The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-10

rHE DAILY NEWS.
Largest Giro rculRtion.-THE DAILY NEWS
BEING THE NEWSPAPER OFFICIALLY RE-
l1OGNIZED AS HAVING THE>LARGEST CIR
|cCLA7I0N IN TIE CITY OF. CHARLESTON,
PUBLISHES THE LIST OF LETTERS REMAIN
RNG IN THE PoSToFFYCE AT THE END OF
EACH WEEK, ACCORDING TO THE PROVIS-
oNS OF THE NEW PoSToFFICE Law.
LOCAL MATTERS.
MEETINGS THIS DAP.
Orange Lodge, at 8 p. M.
Lot-hOlders Magnolia Cemetery, at Ia NJ.
s. Homo Loan and Building Association, at
Continental Fire Company. at P. NJ.
AUCTION SALES THIS DAY.
: LnrToH BRUINS will sell at IL O'Clock, at
$fe OLD Postofice, the schooner B slle.
II: H. DELEoN will sell at II o'clock, at the
3d Postoffice, railroad bonds.
KNOX, DAILY Il Co. will sell at 10 O'Clock, at
1peir salesroon; Meeting-street, shoes cloth
as and hats.
8lr Is SAID that the Professorship of Law in
70 South Carolina University will be rendered
81 Judge j. L. Orr.
The MnITIA.--Attention is called to an i'm
ortant order in relation to exemptions from
(ilitia duty. published this morning.
On No4,1
ermometef stood at AZ degrees in the city.
~ there was change for the better yester-
fay, and at p. NJ, the mercury was ut 70
@egrees.
ATTEMPTED ROBB Several attempts
ave been made lately to rob the fowl house Of
8lr. john Campsen, at No. 81 Hasel-street,
md on Friday night the knob of the gate of
he private entrance was broken off. Similar
ttempts to robhave, we believe, been made at
he house Of MI. Howell. Householders must
Pc on their guard; and for house 1obbers we
have but two words-caue ca,aem!
i ARRESTS ON Observation-Disclosures Edey, col
bred, by Officer Coates, on suspicion of larceny
lOf clothing from J. @. II. Claussen, Market
street.
James and John Stoker, colored, by Officer
Nipson, on suspicion of larceny of locks and
keys from MI. S. II. Oppcnheim.
H. c. Gerkin, by Officer Coates, for larceny
of $40 in currency from Lydia Dunham, colored.
JOE BRowN's P1KEs-When Joe Brown was
Governor of Georgia and good Confederate.
as well as q respectable man, he had made
several thousand pixies with which the State
x,,;l Flo 10 bor von
pixies were never used and were sold few
weeks ago in Augusta. 1t is rumored that
these are the earns of the most improved pat
term Of which Governor Scott spoke so feel
ingly, and that large number Of them have
been bought up for Che use Of the South Caro-
lima t'mellsh.'' A friend has lent us one of
these pixies, which may be seen at our Office.
It is at once relic Of the sthas been," aud
suggestion Of the ''may be-"
FRE1aHTs RA1sED.-The Savannah News Of
Friday, the 7th inst, says: "We learn that
freiShts to New York on vegetables and fruits
have been raised one hundred per cent. and
upwards; green peas from twenty live to fifty
cents, and peaches from twenty-five to eighty
cents per bushel. These increased rates will
have tendency to so increase the prices of
early vegetables in New York that there Will be
no demand, and consequently fruits aud vege-
tabels will lie and rot whare they are produced,
~ The demand in this vicinity is not by any
means as great as the supply. This action upon
the part Of the companies has caused great
deal Of discontentment among truck growers"
PERSONAL following South Carolinians
gr aduated at the Southern Baptist Theologi-
cal Seminary on Saturday week last: George
N. Askew, W. II. Leavelle, Thomas P. Lide,
Jr., B. F. Miller, D. 7. Smith.
Mr. Gabriel Manigault and family, who had
beer living in Yorkville since Sherman's raid.
left that place, on Tuesday last, for Canada,
which. will be their future home. The En-
quirer says:
Mr.. Manigault is descendant of the old Hu.
guenot colOnists of South Carolina, and his
family have been identified with our State his-
tory for long period of years. He was for
several sessions q member of the Legislature
from Charleston, where he resided until the
Of the war. The genial and
the pleasant associations connected with their
will long bs cherished by our people,
He purposes to locate in New London, Canada,
under the protection OF the British Crown, and
that locality upon their valuable acquisition.
The MEMPHIS CoNvENTIoN.-The following
is published in the Phoenix of yesterday:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.,
~. ..r COLUMBIA, May 8, 1869.
The following gentlemen are appointed dele
gates to represent the State OF South Carolina
10 the Commercial Convention, to- be held at
the City OF Memphis, on Tuesday, the 18Th
instant:
Anderson County-Jasscs l.. Orr.
Pendletot- William Perry.
Greenville County-James M. Allen.
Abbeville C.unty-James s. Cothran.