The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-13
lai1A News.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Cotton closed in New York at 2sso. for Midding

Cotton closed in New York at 2Sac. for Middling
Uplands.
Gold closed at 14oi@14o2,
Cotton closed in Liverpool at Id. advance; Mid
ding Uplands being quoted at 1Oad.
Last month, it is said, fourteen Jews became
members Of Christian churches in New York, and
five others have asked for baptism.
The ssnew India rubber neck and bust is proba-
bly msde Of that material, because all finger
marks can be erased.
Professor WHITNEY, Of the California State Geo.
logical Corps, has ascended Mount Hood, and
found the height to be 10, 400 feet.
A traveller describes New England as the great
est watering place in the country. He couldn't
get anything but water.
It may not be generally known that the piano
was invented at Floronce, in Italy, by BARTHoIo-
NEW CR1sroFA1IA, in the year ITO.
Rev. JOHN BUTLER graduate of Union and
Princeton, and soldier at Gettysburg, where he
was wounded, has been ordained as missionary
to India.
On the western coast OF Africa, in fifty years,
some two hundred Christian churches have been
organized and $1,000 converts gathered, the re-
suits of African colonization.
lSAAlL AodA Iaauo Su6 W VIC upIoSS VI WV
tree and the ground surrounding it under which,
as tradition says, the Virgin rested during the
fight into Egypt.
Advices from Prince William County, Va, state
that not drop of rain has fallen in the lower end
of that county for eight weeks; the crops are su-
fering in consequence greatly.
Frederick Bryant, o colored citizen Of Norfolk,
Va, has been appointed by the United States
Treasury Department. Janitor Of the Custom
House in that city, at q compensation of $50 per
month. 900
Miss DE has just shipped to Fortress Monroe
the last losd of granite for the soldiers monument
which is being erected there. The monument is
Of beautiful design and will be completed early In
the fall.
The Car has given orders for carrying annually
to the budget Of the kingdom Of Poland creditor
from 600 to 100 900 roubes for tho construction
Of orthodox Russian churches in the country. In
consequence Of this decision is to be built this
year at Lubin, and more in other places.
Eneland's consular service abroad costs fl66, lSS.
The staff comprises twenty-five consuls. general,
one hundred and thirty-seven consuls, and ninety
vice-consuls two surgeons, one chaplain, and four
Law clerks, whose salaries amount unitedly to
f147,2SS.
The bill for the abolition of imprisonment for
debt having been passed in France on the 18th
ultimo, the debtors confined in Cichy had an illu-
mination at the prison the same evening, and also
inaulged in somewhat boisterous mirth and enthu-
siastic singing.
The total income of Columbia College, New York,
is $126,OOO; but that Of Cambridge, England, is
f1sS0OO, equivalent to 1000 in gold, Of which
f48,0OO is received from tuition fees, and EOS 900
comes from benefces. The total income of Oxford
is 4152o0O.
The Norfolk (Va.) Journal publishes list OF
over eighty new buildings now in course Of erec-
tion, or soon will be, in that city. The cost OF
these buildings, exclusive Of the grounds is esti-
mated at 100000. A new hotel will also soon be
put under contract.
FoRNHY has been taking look at the Alps. he
says they are in Switzerland and speaks fayorably
Of them, considering they are not in Pennsylvania
The hotels receive lengthy puAs. 1t is evident
that he is using the columns Of 'my two papers,
both daily, in that manner to pay his bills.
By the brig Stephen Bishop, the New Haven
Journal has received a copy of the Barbados
Globe, containing full particulars Of the almost
total destruction, by fire, on the night of the Sd
inst, Of the town Of Basseterre, on the island OF
st. Kits The only buildings left were the custom
house, the jail, and Q freproof warehouse.
yolTAmR,s statue is soon to be erected in Paris.
Il is announced that $50 900 persons have already
subscribed to the fund, and that the subscription
lists win be closed st the end Of September.
commission of some Of the most eminent literary
men Of France has been selected to decide on the
character of the statue.
General BRAuREaARD has organized at New Or
leans the electrical Brake Company OF America"
of which he is President, and Colonel BLANToN
DUNCAN, Of Delaware, Superintendent 1t is
claimed that railway train, running forty-four
miles an hour, can be stopped by electricity be-
tween 80 and 100 yards.
The Louisville journal event off" as follows on
the morning Of the late election in Kentucky 'Fel-
low-ciizens, you know the great dnty Of the day.
Be sure that You fnlhu it all. Let rain and hail
and thunder threaten from above-but vote. Let
the earthquake rumble and spout fire beneath
but vote Let the yell OF fiends I'LL the air around
but vote.
LAURA KEKNE has presented to Mrs. TnToN, at
Springfield, Ill, piece Of the dress she wore on
the night Of President LNcoLN's assassination. 1t
is stained with the blood that flowed from the
Presidents head while she was ministering to him
in his box at the theatre after he had received the
fatal shot. The relic is framed and suspended in
Mr.. LMcoLN's late residence in Springfield.
There has recently been discovered in Borneo
new mineral, mixed with the platinum found in
that region. It forms small grains or globules OF
dark blsckgray color, and of considerable lustre.
Many Of these grains exhibit brilliant crystalline
facets which are the faces of regular octohedron.
The new mineral is very bard and brittle. It does
not fuse before the blow-plpe, but difiuses a
strong odor Of sulphnrous acid. It is to be called
Sulphate Of Rutheneum. 30,
When counterfeit is presented at the Bank Of
England the gold is instantly paid for it. If it
comes from some known person, he is only asked
where he gotit; from stranger, the cashier
signals to his detective always in waiting, and the
officer follows secretly. Before many hours the
bank is in possession Of the strangers biography.
The offender, once arrested, is likely to be tried,
convicted and sentenced within two days; there
fore Great Britain is not an inviting field for that
branch Of industry.
The movements In progress to supply Cuba
and the British West India colonies with Asiatio
lsborers has become quite extensive. The emil
grant ship Corono arrived at Kingston, Jamaica,
few days ago with 4Ss coolies on board, from
Cslcutts. There were fourteen deaths on the
voyage. When she left eleven ships had been
chartered for the conveyance Of coolies to Deme
rara where the planters had applied to the COVER
nor for 5000 rnore Of the same sort. Another
emigrant ship, the Salamanca, from Calcutta, has
arrived at Morant Bay, with ss2 coolies for the
estates. The demand for laborers throughout the
islands is very urgent.
The new Canadian Confederation does not start
off under altogether the happiest auspices. The
party leaders are wranglng among themselves,
and the opposition are daily acquiring strength.
Lower Canada is jealous Of Upper Canada, and