The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-07
EMS s MMARY.

13aa13id. for uplands and 1879. for Orle ms.
i'm Mississippl they call the Dsnt party
Confederate Republoans.
"A, Maryland convict has fallen hoir 10
tSO,000 and can't get out to spend it.
-Gentlemen engaged to bo married ore now
politely termed husbands by trevet.
AT the recent Humboldt celebration at the
Berlin University, Mr.. Bancroft delivered
speeoh in honor OF the great man.
Tho new novel by tho author Of "St. Elmo;;"
for which 1t is said she is paid 6fte.'n thou
sand dollars, touches on tho divorce question.
Letters from Conslantinople say that the
f,ultan is suffering from the gout. he drinks
TOO much champagne and eats too much indi-
gestible food. G 9s.,-, 'e, ty4I.
Tho Richmond Whig says that the diaas.
trous drought in Virginia. and the consequent
inevitable scarcity or provisions next winter,
will drive thousands from thnt State to more
favored regions. rs
John Allens once the wickedest man In
Now York, ia now keeping temperance gro-
oery., Ho has forbidden any magazine in
which Mrs. Stowe whites about Byron to be
taken in his family. f
"A hat merchant in New York, to get rid of
his old stock, gave away on Thursday five hum
dred tiles, mostly all Of straw and very few
fashionable. The crowd clamoring for these
favors waS very large.
"A Missouri deputy sheriff is after an Ar
kansas girl Of the period. She is thirteen
years old, without shoes, stockings or bonnet,
and was last eeen trying to mako horse which
Bhe had stolen "git up."
The Augsburg Gazette announces the con-
version 10 the Roman faith OF the Countess
Won Setback, daughter of the Russian Chan
oellor Count de Nesselrode, and wife OF the
Minister OF Saxony at Paris.
Tho San francisco Bulletin says the Chi
nese Sunday School in that city ISIS in -four
ishing condition, but it's attendance would be
much larger il the Chinese did not fear the
attacks OF ruffians on, the street,
"A Kansas desperate saved the vigiIants
tho tropble OF hanging him by doing that bust
ness for himself, pulling of his boots, climb
ing tree and jumping off with tho rope about
his neck, remarking that he hoped to see them
al in the place that DR.. Miner knows about.
The war between tho Patti-ites and Nils.
sonltes is raging as intensely as ever in Paris.
Bono ofthe latter are now advertising in the
papers that marble busts and Portraits of Ado.
lima msy be purchased ut exceedingly low
prices ut certain places. Tho Patti-ites have
begun to retaiate in the same manner.
MIR. William Howell writes to the London
Daily News on the Byron scandal. he says
therois little doubt that the altered conduct
Of Lady Byron towards her husband
was the result OF her fathers, representations
backed mp by some odious story. BE traces
tho conduct OF the wife in bringing up the
husbands memoir and destroying it, and asks
II the evidence Of tho party destroying
tho evidence Of an opponent can be 40
bad ~
the opporttpitysfor sefjustifcation deprived
the wife of the right to advance fresh charges.
The writor feels certain that this will be the
ultimate verdict Of the public. ei
--The reported fitting out Of an expedition
At Fort Gaines, Ca, fer an immediate departure
for Cuba is wholly disoredited by Senor Jose
Morales Lemus and the Junta Guiana. No
such person. as Major Bridgeford has made
application to any OF the Cuban representa-
tiges here for authority to At out an expedition.
senor Lemus has received half o hundred suoh
applicaiiOus from Southern oities. These have
come from persons ranking oas hieh as major
generals OF. the Confederate army. . Senior
Lemus thinks that the dispatch was one Of
Minister Roberts rtises de guerre, having for
its object pretty heavy, dram upon Mr. Bout
vels cash boxes, to pay for the hundreds Of
deputy United States narshsls phIch he has
sskeda Our government to station along the
southsFn coast. from Fortress Monroe to NO.
bile, and oven in Texas. -HiTi3e 2iBlo y d ~
Tho affangsmenta OF the celebration OF the
centennial anniversary OF the birthdSyy az A1eri.
ander @ yon Humboldt. fn New York City" are q
being rapidly completed. The eIsroises in Tho
park will begin an hour earlier than at first
proposed, the unveillng OF the bust occurring
Attwo instead .of three O'Clock. The site tor
the monument in Central Parkth not been
fully decided upon, bat it is understood that
the committee having the matter. In charge
hesitate only between paoo opposite Fifth
Avenue and sixdetb street, near The proposed
Soholar's Gate, or one near the mail. Profess.
sor Derenius has been asked TO deliver Tho
Rnglish Grafton on the anniversary, and Mr.
Kapp VIII deliver the German grafton. Itis
intended to close tho celebration by a banouet.
At which only g few hundred Of Che admirers
OF Humboldt can, OF course, be present, and In
order 70 alow the whole, German population Of
new York and the visiting strangers Of that
nationality TO participate i6r tho oeremoniesf a
xfano sorchlight procession will take plaoe In
sne evening" IN which all tho German, societies
and associations are'invied to Jon. 6et 1ts'l 81
me new York ooYrespondenrofithe phlts5
delphia Ledger. writing on Friday ssys: "Tha
speouir'tiss 4 te5citement in the sold msiiet io.
Sether HitR ths advance 10 ths pfaiuniiunlm q
:, nractans attention far beyond fbs oopfrassa f Z;
sA'-sNSsfsg' Some Of the obapk' 'oasolsis. are
eppreaena,ye that tho bull, combination NAV
>. .n'se ,to: withdraw q large portion ,oI their
Isne psnks9l surplus gold at the, ,tims wnan
sney ars required bw,ihe Comptroller,of .ho
Ourrencyito report the Amounss ON hand IN /
neir respeciivs vaGltsi That idnctfobI-y -.
solulngIy has been applied TO fofevofs bis or.
euier. but u is understood he declines Is yieId
xhere Z II Ereasonto believe that the eombiuaiion
s1ls afsetnoon bought smother n,lion, bu. I
sne.ner for Hocksd:rp' purposes o.. moi 70. /
.slns 70 be sse3. One h,lure on the ,.bear, |
' - :. t'pol'ed, o,a With tysior three Others, u