The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-16
saw 8 SU M M A r Y.

10zd: uplaads 10Sd; sales 5000 bales.
Port Gibson, Mississippi, Is to have a
cotton factory shortly.
A Boston barber has razor that mas peen
in daily use for hundred years.
The Marouis of Hastings left his property
70 his widow only in case she shouldn't marry
again. ,,;
In Worcester, Massachusetts, the RepuDll-
cans have nom mated two women for school ol-
rectors.
Brick Pome roy's New York Democrat is
ua;d TO be on the wane. The evening edition
has been discontinued.
The latest "women's rights movement Is
to oppose the trial of females in courts presi-
ded ever by men.
The stock certificates, bonds, deeds and
other representatives OF money left by Baron
Rothschild, weighed over ton.
Two thous and persons were present at
Marshall o. Roberts reception in New York.
piyen in honor Of General Grant, on Wednes-
DAY evening.
Mr.. Whittemore has introduced in the
House of Representatives bill to remove thu
disabilities of Andrew Ramsay, of Edgefeld
County. The bill will doubtless pass.
The San Francisco directory contains
nearly 6S. 900 ma mes. The business directory
of the same city has the names OF 1S,OOO
firms. The population is 147,95O.
Robert B. Bogart, late Paymaster Of the
United States Receiving Ship Vermont, at the
New York Navy Yard, has absconded, and
reward of $1,000 is offered for his arrest.
The Boston fire department are introdu-
cling automatic alarm boxes, at which it is only
necessary to pull the knob once, when mach-
merry at the central Office strikes the proper
number.
-"Ouida," the author ct certain sensational
novels that had quite run ct late years, and
about whose sex there WAS considerable doubt,
turns out TO be woman, one of the long-halr-
doyn-her-back kind. At least picture to that
effect adorns the last volume from her prolific
pen.
The celebrated sanitary fair OK, weighing
upwards of 1000 pounds, raised by Carlos
Pierce, and now on exhibition in Boston, was
lately rendered to General Grant by Major ".
". Leland, and is to be served at the inaugu-
ration dinner in Washington city in March,
under the supervision of the Republican Cen
trail Committee, WAC are to act as high priests
OF the sacrifice.
AThe New York Times and Buffalo COM
mercial both favor the motion made in Con-
gress to appropriate $4,000 to dcfray the ex-
pense of President Johnson's defence in the
impeachment tl:al. The Commercial, which
is q Radical journal. says that as the President
was acquitted, the necessary legal presumption
is that he was innocent, and therefore should
not be compelled to defray the expenses OF his
own trial.
"A private letter from prominent and we'll
known South Carolina Republican, to gentle
man in New York, says: "Our prospects IN
South Carolina, and think all over the South,
are now very encouraging, both politically and
materially. Lawlessness has ceased almost as
IL by magic since the elections, and everybody
seems to adopt the motto Of Grant, Let us
have peace Good feeling seems rapidly re-
turning between the two parties, and pronai-
nent Republican is treated different from what
he was only month ago. The financial pros
poets Of the State have Improved wonderfully
within the last two or three weeks"
"A Washington letter to the Baltimore Ga
zette says: "The telegram announcing the
hanging of Frank Reno and Charles Anderson
by mob at New Albany, Indiana, has occa-
stoned quite an excitement in official circles
here. The honor Of the government Lad been
pledged to the Canadian authorities for the
protection Of these men, and for their safe re-
turn to Canada, if not convicted, after fair
trial, on the charge OF robbins Adams Hx-
press. It was only after this pledge had bean
given that these men were surren dered to the
United States under the provisions OF the ex-
tradition treaty. The action Qf the mob II
seizing and hanging these men, it is appre-
hended, will seriously embarrass the Cabi-
nets OF Washington and London, and
.compHcate negotiations already pending.
After returning from church today, Mr..
Seward paid his respects to Mr.. Thornton and
explained the violent character Of the proceed
tags in Indiana, and gave the British EN-
bassador every assurance that the Govern
ment Of the United States would do its whole
duty in the premises. MIR. Thornton b!untly
replied that he could not exactly perceive
what was to be done, since the parties whose
protection had been guaranteed by the United
States had already been hanged, in violation
OF the pledge given. MIR. Seward has evident
ly another nice diplomatic question to settle
before he retires frem the Department of
State.''
ALI sorts Of rumors are flying about the
Alaska purchase. Exactly S2,200,O00 now
remains to be accounted for, and it is reported
that the whole Of this large sum was divided
among the lobbyists at the capital. The third
house-editors and correspondents charg-
ed with pocketing sSoO.o Of this, and the
remainder was disposed of in various ways
A black list of persons who are stated to have
been thus paid has been circulated about
Washington. 1t includes such items as these:
New York Tribune, s20,0O0 manager of
its Washington bureau, $4,000 publisher
of Washington Chronicle, $4,000. The
correspondents of the Times, World, Boston
Journal, Philadelphia Press, Chicago Tribune,
Boston Advertiser, Evening Post and others,
are all set down as having been paid various
sums each, from s25OO upwards. "Yan" tele-
graphs that ''some Of them are anxiously in
quiring what has become OF the money, as it
has never been paid to them. By the way. l
find the belief is quite general among well-in-
formed journalists here, that money was really