The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-24
NE w S s U M M a r Y.
Gold closed Yesterday at s4sass44bB.

Middling Is. Sales 2100 bales.
Cotton in Liverpool quiet. Sales l2;CoO
bales. No quotations received.
Bra lillian cotton seed is reported to ylela
more abundantly than any other kind
All the cigar makers Of the country, 1t Is
sa;d ara sending specimens of their wares 10
President Grant.
An .sorder" aSolishes red shirts in the New
York Fire Department. Hereafter blue SHIRTS
are to be worn, ...,..
Thee widowed Marchioness Of Hastings
will, it is said, despite the losses OF her hus-
band, come into about f5OO0 year.
Jefferson Davis recently attended the War
wick races in England, and witnessed the sue
cess of a horse named President Lincoln.
"A man named King, living in Rose Valley,
Western New York. has had thirty-one child
rem by one wife.
According to the Supreme Court OF New
Hampshire policy OF life insurance issued for
the benefit of o mans wife and children cannot
be bequeathed by him for the benefit OF the
wife alone to the exclusion Of his children.
Mrs. Ernestlne I. Rose presents her rem
edy for infanticide, which, among other things,
proposes to make the father Of ileSitimate
children recognize such children as legitimate;
of course compelling them to do so by law.
"A Paris letter says Of the late Baron
Rolhsch;ld: sIt is said he was forced to estab-
lish o bureau of charity. His letters from
ruined clerks who were to blow their brains
out unless d certain sum arrived by certain
hour averaged Que day."
The Swiss watchmakers ore steadily ap-
prcachlus perfection. In 1852 the average de-
Walton Of the Neufchatel chronometer was
1.61 seconds per day; but one was recently
finished and tested which gave only .16i OF
second variation in twenty-fcur hours.
in the new British House Of Commons
there are twelve Independents, five Baptists,
live Quakcrs, two Wesleyan Methodists, one
Calyinistic Methodist, seventeen Unitarians,
ten Presbyterians, six Jews, aud twenty-slx
Roman Catholics, Of whom one only represents
IN English constituency:
AT Dresden, society Of tradesmen has
been formed, in order to protect the members
against dishonest debtors. 1t has about four
thousand members. A list published by the
society warns members against making con-
tracts with seven hundred and fifty persons,
WAC ere named.
-Avolume of.sEssays in Defence of Women"
published anony nously in London, treats in
pleasant tone of topics which society never
tires of discussing: "Beauty is Power;;" "On
Proposing;" s.On Being Ref lsed;' '"Long En-
gaeements;" ';Should Married Women Dances"
"Sisters-iu-Law;;" "On Marrying Again"
1t is reported that Queen Isabella has writ
ten General Prim letter, in which she calls
on him to labor for her restoration to the
throne, or ut least for the establishment OF her
SON, the Prince OF the Asturias, as King; promi-
sing to let him be Prime Minister in the former
case, Regent in the latter, and also to grant
him pardon for the past"
An armed and organized body Of lawless
negroes on Skldaway Island have declared
their purpose to obstruct the rivers, and to
kill and murder every white man who shall
dare pursue his avocation Of fishing and oys-
terins; and on the 18th instant, as party of
white fishermen were passing Skdaway, o
heavy Ere was opened upon them by large
body of negroes, who declared their purpose
to rule those waters in defiance of law.
"A Washington letter says: "The opinions
of DR.. Samuel Bard, editor Of the Atlanta New
Era, relative to further congressional recon-
struction lit Georgia, take members and sena-
tors here, Of tae Radical school, somewhat by
surprise. Dr.. Bard has become. through his
paper, power in the State of Georgia. and
his deliberately avowed opposition to further
Congressional interference in that State will
have its effect not only within the State bounds,
but elsewhere"
Mr.. Bonner has lost his famous and valua.
bic auburn horse" which dleG on Wednesday
evening of spasmodic colo. The Auburn horse
was at one time regarded as the fieetest in the
country, but Mr. Bonner now owns three which
have exhibited greater speed. The present ls
the first loss of the kind that has befallen Mr.
Bonner, and il is not without its compensation,
as it gives him room in his stables for the
promising horse "Bruno," which has thus far
been excluded. !
The New York Evening Post proposes that
Alaska shall be set apar. as q home for convict
cd criminals. estate rights, however, may not
aQInlt Oh our OVerCloWueu Jdiis auu pOHAleo-
tiaries being thus relieved; but if in our ad-
m:ration of the absolutism Of Russia we con-
tinue to have political prisoners" we might
further initiate that country in tho good pre-
ceedlng Of sending them to freeze out life
in tine most inhospitable region at our COM
mand.
The New York Times says: GA petition is
in circulation for the pardon Of Jefferson Davis
and all others under presentment or indict-
ment for having been engaged in the rebellion.
Thus far, we believe, it has only been signed by
Democratic members of Congress; but there
are great many others who would be very
glad to sec an end put to this dismal farce of
trying to impose on the public by pretending
to wish 10 try Davis or anybody else in this
matter. II is time the curtain he'd fallen.'
The murder of Mr.. ]. A. Gleason, in Char
lotte, N. c., on Friday last, was even more un-
provoked and coldblooded than at first re-
ported. The whole affair originated from q
difficulty occurring in the street, caused by
the attempt of negro policeman to arrest
white man. crowd naturally gathered, and
among them Mr.. Gleason, who suffered some
violence at tho hands Of negro. He then
turned upon him aud the fellow ran. For this
Mr.. Gleason was afterwards arrested and taken
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