The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-29
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Gold closed at S4s.
-Cotton in New York 254. Sales 21OO bales.
2- Cotton in Liverpool, no quotations. Sales
$4,000 bales. o,. .-,. ;, tho
British Cabinet.
The supply Of guano on the Chincha Islands
is re ported to be decreasing.
THE "Stranger" has been buresqued IN
London, and Mrs. Haller dances lively can
can.
Vanderbilt is popularity supposed to have
made between five and six million dollars oy
the late corner in New York Central.
The Press, o new evening paper, Is to De
started in New York after the 1st of January
MIR. sweetser is said to be the proprietor.
No less than fifty ,beef-packing establish
ments are in operation in Texas; and factories
for making glue, soap and peats' foot oil are
springing up all over the State.
The fruit crop of the Bahamas is very
abundant this year, but as there is no demand
for it for transportion, millions Of oranges are
rotting on the trees.
"A Paris correspondent writes that the
Prince Imperial is in excellent health, and is
growing fast. The Emperor is so fond OF
him that he can scarcely bear him out of his
sight.
-Eogland nov ha s en- army Of one hundred
and seventy-seven thousand men, OF which
seventy thousand, two hundred and ninety
two ere garrisoned in the British lsles, fifty
nine thousand in India, and the remainder in
her other dependencies.
Florida is caIled the poor mans paradise
by correspondent. BE says FIVE hundred
dollars house there is as good as two thou
sand five hundred dollars one at the North
There are no wood pile or hay NOW to provide,
and the land is fifty cents an acre.
The New York Tribune says: "On We'd
nesdas, Mile. Tostee, in descending flight
of stairs at her residence, caught her foot in
her skirt, and was precipitated to the bottom,
sustaining severe injuries, which, it is feared,
will for some time incapacitate her from as
spming her usual place on the STAGE"
1t is again proposed in New York to build
dwelling houses on the French plan. and it is
reported that a company; Of capitalists will en-
gage in the enterprise next spring. Ii the
plan could be well carried out it would enable
a great many poorly paid married men to
keep house quite com lortably.
Two San Francisco policemen tried to ar,
rest o ChinaMan on the I'd Of this month.
They found it necessary to leave him mo-
ment, and 80 handcuffed him with his arms
each side OF lamp post. When they returned
their prisoner was gone-he had climbed up
the post and swung his. arms over the top.
There is wide spread belief IN Europe
that the Napoleonic Dynasty and the French
Empire will foil IN 1859. This superstition is
the result Of some curiously mysterious figures
published three years ago in the Independence
Beige, which make the year 1859 do for Napo-
leon what the year 1s4S did for Louis Philippe.
"A meeting Of commercial travellers, or, as
they are generally termed, "druus," Vas held
in the Astor House, in New York, recently, for
the pur pose of securing the abolition Of the
pros ert obnoxious license laws OF the various
cities and States. A committee was appointed
to raise subscriptions, in order to test the
legality Of the license laws with reference to
com mercial travellers. e
~ 1t is positively denied by Paris journal
lthat the e1-Qussn Isabella carried OF the
crown Jewels when she crossed the Pyrenees.
According to the Memorial Diplomatique, her
, Majesty, VINO has just purchased magnih-
cent hotel in the avenue OF the Roi de Rome
for am Of !, ,7000 900 francs, has for her entire
fortune but 49, 100000 reals, about s., ,000 900 in
gold, the portion Of the Prince Of Asturias,
which was lodged in the Bank OF England.
The Eterati of New York have for some
time bad in contemplation the establishment
of national institute, somewhat similar to the
French Institute. national institute for the
purpose of increasing and perpetuating knowl-
edge, conducting learned Investigations and
researches, difusing correct views in art,
science and literature and promoting inter-
course among all engaged Oh interested in such
pursuits. With this view, tho Academy of
Letters and Fine Arts" was few nights ago
organized, of which Motley, the historian was
elected President; Richard Grant White, Vice
President; Calvert Vaux, Secretary, and VII
liam G.. Church, Treasurer.
Tho grand soldiers reunion at Chicago,
where only officers we're present, closed with
o banquet that was nothing else than de-
bauch. After wine had flowed freely for o
time, the uproar became 80 great that not
word could be heard, the chairman was un-
able to restore even momentary quiet, and the
speeches, poem and toasts had to be dispensed
with. Bottles were tossed hither aud thither,
ornaments were overturned-one Of them o
great tower Of confectionery fifteen feet high
generals mounted chairs and tables to shout
-ribald songs, and the whole scene was one Of
riot and confusion. Grant retired early, hay.
ing drank nothing but water while present.
Commodore Vanderbilt used his late fnan-
ciering movement against his former friends
in merciless manner. They had so often
been deceived by his promise to make dividends
that they had come to disbelieve his sincerity
and operated on the other tack. To punish
them for their want of confidence, the commo-
dore lured them on to contract to deliver hun
-dreds and thousands of shares of the stock to
his agents; and when he had got them where
he wanted them, the trap was sprung, the
dividends really made, and some millions OF
dollars were transferred from their bank &C.
count to his own. One or two astute individ-
uals not friendly to the Commodore, among
them prominent member OF the Erie direction.
escaped the snare, aud made hundred thou
I, s,,l;