The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-26
Yhe lai1W Neps.
NEWS SUMMARY.


Gold closed in New York Oh Saturday at 140i.
Cotton closed in Now York OH Saturday Mt %.
Cotton closed in Liverpool Oh Saturday ut 1oil |
for middling nplards.
Tho Atlanta Ne,o Era has long lottor from |
Judge UNDERWOOD, Of homo, Ga, OH tho necessity |
and wisdom Of reconstruction ttndor the SHERMAN |
Bill.
Tho fishing interests OF Door Isle, Mainc, amount
to about $500, COO per nnnum. Over one hundred
sail OF vessels and ono thousand mon arc employed
in tho busncBs.
IL ia said that tho latc Secretary Of War, Ed
WIN M. STANTON, is a native OF Culpcppcr County,
yirciuin md removed TO Ohio whom about twelve
years old.
Colonel A. J. MYEn, Chief OF tho Signal Corps,
has been ordered by General GRANT to washing-
ton, to take charge of tho Signal Bureau. llo il
tho author Of tho Signal Codo now in in the
army.
Live stock increases i'm numbersfar moro rapid
Iy in Australia than population, and tho great
question row is how to get rid of thom. II is
proposed in ono place to erect joint stock estab
lshmcnt capable Of boiling down 10000 sheep a
week."
From tho Nowborry Herald We learn that 1}urrcl
Rainos, freedman OF Eowberry, has recently re-
turned from Liberia, whittier ho went with q colo
ny last fall. Many of tho colonists nro dead, and
many others, ut the timo Of his departure, were
sick. Tho climate and tho wator don't suit them.
Ono bucberry pntch in Maine extends from Mar
ragungas River cast distance or twonty miles,
and almost as far north aud south. About 10 600
bushels woro gathered horc Inst yonr, roalizng to
tho pckers from s25, 600 to $4,000. This season
tho yield ia not 30 lnrgo, tho domand not 80 good,
and prices nro lower.
SAssAKr GowRoK tho Japanese Commissioner,
day, and on Tuesday visited tho shops Of the
Springfield Cork Company, viowed tho mnchnc-
ry ut tho Western railroad shops, for making To-
comotivcs, and examined the LAMB Knitting Ma-
chine.
Tho English Parliament wac prorogucd OH
Wednesday last. Tho Queen uas not present
Her speech was rcad by commission. She said
thoro was no ground for apprchcnaing war in
Europe Tho Irish reasonable rovolt Ind proved
futile. The speech refers to tho postal treaty
in tho United Statcs tho Canadian Union md the
Reform Bill with satisfaction and congrntulation.
ii. d. DATEMAN, Esq, Secretary Of tho Lake
Shore Grapo Growers Association, informs tho
Sandushy Register thnt he hns rocontly visited
lnrgo number oi vineyards along tho Lake Shore,
from Sanlusky eastward as far as Northeast Pa.,
AMI also around Pittsburg, and the prospects for
n good crop were never better on tho 10th Of
August than this year.
Accounts from all parts of Russia concur in
stating that tho year 1867 will DO noted al year
Of plenty. The crops OF hemp, wheat, millet and
oats aro In a prosperous condition. An unusu-
ally largo crop of boot root is expected. Tho
liberated aerfs OF Russia arc experiencing tho
difficulty Of farming without capital. The rent
OF ono year is often paid out Of tho noxt years
crops.
From eighty to one hundred car loads Of peaches
pass over the Phila Ielphia Wilmington and Balt-
moro Railroad eyory ovoning, having boon loaded
along tho limo Of tho Delaware Railroad Each car
holds 800 baskets or 400 bo1cs, thus mixing all
average Of Gi, 900 bnskots daily, which reach New
York and Philadelphia by this route alone. On
Monday evening ITO in threo trains passed
over tho road, 80 Of which wont direct to Now
York.
most extraordinary, if not sanguinary, duel
was fought at Weehawkon q few days sinco by All
Englishman and Cuban, to sottlo quarrel nris-
ing from tho claims Of each to tho hand of u
beautiful young hciross Thrco shots wero OK
changed; the Englishman had tho tip OF his ear
ehot of, and tho Cuban was shot in tho loft pos
terror. Tho seconds then interfored, tho surgeons
h'teha,d 10 tho wounds, md oil returned to their
homes.
private letter of Into date, says the Mobile
eltssGt ttsfT wfoo ailies li5t Tcro boing swept away
and thero VAS large material to operate upon. Tho
nurses few, aud tho doctors were ovorworkcd
and worn out. Attacks in 1858 seem not to e1enpt
parties in tho present epidemic. Tho intcrments
on Saturday amounted to twcnty-t thl co. and the
following day to twenty-aevcn- certainly large
mortality for so small population. The Fodoral
troops were suffering severely.
letter from Bordeaux, dated JULY 20, says
% ~
means favorable Tho inelemency OF tho weather
has caused q spread OF tho disease known as the
oidiun1, whoHo attack could not bo warded of by
the uso Of sulphur, owing to tho heavy continuance
of showers Of rain and hail mud high winds. II il
now thought that only one-haK or thirds of the
quantity ofgrapcs gathered in 1866 will bo obtain
able in 1867, and oven this small proportion will be
lessened IL the weather docs not improve Tho
inevitable consequence OF these unfayorabe pros-
poets is already most apparent by an advance in
tho price Of wines."
Tho following card appears in tho Baton Rouge
Advocate: Editor AdcOeaie: SIn-Allow mo 20
pronounce myself as candidate for Congress- in
this Diatrict. will state to tho public my prin-
ciples: l. am in favor Of taking the tax of OF
tho cotton. 2. nm in favor to computorato the
war debt 8. am in favor Of FREQ trado with all
nations. 4. am in favor Of frocing all tho coorcd
people in Cuba 6. am in favor Of tho sub,cc-
ton Of Mexico. Q. am in favor OF FREQ trads and
sailors' rights. Z. I am in favor OF oyory man
having plantation when ho works for it. hope
my conumorous friends will support mo in this un
dertang, md clear this country Of tho troubles it
Ia now in. Your friend, HENRY HANSON.
The Houston tTe1as) Telegraph loarns that in
Wharton and adjoining counties, tho worm has. in
many instances, literally deyourod the crop. Tho
following is from tho Telegraph: "In conyorsa.
ton yesterday with gentleman who has travelled
considerably oror tho a!ate and made a prottv
thorough examination of tho growing cotton cron
VIC learn that thoro was some hope TINT oven in
tho regions whore tho worm had commenced car |
liest, and done most damage, o second growth of
tho cotton would add considerably TO the yiold |
This result has been experienced in former times
We learn, and as tho worm commenced its rayaeca
very early the present season. and as late Fall in
apt to follow such lato Spring as wo haye had |
wo should not bo surprised il the authorizations
should be realized"
Belgian physician Of groat roputo in case, OF |
insanity thinks he can cure the Empress CAa1orra.
She wept copiously ut tho sight OF her old homo |
and the serSants she had known in her Childhood l
md mourns constantly for MAMMALIAN. who, sho
thinks, died Of u feyer. Tho poisoning storv ia
now fully believed. It is said that sho WAS warDed
by notice found in her drossing caso at yoro
Cruz that her lifo wns monaccd by tho hand OF |
so-callod friend. Sho nevertheless embarked with.