The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-08
NEW 8 sU M M a r. Y.

NEW 8 U M M A r z.
Gold closed in New York active and buoy
ant at at:
Cotton closed in New York at an advance
Of Iaao sales 5000 bales at 192a20c.
in Liverpool cotton closed active with sales
of1b.o0o bales at Sd for Uplands.
China never had either slave, ora feuda
system, or pauper peasantry.
The professor Of astronomy in Chinese
college teaches that the stars are living orea'
lures.
1t ia said tt Henry J. Raymond is tc
write history of General Grant, assisted oy
William Swinton.
1t is said that more than hundred men III
Esw York make their living by catonlns ra'S
for sporting purposes. ~.
-Mosaf5er Eddin Mira, the heir to the
tbrona of Persia, has been getting married.
The Prince and his wife are each sixteen years
ofage. o,o
ON Saturday 80, ,OOO cigars and twenty-one
oaaea Of tobacco were seized by United States
marshd in New York, on the ground that tne
o,vnara had paid neither license fee nor tax.
Lord Broughsm, by the latest foressn IN
t,llioence, is represented to have lost the pow
or of speech; he can only feebly articulate' ana
has been deprived of the use Of his limbs.
.IaFrance denies that the italian Govern
,oent has forwarded note to Madrid with
reference to passage in Queen lsaoelias
speech from the throne.
The famous Seventh Regiment OF New
York is rapidly declining in numbers and disci-
Mime. Since General Lefsrts resigned 1t has
nm down from one thousand to si1 hundred
.-Jnries In England have some privileges not
.cooraed TO those in this country. In re-
cent case at Chester bill Of five pounds Tor
1ionort and seears consumed by the jurors was
allowed by the court.
-such was the slsckness OF trade and the
consequent want of employment in Parls' dn-
ring the past quarter, that no fewer than eignt
thousand families were unable to pay tner
rent. 49,
The obsequies Of the late Emperor Maxi
milan were celebrated January IL. Inc re-
msins were deposited in the imperial crypt IN
the Capuchin Church. Immense crowds ol
people filed the streets, aud testified their
sympathy with The deceased sovereign.
MIR. Young, the commander OF the boat e1-
nediuon IN search of DR.. Livingstone, In tele-
oram to Sir R. Murchison, says: Il have re-
u.ned frum Lake Nayassa. DR.. Livingstone
has gone ON in safety: The Johanna men de-
serted him.
IT is at last discovered why the Feejee
King gave that tooth to our government. Il
was 70 save the trouble OF giving us any more
of his law. Mr. Seward might take the hunt
In tuture volume Of his diplomatic correspon'
dance.
"A communication from Rome, in the Corrlere
dale Marche, states that Cardinal Antonel1
WAS attacked by neuralgia while attending the
funeral of Cardinal Ugo.ini, and that ne hao W
be carried to his apartment in the Vatoan'
where medical aid was called tor.
Arrangements are making for puphc
meeting in New York oity on behalf OF the
Southern Educational Fund. Henry Ware
Beecher has subscribed large amount ior tns
benefit of Washington College, Virginia, OF
which General &. E. Lee is President.
"A vienna dispatch says that Baron Won
Beust has addressed, or is about to send' to
ths Austrian representatives abroad, circular
In which he will declare that Austria intends tc
preserve the str1otest neutrality in all European
questions, and that she will not break it unlest
attacked.
The German citizens Of Philadelphia inten6
20 erect q first-class theatre. Tho executive
committee held meeting on Saturday night
20 take counsel as to what step they shoale
make. The sum of $s7, ,Ouo has been subscribed
to which o wealthy citizen has agreed to ade
sao. 900 whenever the fund reaches $4,000.
There is rumor aaoat, which receives ere
danoe from those usually well posted, that The
resignation of Charles Francis Adams, MINIS
tsr to The Court of st. James, has been re
oeiyed at the State Department. Secretar!
Seward neither denies nor af6rms the truth o
the statement, and the report is, therefore
given only for what it is worth.
Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens has presented
rseolution ito which was attached memoria
storn the corporation Of Wilmington, Norti
Carolina, setting forth the purposss) instruct
ing the committee on appropriations OF fh'
House Of Representatives to bring in bill di
rsotine the freedmen's bureau to advance tt
said city $4,000 on security being given to re
Day said sum in one year.
With reference to the poverty now 30 gene
rally prevailing in London, come one has writ
ten three short and pithy sentences to tn
London Times, that have ON application Il
other cities also, as follows: "Ihere are thou
esnds OF hungry men out Of employ at tn
east end. There are miles OF UNANIMOUSLY filth,
stre.ts and pathways at the west end. Ar
there no means Of bringing the two together
The Washington correspondent OF the Gin
oinnati Commercial says: "The loss OF Rover
DIV Johnson to the Senate is national calamity
He Is ono of the few members of that bod.
whose eminent Abilities remind us Of the bette
days Of the American Senate.-days beror'
oarret Davis succeeded Henry Clay,-befor'
Wilson took Webster's seat,-before DRAKE
hogled where Benton reasoned,-in fact, be
fore the Senate had become what latter.day po
Itics and politicians have made it."
All tie st. Petersburg semi official Journal
give an energetic denial to the recent articl
In the Paris Patrie on the presumed policy o
Bussia. The London Times says: 1--WE hav'