The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-21
NEWS SUMMARY.

Cotton closed at Liverpool yesterday at 11sc for
m ddlng uplands.
Gold closed in New York at 1871; and cotton
at2sc.
Twelve thousand eight hundred and twenty-six
steerage passengers have arrived at New forK
since the LIST instant, from European ports.
The income of Mr.. BONNER, Of the New York
Ledqer last year, was over 5000, ,0O0 He was fo1m-
ersy journeyman printer on tho Hartford Coatr-
ant.
PERE GRArRY and NJ. JULES FAvRE have been
elected respectively to the chairs vacated by
Messrs. DE BARANrE and Cou IN, in the French
Academy.
A Miss LLOYD, owner of extensive landed estates
IN Scotland, has elected all her tenants from her
premises because they allowed their wives ana
daughters to wear crinolne.
PERsANo, the cashie-ed, has called out an ao-
miral and two captains for giving evidence
aoainst him. An Italian method Of impeaching
testimony.
There is a young law student in Boston worth
100000, who pays his board by waiting on the
guests at his employers establishment three hours
each day.
A woman has just died at Kronan, in the Grand
Durhy Of Baden, at the age Of hundred and
tw nty-four She had exercised the calling OF a
teggar for upward of hundred years without IN
tenuption.
there is clergyman in East Boston who does
not want any salary. His society has forced fifteen
hundred year on him, but he manages to give
most Of it back in different ways. Every seat In his
church ia taken.
Some Of the Millerites prophesy the end OF the
world this month. II is said TuPPER has written
third se les of his s.Proverbial Philosophy" and
will issue it this month. II the last item be true
there is some consolation in thinking the first
may be.
Orders have been received at the United States
Armory at Springfield, Mass, for q large imme-
iate increase in the production Of breech-loaders
ofithe latest model. The force Of workmen VIII
be greatly enlarged, and the old muskets remod-
eIled at the rate Of 500 or 600 per day.
FaoupE, the historian, has gone to Spain to
make Investigations with view to future historl-
cal aIlsbors. It is reported that he has obtained
permission to examine the records Of the lnqu1sl-
tion. CHARLES KINGSLEY edits FrCzeT's Magazine
during Mr.. FRouDE's absence.
Two American marriages Of some note have Just
taken place in Europe. The first is that OF MISS
DAVIS, of New York, aged sixteen, to q member OF
one Of the first Roman families, the Prince nus
po1I: and the other is that Of COLORADO JEwETT,
IS Miss HARAp, q German-American Lady OF wealth
at Frankfort, after weeks courtship.
The largest blast ever made in the Mddletown
ouarries took place last week at Shalor and Hall
quarry, with three kegs OF powder. Fourteen
thousand four hundred and twenty-three (1S,4 4SS)
tons OF stone were thrown out, as much as an Or
dinary gang Of thirty men could get out In eight
months.2'i.
There was lately on exhibition before the Royal
Society in London manuscript sermon by Coz
7os MATHrR, and an autograph letter, in which he
thanks the Society for electing him Fellow; also,
The agreement OF FIELDING with MILLER, the pub.
Rsher, for the copyright Of the first edition OF
tsTouf Jones, and the receipt for The six hundred
pounds paid for the work.
The steamer Miner was destroyed recently py
tho Indians, about five hundred miles above Sioux
City. She had landed to procure wood, and while
fhs crew were chopping, the Indians surrounded
md massacred them all. They then attacked the
boatand succeeded in killing all the passengers
butt who escaped: After piIlaging the BOAT of
ali vslusbles, it was burned to the waters edge.
There is at Nashville brewery mammoth
trog, weighing twelve pounds, which is supposed
TO have STAINED his enormous size from the nour-
ishmant received from tie health-giying beverage
manufactured at that establishment. He is kept
in the cellar, n with no companions but his own
thoughts, and drinks his regular allowance OF
lager with all the apparent satisfaction and relish
OF portly Mynheer of the olden time.
As an illustration Of the perfect condition to
which The workings of the Atlantic cable has been
brought, London paper mentions that recently
in the business Of three entire days, during which
messages were transmitted containing 24,400
letters (or $50 letters when doubled for repet-
ton,) the repeitions showed mistake Of only
e4etter; consisting in the substitution of 'Pat-
teeoR for sPatteson."
The New. .Y.rk Times says it is already under
stood TO- be the purpose Of Mr.. Davis to set to
work writing q book-giving ahistory Of the Sc
cession movement, the Southern struggle, and bis
own adventures from December, 1860, to May,
1857. We doubt the truth Of this report. Yet it
may be true and surely no one is better quail
fed for the task of writing book which shall do
Justice to Southern motives and Southern meas
ures.
"A M(s u. Js
water at Rochester. The Morning Democrat, after
describing the apparatus and the process, says:
seMr. GEnTTH is enthusiastic, and believes he is
inaugurating revolution. He shows the appara-
tus and the blaze, which he afrms to be sufficient
to heat the boiler of three-horse power engine
for eight hours, by burning four gallons OF water
and one gallon Of any carbon fluid, cnsting from
five to forty cents gallon. He claims that it can
be very easily adapted to kitchen ranges, furnaces
and so on, without limitation"
Dr. NJ KAYsEBINa has lately published "His-
tory OF the Jews in Portugal" which is painful
reading, like the history Of religious prosecutions
The most curious portions OF this volume which it
contains of the negotiations Of JOHN, the then King
OF Portugal, with Popes CLEMENT VII, and PAUL
III. in regard to the forcbly converted Jews, or
New Christians" as they were called. To the
honor Of these pontifs they espoused the cause OF
these unfortunate people warmly, but with little
effect. The prosecutions continued until the time
Of PoMBM.
The Ritualists are unpopular in some parts OF
England. On Good Friday the Rev. JAMES HUNT,
incumbent of parish near Bridgewater, entered
the church bearing in his hand a large wooden
Cross and followed by the bell-ringer and woman
named CoTrEY, who has been for some time past
the sole member Of his congregation. mob of
about fifty persons, including number of children
dressed out with colored paper, soon burst into the
church, pelted the reverend gentlemen with eggs
beat the woman, CorTEY, and tore her clothes to
rags, and regaled themselves with tobacco and
cider. Mr. HUNT was finally driven to neighbor-
ing house for shelter.
funny matrimonial affair recently occurred
near Spirit Lake, Minnesota A green justice
married three couples in one batch and about four
weeks afterward discovered that license from the
clerk Of the court was necessary to make the cere-
.nonu lenal and he lost no time in informing the