The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-16

every FRIDAY morning.
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LOCAL MATTERS.
Oun PRICES CUnnENr.-Our Prices Current will
bo ready for delivery this morning. and will con-
tain very full and accurate market reports and
commercial tables.
Tan WEEKLY News Tho weekly edition Of TIE
NEWS will bo regularly issued every Sunday
morning, and will contain all the latest teegraphio
newB the latest ship and commercial nows, as
Wen as great variety Of interesting reading mat
tor. Apersons in tho oity oosiring it loft at their
houses, will please hand in their names at our
ofioo. Advertisers will do well to tako advantage
Of the largo circulation of this issue, MS wo will
continue to send large number Of copies through
ont the country gratis, until our subscription st
Gaan reach q satisfactory number.
The RIN.-Wo hnvo enjoyed this month some
genial balInJ weather that would have dono credit
to the sunny Spring; but Wednesday afternoon
and yesterday wero specimens Of gonuine Novcm-
ber, and chill blasts and penetratngs mist were
the order Of the day.
DRY GOODS AT HALF PRIcE--The attention Of
the public in general and Of the lales in particu-
lar is called to tho advertisement in another COL
umn Of part Of tho cargo of the steamship Anda-
lusta to DO sold at half price, by Mr.. T. MCCARTHY
at No. 100 King street.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS no Mr.. QUNN.-We are in
debted to MIR. NJ. M. QUINN for copies Of the
Crescent Monthly, DeBo,os Lcpie,o, Illustrated
Rgsal Register for CT, &C., &c. These, and all tho
light literature and periodicals OF the day, be
had at the News Depot oil Mr. QUINN. in King
street, opposite Ann-street.
A PREsENT.-Tho courteous proprietors of tho
Hasel street drug store, Messrs. soLoMoNs s.
CALDWELL, have our thanks for favors. Messrs.
g. & G., as wo have already informed our readers,
have as select stock Of perfumeries, Ronps,
brushes, etc., as are to be found in the city. We
trust they may have the success their taste and
energy merits.
FALSE ALARM.-An alarm of fire was raised in
Market street last evening, about dark, which
brought one steam engine and one hand engine
promptly to the spot. After diigent inquiry, we
could learn Of no other cause for the alarm than
the crying Of the New York Herald by the news
boys Of our friend VoaLRR. This is the second
time lately, that the Herald has caused aensa-
ion in Charleston. The first time was when it
came out in favor OF the Constitutional Amend
ment.
TIE SHIP RGoLcoNDA.-We understand that there
are two hundred and fifty moro applicants for
passage to Africa than the agent Of the Coloniza-
ton Society can possibly accommodate Mt present.
These will form good nucleus for another cargoin
the Spring, and wo doubt not that, by proper can
yassng, dozen cargocs could be procured 1t
would be good investment for a company of capi-
talists to buy out Libo,ia, and settle it with the
dissatisfied freedmen Of the Southern States. It
would put money in the pockets Of the company,
and for tho South it would be "a good riddancc oi
bad rubbsh.''
THE FEs1AN BALL.-The second grand ball Of
the Fenian Brotherhood came off last night at the
Hibernian Hall, with great eclat; though why the
Brotherhood all the honors Of tho
occasion, at which the sisterhood played 80 conspic
nous and important part, wo cannot understand
Alderman CosaRovE, who was the moving spirit Of
the affair, is responsible, suppose, for this slight
OF the fair Sex, and should make the dn,ende honor
able at thenext grand ball. by giving the sisterhooi
place the card as well as place in the picture
The well known caterer, MI. PATRICK KuRoY, fur
nished the substantials, and with such O supper
md the music Of MULI.ERs band, it was q nero mat
ter of course that oil should go merry as seigl
bells in December's snow.
AN ANCIENT UsiBREL1A.-Thcre is in the posses
sion Of one Of the Locals of this paper umbrel
upwards ofsixty Years old. When you look at it
you no longer wonder TINT it has lasted 30 long
for it is made in the strong, substantial manner
which everything Was manufactured in those goot
oldtimes, when dining tables were solid mahogany
and Sunday clothes were broadcloth and no
shoddy. Still tho miracle remains that um
brella, on article of personal property that every
body mislays, and many people think no harm t
pilfer, should have retained n legitimate owner
ship for solong period. This is partially accounte
for by it's conspicuous appearance, it boing blu
cotton umbrella, such as, in the painting Of DAME
in the lions den, DANIEL is represented to carr
under his arm to distinguish him from the lionl
It is thirty-si1 incher has tho handle ornament
ed with nivory hand, has white stripe by wa
Of border and is otherwise curious and uniqu,
Those Of our readers who wish to inspect th
curiosity, can do 80 anywhere in town, ct on
hour Of o rainy day, for our Local ias asubiqutous.
THE STREET RAILHoAD.-This enterprise is RAJ
idly approaching completion. Tho workmen al
now employed in laying tho second track in Meo
ing street, and at tho curve on tho corner OF Ga
houn and Meeting the earth thrown up reminds I
or O fertilization. It is at any rato, decided oil