The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-27
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NEWS SUMMARY.


Cotton closed in New York dropping at 273 for
Middling Upland5.
Gold closed in New York at 40s.
Cotton in Liverpool yesterday dull No change
in price.
The Peruvian Congress has ordered gold med
al for President JuAaEz, for his services in behalf
Of republicsnism in America.
thousand young ladies, between the ages Of
sixteen and twenty, left New York early this week
for the Western frontiers. They go in search OF
gold and silver and precious stones
All but one Of the volunteer army surgeons In
service have been mustered out by an order rom
the War Department. Nearly all OF them were
doing duty in connection with the Freedmens
Bureau.
The Ohio and Mississippi Company are making
arrangements to lay third rail marrow gauge)
from st. Louis to Odin. This will be accomplished
this fall, when cars will be run through to Cairo
and Chicago without change.
Rev. G. L. VANCE, the "Boy Preacher, who Great
ed quite sensation in SteubenVille last winter,
and was subsequently dismissed from the Metho-
dist Church for dishonest practices, has turned up
in Tennessee as the vender Of Life Drops"
The notice of q coal dealer in the Cincinnati pa
pers will look queer to readers East, as IN that
notice commencing anthracite coal he says tnst
"with each first order man will accompany tne
coal to the purchasers residence, to light the fire
and explain the use of the article" Is anthracite
coal really such . novelty in Cincinnati?
Among the relics preserved at A1-la-Chapele,
LAcenir Rationale mentions the handkerchief Of
JOHN tho Baptist As, however, from the Scrip
ture narrative, it does not appear certain that
JOHN possessed this indispensable requisite Of
modern civilization, the authenticity Of this relic
is probably open to dispute.
Aman is now lying in the st. Jean Hospital in
Turin, in complete state Of lethargy. He is
quite insensible to the pricks from needles, and
the soles. OF his feet are also without feeling.
Some shocks Of electricity have alone produced
any effect on him. He is twenty-four years OF age
and for the last few days has lived on milk passed
through his nose into the esophagus.
At mass meeting in Victoria square, Montreal,
on Wednesday, August q, MIR. DEv1N denounced
DARCY MCGEE without stint, and stated that al
though the name Of RICHARD OGoRSAN, Of New
York, had been mentioned by MCGEE as being con-
nected with his pretended disclosures about the
Tenians, it was well known that Mr.. O'GoRMAN had
never been connected with the schemes Of the
Fenian leaders. but had always discouraged them
The laborers on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
have struck for the payment Of their back wages
Some Of them have not been paid in eighteen
months. They have stopped all the trains at
Jackson, Tennessee, swearing that the road shall
not be used until the payment is made. Other
laborers who attempted to take their places were
driven off A company of soldiers have been sent
to protect the road.
The destruction to crops, &C., by the heavy
rains Of this month is very great, particularly In
Pennsylvania. The potato crop is badly injured
by rotting, much fencing has been carried away,
and the tomato crop in this State is almost fail
ure. In New Jersey the damage has not been so
great, the sandy soil absorbing the water almost
a. fast as it fell; but even there considerable hay
and other crops were washed away.
sAssAu GowRoK, the Japanese official at SPRING
field, has presented to JAMES L. ANsDEN copy of
an illustrated work on botany, published and
bound in Japan. The work was presented in
acknowledgment of information given him con-
cerning the mode Of making cider, vinegar, and
fruit wines. Although they have apples and other
fruit in Japan, they have never known how to make
gar has been made from dstillation Of rice.
Excavations at Lillebonne France, continue,
and nearly every day some new discovery is made.
The collection brought together at Catillon now
comprises q great number Of objects Of archeo-
logical value. Among them is a fragment Of q
circular mirror, examination Of which shows it
to be composed Of glass, fohated with thin sheet
Of pure lead. Thus it seems that the Gallo
Romans practised the plating Of glass; as the Gauls
had previously known how to plate metals
signor MATTEucu has just published paper on
the secondary electro-motor power Of nerves,
which promises to throw light on obscure problems
Of nutrition and secretion. He finds that this
secondary force is much more powerful and per-
manent than is generally supposed, and that it
has most important influence over the various
chemico-vital operations performed by the tissues
he has not yet concluded his general statement,
but intends to continue his remarks in series of
essays to be published forthwith.
Nearly all foreign countries, and especially the
British Colonial possessions on this continent, are
flooded with American coin. In Canada silver is
10 abundant as to be regarded decided nuisance
which the authorities and peopls are discussing
measures to abate. At special meeting Of the
London c.. W., Board Of Trade, held a few days
since, q resolution was passed urging merchants
and others to take American silver at four per
cent. discount, until something definite is done |
with regard to the matter.
The Fredericksburg Herald says "We are in
the midst OF the great sumac harvest. By carts,
wagons and on the shoulders, it comes to market |
A few years ago it was not q commercial article at
n. Loot
much as $1.65 per hundred was paid. Now it may |
be quoted at from $1.s0 to $1.S5. It commands q
higher price in fredericksburg than any other |
market in Virgins. We have heard some esti- |
mate that as much as $500 would be paid out
for it in this market, the present season, but we
think the figures rather too high.
There arrived yesterday from the West, at
Hoboken, in q new patent car made in Newark, |
sixteen dressed steers and twenty-five sheep, |
slaughtered in Ohio. They had been four days on
the route, and were quite fresh and sound on their
arrival. The car s similar, generally, to an Or
binary freight car, but it has double walls three
inches apart, filed in with cork. At each end,
near the top Of the car is chamber for holding
ice. In fact, the car is an ice-house on wheels.
It's average temperature is forty-tive degrees.
The invention may be the pioneer toward remov-
ing slsughter-houses beyond the city limits
:1he synod OF the diocese Of Adelaide, South
Australia, has taken practical step toward the
assertion OF its independence Of the Established
Church Of England, and toward its selc-govern-
ment as an Episcopalan Church. At special
meeting it formally resolved, 'That it is not de-
sirable that all bishops in british colonies should
receive their mission from the zee Of Canterbury
and take the oath of canoncal obedience to the
archbishop This resolution was carried by
twenty-four to seven. By another resolution it
WIS decided by eighteen to seven, that it WAS de-
sirabIe that future bishops Of the diocese should
be elected by the church Of the diocese.
The seryices rendered to maritime commerce by
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