The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-14
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Gold closed in New York, Saturday, at

Is cents, closing with relusaB u SCH uuuoi :
advance.
in Liverpool cotton was quiet, with sales
of1O,OOO bales. Uplands 1O}; Orleans Id
The United States annually exports nearly
$4,000, 600 tons of cheese.
The Chinese Embassy is expected to ar
rive in Paris by Christmas.
The st. Paul Dispatch, in speaking OF the
ballet girls of the "Whito Fawn," says they
were ssbarefooted up to the neck"
-Edmonia Lewis (colored) has received al
order at Rome from Prince George of Prussia
to execute statue Of Clio twhite).
"A package of $4,000 in Confederate notes
was sold at auction in Savannah on the LIST
instant for one dollar.
The Germans in Chicago gave Janauschek
public reception and wreath Of indelllIle
laurel on Saturday evening.
George Francis Train, it is said, posts so
many letters in his British prison that the
warden calls him ''..hc mail train
Madame Patti-Caux, after having sung so
many other peoples songs, it is now said has
composed ore for herself,
"A statue Of James Watt, eight feet three
inches in height, and executed in Sicillan
marble, has been erected in Birmingham. Eng
LAID.
The Southern Hotel, better known, per-
haps, as The Lafarge House, on Broadway,
New York, was sold recently, in sections, real
izng the aggregate sum Of sSG9,0OO.
Queen victoria's Subjects in Great Britain
number now plump thirty riillion-England
twenty-one, Scotland more than three, Ireland
more than five millions.
Tho latest version Of the Menken's ath
comes, at this late day, from Anna Cora
Ritchie, who says h'r disease was caused by
the strap with which she was bound to the
horse as "Mazeppa."
"A London paper, speaking OF JEFF Davis
presence at horse race, mentions that by
curious coincidence ho witnessed the success
of horse named after o former enemyof
his, President Linceln."
Evening schools of art, fifty in number,
with upwards of four thousand pupils, are
maintained in Paris. Prizes for proficiency arc
given by the municipal authorities, and, where
the skill OF the pupil is very remarkable, re-
wards are bestowed by the Emperor.
The report in reference to the distribution
.of brbes to secure the ratification OF the treaty
for the purchase of Alaska is still in vigorous
circulation. The sum Of $500 900, it is insisted,
was paid to'a banker in Washington, and the
&, correspondents OF the prominent papers OF the
country are asserted to have received amounts
varying between s25OO and $4,000.
EARLY Yesterday morning frc broke out
in Savannah, in the range of buildings at the
extreme end Of Mill-street, in that portion OF
the city known as Yamacraw. There was
stiff breeze blowing at the time, and the flames
spread with alarming rapidity, destroying the
entire range in very short time. The fire
communicated to tenement opposite, and the
occupants barely had time to save their effects
ere the houses were destroyed.
A Washington letter in the Baltimore Sun
saws: 1.-THE wager of cool thousand dollars
was made by man that he could name the
Cabinet Of the incoming administration. Arti-
cles were signed and the money deposited in
the safe Of 3 leading hotel. The betting slate,
as made up, is as follows: Secretary OF State,
Edwin NJ. Stanton; Secretary OF the Treasury,
Senator Morton; Secretary Of War, General j.
M. Schoaed; Secretary Of the Navy, Admiral
Porter; Secretary OF the Interior, Senator Con-
ness; Postmaster General, Horace Greeley;
and Attorney General, Matt. h. Carpenter.
The Consistory for the creation Of Cardi-
nails, which was to have been hold in Romo in
December, is deferred till next March. Tie
Pope will then confer the purple on ten pre-
lates at once, thus filling all the vacancies in
the Sacred College, which he desires to see
complete for tho Gcumenical Council. The hat
will be bestowed on Monsignor de Merodc, in
spite of Cardinal Antonelhs opposition, AID Lis
post of grand alnoner will be given to Monsl;-
nor Talbot de Malahide. On the samo occasion
the Pope will restore the Roman Catholic
hierarchy Of Scotland, establishing primate
, at Glasgow; and confer the cardinals hat on
Archbishop Manning. ~
Russia perssvsres with her classification
OF Poland The other day saith, who had
established new Grotra Green at Sofpo,
marrying such couples as would not submit to
the solemnizaLion of their union in Russia.
was sent to Siberia, uhilo the mon he had
married were enrolled into the army and the
marriages were declared illegal. In like man
ner baptisms of children had to be enforced with
armed authority, since the peasants do not be-
,ieve IN the efficacy Of the act when accompa-
MED by Russian words. The Catholic inhabi
Sants OF the Grodno and Kovno Districts are
now escorted 20 church BIZ the sodiery and
the police; they refuse to go OF their own &C.
cord, objectipg to the new language introduced
into the worship.
There is no court IN England now. The
people hear of the Queen from day to day in a
line or two, which is revised by her and s=nt
TO the newspapers but it only records her
morning walks, her Sunday visits to church,
and the occasional arrival OF a foreign prince
or distinguished subject. Of balls, parties
and gatherings, not a word Few individuals
IN even the middle classes load so retired a
life. London is Stunned, and no incident re-
calls the existence of the Queen to mind. The
Prince of Wales is on continental tour, and
the Duke of Edinburgh, the next of the sons.
is on g voyage round the world. Practically,
Spain and England are alike in this respect.
The discomfort which was once so bitterly ex-
pressed has given way to indifference, but it is
by no means clear that the change is favorable
for royalty.
Commodore Meade was brought before
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