The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-23
NEW 8 sU M M A r Y.

In N6W 1OIh, JootCAooJ5 NoSsSA w."
and less active sales $500 bales. at 17al74c.
Liverpool quotations Of yesterday evening
give Cotton easier Middling 7td. on the spot;
73d. to arrive sales 12,0OO bales.
in an Illinois libel suit where s2O, 600 were
claimed, the jury returned 81.
Eugene is called the most graceful smoker
in Paris.
1t is reported that President Johnson has
not been to theatre or any place OF public
amusement for the last ten years.
Postmaster Kelly has returned more tnan
three thousand letters addressed to the proprae-
tor of single gift fraud in New York.
The Patterson IN. J.) Locomotive Works
have received orders for making twenty en-
eines for the Pacific Railroad.
Utah is becoming manufacturing region.
Announcements are made Of the erection OF
two wooden factories there.
Queen Victoria has obtained the second
prize for fat pigs at the Birmingham cattle
show.
CHICAGO 30 troubles St. Louis that the
Board Of Trade Of the latter city is about to
petition Congress to protect it against Chica-
COS malicious persecution.
The greatest activity now exists In both
political parties in New Hampshire, and emil
nent speakers on both sides are soon to take
the stump.
Rev. James Gibbons, Of the Baltimore Ca
thedral, has been confirmed by the Pope, and
win soon be oonsecrated Catholic Bishop OF
North Carolina.
As precaution against the Greek fire the
English authorities are having quantities OF
sand conveyed to all the government offices
and placed in heaps inside the windows Of every
floor that is at all accessible from the outside
Three of the obalisques Of the Sultan OF
Turkey were recently drowned in the Bospho-
rus BY the Imperial order. They were his
greatest favorites, and his sudden change and
cruelty have spread terror in the harems.
"A new route is projected from the Atlantic
to the Pacific through British America, OF
which 2a00 miles will be by water, 1885 miles
by railroad already constructed, leaving only
6As miles Of railway yet to be built.
"A proposition has been made to the Com
mon Council of Petersburg, Va, to light the
streets of that city with kerosene, instead of
gas, which, it is said, will effect saving OF
$4,000 in the city expenses.
The Bank OF England willingly gives "good
money" for all silver which has been worn
smooth by fair wear and tear. II, however,
the coins bear the slightest sign OF ill-usuge,
such as dent or a scratch, it declines TO
change them.
The Late campaign In Kansas in favor OF
women's rights has not been without tangible
results, as we notice that on Wednesday last
Miss Emma Hunt was elected enrolling clerk
of the lower house of the legislature OF that
State, This is, we believe, the first case OF the
kind on record.
,--"Moonstone," which is the name Willde
Collins gives to his new story, proves to be a
mysterious diamond brought from India, and
watched by ghostly guardians. The tale shows
already the old scafolding Of separate narra-
tiyes and partcularization Of dates and minute
Incidents which are ordinarily used to produce |
the proper sensation.
BY fifty thousand majority the people OF
Ohio decided at the late election that no negro |
shall have the right of suffrage in that State.
Steps are being taken in the legislature to
carry out this determination Of the people.
MIR. Pennister of Pike county, has introduced a
bill making it o penal offence for any judge Of
the election to receive vote from any per-
son who has 50 visible admixture of African
blood"
"A party composed Of two ladies' and two
gentlemen, in pleasure boat on Oconee Rv-
er, Ga, met with fatal accident. On the 18th
instant they were out in the vicinity Of Stall
ling's Bluff, MontgomerylCo County. The boat cap
sized and the whole party we're struggling in
the water. One Of the young ladies and one
gentleman were saved, the other two drowned.
The body OF the gentleman had not been re-
covered at last accounts.
In Louisville, Ky, there are about $4,000
Germans. HALF Of all the merchants Of chat
city aye Germans. Half Of all the taxes paid
in Louisville are paid by Germans; and it
seems that the German language is taught in
the public schools. Recently the question was
mooted Of discontinuing this branch Of in
struction in the schools, whereupon an indig-
nation meeting was called, which was attended
by about 1000 persons. So says the ''Tennes-
nee Stats Zeitung."
The Scotch universities make little noise
In the WOrlQ, Dut tuoy w 81 LOU uooA Va "oah'
We see by their calendars for '6s that the
sum now annually distributed among stu
dents and graduates alone, oy means Of fell
lowships, &C.,, in the Scotch universities,
amounts to upwards Of twelve thousand five
hundred pounds. This, though it appears
small beside the eighty thousand pounds an
nually spent in Oxford on the same purpose, is
a respectable sum for Scotlsnd voluntarily to
contribute to the support and encouragement
OF learning.
When we consider tho wreck of business
in the South, and especially in the Gulf States,
it is not little surprising to learn, as we do
from 8 report of the Special Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue, that Of the twenty leading
commercial cities Of the United States, New
Orleans ranks as the fourth. New York, Phil
adelphia and Boston are before her, but she
has the precedence of Baltimore, st. Louis,
Cincinnati, San Francisco, and other promi-
nent cities. The exhibit embraces the fiscal
year ending June 30th, 1867, and the figures
are supplied by the returns on "sales" and
'icenses."
-DeBow's Review for January has an article