The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-21

4. amount.
The national debt was reduced the other
day to the extent Of s2O, 600, which amount was
paid into the New York Sub Treasury, it having
been bequeathed to the nation by the late
Ralph S. Fretz, of San Francisco.
The running time between Baltimore and
Washington has been diminished twelve min
utes by the construction of cutoff on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Baltimore.
Arrangements are being made in San Fran
cisco to give banquet to Anson Buringame
and the Chinese Embassy. 1t is expected that
the affair will be on a grand scale. n
The New York car companies propose the
Berlin system Of issuing numbered tickets to
passengers to prevent conductors sknocking
down fair" il possible.
One of the severest epidemics of scarlet
fever ever known in this country has prevailed
in the City of Boston during the past year, and
still continues, though the number Of deaths
is gradually diminishing.
The Brownsville Ranchero announces that
Miguel Lopez, MaNmilian's betrsyer, has been
arrested and imprisoned for not complying
with an order from the government to leave
Mexican territory.
The funds OF the Republican campaign
committee are exhausted, and a member of the
committee has gone to New York to solicit aid
for the pending campaign in the unrecon-
structed States.
People in Cheyenne are informed Of the
crime for which persons are lynched by observ-
ing the tree from which their bodies depend.
There is special tree for each crime in the
code Cheyenne.
The exciting steamboat race from New Or
leans to Vicksburg, between the champion OF
the Waters" and the "Robert E. Lee," has re-
suited in favor of the Champion, which boat
still retains the 'thorns, the emblem Of victo-
~, on her pilot house.
"A Washington dispatch to the New York
Commercial Advertiser says General Grant is
80 maneuvering troops as to virtually neutral
ize General Hancock as commander Of the De-
partment Of the Atlantic, and place him with
out any men under his control.
The Arkansas Legislature has chosen two
United States Senator's, B. F. Rice and A.
Mcleod, and it is said they will try to procure
admission to the Senate in time to vote in the
impeachment trial The new Arkansas Sena-
tors are Republicans.
1t is stated that the lace trade of Noting
ham, England, is now in q condition Of activity
unexampled within the last eight years. Every
available machine is in motion, but hands are
scarce. Young girls who have been only few
months at the business receive in many cases
as much as 2Os. q week.
Bavaria has recently broken out with vari
ous riotous demonstrations as all evidence of
the popular hatred Of Prussian rule. Prussia
is enforcing its CONSUMPTION, which is very
distasteful; and at one town, Traunstein, the
populace shouted I'VE will not be Prussians,"
and, in spite Of the soldiery, sacked the town
hall.
The Geneva Chamber of Commerce, in
Switzerland, has sent Congress an address,
which was presented to the House this week,
asking the United States to discontinue, as
speedily as possible, the use of paper money.
It says the Swiss have never tolerated the ez-
istence Of any kind of paper money, and would
have us profit by their example.
Nassau, the old-time haven Of the block
ade runners, is still in condition of govern
mental excitement. The Legislature has re-
fused to pass the appropriation bills, and the
Governor has dissolved that body. A new
election is going on, the white voters being
arrayed against the blacks, and violence being
threatened by both sides.
The New York Sun says: ''The feat has
hoen practically accomplished CT sending two
,elegraphic dispatches at the same time from
opposite directions, over the same wire, on
long distances. It will prove of great value in
the construction Of new lines, making only q
single wire necessary, and saving the sixty or
seventy dollars mile which would be required
for second wire. 1t will also increase greatly
the actual working power Of existing compa-
MES"
An English paper states that Mr.. Whit
worth, the celebrated gun manufacturer, has
offered to found thirty scholarships of the an
nual value of f100 each for the promotion o;
technical instruction. This donation will re-
quire an investment of 100000 in the English
three per cents. The scholars are to be select
ed by open competition ''for their intelligence
and proficiency in the theory and practice OF
mechanics and its cognate sciences"
The New York World and Tribune are en-
joying themselves hugely at the expense OF
their brother OF the Herald. It will be recol-
lected that MIR. Bennett strongly animadverted
upon Congressman Van Wyck's expose of the
the Gettysburg lottery scheme and gave the
association an unequiyocal endorsement in the
columns Of his paper. Now that the affair has
proved to be an unmitigated swindle, sug-
gestion has been made that Mr. Bennett make
good the losses OF the ticket-holders, mas
much as their ranks were doubtless largely
augmented by his patronage of the institu-
ion. On Wednesday morning statement was