The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-28
NEW s sU M M A IsY

Gold was quoted in New York yesterday
at SS!.
Cotton closed in New York Yesterday frmer
at 26c. Sales $4,000 bales.
In Liverpool, cotton was quoted on the
spot 1Old.; to arrive 1O5d. Sales 5000 bales.
Prussia is not little disturbed because
the chiefs of the Wurtemberg and Bavarian
Cabinets have had an interview. Visions of q
South German Confederation float before the
eyes of Bismarck.
-'Echoes from the Clubs relate that when
a young and enthusiastic clergyman expressed
wish, in the presence of the Bishop OF Exc
ter, that there were preachers III tho Church
of England as eloquent as Spurgeon, the
prelate dryly remarked, 'Thou ahalt not covet
thy neighbours ass"
In East Tennessee, at various places where
there are veins Of copper, zinc and Iced ore, it
is said that excavations have been found that
must have been made hundreds OF years be-
fore that country was settled by the present
white people. Some of these excavations are
very extensive, and the rocks seem to have
been fractured by heating and throwing water
upon them. Speculation is rife IS to who
did it,
From Italy it is announced that, owing to
the eruption OF Mount Vesuvius, there seems
to be some danger of new engulfment of the
partly buried city Of Pompeii; and also that
lately another ancient city has come TO the
surface. Traces Of large ancient town near
Castranova, in Sicily, high up on the Cassera
Mountains, have been discovered, and excaya-
tions are to be begun without delay.
During the carnival, Victor Emmanuel
square in Turin, said to be the largest square
in Europe, was converted into an immenae
open air theatre, the pit of which contained
81, 900 people. On the stage were represented
the birth and career Of Gianduja, the Turin
harlequin, in, as the play y-bil has it, a "Non-
plusultragicomi ioopirotecnicom-
Observation-Disclosures ACCOMPLISHMENTS All
one." We have mislaid all our dictionaries.
The New York Times says: cit is curl
ous fact that the demand for children for
adoption is in advance Of the supply. The
number Of toundlings received by the police
was one hundred and seventy six in 1867, and
this is an increase on the previous year; yet
the authorities of the Home for the Friendless
and other benevolent associations assert that |
they are unable to meet the demand for
healthy infants for adoption. The number of
persons without children Of their own, who
wish to have child to bring up, is large and
increasing. Girls are preferred to boys, and
even crippled children are not refused.
The racing Of the Derby evidently does not
afford sufficient field for the English mania
for betting. noble lord, it is announced, has
laid an even wager that on that great day he
will leave Gracechurch-street, driving his drag,
at the same hour that a female pedestrian |
leaves the Plough at Clapham, and will arrive |
at the grand stand before her. The woman is |
ifty-6ve years old, and the start is four and |
half miles in seventeen. 1t is said that 'the |
odds are now five to four on the petticoat," for
of course great many others besides the no
BILE lord will win or lose on this novel match.
a private letter from Buenos Ayres gives |
some particulars of the fearful ravsges Of the
cholera in South America. The number of
deaths in the city Of Buenos Ayres ran up dur
ing the month Of December from & fteen to one |
hundred and thirty per day, and at the date of |
writing (January 25th) had decreased to a |
general average Of more than seventy. The |
disease spread into the neighboring country, |
where its effects were dreadfully manifested. |
One town which, before the cholera, had three
thousand inhabitants, has now but two hum
dred, and others were literally depopulated. |
Medical assistance was not easily obtained, |
the dead were hurried into their graves coffin
less, and with no form of burial. there was a |
universal panic among the people.
"A letter from Rome, dated February 29th,
says that Mr.. George Peabody and Hon. Robert
C. Winthrop we're presented to his Holiness,
the Pope, last week. The Pope was fully aware
of the character of his visitors, whom he re-
-quested to be seated in his presence, an un-
usual mark Of distinction. A delicate token of
Pho Nono's appreciation of Mr.. Peabodys uni
versal benevolence was afforded by the Latin
quotations from Holy Writ, showing the bless
ed quality Of charity, which he wrote with his
own hand under some Photographic ikenesses
Of himself, which he presented to the party as
soav enirs of the visit. On retiring from the
Pope's audience, these gentlemen were pre-
sented to Cardinal Antoneli. The conversa-
ton turned on the hospital of San Spirito,
among other charitable institutions, and Mr.. |
Pea body no sooner returned to his hotel than
he TO rwa1ded a check of one thousand francs
to the Cardinal in aid of that hospitals funds"
An extraordinary tragedy has been enact
ed at Todmorden, England. The Rev. Ar.
Plows, the incumbent Of the Parish, Mrs.
Plows and several of the servants, were at
tackled, on the night of the I'd inst, by
suitor of the maid servants, who had been dis
charged on account of his visits. Armed with
a hatchet and pistol, the man made furious
attack on Mr.. Plows and frightfully mutlated
him about the head. He next attacked the
female servants, and housemaid was shot
dead. The murderer then armed himself with |
a poker and proceeded to the bedroom in
which Mrs. Plows was lying, and where she
had recently given birth to child. Stripping |
down the bedclothes he fred at Mrs. Plows,
but the ball did not take effect. He next at
tackled her sayagely with the poker, inhicting |
severe scalp wounds. breaking her nose and
otherwise injuring her. While in the act OF
striking another blow at her, his arm was