The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-24
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eaIes vsre estimated at IL, ,UUo paies- 80
There were five murders last week In sln-
ole county Of New Hampshire.
General Grant intends to return TO WASH
;npto;nrI 81 soon l after the election in November.
..tMiss Rysis coming to Canada this month
,-,v;,b another carco of British servant girls.
The three shortest postofce names IN tne
:. Omitted States are T.B. (Md:), Ali (ohio)' ana
Pc (Ind.) .. ona
IT ia calculated that thirty-6ve thousand
hats were bet on the results OF last weeks elec-
>stions.
John Quincy Adams has returned from his
Southern tour, and is at his home In Massa-
chusetts.
The Emperor Napoleon, it is said, INTENDS
to give the widow of Count WaleWsh a pension
of s1s, 900 out of his private funds. ,.--
The st. Petersburg newspapers advocate a
NOW close and intimate alliance and co-opera-
tion between Russia and the United States.
"A citizen of Pittsburg has given s5o,ooo to
bniId home for shoeblacks and newspoys III
that city.
The New York Herald says the latest style
of hat is go cross between Kossuth' o SOM
sbrero. round and q high plivate's forage cap
knocked out OF shape during his last spree"
The Erie County (New Yolk) Democratic
COMMITTEE have issued an address condemn
ing the "treacherous few In New York, whose
god is gold, and whose organ is the World" I"
for changing front.
-Betgeen the months of January and Au-
gust Ct the present year, it is stated that thir-
..ir:tye thousand one hundred and forty-slx
emierants have left Hamburg for ports OF the
United States.
Sixty Mormons, the last instalment OF i've
thousand, who have come from Europe TINS
year, lately passed through Chicago on their
sya7 to Utah. The agent counts on bringing
,tsn thousand or twelve thousand next year.
The Presbyterian Synod OF New Sork ana
New jersey (New School), and the SYNOD Oh
New Jersey tOld schooi), are in session in New
York City. Both bodies joined In q union
PRAYER meeting on Wednesday, when DR.. Guy
lar. of New York; warmly advocated church re-
union: The Old School Synod adopted res
luton offered by DR.. McIlvaine, OF Prlnceton'
that the agreement now existing between the
two branches of the church is such as to war
rant their reunion without unnecessary delay
The Roman Catholics (who commenced op-
= arations in China two hundred years ago) are
making great headway among the Celestials.
They sre erecting. q. cathedral in Canton to
.coat three millions Of dollars, and another,
!. quito asmagni6cent and costly, is to be put up
in Peldn, while in nearly every important city
Of the Empire tn hey are building church. The
Jesuits throughout the empirei have adopted
/. the dress, the habits and customs OF the Ohl-
ese-eating as they eat, sleeping as they
sleep, shaving the forehead and not the
crown, justas the Chinese shave theirs.
Official returns have been received from
every county in Pennsylvania, and they give,
according to the New York Tribune, Repub-
aIcan majority Of s6n in the State, in total
poll Of 1000. The new Pennsylvania Legis-
Istuure will consist CT eighteen Republicans and
rfiteen Democrats in the Senate, and si1ty-two
Republicans and thrty-eight Democrats in the
House. This will give the Republicans a ma
jotiey Of three IN the Senate, twenty.four in the
House, and twenty seven on joint ballot. In
Ohio full official returns are not yet reported,
but the latest information states that the Re-
publican majority will be 1885. In Indiana
:;the Repubicn majority is set down at eight
hundred and seventeen.
General Wade Hampton has, in letter,
declined an invitation to address the people Of
Illinois In the present canvass, on the ground
that his services are needed in South Carolina,
otherwise he would certainly visit the great
Northwest in the hope thai he might, in some
small degree, disabuse the people Of the false
impression given to them by Radical misrepre-
sentation Of the purposes, the wishes and the
desires Of the people of the South. He adds:
Twould strive to impress upon them that we
,,Iesire above all things firm, just peace; that
we recognize the questions of slavery and Sc
cession as settled forever by the war; that we
have no purpose, open or concealed, to agitate
these questions at any future time, and that
fue look to constitutional agencies and peace
sfulrenedies alone to free US from legislation
which we believe to be unconstitutional, and
whichwe know will destroy the South utterly
and irretrievably."
"A new and not unimportant reform is
about to be introduced in German schools, viz {:
the abolition Of all afternoon classes. 1t was
principally during the past summer months
that the experiment was almost forced upon
the authorities. The results are on all sides
reported to have been more than brilliant. The
forenoon classes are somewhat, but not much.
longer than formerly, but it is said that the
pupils show an eagerness and visor in those
abort morning hours which have Dever been
known before, and their progress is quito in
keeping with their keen and energetic as
siduity. The most curious point about the
matter, says the Pail Mail Gazette, seems to be
the fully authentic ated fact that the schools
having hitherto only closed experiment.lly
earlier or later, according to the wishes of the
respective head-masters, the progress shown
by the various schools stands in an inverse
ratio to the duration of the classes-or, in
other words, the less hours beyond the four OF
five OF the morning in school, the more did the
boys get on with their work.
The fair Of the Agricultural Society of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina commenced in Dan
vile, Va, on Tuesday, and was numerously at
tended. Colonel William T. Sutherlin, Presi-
dent Of the Society, delivered the opening ad-
dress. he said that many persons were dis
posed to give up in despair, unless their own