The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-12
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Cold closed in New York yesterday at 46.
Cotton was shade lower with sales Oh
$50 bales at 2s8c. S :
in Liverpool the cotton market was steady'
with sales Of 10, 900 bales. Manchester adWces
favorable. -. =:
Mrs. John Tyler is the only widow OF
President ON whom Congress has not con-
ferred the hanhng privilege.
Prince Alfred ls about to make another
crrise, this TIME to China ahd Japan, and will
perhaps revisit New Zealand.
The highest sslary in the New York public
schools is 5000 for males and s170O for ladies
before the war $500 and 800: - 80 (.
The new Georgia senator had sponsors Of
spe tastes, and is condemned to bear through
lie the name Of Homer Virgil Milton Miller
He is q physician. z.
Nearly three thousand operatives In and
around ElGoott City. Maryland, are out OF en-
uloyment, owing to the factories and mills
being DESTROYED. i.-. g..:Est.E. l:.i. g
IA benefit given by Mr.. John z. Ford at the
Holliday-street Theatre, Baltimore, Saturday
night, for the aid Of the sufferers by the flood,
netted the handsome sum Of COL so.
a Richmond lady sent. q silver urn to an
auction to be sold. It was the last OF her once
great wealth. The people present who knew
her made ups heavy purse, put it in the urn'
and sent 1t back to the owner. ..,s ;..s
,j-.Thurlow Weed writing from Iondon,
spssks d: the vast number of Americans who
are now summering ron the continent. At
Dresden alone he has ascertained there are at
) least eight hund-ed. ~
- Father secchi,; the distinguished astrono.
mer, lately applied to the Pope for assistance
/, to enable him, to join the company Of sayans
now in the East Indies TO witness the great
eclipse Of the sun. The Holy Father replied
that he had no available funds for the purpose.
Two boxes containing aIlegorical figures
for the lower pedestals of the Washington
s Monument have arrived in Richmond, Va,
from Munich via New York. Four other boxes
are ON their way, which Will complete the mon
ument so far asthe smaller figures and decora-
tons are concerned. ~. -. & {.
"A Providence druggist, on Monday, put
up chemically pure sulphuric acid, instead sot
the aromatic, as the prescription Of thephysi-
cian directed. Fortunately, the physician
visited the patient, lady, before the fiery dose
wagadministered, and discovering the biundsr,
saved her life.
sEdwin,A. Stevens, the gr eat millionaire OF
Hoboken, died in Paris at noon on Friday. He
had been afflicted with rheumatism for two
yedts past. When the news reached Hoboken
onOr,5lsaturday, the flags at the ferry, and all
through the city, were displayed st' half mast.
T hrough the enterprise and energyof Mr.
Stevens, Hoboken sprung up from an unheal-
thy ma nah to be one Of the neatest and most
orderly cities to be found inthe vicinity OF New
York.
The great strike Of the New York brick
layers has st hast ended in q compromise. The
basis Of sgreement, it is understood, is this:
Ths bosses. win concede the eight hours and
3I,56 per day; the bricklsyers win grant , four
apf;rensicea, bat no more, to each boss; and
bona fide bosses -thst is, practical bricklayers,
for thare are bosses now in the business who
know nothing practically about twill be per-
mitt ed to work On their own Jobs, without re-
striction ofany sort. These are the main points
in dispute. 80 - { : 10y : -
IA Washington letter says: sc en-. Howard,
who has gone South ostansibfY on atour OF in
spection, to look into and determine the mode
and manner of ofclosing up the Freedmens Bu-
reau;rwas specially instructed to inquire into
tlis1 report that rations were still being issued
70 idle, yagabond negroes. The charge is
made to the government here that in one coun-
tyin Florida. registering Zoo voters, the Bu-
reau agent has issued this year 81, 900 ratons.
Thestatement sent mp here says as long as the
government will support these negroes in idle
ness, there is no hope Of their making any
effort to support themselves. How long will
tie Northern people, the laboring classes, be
willing to pay taxes to support free negroes In
absolute idleness, even though by this means
thsiryotes may be secured to carpet-bag Radi-
cals2" s5 ..e-. s....
Beast Butler has announced himself ss 8
candidate for. reelection to Congress. The
New York Times gives him the following un-
kind out sHe has given great offence to the
Republicans Of Massachusetts by his course
during the last session, by his reckless disre-
gard Of principle and deoency. by his gross and
fsase aspersious on the character Of the most
eminent members Of the party, by his violence
Of bearing and Languages, by his repeated play
ing into the hsnds OF the Democrats, and by
his damaging attacks on the national credit and
honor through his scheme Of Reputation.
Massachusetts, clergyman once said that Butler
was the only man he had ever known who was
absolutely destitute Of conscience; and it is
certain his recent course aas justified this
statement. It is not wonderful, therefore, that
the people Of his district should consider it
possible to find filter representative.
The English Parliament having been dis
missed, the election Of an entirely new body is
the next thing in order. There has been 9
great deal Of fencing and shying, toward the
last OF the session, to put the issues for the
new canyasa:in such shape as that they should
hurt opponents alone, and, among the rest
the report Of the Irish Church Commission
was kept back by Disraeli so long as to prevent
any general debate on it's provisions prior te
the propagation. This, no Doubt vas in orde,
to avoid too, broad committal on the part o.
the Ministry to the several features of the re-
port, while II likewise left them free to choose
their ground in discussing it before the peo
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