The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-26
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petroleum, direct for L,verpooi.
"A life of President Johnson, it ls sa'd' Is
:being written by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens.
Fifty dollars was paid for a single seat al
the Kellogg concert in New York.
-Connisseurs say August Belmont gives the
best dinners in New York.
All the Madrid journals which had sus-
pended their publication have reappeared since
the revolution.
A correspondent of the Macon tGeorela)
irelepraph thinks that this years cotton crop
will not Weld more than ]. SOC, 600 bales.
The Mikado of Japan has appointed su
-Tssno,ishman sslord high admiral" and another
superintendent of mines for that country
The Democrats of Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Indiana have cut the Radical minority down
so 1000 IN two years.
here is female Ku-Klux in Kentucky,
the Grand Cyclopsess OF which mas issued
oeneral order prohibiting the Grecian bend.
The French steamship company L oulldinS
three new steamers for the New York and haVre
line, and is altering all its paddle boats to scre"
steamers.
-Braxton Bragg was in Cincinnati recently
inspecting the water works, with view 10 ln-
Producing improvements in those OF New or-
leans, over which he presides.
Texas has had plague of erasshoppers'
They came in clouds that stretched as lar as
.tbe horizon, and obscured the light OF the sum-
eating every green thing in their course.
A contract has been de in Paris to buy
an the old having stones for the purpose
,,of shipping them across the Atlantic 10 De
snsea to pave the streets Of Buenos Ayres and
Montevideo.
Queen Victoria remains at Balmoral CASTLE
Scotland. 1t is said that heI Malestys heaitn
ia sill in so precarious state that she Will
not be able to bear the fatigues OF receipt ons
: and entertainments next season.
The Prince of Wales, it is said, refuses TO
be made Free Mason until the theory and
objects OF the order shall have been revealed
to him. His father, Prince Albert, was strong
! y opposed to secret societies.
"A farmer in Eastern Massachusetts has
made net profit Of four thousand dollars on
his on,on crop this year. Some of his neigh
bors are crying that they did not plant acres
OF the healthy esculent.
"A new insurance company in England has
been started to compensate such OF its mem
bers as may be turned out Of house or work
shop in consequence Of voting on the wrong
side.
1T is announced that the cost OF ship
canal across the Isthmus of Panama will be
only one hundred millions Of dollars. Mr.
Seward, Mr. Evarts, Peter Cooper, and other
distinguished men, are interesting themselves
i the project. It must be made
AT the charter election in Norwalk, Con-
uecticut, on Wednesday last, the Republicans
were badly beaten. The Democrats carried
their ticket by one hundred and twenty-seven
majority gsin of eighty-seven votes over
last years election.
The Spanish ministry, according to the
stest foreign adyices, will be composed OF the
following persons: President, Marshal Fran
cisco Serrano; Minister Of War, General PIlm;
Of the Navy, Admiral Topete; OF Finance,
Senior Flguerola; Of Foreign Affairs, Senior
Lorcngana: Of Justice, Senior Romero Ortiz;
of the Interior, Senior Sagosta; of the Colonies,
Senior Ayala; of uDIc Works, Senor Ruiz Co.
rilla.
The Cars visit to Warsaw was attended
with the most remarkable precautions for his
safety. The police entered all houses on the
route OF the imperial procession and searched
the premises for concealed arms and assassns.
The owners Of the houses and the principal
tenants were notified that they would be held
responsible for any attack on the Car. Mas
tiers were made responsible for allowing their
apprentices to go out into the streets, and the
school teachers were compelled to form patrols
to watch their pupils.
Washington correspondents state that Gov
ernor Scott, of South Carolina, has applied to
the War Department for assistance in preser-
wing the peace of that State. General Scho-
field replied that, according to the evidence
presented, only individual murders had been
committed, which necessitates first the inter-
vention of the civil officers of the State, and if
they failed, then the State militia could be used,
and If they were exhausted, the Executive
could thereupon call upon the Government Of
the United States for troops to quell domestic
-insurrection.
1t is reported that an attempt will be made
at the next session of Congress TO have the
Frsedmen's Bureau continued for at least
another year, from the 1st of next January, for
the prote ction Of freedmen as well as for their
education ana the collection of their bounty,
pensions and back pay. General Howard has
been appealed to In order to obtain his in
,fuence to that end; but he declines to recon-
.menI the measure, while, at the same time, he
admits that The necessity for protection OF the
freedmen's rights sill exists.
-The Republican, the Radical paper in New
Orleans, gives up both Louisiana and Arkan-
sas to the Democrats, in its estimate OF the
probable result OF the Presidential election. 1t
estimates the electoral vote as follows: Grant
and Colfax 176; Seymour and Blair 11s; but has
to claim all the following and doubtful States
for Grant to make up the 176, viz: Indiana ID;
New Hampshire 5; Wisconsin 8; Minnesota 4;
West Virginia s; North Carolina 9. The two
last named States. especially, are confidently
claimed by the Democrats.
The Union Pacific Railroad will in few
..days be so far completed, that passengers, by
travelling continuously, may pass over the line