The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-20
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- Tho Chicago Times says General Blair is Q
.4eatotaller, and has been for years. He does
not drink q drop of Intoxicating liquor. Sc
much for an atrocious Radical calumny.
-Kentucky kls got rid Of all the sub-agen-
.scies Of the Ftee5mens Bureau. They have
been discontinued, and only the general agen-
cies at Louisville and Paducah retained.
The New York Board Of Health report
more than two hundred and fifty. cases OF
,death In that city from the effects OF excessive
,heat within the past three or four days.
Reports from all portions OF yircinia give
s he most encouraging accounts Of the wheat
crop, particularly along the James River and
Il the Valley. The crop is considered to be
sover an average one.
The Allies have comm enced q vigorous
bombardmenE1H Humaita, by lands and water.
Tke Paragusyans had made desperate sortie
{ or the puTpos, Of dislodging Gran cbaco, but
4ere repulsed with considerable loss.
From San Francisco we have report that
: fhs United States have purchased from Mexico
She States OF Hinaloa and Sonora which, how
: eyer, IA pronounced by the Mexican consul OF
,shat city 10 be both false and absurd.
The Lisbon mail steamer from Bio has ar
rived snd brings intelligence that the early
e al OF Hnmaita was confidently expected by
,khe allies, in consequenceof che weakness of
5 fte garrison. The last official dispatch from
tdzt point reported that Lopez had only 600o
s7san within tho entrenchments.
e General Grant has retired to his farm near
ST. Louis. Governor Seymour has retired to
his farm In Western New York. General
Frank Blan, the Democratic candidate for
Z FIce-P President, has taken himself of to the
Rocky Mountains, and Speaker Colfax will io.-
! ou the example as soon as the adjournment
->oE Congress pcruits him, to leave Washington. E
The Monitrdr says that Moustier's recent
speech in the Corps Legislatif approves OF
uaodarationa OF the French policy. No,step has
heen neglected TO quiet the public mind.
France Win abstain from Intervention in the
(. German questions, but win extend sympathy
.Sand acknowledgement to internal reforms lately
nAuguratoG In Austria and Turkey.
The Democratic State Convention assem-
bled at GraRon, West Virginia, on the 16th..
! Hon. q. II Pendleson and Senator Thurman,
nfOhio, nrro present and addressed the Cen
Yenion at lcng.h. Both gentlemen were most
: ,enthusiasticaliy received. Attendance reported
as being very large. A wiSwam capable OF
seating tivc thousand persons was found tco
sontsachdt 70 accommodate tho crowd.
ssNotWithstandibg the President some six
: uSonths ago sent to the Senate the reason for
s4a suspension of Caliicott tas Collector Of In
zna1 Revenue At Brook yn. and notwithstand-
ux likewise Callicott was indicted upon the
charges alleged sainst him in the Presidents
<rder Of suspension, and was about two months
$50 convicted upon this indictment and SEN
etenced thereon to Imprisonment in tho penitsn-
sslAry, It WAS not until Thursday last that the
Senate concnrred in the Presidents reasons for
Ga1licotts suspension
ssNeyer, says the st. Louis Times, sin the
h.story OF 81. Louis has Presidential cam
..saign been inau .urated with such certain
.tomens of victory as the present. From the
i, u1nment That The nou1ina ION of Seymour and
Biafr wers announced, not only did mere differ
,eaeea Of opinion as to men vanish from among
Democrats, bnt those Of our heretofore op-
poaents WHO had opened their eyes to the sui
eidsl course Of leading Radicals. openly mani.
4 asted their adhesion to the Democratic plat
6 arm, and enc and all, with enthusiastic una
.sirnity, pledged themselves ancw to the fight
OF liberty.
-Isaac J. Lash, member OF Congress elect
E eum tho ffth North Ca olina District left
hone four weeks ago to 80 to Washington, and
hIs not boon seen sincs. His mail has been
xuing there since the time Of his leaving home,
!, Int no one dashboard from him, either there or
s11 bus horne In Nosth Carolina. His friends
en that he haa been foully dealt with but for
Mhat purpose and by whom does not seem APP
IrarenE; as he was @ 1nan OF correct habits and
nersonaIly popular wherever known. An ac-
i SO search has been entered upon to ascertain
Ms fate.
1t is understood that the Erie controversy
.has bean finally settled, on these terms : Daniel
Drewb loan hes been paid. He is allowed to
keep his hypothecated stock at 10, and as he
.aaa it ut tan pcr cent. less, the operation will
PM nearly SEQ, 100 into the company's excfs.-
uer. Drsw ceases TO be director, and it is
1nderstood be has also ceased to be stock
holder. Varderbilt soils the company S50,0O0,-
600 os the new stock, about the average Of the
sales Of the convertible bonds, which are to
ae retired and cancelled. There are other ar
rangementa and stipulations, but these arc un-
.deratood to b the more important features.
No cine has been discovered as yet to the
orgers OF tho Eric and other stock coulter
.eia. Ono theory is, that ''Hoyt" got Of by
he CsIitornii steamer that left last week, with
she intention CT going to South America;
others think he has gone to Europe. 1he lat
Ger conjecture can hardly be correct, as rogue
,sho wss nams enough 10 befoo! al EaG..
erset, would hardly make for por: With 'glicsl !