The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-27
The 1ai1g Neps,
NEWS SUMMARY.
Cotton was quoted in New York at the close at
Na27S for Middling Uplands.

COFOn ClOeeQ ID IlFefFoOi sooto1oay ae 1o4o.
census Of the Cherokee Nation, on the Ar,
kansas and Texas border, reveals the fact that
from apopulstion ofS3 900 at the last census, they
have fallen to only IS, 156. This is the Indian in
civilization.
At the beginning of the war the population o
Texas was between six and seven hundred thou
sand. AILAN's Monthly estimates it to be at least
one million now Population is flowing into the
State from Europe as well as from the Southern
States east Of the Mississippi.
We learn that the statement Of the public debt
for the present month, which will be published OF
the LIST of August, will show decrease OF the debt
OF two or three millions Of dollars. During the
present month there has been paid about twenty.
six millions Of dollars for interest," nearly twenty
million Of which was in coin.
At the close OF the commencement dinner al
Cambridge, Mass, last Wednesday, President
HILL made the announcement that the gifts and
legacies bestowed upon Harvard College during
thepast year. for objects more or less closely con-
nected with that institution, amounted to nearly q
half million of dollars.
The Sultan is said to have been more struck
with the excellent manner in which the Paris
population, even the poorest are shod, than with
anything else that has fallen under his observa-
sion. The majority Of the people in Constantine
pie wear nothing better than old slippers; some
even not having anything on their feet.
A company has just been formed in France,
with cspital Of three million francs, to search
for three Spanish galleons which were sunk by the
century. The galleons in question were returning
from Mexico, and had on board about five hun
dred million piastres. They are still at the bottom
Of the sea, and several attempts to come at the
treasure have failed. Powerful machinery is being
constructed at Bordeaux.
A French machine in the Exposition exhibits
the manufacture of e finished felt hat, ready for
use, in dfty minutes. The first operation consists
in blowing out, by means Of fan, about four
ounces Of rabbits fur upon . revolving cone or
mould Of copper, pierced with holes, from which
the air is exhausted causing the fur to adhere to
the cone. It is then covered with Q wet cloth and
stepped in tub of hot water for few minutes,
after which it undergoes the process Of drying,
heating, rolling, binding, and lining with silk, and
comes out perfect hat.
A correspondent Of the London Times writes
from Chamouni1 under date Of July 4: "After
last years mishsps on Mont Blanc your readers
might like TO know that the first ascent this year
has been successfully accomplished by two English
men. They slept as usual at the Mulets, and the
gums have at this moment fred to announce their
safety ON the summit. The string Of SIX black
figures against the pure snow has been an object
Of intense interest all the morning. The sky is
cloudless, and nothing could be more ;propitous
than the weather for the ascentn
The New York Tribune says General KnPArR1oK
presents the remarkable spectacle Of man hold
ing two offices and wasting his life in fuitles Of.
forts to resign one Of them. When he went to
Chill, eighteen months ago, in the capacity OF
Minister to the Republic, he very properly resign
ed his commission the army, feeling that he had
no right to draw pay Cor duties which he could not
perform. His resignation was not accepted. On
the contrary, fresh commissions we're thrust into
his reluctant hands. He refused them, and again
asked leave to resign; but he is still kept in the
service.
The London Shipping Last, on the authority Of
. letter from Bio Janero, states that, in conse-
quence Of the opening Of the Amazon to naviga-
ton, the State Of Bolivia has concluded with
Brazil treaty relative to the navigation Of the
MADEIRA, one 81 the tributaries Of the great river
In virtue Of it Bolivia will be able to send to and
Easer>AH Madeira, including the Ma
slore OF bio drande' ~ principal branch, has
length OF from one thoussnd 10 two thousand
miles, FOR nearly one thousand Of which il is
nasigable.
6ar MIhI n pdEzhng sitdaton. she wss ssEgu
10 entsrshe reconstructed Zollverein. II she ac-
septed 6he took the first step, with her eyes open,
N the road 70 political annihilation. II she re-
.used abe crippled Ier commerce. Prince HoHEN-
toHE, who Is moro than suspected Of Prussian
rocliviiies, urged the financial view Of the case.
Did e1-King LUDWIG and the Austrian party de.
lonced his policy as unpatriotic. Thereupon he
threatened to resign. The King at once ordered
baron TAuFrxmnHN to sign the treaty, and the
,ayarian aristocracy now hate Prince HoHEsLoHz
more than ever. But the people will admire the
risdom which secures them freedom Of trade.
In the financial year ending the 9Th Of April,
Se8, 6oe s45 houses and shops were assessed for
ouse-duty in England and Wales, being worth
40 year or upward. s2,sA were assessed un-
er ESQ., 1sS,968 st $50 and under ESQ; 12s8s5 at
so and under a10O; 40 412 at f10O and under f2OO;
/, i,05l at emo and under f50O; 1887 at S5O0 and
nder $1,000; 2sS at f1O0o and under f2O00; IS at
1000 and under f5000; at 5000 and under f505O;
ne at a6OO0; one at f85O0s one at fs2O0; one at
$3.50; ono st xS5O one at $4,000, and one at 600.
ne In Lanoashire was assessed at $4,000 year,
ne in East Sussex at t44lO, one in East surry at
1850; but alb the ten assessed at f50O0 or above
nat value were in Mddlessx.
In his description Of the pubic institutions Of ,
r. d. I1Jo &o% %ho taolfp l.,
,rt OF hospital, where fod more than two hundred
sars, succor and shelter, food and medicines, {
Ave been freely furnished. to aged women, beyond
,e years Of ability to support themselves. There
,e forty-ive separate buildings devoted to this
nrpose in an inclosure within the city boundaries
10 side Of which is mile long. Its size may be E
ferred from the fact that sixty thousand visitors
ere expected to participate in the Fete Dieu 8
,orpus ChristD which the inmates were prepar- i
z to celebrate by the erection Of floral tributes
here are beds for six thousand women in this I
ospital. which is said to be the largest IN the O
orld. 50 : ;
The number OF colored people in New York city, .
hich seventeen years ago was $1,000, is now only
200. Among them are twenty clergymen, and =
equal number Of doctors and druggists, two no .
ries public, two rich merchants, one lawyer, if !
school teachers, two professors, twenty mu- .
clans, twenty shoemskers, thirty tailors, five :
inbred coaehmen, niaety-fve barkeepers, two
ousand walters, four hundred house painters, !,
re hundred washerwomen, one hundred nurses .
ID twenty fortune tellers. Two papers are pub r
he'd by colored persons. One claims to be =
poet, and thirteen possess fortune
owe 10000. There a:e seven colored schools,
d thirty-two mixed marriages, namely, Of white q
rson with colo1ed one. =
The Emperor Of China has issued decree for Il
Q establishment Of European college at Pekin. a
le Minister 0uoJEN, it seems, opposed the found n
Of this college, and the decree argues with him
d disposes Of his hostility. The memorial Of n
IosEs says that SIN q country SO vast as China n
sr,x TALENT can ba found. II astronomy and the | )