The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-03
The 1ai1g News,
NEWS SUMMAR&


Cotton closed in Now York at % tcr middling
uplands.
Gold closed at 40t.
CORNELIUS. VANDERBILT returns his income as
$65S, 800. 80
Every foot Of land on which Belfast Ireland, Is
built, is owned by one man, the Marquis OF Done
gal. Every citizen has pay tribute to him. HIS
income for ground rent is from one to two millions
OF dollars per annum.
boxes of the skeletons of fallen soldiers
eEyinY On Analostan: Island awaiting the eomlns
Of the burial corps, inferred in the cemetery a'
Arlington. There are nothing left of the remains
except the dry bones, and in some instances the
lees and arms arc, missing. ,,.r-" .''---
A gentleman ID Maine has offered $4,000 for
building a Freewin Baptist educational institution
Mt the South. The condition is, that as much
more shall be added by the 1st OF January next
and such additions shall afterwards be made as
shall increase the whole sum, principal and inter-
est, to 81, 900 by January l. 1873
The Brazilian Government, has found it neces-
ssry to resort to the issue of 5O,0OO,OOO paper
money to- carry on tho war in which the hmpne i.
engaged with Paraguay. Paper money 's one y,
the evil effects Of war, and in its consequences ~
becomes the just punishment OF natlons WIZ ~
To war without Just cause or necessary.
DIR. IsAAc j: HAYES, who planted the united
States flag ON the nothermost known land OF the
c,obe and thence beheld the "open Polar Sea, >
snd zrho bas received from the Royal Geographical
societv of England the Victoria Medal, and from
bia sallow-countrymen the mantle dropped from
tbe.shoulders OF. KANE, is now living in New York.
T1cKsoR FIELDS have just published an enlarged
and illustrated edition of his Arctic Road Journey
in 1854.
Surveying party which left Ottawa, G. W., in
March last, under direction Of the Government, to
ascertain the length Of the Ottawa River, has re-
tGrned, and reports the length Of the river about
a thousand miles. They found Lake Gros to be
fyur hundred miles in circumference. Navigation
fom Lake Temiscaing to Lake Gros is impeded
bv vnumerous rapids. The source Of the Ottawa is
saH 10 be within fifty miles Of the headquarters OF
the Dognay. The explorers encountered large
quantities of ice on Lake Gros on the 24th OF May
= Gun cotton is made serviceable for sporting pur-
noses by a firm at Stowmarket in England. This
i,rm have applied their pulp in the form Of paper
-di1uted gun paper-and by rolling up fold OF
th:s paper have contriyed very neat and effective
sporting cartridge. These cartridges have been
successfully used during the past winter. diff
,ulty in the way Of susceptibility to injury by damp
has been overcome by inclosing each charge in
thin film of India rubber strong enough to resist
damp, but not so strong as to oppose any obstacle
to ignition.
There we're issued for the city during the last
month forty marriage licenses. o. these, twenty
two were for white and eighteen for colored. The
average, it appears, is somewhat above the ordin-
ary rum. but the tendency Of the market is decid-
edly downward, in view of tho rapid advance OF
the ssWoman's Rights" movement. An nveterate
bachelor, who is doing all ne can to weigh down
the hymenial market, says that II this movement
advances rapidly, in less than five years married
man win be to his wife like chicken hawk BY the
side Of . bee-martin. He won't stand any chow.
According to the Roman correspondent OF the
Paris Libers, the Pope Of Rome, now in his 10Th
. wear, Ia by no means in 30 weak and feeble con-
dition az some recent accounts have represented
him. The writer, under date Of July 4th, says: Il
met The Pope yesterday outside the Angelic gate.
He was on foot, accompanied by one Of his cone
,.ieries. It gave me as much as could do to keep
up with him, be walked 80 rapidly. Everything
about him shows extraordinary vigor, and the
longest ceremonies do not exhaust him. He takes
walk every day on foot in the Pincio or outside
the walls"
On Saturday evening. son Of ARDREw JAoK-
sos. who resides at Centre Hill, near Hudson
CITY. N. J., was charged by his mother with steal
ing twenty-five cents, and the father, in ehastls-
ing him, had only struck the second blow when
the boy sank down and almost Immediately expr-
ed. The boy was but nine years old. The GRIEF
of the father is intense at the fatal result OF what
he intended for the boys reformation. A diversi-
ty of opinion exists as to whether death ensued
from the severity Of the blow or was the result OF
the sudden terror which seized the boy, as no
marks Of violence were visible. Coroner WARREN
viewed the body and confined the case to Justice
AIDRDaE.
Gen. Howard, some time since, suggested
rlan Of temperance organizations for the freed
men. In accordance with this suggestion, the ne
eroes Of the District Of Columbia and Alexandria
have formed several societies known as the "lln-
coin National Temperance Associations" JOHN
N. LANosroNE, JOHN ]. JoHNsTosE, and several
other gentlemen interested in the welfare OF the
blacks. have been appointed an executive commit
tee to establish these clubs through the South,
and a grand colored division Of the temperance
order ia to be created. The agents Of the Freed
mems Bureau are also active in extending among
the negro children an organization called the
ssvanguards Of Temperance"
lie Monite,r, Of July Is, says the following let
ter has been addressed by the Emperor to III.
RouHxa, Minister Of State and Of Finance:
'.PA1AoE OF THE TunERHs, July Is, 1867.
MY DEAR MoNsIKUR RouHER I send You the
Grand Cross OF the Legion Of Honor in diamonds.
The diamonds add nothing to the high distinction
which have conferred on you during long time
past; but take this means Of giving to you public
" 4 new proof of my confidence and my esteem. In
the midst OF your numerous labors and OF the un-
lust attacks Of which you are the object friendly
attention on my part will, hope, cause you to
forget the annoysnces inseparable from your po-
sition, and remind you only Of your successes and
Of the services which You are daily rendering to
the country. Accept, my dear Monsieur RouHER,
the assurances Of my sincere friendship.
NAPOLEON.
The people OF San Francisco are enjoying the
sight Of 'the first British iron-clad ever in the
Pacific" She is described as being one OF class
OF vessels which may be said to be compromise
between the old school and the new in naval archi-
lecture. Not wholly armor-plated, nor designed
as mere floating battery, like the turret-ships,
nor left undefended like the men-of-war of ten
years since, ahe is an adapted higate, armed suf-
ciently to resist the average Of modern missiles,
and fast enough to save herself when the projec-
tiles against which she is contending sre too heavy
for her. With a registered tonnage Of S775 tons,
length Of 2s7 feet 50 feet BEAM and &c feet draught
of water her hull of teak and oak carriages, five
and three-quarters inch iron plating, to protect
her engines Of sOo-horse power amid-ships, and
one OF two and half inches to cover'bow and
stern, Her crew of 500 officers and men is well
d;sc;nl;ned and appointed, and altogether the