The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-09
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NEWS SUMMARY.
Cotton closed in New York on Saturday at 26l
for Middling Upiands.

Cotton closed N New YORK on SATURDAY at 2ba
for Middling Upiands.
Gold closed at 42ja42l.
Cotton in Liverpool was unchanged.
General GRIFFIN reports that there is not an
army surgeon in or around Galveston fit for duty
and that the regular medical practitioners of that
city have more than they can possibly attend to.
The celebrated FRANCIS DEAE, wLo is the real
King OF Hungary, is so poor that, during the ses-
sion Of the Hungarian Diet at Pesth, he has to
content himself with two cheap rooms on the
fourth floor OF the principal hotel in that city.
A. BIRKHoLTz, formerly conductor i'll COLTS
Factory, Hartford, has invented new metallic
compound resembling brass, but more durable and
cheaper. company has been formed IN Provi-
dence for its manufacture, with three hundred
thousand dollars capital.
Although it is moro than FIVE years since the
death of PRINCE ALBERT, the mourning seal in
black wax continues to be affixed to all the Off
clal letters OF the government in its several de-
partments, nor does there appear any probability
of return Of the red official seal.
Among the recently nominated chevalers Of the
Legion of Honor are two attaches of the French
embassy in Mexico, who were supposed at the
time the honor was conferred upon them to be
snugE locked up in a Mexican convent as close
prisoners. The Pal Nal Gazette calls them
knights in partabus."
Portland taxes itself this year s715,S53, or
s25 ia less than last year. The decrease OF valu-
alton in consequence of the great fire is ST. 507 $685.
aud the rate of taxation is s24 so per thousand,
against s24 so last year. JOHN B. BROWN pays the
heaviest ta3, s17,243, and Representative JOHN
LYNCH pays $3.50.
An order from the British War Office has been
recently issued limiting the number of soldiers who
are to receive permission to marry to seven per
cent. of the whole establishment of corps and
further requiring that no man shall obtain such
permission who is not in possession of good con-
duct badge. At tho same time the privileges Of
married soldiers are greatly increased.
The Union Springs Times says that at the Sher-
ifs sale in that town Monday last land sold at
ten to twenty-five cents per acre. and mules at $40
apiece. A good steam mill, in running order,
brought only s25. We suppose that the debtors
right of redemption had considerable effect in
causing the low bids for real estate, but can't
understand why mules did not bring better
price.
Steam fishing boats have been introduced into
some Of the Scotch fisheries. The object of the
promoters Of the innovation is to send deep-sea
fish to the markets on the day during which they
are taken. Should the system become general, a
vast occupation will be completely revolutionized.
The inventors do not as yet propose to cast the
nets or bait the hooks by steam power, but confne
their auxiliary aid to propelling the boat.
There are two men in prison in England whose
fate it has been to illustrate the nature Of lawyers
bills on magnificent scale. P. FOSTER, farmer,
now hes in Taunton jail for non-payment Of a
church rate amounting to the sum Of 15s It'd
But the cost OF the law proceedings By which he
was condemned amount to f147 16s. 9ld.. j. B.
GRANT is immured in Whitecross Street Prison for
non-psyment of FL 13s. church rate, coupled with
f257 costs.
The Progress du Nord, of Lille, reports fatal
accident there. a platform on which the bands
of the Seventy-6fth and Sixth Regiments OF the
line were prscticing for tie great fete to be IN
to the Emperor on the 9Th instant, broke dom,
and all the men were ;recipated pell-mell to the
ground among the debris. The sentinel, VIII lad
been placed below, was killed, and about a score
of the musicians were more or less injured, none
OF them severely.
The German press contains proposal by KARL |
BLIND to erect q monument in honor OF ROBERT |
BLUM, the member Of the German Parliament who |
was executed at Vienna in 184S, according to q |
court-martial decree, eas well as one in honor of |
TRUTzscHLER, also member of the German Par
lament, who was shot at Mannheim in 1849; to- |
gether with large number OF the champions of
democracy, at the order Of the then Prince, and |
now King Of Prussia.
Colonel JAMES kERRIGAN, eI-member OF Con-
gress from New York, recently returned from Ire
land with four hundred Fenians, whom he had |
taken there in brig to invade the country, says
that they were landed at several points on the |
coast, outbound no one favorable to the uprising;
they could not obtain supplies without great diff
fculty and danger, and suffered 80 much from de-
privation that half dozen men are reported to
have died on the passage back. KERRIaAN End
his followers look emaciated, and are very des-
pondent of revolution in Ireland.
In the couree of excavations at the West Dock
works, Hull, England, the navvies have come upon
q stratum of dark soil, in which number Of trees
in horizontal position were met with. They are
oak, and in excellent condition. and are remarkably
hard. Besides these interesting remains Of long
past age, q large number Of accrns and hazel |
nuts we're found, and some oyster and mussel |
shells. The discovery is the more interesting to |
geologists, seeing that trees were found at depth
Of about nineteen feet below the water line of the
river.
American coin, though quite scarce at home, is
most plentiful abroad. It is reported that nearly
all foreign countries, especially the British Colo
NAL Possessions on this continent, are flooded
with American coin. In Canada silver is so abun-
dant as to be regarded decided nuisance, which
the authorities and people are discussing meas
ures to abate. At special meeting Of the Lon
don, C. W., Board Of Trade, held few days since,
q resolution passed, urging merchants and others
to take American silver at four per cent. discount
until something definite is done with regard to the
matter.
The Chicago Journals London correspondent
thinks he has discovered that the odd names be-
slowed by DICKENS on the characters in hisnovels
are not inventions, but gathered from the wills at
Doctors Commons, the English probate Office.
The P1oKwIoKs were aourishing family at Ports
mouth, DICKENS birth place, between 1903 and
1914, and among the probate records above re-
fsrred to, the names Of GUPPY, CH1.zzLEwrr, VEL
1ER, etc., occur. DICKENS, though he writes his
name with the simple prefix Of CHARLES, is law
fully entitled to the three, viz: CHARLES JOHN
HuFFAM.
HENRY Il. HAeHr, the recently elected Cover
nor of California, is nstive of Rochester, New
York, and is on the sunny side of forty-ve years.
BE is g son of FLETCHER NJ. HAIaHT, formerly
lawyer in Rochester and in st.
Louis and subsequently eminent at the bar of San
Francisco He was, during the last years Of his
life, District Judge Of California, appointed by Mr.
LINCOLN. The younger Mr.. HA1aHr graduated at
Yale College in 1874 or 45; studied law in Roches-
ter, and has practiced mos successfully at the bar
both in st. Louis and San Francisco. he is a man
Of yery decided talents mos pleasing address and