The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-08
NEWS s U M M A r Y.

Cotton closed in Liverpool yesterday easier
but unchanged.
The New York gold market was active and
excited yesterday at 81.
Cotton opened dull and lower in New York
but closed steady; sales 1000, at 16a164 cts. for
Middling.
The Prussian soldiers now get five and
half dollars per month.
Eighty white families in Lexington, KY, are
reported to be in starving condition.
Andrew johnson is nominated for the next
President by three newspapers in Tennessee.
Lawyers, editors, and idiots, are exempted
from serving on juries in Montana.
An exchange says the ladies would rather
face a mad bull than not have their dresses
gored.
The London tailors' strike cost them, IN
cash, s17,9O. or about eighty-si1 thousand
five hundred iJllars in gold.
Prairie chickens are so numerous In Iowa
that they are knocked down by the hunters
with sticks, and bagged by the hundred.
Pixies new opera house, which Is to De
opened in New York next week, Is SAID TO De
one OF the most spacious and beautifully orna-
mented theatres in the United States
The San Francisco Dsily Times had the
Presidents message entire telegraphed to it
and published exclusively. The message made
fourteen thousand words. This was about the
most expensive piece of telegraphing ever sus-
tanned by single newspaper.
The Lincoln monument association has
sS4 600 in hand, collected by private subscrlp-
ton, with $4,000 appropriated by the Illinois
Legislature. The association will commence
to build a monument at Springfield, Illinois,
next spring, and calculate that it will cost
s25O,OOO. In the meantime appeals will be
made to the different State Legislatures for
appropriations to reach that amount.
The Nashville (rennessee) Union states
that on Sunday of last week they had twenty
inches fall OF snow there. The Union adds:
sNeyer within the history Of our city or State
has there been such snow storm as the one
which has just visited US. The snow commenc-
ed falling on Sunday night, at II o'clock, and
continued to fall all night and all day on Mon
day, sometimes very rapidly"
"A largo immigration meeting was held IN
Richmond, Va, on Friday evening. General
Tochman read portion of his address to per-
SONS in Europe wishing to lmmigrate to Vr-
ginia. and the resolutions Of Polish emigrants
denying that they had been deceived IN coming
to Virginia. He addressed the meeting on the
subject Of immigration to Virginia. 1t was
also resolved to raise the sum OF $4,000 by
priyate subscription to aid and encourage I'M
migration.
"A Boston correspondent writes Dickens
does not live with his wife, it is said, and this
fact adds spice to this little story a lady we'll
known in literary circles, on the evening Of the
first reading sent Mr.. Dickens bouquet. The
floral Offering was returned with the thanks OF
the recipient, and the announcement that
Indy of London supplied him with flowers for
his button-hole, not only in England but Anne
RIGA. Oh, Charles at your agel and With that
bald head and that grey goatee
The, New York Commercial Advertiser re-
marks: eReal estate is now selling at lower
rates in the Southern States than in 1865 or
at any time. We read Of plantations with all
their fixtures and improvements selling for
less than the price of wild Congress land in the
and with great profit to planters and farmers,
as well as to themselves, make advances to en-
ergetic, sensible persons to enable them to
improve and cultivate their farms on part
nership agreement. The inevitable rise in the
saleable value of lands within few years
would give the capitalist cent per cent. upon
his advances
The bottom of the ocean will soon be as
extensive q means Of human Intelligence as
the top Of it. The Emperor of France is about
to have his submarine cable to the Island of st.
Pierre and New York; the Government of Queen
Isabella is also about laying down cable to Gu
ba and Porto Rico by way of the Canaries; and
row we hear of another projected line to lie be-
tween Brest and New York. The latter is or
eanized by Franco-American company with
capital Of million sterling-the stock and di-
rection to be divided between England, France
and this country. The English share Of the
stock is said to be already subscribed. This
company has received valuable concessions
from the French Government, and the line will
be laid next summer very probably.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis, on arriving at Havana
on the 25th ult., took rooms at the Hotel Gu
bano. At night, accompanied by the captain
and purser of the steamer, MIR. Davis and wife
visited the Palace of Isabel H., and entering
the Hotel InglateTa, went out on the balcony,
whore they passed few moments viewing the
large crowd promenading. Mr.. Guarco, tho
proprietor, offered the best rooms in the house
to Mr.. Davis, which were, of course, declined.
He insisted that Mr. D. and party should par
take of champagne and other refreshments,
and these they accepted. Mr.. Davis and party
then visited the Theatre Tacon, where he WAS
the cynosure of all eyes. Numbers Of persons
called upon him at his hotel, and were much
pleased with his manners and appearance. MIR.
D. was never in better health.
The imports ofdry goods at the port OF New
York for the past year show heavy falling off
as compared with those Of the previous year
the total value was $780, 263 643, while for 1866 it
was s126, ,222,855. The largest receipts were
during the months of January, March and Au-
gust. The total thrown upon the market du-
ring the year was s91. .242, ,975, while the total
imports being, as above stated, sS6,2GS,6 ,64s,
show marked reduction in the stock previous
ly held in bond. The immense losses during
the past year will Induce great caution in the
future, and it is generally conceded that the
imports this year will be light. In 1859 the
-. ~ d,.1, ,oodc Of Navv yorlr -, ,,,,+od 10