The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-25

United States bonds, amounting to upwards OF
$27, 900, and decamped with the game to Tor
eign port, from which he has written cool
epistle setting forth that he has got nearly oil
the documents (bonds) safe yet, and ls wiinng
to make compromise.
"A new feature of political campaigning is
COON to be instituted by the Radicals, VINO
propose establishing "singing clubs" to per.
ambulate the country, and chant the praises OF
Grant and Colfax for ten dollars week and
travelling expenses. Horace Greeley ls tne
treasurer, to whom the faithful ara called
upon To send in their contributions. The
opening concert will be given in New York.
The Worlds Washington correspondent
SAYS: ssThere is not one word Of truth IN the
story of reported conversation in which
Tahd. Stevens is made to declare his belief
that the Radicals had been strengthened by
the Chicago nominations. On the contrary,
Mr.. Stevens says in private what he has said
in public, that he regards the New York plat
form and nominations as far stronger than the
Chicago platform and nominations. He is dis
gusted With his party, their candidates and
their programme"
"A rich merchant near Binghamton, New
York. arranged an elopement very nicely by
paying the girls father the estimated cost OF
her education and giving his own wife house
and $4,000 in money. The wife packed her hus-
bands trunk and bade him an afectionate fare
we'll, the father accompanied his daughter to
the depot, and the happy pair went OH to Cali
fornia. They repented and came back by the
return steamer, the husband deserted the girl,
who poisoned herself, and went back to his
wife, who received him sswith open arms" and
all are now presumably happy.
THE Menken has been i'll in Paris. LIE Gau-
lois tells how it happened: Son Sunday even
ing Miss Msnken arrived at hotel at BongI-
val, escorted by three young gentlemen, and
the whole evening the establishment was dis
turbed by the revelling of the party. AT a.
NJ. in the morning, three gentlemen had rolled
under the table in quiet helplessness, and the
fourth member OF the party preserved just sut-
icient consciousness. to crawl to bed. Inc
next day Miss Menken was compelled to keep
her room" The writer adds: s'For mercy sake,
Miss Ala, take things little more quietly"
Jeremiah Ezell, white man, was shot Sa-
turday night near Franklin, Tenn. A rurnor
prevailed during the day that the negroes in
tended to burn the town at night. Ezell and
others patrolled hesreets on horseback, and
rode out some distance from the town to re-
;connoitre, but, discovering no sign Of hostility,
they returned TO town and made report which
cuieted eli fears. A short time after Ezell and
three others rode just outside of the town and
we're fred upon by eight negroes in ambush,
Eze,l rsceiying:a wound from which he. died
Sunday. Great excitement prevailed Sunday
and Monday, but there was no outbreak.
Gov. Merrill, of Iowa, has pardoned Mrs.
Catherine McArdle, who has been in the State
Penitentiary four years. This old woman, full
OF maternal devotion, heroically sacrificed her
self to save her son from the gallows. The son ]
had killed his father, and the mother, toayert9
the doom from her offspring. claimed apG con-
fessed that it was, she who had committee the
murder, and on her OWL confession was con-
demned to be hanged. Gov. Stone commu-
ted her sentence to imprisonment for Life.
The poor woman, after one or two attempts to
commit suicide in the Jackson County jail, was
sent to the Penitentiary, and in the gloomy
clasp Of that prison she has been four years
waiting and praying for death. When she
was visited last fall, she was shrivelled in
body, and nearly so in mind. sixty-iye years
old. with her right arm palsied and helpless.
abandoned by all Of her blood, victim to
heroic notherly devotion, and with the light
Of earth, and seemingly that Of heaven, shut
from her-she was trply q pitiable object.
Many persons have interested themselves in
her behalf, and at last, through the kindness
of the Governor, the chains are stricken from
her Iimhs and she. ia once more free.