The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-23
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active and shade frmer. Sales 48OO bales, al
31a314c.
At Liverpool cotton closed firm, active and
higher. Uplands, on the spot, 12ld.; aaoat
12ada12sd.; Orleans 12sd. Sales $4,000 bales
A French savant undertakes to prove that
Solomon's Temple was furnished with light
ming rods.
The Fenian circle Of Nashville have
agreed upon convention in May to raise
$500, 900 before making another raid.
The Western skating rinks are to be kept
open all summer, parlor skates on smooth
floor compensating for the veritable steel and
ice.
-Se7eral manuscripts, silver chaice, and
other articles of known antiquity, have already
been procured in Abyssinia for the British
Museum.
The prisoners in the Mississippi pententi-
ary are hired out to the planters under suth-
cient guards. In this way room is obtained
for the fresh convicts.
The proposed new opera house in Louis
vile, KY, il is announced, will be four sto ries
high, will seat eighteen hundred persons COM
fortably, and will COST s125.0OO.
The drama Of Oliver Twist, adapted from
Dickens, has beeninterdicted by the censor in
England. The scenes at the thief Fagin's
house were the Objectionable parts.
Henry Ward Beecher says in a recent SER
mon: "When men are insane they ought not
to be allowed to hang themselves, but when
men are fools-there is question"
in New York, the Legislature has passed
bill empowering railroad conductors to make
arrests, and giving them the authority OF spe-
cial policemen, the better to preserve order on
their railway trains.
"A number of stalks Of winter wheat grown
in Georgia, already headed, have been on e1-
hibition at the New York Produce Exchange,
and Judging from these portion OF the crop
would be ready for harvesting in about two
weeks.
Two influential curates Of the diocese OF
London recently announced by letter to the
Bishop of London that they had joined the
Church OF Rome. 1t is said that many other
clergymen OF the same diocese are about to
take the same step.
and three thousand endowed schools in Elg-
land. OF the endowed schools seven hundred
and eighty-two are classical and two thousand
two hundred and eighteen non-classical, or
devoted to the education of the laboring
classes.
The Galveston papers are warning the
Texans not to emigrate to Mexico In the hopes
of betteriDg their condition. That country,
they say, is too insecure for them to hope to
live comfortably, and the risks OF bandltti and
constant outrage are far worse than any dlsap-
pointment that may have been caused by the
failure of the rebellion.
The British authorities, some time ago,
imprisoned an Eishman, a Mr. Johnstone, IN
Downpatrick jail, for too great zeal in pro-
claiming the woes of his unfortunate country.
He has completed the term Of his sentence, but
will remain in jail month longer, preferring
to do that rather than give bonds to keep the
peace for six months. His friends propose to
compensate his sufferings By sending him to
Parliament.
-Forney, who has clamored so sayagely for
the impeachment of the President, is now un-
der impeachment himself A senatorial COM
mi,tee is to investigate the mysterious disap-
pearance OF $40, COO public money in the custo-
dy fthis cheudtier Gindustrie. Forney says
the money was stolen by his uncle, old MIR.
Wagner. The old man denies it. 1t is evi-
dent, from what occurred in the Senate about
the matter Wednesday, that Cameron, who
knows both men, and is good judge Of rogues,
believes that Forney is the thief.
There is somewhat of scare among the
Fenians in Canada sluce the murder of Thomas
DARCY MCGEE. A dispatch from Montreal
states that the Canadian Government has seiz-
ed the correspondence between the Circles In
Canada and the United States, and that many
prominent Fenians in Canada are leaving for
the United Statss in consequence. There is
also report that some of the documents seiz-
ed show that the assassination was plotted in
New York, and that the murder of MCGEE will
therefore form the subject Of diplom attic cor
respondence between the two countries.
There is some talk in New York about
race across the Atlantic between the City Of
Paris (Inman) and the Cuba (Cunard). The
latter is considered the crack boat of the Eng
lish line, while the City of Paris claims to have
made the quickest western passage ever ac-
compished (eight days twenty-five and half
hours). Mr.. Cunard is said to have made a
wsrer that the Cuba will arrive out first. Both
vessels sailed on Satm day, within a few min
utes of each other, amidst much excitement on
the part OF Their respective partisans on the
wharves.
The statement that Congress will take o
recess about the time of the Chicago Conven-
ton is not credited by the Baltimore Sun. 1t
saws: "Senator Sherman has solemnly warned
the majority in Congress that they dare not so
before the people in the next Presidential elec-
tion without having devised some acceptable
system in regard to the finances and the public
debt; and the question of internal taxation is
one of scarcely less Importance. Then the
fight on the tariff will be more bitter than ever
this year. Most of the large appropropriator
bills are yet to be acted upon. From this il
will be readily seen that there is plenty before
Congress to keep it hard at work fer three
months to come without taking recesses to at
tend politics conventions"
Tho s'Thames embankment" is at present
the subject OF admiration in London. The
Times says it Will be "one Of the finest quays
that any capital in Europe possesses" Several
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