The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-10
VIEWS SUM II r z.

.-(fOl0 IN N9W IOTh y0opOltoy Sioo0o oSeA'S
and strong at 33t.
Cotton was quoted at 2Sf cents, with sales
-;;.!S6O0 bales.
Cotton in Liverpool closed dull and un-
changed, with sales of 1000 bales.
Twenty -one Paris journalists are to run for
the Assembly.
The Vatican recently got on fire and mar
rowly escaped destruction.
"A $4,000 dAlencon shawl appeared at a
wedding reception in New York last week.
The Atlantic cable is said to be growing
more perfect in its insulation month by
month.
They have stylish parties in Boston at
which ne one worth less than $3.50. 600 is ad-
mitted.
To slake the thirst of New York in part,
20O. O.OO0, 900 glasses of lager beer are annually
required.
IT. J. Cakes, conductor on the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad, was shot and killed
in Courtland, Alabama, the other day, by the
keeper of an eating-house.
Tho slave trsde, it seems, is not yet totally
suppressed. British frigate recently caught
SMO SllVeI6 Oh UAudt5 aSCoA WAen Nuo nuheAS3
and fifteen negroes on board.
-Prussian and French capitalists are pre-
pa-ing to build the largest hotel in Europe on
the banks or the Lago Maggiore. 1t is intend
ed to be as cheap and good as it is large.
Wolves are making havoc among tho hogs
and sheep in Amite County, Miss. They are
supposed to have been driven into that county
by the high waters in the Mississippi swamps.
An apparatus has recently been construct
ed in France by which pressure OF four hun
dred atmospheres can be continuously MAIN
tanned in vessel of water. Fish introduced
into this reservoir live and enjoy health under
this enormous pressure mentioned. 1t is
therefore highly probable that the greatest
depths Of the o;ean may be habitable.
1.-The Pensacola West Florida Comm ercial
announces the commencement Of operations
ON the railroad to Pensacola, near Molina, and
states that the parties are at present engaged
in getting out cross-ties, bridge timbers, &c.
TIE editor SAYS the operations are not on
very large scale, 1t is tru6, but give hope that
The long and weary waiting will end aome time
During the last month, the price OF gold
has QOL pe6Q Hu6Cl6u OJ FioucAo hoNSoASsAS~~
At the time of the Inauguration OF President
Grant and the passage ofthe bill to strengthen
the public credit, golG fell four to five per
cent. below the figures that had ruled for
many months before. Since then the price
has been steady, and has varied but slightly
( rom one thirty-one.
"A fashion correspondent writes: "This sea-
son sees general revival Of braids for ladies'
bonnets-straw braids Of new and old designs.
The new are interwrought with jet and pearl
beads-which is by no means an improvement.
Straw may be braided ever 30 elaborately, but
It should not be worked up with materials Tor
which it has no sympathy-of which 1t has no
suggestion. Its freshness and breezeness-
souuenir of the fields wherein it grew--should
be allowed to assert itself, instead Of being
smothered by the vulgar frpperies OF the
Workshop" fe....,.,. ..t. Ia.
New York thieves have in training num-
ber Of dogs for summer operations. They are
taught by repeated endeavors to rush into b
room and seize from counter parcel and
quickly bring it to his master. Their counter
is made 80 as to resemble those in banks, and
the parcel is covered with yellow paper, and
made to look like the packages Of bank notes,
that are exchanged from one bank to another.
The design is to take or send by confederate
one OF these dogs to the door OF bank or
brokers Office, where parcel or package OF
bank notes is seen to be lying on the counter,
and send him in. The trained animal darts IN
and seizes the valuables in his mouth, and
rushes out to the place where he expects to
find his master.
The real reason why the President signed
the Tenure-of-ofice bill is generally under
stood to be that in the presence OF Congress
he believes himself powerless. He admitted.
n 80 many words, on Saturday last, that ne
WAS TO blame himself for the non-success Of
the full repeal, which he would greatly have
preferred. He cosiders that when he gave IN
to hessrs. Trurnpull, Edmunds and Conkllng,
OF the Senate Judiciary Committee, by agree
ing to their amendments, that then repeal was
ost from that m oment. The President freely
and franAly admits this to have been mistake.
Now that the thing is signed, the anomaly is
presented OF two constructions being placed on
this act-one by those compelled to accept it,
aud the other by those friendly 10 its terms.
The most wonderful velocipede exploit on
record is thus described in the cksJnviIe,
ILL.,, Journal: "On Saturday evening there
was quite large number gathered in Profes'
sor Growers velocipede hall to witness the
proficiency and skill OF the professors pupils
on the wooden horse. II appears that few oil
the professors most advanced scholars have
been practicing on an inclined plane, which
has heretofore been placed on the south side
OF the room, but in cleaning the hall in the at-
ternoon the decline part had been removed
and the incline part was moved close to the
east side Of the hall 80 that the highest part
rested on o window-sill, the window having
been removed in the afternoon. Several OF the
new beginners had been showing their skill in
riding round the room, and when MIR. Dunlap
came into the hall he was called upon to ride
and Immediately complied, mounted the ma
chine, and away he went at lightning speed
around the hall. AS soon as he had eo
the velocipede up to full speed, no wen
straight for the incline plano, (au who were
posted in the movement of the plane supposed
that MIR. Dunlap knew Of the change, and was
only trying some new trick but, as the &C.
quel shows, he was entirely ignorant OF the
I,ird pOH did D0t