The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-31

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ding Uplands.
Latest quotations from Liverpool, January SU,
noon, show Middling Upland5 at l4za.
Mr.. BALDWIN, Of Massachusetts, is the largest
man in Congress-.
Crime is increasing fast In Illinois. The penl-
tentiary has 100 conricts, or 80 per cent. more
than two years ago.
The receipts from Internal Revenue on Saturday
were $685. 9s61s, max ag the total amount received
during the week ss,4oo, ,T76.S5.
JOHN MoRRIssBY has bought an interest IN q
Troy newspaper. JOHN viii speedily "come down
to white chips" as Beau HICKMAN would say, ne
goes very deeply into the newspaper business.
Mr.. Henry s. ALIEN has become partner With
Mr.. GEoRar ". CARLETON. The firm is now known
~ q. ". CARLETON & Co., and continues the book
onblishinc business at it's new store, No. 499
Broadway, New York.
The country of Europe in which the greatest
number Of marriages takes place is saSony, where
the average is yearly to every III Inhabitants
The proportion in Spain is in 126. In Franco
the rate is in 127.
A communication from Saxony states that the
cost Of the war to that kingdom Will amount 70
eighty millions and half Of francs, without feck
oninp the enormous losses suffered by trade ana
commerce..
Prof HENRY ". LoNaFE1Low, DR.. SAMUEL q.
HOWE. MIR. EDWARD QUINCY, Prof. OLIVER WEN
DELL HOLMES, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, JAMES l.
Ds. EDWIN P. WH1ppLE, and Mr. MERRITT
TRn6s1E, Of New York, acted as pall-bearers at
the funeral of N. P. WILLIS, in Boston, last
Thursday.
A new paper mill, capable Of turning out four TO
sx tons daily s about to be started at Black hock
nesr Buffalo. A new process OF manufacturing
called the ssMeeoh process" whereby paper IS
made from grasses, is to be introduced. 1t Is
claimed that good printing paper can be maze ior
four cents pound. :,
Mrs. -MARaARET HAw1EY, who keeps small
Newspaper stand inside the Fulton Ferry, Ne"
York, makes net gain of from $125 to S3oo per
week. In on. day sixty dollars are often cleareo.
She has thus been able to educate her chudron
handsomely, and to lay by more than forty thou
sand dollars.
An officer in the army in the Indian country,
sends letter to friend in Lockport, which con.
tains the following cheerful passage: 81 would
send you lock Of my hair, but fear it would DC
3 fraud upon the savages Of Shis vicinity. There
ta1r prospect tQdt oAo VI eAooo AAo1Ao ~
win be my barber before Spring"
For the week ending the 26th instant, Nadonai
Bank currency to the amount of s104, ,275 was ls-
sued by the acting Comptroller. The total circu-
lation issued up to date is $780, 1885, actual cir
culatiop s2s8 74S 964 for which securities arc held
"a follows: For circulation, s940, 600, and for
deposits, sSs761 ,450 Total securities held, 1919,
275,450.
MIR. LEONARD W. JEROME, the fashionable stock
broker, is the social lion of New York. Every day
almost he delights that excitable community with
some novel sensation. he has just started q
sleigh, called the Monitor, which is described as
little else than beautiful boat runners, witl,
erect prov and graceful stern, miniature guns pro-
iecting on either side; both an ornament and de-
fence The crew consists Of twenty ladies'
Tho National Republican ssys: eve ara author
lied to announce that the President will hold his
second public levee this season on Thursday eTe-
ming, the 7th Of February, and the third on Friday
evening, February 22-to commence each evening
at eight O'Clock, and to close at eleven. We are
also authorized to announce that the Presidents
daughters, Mrs. PATTERSON and hrs. SLOWER, viii
be at home on Monday afternoons"
ARev. Mr. GILBERT HAVEN, in this weeks Inde
pendent, has discovered plan to settle at once all
our political and social differences. The substance
of it all is that the nation must cease to use the
words freedmen and tcolored, and white and
know only that Of men and brethren" Why can
not Congress declare by resolution that there are
no black men, aud that the notion is m optical
11lusion2
By the will Of ELI W. G7NNE, the great Seattle
King Of Ohio, recently sased, one son receives
farm Of $500 ceres, worth $50 per acre, and ano-
ther sAsmal traot" Of $500 acres. BY the proYi-
sions Of the will, these large farms cannot be sold
during the lifetime Of lis sons, and are to be con-
stanty stocked with at least s2 900 WORTH of cattle
each.
The importatons into New York during 1856, ex-
elusive Of specie were valued in gold at s297 Co.,,
600. Some Of the principal articles were as fol-
lows Dry goods, s126, ,OJO, 600; sugar. s21 ILL.,
leather, 80, ,b56; iron, $3.50 1853; lead s. 1885,
$40; moasses ss 616,1S5; earthenware ST. Cos, 1878;
steel, 81, ,949, ss449.
Prussia rewards her public servents with no
niggardly hand. On Christmas Eve presents voted
by the Prussian Chambers were paid over to vari-
ceiyed $S75, 900 and the Prussian War Minister,
Gen. Won Room, Gen. Won MoLTKE, Gen. Won
BrrTgNF1ELD Gen. TON STENMETz and Gen.
VoaIE YoN FA1.MNsTEN received s150, 900 each.
The debt Of the United States may be set down
in round numbers at three thousand millions Of
dollars. This, all in silver dollars, weighing one
ounce each, would amount to one hundred and
twenty-five Thousand tons, and woull require q
hnin Of wagons, loaded with a ton each, three
hundred and fifty miles in length, to draw it.
That skating has become fashionable exercise
u evident from the following statements as to the
materials consumed during the present year in
one skate factory at Worcester two tons OF brass,
5000 gross Of screws, $4,000 brass thimbles 1000
pounds Of German silver, nearly six tons of rose
wood, and ten tons Of steel, worked up by thirty
FIVE men and women into %, 900 pair Of skates
Great fortunes have not unfrequently been roal-
ICED by the invention Of some toy for children
which meets the approval of the juvenile critics.
The inventor Of the common street toy known as
the ssReturn Ball'' is said to shave realized $780,
O00." The inventor OF the tsWalking Doln which
was 80 fashionable = few years ago, made $751; LOO
by his patent. The dancing Jim Crow" toy, in
troduoed about two years ago, was invented by an
invalid boy, and won a fortune.
The daily consumption Of oysters in Paris
amounts to upward of three-quarters Of a million,
which reach the capital in something like si1
thousand baskets, each os which contains gross.
and furnishes altogether on an average half an
oyster per head OF the population. The number
OF snails-now so favorite and edible with the Pa
risian gonrmands as to have thrown the frog, the
national delicacy par excellence, completely into
the shade-brought daily to the Paris market, is
not 30 easily ascertained; all one knows is that
from Burgundy and Champagne, the great snail
producing districts, upward OF one hundred thou
sand are dispatched to Paris every day.
dispatch from Chicago, January 22d, says:
<sIt is satisfactorily ascertained to-day that the
Qnera House has been drawn hr II 81 Crasur