The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-05
n Il W s s U M M A II Y
Gold steady at 35a.

Gold steady at 3os.
Cotton in New York 24ic.; safes 2OO0 bales.
Cotton in Liverpool tending downward;
nplands on spot 11td.; afoat 10{a1Osd.; Or
leans 11sd. -
-sealslin Jackets are to be worn by the
ladies this winter.
Seven hundred trains pass each other daily
at the Clapham (London) Junction.
Til, divorces in Vermont for i've years
have numbered one to every twenty marriages.
Europe is said to have $685., S,OOo,O 600 invest
ed in American enterprise
-Congress meets next Monday. The lob
byn are mastering in force at Washington.
The Treasury at Washington receives
100000 worth OF worn.out money every week
Hartford is to have % Grecian bend ball.
with premium Of ten dollars for the largest
bend.
The young men of New York who wish to
be in the fashion, now die their morstache
yellow.
in Indi1, to escape the impending famine,
many persons are said to be eniisting In the
army.
Minnesota, this year, has spent $40, 600 IN
buying wolf soalps, for which she pays STU
"A shower OF rain with real water. IS
among the attractions at one Of the London
theatres. l.. i.gcHEc-.,l 10 --'.res
The manufacture of cotton in Switzerland
employs 1,6OO.O .O0O spindles, Is, 400 spinners,
and 1000 other operatives.
THE New York Tribune says: "Mr. Davis
should have been tried or dismissed years ago.
We hope it may now be found possible to do
,one'or the other"
The costumes of the ladies' who prone
made Broadway now surpass those OF the
theatre in gorgeo1sness. Such brilliancy In
colors was never before witnessed on the arena
of fashion. ...............s.l. =.
vZR ssini was very particular about receiving
fayors. Baron Haussmsnn and the City Of Paris
wanted to- give him the house in the Bois de
Boulogne in, which he spent his last years, but
he insisted on paying for it, and he did. The
price was half franc. -
"A Washington letter in the Baltimore Ga
zette says that a decidedly better feeling
seems to tpervaiI among leading Radicals now
here than existed last winter. may say that
there is a prospect Of removing the disabilities
.under which Southern men are now pros
trated. .r-,,.-.t.I :, 70 :
o=-It is reported that immediat ely after the
raeetinp OF the next session OF the Fortieth
rnonoress. movement will be made TO repeal
ALI the laws which have been passed during the
last three years, limiting the political IN
fiuence of the President and extending the
authority Of Congress, such repeal to take
effect on and after March 4th, 1863.
The Emperor Of Russia contemplates
building railroad rom China across Asia to
the capital of Russia, his purpose being to pre-
vent the United States, with its railroads and
steamers, from monopolizing the whole China
trade. Agents OF the Russian Emperor are
now in the United States engaged in studying
our railway system.
a correspondent Of the Pail Mall Gazette,
writing from Florence, says that Garibaldi,
having been bitterly .reproached by Mazzni
and others with the failure OF the Roman in
.surrection last year, through his impatience
and precipitation, has determined to leave Ca
prera and come to America. Domestic troubles,
it is also said, have something to do with this
resolution.
Senator Sumner recently, in conversation
With Herald correspondent, expressed him
self as determined to take stand IN Congress
for the immediate resumption Of specie pay
uents. Nothing more, he thinks, need be done
with the reconstruction laws, as General Grant
will enforce their provisions. With Reverdy
johnson he was utterly disgusted, and was
sorry he had ever consented to his conhrma-
ton as Minister to England.
Mrs. A. Gatewood, OF New York, day OF
two ago, stole quantity Of lace. Tuesday
morning detectives arrested her, when she
confessed her guilt and asked for few min-
utes' privacy before accompanying the officers.
She was permitted to retire, and failing to re-
turn, the officers went up stairs and found she
.ehad cut her throat with razor, and was dead
Her friends state that she was subject to
s'kleptomania." i
People who live under despots pay dearly
for the support and pleasures of their oppres-
sors Napoleon and his court travel in spe-
cial train Of cars, which is drawn by locomo,
tives Of highly polished brass to look like gold.
The imperial carriage is q drawing room. This
train is always followed by another. It car
ries 1ec coach horses for posting, 40 saddle
horses for the Emperor and suite, 20 saddle
horses for the Empress, 20 saddle horses fol-
the Imperial Prince, and 100 saddle horses TO,
invited guests.
"A Washington letter to the Baltimore Ga
zette says ''The greatest lobby measure
which will be presented to Congress during
the approaching session will be the Southern
Pacific Railroad through Texas and Arizona
But one movement is necessary to secure the
passage of this bill with its immense grants
of lands and money, and that movement vii
be satisfactory arrangement of names fo
incorpor ators. When this has been done the
passage OF the bill has been secured. 1t may
therefore, be matter of interest to notice tht
bill when reported, and whose names it in
cludes. Thereby hangs tale.'"
Governor Wells, of Virginia, has pardonet
William Armistead, OF Portsmouth, convicted
at the Hastings Court, in November, of mis-
dsmeanor and sentenced to six months i'm
p:isonmont. 1t appeared by the sworn testi
mony Of cne Of the jurors that after the jul!
had been out two days they stood eight fo