The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-31
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Gold lower at s4aas4AA..
Cotton in New York advanced; iaiddlins ut
cents. Sales 5000 bales;
Cotton in Liverpoorwas active, with sales
.os On GOO bales. ~
"A Chinese printer works Or. the San Jose
: tGal) Mercury. ~
i. The little .Abyssinian Prince Theodore is at
.escheol inthe Isleef Wight, England.
The Siamese tyins are divided on the ques-
ton OF their division. Eng is o secessiopist'
,but Chang insists upon "the bond"
The New York Mail says thst Vermont and
Name will both grant suffrage females this
winter.
~: Peach spectators III g repairing
for next summers campaign by announcing
that the cod weather has'had bad effect on
the trees.
The Sultan has issued an edict Gberatins
Jerusalem forever from military service, and
from the payment of any taxes levied Oh ac-
count of military operations.
One Of the San Francisco papers has added
"a new feature to its birth, marriage and death
column" Divorces" This department. is as
well supported and as much pusic oonve-
nience as its companions.
The average age OF the new British Cabi-
net is fifty years and four months. The Oldest
member is Lord Clarendon, Foreign Secretary,
6s; and the youngest the Marquis of Harting-
ton, S5 y .ars old. MIR. Gladstone stands third
on the list.
The Mobile Register says that withina t tss;
last thirty days cotton plantation acres hare
risen three hundred per cent. in value. The
present crop will pay the planters all out Of
debt, and leave them such cash surpIuses as
they never rcjoiced in in the old slave times.
Travellers on thes0geeche road,, leading
to Savannah, are stopped at various points
and questioned by armed negroes. There are
armed and organized bodies of negroes on
every road leading to that city, who have Their
.pickets stationed al sho1t intervals to give no
tice of thc approach Of travellers.
1t is expected that The President will send
his veto of the Southern States Militia bill to
the House Immediately after the reassembling
OF Congress on the fifth Of January. 1t is said
that the veto will take the ground that as the
people have the right to bear arms, Congress
has no authority on the subject. 50. :.
The famous Schneider received a bracelet
va..ned OF fifteen thousand dollars. from an
Ershsh lord, during her visit to Baden-Bau~h.
The donors name and title were set in dia-
monds. eWha. pity" exclaimed the actress,
when she received it, 'that he is not a Spanish
nobleman-his name would have been so much
longer"
Turkey is making as good show as she
can before the meeting OF the European Con-
ference called to settle her difficulty with
Greece. The Turkish Government express
discrimination not to give up Crete-which is
al very well at the present time, and will be
oil very well until the Conference asks Tur-
key to give up Crete. If she be asked, she
will doubtless reconsider her deter mination;
and if not asked, it will look fine to have po-
remptoriIy refused.
1t is estimated by those who have some
knowledge of the subject, that ut present there
are, in round numbers, abou. /, $50 600 Free and
Accepted Masons scattered upon the face OF
the globe. OF this number some 150. 600 are in
England, 100000 in Scotland, and $4,000 in Ire
l and. There are about G00,OOO on the continent
of Europe, 100000 in the United States, and
50, 600 in other parts of the world. In England
there are two or three thousand persons initi-
ated every year, and the Masonic body is said
. to be everywhere increasing. .s
"A. Washington letter says Colonel Philip
r. Foney, son OF Colonel John W. Forney, en-
gagged in dispute with On army officer in
{ ront Of Wizards Hotel, or Friday evening,
and mutual friends suggested an adjournment
to Lincoln barracks. 1hither the young men
went. Seconds we're chosen, pistols were pre-
pared, shots were exchanged, and the duc|iipg
party ret 1rned to the city not much harmed.
President Lincoln appointed oung Forney to
q position in the regular army. but lie resigned
some timo ago, and was made clerk in the
Agricultural Department.
The Librarian of Congress has just made
his annual report. The library has been in
creased during the year b. eight thousand five
hundred volumes of books and about two thou
sand five hundred pamphlets. The whole nusa-
ber of volumes in the library is one hundred
and sevonty-thrce thousand nine hundred and
sixty-ive, exclusive of unbound pamphlets, Pc
riodicals, maps and manuscripts. The receipts
during the year under the operation of the
copyright law were about one thousand seven
hundred books and three thousand lour hun
dred pamphlets, periodicals, maps, ensrav-
ings, &c.
"A New York lettor to the Philadelphia
Ledger says: fsThe R;tualists here are quite
downcast at the decision OF the Queens Privy
Council in the Mackonichie case, as it has
been understood all along that, if the judgment
there was adverse to incense and altar lights,
Bishop Potter would suppress these practices
wherever they are in vogue in this diocese,
and especially at st. Adams, IN Forty-sevenh-
street. Of course English decisions in Ec-
clesiastical cases are Of no more binding effect
on the Episcopal Church here thai decisions
in OWL or criminal cases; but they have mo-
ral influence, nevertheless, under certain Cir
,cumstance, which, as in this instance, is not
to be overlooked"
-Messrs. Lathrop, Lud;ngton i Co., one of
the oldest and largest dry goods jobbing
houses in New York, suspended IN Saturday
last. They passed through the troubles of