The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-17
n e w s 3 U M M A r Y.

-Eusenie and Isabella had good cry to-
gether.
Paris has schools where The use Of the ve!o-
,cipede is taught.
Richmond has been excited over duoi
with broadswords. .raff
Baltimore is getting to be an important
port for the arrival Of emisrants.
= "A street car that carries its own rails has
appeared in New York.
Not even a casual instance Of yellow fever
has been rep rted in New Orleans this season.
-Napoleon has called upon the poets and
composers of the empire to get him up new
national by mn.
H. T. He,mbold has written letter III
favor of Seymour and Blair, and given check
for t,rty Thousand dollars, to be used to aid
their election.
st. Louis papers announce tho death .o1
Mr. Isaac Walker, leaving an estate valued at
several millions of dollars.
The ladies' in Poland are not permitted to
wear black OF gray dresses. and are hoeged 1or
noncompliance with the law.
California has already sent thirteen thous-
and dollars to the sufferers by the late earth
auale on the South Pacific coast.
MIR. Grau has introduced at his theatre In
New York the English half-price system. Spec
tators arriving after half-past nine are entitled
o tho benefits oft.
The Duke OF Albuquerque, grandee OF
Spain, and cousin of the Duke OF Sesta who
married the widow of the Duke de Morny, bas
Just joined the Papal army as prizate zouave.
Mrs. Mary L. Hutchinson, mother OF the
Hutchinson family OF singers. died Of paralysis
at Milford, New Hampshire, on the goth OF
September, aged eighty-three. She was the
mother OF sixteen children, to whom the musi-
cal powers with which she Was naturally gifted
weie transmitted.
Hon. B. q. Hill, Of Georgia, now in New
York, writes letter to the Now York Times,
in which he says: II shall return home mort-
fed il not wiser man. Mortified only because
/ find in the North o bitter, systematic, adroit
and persistent misrepresentation of the tenn
per, desires and views Of the Southern whites,
far exceeding my snticipations.
General Dulce, who has been appointed
Captain General OF Cuba, in place OF General
Lersundi, was formerly Captain-Genoral of
Cuba, and more recently was one Of the seven
generals who were bsnished by Queen Isabella.
The fact that the Cubans in Spain will be per-
mitted to choose two members Of the Junta is
concession which indicates that Cuba will be
invited to send representatives TO the Constitu-
tional Assembly.
There is very little difference in the
strength Of the armies of France and Prussia,
has. all told, and ready for service at short
notice, 1 800 0J0 men. Prussia ditto, ,14O, 600.
Should these immense armies be brought in
conflict, there would soon be decision as to
the permanent victory. No long contest could
possibly be maintained between powers so well
provided with available forces.
The Empress Charlotte has had o relapse,
and is sgain entirely paralyzed by the fear OF
being poisoned. She flies from everybody. For
whole DAYS she remains sitting in corner OF
her room without motion; but when any one
approaches her she has paroxysm; she runs
away eagerly to save herself, and calls with
loud voice for help. Not only her mental, but
her bodily condition is seriously changed, and
gives rise to grave apprehensions.
Archbishop Kenriok, authorized by the &C.
,clesiastical authority a5 Rume to investigate
the charges against the Roman Catholic Bish-
op Duggan, of Chicago, reported, August 10.
that they were unfounded, and letter from
the Sacred College, of September 10, is pub
lished, dismissing all the complaints. Rev.
DR.. McMullen hld recently set out for Rome to
urge the charges before the Pope. The docu-
ments now published are regarded as COM
pletely defeating his efforts before hand.
The Washington Express gives the parti-
cuIars of the alleged conspiracy to assassnate
President johnson. The facts Us alleged are
certainly startling, and are well calculated to
Inspire alarm if they have the least foundation
in truth. 1t seems, 80 the story goes, that
pending the impeachment trial number OF ne
groes, LED by few white men, banded to-
gether in the first ward Of this city and took
the most solemn oaths to assassinate the
President il he should be convicted by the high
court ofi.n n2eachment and should attempt to
resis. tne execution OF its judgment. When
impeachment failed, the object for which they
had banded together failed with some, who
abandoned the organization, while others, more
over the matter until they renewed their oaths
to kill the President any how. By some means
or other man named Frank Evans, who re-
sides on K street. near Twenty-second, and
who has been for some time employed
in the machinery department of the noto
printing bureau Of the treasury, became cogni-
zant Of what was going on. Evans made the
facts known, and suspicion was at once direct
ed towards certain localities in the upper part
of the city, where it was ascertained the ne
groes we're in the habit Of secretly meeting
and drilling. Last night 'Brigadier-G General
Morris Miller, Of the QuartermasterGe Generals
Department, U. S. A., called ct the note-prlnt-
ing bureau, where Evans was engaged, and i'll
company with the latter proceeded to the
places where tho negroes were wont to assem-
BILE, and it is said General Miller was thor
oughly convinced of the existence of the plot,
and the name of one Individual is given who is
alleged to be the head and front Of the plot.
Measures were Immediately inaugurated to
effect the arrest of all the parties engaged in
the scheme. and it WAS deemed important that
the discovery should be kept as secret as pos