The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-31
NEW 8 8 u M M a r Y.

Gold closed in New York yesterday weak
at 94t.
cotton was active and firm, with sales o1
$500 bales at 253c.
In Liverpool cotton was steady at lid; sales
1000 bales.
MIR. Abraham Hrsch, -one OF the Oldest
merchants of Richmond, died on Saturday
last.
A flock of ants ten miles in width recently
went across Shasta Valley, Siskiyou County
California.
1t is stated that the largest collection o.
stereoscopic pictures in the country ID owned
bya clerk in the postofice department at
Washington. He has spent fifteen thousand
dollars upon it.
New York expects about Christmas to be
entertaining Charles keade, Anthony Tronope,
Miss Braddon, Hans Christian Anderson Miss
Charlotte Cushman, Miss Harriet Hosmer and
Miss Emma Stebbens.
There was quadruple marriage in lndi-
ana the other day. A man married his third
step-mother, who had three children by MS
father, and three Of his cousins, brothers, mar
ried three of his wife's sisters. Number one
is hall brother to his wife's children.
The New York Evening Mail says bottles
are no longer on the table Of fashionable din
ner par;ies-all the wines, with the exception
Of champagne, being served in glass pitchers
Of handsome workmanship.
Fifty thousand tons Of coal were sold IN
New York on Wednesday at auction. Stove
coal brought 1920 per ton, which was much
higher than anticipated; lump $5 80, steam
boat IS 95, crate Sc 47s, egg 81 62s, chestnut
$6 40.
Madame Patti.Caux's engagements from
the first OF October, 1853, to the same date
next wear, will bring her an income OF 52l,OOO
francs, without bringing into the account the
private concerts, and the presents from ADMIR-
ers which she cannot fail to receive. -
In Baltimore, bakery has been started to
furnish erated bread. or, in other words, Light
and wholesome bread made without yeast. In
Philadelphia this bread has, in great meas
ure, taken the place Of ordinary bakers bread,
and several extensive establishments are en-
gagged in its manufacture.
General Forrest, in o letter to E. h. Shack
lesord, New Haven, Conn.,, which appears In
the Men phis papers, denounces General Jud-
son Kirkpatrick in unmeasured terms, and re-
fers him to General Basil Duke, of Louisville,
who will receive any communication which hu-
patrick may deem proper. The letter refers TO
remarks made by General fitzpatrick.
The Fauquier (va.) Land Journal makes
most encouraging exhibit in regard to the sales
OF Virginia lands, and the accession OF new set
tiers within the past twelve months. 1t says
that ssmore than s500,000 worth Of property
has been sold to actual settlers within radius
of ten miles around Warrenton since the close
OF the war;" '-'f-- '''---.
The Washington papers lay down the pro-
pramme Of the Chief Justice as follows: "Chle1
Justice Chase leaves here next week to hold
term of the United States District Court at
Charleston. South Carolina. He expects to 60
from there to Savannah, Georgia, the follow
inp week, to hold o term Of court in place OF
Justice Swayne, deceased, aud will probably
be in Richmond toward the close Of Novem-
ber."
1t is said that poor German mechanic OF
New York has just invented sounding -Doaro
which solves the long-sought problem OF the
prolonration Of sound in the piano. The IN
yeption is very important topic Of discussion
among piano-makers, and if the report Is true,
and the sounding board should prove to be
what it, is claimed to be, the inventors fortune
ie made, and the piano becomes at once the
most perfect Of all musical instruments.
The executors Of Edwin A. Stevens will
have employed General Mcclellan at an annual
salary of SIC, 900 year to superintend the COM
pIetion Of the famous Stevens Battery at Ho-
boken, and which, when afoat, is to be ten
dered as q free gift to the State of New Jersey.
AS no limit is specified for the completion, the
General will have splendid opportunity to de-
yelope that engineering skill of which ne IS the
undoubted possessor.
The truly loyal and intelligent Legisla-
ture Of Louisiana have been trying their hand
at financial business in style that would do no
discredit to Congress. New Orleans has IN cir
culation deprecated shinplaster currency,
which cost the present holders about seventy
cents on the dollar; and in order to redeem this
at par with greenbacks the Legislature pro-
poses to issue fve million dollars Of New Or
leans City bonds, bearing six per cent. interest
in gold, which will be sold at eighty cents on
the dollar in national currency. The Governor
vetoed this monstrous imposition, but the
House Immediately passed the bill over the
veto. Of course there is an enormous amount
of money to be made out Of the operate by
those holding the deprecated currency, and
they spent money liberally in the lobby. In the
Senate ono of the opponents Of the bill pre-
duced note promising to pay to bearer two
thousand dollars "out Of the profits when the
bonds are sold and city money purchased. y
Thereupon there were high words, pistols half
drawn, and one fellow colared and pitched out
Of the door. Truly the one negro Legislature
in successful operation is making its nlark-a
very black mark.
--velocipedes BID fair to be the ordinary
mode of locomotion in Paris. The story goas
in that city that Count desmond, the hospita-
Bile and magnificent proprietor OF the famed
Chateau de la yenerie, has ordered his SER
wants to acquire the art of velocpede driving,
as hepceforth the Count will expect his mes
sages, notes, &C., to be thus conveyed to their
destination, as he finds other modes Of loco