The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-26
NEWS OF THE EDAE.

open TO get rio ol notnei-'u
There are said TO be over thousand
Young American girls now at school In France
and Italy.
-Mr. Reed, who was once chief constructor
In the British navy. has declined an offer ol
slOo. 900 per annum to take similar position
under the Prussisn Government.
Some idea OF the enormous profits made
on little things may be gal9ed from The fact
that a few weeks ago q party of capitalists
offered to pay to the French Go7ernment six
teen million francs PPer annum for a monopoly
of the.sFade Ia matches. 1t Is melancholy
fact that In the country which gave oirtn 10
Bast.at this offer was accepted.
New Orleans is 10 have another line OF
ateamers To Liverpool and London. consisting
offiye large steamships. and the city Is RoW
making strong bid for the Western grain
trade, OF which it will doubtless secure alarge
share. It is intended to ask the government
this winter for an appropriation suhcient 10
clear away the bars at the mouth Of the river,
which has long been serious annoyance to
the commerce Of New Orleans.
.--Government gets compensated In an un-
expected way for The losses 1t suffered in the
in,arys done by FIRE to the new Boston Post
ONCE and sub-treasury building. The sale Oh
Stamps :in Boston for four days OF last week
was In excess of the sale of any whole month
previous, and 1t is estimated that the destruc-
tion of postage and revenue stamps 10 tne
burned distrlct-whlch, OF course, was all gain
10 the goverument-will exceed all the gov
ernment losses by the fire.,
There Is nice little bit Of romance OF the
. good, old.fashloned kind just come to hand
Miss M Mrtiida Phillips, sister OF Adelaide, mas
1.talu, rasenad a ynnne man from drowning at
6Sfoi, : Ic seems to have been very brave
deed, and In writing to her sister she says !:
..Ws are great friends ever since. and he can
scarcely do enough for me. have had beau
tifal letters from his mother aud sisters, and
I feel so happy to have done anything TO bring
SO much happiness to any one." She speaks
OF the grateful youth tamiliarly as Walter, and
the consequences are evident. There is but
ons proper conclusion to this story.
-ftts stated that In consequence OF the un-
ss,iafaetory character OF a bill consolidating
the internal revenue districts. new bill Will
beasdbmitted to Congress providing for simpli-
fying the mode OF collecting the revenue and
reducing the expenses thereof, by aoolisning
the ofices OF assessors and assistant assessors,
their duties being transferred to the collectors
and assistants. The, estimated yearly saving
by The. bill will reach one million five hundred
thousand dollars, besides more effectively COL
lecting the revenues. Il has been discussed
tavorsbly by the President and Secretary Bout
weiIand Commissioner Douglass
The last religious services which will
probably ever be held In the Old South
Church, in Boston, took place last Sunday
afternoon, and were in Keeping with the tra-
ditions of the venerable edidce. The. congre-
CATION consisted mainly OF soldiers who had
been on duty during the fire. The surround
tngs were somewhat melancholy. The inside
of!tha church had been wholly dismantled;
theoarpets had been removed; the cushions
taken from the seats aud replaced by military
mattresses. The organist and choir were
soldiers, who wore their blue army overcoats,
d Gade the exercises as military as posi-
Bile. The services were conducted by the Rev.
Mr.. Manning and by the Rev. Mr.. Murray,
who preached the sermon, and said !: "You do
not need lesson teaching the vanity of
human things; the eighty acres of ruins over
which you have been watching are enough"
Thus was conducted the last services In an
.eiIace which for century and half has been
dedicated to prayer and praise.
,ofLoulssllle, Kentucky, temporarily residing
10 New York, has been missing since Thurs
day morning, the Ath instant. Mr.. Peay Is
the nephew Of Hon. James Speed, of Ken
'tucky; who was atturney.generat under Presi-
dent Lincoln's administration. The missing
msn had been engaged In the insurance busi-
ness in Louisville, but hayiag determined to
change his business, he went to New York.
He 10 known to have had on bis person five
thousand dollars, which he drew few days
before his disappearance, from the Nassau
and National Bank Of Brooklyn, and 1t Is
thought much larger amount, as be had
made no deposits while In New York. He
also wore In his shirt two handsome pearls,
valued at three hundred dollars. He ia repre-
sented as quiet gentleman, happy In all his
family and social relations, with an ample
fortune of his own, and his vile also having
fortune in her own right; and 1t is not,
Gherefore, supposed that bis disappearance is
Intentional or of bis own will. He was armed
at the time with a Bowie-knife and Derrin-
ger pistol. 1t is concluded that he was met
on the street by parties who had been watch
ing him and knew he had money, enga In
conversation, pinIoned and chloroformed, s1d
aiter being murdered and robbed, loaded
With lead and sunk In the river. -. Z.
ga company Of one hundred and fifty COL
pred persons, interesting on account of their
s1mewhat venturesome undertaking, as well
as the possibilities that are theirs, landed at
ths Nsw York dock Wednesday from Georgia
enfoutsa Tor Liberia, the negro republic Of
Africa. This little colony, which has numeri-