The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-13
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female practitioners.
The New York Anti Gambling Society re-
suorted forty-tbree clerks to their employers last
month as addicted to fighting the tiger.
Confederate General S. B. Buckner is
/. to be connected editorialy with the Louisville
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Mrs. Francis Josephs slatetaddition to her
) familyis 8 girK, md the Hapsbdrg throne still
remains without male heir in the direct line.
lin the railrcad scena in Under the Gas
light, . as performed Of Virgins City, Nevada,
s-the excited miners threw as many as twenty
big knives on the stage 10 ASST st the heroine in
y cutting the ropes which bound Snorkey to the
.iEaok. s zs5s:e.ss, q ...,S. stag3. r
:By The death of Marshal Narvaez, Spain is
flung back upon o confused heap OF second
rate politicians, mot one OF whom hiss an estab-
.hshed tiueto ascendancy. such as. at all events,
. impaired an element Of stability to Naryaez's
despotism. s. 80
Some OF the advanced Liberals Of England
are riyaIling ON rcarpet-baagers. At q certain
workingman.s club, once week there is q
meeting for the purpose Of enabling sristo-
Gratis Of Liberal tendencies to meet working
men in social intercourse. The worktngmen
and their wives and daughters attend, and are
!. helped to tee and cake by the 'isWels. ,.E
Speaking for the Southern Democracy, the
& Macon (Ga.) Journal says, if it knows susht Of
their temper orpmposes, they "wil! vote IN the
New York Convention for the man, be he civi-
lian or Federal general. who can win-whose
9 strength before the country is such as to in
sure success and the consequent deliyerance
of the South from the hands Of the oppressor.
They wi neither a,ks nor care to know what
he said or what he did during the war .: =,
Y The Montgomery Ala. Mail has an article
addressed. to MOBILIZE IN depreciation sof the
apathy upon political questions, which often
prevails in commercial centres. The Mail cites
the cases Of New Orleans, Augusta and Savan-
nah IN recent selecions, ,Sass instances OF the
mischief that may result from mere neglect:
Mobile, it says, has three thousand unregis-
! tered voters, who, if another election is or
dered,, may saTe the State by voting down the
bogus constitution and secure q majority in
the Legislature besides. ,.i.ss's -
Mr.. Gladstone has written an explanatory
communication in reply to the anonymous
ISLANDERS hichhave been assiduously circula-
ted in regard to his character. he denies that
he is . Roman Catholic az heart; that he has
resisted the preferment Of DR.. Winter; that he
has sreceiyed the thanks OF the Pope stor his
conduct, aud that he Is q nieslbsr OF High
3 Church Ritualist congregation. Mr. Gladstone
sscribes the origin OF these charges to ref-
gious bigotr3and hatred, and requests all per-
:, sons who may be interested in the matter, If
any like statement should hereafter come
under their view, in the interest Of truth to
withhold their belief. ...
s--Ehe Glasgow Herald publishes some ex-
tracts from lettsrs written by DR.. Livingstone
..during the winter of 1867. At,thst time he was
making slow progress at the rate of eightmiles
q day. He complains OF many hindrances, not
the least OF which were the scarcitylof food and
tha prevalence Of the rainy season. The party
we're compelled to follow zigzag course
through fear OF marauding Zulus. He had lost
his medicine chest, and was compelled to re-
sort to native remedies for the fever, which
chen prevailed. On the first of February the
party we're $500 feet above the sea level and be-
ginning to descend. The doctor thought they
were then on the watershed for which he Vas
to seek. IS
"A story is told by Congressman Chanler,
1of New York. which shows that the great Eng
3 2lish novelist, now on visit at Washington, IS
taking notes. gentleman on horseback
passed Mr.. Trollope, and, by accident, the
horse bespatte-ed the Englishman with mud.
The gentleman reinsd up and apolosized.
.t.No matter, sir,n said Trollope; shut woud
like to inquire il. your horse hasa Q name, and
il not would name him." ssCertainlS," re-
spondea the gentleman, You can name him. I" .
t Then, sir" eaid Trollope, ST name him
Donnely."' No. explanation was needed The
novelist had evidently been en- attendant upon
the late sessions OF the 'Ho1se, Of Representa-
!; tives. : Y,. ~ ~ ~ -
a private letter from New Orleans, dated
April %, Is publishedin the New York Journal
,4of Commerce, which mentions that gentle
man in Mississippi owning three plantations,
With twelve hundred acres in cotton, has at
work on two OF them abont one hundred hands,
convicts from the pente atiary. which is over
crowded Permission was given the planter to
inspect: the prison records and select the
hands, and the writer says: ''One guard is de-
tailed to six hands, anu there are sergeants in
command, all provided with food and lations,
and the planter TO give two suits of clothes to
the hands, who are delighted with the change
and working well, commencing at ga. M. and
stopping at 6 p. NJ. On these plantations no
-other hands are employed. Other plantations
may have laborers Of the same Glass;
The New York Herald has abandoned Ad-
:miral Fsrragut, and taken up Chief Justice
!. Chase as its candidate for the Presidency.
This, it says, is the result of impeachment, the
most important feature Of waieh-is is that it has
tried men who were not ostensibly on trial.
9, Above all parties aud partisans it has shown
the character Of MIR. Chase, has lifted him
away nom party relations and given him to the
people. :Radicalism breads him, and that is
the best reason .Shy thespeople should honor
hin. A party with. Chief Justice Cha se for its
candidate; ana.some staunch soldier like Thom-
as Sheridan, schoasld or Meade second on the
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