The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-07
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,o,a .loaod in New York at 4Oa.

Cotton closed in Liverpool at 1Otd. for ur'
lsnds and ltd. for Orleans.
Jefferson is very successfully playing RiE
Van Wrinkle in Chicago.
"A frst-class hotel in New York pays S22 0Ul
a year for butter.
-Beecher says he used, when boy, to wast
dishes and hem towels.
in some Of the fashionable churches II
London, programmes of the music are prlnteo
and distributed in the pews.
"A Massachusetts ice company is aaid te
have purchased lake in Norway, whence ice
may be shipped to London.
- At San Marino, in Dinwiddie county, VIZ
einia, coal-black negro, named VIM. Starke
and who can neither read nor write, has actu'
ally received the appointment OF postmaster.
The Louisville Journal, of the Sd instant
denies the report that MIR. Prentice has Deer
discharged from its editorial staff, and says
also. that MIR. Prentice is not poor, but in az
fluent circumstances, his homestead alone
being valued at thirty thousand dollars.
The prospective vacancy in the Office Of
Acknowledgement of the United States army,
to be occasioned by the retiring of General
Hooker, has started number Of applicants
for the position. General Buchanan, lately IN
command at New Orleans, and General Gordon
Granger are among those prominent for the
position.
Tho New York Tribune publishes letter
from Thaddeus Stevens, now made public for
the first time. 1t is dated "June 9th, 1868. u
He regrets that he cannot speak favorably OF
the Chicago platform, which, he says, is "hke
most of the Republican platforms OF the past
six years, lame and cowardly." Of course he
is especially condemnatory Of the omission Of
his universal suffrage plank, which he savagely
calls folly and wickedness. The letter con-
cludes with bit OF advice, which will prove
sticker. "It is vain for the Republican party
to hcpe to maintain their liberty by skulking.
Let them be bold and honest, and they will
learn that Heaven still rules Let them be
cowardly end mean, and they will receive their
reward with the hewers Of wood and drawers
of water"
The Baltimore Sun says Mrs. Lincoln,
widow of the lats President, with her youngest
son, after attending the marriage of Captain
Robert Lincoln, her eldest son, at Washington,
on the oath ult., returned to this city on the
26th, and took rooms at Barnum's City Hotel,
where she remained in comparative retire.
ment, being visited only by few personal
friends, until Thursday morning last, when
she left with her son and was driven direct to
Locust Point. Here, yelled and unknown to
the large crowd on the pier, the widow and son
OF the late President went on board the steam
ship Baltimore, bound to Bremen. She at
once went to her state-room, and as her name
didnot appear on the passenger list furnished
by the agents Of the line, lit being withheld,
it is supposed, at the request Of the lady,) the
fact Of her actual departure for Europe has
only become known several days after the sail
ing Of the ship. Those intimately acquainted
with Mrs. Lincoln, aver that her visit to Eu-
rope at this time is for the purpose of placing
her youngest Bon at school in Germany, after
which che will probably spend the winter in
sthe south of France.
M. de Lavergue has been making an elab-
~orate series of Investigations as to the growth
or rather the uant of legitimate growth-oi
the population of France. Not only is the
population Of many Of the healthiest depart
ments less than it was twenty years ago, but
the total average throughout the country of
these1cess Of births over deaths in the period
1s47-1s65 was less by nearly one-half than the
average Of the period preceding. And taking
the population Of the three hundred and sixty
three ACCOMPLISHMENTS into which the depart
ments are divided, III. de Lavergne's researches
have shown that in no fewer than one hundred
and eighty-five ACCOMPLISHMENTS the population
has decreased in one hundred and twenty-eight
1t has remained nearly stationary, and in fifty
only has it considerably increased. In the
twenty years anterior to 1S47, on the contrary,
the population bad increased in three hundred
and thirty-one arrondissements, and decreased
in thirty-two only. NJ. de Lavergne adduees
striking facts to show that the chief cause ol
this change in the movement OF population is
the military policy Of the present French Gov
ernment, with It'll natural consequonces-war,
immense levies OF the best strength OF the pop
ulation, its unnatural concentration in towns,
barrack life and habits. Even French war; il
followed BY disarmament, would be less dam
aging to the growth Of the population than the
military policy which forces nearly the whole
able-bodied men Of the country into the army.
The New York Sun says the velocipede
seems destined to come into use in this city
though it will not soon attain here the vogue il
has reached in France. Our streets are toe
narrow and zoo crowded ,and We have few broad
smooth avenues affording the opportunity Of
employing it extensively as means OF exer-
else and health. Still, it is so attractive and
fascinating, developing so much strength and
skill, and afording so great amusement to
the rider, chat its votaries and students
must become numerous. The only artistic We
locipedes consist of two wheels, the one di-
rectly behind the other, and connected to-
gether by. light iron frame work. The fore
wheel is usually little the higher Of the two
Where great speed is aimed at, its diame--l
may be made as great as four feet, while tnat
of the hind wheel should hardly exceed two
feet and eight or ten inches. In most of those
that have been seen in New York the two
wheels have been pretty nearly equal with a
diameter of about two feet and four inches.
The propelling force is applied through trea-
dies, which are fixed to the fore Wheel The
rider drives himself by the alternate action of
his feet upon these treades. the motion of
the feet is not unlike that in rapid walk