The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-11
NEW s sU MI M A r Y

Gold reached S72 but closed at S73.
In Liverpool the market closed STEADY;
prices unchanged.
Cotton in New York closed at 16lc for Mid
ilings.
The Pope has received s62O,oOO from
France, England and Ireland.
The Turkish Sultan is threatened with
pulmonary consumption.
-Henry Ward Beecher made $4,000 out OF
his farm last year.
Fifty thousand dollars worth OF spruce
gum is manufactured annually in Maine.
1T will come hard tor Napoleon to send a
minister to Juarez's court but he will have to
do it.
The Savannah National Bank has declared
the extraordinarily large dividend Of thirty
seven and half per cent.
General sickles has been elected Grand
Commander Of the Radical organization known
as the Grand Army Of the Republic.
MIR. James Collins, halter by trade, fell
into ditch whilst walking near Richmond,
Va, few evenings ago, and was found after
wards dead by suffocation.
Archbishop Purcell, Of Cincinnati, has sent
Bishop Dubois, of Texas, one thousand dollars
four hundred f.~ the Sisters Of Charity at
Brownsville, and six hundred for their hospital
in Galveston.
Speaking OF the great pictures on the walls
of the rotunda at the Capitol, a correspondent
says: washington looks as if he were just
about to join in promenade of all hands
round with the Genius Of Fame, whose face
and figure is said to be a very good likeness OF
one Of the most stylish and fashionable OF the
denaa monde of Washington"
"A Paris letter says: 9Th walking costumes
are narrow aud spanned aprons in front, with
the same behind, over q short founced silk
underskirt. The said aprons are open on the
eides and rounded. am told they show Oh
the figure to per. .ection, which is thing no
one can deny; but these, no more than bathing
costumes, dripping with water can be called
supreme elegance"
Queen Vlctoria's new work, "Leaves from
the Journal Of Life in the Highlands from
1s4s to 1861" is soon to be published. 1t is
seoue. to her former volume, ''The Life OF
Prince Albert" and to it are prefi1ed ard added
extracts from the same journal, giving an ac-
count OF s.Earlier Visits to Scotland, and 1ours
in England and Irtl land, and Yachting E1cur-
si,ns." The particulars it promises OF the lie
nA..-t- <s 1T Hn-.tEla Ia
known to the world, will doubtless cause it to
be de with interest.
The Round Table suggests the nam OF
Counsellor O'Conor as candidate for the
Presidency, and says be ''unites the singular
person.l advantages Of rpe experience, COM
manding abilities, the highest position In the
country as co .stitutonal lawyer, and an un-
blemished private and political reputation to
those OF never having been a seeker Of office,
and possessing the unbounded confidence OF
his r,arty. O'Conor and Hancock would form
a brilliant and powerful combination, the
chances for whose success would be more
likely to increase than to diminish with time."
"A New York correspondent writes: "How
the condition Of the South is regarded may be
inferred from the report of our leading MGR
chants who have just returned from tour OF
observation. 'Hor did you find matters down
there p 1 asked. Better than with US, was
his reply. How SOP asked, somewhat sur
prised at the remark. Because they have
touched bottom Il. E. seen the worst), and we
haven't There was never, he went on to say,
such an opportunity for the investment OF
capital as the South now offers, and he pre-
dlctsd an early return OF prosperity, II not a
period Of considerable speculative excitement,
not unlike that which, more than thirty years
ago, swept over the West, and laid the founda-
ton, amid the wreck of many fortunes, of its
subsequent ,apid growth and development"
The New York labor market is the subject
Of sketch by the New York Herald. 1t says
that, although business is dull, there IS no.
thing in the situation to excite In business cir
cles any apprehension of panic. Most of the
manufacturing establishments are keeping on
the usual complement Of hands, and at the old
rate of wages, but are working on half time.
"Half loaf is better than no Bread" and 80 the
workmen consider it, and working on reduced
time is much more satisfactory than atreduced
wages. The workmen comprehend the fact
that busines is dull and act accordingly. The
tailors, hatters and clerks are at present the
employment to any extent, and discharges
among these classes are looked for at the pres.
ent season. About one-third of the clerks in
the retail stores have been dismissed. There
have been no discharges from the large ex-
press com panies. The hotels are not quite as
crowded as they have been, but there is very
little falling off from the usual average at this
season. The receipts of the savings banks
show some, but no great diminution. The
worst state of affairs exists along the wharves.
From the shpyards nearly all the men are dis
charged. There is little doing at machine and
boiler shops, and, with the general lassitude
Of business along the river, longshoremen find
their occupation gone. Barges and towboats
lie clustered in unoccuped slips, having no.
thing to do. There is a great stagnatlon of
business among the pilots.
The advantages Of the South as o field for
swindlers and adyenturers is beautifully shown
in the career Of fellow named Hanna, in
Texas. At the close Of the war ho came to
Houston from some part OF the North ant
taught a colored school. This not beng re-
markably lucrative, or not giving full enough
scope to his talent, he turned his attention to
less intellectual pursuits, making living
nobody knows how, until short time ago he
seemed to have found his sphere as a general
agent, setting up an intelligence Office, adyer-
tising largely, and apparently getting con-