The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-17
The 1a}19 2ens.
NEWS SUMMARY.

-ANewporter is building an imitation OF the
old stone MILL he means to puzzle the antigua
risns of the next century.
The crops in Utah are turning out better than
the most experienced anticipated, notwithstand-
ing the damage by grasshoppers.
Admiral Farragut saw in Sweden an entlre
battery OF rbreech-ioading cannons of wrought lron
taken out of vessel sunk during the seventeen'n
century.
Prohibition has so demoralzed the Name
palate that boys at Machias I'LL oid rum oo'"e'
with water and sell them for whiskey, and nobody
knows the difference.
A Nashville dispatch says that there is strong
ground for assertion that Governor Brownlow Will,
IL not too feeble to travel take trip to Europe at
an earlv day, whether he is elected to the United
States Senate or not.
Tho greatest depth Of water in the Mississippi
River in front of Plaquemine, Louisiana, Is one
hundred feet and the least fifteen feat. The
measurements were made at distance OF three
hundred feet from shore at different points.
The Pacific Railroad is now receiving hem
lock railroad ties from Chicago, five hundred
miles. and then up the road four hundred miles
nine hundred miles by rail-at cost delivered at
the miss IlNtI, VI ASs viva ~'S--'
tie.
Mexico refuses to give up the body OF Maxi
milan, and the United States refuses to give up
the body Of J. Wilkes Booth. The civilization OF
this country cannot be said to be far behind that
of Mexico in the matter Of furnishing Head men
and women.
Tho editor of the Louisiana Democrat saw, a
few dsys ago, In Alexandria an old negro freed
man, as least eighty-ave years old, with two large
navy reyolvers buckled to his waist. pspper-box
revolver in each breeches pocket. huge sugar
cane knife in his bosom, and o loaded walking
cane In his right hand. He was delegate to the
Radical mongrel convention.
The tin toys used in this country are now
nearly all made in Meriden, Connecticut. where
large quantities OF tin household goods are also
manufactured. 1t occurred to the makers OF theee
latter that their scraps could be advanta soousiy
used for toy objects, and with the advantage OF
labor-saving machinery, they have driven their
German rivals from this market.
1t is one of the significant indications OF the
progress OF the age that passengers can now pur-
chase tickets in New York direct for China, Japan,
New Zealand, tha Sandwich Islands and Australia,
az well as points in Europe. The establishing OF
the Pacific steamship line between San Francisco
and Shanghai inaugurates the revolution Whlen
makes a VOYAGE to the most distant lands no more
than holiday excursion.
-lhe New York Heaald states that compare
tive statement Of. prices in New York, Philadel-
phia, Paris. London. Berlin, and other prominent
cities in lpsrts Of the world shows that our
metropolis is the most sxpensive on the globe IN
mi ,o1a anff n
cai misfortune lies in the fact that the food sef
comes to the consumers through too many mid
die man; all Of whom must make their per eenrage.
The Knoxville Press says: 81. ". Allen has
arrived with specimens Of the mineral wealth oil
the Cumberland Mountains he has gathered.
Those that have particularly struck us are bit OF
iron ore containing ninety per cent. OF pure
metal, % piece of pure alum as taken tfrom the
original bed, and several particles Of black ende
Of manganese, which exists in abundance, and Is
valuable for bleaching or as substitute for cop
peras." ~ .i1Ii-1
The Boston Post's Washington correspondent
says: can attachment has been issued for Gene
raj Baker, to bring him again before the Judiciary
Committee, and it is said he isEow under ar
rest. The General will: be required to explain
many of his statements, which are in direct con-
aict, concerning President job ason. 1t is under
stood that no member OF the committee gives the
siishtest credsnce to anything Baker has said, un-
less substantiated by other testimony"
The Pacific Railway Di-sctors, il Is reported,
have resolved to use petroleum as fuel for their
locomotives The coal discoveries reported ON the
line Of that road may be exaggerated; but even II
correct it will require time to work them proper
wand q settlement OF the Indian troubles 30
thai mining operations viii be ssfe. 1t is repre-
sented that one locomotive can carry sufficient Pc
trolsum, without infringing on the room necessary
for freight and passengers, to keep mp steam for q
run OF 9 thousand miles.
The peopls living along the Hudson River i'm
tia neiehborhood OF the place where the steamer
Dean Richmond was wrecked, are reaping good
harvest from that disaster. The cheese, 4which
formed large part Of the cargo Of the steamer,
is floating up and down the river as the tide ebbs
and flows, and parties froml 9th shores put on N
boats and capture large gus ntitles Of it. They
say it is Of excellent qualit., and not ds1nsge'
The total loss To the corr amy owning the Dean
Richmond, by the accident to their steamer, IL
said to amount to $s01, 900.
LINE evening schools OF New York city include
ons high school, two colored schools, and thirteen
male snd eleven female schools. To these are
admitted parsons OF every class and age, from
twelve years to- sixty Thay are taught in the
usuaf rudimanfs, and in. the biglf fschool algebra
book keeping, nalisa ion natr Ial philosophy
practical mechanics, the French, German, Span
iSls and Engiish langrsges, and other more difi-
culs branches are taught. The. schools are at
present IN full separation, tHeity- -ones hundred
scholars icing in attendance,
I'm Washington City new system OF running
cars has beenAintroduced. Only 'one-horse cars
are run, and they have no conductors. They are
twelve fests inches long, seven feet six inches
ssssp feet Ayeinches in height tinsidel, and
are calculated for sixteen passengers each, eight
ON side. These cara are said to weigh about
three thousand pounds each. There is no rear
platform, but in its place s-low STEP on which
people get in and out. The front platform is eI-
clusively for the driver, being semi-circular in
form, and fenced in to prevent passengers from
getting on. ~
-=At former session OF oong,ess the Secretary
Of War was anshoriEsd TO sell the grounds and
property OF the Government at HTper's Ferry,
and arrangements were sfterward made by the
Department to -b7ing them into market. But
there appears To be stay oftao proceedings, the
heirs Of those Ehol sold the property 10 the Gov
erpmspt now claiming that the deed expressly
pro7ideaths land conveyed ito the United States
should be used only BY the Goyernment, and by no
otherpsrtias. The amount purchased was about one
hundred and twenty FIVE acres, for seven thousand
dollars, The deed was sxecuted to George Wash
instop, Who acted in, behalf Of the aoysrpmsnt.
! GThe Credit Mobilier, the famous French en-
sine of speculation, is thfsatsnsd With collapse.
Estabiished ostensibly TO furnish capital for i'm
portant business enterprises, is shares have been
subiect 10 the most extraordinary fluctuations
Itu capital stock was originally 90 600 900 francs
par yyslue 500, Subsequently ths stock was doub-