The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-18
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bales; Uplands, on the spot and ahoat, 1Otd.
Miss Bessie Aleyne (Lady Eardley No. q
will soon return to the English stage.
MIR. George Strodell, Of Huntingdon, Ind,
aged sixty-six, is the father Of thirty-three
children.
The Prince of Wales will soon make visit
to Ireland, where he is to be made Knight OF
the Order Of st. Patrick.
Ex-Governor Henry S. Foote was received
into the communion of the Methodist Church,
in Nashville, on Sunday last.
The printers of New York on Friday held
preliminary meeting for the purpose of form
ing printers life insurance company.
The President has telegraphed Gen. Han
cock to come to Washington forthwith. AS
vet it has not been determined that he shall
be relieved.
1t is stated that the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs will this week take up for final
action the subject of an appropriation for the
purchase of Alaska.
The New York Sun suggests that Presi-
dent johnson be deposed on the ground that
he is insane, and intimates that he has become
so through eatlnS opium.
Pierre Carme has accepted the challenge
of Mr.. John Deery to play any man in the
world French game of billiards five hundred
points, upon carom table, for $1,000.
General Butler says that he will be relieved
from his arduous duties as a manager Of i'm
peachment by the first OF May, and has made
arrangements to take his family home to Mas
sachusetts at thet time.
Professor Anderson, the well known itine-
rent juggler and ''Wizard of the North, killed
his little son in Cincinnati last week, and i'm
mediately after shot himself through the head.
Cause, infdelity OF his wife.
-BarIum gives notice that he has retired
forever from the museum business, so that all
the reports about his negotiations for this and
that other establishment, in order to start
business afresh, are incorrect.
Judge Fisher, ofthe Supreme Court of the
District Of Columbia, refused, last week, to
surrender prisoner on the requisition of
Governor Pierpoint, Of Virginia, because Vir-
giuia was not q State in the Union.
Mr.. Stanton took advantage Of the balmy
weather on Sunday to give himself another
airing. he promenaded around the War De-
partment square for an hour or more, accom-
panied by his little boy, and with an armed
soldier following closely at his heels.
Mrs. Stowe, in her book, says Of her
brother, Henry Ward Beecher, that he wentto
her school when eleven years Of age, but that
ssatter about six months, Henry was returned
to his parents with the reputation Of being an
inveterate joker and an Indifferent scholar"
in London the securities of the United
States are quoted below those Of Turkey,
Chill, Peru and Morocco. Even the Denmark
securities of four per cent. interest sell higher
than the six per cent. bonds Of the United
States. Such is our credit in Europe. How
was it in the good old days of Democratic
rule
Correspondence from Panama states that
outrages continue upon foreigners, who are
shot and otherwise maltreated by the natives,
without the government interfering on their
behalf. At the time the last mail lett, petit
ton was being signed by Americans on the
Isthmus, addressed to the authorities, asking
better protection.
AT convention of iron manufacturers in
Pittsburg, on Thursday, in which there were
representatives from Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Wheeling, New Castle, Buffalo, and other
places, an advance Of from one-quarter to one
half cent. per pound was agreed upon on the
various kinds of iron, and nails were advanced
twenty cents per keg.
The Democrats in New Hampshire, at the
late election, reduced the Radical majority
nearly one thousand votes, gained for their
own ticket over four thousand, and made a
net gain of twenty-four representatives in the
legislature. This is doing well, and the same
ratio Of reduction and increase will give the
Democracy the country in November.
"A set of bogus lawyers of New York are
sending circulars over the country calling at
tention to their efforts to secure justice to the
victims OF gift enterprise swindles by collect
ing the prizes purporting to be drawn, but
never delivered. They simply ask their clients
to send along two dollars with their claims,
which will be promptly followed up to settle
ment.
The new st. James Hotel, in Boston, is six
stories high, extending one hundred and ninety
feet on Newton-street and two hundred and
fifteen feet on James street. The Newton
street front is adorned with towers eighty
eight feet high at either end, and one in the
centre one hundred and ten feet high, the roof
being Mansard. The hotel is leased to James
P. NJ. Stetson, late Of the Astor House, New
York.
General Lorenzo Thomas, the great an
tagonist of the redoubtable Stanton, made his
appearance before the Board of Managers Of
Impeachment on the part Of the House of
Representatives last Saturday, and testified
that at the Presidents reception on Monday he
vas approached by gentleman from New
castle, Del.-an old acqualntance-who spoke
of the present political troubles, and advised
General Thomas to stand firm. The General
replied, s'Am not standing firm?" eyes, ~
was the answer; 'sbut you must kick that fel-
low out-Stanton." '.We will do that the
General replied. The latter also stated to his
Delaware friend that he recognized AIr. STAN
ton only as a private citizen, and would obey
no orders, emanating from him; that he (the
General) was the Secretary OF War, and none
other. General Thomas, it is reported, repeat
ed the last before the committee, and told them
that such was his intention; that he would
obey no orders OF Mr.. Stanton nor recognize
him save as private citizen.