The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-16
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upehangsa; :ales HOO bales. at s43as4a cents.
Cotton at Liverpool closed easier; uplanda
Id; ssles Il 600 bales. -,
The New York Aansom Cab Company hss
all its stock subscribed. .''t -
White ieat ier hsrness. with gold buckles, is
: nobby wstering place style. .-
-Hon. S. y. Cox writes from Malaga that
much Of IL :. wine is made from the potato.
The New York Sun nominates Burlingame
Cor President IN 1872. on the strength of the
Chinese immigration. -
Professor Maury, Of the Virginia Military
Institute, has accepted the pomtion OF Presi-
d,nt OF the Uaiversity OF Alabarna.
"A silyersmith inSmlthAeld, England, re-
Gently poisoned h,s wife and SIX children to
death, ending the proceeding by killing him.
SELF because he could get no work.
"A; ;ooiosed woman named Polly Garland
was 20 badly burnsdiby the explosion ofa he r
ossna lamp. In sIynahbuls, Va, on Sunday
night, that she died IN . few hours. '>s,
The Detroit Post thinks that our naval
vessels, five wonld have them inspire terror,
should receive such names as Cholera and Yei-
low Fever, Nitro -Glycerine, Susan B. Anthony,
Anna Dickinson, DC.
General Krby~ Smith seems to be popular
- Is inseuctor OF youth. In one State alone,
ssys : M The Louisyiile ooufier-Journsl, sixteen
hundrsd isdies have promised him their sqps
- pupils for his military academy. : "a
The remarkably quick (less than thirteen
days) passage out OF the yacht Dauntlesss -
announced BY the cable, n considered smother
feather in the cap OF her owner, Mr.. James
Gor3en .Beanstt, Jr. Mayor Hail. when he
heard the ns1s, ordered Narshal Tooker to fire
eoschnndred gums in nront Of the New York
City Hall in honor Of the event, and the order
was promptly cbeyed.
Tho important Office Of editor Of the New
York Times has been offered to the Hon. John
Bigelow, and he no ds the offer under con-
siderstion.s The attractions are said to consist
OF . salary Of az. 600 year, with large in
teress IN the proprietorship OF the paper on
very favorable terms. As Mr.. Bigelow had
, 1Rst Completed his arrangements for . pro-
tracted residence in Europe, he naturally hesi-
tstss 10 change his plans.
The Cuban expedition Zone hundred and
twenty men) that quietly shipped away from
New York, on the 2Sd of last month, as quietly
returned tosNew York on Saturday evening
last, il tho big A.. Eldred. The men made
landing. and had . slight brush with the Span
ispdsT Snt cholera and yellow fever were pre-
vaatngso badly in the insurgent camp that all
hands. concluded to retuin home while it was
yet h their rpower to do 80.
Another duel between two negro women,
riyslatn the affections cf . young man. came
OF the other day IN Tennessee The battle
was with blufgeons, and lasted fifteen min
utes. The survivor had an arm broken, an ear
bitten of, half her hair gone. and bruises and
scratches over her entire person and face. The
other girl vas apparently getting the best Of
tho fight, having only lost two front teeth,
when her adversary. immediately after her right
arm was broken, grasped the club IN her left
hand. and with one blow broke the girls neck.
"A joint meeting Of all the trades unions Il
this country Ia soon to be called to take into
consideration what measures, il any, should
be taken by them in view OF the great influx of
Chinese emigrants to this country. The
officers Of the National Workingmen's Union
have lately addressed letters to various trades
unions throughout the county, calling their
attention to the matter. aud asking advice.
Representatives Of the trades union Of Califor-
MA are now in New York and other Eastern
cities, sgitating their brethren against John
Chinamau.
An influential deputation waited on the
Duke OF Argyle. secretary for India. recently,
to urge th, total abolition OF duties in British
India, which. they thought, might in some
measure mitigate the distress now prevailing
in the cotton manufacturing districta in Eng
land. They gave the high price Of cotton as
the sole cause Of the present distress. The
Duke was not prepared, in the present state Of
the India finances, to accede to so important
change. The average rate of duties is only
fyeper cent, but that low rate yields over two
and & half millions sterling. He told them
that the government had done all they possi-
bly, oou.d, by providing the planters with the
best cotton seed, aud granting other facilities
for raising large cotton crops IN India, to favor
this industry. He hoped, he said, that as
soon as the inland communications Of India
we're more perfect the supply Of cotton from
LQAt COuulIy WOu6 Uo olaPASs 4Aods0Ao o0N
cotton merchants in America should make
note OF this.
-Advlces received in Liverpool report The
arrival, at Fernando Po, Of two hundred and
ffty deporlados. or political exles, from Hava-
ma n.hs spanish Government transport Borja.
These exi:es, mostly men Of high position and
~esath, complain bitterly Of the cruel treat
mens they experienced while on board the
Borja, especially from the volunteer soldiers
who mounted guard over them. and, to quote
the words Of the dispatch, ''their sufferlDRs
were suoa ss 10 cause them to hail with delight
their beng landed at this island. fernando
Po) in spre Of all the horrors which they an
ticipated from previous description" They
also complain OF the high prices they had to
pay for anything out Of the way Of their ordi-
uarv allowance Of coarse provisions, one dollar
being charged for bottle o! beer, and other
things in proportion. Shortly afser they land
ed the island was placed under martial law,
and even people connected with or belonging
to the mail steamerwere prohibited from visit
;np or leaving her without special permit
from ine Governor.
A boy circus.rider perfor the astonish-
st1I.S ,rrn;no fwenky-fiva consecutiya