The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-23
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ffgy-seyen immigrants. ..,--.
The Pope is less alarmed about his physi-
cal condition than his physician, who is SAID TO
speak despondingly of it.
The Paris Gaulois intimates that the EN-
peror Napoleon is likely soon to have anotner
heir to hie name and dynasty.
NJ. Corcoran is going to buildin Washing
ron. ut his own cost, an asylum for aged ard
INDECENT women. =
another s.Erie Railway War;" with ru-
morcd he ,i1a Of directors to Jersey City, Is
.rero-:ed from New York.
The famous horse Dexter, on Fashion
:. Course, one day last week, trotted haf mile
in tho brief time of one minute six seconds.
The Nsw York papers are again aeltal'ug
for q bridge across the East River, as pre-
yentiye Of future ferry boat disasters.
-philadelphia has taken steps to import q
thousand English sparrows, which Will be
let loose in the public squares and parks next
spring.
COPPER mining in Michigan, it is stated,
EMPLOYS capital Of $50, ,ooo, 900, and from
80, 600 to 10000 persons are engaged in work.
ing the mineral deposits.
The spire Of the new cathedral in Pitts
burg is to be surmounted by hollow iron
cross fourteen feet in height, which is to be
illuminated by three hundred gas jets.
Mile. Schneider is publishing her memoirs,
two volumes, Of which are already in press. 1t
is said that people who like their food hlghiy
seasoned with Cayenne pepper will find TINS
work altogether to their taste.
1t is stated that numerous Jewish families
residing in London and Lisbon, having asked
il the provisional government had abrogated
the cid laws which expelled them from Spain
have received an Affirmative answer.
There is q movement on foot among poll
ticiaps on both sides, to remove S2perinten-
A5cdent Kennedy, Of the New York polico force,
r on the ground of various acts Of tyranny and
oppression in Office.
General Grant was impartial in his distri-
button of favors in New York. he dined with
Pierrepont, war Democrat; breakfasted with
Greeley, Republican, and dined again with
Hoffman, Democrat, at dinner given in honor
OF Evarts, johnson Republican. "
The Presidents message is completed as
to its general features, and only awaits the
coming in of the reports from heads OF depart.
$ ments, in order to conclude the general review
Of affairs in the various departments Of the
government.
The "General Council of the Lutheran
Church" in America, which embraces thirteen
particular Syncds, and represents the High
Church element Of the denomination, has
unanimously resolved at its present session to
reply to the Popes letter inviting the Protes-
. tants to be present at the Ecumenical Council.
II. Mrs. Lincoln and her son are at the Hotel
: D'Angleterre, at Franlfort-on-th Main. Her
son is to attend Professor Hohagens school
there. She intends to visit Italy this winter.
Her physician has ordered her next summer to
Marienbad, in Bohemia, for her health The
journals have noticed her arrival.
IA party Of emigrants, from seventy-fve to
one hundred in number, passed through Rich
mond, ya., on Wednesday, en- route from the
State Of North Carolina to Minnesota They
consisted Of families, the heads Of some of
which were very old. They carried o large
amount OF baggage.
"A man named Capel, in North Carolina,
wagered two gallons Of tar against quart OF
brandy that he could drink the quart of brandy
and then walk to his home, mile distant, be-
. fore becoming insensble. BE drank the BRAN
,dy, walked half the distance, then sank down,
saying, '.Boys, I've lost the bet" and instantly
expired.
Mr.. Colfa1 and bride arrived Thursday in
Washington. He was married on Wednesday,
The wedding took place between eight and nine
o'c!ock, and was an unostentatious, but very
pleasant affair, the party being made up OF
about fifty persons, mostly connections Of the
family, including Senator Wade.
Hon. John Slasll intends to make an effort
to recover his property in New Orleans, and
for this purpose has executed power Of attor-
ney to two New Orleans gentlemen. This was
acknowledged before General Dix, American
Minister in Paris, by John Slidell and his
daughter, and in Frankfort by his son, before
the United States Consul there. Young Slidell
lisa clerk in changers bank.
Hon. John Lynch, CT Maine, in letter to
a gentleman in Washington, announces his in
tention to call up on the first day of the next
session of Congress his bill to provide against
undue expansions and contractions OF the cur
rency. which attracted some attention upon its
original introduction last winter. His bill
provides for the gradual resumption OF specie
payments.
The New Orleans Times says: "It is graf
living fact that of late q rapidly increasing de-
demand for farms and plantations in our Lou
isiana lowlands has been developed. Quite o
number of plantations have recently changed
hands, at figures which would have been con-
sidered extremely low before the war, but
which greatly overreach the most sanguine cx-
pectatons entertained by their owners one
year ago."
1t is said, on what seems to be good au-
thority, that Immediately ON receiving Minis
ter Washburn's report Of the recent transac-
i, tions in Paraguay, decided and effective in
structions were given to our new minister
General Mcmahon, and also Rear Admiral Day.
10 to proceed With an adequate naval force to