The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-13
NEW s s U M M A r Y.

GUS person."
The French Prince Imperial is soon to
styled Napoleon ~, to accustom the Erenc
to the dynastic idea.
The Montgomery Mail reports the Alabam
crops doing well. The negroes who work at a.
are quite industrious.
The bishops of the Methodist Episcopa
Church, South, will holds o conference in Louis
vile, Ky., on the 7th of May.
ALI the school children in France had
holiday when the Prince Imperial celebrated
his twelfth birthday.
1t is stated that new edition Of the Bible
is to be published in Chicago, the 'Famly he
cord" of which will contain several leaves fol
divorces.
Baron Rothschild has had Mr. Disraeli to
dinner, if be has not yet received his peerage
English qndnuncs are wondering what they
talked about at the table.
The old pink of amiability, James Gordon
Bennett, has forbidden any of his editors OF
reporters to attend the Dickens banquet at
New York, under pain of dismissal. Horace
Greeley viii preside.
T. Tilton recently said that Michigan was
:ssittirg with her finger on her forehead, pom
dering the question, is the negro man ?
She now sits with her thumb on her nose,
gyrating the aforesaid finger at T. Tilton.
The street railroad companies Of Louis
vile, Ky., are selling of their horses and pur-
chasing mules for use in their cars. Muies,
there fore, find ready sale in the city at pre-
sent.
"A Chicago man intends to visit Europe
this summer, sailing all the way from that city
to LIVERPOOL in boat twenty-four feet long,
and accompanied only by his dog. There
ought to 90 some interference to protect the
dogs life.
"A petition has been presented to the New
Jersey Legislature asking it to grant women
the right of suffrage, and that widows may sue
ceed to the whole of the personal estate of their
husbands, with life interest in all the real
estate.
The growth Of the Astor estate in New
York is said to be shown by the increase of Mr..
William B. Astor's taxes. A few years ago he
paid 10000 year; now he pays $4,000, or
nearly 500 day. Commodore Vanderbilt pays
$4,000 year at present, over s1OO day.
Mr.. VIM. q. Gladstone, son Of the Liberal
leader, has made his maiden speech in the
House Of Commons. With unusual modesty
he chose the dinner hour for the effort, and
was well received by thin house. His father
was not present.
The English Executors who have Artemus
Wards property in charge seem disposed to
keep it. The mother of the deceased humorist
has not been able to get single word In an
swer to her numerous letters, from those who
obtained possession Of the money and chattels
Of her son after his death.
John Gauche, native of France, and
wealthy crockery and dry goods merchant OF
New Orleans, where he mad been in business
for 25 years, died on the morning Of the 1st,
aged 49, He was large owner Of real estate,
and was appointed BY General Sheridan to the
City Council.
Hamilton NJ. Wright, a prominent mer-
chant Of New Orleans, died on the morning of
the 1st. He was a member Of the firm Of
Wright, Allen & Co. For several years previ-
Gus TO .he war his cotton commission business
one year 10000 bales. He was, however, re-
duced 10 poverty by the war.
Correspondents in Ireland write that the
exodus from that country to the United States
has again begun, and that all the steamers
coming to America, and also numerous sailing
vessels, are filed with emigrants. The various
ports OF Ireland are also filed with emigrants
awaiting passage, and the majority are said to
be from sixteen to twenty live years Of age.
An English newspaper, in the course OF
the discussion Of the Irish question, states that
during the past quarter of century the large
landholders have been gradually swallowing up
the small ones in Ireland, and that whilst the
small holdings are four times fewer than they
were in 1871, the larger ones are three times
more numerous.
Some idea of the immense business now
being transacted in real estate in New York
city may be formed, when it is stated that du-
ring the last month the recorded transfers
amounted to s14OOO,OOO, and in Brooklyn
$4,O0O,0OO. The auction sales during that Pc
riod amounted to SC. 500 OOO and in Brooklyn
to s2,0O0,0OO.
"A letter from John C. Braine, late C. S. n,
dated "Cell No. "a, Kings county Penitentiary,
March 16, 1865" and addressed to admiral
Semmes, requesting an appeal to the Southern
people in his behalf, appears in the Mobile
papers. Lieutenant Braine has been pri.
soner without trial since September Is, 1866
and he afirms that his health is now suffering
from long confinement, and that his family
are in the most extreme povelJy from his in
generation.
MIR. Seward takes an ingenious method to
avoid acknowledging Mr.. Stanton as Secre.
tary Of War. In all documents issued from
the War Department, where it is necessary
that the Secretary OF State shall certify thai
Mr. Stanton, by whom they are issued, is Sec.
retary Of War. MIR. Seward has adopted new
text for his certificates. Thus, instead of say
ing that edwin NJ. Stanton was at the time
thereof, and still is Secretary of War;" he sim
ply certifes that the paper is issued "undel
the seal of the War Department"
The Tennessee members of Congress have
applied to General Grant for an order to Gene
raj Thomas to take prompt and efficient meas
ures to suppress the Ku Klux Klan organiza.
tion. They argue that since the close Of the
war two hundred and seventy-fve thousand
young men of the South have arrived at g
fighting age, and being without the counsel OF
wisdom Of their fathers and elder brothers
who had fallen in battle, and actuated by the
keenest sense of wrong and hatred which il