The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-26
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Ben Ogle Tayloe, an old citizen of Wash
ington, died of paralysis at Rome, Italy, on the
25th of February.
The Secretary of the Hope Insurance Com
pany Of Louisville, Ky., has been arrested
charged with embezzling $1,000.
The amount proceeding from the sales o
the captured and condscated cotton paid into
the treasury is nearly thirty million.
Captain Mackay, a Fenian leader, has been
convicted Of treason-felony at Cork and sent
enced to imprisonment at hard labor for twelve
years.
The Council of the North German Confede-
ration has approved the recent treaty with the
United States in relation to naturaized citi
zens.
Another fire has occurred in the Pennsyl-
vania oil region, which destroyed four thou
sand barrels Of tankage and twenty-one hun
dred barrels Of OIL
The banking house of Long & Co., at Rus
sellville, KY, was entered on Friday last and
robbed Of $4,000 in currency and an unknown
amount of private deposits.
Ward Hunt, the new English Chancellor of
the Exchequer, is only forty-three years old,
and has served ten years in Parliament. He
has great talent for figures.
The majority against the constitution in
Arkansas will be much larger than was antici-
pated. Many Of the negroes did not vote at
all, and nearly all the whites voted against it.
1t is reported in Cuba that certain parties
are trying to effect landing of negroes on the
north coast of the island, as an experiment to
find out what course the new Captain -Ge neral
Lersund will adopt.
1t is said that New York boat crew, under
the command of James Lee, have forwarded
the Oxford crew of England challenge to
row them an international match upon the
terms declined by the Harvard crew.
1t is stated, as showing the immense
traffic Of London in little things, that during
single week Of last month one hundred rail-
way carriages, carrying three million herring,
left the east coast Of Scotland for the London
market.
No better mode Of testing the rival wood
payements could be devised than that which
has been adopted in New York. Each company
is to pave half street, divided longitudinally,
and the side that wears out first is to be pro-
nounced the poorer.
Louis Napoleon is charmed with that re-
publican institution, the American cocktail.
Which reminds MS, says the New Orleans Pica-
yune, that when Plon Plon, the Emperor's
cousin, was over here during the war, and
tasted his first glassof "Bourbon," he said
twas the only thing of the name he ever rel
ished.ges'ss
Mrs. Cady Stanton has visited the Su-
preme Court with an opera glass, and gives
Judges Chase and Nelson particular puff.
The cause Of this partiality becomes evident
when We read that 'with our glass We per-
ceived that their large, soft eyes frequently
wandered from their books 10 the ladies on The
left. ("
The Mormon elders are opening their
heavy fire upon the practice Of the ladies Of
that peculiar community OF following eastern
fashions in dress. They think that the people
ought to set tneir own fashions and make their
own dress goods. Wesuspect that in this mat
ter sanity simplicity will not speedily supplant
Gentle gentility.
The Indians in New Mexico continue their
attacks upon trains. Recently they attackeda
train between Forts Bryant and Cummings,
killed one man and killed or wounded ten
mules, but were finally driven off by the ap-
proach Of reinforcements. They subsequently,
attacked another train, stampeded eighty
mules and escaped with them.
Northern and Eastern kilograms represent
that the equinoctial storm which occurred on
Friday last did considerable damage in various
parts Of the country. Some Of the shipping in
New York harbor was injured. ALI the railroad
trains northward were impeded by the snow,
and in Pennsylvania no trains arrived from
the West during the day, the snow having
drifted in some places to the depth Of fifteen
feet.
{ "A child's book by Oliver Goldsmith has
just been republshed in England. The Times
describes it as being 'the biography of Tommy
Trip and his dog Jowler, and the great giant
Woglog, to which is appended history Of
birds and beasts, with descriptions of each in
prose and verse, e,"-and the judgment upon it
is that it is as supreme in its way as ''She
.stoops to Conquer" and the ''Vicar of Wake
field" are in theirs.
According to recent statistics the total
number Of Jews in the world is seven million,
one-haf Of whom live in Europe. In Russia
the Jewish population is one million two hun
dred and twenty thousand; in Austria eight
hundred and ffty-three thousand; in Prussia
two hundred and eighty-four thousand; and in
Germany one hundred and ninety-two thou
sand. At Franktort-on-the-Ma Main, every six
teenth inhabitant is Jew, and in the whole of
Prussia every seventy-third. There are fewer
Jews in Saxony than il any other part Of Ger
many. In Sweden and Norway the proportion
of Jews to the rest of the inhabitants is about
one to six thousand. In France, England and
Belgium, where the Jews are under no disabili
ties, they are less numerous than in countries
where they have not yet been placed on an
equality with the believers in other creeds.
-Ofall farmers on large scale, the viceroy
OF Egypt is probably as favorably circum-
stanced as any. The thousand acre wheat
fields of our Western growers become mere
garden patches il comparison with his three
hundred thousand acres of cotton, sugar and
rice. Then he has pleasant way of conis-
eating plantations to which he happens to take
fancy and adding to the extent of his estates