The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-05
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Debates in the Louisiana Legislature arc
conducted partly in English partly IN French,
and sometimes in German:
S24Ashland, the homo of, Clay. is DOW the site
of a. university attended by over GOO students
from all parts Of the Union. -.
"A writer, wi who enjoys handling huge fig
ures, estimates the amount OF human blood
wasted, up to date, by the wars Of the whole
world, at S5o,OOO pipes.
San Francisco has strawberries and fresh
salmon the year round. The latter was not
over fifteen centsa pound oil the last year, and
is now sold at nine cents.
ia Yankee genids has invented key for
fre-alarm boxes Which may pc distributed in
lsrse numbers, WITHOUT, danger of false alarms.
Each; key can be used but once.
"A CUBAN he,ress and Havana belle has
msde quite a Sensation in New Orleans by her
arrival as "refugoe." Hor wardrobe is said
to be immense-two hundred dresses, and
jewels, beautys4 and other charms in propor-
tion.. -: "a 1.-.s.esP
The Spaniards in Cuba have Tor some rca-
son associated flowing female tresses with
rebel procliritiss. LADIES', therefore, who ride
cut in Havana With their Lair unco:itined and
dropping oysf oss TIER sS shoulder are liable to IN
suit. .e3i,N ~
qIAThe Popcd6m does not seem to "bate
idet' 81 heart OF, ha e.,si a review of tho Roman
krmy,f as pretty significant hint for the Carl
b9ldiahs and 'otter, carlo aeri, made splendid
feature nf. thnlate Carnival festivities at Rome.
AID now tits stated tba. The Ecumeaical Coun-,
cal will, next antarin, arrange fur The election
Of all future Pores; during the life OF lncum-
bents. -, I-r..s
"A new msthod OF swinGiing has been dis
covered ii Chicago, whicl is not rc-y ofjec-
tionable because none but would-be swlnalers
are swindled. The rosues send no:e to their
yictim, inclosipg genuine twenty-five cent
piece of poatal currency as sample They
offer to sell the same at counterfete1s' prices.
The victim tries it at bank, finds it a sure
thing and ,safe. He-sends on ten or thirty
dollars for four times the amount in counter
feits. That is the last he bears Of the matter.
0l-Al letter from Frankfort to the Louisville
Courier-Jdurnal says it is believed there, by
parties likely to be we'll informed, that ex-
President johnson doas not desire nomlna-
tion for Governor of Tennessee, but that he
VIII seek an election from that State to the
United States Senate, and will canvass the State
with q view to that end in the campaign next
summer. he will be very likely to carry his
noint if he does. He is powerful in popular
canvass, and is said never to have been de-
featei.
"A well known Hebrew organ, the jewish
Messenger, is much chagrined at the pubic
{ :hibition lately made in Chicago OF the cere-
dmonies attending the conversion efa Christian
1rnaiden to the Jewish faith and her marriage
the same day to rich Jew. This organ re-
marks: "Our space forbids US from enlarging
on the subject Of conversion generally, or we
: would place on record the facts of our ex-
.perience, that where one is converted for the
sake OF religion at least one hundred are made
Jews for some marriage speculation"
1t has always been notable fact that the
new States of The West are less conservative
and more ready to test the "varieties ofuntried
being" than the people Of the East-than even
Massachusetts, herself. Here We have the
Legislature Of Nevada, State yet in the
gristle, almost adopting the law of female SUI
frage-seventeen b bsing for it, while twenty-one
we're against it. Three votes improperly tam
pered with in the lobby might have establish
ed very startling state Of things an actual
basis from which the advocates Of the sex
could make an effective advance in their de-
mands for more everywhere.
Extraordinary activity, it is reported, is
prevailing in Middle and Southwestern Gcor-
gia. Every hand, 1t is stated, is employed and
paid liberal wages. Every acre will be planted
which can be properly tended. Georgia
paper says: "We think ten thousand moro
hands could now obtain emplo, ment in the
black>bet of Georgia, but they are nowhere to
be found, and re must Forward with what
we have. About as much cotton will be plant
ed this as last year, but fou: times the amount
of grain will be used; so that if the season is
favorable much larger crop will be raised.
We are afraid that the area sown in small grain
will be less
The solar engine, invented by French
man named Mcuchot, it is reported, has
proved successful. The apparatus is describ-
ed as follows: A concave reflector is used to
concentrate the sunshine on a boiler blacken-
ed with smoke, and ills computed that in the
latitude of Paris the heat reflected from q sur
face OF square metre, OF 1915 square feet,
will make u quart Of water, taken at the frcez-
ing point, boil in ten minutes. By the same
calculation, it is asserted that an area Of one
hundred square metres will furnish as much
heat in ten hours as can be got from burning
sixty pounds of coal. In tropical regions, it
ia believed, the amount would be still greater.
MIR. Gladstone spoke like an oracle re ;ent-
", at the Fishmonger's Hall dinner 10 her
Maiesty's Ministers, setting forth his pur-
poses in general terms. But his grand design
WAS sufficiently foreshadoNed as one which
would undo the old policy of England regard
ing Ireland and Irishmen, and put the latter
on a level with Enalishmen and Scotchmen-
thereby helping to turn The respectable MS
tory of Eng land into a sort of "old almanac"
Times are greatly changed when Earl Spencer,
the viceroy, hobnobs tamlliarly at banquet
with Cardinal Cullen, as at the Ddblin Mansion
House the other day. A Catholic-O'Hagan-
is Lord Chancellor of Ireland; and ID year or
two q Catholic may sit in the scat OF Chano /
lor More without any inordinate anxiety about
the head on his shoulders.
"A big swindle or wonderful mystery is at