The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-23
NJ E w 8 8 U M M A r Y.

The New York cotton market coSeu uui
and a shade lower. Sales $500 bales at 25s
25lc.
AT Liverpool cotton closed quiet; upland
10sd. Orleans 10Sd. Sales 10000 bales.
There are hundred thousand Spaniards
in New York. .......... =,
The audience stand at the fashionable pri
vate theatricals in New York.
The Savannah News, of Monday, says
It is currently reported among persons who
are ACQUAINTED with the parties that little
difficulty between two young men Of this city
is to be settled to-day, at Screvens Ferry,
South Carolina, in accordance with the "code
OF Honor" r ,-s.,-a; s2,,'. Z.
The National Base Bail Convention at
Washington, last week, was slimly attended,
only thirty-two delegates being present. The
officers elected for the ensuing year we're: L.
Tassie. of the Atlantic Club, Brooklyn, Presi-
dent; E. e. Coon, of the Ofympics, Washing
ton, Secretary; and NJ. Rogers, OF the Lowells,
of Boston, Treasurer. 7,., .s-.
-Photographing by moonlight is attracting
great attention in England. Photographer
of Glasgow, it is stated, has, by using the light
of the moon, succeeded in producing several
landscapes and marine views, which are WON
derfullY faithful reproductions of the scenery
represented. These pictures have been pre-
pared for the ste, eoscope. and give an entsrely
different effect from that produced by sunlight
views. ..-
Admiral Wilkes, who caught Mason and
Slidell, in 1861, only to give Seward chance to
show how gracefully he could back down,
seems to be afflicted by avarice, 'that last in
Trinity of noble minds" He wants the flag
officers share of the blockade runner Peter
hoff, which the Vanderbilt captured off st.
Thomas, while he was then on the Wachusett.
The Navy, Treasury and Attorney General have
.disallowed his claim, and he will appeal to Con-
gress.
"A distinguished general was explaining to
q small circle at Compeigne-among them the
Empress-the merits Of the Chassepot gun.
'But we ladies'" said her Majesty, ':must have
our Chassepots, to retain our ascendancy and
our influence, and our Chassepots are: Beauty
and grace at twenty. wit at thirty and kindness
at forty" The Emperor, who had meantime
joined the circle, replied, with smile, "You
have not waited fer this age to possess the
whole arsenal. .lF
The popular vote in England gives the
Liberals majority Of 172, ,00o-more than four
teen per cent. of the whole number of votes
given. The Scotch, however, who are the
most impartial judges Of the leading question,
gave an overwhelming vote for the Liberals,
being five to one in the boroughs, and even in
the counties majority Of about twenty per
cent. on the total county vote. Taking Great
Britain as whole, the majority on the pepu-
lar vote is about $4,000, in 6. total vote OF
1,27s, 900, or more than sixteen per cent
The remains of the late Prince Albert have
been removed from the temporary to the per
manent tomb. in the royal mausoleum near
Frogmore House, in Windsor Park. The gran
ite sarcophagus stands in the middle OF the
central chamber Of the mausoleum. This
chamber is. octsgonal in shape, thirty feet In
diameter and sixty five feet high. The walls
are adorned with colored marbles and paint
ings.. On the id of the sarcophagus is re-
cumbent figure in marble of his late Royal
Highness. .,....-,.
-,AeEcho City," at the mouth Of Weber
Canon; fifty miles northeast OF Salt Lake City,
will be the next terminus Of the Union Pacific
Railroad. One thousand men are at work on
the deep cuts. Five hundred work at night,
and are relieved by five hundred during the
day. The contractors say they will continue
: to work, unless the snow gets more than fifteen
feet, deep. Eight large range stoves do the
cooking for the workmen, and the amount OF
provisions consumed per day is as follows:
Seven barrels flour, twenty-five bushels poth-
toes, one barre! ground coffee. one barrel sug-
ar, three beeves, one half-chest tea, six kegs
butter, twenty-four gallons molasses, one and
a half bushel beans, one barrel pork, three
kegs white fish, three hundred pounds Goldfish,
four cases canned fruit.
"A gentleman educated in Austria decl, ,res
in British magazine that, when boy at
school, he and ali his schooRellows were habit
ually laced in close-ftting corsets, and that he
has always worn them since. "The sensation"
he says, 'ofbeing tightly laced in an elegaut,
well-made, tightly fitting pair OF corsets is sn-
perb."s Another English writer is uniformed
hy one Of the leading corset makers in London
that it is by no means unusual to receive the
orders Of gentlemen, not for the manufacture
of the belts 30 commonly used in horse exer-
else, but veritable corsets, strongly boned,
steeled and made to lace behind in the usual
way" Another gentleman Of the same en-
ightened nation So. g: Although not widower,
but married man, Ihave worn la1ies'stays for
the last three or four years and find them very
comfortable indeed, and would not go without
them. Iwould recommend them to wear the m
as near the same shape as the ladies as posi-
BILE. The fullness at the topis an Improvement.
7 generally wear blue silk or scarlet French
merino for winter, and the Paris wove (white)
In summer. Your correspondents need not
feel at all bashful in going to be measured.
Stays are worn by gentlemen great dealmore
than they think
A correspondent Of the New York Sun
says No doubt you will be surprised to learn
the way the best counterfeit bills are gotten
up. A party of men, say from three to o
dozen, get together and hold frequent meet
ings, and act according to plan laid down.
One or two will find out some copperplate
printer in the employ Of the bank note print
ing ofice-in fact, all such printers are known
by the party. These men will manage to meet