The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-10
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NEW s SU M MI AR Y.
Gold closed at New York yesterday at 4O4.
Cotton, at the termination OF business a'
New York. was rather quiet. fs.es 62OO paies'
at 25aa26c.
t-in Liverpool, yesterday, cotton closed firm
Init less active. Sales 10000 bales. Uplands
on the spot 1Osa1Oid.; afoat lloyd.
There are forty postmistresses IN Ala.
ba1na.
The estate of Elias Howe, Jr., of Bridge
mort, the great sewing mlchine inventor, is re-
presented insolvent. He was reputed to be
worth over s1,OOO,OOO.
The chess champion Of the world, Paul
Morphy, has emerged from his retirement. de
played. in Paris, four games with Mr.. Stenitz'
losing one and drawing three.
China, it is announced, is rapidly undergo
ing the process of civilization. Beer has been
successfully made at Shanghae. and distlle-
ryis to be built there.
Horses in Australia are drug In the
market and cannot be got rid Of at any price.
Two hundred were recently bought at twenty
eight shilings piece to feed pigs with, and
company purchased one thousand noble steeds
for the purpose Of boiling down their carcasses.
The proposed international rowing match
between the boat clubs OF Oxford University,
England, and Harvard University, this coun-
try. has failed. The rival clubs cannot agree
as to the rules Of the race, and letter just
sent from Harvard closes the correspondence
onthe subject.
How quietly important things may be an
nounced in Paris is shown by what the Avenir
Rationale says of its editor, imprisoned for
violating the French press laws: 'M. Peyrat
enters the prison of Saint Pelagie to-day, in
execution Of the sentence Of one months i'm
prisonment for press misdemeanor."
The New York Chamber Of Commerce has
resolved to celebrate it's hundredth anniver-
sary on the fifth Of next April The commit
tee having charge of the centennial arrange
ments, in submitting their report, recommend
that the occasion be made to tell as much as
possible in favor of reviving the shipping in
terest.
Nashville is at present reported to be in.
tested by gangs Of bold and adroit burglars,
who make nightly incursions into the resi-
dences Of wealthy citizens, in pursuit Of plate,
money and other plunder. The Nashville
police have been unable to cope with the rob-
bera heretofore, but hope, now that their force
has been doubled, to have better luck in future.
-Hiram Smith, an eccentric bachelor at
Chester, Mass, is having his sepulchre hewn
in q large rock in that town. He pays man
seven hundred dollars to do the work, and by
the stipulation the cave is to be seven feet
long; four wide and four deep, and after his
coffin is put in, the aperture will be sealed up
with marble elab and cement. Smith says
he doesn't want mud to get around his bones;
he means to have good dry place for them.
"A New York letter says: 'Mrs. Fanny
Kemble has been 30 annoyed by people coming
in Late at her readings that she has given her
agents instructions to close the doors at eight
O'Clock. Persons who have purchased tickets
can then go to the Office and get their money
if they choose, but under no circumstance can
they come in. This is q commendable pro-
ceeding, and may help to cure some people Of
bad manners.
in few weeks the period will expire which
Talleyrand stipulated in his will should elapse
after his death before bis memoirs we're to be
published. BE ded on the 17th Of May, 1888,
at his celebrated house, or rather. palace, Rue
st. Florentin, where he received Alexander, of
Russia. 1t is stated that above one hundred
portraits Of celebrated revolutionists will be
;ublished with the memoirs, which Will be
dited either by the Academy Of Moral and Po-
itical Science, or by the Academic des Bellies
rettres Of France
The West is exceedingly anxious to. secure
the National Capital, ana upon this subject
one OF the Missouri representatives in Con-
gress, writing to the Common Council Of st.
Louis, says: "We cannot carry measure of
this Kind until after the Southern States are
admitted and the superintendent of 1870 takes
effect. Then, am confident, We shall be
strong enough to control the matter in the
West, and have very little doubt that st. Louis
will be the place fixed upon for the permanent
capital"
The past winter has been one of the sever
est ever known, both in this and other coun-
tries. In Algiers the suffering has been very
great. In Russia, as ne learn from letter in
Paris paper, the cold has been intense. Ter
rife storms have added to the seventies of the
season in Great Britain. In this country, the
continued severity of the weather, and the
great amount of snow that has fallen, have
been almost without parallel.
Only six very large diamonds are said to
be at present known to the world. They are
the ''Koh-i-noor," in the possession OF Queen
Victoria; ''The Star of the South" "The Re-
gent" or Pitt diamond; ssThe Great Austrian;"
scrhe OrIoff." or 'Great Russian" and "Bor-
neo." This latter is in the possession of the
Rajah of Nation, in Borneo. 1t is the largest
known, weighing three hundred and sixty
seven karats, but it is in the uncut state.
"A New York paper notices the singular fact
that Barnums Circasslan Beauty, who was
marvel of taciturnity while the museum was
standing, being beyond the reach OF any re-
marks whatever in the English language, made
statement" in very plain Ang'o-Saxon to tue
reporters, and thinks it proof of the value of
heat as means OF education. 1t is certainly
q little remarkable that lady supposed to
know no language but that spoken in Circas-
sia should be able to impart her experience in