The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-20
The 1ai1g Ne~s.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Cotton closed in New York quiet and firm at 2sa
for Midding Uplands.
Gold closed at 1s.


Cotton closed in New York quiet and firm at 2a
for Midding Uplands.
Gold closed at fls.
Liverpool quotations unchanged
General ROUSSEAU will sail from New York on the
2sd inst to take military possession of Walrussis.
The old Pennsylvania Bank building at Phila-
delphia is to be removed, piecemeal, to Portland,
Me. The marble has been marked lettered and
numbered, stone by stone, and will reappear at
the latter city as q custom house.
The American steamship Quaker city, Captain
DUNCAN, with . large number OF excursionists
from the United States on board, has arrived at
Naples, where she has been placed in quarantine.
The Quaker City was on her way to the Holy
Land, and her detention causes much indignation
among the passengers.
Before the Sultan left England he was presented
by the British and Foreign Bible Society with
very handsomely bound Bible in the Turkish Ian
guage, and he received the gift very gracious
H A Bible was also to be presented to the Egyp-
tian vceroy, but it was not ready in time, and will
be sent out to Egypt.
The ties for the Kansas Pacific Railroad have to
be transported from the eastern border, and are
estimated to cost laid down, one dollar EACH Fuel
used by the locomotives has all to be transported
two hundred miles. As the road progresses west
ward this expense will increase for as yet no good
coal has been discovered.
An island that has long been stationary in the
middle Of Goose Pond, at Tyringham, Mass, has
recently oated to the upper end Of the pond, about
half mile from its original location. It is an &C
cumulstion Of about one-quarter acre, and has
trees twenty feet high and heavy growth Of
smaller bushes on it.
A number Of negroes applied recently to the
contractor on the Houston (Texas) City Gas
Works for employment. He informed them that
his contract was for currency, and that he would
pay them in that sort Of money at the rate OF two
dollars per day. The freedmen, however, refused
to take currency, but agreed to take one dollar in
specie per day in lieu Of two dollars in greenbacks
At tho late horse show in London, the Agri-
cultural Hall medal for extraordinary merit was
awarded to the white Arabian mare CdrloHa, on
account of her great beauty and high caste. The
father of the mare is Of the tribe Of Sihlo,os, and
now in the possession Of the King Of Prussia, and
the mother Of the tribe OF M,oa nowin the stables
of tho King Of Wurtemburg. Cdrlohd is the pro-
perty Of lady in Manchester.
An Australian paper says that the neighborhood
OF Havelock was recently visited, after o heavy
rain, by clouds Of flying ants which were devoured
In great numbers by the FOWLS but the insects not
killed by the swallowing, ate their way through the
birds crops, and caused their death. This was
not credited at first, but post nsortem examinations
have shown the insects alive in the ruptured crops,
or crawling out Of the dead birds throats.
The sacred relics preserved in the Cathedral OF
Aix-a-C Chapee are exhibited to the public once in
seven years, to the great emolument of the inn
keepers. - In the present year the concourse OF
pilgrims is 30 great that the number has been es-
timated at 100000 for q single day. More than
10000 were counted to have passed the gates, and
the number that arrived by railway was about 4e,-
A Paris correspondent Of a London morning
paper writes: General SHERMAN and his family
have arrived for thepurpose Of visiting the Worlds
Fair. This is the second time the General has
favored Paris with visit since the American war.
He is fifty years Of age, and looks as young and
freah as ever" The vividness Of the correspon-
dents imagination appears great, when one re-
fleets that General SHERMAN is stin on our West
ern border. f3is
The Chelsea (Ct) Paper Manufacturing Com
pany, at Greenville Campbell, Hall Co., New
York;, have one Of the largest paper mills in the
wosld The mill contains five machines and seven
teen engines, with dsily capacity Of from 900
to 90,OOOpounds o! paper per day. One hundred
and seyenty-av hands are kept steadily at work,
and the min is receiving new machine OF 80
inches cylinder, to accommodate which large L
has been built. The min is now running on book
and newsppa. ( g1 K. - -.
A Western eompsuy have established stations
for new mail route from Montana to st. Paul
This route is the extreme northern, selected with
view to avoid hostile Indians, and is pronounced
q very favorable one. The contractor who laid it
out met some Of the Sioux and Assiniboines, who
readily gave permission for the right Of way. He
came from the Minnesota border to Helena in four
teen days, and expects that the coaches will make
the distance IN TWELVE days. Two military posts
are to be established on this route.
The New Bedford Standard says the Northern
whaling feet this season numbers one hundred
and two vessels in the Ochotsk Arctic and Kodiack
Seas. OF these seventy.two are in the Arctic,
twenty in the ochotsf, and ten on the Kodiack
ground. Nineteen Of the feet are expected to re-
cruit in the fall at San Francisco, and eighty three
at Honolulu II the average quantity OF oil and
bone Is taken there viii be between $4,000 and
60 900 barrels Of oil and 900 pounds Of bone to
ship from Honolulu next November and December
to this port and Bremen.
The French Empress has at last succeeded in
obtaining .hsH Ht1aai into good society. she'will
accompany her husband to Ssltzburg On the spe-
ciL invitation OF the Emperor and Empress Of
Austria. Hitherto most Of the royal and imperial
ladies Of Europe have persistently ''cut" the e1-
countess. But now that . Lady Of such inimpeach-
able ton as her Imperial Majesty ELIZABETH
Axx1n, ,EUanm.has taken her up, her future is
assured. When tho Gear Of Russia and King Of
Prussia next visit Paris they Will have to bring
their wives. Gge.t..-
II is reported from Vienna that when the Suit sn
visited that city last month, smile passed over
his usually impas ssiye countensnoe when he was
shown the chain which the Turks in 1888 threw
across the Danube, to prevent reinforcements from
Joining the defenders by water He called the at
tention Of his suite to it, saying: 'We don't make
use Of these things noV-s-days.." When he gets
back to Constantinople, to ponder over the won
ders he saw in France and England, it is to be
hoped the Sultan will find some things in Turkey
which 'tare of no use now-a-days."
The projected new Suspension Fridge at Niagara
Falls is being pushed forward with great prospect
Of speedy success. Contracts have already been
made for all the materials, except the wire, which
the Chief Engineer win soon sail for Europe TO
procure. The towers will be los feet high; the
span 125O feet; height above the water IT'S, and
width Of roadway 10 feet. The bridge is intended
for the passsgeof carriages and pedestrians, and
will beone Of the most substantial structures Of
the kind in this country. The tow srs will be COM
pleted in about four weeks, AMI the bridge opened
to the public early next spring.
In the matter Of titles book-makers have great
advantage over writer's of articles. The title Of
nove -days ia never expected to have any con-