The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-06

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before their store, East Bay, hams and shoul-
ders.
MILES DRAKE will sell at 10 o'clock, at his
store, corner of King and Liberty streets,
dry goods, hats, &c.
JOHN g.. MILNoR & Co. will sell, at IU
o'clock, in their salesroon, No. 135 Meeting
st., choice stock OF seasonable dry goods &c.
A CoLoRED MAaIsrRATE.-R. G. DeLarge,
colored member of the Legislature, has been
appointed by Gov. Scott magistrate for
Charleston County.
THIEF ARRESTED. rday Ben. Boree,
freedman, who had stolen three bolts Of calico
from Messrs. Strauss Vance & Co., on Satur-
day last, was arrested by the police and lodged
in the guardhouse.
TEE STREET RAILRoAD.-The following
change Of schedule on the street railroad Will
be pleasant news to many business men: On
and after the 9Th instant all the cars will run
to the Broad-street terminus, except four cars,
which will run to the Battery during the day
until 817 P. NJ. The last car on each line will
leave Broaa-street at $50 p. NJ.
EXPORTS OF CORN AND FLOUR. 1T is fact
worthy of note that the steamship Promethe-
us has cleared from this port tor Philadelphia
with g quantity Of corn as part OF her cargo,
and that she could have obtained much more
if she could have spared the room. Some corn
ms baen already shipped this season for Bos-
,ton, and the exoorts of flour to New York have
been considerable.
QUICK RuN.-The schooner N. ". Smith,
Captain Tooker, arrived at this port yesterday
forenoon, from New York, in about seventy
two hours passage, having left New York on
Thursday. and reached the bar on Sunday al
ternoon, but the heavy weather detained her
outside. The N. W. Smith belongs to the line
of New York packets consigned to MIR. W.
Roach.
ARMY CHANaEs.-Among the changes in the
stations of the officers Of the Ordnance Depart
ment we note the following:
Captain S. C. Syford. from the st. Louis Ar
:senal to the Charleston Arsenal, South Caro-
lima.
Captain F. b. Parker, from the Charleston
Arsenal to Rock Island, Illinois.
The SPECIAL PoLIcE.-The number Of apph-
cations for places as special policemen regis
tered at municipal headquarters yesterday was
.one hundred and twenty. Only about fifteen
or twenty were white men, most, it not all, OF
them OFT of employment, and some Of them
men who had been employed on the police if-
teen or twenty years ago. Beyond registering
the names, residence and references Ut the ap-
,plicants, no actlcn was taken.
REPUBLICAN MEETING AT SUMMEhvnLE.-At
Republican meeting held at Summerville, on
Saturday, at q call from the friends of Joseph
H. jerks, to ratlfy his nomination for Con-
.gress, E. W. II. Mackey, F. j. Moses, Jr., J. J.
Wright, &. W. Il. Lee and B. F. Randolph, OF
the Bowen party, Unexpectedly appeared upon
the scene. The result was that the meeting,
consisting of about three hundred negroes, ra-
tiled the nomination ofC. @. Bowen for Con-
.gress.
FIRE IN GEORGETOWN, S. O.-Quite de-
sstructive confagration took place in George
town, s. c., on Thursday night last, the
fire com mencing in the bakery of MIR. N:
Emanuel, and it passed from there to num-
Der of small stores in the vicinity, some nineo or
ten of which were destroyed The names of
the parties OF the amount Of the loss We could
not learn. A second fire broke out fewheurs
after the above, in the store OF Mr. Ellis, which
was also burned.
THE PUBLIC ScHooLs.-The exercises OF the
public schools were resumed yesterday, and,
notwithstanding the unfavorable weather, there
was large attendance OF scholars. number
of pupils were promoted from the st. Philip
street Public School to the Normal School;
number of little girls in the latter made happy
by being promoted from lower to higher classes.
The public schools have, ever since their re-
opening after the war. been the only source OF
instruction open to many OF the children OF
Charleston, and it is fortunate that they have
been so well conducted. They challenge compar-
ison, not in extent, but in efficiency, with the
public schools of any other city in the United
States. '-
IRISH DEMOCRATIC ClUB.-A large and en-
thusiastic meeting of the Irish Central Demo-
cratic Club was held at Hibernian Hall last
night. Mr. James F. Slattery presided, and
interesting addresses were delivered by Messrs.
Armstrong, Cosgrove and Kenny. Resolutions
were adopted ratiying the nomination OF Sey-
mour and Blair, and expressing determine
ton to harmonic and work with the German |
element, and declaring y hope OF victory in
November. a resolution was also adopted for
the appointment of forty-eieht vice-presidents,
six from each ward. The resolutions and
addresses were received with much applause,
and the whole proceedings showed that the
Irish Democrats of Charleston were alive to
the interests and Jealous in the, cause of the
party.
COURT OF CHANcEhY.-The Fall Term OF the |
Court commenced yesterday, Chancellor Le-
sesne presiding.
After the sundry orders had been passed,
Edward McCrady Esq, presented to the Court
the preamble and resolutions adopted by the
Bar at meeting held upon the occasion of the
death of Mr.. Tupper, late one of the Masters
in Equity.
Mr.. McCrady, on behalf of the Bar, askcd
that they may be entered upon the minutes OF
the Court-which motion was granted by Chan
cellor Lcsesne, after a few remarks expressive
of his full sympathy with this first tribute to