The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-25
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heavy: Sales HOO bales at 25a25aac.
The Liverpool cotton market closed dull
Sales 10, 600 bales.
Wedding cards are to be very large this
winter, e.s...s - -...';:.-- fa--i - - e.,
Russia talks of adopting our internal feye
nue. system. : -er!-s5e, ,;.'I' (. - =,
t-aSweet sixteen" is the name Of the lates
p@fume.i 49, s %;
The cattle plague is ssid to be still unabat
ed in Tennessee. -1.lj =. /,
in Texas; beeyes of the best quality, il
is reported, can be bought for fifty cents
head.
The English papers are discussing the
question: sIs the nation that spent five mil
lions sterling to ruin King Theodore bound te
provide for his son"i .,...,.-.... - u.
The Triennial General Convention OF the
Protestant, Episcopal Church in the United
States will neet;ia New -erk' on the 9TH o.
October. All of the States wiD be represented
for the first time since 1853, and the conven'
ton will comprise larger number or Disnops
and diviy.es than any former council Much
important business will come before the con-
yention 1t is expected that six or seven new
dioceses and missionary jurisdictions will be
erected, and several bishops elected, and pos
sibly consecrated. . The subject readjusing
the canons, and many other important ques-
tions, will be discussed. ~ -
Since the expulsion Of the colored mem
bers from the Georgia Legislature, they have
organized themselves into O. ssCivl and Pohtl-
cal Rights Association, andissued call to the
colored men for q State Convention. They
state in the call that they have been unlawfully
driven from the General Assembly, their rights
of citizenship ignored, and one hundred thou
sand Of taxed voters deprived of their right Of
representation. They therefore call upon the
coiored men in every county to send delegates
to q State Convention, to be hold in the City OF
Macon on the first Tuesday IN October, to de-
termine upon the best course Of action for the
future, and to invoke Congressional aid in the
security OF their rights.
AT recent general meeting OF the stock
holders of the Analo-American Telegraph
Company, held on September z, the President,
Sir Richard A. Glass, stated that its proper
ton Of the ear nings OF the cable, from May
to July1, had averaged s2482, the minimum
tariff during that period being s25. Since Sep
tember l., the tariff for ton words not exceed
ing fifty letters, had been reduced os11 in
gold, and for the first five days the daily re-
ceipts had averaged $26SS, a most encourag-
ing increase It is not intended to make
further reduction ofrstes.5 unsatisfactory ac-
couni of the cause Of the accident to thecable
on August 8 was given, but it was stated to.
have occurred at the same point as the break
Of last tyear. :l.a ss.s'I
There may be seen daily, on Chesnut--
street, Philadelphla, amanclad'in faultless ap-
parel, with q great diamond upon bis breast,
vainly endeavoring to outghtter the magni6-
cent solitaire upon his finger. In q German
university he learned chemistry, and not even
Iiebis knows il. better. His occupation is the
mixing and the adnlteration Of liquors. Give
him dozen casks Of deodorized alcohol, and
the next day each OF them win represent the
name Zef genuine wine or popular spirit.
He enters Wholesale drug store, bearing
large basket upon his arm. Five pounds OF
Icaland moss are first weighed out for him. To
raw liquor this imparts a'degree Of smooth
ness, OF oleaeinousness, that gives to imitation
brandy the Glib ness ofthat which is best ma
tured. An astringent called catchu, that would
almost close the mouth Of glass inkstand, is
nextin order. Acouple of ounces OF strych-
nine, next called for. are quickly conveyed to
the vest pocket, and pound Of suphate OF
zinc (white vitrioll is as silently placed in the
bottom Of the basket. The oil Of cospac, the
sulphuric acid, and other articles that give fire
and body to the liquid poison, are always kept
in store. The mixer buys these things in va
rious quarters. They ara the staples of his
art. - ..eIlsI :. .l.,
The importance OF the Pacific Railroad to
the commerce OF the world and the spread OF
American power, -is beginning to penetrate
the English mind, and is exciting something
like 4: feeling OF rivalry. The subject was
brought under dicussion few days agoin the
Geoeraphicai Section oe inc British Scientific
Association, by the reading of paper on an
spverland Route through British territory
from the Atlantic to the Pacific" The author
Of the paper urged that, if England did not
stir In the matter, the Pacific Railroad, now
on the point OF being completed, would throw
the carrying trade between the East and Eu-
rope entirely into the hands of the United
States. He therefore proposed the building Of
asailway wholly through British territory, and
estimated the gold cost Of it at s1S5, ,OOO, ,OOO
Upon the point Of cost he eaid: 'We shall be
told that SUI ch an outlay is far too great to be
thought OF. But what we have 10 consider is
not merely the amount, but the object to be
attained, and whether that is commensurate
with the outlay. If the commercial suprem-
macy of England is at stake-and that has
been pretty clearly shown-what are seven-and
twenty millions compared with the sad down
fan which must inevitably follow. such loss,
and the decay and ruin Of our country? Never
was so large sum OF money more usefully
more wisely applied; and in vain might We
ransack the history Of our national debt To find
aparallel."
The Washington Chronicle denies that Tur.
ner, the black agitator in Georgia, isa North
ern negro, and adds: sTuIner was born in
South Carolina, and raised up il the cotton
fields Of that once barbarous state. He was Q
full-grown man before he left there with fami-
". He left his native State in 1859, and came
to Baltimore to get rid Of the fearful consc.