The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-15
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NEWS SUMM MARI.
In New York cotton closed dropping.
Sales 1900 bales. Middlings 344c.
Gold closed quiet at 37l.
In Liverpool cotton closed shade firmer.
Sales 10000 bales. Quotations unchanged.
The fashionable tour this season is over
he Pacific Railroad.
-Ba,lle Peyton, o famous old politician of
thirty years ago, turns up in Tennessee as can
didate for State Senator.
Paper collar m akers are said to complain
when the weather is cool. Business doubles
when the thermometer goes above ninety de-
grees.
1T is understood that as soon as the Great
Eastern returns to Europe she will take fresh
cable on board and start for India to lay q line
betweeo Bombay and Suez.
VIM. 81. Jeffers, Esq, OF Pawtucket, r. L.,
fell from q window Of the Battle House, in Mo-
bile, on the night of the 11th, and broke his
neck. He had been in the city but day or
two, having in charge new steam fire engine,
which he had just brought out.
"A Memphis telegram Of Sunday says ::
<'Teegrams and letters received here from the
entire Southwest state that meetings are beins
held aud delegates appointed to the Ch,nese
Labor Convention to be held ON the 18th. A
number Of planters have already arrived here" {"
OF the new Captain-G General Of Cuba, q cor
respondent says: s'De Rodas is man Of quite
good appearance. is somewhat short In stature.
not measuring moro than Ave feet seven inches,
is bald hea led, has fine eye aud q martial
bearing. One. not knowing his antecedents
would think him amiable." a
The Yerger murder trial in jackson, Miss.
still contioues, but there has been an unusual
reticence on the part Of the telegraph relative
to it. Yerger's counsel have closed the case,
depending mainly on proofs Of his insanity,
but the prosecution have commenced with
strong testimony in rebuttal.
"A T. Stewart and Mr.. Harvey, OF Tar
reytown, are competitors for the purchase of
tract Of land, containing about seven thousand
hve hundred acres. lying north Of the town OF
Hampstead, Long Island. Stewart offers fiety-
five dollars an acre, cash down, aud wants to
build city on it. Harvey offers forty-two, and
what he intends to do with it nobody knows.
Stewart viii probably get 1t.
The removal Of the capital of the United
State IS gravely discussed by The Chicago
a ssed Congress-, anu he
decison ~ to the new site had been referred
to the peope to daterra,ne at the polls. The
Tribune says the choice hes between Cincin-
natl, Chicago, Memphis and st. Louis, and
votes in favor of st. Louis after showing the
advantages and disadvantages OF the several
cities mentioned.
"A Southern correspondent Of che New York
World, after discussing the aspect Of the immi-
grafton movement to this section, adds: I" The
native increase of the South now demands
word. The land is overrun with babies. Down
the Mississippi, out in the Southwest, up
through the cotton belt, the little creatures
swarm. To see so many Of them at every turn
strikes one somewhat curiously after the
experiences of some other parts Of the country.
Talk Of immigration This ia q kind of un-
talked-of immigration that beats them ALL"
"A Washington telegram, alludins to the
Yergcf hdbeds corpus case before Chief Justice
Chase, says: '"The real point to be determined
is. whether 80 much of the Reconstruction
acts as permits military commls sions to try
persons accused OF CRIME is unconstitutional.
This will be the only point OF the Reconstruo-
tion acts the constitutionallty of which will
be questioned. The impression in legal cir
cles is that ii the Chief Justice should find
that part OF the law unconstitutional, he will
grant the writ; but If otherwise be will dis
miss the proceedings"
General Candy will probably promulgate the
official result Of the recent election In Virginia
In about fifteen days, though it is not settled
as to the time when the installation Of the new
State officers will take pace. The constitution
recently adopted provides that the Inaugural
tion Of tbs Governor shall be on the LIST of jan
uary succeeding his election; but an ordinance
of the Convention which framed the constitu-
tion provides that the Hrst Governor elected
Hereunder shall be inaugurated immediately.
One OF the first measures to engage the atten-
tion Of the new Legislature will be the con-
sideration Of the Fifteenth amendment which,
it is expected, will bo adopted without much
opposition.
so certain are the CaliHornians that the
problem of erial navigation has been solved by
the machine that has just been invented in San
Francisco, that one Of the papers positively
announces: "Within four weeks the Hrst serial
steam carriage. capable Of conveying six per-
sons, and propelled at rate exceeding the
minimum speed OF thirty miles an hour, will
wing it's fight over the Sierra Nevada on it's
way to New York and othe. remote parts"
This announcement was made on June 26, and
we may. therefore soon look for the appear
ance ofthe great seral steam carriage. When
we sec it, we shall begin to believe that the
San Francisco paper knows what it means by
saying: within year we shall travel hab,,u-
ally to Now York. Europe and China by serial
carriages -
The Washington correspondent or the Bal
'timore Gazette writes: 1.-The disruption Of the
Radical party is ackno vledged ut least by all
those presses who hive upon government pap.
This is very hopeful omen. But it is alleged