The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-12
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Gold closed at New York weaker at 3os.
The New York cotton market closed un
changed Sales $500 bales, at 25c.
At Liverpool cotton closed quiet; uplandf
1o2a1okd; Orleans 11a11td. Sales 900 bales
At Manchester yarns and fabrics were hrmer
The Pacific Radicals don't think John
Chinaman is man and brother
The German" is now danced by dayhgh'
in New York.
The fig and banana tree IN florioa lave
been injured by frost.
New York plays billiards in sixteen hum
.dred billiard saloons.
Tandem teams, hitched to two-wheeled ve'
.hicles, are the style on Central Park.
The negro race constitutes one-ffth OF the
population Of the United States.
"A. d. Stephens has given readings fol
charitable purposes in Savannah.
Charles Dickens, Jr., 1t is reported, sue
ceeds his father as editor Of Althe- Year
Round.
-First-cfass New York residences now con-
tain a billiard room, chapel, and theatre OF
concert saloon.
The Androscoggin Mills, at Lswistown,
Me-, employ 1900 operatives, and consume seoO
bales OF cotton every year.
The present crop of cotton will leave the
South, after her Northern debts are paid, fully
s1OO.OOO,O0O.
The London Church News suggests that II
the Archbishop of Canterbury make an overt
act of communion with DR.. Colenso, ne, the
archbishop, be excommunicated also.
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, it is stated, Will be
elected United States senator from Maine, as
successor of Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill,, whose term
will expire on the 4th of March next.
News from poor Carlotta is that she is get
ting better, sings and paints, and meditates
writing HISTORY Of the restoration of the Mex
ican Empire.
Isabella, the ex- Queen Of Spain, rsfuses to
ablicate in favor Of her son, the Prince OF
Aufuries. until he attains the age of fourteen
He is now just twelve years OF age.
Reports have been current at Compiegne
that Queen Victoria intends abdicating the
throne, and it is even stated that the Prince OF
Wales entertained the Emperor Napoleon on
this subject during his recent visit.
An English court has separated boy Of
fifteen fro.l his w,fe, and sent him into the
country to learn trade and grow up, before
he can be allowed to live with her. He had
married his nurse.
Secretary Seward, It's reported, has direct
ed the payment of $4,000 per annuIn to all those
consuls who collect fees to the amount OF $4,000,
and whose annual salaries under the old soho
dule were not over $1,000 per annum. Oaly
$500 PER annum is allowed for the expenses OF
any vice-consular agency.
Another chapter in the case OF Commodore
Meade, in the shape OF an affidavit OF his wife,
has boen made public. Mrs. Meade AYERS that,
the Commodore is fit subject for the lunatic
asylum, and that all his family approve OF his
confinement In such an institution. On the
contrary, several witnesses swear that the
Commodore is as sane as his Could-be eusto-
dams. =
Verdi proposes that, in hoher Of Rossni's
memory, the most distinguished Italian COM
posers, with Mercadante at their head, should
unite in composing Requiem Mass, to be e1-
ecuted on the 18th November, 1853, that day
being the anniversary Of Rossini's death. The
composers and performers ore to unite to de-
FRAY the expenses attending the celebration,
which will take place in the church of Saint
Petrone, at Bologna, tho yeritable patrie must
,cale of Rossini.
There is rumor in Chicago, said to be
well authenticated, that DIR. John McMullen,
pastor OF St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church,
of that city, who left there some months since
to prosecute an appeal against Bishop DuSsan,
has so far succeeded in his mission that the
controversy between the bishop and his clergy
has been taken up at Rome, where all parties
concerned have been summoned to appear and
be heard before the Supreme Tribunal O. he
Church.
The estate left by the late Baron Roshs-
child, Of Paris, is reported to be worth S40O.-
100000. Few persons, we presume, have any
definite idea of this immense sum, hut it may
help them somewhat to form one, to mention
that it nearly equals the total cost of all the
buildings and improvements in the city Of Now
York. The assessed value of the real estate in
that CITY liable to taxation was, in 1867, $685.
447.OS2. Adding to this one-half for under
valuation, and then 6sducting one-haif OF the
total for the lots, aRd it gives us Sale, ,5S5, ,2s7
as the worth of the buildings. II, then, the
city were to bo reduced to ashes tomorrow,
from end to end, tho Rothschild fortune would
suffice to entirely restore it. Think OF one
single man having such an amount OF pro-
perty
The apprehensions entertained as to the
health of the Emperor Napoleon seem to &c
well founded. "Not only" saysa correspen-
dent of the Pail Mall Gazette, "did he mount
on horseback and follow the hounds at the
grand hunt the other day at Compiegne, but,
/. contrary to his usual practice, he accepted as
sistance while getting into and Gighting from
his carriage. At the shooting party one could
see that he walked with great difficulty and
seeming lameRess, dragging his legs, which
we're spread rather wide apart, after hin as it
were. and with his arms held out to steady his
movements. On the evening Of the cHree 9
chair was placed for him on the balcony OF the
chateau, on which hs continued seated unit
the conclusion Of the affair, although the EN-
press and Princess Of Wales were both stand
ing. Atthe performance at the theatre, too,
night or two afterwards, he set with his heae
bent forward on his chest the Thoas tirie