The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-28
NEW S s U M M A Il y

Generals trunks.
The sculptor Hiram Powers, who has been
absent from this country thirty-one years, is
soon to return.
Miss Anna Pamela Cunningham has been
reelected, at Washington, President OF the
Ladies' Mount Vernon Association.
"A house is being built on Fifth avenue
New York, with 'croquet ground" in the
third story.
The Chinese leprosy, which prevails in the
Sandwich Island, it is feared will reach San
Francisco.
The average life Of American mechanics
the New York Mail says, is 46a years. This
is greater than the average life Of man; so that
work must improve the health.
After large amount of declining" the
nominations for Mayor Of New York have tiaal-
ly settled upon A. Oakley Hall, Democrat and
Frederick A. Conkling, Republican.
-'Brick" Pomeroy gives up his La Crosse
(Wis.) Democrat, or rather removes it to
New York, and com bines it with his daily paper
there as a weekly edition, and to be called
AsPomeroy's Democrat"
An eminent American physician says that
the Walls stock jo5bers produce more
lunatics shan any other class of people IN the
country.
"A State Convention for the farmers Of Geor-
gia has been called for the ninth Of December,
to consider the question of labor, immigration
from the North and from abroad, &c.l
During the recent Erie contest, New
York bank, whose capital does not exceed
thrse quarters of million, certified check
for eight millions.
The stud Of the late Marquis Of Hastings
will be sold at auction early in December. It
comprises Lady Elizabeth, the Earl, and other
famous racers.
Queen Isabella is represented as cherish
ing little hope Of ever again ascending the
throne of Spain, bat she hopes that her son,
the Prince of the Asturias, may yet be re-
stored. =
The American college at Rome is repre-
sented to be greatly in want OF funds, and an
appeal has just been issued to the wealthy
Roman Catholics Of the United States, to con-
tribute $500, 900 for the support Of the institu-
tion.
"a COupduy Las pOCA IoAhONJ "teAA S~AS
sanction of the Argentine Government, to ex-
port live cattle to Europe from Buenos Ayres.
For this new enterprise seven large steamers
are to be built in England, fitted to carry
twelve hundred head Of cattle each, to distin
eight thousand gallons Of sea water every day,
and to accomplish the voyage from the River
Platte to England in twenty-five days.
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the great
German naturalist, especially distinguished by
his investigations through the microscope,
celebrated his 6ftieth anniversary as Doctor
of Medicine. at Berlin, Prussia, on the 5th OF
November. Congratulatory addresses were
presented to him in behalf of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science,
the American Pharmaceutical Association, and
other learned societies, and a poem by Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
The civil war in Japan is nearly over, and
results in the abolition of the Tycoonate and
the resumption of the entire administration by
the Mikado. The young Mikado has now
reached his majority, and has been crowned
Emperor. The Tycoon has notified the repre-
sentatives of the foreign powers of his submis-
sion to the Mikado, who was on the point Of
leaving Kioto for Yeddo. The war against the
most powerful of the Northern Daimios, Aid
zu, is still progressing, but the young Mikado
seems to be on the point Of complete vic
tory.
An affair called the Bandin affair is exciting
great interest in Paris. Bandin was deputy,
billed at a baIricade on December 8. 1851 as
aisting the coup Getat, and the Republicans
have opened subscriptions to provide him
monument. The Liberal papers publish these
subscriptions, and are to be prosecuted for ex-
citing hatred and contempt for the government.
The journalists say this is not legal; 6fty-three
barristers coincide in the opinion, aud the lists
are issued daily, the government on its side
bringing actions. The trial is considered o
sort Of duel, and will be watched by all Paris
with an interest which the Republicans hope
will deepen till popular movement becomes
possible. They Of course care nothing about
NJ. Bandin, worthy but obscure person, for
gotten for seventeen years, but they care
much for the chance Of victory over the gov
eminent.
AS JOu Ndih niohSo pAO Asuo uO 1etfOlt, ody .
q Paris correspondent, you observe at any
hour Of the day crowd Of people about the
doorway of the hotel where the Queen of Spain
and suite are lodged. A number Of police are
stationed to keep order. Queen Isabella, how
ever, does aot make her appearance, and am
told has only been out to mass once or twice in
an imperial carriage since her arrival among
us. The Queen is organizing her court, and
observes all the etiquette of roigning sove-
reign. Count Espeleta, master of ceremonies,
formally announced her arrival to the Emperor
and Empress at Compiegne, to which imperial
residence some say she will be invited. The
Princess Mathilde has called on the Spanish
royal family, as well as some foreign diplo-
matists and the Pope's Nuncio. The Emperor
and Empress chow the fallen sovereign every
attention. There is no kindly feeling in
Paris toward the Spanish Bourbons, and jokes
and severe remarks are very general in all
classes Of society.
The Metropolitan Railway of London will
have, when completed, it is said, neither be-
siuning nor end. It will be entirely under
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