The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-11
NEW 8 8 u MI M A r Y.

Gold closed in New York yesterday irreg
ular at 423c.
Cotton was quoted active and frmer; sales
4OO0 bales at 2Oa2Olc. for Middling Uplands.
In Liverpool cotton closed buoyant, witt
ales of 5000 bales; Uplands staslc; to ar
rive sic.
.-Marshal Neil has constituted French
MILITARY mission to follow the British army il
Abyssnia.
Austria is preparing her budget. She Is
going to spend 30, 100000 forms on fortifoa-
tions and breech-loading rifles.
The Wilmington Journal is authorized to
state that no memorial for relief has been for
warded to Congress by the corporation of Will
mington.
Later advices have been received in Lon
don from the British army now operating in
Abyssinia for the purpose of releasing the
English captives. The news is very discourag-
ing, and forbids the hope Of successful move
this season.
Letters and journals from Prussia NO
longer arrive as they did last year with stamp
bearing the efigy of King William or Prus-
aian Eagle, but with one having in large letters
the inscription: 'Postal territory of the Con
federation Of the North"
A conspiracy against the Roman Govern
nent has been discovered in the native regi-
ments Of the Pontifcal army. Six officers Of
artillery have been arrested for high treason,
and lodged in Fort: st. Angelo. They are all
from the Italian kingdom.
The ex-King OF Naples is just now il "a
bad way in Rome, being reduced to the neoes-
aity Of selling portion Of the Queens dii-
monds. The jewels have been purchased by
the Princess sciarra-C Colona for 12,0OO crowns.
The ex-King spends most of his time at the
gaming table.
Lord Ranelsgh takes very desponding
view OF the state Of the English volunteer
force. He calls it 'sham." some hundred
and eighty thousand or two hundred thousand
men in battalion, without administrative stats
for its command or supply Of any sort, is" he
remarks, 80 mere crowd Of coated playthings."
in consequence OF the deficient corn hat-
vest, the position Of Polish Galcia is frightful.
The population is threatened with famine.
The representatives Of that province have
solicited at Vienna q loan Of 100000 forins;
but the Austrian finances are ip such critical
ioq~~-~-A- -. peeu
taken into consideration.
The Scotch volunteers for the Highland
company in the Papal Zouave Regiment hav-
ing turned out to be chiefly Irish, and smack
ing of Fenianism, have been dismissed by the
Pope, and were sent away from Rome two
weeks ago, to.the number Of nearly Fifty. Their
conduct in barracks was extremely insubordi-
nate. There are now one hundred and twenty
Irish and twenty English in the zouave Regi-
ment.
"A spectacle which draws crowd daily to
the Tuileries gardens, Paris, is that Of lady
who, in her daily walk, attracts around her
fights Of the wild pigeons who lodge in the old
trees, and scores Of sparrows and other birds,
who perch on her shoulder, and even have the
audscity to peck at her mouth. The lady is
daily escorted to her home by perfect squad
ron Of her festhered friends, who then return
to their quarters.
The House OF Representatives Of Ohio, has
adopted, by strict party vote, resolutions in
favor Of the repeal Of the Congressional Recon-
struction acts, which are declared to be sub
versive ct the rights Of the State, the liberty
and prosperity Of the people, and fthe consti-
tut1onal powers of the executive and judicial
departments Of the Federal Government. They
Els0 denounce in unmeasured terms the pend
Ing supplemental reconstruction and Supreme
Court bills. The resolutions 90 10 the Senate
for concurrence.
o.s---Itis reported in the London (Epg}. Grocer
that petroleum has been found within the past
few days in the neighborhood Of Broseley,
Shropshire. In sinking shaft in field adjoin-
ing thesturnpike road, the men employed dis
covered, issuing through rock only a few yards
from the surface, quantity OF tar, some OF it
Of the consistency Of treacle. The shaft is
about half mile from the out-crop OF the coal
measures, immediately below which, on the
roadside in descending the hill, the silurian
limestone appears. The coal stratum there is
considerably destroyed.
The New York correspondent Of the Phila-
dslphia Ledger says: "Almost every man you
meet to-day asks, what do you think Of the
Johnson Grant correspondence The charac-
tor Of the answer is generally formed to depend
pretty much on the political bias Of the party
questioned. Democrats think the President is
all right Republicans, on the contrary, quite
the reverse. The correspondence was lead
Ing topic all day in the Gold Room, at the Pro-
-dues Exchange, and among the bulls and bears
at the Bourse Rejecting, cool-headed men of
both and all parties are apprehensive that the
whole affair is but the precursor to more serious
trouble between the President and Congress"
$50 FER says the correspondent of the
London Times with the Abyssinian expedition,
writing on Christmas Eve, 'the only sufferers
are the mules, the muleteers and the British
taxpayer" Since then the condition of the
animals has improved, but not that Of the tax
payer. Nevertheless, the Times, in a review
of the situation, is filed with encouragement
az to the prospects Of the final success Of the
expedition, and certainly with the friendly SER
vices of the natives, the favorable climate, the
increased knowledge Of the country, and the
condition Of Theodorus, harrassed by his own
subjects, there is good promise for the future.
Perhaps the conclusion of the Times may be
accepted. "The 'Abyssinian penny we fear,
will have TO be multiplied, but the Abyssinian
expedition, SO far as We can yet discern, will
cost us neither lives nor credit"