The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-21
NEW S s U M M a Fs Y. =
Gold closed in New York at 352.

for uplanCs, and 1lsu lor oi'0aN''
The Detroit Tribune calls BLACK hetties
orphans '.fatherless skillets."
An acute observer has discovered that the
Grecian bend is not indulged in by ladies in
Strengthened circumstances.
Another English Roman Catholic prelate
DR.. Clifford, Bishop of Clifton, is to be made a
cardinal.
The Rev. DIR. Furman, OF South Carolina;
is TO be announced in this weeks Religious
Herald (Richmond, va.) as one OF the editorial
corps of that excellent paper.
An English grocer has left slo,oOo 10
Charles Dickers, providing he will read the
ssrrial from Pickwiek" to the srocers family
once yearly until he dies.
Three explosions Of kerosene lamps IN
New York City on Saturday night, (how many
more may have occurred that did not come 70
the knowledge of the police nobody can tell),
are the sufficient comment upon the late
friehtful report of Professor Chandler.
We learn that efforts recently made to have
a mail route between Fair Bluff and George
town. via Conwayboro'. have been successful
and ihe route has been established. We pre-
sume il will be opened as soon as the postoih'
ces and masters have been designated and ap-
pointed.
Punch gives the following scene at coal
dealers: Grl-Please, sir, mother says wnaS
ia Goals now? Retail Vender-One and i've
nenc, O. hundred. Girl-O, how dear. The
last was only one and two pence. Retail Vend-
er-very true; but you must know that
Goals is Goals now. Girl-O, won't mother be
glad; she said the last was all slate.
"A recent English writer says that the DIS
tirctiye difference between an English and
purely Irish face is, that the former looks as II
the hand of nature had been passed over 1t
DOWN. ards when coming into the world, while
the Irish lace looks as if, on that occasion, the
hand had been gently passed over the features
L a contrary or upward direction.
= Intelligence has reached Washington from
ON authentic source that the Spanish Govern
ment is favorably inclined to transfer the is-
land Of Cuba to the United States. aud that the
terms suggested are such as would probably
meet with favor by our government and such
of our people as approve of the purchase or an
nexation of Cuba. The conditions upon which
Spain would part with the island have not
transpired.
1t can be stated with authority, that the
President will soon pardon Dr., Mudd, one o.
the convicted conspirators. The application
made in Dr.. Mudd's behalf by the Conserva-
tive Congressman and other public men has
been successful, and the papers of release are
even now. belng prepared, and in day or two
will be published. That the remaining suffer-
ers will fail to receive clemency may seem
strange, but the Executive custom is not to
issue pardons in advance OF applications, and
the other men do not appear to have the
friends in place who appeal in their behalf.
That DR.. Mudd's release, however, will lead to
a successful endeayor for the release OF the
rest is not unlikely.
The statements about the provisions OF the
Alabama claims treaty differ 80 widely that 1t
is impossible this morning 10 ascertain the e1-
act truth. One point not heretofore given 49,
that twelve months are allowed for the e1-
change OF rat,fications. This delay is taken as
an indication that our Secretary Of State and
Lord Clarendon have very little faith IN the
chances OF their convention beiore the Senate.
G partial canvass of the Senate sustalns TINS
opinion. Five of the seven members OF the
Committee on Foreign Relations are known to
be opposed to the treaty. Th;& would insure
its defeat. when brought by tho committee 10
the Senate for action. There is reason to be-
Iieye that the treaty will be rejected within ten
days.
Ono of the most remarkaoic suow storms
ever seen in the South, fell in Mississippi and
Alabama last Sunday night. Cars which arrived
at Memphis from Huntsville were still covered
with SNOW, although the day seemed quito
warm. In the region of Huntsville, Alabama,
the snow fell to the depth of ten inches, and
in some places, in tho bellows and cuts OF tne
railroad, it had dritted to the depth OF three
or four feet, aud the passage OF trains Was
greatly impeded. At Holly Springs, snow fell
Monday night three or four inches deep, and
Monday following rabbit hunting prevailed
throughout the borders of Marshall County
At Vicksburg, where magnolias bloom anu
orange trees smile in mid-wintcr, the snow was
over foot deep.
"A great and bloody baltic, between Sheerl
Ali and Ablool Rahman, the rivals TOR The
throne of Atghanistan, is reported to have
taken place by the latest dispatches from Indla.
The former is son and the latter grandson
of the late Dost Mohammed, one of the most
celebrated Princes of Asia in the present CEN
tury. It is asserted that this victory will re-
suit in the permanent establishment of the au-
ttority of Sheeri Ali, who is q declared partisan
of England. Another Afghan Prince, who has
Joined the Russian army in Central Asia, had
lately vislSed st. Petersburg. AfghanlsSan,
now contested by rival native princes, it is be-
lieyed by many persons, will soon form the
battlefield between Russia and Great Britain
1t seems that the colored dressnaker to
Mrs. Lincoln Ii not the only contemporary AZ
fist of that class who seeks to turn connoc-
ton with conspicuous personages to good ac-
count by writing. A Corsican peasant named
Grisoeli. who was born near the birthplace OF
the first Napoleon. aud in later years became a
secret agent Of tho present Emperor, has just
written and plblished volume OF ''Memolrs'
about his experiences and observations. He
tells Ms that previous to the coup d'etat Napo-
leon distributed fifty million francs among the
officers and soldiers-t that he was for time
in good deal Of doubt is to the result, and
that he had twenty-five millions OF tranc' con-
o...;,oo ,urb which fO cr0pS the