The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-03
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20,Oco bales; uplands 104d.
Judah P. Benjamin has published trea'
tise ON the Law Of Sale OF Personal Property
Hon. G. ". Summers, distinguished citl-
zen of West Virginia, died last week.
The New York rat-pit and dance-house
prayer-meetings are now thinly attended.
A Congress of Naturalists is to be held IN
Vienna early in October.
The English race horse Blair Athol was
recently sold for $4,000 in gold.
Fifteen miles an hour has beer attained by
IA Englishman in volocipcde.
Miss Lorillard Spencer, pretty New York
er,, is to marry one of the Counts Cencl IN
Rome.
The subject of the construction OF ship
canal from Petersburg, Va, to deep water, mas
been revived.
-Amountain of magnetic iron has been dis
covered in Lapland. It ia sufficient to supply
the world with magnets: r ' -.
-"Dog shoes for protecting the feet OF
sporting dogs when coursirg on stubble fieids'
areproposed in England. ...-.....zs
PATHS husband is in tribulahon. He
mortgaged his salary two years ahead, and
Napoleon turned him out of his situation.
"A planter on Matagorda Island says that
sea island cotton of the finest quality cap Do
raised all along the coast.
Charles Dimitryis novel, "The House IN
Ralfour-street," is to be issued simultaneously
in London, New York and New Orleans.
m.aLongferow' new poem is called "The New
England Tragedies" and is an attempt to en-
body the Puritanism which dominated the
early history of New England.
The United States authorities in New York
ON Monday seized large number Of lottery OIL
fees, becaupe the gamblers carried on busl-
ness without license.
Victor Guerson, q member OF the Contede-
rate Signal Corps during the rebellion" has
been promoted by King Victor Emmanuel to
be general in the italian army.
One who has ciphered it out says that two
cents placed on compound interest would ac-
cumulate sufficiently to pay our national debt
in four hundred and ffty-six years.
The st. John IN. b. Telegraph warns de-
inquent adverti sers that on certain Gay
e.their accounts will be sold by auction to the
highest bidder"
The painter Gerome is engaged on new
nortrsit Of Bonaparte. He is represented as
General of the army lin Egypt, sitting on a
camel in the desert.
The London and Southwestern Railway
gets SIS, 900 a.year from cabmen, by charging
them penny for each fare they take at lts
London station.
"A resident of Lexington, Va., is anxious
to distill apple randy from his own orchard
for his own use, but the revenue officers say ne
can't.
"A sssermon manufactory" has been started
in London. Clergy men who subscribe are pro-
missed carefully written, sound orthodox
sermon every Sabbath"
The elevated railroad in Greenwich-street,
New York, will have to 60, the Common Coun-
cil having ad opted resolution instruchng the
street Comm issioner to remove the obstruc-
ton Immediately.
The Illustrated London News is owned by
,ady. Mrs. Ingrahan. No nne can be paid
without the signature Of "Ann Ingraham."
The Illustrated London Times is also owned
by the same lady.
According to statement in the New York
Tribune, the Democrats have carried Idaho
Territory by an increased majority. shafer,
Democrat, is elected delegate to Congress by
a majority of eight hundred and sixty-two.
Last year it was seven hundred and eighteen.
A wealthy man in st. Louis paid his taxes
by check Of ten thousand dollars on bank
iIie house. The collector did not present the
check the day it was drawn, and the next day
the bankers failed. The collector has sued the
gentleman for his taxes, and the courts have
decided that check is not legal tender for
debt.
AT recent municipal banquet at Lisle, the
Ptefect not content with celebrating the vir-
tues Of the Sovereign who had crowned the
edifce, afteS saving France, and calling the
Empress 'sa SAINT" and the Prince Imperial
''that noble child" proceeded in the following
strain: "Let US bow with devotion and respect
before this august Trinity of genius, Of hope,
and of charity"
Major General Howard delivered lecture
in Washington on Tuesday night, giving his
observations during late tour through the
South. His remarks were apparently unpre-
JUDGED, and not calculated to give much COM
fort to the Radicals. he stated candidly that
the disturbances were not confined to one
party, but that both classes were to blame. He
admitted. also, that there was strong Demo
cratic sentiment among the negroes, and he
found many Seymour and Blair clubs ofco!or-
ed men. These remarks were Incidental, his
main topic being the social, religious and edu-
cational condition of the negro.
The result of the consultation between
the Alabama delegation and the President is,
that all that has been demanded by the State
authorities will be granted, namely, additional
United States troops, when it shall be made
known to the President that the Executive OF
Alabama needs such additional forces to quel
instructions. AS it is admitted by the Gov
.ernor of Alabama that no such necessity now
exists, and that the probability is that it will
not arise, the whole subject may be deemed at
al end.
An order of the Freedmen's Bureau, is
sued at New Orleans September "a, says:
"With view to relieve the planter, who so de-
sires, and to avoid the necessity of his OBJ
tanning advances from factor to liquidate his