The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-02
NEWS sU MI M a r z.

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bnt less active yesterday. Sales 2oOO oales al
25!c.
The LIVERPOOL cotton market closed steady.
UpIands 11ad.a11ad.; Orleans lid. Sales 2,OOO
bales.
The death of Berger, the celebrated
French advocate, is announced by cablo.
"A dispatch has been received announcing
that Mount Etna, in Sicily, is in state OF
eruption. =
London capitalists offer s1,OOO.oOO for
the North Star gold mine, in Grass valley
California.
The demolition OF the walls and tortifica-
t;ons of Barcelona has been decreed in conse-
ouence of the increase OF the population In
the city.
"A Polish landlord had to pay three hundred
roubles because his daughter of seven years,
in room by herself, playeda Polish national
air on piano.
-Four colored men are on the grand jury OF
the United States Circuit Court now in session
in Richmond, and six colored men on the list
of petit Jurors.
Louis Napoleon is buying war material
1i.ht and left. The granaries, warehouses and
arsenals Of the empire are filed to overflow
ing; still the work goes on.
PARIS is crowded with strangers, among
who the young American ladies attract great
attention. They are said to be the handsomest
who promenade the Champs Elysees.
The Workingmen's party of Boston have
nominated Isaac W. May for Mayor OF that city.
There are now three candidates for that office
in the fieId-Hon. Moses Kimball, representing
the Republican and Peoples parties; Mayor
.shurtleff, the Democratic, and Mr. May, the
Workingmen's party.
"A Partisan statistician computes that as
the births since the creation of the world have
been SGT s4s 27S, ,O75 22l souls, and that there
are in the worsd only S,O95,0OO square leagues
Of fiat surface, that only e-fifth Of square
foot of land is allotted 10 each inhabitant for
burial purposes.
-One-fourth of the City of Little Rock, Ar
kansas, is owned by Radical Congressman
Schenck, he having bought it up at tax or
confiscation sale. He draws the rent ts1OOoOO
annually and leaves the former owners-Who
contest his title-to pay the taxes. He has
never p6lu tu6 pulCuao~ AnOhSy3 oAAeN Nv >S A~S
a safe and good thing any way.
The Austrian Government has fitted out
and dispatched an expedition which will sail
around the world. It is under command OF
Karl Scherzer. The object Of the enterprise
is to introduce the products of Austrian indus
try into distant markets, and extend the COM
merce Of the empire. The expedition ia under
especial instructions to visit the principal
ports of China and Japan, and proceed thence
to California and the South American coast.
The most lucrative living in the English
Church has Just been made vacant by the death
OF its late holder. This is the living Of Dod-
dington, country parish, to which is joined
also that Of March, and it is worth the round
sum of eight thousand pounds year. The
gift belongs to noblemaa, not an archbishop,
and he is likely to be as closely run down by
applicants for the position as General Grant is
by the Office seekers for foreign missions and
the like. No Office that General Grant can
dispose Of yields, in legitimate way, forty
thousand dollars in gold, and certainly no pop
.ular preacher in America receives such salary
for his clerical ministratio1s.
The Washington (November 29) CORES
pondent OF the Baltimore Sun, speaking of the
approaching session Of Congress, says: The
indications now are that the absorbing matters
next session will be those relating to the fin
ances. The committee of ways and means will
bring forward measures early in the session,
and not wait until the last days and then be
defeated for want of time, as they were last
spring. 1t is we'll understood from members
OF the committee who have been here that the
main features of the tax bill of last year will
be reintroduced, and in time to permit of a
thorough consideration by both houses. 1t is
reported that Mr.. Frank Thomas will make
last effort to have the State government of
Maryland declared unrepublican in form, but
the Radicals here DO not ow look with as
much favor upon that proposition as they did
year or two ago. and Mr. Thomas will never
again find as many followers in this move
as he has hitherto. OF the prominent Radi-
ca 8, General Schenck is probably tho only one
who would really wish to see the question
again agitated. It is said too, that the pun
ishmcnt by whipping post and stocks in Della
ware will be used as stiffener to this Mary
land project; and the hope in some quarters
is, that by uniting both States in bill, and
bringing both together under Republican ban,
something may be accomplished. But the
most earnest advocates Of this measure will be
the sore heads who profess to have been badly
treated while on their way to Philadelphia to
vote.
Senator Sherman's views upon the nation
al finances are published in the New York
Herald. The questions connected with recon-
struction having been settled by the late elec-
tion, MIR. Sherman is OF the opinion that Con-
gross should now devote its attention toward
restoring specie currency to the country. To
do this, he thinks, 'we must satisfy the pee
pie that in no event will there be an increase
in the currency. This will be the first step in
the appreciation of the paper, and will accom-
pIsh all that an increase in the currency could
do, because it will increase it's representative
value. Next ne must adopt every other means
of giving to the outstanding currency higher
value. Thus, ii the gold receipts of tho
government are in excess of the gold in
terest it has to pay, there must he no ac
cumulations and subsequent speculative
treasury sales; but instead of this ths
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