The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-23
Ihe 1ai19 News.
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SOMNlA1e4 L.
Cotton closed in New York at % for Middhng
Uplands.
Gold closed at 40l.
LADY PAIssssroN was favored with the only
priyste visit made by the Sultan in London.
The viceroy is going to send twenty young Egyp-
tiam to school in London.
Water sells in dry part Of Australia for five
dollars half pint.
voyage to Canada and the backwoods seems
the fashionable thing for English young men,
The Earls OF Camperdown and Morley are botn
coming to tempt fortune in this part OF the Worlo'
mercantile house has offered to pay the ma
tonal debt Of $50, ,OOO 900 owed by the Government
Of Columbia on condition that the Panama hali-
road be leased to the house for ninety-nine years
at the rate Of $500, 900 annually.
A twenty-for- pouuder brass howitzer was hsh-
ed up from the bottom Of the Tennessee River ut
Johnsonvillc one day this week. A number OF
similar pieces are said to be lying near the place
where it was fornd.
Our friend who, in six weeks residence in Paris,
perfected himself in French to the extent OF rn-
derstandng "oui, oui, and s'bone squash, has
"zwei lager" and "gut he'll" He is now in the
country studying "schnapps..'
Fire-proof muslin is an article atpresent occupy
ing the attention of scientific men. IL ls stateo
that concentrated neutral solution OF tungstate
of soda. diluted With water, and then mixed with
three per cent Of phosphate Of soda, Wil ehectuai
ly protect mus'ins against 're.
At last accounts tho Spanish iron clad Nu7sar'cio
had arrived at Rio Janeiro, and the Btrenguetd
was hourly expected. The Admiral Of the fleet is
preparing to commence hostilities forthwith, the
term Of the armistice having expired. The iron
clad Victoria and the Zarangoza would soon join
the squadron.
General ROBERT E. LEE arrived at the Sweet
Springs, Monroe county Virginia, with his family,
on Thursday, the 18th instant, from the White
Sulphur, where he had been for two weeks He
vii spend two weeks at the Sweet Springs, where
there is q large number Of visitors gathering,
and where the season will close with grand
fancy ball.
The Sultan, while at Buckingham Palace, Lon
don. had lamb brought to the palace every
morning, which was slaughtered there by ms
butcher after q certain ceremony had been per-
formed over it, Fowls were also killed in the same
fashion, Tho Sultan always dined alone there
Was a special dinner prepared for his son, who
also dined alone, as did his two nephews.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that in the library OF
the House Of Lords the originalcopy OF the Sealed
Book Of Common Prayer, which has been 30 long
missing, has been discovered, It is found in the
manuscript that the bishops had ordered that the
Communion Tables should stand at the East end
Of the ohancel and that the ceebrant should stand
Eastward but they subsequently erased the rubrcs.
The Lexington (Ky.) Salesman says: "We have
hesrd the following curious story from gentle
man who was cogpizant Of the facts: In lS3O the
Rey. WM.S ADAMS planted peach stone rom
black or Georgia peach. From it came up Two
sprouts grew to be trees and singular to say, one
of the trees bore treestone and the other cling
stone peaches, of the same variety, and both kinds
look almost exactly alike"
The Annapolis Republican says that the work OF
renovation at the Naval School is still in progress
The midshipmen's quarters have been painted
with beauti,, :, lilac color, and the ornaments
placed in the grounds render it more than over at
tractive Admiral PoRlss has done more, it is
the general opinion Of the citizens Of Annapolis,
to beautiey and adoln the Academy than any Of
his predeoessors; while the discipline Of the school
is said to be excellent.
The Paris correspondent Of the London Times
Gays: ga young man has just committed suicide
.st an hotel near the Rue st. Martin by sticking
about fifty pins into his breast. When found he
was bleeding to death, and expired shortly after.
He Left q letter saying that his life had been one
series Of disappointments and suferings, and that
as fatality was killing him coups depingle he had
chosen that way Of putting end to his existence,
which manner he believed, he had been the first
to imagine"
The Indian Chief who has given 80 much trouble
to the ooionists in Honduras, has been deposedby
the Swacha tribe. There is now, therefore, no
apprehension Of further disturbances by the In
dians. The Santa Cruz tribe have intimated a
wish 10 trade peaoeably With the whites, and will
endeayor to keep the other tribes in order. Emf
grants from the Southern States are pouring into
Honduras, and newspaper called the Comm;rc'a.
Advertiser has been stated in Belize by South
erner. Many Of the emigrants are men Of means.
contract has been let and york commenced
for the immediate constr lcton OF 200 miles of the
Indiana and Grand Rapids Railroad, from Fort
Wayne, Indiana, north to Grand Rapids, F'chi-
gan. The work has been commenced on the
northern end OF the line, near Grand Rapids, aud
it win be pushed forward as rapidly as possible
southwark to Fort Wayne. 1t is the intention to
extend the road to MacFinsc, to tap the Lake Su-
perior trade. The new road VII. cross the Michi-
gan Central at Kalamazoo, and the Michigan
Southern at sturges.
a New York correspondent says: Tho talk N
sporting circles is about o great Walking match
that has Just been agreed to between GEORGE Z.
Goopw1N, Of this city, and EDwlsD P. WESTERN,
Of Portland, Maine. They propose to walk from
Portland, Maine, to Chicago, Illinois, distance Of
twelve hundred miles, in thirty consecutive days.
The start 10 to be made from Portland on stated
isy, between the lst and 18th Of October next,
Wrsrras agreeing not to walk on Sundays, thus
leaving him twenty-six days to do the work in.
The match is said 70 be for $4,000
The new Fort Lyon, on the Upper Arkansas, in
Colorado, is twenty miles above the old foIS,
which was built by General SFnaw1oK in 1861 but
Is now flooded out 6ilapidated, miserable look
ing place. The new fort has orly been established
come six weeks, 80 that the greater part OF the
garrison live in tents; but plans have been adopted
tor structure to cost $780, 900, which will be the
finest in the whole West. Colonel SWAIN is the
master mechanic, and large force Of workmen
are getting out material, which, Of both wood and
stone, is in plentiful proximity.
n The Springfield Republican says: "Gen. PoPE
evidently supposes that Congress ordered the
pending elections in tho South not to ascertain
the opinion and feeling Of the people, but to COM
pei them to q prescribed cor-se, whatever they
may think or choose. They are free to speak and
sot, but only as Congress and the military COM
manders dictate. General GRANT must enlighten
General PopE, or what President J4acoLN once
said Of his military career will soon be said OF his
course as manager Of reconstruction HE makes
movements enough, but most Of them are wind"
The Trieste Gazette says that arrangements
have BEEN made for importing articles from India
to Russia by way Of Suez and Trieste, instead Of