The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-02-06

not appear to have suffered any Inconvenience
from Indigestion.
The English papers announce tho death Of Mr.
GEoaas BAXTER, the inventor and patentee Of oil
color painting. He received the gold medal O.
Austria for his First Parliament OF Queen yicto
ria" and the eCoronation." His best original pro
duction is the miniature drawing Of tho Baptism
of the Prince Of Wales, which wss in the miniature
department. Of the London Worlds Fair. The Late
King of. Prussia was in treaty for the purchase ol
it at the time Of his death.
The total hog crop of the West for the winter Of
1856 is stated at ,406 2ss, compared with 1921
s1s during the winter Of 1865. Chicago packed
$4,000 the present seae on, Cincinnati $780, 900, st
Louis 1S6, 600, Louisville 162 600. Milwaukee S6,00o
and Indianapolis Sc, ,1s9. In 1865 Chicago packed
sol, 1853, Cincinnati s54o79, St. Louis 116,76O
Louisville 81 600, milwaukee, 90 600, and Indanap-
oils Sc, ,000. 49, .ss..,. g.
A private letter from Baltimore gentleman in
Galveston says: son the, first day Of January we
had g snow storm which lasted from P. h: until
Daylight on the morning of the I'd. On the morn
ing Of the I'd the ground was frozen hard, and
there was quarter of an inch Of ice. This is the
first s1low storm since 1885, and the second time
the Ga1vestonians nave seen the novelty in seven
teen years. The young folks did not mow what
to make Of il"
IA Paris letter thus describes RoTHsoM1Ds
sbode in that city e Tt is an immense building,
seven stories high, and would cover about one
block. You are somewhat astonished to see that
the first, or ground aoor, is used for numberlesa
little shops segars, pictures, meat stalls, yegeta-
bles; tin shops, toys, and a livery stable. On the
second floor are numerous Offices engravers, print
ers, workers in artificial flowers, &c. Then all
above this You would find was perfect palace,
large halls, parlors, galleries Of art, and libraries,
and III the private sp,ondor and luxury Of this
money king.
The. velocity Of q 5hip. is from 8 to 70 miles an
hour; .of a.Tace horse; from % TO 80 miles; OF q
bird, from so to6O miles; Of the clouds, in vie
lent to 100 miles; O. sound, 1913 miles;
Of cannon bar, asfound by experiment, from GOO
to 1860 miles;of the earth round the sun, 6s, 900
miles, or more th IN q hundred times quicker than
q cannon ban; Of light, about soO,ooo,o0o miles,
passing from the sun to the earth 95 900 900 miles
in about eight minutes Or a million times sWifter
than cannon bal; while the exceeding velocity Of
the thoughts :of the human mind is beyond all
possible estimate: : 6
& II the New York Rostoflce there are hfty-sevel
clerks engaged in he@box department., asserting
boxes and delivering le.ters-.hirty-one in the
daytime, the balance at might, their salaries aver
aging less than $1,000 per annum. There arrive
during the night four large mails, viz: The great
Erie, South, North and East mails, together with
various smaller mails. In the early morning there
arrive the great Western, great Southern, great
Erie, great Eastern, and two large Northern mails.
The letters brought by the mails together With
the collection from $50 lamp post boxes, number
every morning over 100000, all Of which pass
through the box department, and are almost inva-
riably ready for delivery before 9 A. NJ.
The San Fta1cisco Alta advises that young men
there should give attention to- scquiring tho Asia
tic language. "Our port, sayB the ARo, 'eis dea-
tined to be the emporium for the products Of the
eastern hemisphere. China, Japan. and British
India, ultimately, will send their productions to
us to- be By us in turn sent across the continent
by the Pacific railway to the Atlantic ports. "A line
OF steamers is at the present moment being Ibid
down, and soon permanent and constant COM
munication will be opened up. Persons skilled in
Chinese; ETC., will be in demand, Interpreters and
aupercargoes proficient in their knowledge of the
Asiatic languages will be asked for. !"
All our readers ara aware Of the steady drain Of
specie and bullion from the West.to tho Eastern
countries, among whose unnumbered millions it
disappears forever in private hands, or for the pr-
poso of ornament An article in the New York
Mercantile Journal complies from British sources
y statement Of the amount of god and silver
money and bullion which has been exported to tho
East from Europe aud America, for sixteen years,
ending with 1856. It reaches the vsst sum OF
one billion two hundred and fifty million dollars,
OF which not more than two hundred and
fifty millions have been returned. In . word,
it Is doubtful whether England or Ameriea can
boast as large amount Of specie in present posses
aion as they have paid over to Eastern countries
within the past sixteen years.