The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-04
The 1ai1g Nems+
NEWS SUMMARY.


Gold closed in New York yostordoy at 1881;
cotton at 26@26l
Cotton closed in Liverpool at l09GD10S.
Canada is 10 celebrate the lst Of July ms its
"Indcpendcnco Day"
SARAH NJ. STERLING, tho American gian-
tess, was married in San Francisco 10 Tnos.
FLlHrorr, youth Of San Raf:ul. She is seven
feet high, and he is four feet eleven inches.
Thirty elm trees, twonty years old, hive been
successfully trnnsplanicd from the forest to tho
front of Congress Hall, Saratoga, at cost of
thiriy-fiyc dollars each, 10 tako tho place Of
tho noble ones destroyed by the fire.
A party of Piltsburghers, representing q
capital Of So 600, ,0OO have commenced buying
crude peisclcuni, for delivery nj any time dur
ing 1868, at their option. IL is presumed tloy
are setting the traps for q big ''corner" in that
odorous fluid.
a letter from Peru, received in France, an-
nouncos that on tho 1lth OF May tho Congress
passed O bill declaring that the trade in guano
should be free, and TINT tho article should be
sold by public auction instead of by contract
with certain houses.
A steam carriage gun, fired recently ut Now
York before board Of army and navy engi-
neers and ordnance officers fired twelve rounds
with solid $50 pounds shot, and forly-pound
charges of powder within sixteen minutes, a
result which had never before boen attained
with a cannon of that description.
The English language is hereafter 10 be
studied in the public schools of Japan, and
American works arc 10 be the text books. Tho
oosn To- r.,
ordered somo twenty thousand copies of vnrious
American school.books, and the frat shipment
was mado from New York on Wednesday,, by
way of the Islhmus and San Francisco.
The enormous prices occasionally realized in
England at tho sale Of rare books were recently
cast in the shade at au auction Of drawings,
ctohings and engravings, where the finest
known copy Of Remnants s'IIundrcd Guildor
Piece" "Christ Healing the Sick" one Of the
only eight Impressions known TO exist of this
picture in the frat slate of tho plate, brought
the absurd sum of eloyen hundred and eighty
pounds. 1t oost lis previous owner Two hun
drcd pounds, and tho person who sold it to him
ut that price was present at tho auction.
The female sex, after much ngitntion, have
gained point in Holland The Minister Of
tho Interior has issued n decree admitting
them 10 examination for tho position Of nssis-
tant apothecaries, m occupation hitherto re-
atricted exclusively 10 men. This measure will
enable the Holland doctors to have their pre-
scriptions madoup by their wives or daughters
and will thus relieve them from the charges Of
male assistant. The deorcc has been ro-
ceivcd with good deal of astonishmcnt by the
male persuasion at tho Hague, who look upon
this as the beginning of q syslemaiic invasion
of masculine privileges.
Tho French Emperor gives tho manager Of
the theatre at Camp Chalons subsidy from his
privy purse, in order that tho theatre mny be
free for the whole army, from the Marshal to
tho private soldier. There is O performance
every day except Sunday. Each division Of
the army visits the theatre in turn. Tho thea
tire holds 2l0O places; 400 arc reserved for
the soldiers, 400 for the commissioned Off
GERS, 200 for the officers, and 100 for The field
officers Vnudevilles, comedies and opercttcs
are played; "a seats arc reserved for civilians,
who pny. The season is thrco months. A
,shnle hand is detailed for service every day.
company the vaudevilles.
Recent Illinois newspapers speak with con-
fdence Of the results of the efforts making in
that State TO manufacture sugar from bcets
after the plan adopted in France few years
ago, and since prosecuted with much success
The subject is again brought up prominently
by the consignmentof about thirty thousand
pounds ofsugar to Chicago from the manufac-
turing establishment at Chatworth. This su-
gar is said to have been made in March, and
10 part OF the product Of last seasons busi-
ness, the bects having been preserved in pits
through the winter. Experience seems to be
conclusive in regard to the good saccharinc
properties of beets grown in this country as
compared with those of France.
The Memphis Bulletin says one of the largest,
If not the very largest, raft of timber ever
foated down the Mississippi river to this point
arrived recently. This immense raft was towed
down the river, and would, IL placed on dry
land, cover over enc and half acres of groun l.
II is composed of five hundred and twenty
seven tiers, averaging each so feet, and con-
timing in all about 1,4O0, 900 square feet Of
finely seasoned cypress. Many of the trees are
very large, being sixty inches in diameter, and
about sixty feet In length, and are TO be used
for pavi' g tho streets Of Memphis with N1coI-
SON pavement. All the timber is finely sea-
soned, and quantity Of it is snid to have been
cut for the past forty years.
It is related as a singular instance of igno.
rance of our own resources in naval warfare,
that while the Monitors 15-inch guns were
used originally with only thirty-fve pounds
Of powder, since the war O charge Of one hun
dred pounds Of powder has been safely used,
while at the recent trial of the 20-inch gun at
Fort Hamilton, the charges were gradually
raised from one hundred and twenty-five
pounds Of mammoth grain powder al ths first
shot 10 two hundred pounds at the fourth shot
II was only short time since that il was con.
sidered quite feat when hundred pounds
were fred in 20-inoh gun, in an experiment
in New York hnrbor, although the charge was
80 small In proportion TO the bore iha. the
ariillerists had to ram it in with cushion of
hay 10 bring Il up 10 the Won't.
Mr.. WEBB, the Unknown ship builder of
New York, is now constructing for tho inyen.
tors, Msssrs. BIoNouEsr CROOK, a queer
Kind Of vessel-wngon, which II is claimed will
do quite as well on the land % in the water. Il
consists Of a horizontal frame or raft, resting
upon the axles Of three water. cylinders, drum
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