The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-19
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lower; mildling 29a29a; sales 1900 bales.
Cotton IN Liverpool dull; uplands 11ad,
Orleans 11sd; gales 10000 bales.
The English House Of Lords is now the
only hereditary chamber in Europe.
-s'Family acknowledgements is the Chicago
name for divorce.
patented in England, permits part of the con-
tents to be Withdrawn without in the least
injuring the rest
Thieves lately stole the carpet from ru-
raj church near Cincinnati, and when it was
newly carpeted brought back the old and stole
the new one.
Figaro tries to rob Rossini Of the glory Of
composing the prayer in s'Moses in Egypt
saying that it is an old and we'll known air sung
for ages in the Pyrenees. Il 6a
The final signing Of the treaty for the set
Element of the Alabama claims has elicited
favorable comments from nearly all the Lon
don papers
An Indiana youth put his Christmas candy
and torpedoes in the same pocket and blew
out all his teeth when he tried 10 masticate one
Of the latter.
MIR. Pomeroy, from the Congressional Com
mittee on Public Lands, has reported a bill to
provide for the sale of certain lands on the sea
islands IN South Carolina.
Miss. Kate Rupert was terribly burned by
the explosion OF lamp at Harrisburg, Penn,
on Friday. She was carrying an infant up
stairs at the time, but the child was not in
jurcd.
Nine. Otto, an actress Of Luheck was 80
enraged Mt the success of a rival in the part Of
ia hot oho LLol
herself and then jumped into the river, but
she was rescued still alive.
-Pfau had a fall from the height of o swing
ing trapeze, in New Orleans. Instead of break
ing his neck, he alighted on his feet, turned q
summersault and kissed his hand to the hor-
riied audience.
Body -snatching is going on in Washing
ton, and queerly enough, one Burke is the
leader. Toe negroes are afraid to be out after
dark, lest the doctors catch them and make
them up into medicines, as they believe.
w. 81. McArdle, for several years the edi-
tor of the Vicksb1rg Times, and famous for
his connection with the habeas corpus case in
volving the constitutionality of the Recorstruc-
ton acts, which is yet pending before the Su-
preme Court, has severed his connection with
that paper.
Charles Dickens publishes card in the
London papers denying the story Of the recent
death of his brothers widow in Chicago. MIR.
Dickens says that lady is still alive and we'll,
resides in England, and never was in Chicago.
He himself Is the trustee of her estate under
settlement.
-Rothschild said, one day, he always knew.
when people we're talking about his fellow-He-
brews, whether the latter we're rich or poor,
Upon being asked to explain how he came to
know that ne replied: why, you see. when
people ara talking about wealthy man
OF my creed they call him an Israelite, but il he
lis poor they call him Jew"
Wendell Phillips ridicules in his sh arpest
style General Grants demand for economy in
the administration of the government. This
is. he says, thoroughly American in the worst
sense OF the name, IN our worst times"-faf
more contemplate than Patrick Henry's pat1i-
OTIS cry Of s'bsef. beef," in Washington's starry
ing camp. The duty Of the days, Mr.. Phillips
says, is to secure the rights of the negro.
When General Grant will 'sthrow himself" into
that, he, Mr.. p, "will feel obliged to believe in
him.
The press is yet at loss exactly where to
place MIR. Washburne. The Springfield Repur.
llcan thinks that his magnificent speech last
week renews and strengthens the impression
OF his fitness for the Department. Of the Int e.
rior, and the certainty that he would work a
revolution speedily in that nest OF indr ection
and corruption; but thinks it also makes it the
more manifest that he cannot bs spared from
the House of Representatives, where his fame
will be larger, his hand freer, and he can meet
t,o CyiC ant fVox do ooI,,
the very threshold.
According to Brazilian accounts from the
seat Of war in Paraguay, the late repulse of
the allies at Viletta has been followed by the
greatest victory which has yet been won by
them since the beginning of the war. viletta.
it is said, has been captured, and nearly the
whole of the Paraguayan army destroyed,
about three thousand Paraguayans being cap
tured, and Lopez escaping with only about two
hundred followers. AS the President OF Para
quay has for some time had the greatest diff
Guilty to fill the thlnned ranks Of his army. q
crushing victory like that now claimed by the
Brazilians would probably destroy his further
power Of resistance.
The revelations which have oozed out from
time to time OF the state OF the Russian army
are we'll founded. The Muscovite forces are 80
i'll prepared for an encounter that in any offen-
sive war they must be comparatively useless,
though the Russians are always formidable in
defence. All soldiers on furlough are ordered
TO Join their regiments. Those who have
served their term. but are still capable of bear
ing arms, are offered the large bounty Of
SwsItJ-s pounds 10 rs-cnllst But, in spite
OF all efforts. the Russian army still remains in
. deplorable state; only few thousand Of
breech-loadera have been supplied; and one
Warsaw correspondent gees so far as to saw
that the troops are completely demo.alized.
"A new political party has been organized
in New York upon the following principles:
Every person should have the right to o Dor.
tion OF the public lands free Of expense, ard