The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-10
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and steady at 3St.
Cotton in New York yesterday was more
active, and &c. better; sales 41e0 bales at rs.
I'm Liverpool cotton closed dull; upland'
.1Ofd.; sales 10000 bales. =.
There is talk OF establishing a Hebrew d
.brary IN New York.
IT costs New York city sSi. .O9o to carry on
single election.
-Brisham Young is said to be anxious tt
dispose of thirty-fvo manageable daughters
There are three thousand six hundred ane
thrty-six homeopathic practitioners in the
United States.
-Colsax will marry in November. Prentice
thinks him sure Of being Vice-Presldent-ol
his own household.
-Cassaenac, the Paris duellst and journal
ist is said to have ''ran his rapier into his man
with as much ease as he would have STUCK
pin into pincushion."
An old maiden lady in New York has left
all her property for the purpose OF ouna'ne
church. on condition that her body and bones
.eb.l, he made into mortar in which to lay the
corner stone. Oh! - ae.:
The railway war inaugurated by the Erie
and Central Railroads in New York has been
nromutly met by Pennsylvania. railroads ana
correspondingly low rates to all points IN inc
West made from Philadelphia, to project the
trade Of that cit-.
The Memphis, Tenn, papers OF the 80 as-
.sert that thousand stand Of arms and large
ouantity of ammunition has been shipped oY
the loyal leaeuers of Missouri, on the steamer
BeIlo Memphis, for the negroes Of that city and
Little Rock, Arkansas.
"A kind of marine velocipede has been trled
in France, and found to work well. 1t is sort
of boat propelled by whesl worked with the
feet. The appearance of the machine Is very
novel as is it's construction; but it is said to be
easy to outrun common boat, If the rder Is
skilled in its use.
The bones of large animal, supposed to
be o mastodon, we're found While e1cavatlng
near Danyille, N. Y. The teeth are very large'
zone OF them weighing five pounds. The RIBS
ara six feet long; the hip bone tbirty-si1 round;
tusks eleven inches in diameter and fourteen
feet long, and the vertebr@ twenty-three lncnes
in circumference.
Last week there was large sale OF
Thoroughbred horses at Jerome Park, N. =.
The celebrated racer Kentucky" aged eleven
wears. was sold to J. Purdy for $4,000; the
mare "Millcreek, to T. boswell, OF Virginia.
for 5000; "Eilagree, toJ. W. McCullough' for
$4,000; ..Maroon," to T. Wlthers, for s2Soo;
-s.Maud, y to J. Hunter, TO Sl25O, and others at
various prices. .,
"A Chicago firm did hundred dollars worth
of nrintng for spiritualist association in that
ecity, sent In its bill and received In payment
three notes on the "Wisdom Bank, which IL
was assured we're much more valuable than
eresnbacks. Each note was endorsed, BACK
.ers, Alanson Able, M. D., Earriet sbbe, Aoooe
Lawrence, Mary Appleton, CT Boston, Mass''
Guardians of the Wisdom Treasures"
On Tuesday last the election for inspect
4ors took place in Delaware. The Republican
majority in Wilmington is only votes, which
ia a Democratic gain Of S05 since the Mayors
election last month. New Castle County gives
"a Democratic majority Of 619-a gain OF 4o1
over the vote of 1866. In Wilmington the DEM
ocrats elect majority Of the inspectors, and
in the county have twelve ont OF seventeen.
The vote polled was unusually large.
The Chicago Times Of Tuesday morning
contains over three columns OF special dis
patches giving intelligence concerning the
great uprising in the West. Accounts are
given Of enthusiastic meetings in Peoria, Quin-
cy, Aurora, Springfield, Salem, Monee, Rock
ford, Dixon, Peru and Chicago, ILL.,; IN Madl-
son and Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and in IndlanSp-
oils and Warsaw in Indiana. The torchlght
procession in Cincinnati, on Monday evening,
surpassed anything Of the kind ever before
seen in that city. Over ten thousand people
were in line.
"A beggar who was in the habit OF sitting
ON one Of the London bridges, accompanied BY
a dog with @ placard inscribed blind" attach
ed to his neck, was fortunate enough to awaken
the charitable sympathies OF o gentleman, who,
eyery morning, when he passed the mendl-
can't, dropped penny into his hat. One day
the usual donation was omitted, and the sup
posed blind man ran after his benefactor as
fast as his crutchss would permit, and boldly
asked why the usual penny had not been forth
coming. ''Why, I thought you were blind!'
exclaimed the man OF charity, amazed. ''No,
sir, it is not T." replied the beggar, sit is the
dog"
The Washington Express says that letter
from leading Democratic Journalist in Ohio,
received on Saturday, represents the campaign
in that State exceedingly vigoro US in behalf of
the Democracy. He predicts the selection OF
at least ten Democratic members of Congress,
and says the indications are that the Demo-
cratic State ticket will receive handsome
majority. Pendleton, Ewing, Stanbery, and
other prominent gentlemen, are addressing
the people daily, and numbers of influential
Republicans are reported to have declared for
Seymour and Blair. Information has been re-
ceiyed which makes assurance doubly sure that
Ohio will 20 Democratic on the 18th instant.
Accounts from all parts Of the State. derived
from sources entirely reliable, point directly to
this result.
The General TrieDnial Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United
States assembled in Trinity Church, New York
City, on Wednesday morning, Bishop Smith,
of Kentucky, presiding. From the fact that
the Southern dioceses are fully represented in
this convention for the first time since the COM
mencement of the war, its proceedings will be
noted with interest. There are many interest
ing questions to come up before the body, such
as church extension, adoption of liturgy, pro-
vincial system, unity Of Christian bodies, ritu-