The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-02
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in Liverpool cotton closed yesterday
buoyant, with sales OF 10000 bales. Uplands
on the spot 11:d.; afoat 1lsa11a.
"A copy OF Audubon's works has Leen sold
for over two thousand dollars in New York.
The Artemus Ward monument is to be
placed in Central Park, New York.
The Democrats OF Chicago have declared
for Pendleton for President.
Ten thousand men are digging away to
finish the Suez Canal next year.
The cotton crop of Sonora, Mexico, this
season, is success.
The government Of the Dominion of Canada
PROPOSES 20 make American silver legal
tender.
The Pacific Railroad is completed to within
four miles Of the highest summit on tie en-
tire route.
The North Carolina Conservatives have
nominated Thomas C. Fuller, Of Cumberland,
for Congress from the third district.
-Advices from Hayti via Havana, report
that Salnavs has been beaten by the Haytien
insurgents in several pitched battles.
"a French doctor says that life remains
long time IN the body after the head Is cut of;
but his opinion is of no more value than that
of any one else who has not tried it.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is supposed to be
worth seventy-dve million dollars. A large
proportion of his means are invested in rail
road stocks and securities.
General Schoield mas appointed Rush Bur-
CESS, of Petersburg, Va, Mayor of that city,
the former Mayor having resigned.
The civil marriage bill of Austria, having
been amended and passed by both houses Of
the Reichsrath. awaits the Signature of the
Emperor.
The Liverpool Daily Post says that MIR.
Train, who does not think the British public
are doing him justice, is about to issue daily
news paper from the prison in which he is con-
fined for debt.
Reports from Crete, received in Washing
ton. state that another battle had been fought
and 200 Turks killed. No particulars are given
as to the result of the battle, or as to the num-
Der of Cretans slain.
1t is understood that the Emperor Napo-
leon will issue manifesto on or about the 10Th
of April, defining the foreign policy Of France.
Since the new army bill was put in operation, ,
the Garde Mobile has been increased to half
million Of mel.
-Anti-Prussian riots have taken place in
Northern Bavaria. Crowds gathered at va
rious points and made violent demonstrations
against Prussian influence, and in opposition
to any unicn with the North German Confede-
ration.
"A cable dispatch to the New York Herald
purporting 10 come from Antalo, Abyssinia,
repres ents that King Theodorous with fifteen
thousand men and and six guns occupied on
the 9Th of the present month strong position
two days march east Of Magdala, and that
General Napier was at Antalo with six thou
Sand troops the latter we're said to be suffering
from fever and dysentery, whilst forage was
scarce and the roads bad.
English papers report that Archbishop
Manning has ordered that there shall be no
more choir singing in any of the churches in
his diocese after Easter. The service In future
Is to be Gresorian, chanted BY the priests.
A Washington correspondent who admires
General Grant writes " General Grants face
is q study to me always, wearing its look OF
pain, as if an invisible world pressed him down
from above. He always walks as steadying
himself under this load
Governor Brownlow has published under
his own name in the Knoxville Wing an article
in which he denounces the Kuklu1 Klan, end
advises Union Leagues to arm and exterminate
the members of it. The editor of the Vidette,
in Sumner County, Tennessee, was notified On
Saturday that the Unionists were about 'to
clean out" the Kullux Klan in that county. A
call was Immediately issued urging the citl-
zens to rally and repel the invaders. col
lision is seriously apprehended in that section.
"A venerable old lady recently died in
Winslow, Me-, who had not heard Of the late
war, because, being so deaf that it was neces-
sary to converse with her by writing, none Of
the family wished to assume the task of keep
ing her posted. When two of her grandsons
enlisted she saw them in their uniforms, as
she hal in childhood seen the soldiers Of the
first revolution, and inquired what it meant.
When told it 'was the fashion, all the young
men were wearing them," she replied with
animation: "Just as they used to do when
uas little girl, and told them they would
come in fashion again"
"A correspondent sketches the following
picture OF John Stuart Mill-"AIr. Mil's fig
ure is of more than the average height, but
he could hardly be called tall. His form is de-
cidedly slender. His head impresses one at
once as the seat of intelligence Of the highest
order and the highest activity. The upper
por ton is very broad, and below the splendid
high forehead the face becomes narrow-featur-
ed. His eyes are grayish, and not large, but
of most genial expression. His nose is thin
and straight and we'll proportioned. The fea-
tures run out into very sharp chin. The
complexion of the clean-shaved face is rosy,
and clearly indicative of good health. The
top of the head is almost bald; but the lower
portion is covered with good growth of
rather curly light brown hair, slightly tinged
gith gray"
The washerwoman's millennium is at hand.
II is coming from 'sDown East" and consists
principally Of piece of tin. This inexpensive
article, perforated, is fitted as sort OF false
bottom in a common boiler used for washing.
Beneath it are placed soap and water; above it
the clothes to be cleansed From either end
OF this bottom rises curved tin tube, so
shaped that the streams of water coming up