The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-05
Fhe' lal1g Ne%s.
NEWS SUMMARY.


Cotton closed in Liverpool at 1Ot.
There are no fewer than S41 manufactures O
false teeth in Paris
Broad street, in Philadelphia, is being laid with
the Nicholson pavement.
The registered voters in San Francisco number
$4,000, OF whom nearly il 900 are naturalized.
In the Sandwich Islands great results are e1'
pected from the reciprocity treaty with the United
States.
Ex-Governor THOMAS BRowN died at Tallahas-
see, Florida, on the oath instant, i'll the SD yea1
Of his oge.
The English coal mines increased their produc-
ton last year some three and one-half-mllions OF
tons.
DR.. LErTERMAN, late Medical Director OF the
army of the Potomac, is candidate for Coroner Of
San Francisco.
Madame RIsToRI and suite and dramatic COM
pauy sailed for the United States, from Brest,
Saturday.
There is movement on foot in Fredericksburg,
Virginia, to start line Of sailing vessels between
that place and New York.
A large quantity OF tobacco is coming into Dan
vile, Virginia, now. lot was sold the other DAY
for s112 per hundred.
Four boys, the youngest only fifteen years old,
swan the Niagara River at Square Island recently,
at point where the current is full Of eddies and
whirlpools and goes toward the Falls at the rate
of seven miles per hour.
The receipts Of bullion from California and
Nevada mines for the past week aggregate $780,
O)O and from the Oregon and British Columbia
mines during the same time they amount to
sS67,OOO.
In the city OF Davenport, Iowa, there is invested
in various kinds OF manufacturing the sum Of ST.
$685. ,2OO producing annually articles to the value
of s., ,284, 500. The number Of hands employed Is
1909, to whom is paid weekly the aggregate sum
of s13,9S4.
A sample of pig iron from Oregon, the first
made on the Pacific Coast, is on exhibition at San
Francisco, by J. Ross BROWNE, Commissioner for
Mining and Agricultural Statistics Of the Pacific
Coast, just returned from an examination OF the
resources of Oregon and Washington Territory.
Old furniture will not do in new house, and
perhaps nowhere is there mora artistic skill ex-
pended upon luxurious sofas and chairs, AID
tables, carpets, bronzes. paper hangings and brio
a-brac than in Paris where upwards Of II, 900 per-
sons get their living by the production of these
articles.
LOUIS NAPOLEON has made two more peace
speeches, and Baron DE MoUsT1ER has issued .
pacific circular to the diplomatic agents Of France
This has somewhat calmed the excitement in the
commercial circles Of Paris. but it is commonly ex
pected that it will not be long before the war
rumors win again be revived. I
A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Commercial,
writing from fernando, Miss, says that the chol-
era has gone, and adds: "There is much talk here
about the unvarying success with which one DR..
ALFRED BROOKS treats cholera patients by inject
ing sulphuric acid into their veins. he has never
lost case. OF thirty on a single plantation, he
':resurrected," to use the language Of my inform
ant, every devil of them"
The Peoples Press comes to us from Salem, N.
c., published by L. v. BLUM. The editor says:
"The Press will advocate speedy restoration Of
the Union. We viii strive to render it welcome
visitor to the family circle, and no psins will be
spared to make its miscellaneous department
acceptable to all classes" We welcome the Iress
to our exchange list, and hope that many more
papers devoted to the same cause viii spring up
over the State. t
The New York Tribune of Monday says: The
President cannot justify the removal Of General
SIoKLEs by an opinion from Mr.. BINcKLEY. The
we print has seen its best days, and is
too threadbare to cover up the truth. When the
President cendeseends to let the people have the
We want the correspondence between GRANT and
S1cKLEs so long as the President suppresses that,
be might just as well suppress Mr. B1NoKLEy.
The New York Herald Of Monday says: In rela-
tion to the reported forthcoming amnesty procla-
maticn, it Is stated in our special Washington
telegram that those who are supposed to know
something OF President JoHNsoN's intentions say
psrdons will be granted to all classes Of ex-rebels,
except those guilty Of piracy and Of cruel treat
nent to Union soldiers. This amnesty will restore
he parties concerned to all civil rights except |
hose taken away by act Of Congress.
The Washington correspondent Of the Boston |
Advertiser says: "Among the clerks in the Treasu-
y Department is man who is brother OF an ex- |
.ebel Commodore, who, at the time Of General |
EARLYs attack on this city, went through the lines
20 the rebel headquarters, and informed General |
EAgLY that the city was defended by militia only |
md could easily be taken. For this act he was
.ried and sentenced to be hung. he was subse-
Iuently psrdoned, and is now making up for lost
ime as clerk in the Government employ"
Nothing il more astonishing to the sightseer in
Paris than the way in which new streets are run
lp in al quarters Of the town. With modern
means and appliances, with cast iron instead OF
arpenters' work, with steam-tempered mortar
nd travelling cranes, can be done in six weeks
ow what used to be an affair Of six months. Five |
= six millions Of francs are spent in year to pull
own houses which would have lasted o century,
Thile upward Of four hundred millions are invest
d in new buildings. To effect these vast opera
ions there are about fvs thousand contract ors OF
u grades, who employ eighty thousand workmen.
2According orecent statistics, the total number
Jews in the world is ,OOo, ,OOO $500 600 OF whom
i've in Europe. In Russia the Jewish population
220 900; in Austria $50 900; in Prr sia, coo.
nd in Germany, $4,000. At Franktort-on-the-
[aine every sixteenth inhabitant is a Jew, and in
be whole OF Prussia every seventy-third. There
re fewer Jews in Saxony than in any other part Of
Germany. In Sweden and Norway the proportion
Jews to the rest Of the inhabitants is about one
} 5000. In France, England and Belgium, where
be Jews are under no disabilities. they are less
umerous than in countries whsre they have not
et been placed On an equality with the believers
I other creeds.
The Victoria Medal awardsd by the Royal Geo
raphical Society Of England to Dr.. l. 1. HAYES
one Of the three Americans, the others being the
ate DR.. KANE and the late Professor BAcHE, who |
ave received that testimonial for having reached
more Northern point of Arctic land than ever |
7as attained by any previous explorer, is OF solid
old, moro than two inches in diameter, the en- I
lems and inscriptions stamped in relief with ex- {
Iuisite clearness, and as whole very beaut- !
ul for the simplicity and significance Of the ad-
,irably executed design. Sir RoBERT MURcH1soN,
q transmitting the medal through United States
iinister ADAMS took occasion to express in strong
terms his sense Of the value of
,r. HAYEs's enterprise and expedition. The
nedal has been deposited in Boston for short |
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