The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-30
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Gold closed in New York yesterday at 39s.
Cotton closed shade lower and very dull;

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Cotton closed shade lower and very dull
sales GOO bales.
In Liverpool yesterday cotton closed quiet
uplands 122d.
Iron curbing is now being laid in Pitts
burg. The curb consists OF an inch plate
eighteen inches broad, pierced with holes
and having corrugated fange at the top
The plate is embedded perpendicularly be
side the pavement, and the hange extends
on the surface several inches to meet thu
bricks.
London, on the morning of April 4th, was
visited by an exceedingly heavy fog. In the
central parts of the city FOR two hours the
darkness was extraordinary, and the street
traffic was impeded. In the suburbs the sun
shone with unusual brillancy during the time
the centre of the city was enveloped by this
dense fog.
No less than seven new and different bio
graphies of General Grant, it is stated, are in
rapid preparation by authors and printers for
the Presidential campaign. The writer's OF
these biographies are as follows: Charles A.
Dana, A. D, Richardson, Henry C. Deming, E.
D. Mansfield, John S. C. Abbott, ]. T. Headley,
&C. Headley.
-Smugglers have been introducing silks,
opium and cigars into San francisco, by con-
cealing tie articles in hollow logs, shipped, it
is stated, from Victoria, British Columbia. The
logs are bored as if to be used for water pipes,
and the ends are then tapered of until the line
of union with the plug which has been insert
ed is made as indistinct as possible.
i'm schools in Germany, it is reported, the
art of housekeeping is taught thoroughly. Es-
says are written upon the subject setting forth
the prices Of fowls. How much fat fowl
should weigh. How much a lean one. Areason-
able prize. What food fattens fowls best. What
sort OF fowls they are, and how old. The price
of CARRIAGES, of carrots, Of apples; their sorts,
the quantity produced; the daily expenses, the
bargains, the shops, are all discussed.
in France, TIE laws are very strict against
persons in civil lite carrying weapons. An in
vention has recently been made, however,
which, while conforming to the law. is par
tiaI aid as a means of defence against midnight
robbers. It consists OF small horn inserted
in the end OF cane, which contains an electric
battery and small lamp with two powerful re-
flectors. The intensity of this light, it is said,
temporarily blinds any person at whom it is
pointed. The lamp is kindled at will, by press
ing small knob at the other end of the stick.
which communicates with an electric wire.
Prince Alfred, whose attempted assassna-
ton is announced from Australia, is Queen
Victoria's fourth child. b was born in 1874,
and is consequently now about twenty-four
years of 1ge. From his earliest years he has
been regarded as the most intelligent and SEN
sible of the royal family, and has been far
more popular with the English people than
any other of the Queens children. he holds
the rank Of Duke of Edinburgh, and is cap
tain in the English navy. he has travelled ex-
tensively over the world but whilst he has
been in the Canadas, he has not yet visited
the United States. The Gable reports the
Prince in fair way to recover, and adds that
he is to be sent home to England.
"A Washington letter says: son the morn
ing of the recent election in Chicago the RaSi
cal organs made the most earnest appeals to
their partisans to turn out, and urged that it
would never do to allow the National RepubE-
can Convention to be held m 'Copperhead
city. The Chicago Tribane said that as Chicago
went that day, the whole Southwest would 90
in November next. When the news came here
on Thursday that the Democrats had gained
the day, the Radical Congressman from Hi
nois would not believe it at first, and only gave
in on the most convincing proofs. The Radi-
Gals are slowly awaking to the fact that there
is not so much magic in Grants name as they
imagined. They emblazoned his picture on their
tickets in New Hampshire and Connecticut,
and the results were not very encouraging.
When it was claimed that the West would go
for him in whirlwind of enthusiasm, and yet
in an important election in tine metropolitan
city Of his own State his party are overwhelm-
incly beaten, and this in the face OF the fact
that they have trumphed at all the elections in
that city for years past
1t is allowed to but few men to survive
such mass of obituary comments, and all
cast in the high phrases of admiration, as DR..
Livingstone has outlived. He will be the real
rediuiuus of our century. The very jaws OF
the grave could not release one whose returned
presence would furnish greater surprise and
moro general 50 tisfaction. His will have been
the only living eyes in the head of q white man
that have surveyed the lands and the inhabi-
tants OF the heart Of unknown Africa. His the
only face that has been bronzed b. the fierce
suus OF that vague and vast tropical into
rior. The geographical societies will want
almost to devour him, in order to pos
sess themselves bodily OF the treasury
of his rare knowledge. The ethnologlsts
will feel like pulling him limb from limb. Roy
alty will make haste to do him honor, whose
own highest proof of royalty is to be found in
his intelligent courage and undying foriitude.
His return, which may now be looked for in Eng
land as not very far off, will create o social and
scientific stir to winch the Parliamentary de-
bates will be as nothing in comparison. And
all this, not simply because an individual has
succeeded in safely crossing the wilds OF Atri-
ca. but because large knowledge of that
enigmat,cal continent has stretched and in-
formed the thought OF every man who aims
seriously to grasp and realize all the possible
conditions of tho human race.
in noticing the arrival Of Hon. Anson Bur-
lingame and suite at San Francisco on the 3lst
ult., the Alta California says: The arrival IN
San Francisco OF special embassy, clothed