The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-09
NEWS SUMMARY.


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Cotton closed in New York easier. Middling
Uplands, 27aa2sc.
Gold advanced, 1854.
In Liverpool Cotton continued heavy, closing
with q declining tendency. Middiing Uplands
122aad. - 49,:
The working classes of Great Britain have an ag-
gregate income Of s2091 500, 600.
The manufacture Of the wire for the Atlantic
cable kept nearly $50 hands employed ior eleven
months. Over 30 900 miles were supplied.
One of the circuses of Paris gives stag hunt
every night; q live stag with immense antlers is
pursued by fifty huntsmen and huntswomen.
The preliminary work has begun at Handsboro',
there, as the Democrat informs us.
The saraine fishery Of France was more success
full in 1866 than for the last ten years-SS4 boats
caught no 600 600 sardines in the month OF July.
There have arrived at Castle Garden in the
month Of March twelve thousand five hundred
and sixty emigrants.
The Alexandria Democrat of the 9th ultimo
saws Red River had already fallen one loot, aId
news from above reported it Eecedine.
R1oHARD .CoBDENs political writings, largely
free trade, are to be published in two yoiomes, and
the American edition will have WILLIAM CULLEN
BRYANT as editor.
A Swedish naturalist has discovered that in
sects are fabricators Of iron. They spin, like silk
worms, 5 Kind OF ferruginous cocoons, which con-
stitute the mineral known as lake ore.
The bridge over the James, at Richmond, IS to
be 1900 feet long, with a roadway twenty-five feet
wide and sidewalks six and q half feet wide. 1t IS
to have one stone arch and will cost $25O,OOO
letter from Rome in the Mcmoe states that
Consi story was expected to be held about the end
of the present month, in which his Holiness would
announce the appointment of forty-two new
bishops.
! A Conservative Convention was held in Nash
vile, Tennessee, on Monday, at which colored
speaker, who had served in the Federal army, said
that the Southern man was the negros best
friend, and that their interests were Identical.
The Knoxville Commercial says the recent floods
have laid bare a cemetery near French-Broad
River. in Tennessee, which from the size Of their
bones and the manner of their deposit, is evidently
az more ancient date than can be claimed for the
Indians OF this country.
The Psn0la Star says that while brother OF
Ms;or Oglesby of that county was conveying home
the remains of that officer who was killed at Chic
araauea,, q battalion Of Brownlow's armed militia
being on the boat, they danced upon the coffin,
xhey kicked it, and threatened to throw it over
board. si....i
The differences in metals is surprising. Although
copper alloyed SO as to come under the term
bronze. has been made hard enough to receive and
retsin an edge, so as to be use for cutting nstru-
ments, yetsit is sottened by being heated and
plunged in cold water, while iron snd steel is hard
ened by precisely the same process.
The Rocky Mountain Ne,ns Of the 18th ultimo
saws that the weather continues exceedingly cold
and wintry. snow squalls come at very frequent
intervals, and there is moderation OF the heez-
ing Temperature. The sleighing is excellent, but
scarcely anybody seems disposed to take adyan-
tsge Of it. .z
terrible railroad accident has occurred on the
Moscow ine in Russia: In turning sharp curve
part Of the train off the rails, and eisht car
riapes were precipitated down an embankment
ffty feet high. About thirty 1t :sons were killed
and more than zone hundred received serious In
juries. .,.s. 20 20 s..s.:s2., l., .
4 photographic dispatch states that company OF
American merchants have acquired possession OF
the entire northern portion Of the great Island OF
Borneo, and three valuable islands adjacent, and
nre, making arrangements for the immediate de-.
yelopment Of their acquisition. For this pH}aQss.
company has been organized under thssname OF
the s-American Trading Comps Boneo.'
AZ the recent election ffague, speaker, IN
1ronosinc the candidate Of the Bohemian Central
cdmmittee, concluded as follows sNow every one
of you take blank ballot and o shilling. Those
Who are in favor Of B. viii put their ballots In the
box: those who are opposed will put In the shll-
,;np.n Result-unanimous election Of B.
Some costly pictures have lately, changed hands.
AT recent sale in Paris an sItalian Street Scene
Inv DrcAMps, brought $500. At sale in London
. few weeks since, cart and Liberty, :, by LOUIS
GA11AIT, sold for 5000 in gold; and at GouPaLs
in New York, GERoME's s'LA]mee" was sold Tor
5000. At. tar latter place the sales for the past
wear are estimated at a value of $500, 600.
It appears from the utterances OF such men as
Massrs. CHAs. OCoSNoR, JUDGE DALY, JAS. KELLY,
-JaMrs SAprK1R, CHARIEs NJ. CONNOLLY and other
leading Irishmen in the United States, who were
nresent at the recent dinner in New York, to Mr.
FRAHc1s MAau1RE, NJ. P. for Cork, that they are in
favor ofAghtng reland's battles in the British
Parliament as the only course which would bring
peace andprosperity to their native land.
The use OF opium among the Sandwich Islanders
is reported as fearfully on the increase, and the
moat stringent measures are taken to stop it. At
Honolulu, q cooEe, who was most wretched,
oadayerous and helpless specimen Of the victims
% opium, was find s1O0 with s3 81 costs, which, as
he had no means to pay, he will work out in the
chain gang .equal to four hundred and thirteen
and half days, hard labor, ct twenty five cents
day. Ss5t.s.s
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gaztae gives
,a.nacoount Of fatal accident which occurred in
DAYTON few days ago, the result of tight lacing
A Young Lady much given to the practice, caused
hook to be placed in the wall Of her room, to
vbcb she was in the habit of fastening her corset
a+r;nps 30 as to be able to draw them tighter. The
other day she threw herself too heavily on the
atr;nes and broke a blood vessel, from which she
died IL few hours.
Tine Russian Prince M1TRoFAN MEscHTsoHERsK1
WAS recently tried at Moscow for theft. year
apo he was imprisoned for insulting policeman,
and was placed in the same cell with drunken
woman. When she became sober and was releas-
ed. she missed three silver images. The Prince