The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-30
NEW 8 sU M M A r Y

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The Presidential election takes place on
Tuesday next, the Sd of November.
At.Canton, China, the Catholics are building
a cathedral which will cost S. 100000.
Horace Greeley's salary on the New York
Tribune is said to be $1,000 a year.
i An industrious negro, near Milledgevlne,
Georgia, has made $1,000 profit on his crop this
season.
"A "Honeymoon Carr is to be placed on the
Pacific Railway when completed, for the beneit
OF bridal parties.
Both George q. Pendleton and Senator
Sherman are i'll at present from the effects OF
protracted public speaking in the open air.
DIR. McCosh was inaugurated as President
of Princeton College, N. j., with imposing
ceremonies, on Tuesday.
--One of the royal generals in Spain recent
ly condemned child only five years old TO be
shot as the son Of rebel.
Official publication has been made by the
President of treaty with Madagascar for COM
mercial and friendly purposes.
Rev. DR.. Moore, OF the First Presbyterian
Church Of Richmond, Va, has accepted call
to the First Presbyterian Church Of Nashville,
Tennessee.
"A Mexican claims to have solved the prob
lem OF perpetual motion. His machine pro-
duces electricity, which causes motion, ana
the motion in turn generates electricity.
The vote Of q man having one-sixteenth
negro blood in his veins was refused at the late
election at Indianapolis. BE has sued the eiec-
tion officers, claiming $4,000 damages. u,
The Grecian bend has come to grief In
Mobile. Two young ladies who ventured out
with it recently were so mercilessly ridiculed
that ihey had to take refuge in shop.
The French Minister Of Marine is buying
up a large quantity Of oak for the purpose of
building in the government shipyards two hun
dred boats of light draft suitable Tor navlga-
i-tion in shallow streams and rivers.
1t is estimated that there are over fifty
thousand Hebrew voters in the three States
which have just gone Republican, who, al
though voting with their party on local issues,
will oppose Grant in November because Of his
infamous .Order No. IL"
The Emperor Francis Joseph has just sent
to the Pope, as mark Of filial devotedness,
magnificent Roman Missal, on which the best
workmen of Vienna had been engaged for ser-
.eral years past. The cover is ornamented
with precious stones set in gold.
THE moral critic of the Tribune finds that
sfsGeneyieye de Brabant' is most revolving
mass of filth, sand that no lady can look at it
twice without sacrificing her reputation" Of
course, the dear creatures all rush and look at
it, lust to prove how base is the slander upon
their strength Of mind.
-Jn New York, it is said, the Belgian pave
.ment costs four dollars and sixty-eight cents
per square yard, the Nicolson pavement four
dollars and seventy-fve cents, and the granite
block pavement now being laid in Broadway
ten dollars and twenty-five cents.
One William Bishop, Of New Haven, NOV
ed BY the example Of MIR. Helmbold, has sent to
Governor English sS0OOO to be expended in aid
..otthe Democratic national ticket in that State,
and particularly in the city. Now, who is pre-
pared to 'ssee" Mr.. Bishops $4,000 and go
$4,000 better?
The great steamer America, when afoat,
.the largest vessel in the world except the Great
Eastern, aud intended for the flagship Of the
Japan and China trade from San Francisco,
will be completed in New York, it is stated, by
the 1st Of March, 1869. This ship is built on
the model of the famous yacht America, and it
ia anticipated that she will be one Of the fast
est vessels ever constructed.
General Longstreet arrived in Washington
on Monday He has been in New York for the
purpose, rs alleged, of ha'ing an interview
with General Rosecrans, with whom it has
been reported that he was going to Mexico. 1t
is now stated that this arrangement is changed,
and that General L. is going alone. What
occasions the delay of General Rosecrans Is
not stated.
Tho elevated railway in New York city has
beon erected for the distance of half mile at
the lower ecd of Greenwich-street, and the
road having proved successful, both as regards
it's construction and the machinery to be used
in its operation, will be extended to the north
ern end of Manhattan island. It is asserted
that passengers can be conveyed from thu
Battery to Thirtieth-street in fifteen minutes
"A New York letter OF Monday says: ga
German paper this morning contained an ad-
yertisement announcing that fifty men werc
wanted at No. 1913 Broadway, at the rate of six
dollars per week. At 8 o'clock, when the store
was opened, there were not less than five hun
dred men gathered about the door, and six po-
lcemen, club in hand, were wholly unequal to
the task of keeping back the crowd, which IN
creased every moment, until at 9 o'clock the
advertiser announced that the quota was filed.
Wendell Phillips and his school are terri
bly alarmed lest Grant, whose election they
concede, should turn out not to be SO extreme
and so radical in his views and official action
as they have hoped. They are denounclng and
threatening him in advance. The Auti-Slavery
Standard says that he was never trusted by
the old Aboitionists proper, and that ne was
nominated in spite Of them, and accepted oy
them only from ,essity, and they have great
fear OF the more tolerant and conservative In
fluences by which he will be surrounded.
The Virginia colleges for both sexes are at
present more numerously attended than in any
previous year. At the University OF Virginia
there are over five hundred students. AT