The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-26
NEW s So M M A K Y

-Washington wants to have general eA'
hibition OF American paintings this winter.
Preparations for the great Baltimore s@n-
.perfest IN July next are already being made.
We mourn with Brigham Young. He has
lost wife, and is one-seventy-ht OF q
.widower.
The North German steamship lines are ex-
tending. One has just been established be-
tween Hamburg and Valparaiso, Chill.
Franz Abt, the composer Of ''When the
Swallows Homeward Fly" and other popular
songs, will visit the United States next year.
"A man has been hanged at Chesterfield,
Va. for horse stealing, which is still a capital
offence in the Old Dominion.
--California, grape-groweIs, it is said, get
only three-quarters of cent pound for their
crop delivered at the wine press.
1t is suggested that the women of the
country take vote upon the question whether
or not they desire suffrage; and if that be de-
cided in the affirmative, it will be time enough
to agitate it.
The admission fee to the New York Gold
Room was on Saturday increased to $4,000,
with view, it is said, Of excluding irresponsi-
bic parties, who come in there simply to
gamble.
1t is 8 fact that gentlemen are beginning
to adopt the beautiful blonde" hair dye. They
apply it only to the moustache, and, with black
or brown hair, it produces q wonderful, and not
.unpleasing effect.
"A speciman chart, to be printed in colors,
showing the land, water, heights and other
matters of useful information, it is reported,
has been prepared By the Superintendent Of
the United States Coast Survey Department.
"A young German, of Milwaukee, shot him
self on Saturday, because an expected remit
tance from 'sFatherland" did net come. The
remittance came on Monday, in time to meet
the expenses of his burial.
1t is reported that distins suished Repub-
lican senator has asked the Secretary OF the
Treasury as to the policy which he will recon-
mend to Congress concerning the finances.
The reply was an increase of taxation.
The Winchester Times boasts Of the pros
perity Of the numerous woollen and cotton
factories of Frederick County, Va, (which
run day and night, turning out cloth, etc., as
good as can be purchased at distance, and
much cheaper" ,ola .-.e.
An "ex-medical officer OF the United States
army" shows, in q letter in the New York
World, that the mortality amongst the Con-
federate pris oners at Elmira, N. Y, was as
great as that among the Federal prisoners at
Andersonville. -
Il dispatch from New York says General
Grant has written lettsr to General Slocum,
Democrat, oongratulating him on his election
Ito Congress, and intimatng that there will not
probably be anything in the 1ext administra-
ton which moderate Democrat may not sup
port. -.
The New York Albion, long and favorably
known as an American organ Of British opin-
ion, has been purchased for $4,000 by Mr.. z.
CORVALLIS, journalist Of long experience
who proposes to enlarge its sphere of useful
ness and make it in every respect frst-class
paper
The =: project of tunnelling the East River
between New York ard Brooklyn, it is stated,
will be vigorously carried out, and plans for
laying down an iron tube between the two
cities will soon be advertised for by the COM
pany, which was incorporated for the purpose
last winter.
The question as to who shall be the
Speaker of the next House Of Representatives
is already agitating the Republican party.
Mr.. Blaine, Of Maine; Messrs. Banks and
Dawes, of Massa chusetts; and Mr.. Schenck, of
Ohio. are among those prominently mentioned
for the position.
"A bill has passed the Vermont Legislature
giving the body OF an executed criminal to any
regular medical school. unique argument in
favor of its passage was that the delivery OF
the body for dissection would add new terror
to the death penalty, and deter from the COM
mission OF crimei
An intimate friend of General Grant says
thatin his first message to Congress after be-
coming President he will recommend the
adoption OF an amendment to the constitution
providing that after any person has once held
the Presidential chat he shall not be eligible
to The same Office again.
1t is understood that General Grant will
not make an extended report as to military
operations during the past year, but will trans
mil the reports Of the various department and
. district commanders, with short letter call
ing attention to certain recommendations and
suggestions in such reports.
Bishop Duggan, of Illinois, has refused to
permit requiem mass to be celebrated in the
Chicago churches for the repose OF parties ex-
ecuted in Manchester, England, for participa-
ton in Fenian riot The Bishop grounds his
refusal on the principle that he did not wish to
have the church brought into connection with
any political party.
The Right Rev. Henry C. Lay has been
elected Bishop Of the new Protestant Fpisco-
pal Diocese of tEaston. Md. The convention
was held on Friday last, the goth inst, and the
vote was as follows: Clerical vote, IA for Bishop
Lay, and for DR.. Pinckney; laymen's vote, 20
for Bishop Lay, and 8 for DR.. Pinckney. At
the time Of his election to this new diocese
Bishop Lay was Missionary Bishop of the Dio-
cese of Arkansas.
Wendell Phillips is not content with con-
stitutional amendment which shal! secure i'm
partial suffrage in every State, in all votes for