The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-10
NEW s s U M M A r Y


Cotton closed in Liverpool active, though
with q decline Of i'd. Uplands in port, It'd;
to arrive, 65d. Sales 10000 bales.
Cotton in New York closed dull and de-
olinlny. Sales 1900 bales, at 16a16}c., closing
al Ice.
"A Georgia Convention delegate was caught
by railroad conductor trying to get nome on
half-fare ticket.
An Englishmsn pays quarter Of million
in Mexican dollars for the monopoly OF the
gambling business in Hong Kong.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt In Ma
comb, Depeyster, Lisbon, Hervelton and other
little towns in northern New York, on the 3lst
ultlmo.
1t is intimated from Washington that the
President is about to dispatch Gen. Sherman
ON a mission to the South, in order to ascer-
tain the real condition Of things there, and to
report what measures Of relief ara necessary.
The various steamship lines plying between
New York and European ports, OF which there
are nine, transported during the past year
292 os1 passengers. LOIS, ,2T7 tons Of cargo and
$46, 1S5 734 in specie.
in consequence Of the recent disclosures
relative to the management Of warehouses; in
England, tits understood that royal comalis-
sion will shortly be ISSUE to Inquire generally
into the managetn ,nt Of warehouses; through
out the country.
The Germans are in ecstacies over the
marvellously cheap editions CT their standard
poets, which the leading publishing house:
offer them since the valuable copyrights have
expired. Sohiller's poems, neatly printed on
fine paper, can now be bought for five cents.
Mr.. Thornton. the new British Minister to
Washington, is to receive salary Of $4,000
in gold. Sir Frederick Bruce received s22 500,
but as he was scarcely able to get along on
this salary, it has been augmented to the
above su q in Mr.. Thornton's case.
The Home Journal having been condemn
ed FOR publishing engagements Of marriages,
retorss that it makes it's publications on the
authority and with the consent Of the ladies'
concerned. and that more information Of this
sort was furnished than could be published.
The London Times says that the next ses.
sion Of the English Parliament, which begins
February 18th, will pc chiefly devoted to Ire
land, whose great grievances it admits. The
Fenlans have, after all, not labored IN vain, If
they extort such confessions as these.
-rho-uafes..aaaAtoP Ps, ;s;s mo who hold Maxi
milians Mexican loan had meeting in Paris
recently. at which it was stated that the total
amount OF this lean WAS $5s, ,seo, 4A in gold.
Unless France assumes this loan, which at
present it is very unwilling to do, all this
money will be lost.
"A movement is reported to be on foot
looking to the holding Of general congress Of
the South American republics al an cary date,
either in Washington or In New York, to draw
up treaty pledging themselves to resist
foreign aggression upon any part OF South
America.
The Duke de Luynes. one Of the richest
noblemen in France, died recently Of cold
contracted while attending the military hos
pitals in Rome. The Duke, who was rather
liberal in his politics, h.d astonished his
friends by giving up the pleasures Of duoal life
for the service Of the Papaey.
Baltimore last year was port at whiok
consi Jerable number Of immigrants landed.
The total for the year footing up 10, ,75S Of whom
9,225 came in sailing vessels, and the others in
steamers. The greIter number Of these immi-
grants were farm laborers, and some brought
money with them, in sums from 5000 to $500.
"A new Insurance Company is to be started
In New York. called the Homeopathic Mutual
Insurance Company, with $780, capital. It's
charter provides that persons who adopt the
Homeopathic treatment Of diseases will be in
sured at "judiciolis y reduced rates." as COM
pared with those adhering to the ADopathio
method.
"A New York paper thinks SIT Is surprising
that speaker 80 polished and scholarly as Mr.
Gladstone should use the word leniency' when
there is ID the language the better and more
correct word 'lenity." Perhaps Mr.. Gladstone
thinks there is more euphony in 'lenienoy.'
The choice Of word frequently depends on
the construction Of sentence.
"A Mr.. Hadden has submitted to the Br.
tsh authoriE q q singular plan for laying a
temporary railway for the transportation OF
English troops in Abyssinia, the novelty in the
road being the sleeoers, which be proposes to
construct Of Aattened cylinders OF sheet iron,
closed at one end, and whicl., when once pl:ced
In position, Q to be we'll rammed with SAM
or earth, and then closed also at the other
snd. Little or no last is required, and the
rails are secured TO the sle.pers by olip-pleces,
one riveted Oh and the other made to turn like
door-buttou.
"A Washington correspondent OF the Gin.
cinnati Gazette says that the opinion is gain.
ing ground there that the President has been
''underated." Whereupon the New York Times
observes that '1tis by no means 30 fashionable
as it was a year ago to denounce him as utterly
incompetent and powerless. We think it not
at all unlikely that this mistake has been
made. President Johnson's Messages and other
State papers Will compare favorably, IN point Of
ability, force and effectiveness, with those OF
any President we have ever ha i; and the
steady determination with which he has ad-
hered to his orlgioal policy is beginning to
have an effect even upon those who dissent
most widely from it."
Mrs. Francis Ann Kemble has consented
to give course of dramatic readings from
shakspeare's plays, in Philadelphia and other
principal cities, commencing in Washington
on the first of March. These entertainments,
Is heretofore given by Mrs. Ksmble, are Of the
most intellectual as well as interesting charac-
ter, she being one Of the most accomplished
elooutionists and scholorl,, st,5.t ~ SLI,