The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-08
NEws s U MI M a r Y.

abade lower. Sales 600 bales at 244a24s, cnleny
at the quarter.
The Liverpool cotton market closed heavy
Sales 5000 bales. Uplands 105d. Orleans lltd'
There are five hundred secret political po-
icemen in Paris.
Boston has ''Young Women's Christian
Association"
Goods can be sent by express in ten days
from Chicago to San Francisco.
Grant and Colfax went to church together
last Sunday in Washington.
Greeley is lecturing in Washington on
sthe woman question"
The Emperor Napoleon is now IN his sixty
first wear. The Prince Imperial is thirteen.
BRIGHAM Young is anxious to get rid OF
this years crop of thirty-six marrlageable
daughters.
One OF the manuscripts brought by the
British from Ab,ssinia is illustrated with pic
turs of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea,
armed with muskets.
Twelve wealthy Catholics o. Baltimore last
week subscribed SO, 900 for the support of the
American College in Rome. The subscription
is still going on.
The Washington diplomats look upon
Disraeli's resignation as the end of Mr. Rever-
DIV Johnson's settlement of the Alabama
claims.
John Stewart Mill was defeated for Parlia-
ment by William q. Smith, the London news
agent, who has made q fortune by selling news
papers, and takes $4,000 copies of the London
times.
-Wir.-r has come in real earnest in Canada.
Ts, Ottawa River was frozen over on Decem-
ter I'd, and at Montreal the ferry boats have
ceased running and the harbcr is deserted. On
the Erie Canal number Of lo.ts are ice
bound.
The business of sugar refining has taken
It's place among the most important OF the
industries of Baltimore. Four large sugar re-
fneries are already in operation; two new ones
are preparing for business, and two others are
in contemplation.
Washington gossips have it that President
johnson is being urged to issue another am
nesty proclamation, disposing of those per-
sons exempted by his last proclamation be-
cause they were under indictment or prosecu-
tion for treason.
AT the Working Womens Protective Asso-
citation, in New York, they are exhibiting o
cloak that required thirty days to finish the
embroid derry omit, and in which one hundred
and eighty skeins OF thread were used. For
that amount Of skiltul labor and time, only
twelve dollars were paid by appointment Broad
way house.
Powder is the next fashion We are likely to
have from France. sat the opera last week"
says correspondent Of The Queen, 81 counted
five very young married women all powdered.
Kpowder is once patronized at Conpiegne, it
is certain TO become fashion in Paris imme-
diately; and many will say, as hoops and
panniers are accepted, why net powder?'
"A New York paper says: "The new tartan
plaid suits on Broadway are perfectly charm
ing. There is good deal Of the Helen
McGregor attitude Of defiance about fair
prcmenader now when she filings back across
her.shoulders the folds of plaid cloak and
peers at you from beneath the dainty little hat
which is perched on her nose"
The longest artillery range on record in
England, viz, 10. 800 yards, was attained at
Shoeburyness last month, by Wnitworth's
9-inch muzzle-loader gun of fourteen tons,
firing shot Of two hundred and fifty pounds
with q charge OF fifty pounds. Tt was claimed
by Northern artillery officers in Charleston
that the "Swamp Angel" threw shots from be-
Low Fort Sumter into the upper part Of the
y, a distance Of seven miles.
The gold fields said to have been discover
ed near Rhinebeck, Duchess County, New
York, we're recently examined by party of
engineers with satisfactory results. The evi-
derce of the existence Of gold is believed to be
undeniable. The ore is described as ferrugi-
nous quartz with the metal interspersed. The
veins, it is claimed, ara more extensive than
those of North Carolina, and form part of the
et.riterous deposits extending from Nova
Scotia to Georgia. The extensive outlay of
capital required to work the gold mines of
Georgia ard the Carolinas it is highly pl ia
bic, will also be demanded in New York.
The artificial island now in course of con-
strucsion in the lower part OF the bay of New
York, will, when completed comprise an area
OF about two acres. TO protect its outer
edges, massive cribs, thirty feet wide at the
base and twenty feet az the top, made OF oak
timbers, firmly jointed, have been so sunk as
to leave about ten feet above high-water mark.
These, in turn, have been filed with heavy
blocks Of stone, and the outer service of che
entire structure has been faced with oak plank.
ing, closely set. As an additional protection
massive stones have been heaped against tho
outer face of the wall, at its most exposed
points, and the bulwark is deemed perfectly
secure. Within this inclosure sand and broken
stones have been thrown, and piles arc being
driven upon which to erect tho hospitals and
other necessary buildings.
"A gentleman who has been present at tho
performance of many earthquakes, including
the one which recently camo off in San Fran
cisco, gives singular and interesting account
Of the effect Of an earthquake on men, women
and children, and domestic fo-.5 and animals.
BE says that, as a rulo, men run into the
streets laughing, while women and children
sink down and cry piteously and Historically.
Horses generally snort with terror and dash
madly away. Cattle below and run wildly
about. Sheep huddle close together and stand
still. Dogs bark yociferously and run hithcr
and thither without an apparent object. And,
according to the testimony OF lady who was
standing in her yard feeding her poultry when