The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-20
new S sU M M AR x.

Saturday was SS9.
Cotton closed in Ne York Oh Saturday
with an advance Of 4aa. Middling 174a17a.
The Liverpool cotton market on Saturday
was excited. Prices advanced I'd. Sales 2O, ,OO0
bales. Middling u.
Ar man in Ohio by the name of Butts has
lifted two thousand seven hundred and thirty
seven pounds.
1t is stated that Dickens has an offer Of
$4,000 in coin for twenty readings.in San Fran
cisco, but it will not be accepted.
DIR. Solomon sheftall, the Oldest member
OF the medical profession in Savannah, died on
Saturday last
"A negro in Augusta took such liking to
the handsome cars in use on the street railway
that he sold his watch and spent all the pro-
ceeds in riding on them.
There have bean collected in New York
for the benefit OF thu Swedish famine sufferers
$500, and $25OO additional has been subscribed
but is not yet paid in.
President johnson has purchased fine
farm Of nsveral hundred acres, containing
superior mill site, in Greene county, Tennessee,
to which he intends retiring at the close Of his
term.
The monastery to be built at New Melle-
raw. Ohio, for Cistercian monks, will cover
three acres, being the largest house Of that
Order in the world. 1t will have tower two
hundred feet high.
"A New York paper knows Of poor woman
in that city who embroidered child's garment
by fourteen days steady work, and received
therefor "a. The material cost the merchant
who paid the price for work on it 81. The
complete article cost him s11, and he sold it
recently for $40. We have no comment to
make on this it tells its own story.
The ex-Empress Carlotta was informed Tor
the arst time, four days ago, Of the death OF
Maximilian. It is not known how she received
the announcement, nor has any report since
been made Of her condition. The remains OF
the late Emperor Macmillan we're landed at
Trieste on Thursday, with imposing ceremo-
MES.
Portland has completely risen from the
ashes of the great fire of 1866. A Portland
newspaper says that ''a new city has grown up
amidst the ruins; large and elegant ware
houses now occupy the waste places OF but TWO
years ago, equaning in magnihcence anu e1-
tent those of any city Oh the continent. Capt.
tslists are coming in and investing taoir
means to help enrich and populate our fair
CITY,"
-Frankenstein appears to have turned up in
real earnest in New Jersey. An ingenious
mechanician has actually invented steam man.
The iigure ia some seven feet high, and is thus
colossal, as BELTS such monster, and q steam
engine in its bowe. is said to have the power OF
three horses. Dressed in fashionable clothes,
with hat which is "stove pipe" in reality as
we'll as in name, lace Of white enamel and neat
" painted whiskers. This affair will draw
load for three horses at the rate OF mile
minute.
The heirs of the late John A. Washington,
Of Virginia, have begun suit in Chicago for
the recovery of one hundred thousand dollars
worth of real estate in that city, which was
owned by Washington at the time he was shot
in Virginia, in 1861. A Chicago lawyer made
his way through the lines, and finding the
Washington heirs, represented that the estate
would be con6scated If it remained in their
name, and had it decided to him for safety. He
has since refused to restore thence the suit.
The Revolution is new paper, and the Or
gan Of woman's rights. The editor, or editress,
thus exposes the sham morality Of Massachu-
sstts: :e'With sixteen hundred divorce cases in
one wear in Massachusetts, We should think
the family relation was already somewhat dis
turbed even at the Hub, and while woman in
that State has no right to the joint earnings OF
the marriage copartnsrship, and is ranked with
idiots, lunatics, minors, paupers and criminals,
abe ia already as degraded politically as she well
oan be-"
Lieutenant General Sherman, it is said, ex-
pressed himself very strongly in regard to the
reinstatement Of Stanton. The New York
Heralds correspondent is informed that, in
connection with q high official, he alluded to
the subject pretty much in this style: IF
dis1 IL sed staff officer Of mine were to be
for, ei back upon my staff during war, by
action Of the Senate, should give him all the
messages-to carry to the 'front.'" ITO have
him shot of, suppose" said the Official
"Certainly, sir" replied the General, very en-
phatically. The conversation was related to
the President, who smiled and remarked,
'sThe trouble is in this case that I can't send
Stanton to the 'front.'"
"A few days ago General James Longstreet
called at the residence of General Hancock In
New Orleans, and sent in his card. Gen. Han
cock Was then engaged with some friends, ladies
and gentlemen. He Immediately left them
to receive his old army friend, more recently
his foe, but now again his friend, and after
warm greeting insisted upon conducting Gene
raj Longstreet into the parlor and introducing
him to the company there assembled. The
style Of the introduction was peculiar. La
dies and gentlemen" said General Hancock,
aaIaow me to introduce TO you gallant gen.
.%,emsn. to whom am indebtedfor an ungrace-
4ul limp, and whom had the misfortune to
WING in the same combat" Although the COM
nany was composed exclusively OF ladies and
gentlemen whose sympathies were on the Union
side in the late war, the incident excited pro-
found and pleasurable sensation.
Facts which have been developed within
the last few days tend to prove the existence
Of deep-laid conspiracy against President
Johnson. 4 series Of measures have been
agreed on, all looking to collision with the
Executive by forcing Mr.. Johnson to become
tbe apressor. a few days since a resolution