The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-01
NEWS sU MI M a r Y.


eaYs IL Id. Sales $4,000 bales.
England has to send to this country for
z obsters.
The first velocipede has appeared IN New
Orleans.
General George B. Mcclellan is now named
ms Secretary of War in Grants Cabinet. .
Boston has 'voloclpedagogues" to teach
Ehs people to ride that vehicle.
The first strawberries of the season made
their appearance in the New Orleans market
z asst week, selling So the basket.
Alaska contains about $40, 100000 acres,
.and WAS purchased at little less than two cents
the acre.
Over 81, 900 plants have been sent from the
90 experimental gardens at Washington to all
parts Of the United States.
DIR. Pusey is charged with encouraging
confession and enioiping penance upon the un-
er-graduates of Oxford
"A Massachusetts psychologist asserts that
there are no fine singers who use tobacco 1t
d proved in the dssecting room, he claims,
that tobacco Injuries the voice.
1T is claimed that the commerce O. Chi
ecaso is more than two thirds that of the port
aO1 New 1Ork, dlGuOubu NniSaEo n"AooA -"
closed by ice four months in the year.
An apostle of Mormonism in Denmark
wri.es to Brigham Young that there are five
thousand members of the Mormon Church IN
that country.
Nearly every American newspaper now
prints a column Of short items They are
quite popular with readers, and editors have
e Sounl it out.
President johnson, it is understood, in
Z ends retiring all army ofics,s over sixty-two
years of age, among whom lie Adjutant-dene-
ral Lorenzo Thomas, Paymaster General brice
and Lrigadier-General Philip pSt. George Cooke.
"A Washington correspondent OF one OF tue
New York papers disposes of the generalshlp
question as follows 'sThe office of general,
:. especially created for General Grant. is to be
abolished this session of Congress. to take ef-
saat t.1z Al, 4nf MA.ol- nsxe. This will leave
General Sherman in command OF the army.
With the rank OF acknowledgement"
-rhe ST. Louis City Council has been peti'
toned to print and circulate document SET
ting forth the advantages of that city as na-
tional capital. st. Louis is fourteen hundred
miles from New York, thirteen hundred miles
From New Orleans, two thousand miles from
San Francisco, and about seven hundred miles
E rom the Northern border.
"A writer IN the Richmond Wing and lhs-
match. who is said to be lone OF the most dis
t;nr,shed statesmen in the Valley OF Vir-
1ripia.n after setting forth ''the difficulties OF
.-our situation; OF the impossibilty Of avoiding
uer:o suffrage, and OF the possibility OF es-
scaping other and worse evils" advises the
people of Virginia to agree upon the platform
of universal amnesty and universal suffrage"
and, framing constitution upon this basis, to
ask at the hands of Congress its substitution
e or the "obuoxious instrument" proposed by
the late convention.
Tho fact that venders Of qusck medicines
and newsdealers have taken to forging the
aames Of senators and members of Congress,
and use their names to swindle th3 Postofice
Department out of thousands OF dollars, calls
E. or the immediate action of Congress. TLer9
s g but one way to remedy this growing evil,
end that is to repeal tho law and appropriate
Il LIBERAL allowance to senators and members OF
Congress for postage. The persons using
them should not only be exposed, but brought
TO justice. The Pos:oflice Department could
readily fiud evidence to convict the parties en-
gagged in this systematic swindle.
The Cuban insurgents hold out well. 1t is
now about three months since, with only five
hundred men, they raised the standard OF re-
colt. Though all the Spanish troops in the
island, and all the volunteers that cc;tld be Or
-ganized are sent against them, lney appear to
be stronger and more determined than ever.
They have now in the field at least fifteen thou
aaand men, tolerably armed and p.o7;;aa1i, vino
have had experience of campaigning and OF bat
tie, ard do not hesitate to cope with the yesc-
-:ans of Spain. Not only is the whole eastern
portion OF the island in their hands, but they
are gradually advancing westward, AMI even fill
Havana with alarm.
1t appears that tho ordinary and the ex-
iraordinary abuses OF the ranking privilege
are not enough. Members have not only been
franking everything indiscriminately them
selves, and having fac-simile stamp of their
autograph made, that every mechanical facili-
ty mig. be employed Tor increasing the post
Aof6ce deficiency, but, these devices not having
made franks cheap enough, counterfeit stamps
have been prepared in New York. Senator
Aorgan's frank has thus been counterfeited
to an alarming extent, and likewise that Of
Representative Lincoln. Is there any better
escape from this fraud than in abollshing the
sRhole system.
The Washington Evening Express youches
FOR the credibility of gentleman vino says, in
its columns, that when Judge Campbell OF
South Carolina, was in Washington attempting
90 arrange terms for the separation OF his
State from tie Union, President Lincoln pre-
pared proclamation giving his assent. The
writer says that shortly after the breaking of
sof the effort to avert the dire catastrophe of
war. gentleman having free access TO the
sarivate Office IF President Lincoln repaired to
The capital Of South Carolina and deposited
with high official of that Stale q manuscript
proclamation OF President Lincoln, duly pre-
psred and ready for his signature, announcing
70 the American people that, rather than
plunge the country into civil war, the Exec
atire Government of the United States &C.
ianiesced in the dismemberment of the Union.
With this was column editorial article, in