The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-21
Hhe 1ai1g Nems.
NEWS SUMMARY.

Cotton closed i'll Now Yorh lower, at 2sa2ssc. for
Middling Upands.
Liverpool quotations unchanged
tne Sthto department has just abolished tho
secret cyphcr system, which il has used since tho
foundation OF tho Government, and IL getting up
now one, which be used over tho cable for
conveying long communications in brief spnco.
Major CORNELIUS BOYLE, well known as Confcd-
crato Provost Mlnrshal al Manassas, has returned
from Mo1ico to scttl9 his business, and will mike
that country his future homo. IIo owns thoro o
grant Of 100000 acres OF land.
The Baton Rouge Comet dorsn't caro- whether or
not tho statements furnished by planters in the
neighborhood are believcd-but the cotton worm
is at the work OF destruction in different parts of
tho parish Of West Baton Rouge.
The RossEs havo lost their powcr in the Chcro-
keo nation. At recent election for chief Lowiso
Dourning full blood, with q Christian pnmu.
was elected By largo majority oyor WILLIAM p
Rosa
fhtcen hundred thousands persons aro said to
nave dIod in tho Orissa district md othor parts of
lhuia by tho famine last yoar. Tho most horrible
scenos Oh suffering nro reported, hungry mothers
naa'h9 oeen FOUND eating the bodies OF their dead
children.
Tho extent of lnrd under potato cultivation in
Franco is 1910 1854 acres; in Austria il is ,sos 14s
acrosi in Ireland, 1050,419 acrcs in Bavaria, Gis-
fa' acres; In Great Britain, 49s siS acrcs in Belgi-
um, 5G9,S5O acres; in Sweden, 39i 900 acrcs; in
Holland, 265,0S7 acros; in Wurtcmbcrg 1G7 94S
acrcs; and III Denmark proper, GO, ,I7G acrcs
Tho consumption OF homemade scgars l., Aus.
tria amounted in 1866 to very noariy 1000 mil
IionH, while Of imported scgsrs less than 5000 600
wero consumed. Tho consumption of suuir WINS
10000 pounds, and of tobacco GS 900 cwt. tho re-
coipts OF tho Government for oil this amounting to
52,o00,0 900 1orinH.
now nnnsthctic has como into fasbicu OF late.
1t is quadrich!orido of carbon which poBsessos nm
agreeable smell Of quinccs and can produce
insenBibility in lcsa thnn q minute. This inHona-
bllty may bo maintained with or without loss OF
consciousness it's effects cease speedily whom
dostrsd, and arc not followed by vomiting It has
aso been successfully used for obstinate headache
President soLNAvE, OF Hayti, has submitted his
report on tho condition OF tho country to tho CON
stituent assembly. Peaco and order reignod every-
where, except In ono district, whore brigands aro
IN forco. Tho Government has taken steps to es-
tablish an exchange and chamber of commerce in
each open port in tho republic. The coffee crop
viii probably be the largest over known in Hayti
There ia rat catcher in PhiladelrI,' who has
eloren hundred and twenty-five pa. of ferrcts
He undertakes to clear promises Of ratty ycrmln
ut the rate of twenty cents head, and il any re-
turn after tho first clearing out lhoy to bo cap
tnred free OF charge. He caught four hundred
largo rats in the cellar Of smnn grocery storo a
few nights ago.
Advices from Nicaragua state that tho ravages
OF tho cholera have boon distressing. soven hun
dred and nincty-four deaths are reported in tho
district Of Leon. Whole villages on tho north
coast woro swept away. Caaes along the transit
route soem to be sporadic, but even this alarming
epidemic had passed into Costa Rica, whore two
hundred ranches among tho Mosquito Indians
were stripped Of inhabitants.
There is an immigration society ut Wavorly,
Walker County, Texas, for the purpose of inducing
tho migrating Of Polish lnborcrs into tho State
Those already employed arc found to be fnithful
and industrious, and thoroughly satisfied with the
country, and the society desirous Of securing
largo number, to moot the demands Of labor in
that section, and recommend them as good labor.
era to tho country.
DR.. Rooms, in his new book concerning Scot
land, tells story OF ROBERT BURNS, never before
published: "BURSs, ut O public entertainment,
was seated opposite foppish young robleman,
who, to evince his contempt for ono whom he re-
garded as literary upstart, fhppcd scmo of his
wine in tho direction OF tho young poot. .Wo do
much bettcr in our country said tho bard, aB ho
raised his glass and throw tho cntiro contonts in
the faco Of tho aggressor."
Tho Baltimore Sun states that the patent held
by Messrs WATT BuRoIss for making papor out
OF wood and othor vegetable matter expires on
Monday next, and those gentlemen have nlado ap-
plication to have the samo removed for seyon
years. The extension Of tho samo ia bong opposed
by large number Of printers and publishers, on
tho ground that il will eerye TO koop I'D tho price
Of paper, and that tho petitioners have had fair
remuneration for their patont during tho past four
teon years. Tho case has boon fully argued before
Commissioner THEAKEn who will deliYer his op;n
ion on Monday morning.
Last Friday, says the Warrenton tGa.) CHpper.
the house Of MIR. B. F. HunERT, of that county,
was atruok by lightning and badly shattered.
Strange to say, out OF sovora person, in tho house
at the time, no ono Was hurt. One OF the ladies
was saved by her waterfall; sho wns leaning back
against the wall in chair, her waterfall pressing
against tho wall; tho lightning passed between tho
waterfall and her heal. hir. HupERT Says his
clock shattered into pieces not larger than his
hand, and tho brass wheos Of tho machinery
melted. All the crockoryware in the house was
demolished.
Tho Now Orleans PicayuRe says eve have boon
handed spec,n Of the growing crop of rico in
Plnquemines Parish. which Mr.. JoHN L. Trrus
sends us, and which Ia n fair specimen Of the
growth Of the breadth of four thousand acres in
that parish Incse stalks show we'll filed heads
and comparatively little stalk, good progress to-
ward maturity, and grains plump and full. We
congratulate Mr. T. on the rico prospects. BY tho
way, there is upland rice which can bo grown all
over the State, and this lowland or swamp rico
can be made wherever there is o swamp which
may be irrigated. Why should not our rico crop
equel tho wheat crop Of Ohio2'
The Quaker missionaries who latey left Eng
land for Madagascar, arrived at hutannariyo, the
capital OF tho country, on the Sd OF Juno last.
They visited Maurtius on their way, which island
they state contains population OF SiO OOO 25O0 900
Of whom arc East Indians and arc either Hindoos
or Mohammedans. Ignorance, superstition and
immortality abound, say the missionaries, among
these people. The missionaries left Port Louis
in Mauritius, for Tamstave, in Madagascar, dis
tance Of four hundred and fifty miles, in French
bullock chip They wero invited by tho natiyo
Governor Of Tamatave to meet him, and thoy des-
ciibe him q man OF ability and Of dignificd and
pleasing manners.
The baltimore Sun says "a petition now before
the Governor Of the State, from highly rcspcct-
able Old gentleman, asking the pardon from tho
penitentiary OF an unfortunate grandson, states
that be, the petitioner, is Marylnnder by birth
that he served in tho defonco OF Baltimore in tho
war Of 1912; that no is now In his seth year. and
can say what fow now living can assort, that be
has seen all the Presidenta OF tho United Statez
from GROnoY WlaUIhnToa to Ao,.u.,, T x.,z.~..