The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-16
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Cotton was o shade lower; sales zzoo
hales. at 24a244- chiefly "a cents.
In Liverpool cotton was easier, but not
lower !; sale 5000 bales. The market ls bare
of stock. !. -. iHs.:.
-.Gold Brown" is said to be just now the
.fayorlte color ID Paris.
General Grant is going to New YORK to
spend week or two.
General Longstreet had an interview with
/. General Grant Wednesday. ..,...--,.
-Thaddeus Stevens and James Bucnanan
are buried in the same graveyard.
-European ply sicians, it is said, have sue
cessfnlly used electricity to restore persons VINO
have taken an overdose of laudanum or opium
The Peaks of Otter, in the Blue Ridge OF
Virginia, are now on fire, and at night present
a magnificent appearance.
"A Western millionaire astonisnes New
Yorkers by driving span OF blacks tandem'
with white leather harness.
Our exchanges abound in reports OF wheel
barrow expeditions growing out OF bets on the
Presidential election.
"A Mississippi colored preacher has con-
-menced publishing the oolored Citizens
Monthly.
John Quincy Adams, the Democratic can
didate for Governor in Massachusetts,, ran ten
Thousand ahead Of his ticket at the recent
election. ,s.v IL
Rents in New York are coming down, and
it is easier for people in want OF houses 10
get them now than it has been at any time tor
years pst.
One of the New York papers reports that
the city Judge, just elected there, contemplates
rev;ving the practice of wearing Judicial
wig.
The cultivation of broom corn is extending
in Virginia. The yield averages net profit OF
~ Der acre, not count ing the seed, which is
valuable for feed.
The new Archbishopof Canterbury, Eng
land, will have snug income of 100000. and
the patronage OF one hun dred and seventy
seven liyings.
The New York Evening Mail says that hun
dreds Of ..nice young men" in that city, many
of them ''society fellows" live entirely upon
borrowed money.
Thirty acres in Fairfax County, Va, were
sold few days ago for the sum Of 500 an
acre. Land adjoining is now held at sl5o an
acre.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company are
about to lay out town at the mouth OF the
Weser BiYer, seYenty-6ve miles east OF Salt
Lake City.
"A number of capitalists in Auburn, New
York, have purchased eighty thousand acres OF
land near Palatka, Florida, and are about to
colouize it with people from that State. -.
The Board Of Trade Of New York has ap-
pointed a COMMITTEE to memorabilia Congress
TO secure water communications from tho Ohio
River to the Atlantic, by the way Of the Kama
wha and James Rivers. "esIs.
"a New York insurance com pany has ten
dered General B. E. Lee the position Of super
visor of agencies tor the Southern States, at q
salary Of $4,000 year. He is also spoken Of
for the presidency Of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Company.
The annual meeting of the General Coun-
Gil of the Lutheran Church of America cen
,yenedi in the First English Lutheran Church in
Pittsburg, Pa, on Thursday. This body is
comprised Of English, German, Swedish, Nor
wegian and Danish Synods from Canada to
Texas, and is, the highest judicatory OF the
church. ~ So
"A San Francisco paper, describing the re-
cent earthquake there, says: "The German
.Abend Post newspaper was not issued yester
day evening, owing to their forms being pied
by the earthquake. The floor Of their compos
ing room settled about six inches. The work
men feared to enter the Office, and the proprie
tors could not induce them for money to set uI
,tho extra. The paper has been damaged to
the extent Of $1,000"
The New York correspondent Of the Phila.
delphia Ledger says: ga very intimate person
al friend Of Mr.. Seward says that functionary
is making arrangements to retire from public
lite at an early day, and that but for the still
unadjcsted Alabama claims his resignation
would take effect on the first Of January next
According to the same authority, the venerable
statesman intends to quit Auburn. and spend
the remainder Of his days in this city. He has
the purchase OF an elegant mansion in Madison
avenue IN contemplation"
"A dispatch from Louisville says: General
Henry E. Read, OF this city, about five o'clock
Monday afternoon, walked into the law Office Of
Major Buck Allen, on Court Place, with note,
stating that his life was a failure, lay down on
, 8 lounge and shot himself through the head
with Derriuger pistol. Pecuniary embarrass.
ment was the main reason for the act. He was
a lawyer by profession, and was generally loved
and respected. He represented Kentucky in
the Confederate Congress. He gained tht
title of brigadier-general in the Mexican war
in which ho served with distinction, and was
celebrated for planting the flag of the Kentuck.
yolLigeurs on the walls OF Chappltepec. FL
leaves q wife and several children.
Later accounts of ne Cuban revolution
are contained in the New York Herald. a ba:
tie took place on the 18th ult., between III
Spanish forces under Colonel Quiros, number
ing one thousand man, and the patriots unde
Manue, Lucas Castillo and Milanes, numbering
six hundred, in the vicinity OF Baire. OF tn
patriots four hundred and fifty were mounted
They were armed only with machctes; on
hundred and fifty more were on foos arme
with rifles and revolvers. Immediately on tn
advance of the Spanish troops the four hun
dred and fifty cavalry dcbouched on tho mail
road and charged the Spanish troops with sucl
desperate and determined valor that these ha,