The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-11
NE w s SU M M A r Z

3Ss on the streets.
Cotton in New York yesterday was NOR
STEADY, with sales of $500 bales at 291a3Oc.
Five hundred dollars is the entrance fee t
a London club called the Serene de Ia Creme.
The proposed underground railroad il
New York will, it is said, cost over two million
per mile.
Father McMahon, one of the Fenian pris
oners in Canada, is reported to be at the poin
of death.
The eldest son of Lola Montez has resign
ed his commission in the Bavarian army, retir
ing on neat fortune which came to him Oh
the death of the old king.
1t is said that Mr. George Peabody, tn
great London banker and philanthropist, WHIT
recently visited Rome and had an interview
with the Pope, has become convert to tht
Catholic Church.
Poland is no longer in existence. Russis
has abolished even the local government, and
declaring her an integral part of the Russian
empire, has handed over the control of her con
Germs to the Imperial authorities.
The Protestant Churchman" thinks thai
it is probably impossible that the old relations
of the differentparties in the Episcopal Church
can ever be resumed
-vauban, the famous winning horse Of last
season in England, brought only $4,000 when
sold with the rest of the Duke of Beaufort's
stud. Jerome and Forbes paid nearly twice
as much for Kentucky.
Greeley refused to speak in Connecticut
during the late canvass because the Connect.
cut papers and politicians last year censured
him for going on JEFF. Davis bail bond.
in Liverpool at present there are said to
be 10000 poor persons who are receiving relief,
whilst 5000 others are in tho parish work
houses. These figures show that one in every
eleven Of the population of Liverpool is a
pauper.
The Mayor of Portland, Maine, in his last
message, announces that the public buildings
destroyed by the fire OF 1866, have been re-
built, and that the city bonds are selling at
higher rates than those Of most other cities in
the Union.
For the better viewing of the approaching
eclipse Of the sun, on Angus. 18th, which will
be total in India, various expeditions have
been sent from England to that country. One
of these expeditions goes out with photo
graphic apparatus, and will have its expenses
paid by the British Government
Correspondents in Ireland write that the
exodus from that country to the United States
has again begun, and that all the steamers
coming to America and also numerous sailing
vessels, are filed with emigrants. The various
ports Of Ireland are also filled with smigrants
awaiting passage, and the majority are said to
be from sixteen to twenty five years Of age.
Hungarian troops are hereafter to garrison
Hungary, and in this and other measures
which have been taken to conciliate that coun-
try Austria shows the greatest wisdom. Hun
gary, once rebelious, is now believed to be
quite firmly allied to Austria-a judicious at
tention to the wishes of her people having
changed hatred to loyalty.
AT Toulon, in France, school has been es-
tabIshed on board an old frigate, for the
study Of torpedoes. Experiments are to be
tried in the harbor. All the FIVE great French
naval ports, Brest, Cherbours, L'Orient, Ro-
chefort and Toulon, are now defended by gi-
gantic sunken torpedoes, which can be e1-
.ploded in q second by electric wires.
1t is denied from Washington that General
Grant has publicly expressed himself in favor
of the conviction of President johnson. The
statement, however, is reiterated by others.
One Radical senator is reported to have said
he had better keep look out for his own head.
It is understood that court Of inquiry is talk
ed of in official quarters.
"a dispatch from Jamaica states that the
British Admiralty, in anticipation Of trouble
arising on account of the Alabama claims con-
troversy, has been calling home to England
the seamen in the colonies for the purpose Of
serving in the ron-clad fleet. Orders have
also been given to fortify Port Royal, Jamaica,
and great activity is reported in all the dock
yards on the island.
I'm England lately, the Confederate cotton
loan holders have been importuning the For
eign Secretary to take steps to secure the pay
ment of their bonds by the United States.
When asked to recognize these bonds, Lord
Stanley replied: "If mixed commission to
adjust the differences between this country
and America should ever be appointed, these
claims might be submitted to it."
The Paris Exposition has awarded to the
Pacific Mills, of Lawrence, Mass, prize OF
$1,000 in gold for its success in securing har-
mony between employers and employed, and
in advancing the welfare Of the operatives.
The Exposition gave ten awards for superior
ity in this respect, and among five hundred
competitors, nine were chosen from European
countries, none from Great Britain, and this
one from the United States.
Prussia having organized her army as
much as it is possible for her ct present to do
the last mail reports that she is laboring at an
augmentation of her navy. shipbuilding
company, for the construction oflarse ships o
war, has been established by government aid
at Kiel, and Krupp's steel works at Essen are
being enlarged, so as to be able to construct
the steel plates for armor. Two armor-plated
-corvettes of six and eight guns ere being built
for the Prussian navy at Dantzic.
"A letter from Lexington, Virginia, says
General Lee was recently confined to his
room for some days, but he is now performing
his usual duties. think there is very per.
ceptible change in him since he came to Lex
ington. This life of confinement does not agree
with him. He lacks that lightness OF step and
briliancy of eye that were peculiar to him wher
he commanded his fiery leoions at Chancellors