The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-10
NEWS SUM M A r z.

b. .F-E2SA10n 9uLno(ltloS. enh0oA<So
nered visiting cards ,ty.,o:. =.
in New York, on Saturday, Gen. Rosecrans
and Hon. Hora6o Seymour had an interview at
the Astor House. ~ IT.gJU
sYo&,Albert Pike has retired from the editorship
.Eof the Memphis Appeal and gone to Waahing-
ton to practice law. !. O.. .
- The subscriptions for the shares Of the
French Atlantic cable. are being taken In Paris
and London with great rapidit "
.-.-Pollard's Political Pam phlet, is said to be
very successful or tn g FIRST number Lon, 600
copieswere circulat ed. .,.,1 ei.:-a.l
"A disrespectf ul. writer says thst4 the En-
press Engenis e1erts' her womsn's privilege
quite royalty by being in, an almost perpetual
quarrel with her husband. .i = 5.s.2D n
TIE extensive woollen and Touring mills Cd
the Shaker settlement, near South Union, KY,
were destroyed by an incendiary fire on the I'd
inst. Loss CSC, coo; no Insurance.
Herr LengeL tie hon tanner, was latelyb ad
lsbitten and tornby lion in Madison, Indi-
ana, twill probably survive.
New fprk is fercely erraged at the silly
Brooklyn paper which announced that! there
was no more, credit for Southern rnaraaazts
there. Baltimore rather Likes it.
THE Chicago Republican Of Monday says I:
.,aThe cattle disease Is now abating. The spe-
cific poison, whatever it was, which pervaded
the system of those unsound cattle, ls now
Welding to medical treatment" ..
The Democratic vote in Vermont has in
creased largely since 1854, while the Republican
spou remains the same. The Democracy has
notmade snch q show Of votes for twenty years,
and the Montpelier Argus says the vote for
Seymour and Blair would be &c. 600 to-day. d
= We see statement going the rounds that
Hon. Jefferson Davis viii be tendered the
presidency Of Randolph Macon College, at Ash
land. Virginia, 80 soon as he is freed from the
legal embarrassments by which he Is now fet-
tered.
The Richmond Wing says that 'it has
reached us in very direct way, that Mr. sey-
mom has expressed the opinion that q certain
gsseech OF q distinguished Southerner cost the
Democratic party Of the North two hundred
thousand votes" 80 :
Wool is so cheap and sheep 80 plentiful on.
the River Plate, South America, that many
. sheep are, being sstried out" for grease. AZ
they can be bought vt from twenty-five cents
to q dollar per head, it makes very good ousi-
ness st the present time, yielding something
{ likeore hundred Pc, cent. profit. -
I. II locomotive to be used on common roads
was recently successfully exhibited in Edin-
'bureh. II drew q train Of wagons, laden with
coal ssndwsighine thirty-two tons, distance
often miles, passing through the streets OF
sEdinburgh.l Some very crooked thorough
fares and sharp turniDgs had to be passed
through, and grades of one in sixteen aad one
inf,wefve hsd to bssascended.
business men Of Great Britain have
orpanized mutual protective societies through
Il ont the United Kingdom for supplying COM
iaeffcciisl niaeffcciisl information, collecting debts, and
{ Other amatsersc These societies now possess
" :, 2a5oo branches, and number about 2o,soo mem
sbers, forwhom, during the last YEA, 77,oo6 IN
quiriss hare been made. 81, 700 applied ior, and
$1abo; 600 collected, besides other assistance
!, rendered "a = . 40 .s,.9..-a ::
.ssoILThe platform said to have been presented
totChiei Justice Chase by The members Of the
National Democratic Convention, and accepted
/ by him, contains fifteen separate planks. Sy-
nopsiced, it. declares equal and exact justice
} to all men, to be applied within constitutional
limits: extends q hearty welcome to the South
ern States; recognizes the death OF slavery;
leaves the question OF suffrage to the States;
.favora universal amnesty; opposes centraliza-
tion and the encroachment Of one department
of the government upon the rights of another;
condemns military governments; insists upon
\ reduction Of the army and navy; encourages
Cansdian annexation; demands the protection
OF American citizens abroad;. asserts the ne
. cassity Of reform IN the conduct Of our In
dian, affairs; maintains the dignity OF labor;
ayows ssthat honor and duty alike require the
bonest payment of the public debt and the
faithful performance OF al public obligations;
but we do not admit that creditors, more than
any other men, are entitled to special favor in
the Interpretation Of the laws, by which their
rights and public duties are determined The
remaining propositions recognize the need OF q
! reform in the conduct OF public affairs, and
invite the cooperation Of all patriotic citizens
who are willing to unite in carrying it out.
,,a Judge Jeremiah s. Black has. entered the
CANVASS in behalf Of Seymour and Blair, and
made o telling speech at York, Pa, last week.
After reviewing the conduct of the political
parties to show that the friends Of constitu-
tio1al government we're the true friends Of the
nation, Judge Black proceeded to say: "rhe
consequence Of Rsdicalism is that we have the
most corrupt government on the face OF the
earth. cannot speak with perfect accuracy,
but I believe I am within reasonable bounds
when tell you that 8 thousand millions would
not cover the frauds committed since the close
of the war. We have the heaviest debt that
the industry Of any people ever struggled un-
der without being totally crushed, and it ia In
creasing instead of being diminished. We are
taxed enough to keep the government run
ming and to pay off the whole debt In ten years
il the money we're honestly applied But one
half the internal revenue imposed BY the Fed
eral Government and collected from the peo-
ple is stolen before it reaches the treasury, and
the other half is squandered by Congress in
schemes of the most extravagant corruption.
Before the war our current expenses were less