The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-07
NEW S s U M M A r Y.

VS. SU M M a r Y.
Gold closed in New York firm at S5a.
in Liverpool cotton was easier, but prices
unchanged.
Cotton closed in Now York dull, with de-
cline of IaSc. Sales 1900 bales. Uplands 16}
a1sAc.
Dana has already spent 100000 in estab-
lishing his new paper.
They call betting out West quitting Pc
cuniary estimate on ones opinion"
Jesse D. Bright is in very feeble health,
and cannot attend the Kentucky Legislature,
of which he was elected a member.
Punch thinks the name of the King OF
Abyssinia will be made to stink in English nos
trils as The Odorous.
1T is the proud boast Of country paper In
PENNSYLVANIA that Dickens will pass through
the town by railroad.
There are nine hundred bottles Of choice
old wine in Sir Frederick 3ruce's cellar, which
90 under the hammer at Washington this
week.
Mr.. Bass said, on a recent occasion, that
the returns Of the firm of Bass Co., brew
era. in England, were probably the largest IN
the world, exceeding FL, 700, cooper annum.
1t has been decided to pay each man en-
gagged in the capture Of New Orleans and the
destruction OF Confederate vessels $500 as prize
money.
On Saturday several government en-
ployees in Washington were discharged from
okh hod
rally reduced. .
The Southern Relief Association Of Balti-
more are making extensive arrangements Tor
another grand fair, at the Maryland Institute
in that city, on January Is.
The London Spectator has very bad opin-
ion Of its neighbors. 1t says the English are
the most thiegish race in the world, and that
pscuniary dishonesty is the curse OF their 80
ciety.
The British Government has determined
to send chaplains for the Abyssinian expedi-
tion. and it is said will dispatch four clergymen
of the Church Of England, two Presbyterians
and two Catholics.
-O'Baldwin, the Irish giant who recently
arrived in this country, with a view OF meeting
Mace. the English champion OF the prize rlng'
has ben matched to fight Patsey Evans, the
Rondout giant, for $1,000 side.
Tie Kentucky Legislature, it is stated,
has passed q resolution 'instructing Senator
Guthrie either to proceed to the capital or re-
sign, and in consequence he has chartered an
extra car. and Hil Undertake the Journey not
TO be suffering from paralysis OF the lower
limbs.
The Washington Star says of MIR. Charles
Dickens anticipated visit to Washington, that
his agent, Dolby, after surveying the ground
concluded that he could not net moro than
$1,000 per night, and at that rate but for
single course Of four readings. So he will not
20 there until later in the season, utter he has
skimmed the cream Of the big cities.
The Black Crook has at last been with
drawn from Niblo's Garden, where it has had
possession OF the stage for the past fourteen
months. It has been performed four hundred
and seventy-fve times, and the total receipts
at the Treasurers Office amount to $3.50, 600, OF
which some $15. 900 has seen paid to the gov
eminent.
Governor Bullock, the Republican Cover
nor Of Massachusetts, in his message, already
alluded to by telegraph, said: "We must re-
member that there are millions Of the white race
who cannot and must not always be retained
in the position OF abject foes; millions whose
productive labor is necessary for the discharge
Of national obligations which must never be
repudiated, and whose good will and co-opera-
tion are essential to complete and thorough
reunion. Let us then hear no more of confis-
cation and attainder for the Southern masses"
-Rochdale seems the chosen home Of CO.
operation in England. A theatre, twenty yards
by forty, large enough for twenty. two hundred
persons (eleven hundred in the pit alone),
has been just opened there, the money for
building which (s6OO0) was raised by Fl shares,
mostly taken up by workingmen. theatre
has long been what is called " a desideratum
in the place. Two years ago the men who
have the secret Of making cooperation pay de-
termined to supply the want, and they have
succeeded.
The New York Times, Of Saturday, says:
''On one night this week, three newly-born in
fants we're picked up by the police in the
streets Of this city, where they had been aban-
doned by their mothers. On one night last
week three were IN Like manner picked ~; and |
other cases have occurred with unusual fre-
quenoy since the cold weather began. Such
occurrences are proof of the extreme hard
ness Of the times among the very poor, and
should stimulate our citizens rather to search |
out and alleviate cases Of distress than to in
dulge in severe language against the wretched |
sufferers"
The withdrawal of the Cunard steamers
from Boston was blow both to the pride and |
the interests Of the Club" The Baltimore |
line Of Liverpool steamers seems also to be
faring hard. It seems by the record that the
last arrival of the Carroll, at Baltimore, was
September 90, and of the Worcester, at Balti-
more, November 9. This line was strongly
backed up by Baltimore interests, and by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; but fhe
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