows North Germany, 421. 52S active sol
diers, 2es, ,113 reserves, $1,000 reserves of til
socond ban. Austria, $40, 900, of whom A0, 90