The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-23
Ehe 1ai1g News,
NEWS SUMMARY.


Cotton closed in Liverpool heavy and lower !;
Uplands Tic Orleans 8 Ills.
Boston genius has invented burglar-proof
pocket.
"A Japanese has translated the Constitution o'
the United States into his own language Will GA
planatory notes.
The gold production OF the earth IN 1850 was
about $50 900 pounds avordupois; the silver pro-
duction 1000, 900 pounds
Somebody outraees the Canadians by publish
:nr in Chicago paper horrid rumor that the
oneen has appointed her gilie, John Brown, to be
her viceroy Of the Dominion.
The sulphur mines Of Italy are producing
three hundred thousand tons per annum, repre-
senting in crude state value Of &c, 100000. The
greater part of this supply comes from sicily.
1t Is stated that the expenditures OF the Post
Office Department for the fiscal year will be largely
In excess OF the receipts. This is said 70 Do o~-
ing to the opening of a large NUMBER Oh routes III
Southern States not self-sustainlng.
I'm railroad of FIVE hundred miles In length,
the ernansion Of the rails caused by the heat OF
armner amounts to nearly quarter OF mile
from tIa point Of contraction iu winter. This ex-
nans;on is all taken up by the joints between the
rails.
The Penobscot river, in Maine, which has re-
Gently been subjected to survey by a body CT
United States engineers, it is reported by them,
has its bed so full OF sawdust and slabs from the
lumber mills on the banks, as to exterminate the
bass and salmon.
A New Orleans paper contains curious typo
graphical blunder. Speaking OF yellow Fever
victims" the Mephistophelian printers made 1t
"Yellow Fever witticisms." II there can be any
thing funny in that it is not very perceptloie' 70
the sufferers at least. -.
1t will be utterly impossible for the Republ-
can party to succeed in its great mission uniess
the ballot is sternly protected, says Forney; but
We suppose he means such protection as was
piven the soldiers balloting for Mr.. Lincoln, In
Indiana during the war.
The New York Commercial Advertiser says
s.the result did not turn half 80 much on the ques-
tion whether oolored men should vote In Ohio -
whether We should, by military law, Convert the
CaroEnas, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama Missis-
sippi, ETC., into st. Domingo?"
IA young Englishn an, OF wealth and culture,
recently fell in love with squaw in Omaha, Kan
sas, end married her. The next day she got drunk
and turned somersanlts in the street. The young
Eneshnan OF wealth and culture, at last accounts,
was seeking for divorce, on the ground OF lnoom-
patibility Of tastes. .,'.s-
The st. Louis Republican, in speaking Of an
ear of corn that was raised in Southeast Missouri,
Saws: sshe ear is Of wh;tish yellow color, is six
teen rowed, measures nearly twelve inches in
leneth. weighs two pounds, and has about one
thousand kernels on it. Such Egyptian proper
tions do not indicate any proxi'nate approach OF
faminein that region.
Maine is State that has, for its size, large
amount Of most valuable water privileges. 1t is
estimated, indeed, that there is in Maine water
power enough, if properly employed, to support
FIVE millions of people. In the Southern part Of
the State the water power amounts to at least one
million horse power, and nearly every town has at
least ore snd sometimes many mill privileges.
At the recent convention Of homeopathic ply
sioians at Boston, some OF the doctors mentioned,
with great approval, the use OF the warm bath as
remedy for the sick headache, and of southern
wood for infam1natory or common rheumatism,
both Of which uses are new. The President stat
ed that but three medicines had been thoroughly
discussed and tested by the society during its
twenty-ssven years Of existence.
IA man in Russia named Kursem, member Of
fsnatcsl religious sect, recently killed his own
son, and offered him as sacrifice to God He
stabbed the little boy OF seven several times in
the stomach, and after he was dead fen on his
knees in ecstacy imploring God TO receive the Of
fering. After being taken to prison he resolutely
refused food and died Of starvation before the
sentence upon him could be executed.
The profits of wheat growing in the North
from oip nta a
waukee letter as follows: ''Wheat can be made 10
pay fair profit to the farmer in all the Northwest
ern region at the rate Of 81 bushel. 1t is now
bringing in this market from $1.75 to 50. One far
mer has employed ffty-txo man the present sea-
SON, with fifteen reapers. He sold his wheat at
$50 I. bushel and has actually cleared nearly
$40,8oa ON his years crop.
The ''misery Of buttons" is thus described by
an English writer: "Sartorial ingenuity has not
yet attained to the manufacture Of masculine gar
ments unenoumbered with the dire nuisance OF
buttons. 1t ia not too much to say that a mans
whole comfort during the day is dependant on the
state Of his buttons. The sudden detection Of q
button, when the sufferer is beyond the reach of
AL remedial assistance, puts him to misery and
perhaps to sliame."
The New Orleans Evening Crescent, Of Tuesday
last, has the following paragraphs: sit is report
ed that two gentlemen Of high respectabilty, re-
sidents Of tie city, fought duel early this morn
ing with pistols, and that one was killed at the first
fire." "a party Of eight individuals were arrested
IS principals tnd accessories to duel which was
to have taken, place yesterday in the Third Dis
trict. The cause Of the enmity OF tho principals
is Of the most delicate nature"
The Savannah Republican says that Messrs.
Brigham, Hoist l. Co.. On Saturday last, cleared
the British brig Spring, 254 tons, Captain Thomp-
son, for Liverpool, with cargo consisting Of five
hundred and ninety-eight bales OF upland cotton,
weighing a05, ,7Ss pounds valued at $4s 4SS SS and
seven bales Of sea islands, Weighing 177n rounds,
valued at $7Ds; total weight S07 56S pounds, total
value, $4s171 49, This il the first direct export Of
the staple this season to liverpool by sail.
Colonel Thos. W. Knox, well known as the au-
thor Of "Camp FIRES and Cotton Fields" and as
successful correspondent for the New York Herald
during the war, has recently returned from the
tour Of the world, having travelled % 600 miles, of
which distance $500 miles we're in sleigh in Sibe
ria, 1900 in carriage, ae"J by steam on the Amoor
River, and the rest by ocean and rail- Colonel
Knox has prepared very interesting lecture, en-
titlei sSix Months in Siberia" which he will soon
deliver in Boston, and subsequently, in the princi-
pal Western and Southern cities, upon the invita-
ton Of the various associations.
The Wilmington Journal, of the 22d, says.
"Iast week We omitted to notice the clearance OF
the British brig oronoco, which sailed from his
port ON Tuesday last for Liverpool direct and in
that connection the fact that the shipment Of
spirits turpentine made BY her was one of the
largest it is thought the largest, ever made from
this port, being 1915 barrels. The value Of the
shipment is estimated at between $4,000 and s47,-
600. Messrs. Robinson, Smith & Co., were the
shippers, and this large shipment speaks more for
THAR entarnrisa and hnsiness activity as mer-