The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-10
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Blue coats ana DraS5 DutIOuS are re'lfluS W
England.
There will be another royal baby in the
Prince of Wales household in few months.
New York is to have company for the in.
surance of plate glass windows against break
age.
Governor Brownlow very modestly recon-
mends that the Tennessee railroads pass the
delegates to Radical Conventions at half fare.
The annual catalogue of the University Of
North Carolina shows one hundred and fifteen
students on it's register for the year 1S67-6S.
The new Methodist Church to be built in
Washington will be an elegant Gothic ediice
costing 100000.
The favorite preacher of Paris is Mon
signor Bauer converted Jew, who succeeds
to the popularity Of Pere Hyacintbe.
Young Jerome Bonaparte, son Of Madame
Bonaparte, of Baltimore, has been appointed
orderly to the Emperor Napoleon.
"A medallion carpet, from the Paris Ex-
position, is to be put down on the parlor of q
lady residing on Fifth avenue, New York, who
paid s11, 900 for it.
Orders have gone forward to French troops
now occupying Rome to return. Preparations
are actively going on, and it is thought the
evacuation will be complete in few days.
AT Liverpool, it is announced that the de-
preston in trade, and consequent depreciation
in warehouse property, have caused warehouse
keepers to appeal to the authorities for re-
duction in the rate Of taxation.
The Lower Mississippi River is said to be
steadily rising. A crevasse is said to be threat
ened on the west bank, by which the entire
sugar planting country known as Acadia, in
Louisiana, will be inundated.
The New York Tribune says sthe name
Ku-Klux is said to be derived frpm the noise Of
the cooking of rifle, and is significant of
shooting at sight" Whereupon the New York
Times observes: s'The man who drew that
name from the click Of the hammer Of rifle
must have had fine and accurate imagina-
ton. Is the Tribune sure the name is not de-
rived from the ciucking Of hen, and signif-
cant of matronly satisfaction over the condi-
ton OF her brood? 1t sounds much more like
it. We wonder the Tribune did not recognize
the sound at once"
AT concert given by Ole Bill, in Washing
ton, on Saturday, to aid the Lincoln Monu-
ment Association, the novel feature Of prayer
was introduced. Rev. DR.. Sunderland filed
this part Of the programme, and, as matter
of course, introduced his extreme Radical
politics, calling upon ''the Saviour of the world
to strengthen the hands of his servants now
sitting in council, that their verdict on the
question before them may bring comfort and
j oy to the goyar hearts of the nation"
Some year or more ago the Sisters Of Mer-
cy connected with the Notre Dame University
Of Indiana sent to France large amount of
copper from the Lake Superior mines to be
made into bell for their institution. The bell
was accordingly cast, under the direction Of
the Sisters OF Mercy in that empire, who bore
all the cost. The bell was shipped through
the port Of New York, and Collector Smythe
exacted duties on it to the amount of S23,
which was paid under protest, and bill has
passed Congress to refund the duties. The
bell is the largest in the world, and its tone is
said to be unsurpassed.
Hon. Thomas S. Ashe has written lett:r
to the North Carolina Conservative Committee,
in which he says that his drst impulse was to
decline the profered gubernatorial nomination.
But considering the neur approach of the
election and contemplating the critical condi-
ton Of the State, with her cherished institu-
tions threatened with the most pernicious in
novations, I hold it is no time for any son who
loves her to stand back from the contest, or
fail to exert all the power that in him lies to
avert the impending calamites. Under these
considerations Ifeel constrained to accept the
nomination"
General Butler is decidedly out Of favor
among the Washington correspondents. Here
is the Tribune's account of his search for
copy of the Presidents speech to the Philadel-
2hia Conventionists.: 'A large bound volume
OF the Chronicle was produced, and this MIR.
Butler proceeded to examine. The learned
manager assumed very undiSnifed position,
with his back to the Chief Justice, in his eager
ness to hunt up the speech. This again set
the risibles of the audience in motion, and gen.
eral grin was visible all through the House.
General Butler looked up, YER, much like 8
boy caught in the perpetration of eomething
naughty, and at this the spectators laughed
again."
The mayor and all the other elective Off
GERS Of Alexandria, Virginia, with the e1cep-
ton Of four Of the eight aldermen, whose terms
are unexpred, Lave been, or will be summoned
to the Office Of the military commissioner Of
the elections and registration for that district,
to answer whether or not they can take the
oath that they have never given countenance,
counsel and encouragement to persons engaged
in armed hostility to the United States Govern
ment. The Alexandria Gazette says the appli-
cants for the various Offices to be soon made
vacant are numerous, but great difficulty will
be experienced in filing them from among the
white residents of the city who lived here pre-
Nous to the war, because nearly all Of that class
voted for the ordinance Of secession, which
act, according to General Schofelds construc-
ton, afforded ''countenance, counsel and en-
.couragement to persons engaged in armed hos
tility 10 the United States Government"
The complete weakness shown by the i'm
peachment managers from the very commence
menJ OF the trial, is subject Of general re-
mark in Washington. The correspondent of
the New York Herald says that 'tbe opinion
is rapidly extending that the trial will certainly
result in a failure, in spite of the terrible
threats and denunciations of Radical leaders