The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-12
The 1attg geps,
NEWS SUMMARY.

Cotton closed in New York on Saturday at asac.
for MiddIng Uplands. a
Gold closed at 14oa.
Cotton in Liverpool was unchanged on Saturday.
EDWARD J. BoYcE, the new Eberian President,
WAS once an Ohio barber.
DAVID GOULD, United States Consul at Leith,
Scotland, died at that place on the 22d ult.
General BEAuREaARn returned s5742 income for
1865, and JACOB BAaKER, of New Orleans, 1854.
A movement is on foot, headed by the. most sub
stantial parties to erect fitting monument to the
memory Of ALExANDRR DALLAS BAcHE.
The latest story is that WILKES EooTu is now
the captain Of pirate vessel and the terror OF the
China seas. 80; ,--''''
Ayos1A JOINS is expected from Europe in the
course of few weeks, and will bring number OF
new plays written expressly for her, and In which
she he's performed with great success in England.
We are told that man in Wales actually wheel
ed bis wife in q wheel-barrow to the holy well Of
st. Winifred, distance Of two hundred miles, in
order to have her cured Of rheumatism by the
sacred waters.
Two locomotives have recently been constructed
by the Erie Railway Company, at their shops at
Dunkirk, which, are built with the water tanks
around the upper portion Of the boiler. The ten
der is thus left for the fuel.
A French paper announces that the Prusslan
police have searched the publishing houses OF
Hanover for maps in which that country figures as
kingdom, and have destroyed all the copper
plates of this class, except few which have been
forwarded to Berlin. nj.
The Paris correspondent Of the Courier des
Esats Bfis says that, whale's feah has come into
fashion again. Besides the whale, the shark and
dolphin come regularly enough to the market,
where, q whales. tail of from 800 to 400 kilo-
etsmrnes- say 700 or 800 pounds found buyers, o
few days ago, at high prices. g
The ship Colorado has made two trips from San
Francisco to China and Japan, and has proved
that San Francisco and Hong Kong can be put
INTO regular Communication by steamships In .
fraction orer twenty days. The fine steamship
Great Republic has just arrived at San Francisco,
to be put upon the line. ~. efs ti
ta Ordnance Sergeant MORRISON re-enhsted in the
United States Regular Army july 2S, receiving his
papers in due form. he has been soldier sixty
ssven years, and for fty-seven years he has. been
connected with the American service. Sergeant
MORRISON is now eighty-two years Of age, and has
charge Of Fort Walcott, Newport, r. L
Twenty thousand New York daily papers are dis
.trbuted to news dealers along the Hudson river
every day. eTwos hundred New York dailies are
thrown from the. baggage car Of the newspaper
train every morning in front Of the various
private residences between New York and
Albany.
In some parts Of Missouri the people are begin
ming to cultivate rice in the woods without clear
ing Off the trees, and in fact, without deadening
them. The dead leaves are turned under with
bull-tongue plough wherever it is practicable to
do so, and the rice planted. Fair crops are
raised in this way. ar -, &f, j}
The State Of North Carolina ofera for sale all
the public swamp lands, consisting Of about one
million and q half Of acres. Some Of these lands
have been drained, and all are said to besuscepti-
BILE OF drainage at moderate expense. They are
particularly adapted for grazing, and are very
fertile The object OF selling tho lands is to BE-
cufe. the development Of the State and to sus-
tain the common schools.
, A letter from Rusnos Ayres says the wool clip
this year will be 100000, 600 pounds and that the
recent rise IN the tariff Of the United States has
produced great digmay among the wooigrowers.
But, fortunately, for some years great efforts have
been made torefne the woods Of that country, and,
im proportion, the finest wools pay less duty. No
wools viii go TO the United States this year but
those that are fine and clean.
The Raleigh Sentinel states that R. W. BEST,
Esq., Secretary Of State left for New York on Mon
day last, to close, as agent bargain for the sale
6bO 600 acres Of State lands, and from 70 to $4,000
acres Of lands owned by Col. BaYsoN and others.
Il is the purpose Of the company to put upon these
lands in short time, 20 600 sheep Cor wool grow
ine. Besides this, several thousand laborers viii
be employed in mining and manufactures.
Bishop DupoaIoup, Of Orleans, who, it has been
stated. ON the death of Pope PUs TX would be
strongly urged by the Government OF France as
his successor, has the reputation OF being, in
every respecs, one Of the ablest Roman Catholic
Bishops noU living. and Il elected Pope would
probably soon make his mark as one Of the great
est Popes of modern times. But it has been a
rule. not ldsiased from for three hundred years,
to elect none to that position but an Italian and
cardinal. ,4 ~
The working men and clerks Of Washington are
working enrgetically now with the hopes OF bet
terine their condition. The first named class have
a regular league or Association, which has ap-
pointed delegates to the Labor Congress to be held
st Chicago, and instructed them to vote in favor
Of having the eight hour system go into effect on
q certsin day throughout all sections OF the ooun-
try. The clerks in the different departments have
resolved 70 cfen cooperative stores, and for this
purpose subsHiptora haye!already been made.
Fifteen barrels OF porgies make one Of oil. The
oil is shipped to Boston where, the reaners work
wonders with it, Probably some Of it comes back
"a pure linseed to paint our houses, some as Ma
cassar for ladies hai, or perhaps aspure olive oil
to dress our salad. The achievements Of chemis-
try are very wonderful, and We can't be very GER
tain what we eat, drink or wear was in its original
form. What is left Of fish, after the oil is pressed
out is called .schum,n and sells for SIS per ton.
One firm in Baltimore last year bought six thou
sand tons Of chum on The Maine Coast.
The Empress Of Morocco is native Of Chaley,
near Dole, in France, where she was born on the
2Othsof November, 1920, in a poor thatched cot.
tcge. Her name was VIRamM LkNTERHK1R. She
went With hen. parents in 1884 to Algeria, and the
whole family were taken prisoners by the Moroc'
cans. Her father was killed, and her mother dice
a short time afterwards. The captors dazzled by
the great besuty Of VRanE, spared her, and b!
a concurrence Of romantic circumstances tht
Emperor's son fell IN love with her and made he'
his wife. This Empress has since sought out ant
brought her three sisters to the Morocco Court
to which they are now attached.
The editor Of the Rochester Democrat has beer
to Auburn prison, and is publishing an account o
what he saw thete. he says "One Of the con
victs, more practiced than any Of his fellows, an'
who was booked upon for some time after his in
carcarstion as hardly co,npos me1hs, has invented
and mSde superior sewing machine, entirely dit
ferent from any used in the outer world, upol
which the prison clothing is made. Near by,
knitting machine Of his make in turning ou
stockings for the prisoners at rate which mad