The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-07
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aoO'H .es heavy. and decidedly lower; sales
2sOo bales at 25a25{.
In Liverpool cotton was firm ana unchans
ed: sales $1,000 bales. ...o,,,
ve,ocinedes have appeared in the stree'S
CT Baltimore. .ho+
The latest from Paris is the report tna'
Enoen;e carries walking slick.
Iourence. Mass, it is reported, employs
s5 600 factory girls. .,a i.
THE Southern crops this year arc '"iu'0 "'
fonr hundred millions of dollars.
Tho hair Of James Ferguson, OF ounai0'
D.. worker in copper, has, it is said, turned per-
fectly green. o:a ,.va
Secretary Stewards marriage is said to nave
hoon nreyented by the remonstrances Oh nis
family against his ringing that little bell'.
The latest news from Abysslnla announces
thot Tbeodore's son has rebelled against 10
bazie. who was proclaimed Emperor.
The Swiss c-osul General at Washington
makes nm appeal for relief for the suffer- ers
nv the recent disastrous flood IN Swltzeriano'
-Tventy-fve thousand and sixty-slx dollars
,.ro heen collected in New York for the bene-
ft Of the South American earthquake sunef-
ers. po;,uov
10 that they find "combustible SANDSTONE
a,on, tho line. It burns easily, and is thought
to contain petroleum.
The massachusetts, Baptist State Conven-
ton. it is reported, has adopted .esoiu'ion
denying the right OF communion TO all person'
who have not been baptized by immersion.
The Boston Journal says that Secretary
.s+anton retired from Office with his health
-ssr;ously impaired, his pecuniary resources
,sVbansted. and his professional business
broken up, even if his health would permit ni''
toattend to it" chat
A New York correspondent writes tnae
..thi,gs are stunning in Broadway just now.
rho ladies' ara out in full bloom, with dresses
tx;,nroed with the oldest colors, bright yel-
low IN n black ground being considered tne
correct thing" ,d
General Grant has not yet resigned, anu
81 is said that he will continue to nolo ms
office. if elected President, until he Is lnausu-
r,ted in order that he may nominate Lieu
tenant General Sherman to the vacancy occa-
stoned by his own promotion. !:
An iron armor plate of extraordinary u
mensions was recently manufactured at ouei-
field, England. The plate before rolins was
twenty feet long, four feet broad and t"eh's,
ono ;nehes thick, weighing four hundred anu
t,ventv cvt. The final rolling reduced tne
+hiclness TO fifteen inches. Two hundred anu
ettv toms of coal were consumed, and the LABOR
.of Z wo hundred men was required Tor ITS pro-
duction. .L,.
The New York Tribune, announcing 'na'
,.sa number Of stalwart young treasury c'e.AS
have resigned, in anticipation OF the reouC'lon
~ tbe force in the department" gives the"
+ba following advice "Young gentlemen We
ceonoratulate you! You are freel You no
1one.r proan under the burdens OF Office! Inc
free West awaits you'll Its boundless prairieS
yearn for your coming with the shovel ana tne
hoe! Better raise dozen gooo ears VI 'oiN
than twist thousand rolls OF red tape!
Ian address, signed by one hundred bri'isn
,,nh; ects. including noblemen, members Oh
:pari lament. and business men, has been pre-
..aaaaaonted to the Emperor Napoleon, begging us
Msi esty to give his support to the proposeo
plan for sub marine tunne. pet~een iiao
and England. The memoriallsts consioer tns'
ths work, by strengthening the oonos WINCH
mite the two countries, will be OF immense
advantage to both, and "memoIaDie eA-
..mnle Of concord offered to other nations.
-British India, it is reported, is threatened
With dearth which it is feared will prove OF
destructive as the famine In the dls.iics y,
.Orissa. when two millions OF persons oleu u
starvation. There was scarcely any hct weather
IN Nav and June, and the rains, which oegan
month before the usual time, have done I'M
roense damage. The rice crops, lncluolne
those which have been sown second 1l"e'
80 mined Orissa, and all the district between
Calcutta and the sea, have been deiugeo' lev
while these heavy rains have fallen Oh ~. .',
coaat the central districts are suffering s'in
more from drought.
THE entrance to New York harbor, Dy way
of Sandy Hook, it is asserted, Is Slowly Mans
.w;th sand. For the last one hundred anu tnn
~ vears the depth of water over Sandy Hook
bar has been decreasing at the rate OF eisn'
inches every ten yeara. In short time IL is
feared That the port Of New York wiltbe closed
to vessels of the largest class. Attention has,
therefore, been directed to the removal OF the
rocks in the East River, but as Congress has
merely voted appropriations for surveys OF the
localities, and nothing for clearing out the
channel, private individuals have taken the
,notter under consideration. At a recent meet
;ne of persons interested in the commerce Of
New York, General John Newton, United States
Engineer, reported that the removal Oh tue 0O'
at,nctiops at He'll Gate was entirely teasloie
.nd estimated the cost at four million dollals 8
The washington correspondent OF the New
York Herald denies the truth of the statemen
telegraphed through the cable, to tne ene'
that the Alabama claims are to be settiea Dy
,nixed commission. He further says that Pres
ident Johnson declares that he has never 1or
moment entertained proposition so ant"eo
pistic to the interests of this country ane
that therefore Minister johnson could not nave
consented to surrender our claims to the ten
der mercies OF mixed commission consistlpt
of sixteen members, number, as the Presi
dent states, large enough to lead TO end'es'
discussions, and which would probably drag l.
new subjects of contention, instead OF settling
the old ones growing out of injuries to ou
1otn roI,a Nl1o