The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-20
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Gold closed in Now York on Saturday
at 500.
Cotton was shade lower, with sales OF
1100 bales at 30lc.
In Liverpool cotton closed lower and irreg-
u'ar; uplands 1Sd. Sales 5000 bales.
Tho "National Capital" Executive Commit.
tee have determined to call q National Conven.
tion, to be bold in st. Louis on the Goth of Oc.
tober.
Tho Indian mail steamship Carnatic was
wrecked short timo ago in tho upper part o
tho Red Sea. Her passengers and crew were
saved, but the cargo, which WAS very valuable
was entirely lost. Another account states that
number Of lives were lost.
Tho Statistical Congress at Hague, Hol.
land, is engaged in discussing tho question ol
che reduction OF standing armies. Mr.. Rug
gIe5, OF New York, made speech, giving as an
illustration Of the e1pedtency of the measure,
the safety with which the United States gov
ernment dispersed it's largo armies after the
war with the South.
The uncertainty as to DR.. Livingstone re-
wives in England the project OF IN expedition
which shall traverse the length and breadth OF
Africa. Captain Burton ID ready to leave his
consulate at Damascus for such q purpose,
and ii is suggested that from about sixty to
one hundred men, partly seasoned Europeans
and partly orientals tSikhs, for example, }
armed to tho teeth with weapons OF precision,
would be found capable Of the enterprise.
The attention of medical authorities has
been calledto new method OF putting babies
to bed which is said to have como into use
in France, and to be sngularly healthy. The
advice consists in stripping the child OF cloth
ing, and Embedding it, except the head, in a
cradle full of bran, precisely as fruit and fragile
articles are sometimes packed for transportu-
tion. The advantage of the method is said to
consist in it's remarkable cleanliness, and the
pleasant and equable temperature in which the
infants body is kept, from its inability to kick
'the clothes of. The Pail Mall Gazette thinks
that these privileges of comfort ought not to
be restricted to children, and suggests that
sojourners at the seaside may some day escape
tho terror OF doubtful beds by taking their
own bags OF bran among their luggage.
The fall trade opens bravey. The New
York merchants say that the South ia again
their best customer, but that very different
line Of goods is purchased than before the war.
I'm dry goods The Southern merchants general
ly purchase only staple and plain fabrics, hay-
ing totally ignored the costly and fashy STYLES
which characterized. their bills previous to the
war. Again, in regard to tilling the aoil, q
wonderful revolution has taken place in the
Southern States. The Southern planter now
buys only the most improved agricultural inn
plements, and the crops of the South are raised
upon the same scientific principles as those of
the North and West. BY this means the cost
OF productions have been lessened and the pro-
fits OF the planters increased. Tho Southern
purchases last season, which were largely for
cash, undoubtedly saved the New York mer-
chants from mast disastrous season. Their
purchases thus far this fall have been the chief
cause of the present activity in trade.
"A letter from the Greenbrier (Va.) White
Sulphur Springs says ''The season has been
great success. More than five thousand yis-
itors have been registered here. and the pro-
prietors have probably made 500, 900. Socially
1t has been extr emeIy pleasant, and tho place
has now acquired natian,i reputation which
must make 1t popular with visitors from all
sections. The matrimonial market, however.
has been dull, for though the offerings we're
large, the buyers have been few, and have
operated with great caution. A large lot of
unimproyed and unprovided widows and widow.
ers early drugged the market. aud this depres-
sion continued until these actors or Vanity
Fair vanished to other ecenes. 30 serious was
this stagnation that an expert duenna informs
me con6dentialy that only one SERIOUS engage
ment Tin which Goodwin, Of Georgia, won a
belle OF BaItimore) has resulted from this very
active campaign. Think OF 1t. picture it, dis
solute men who have been following without
enRsging) heiresses Of fab!sd wealth, and for
q whole summer treadIng on trails whose wear.
ers represented millions. It was we'll. perhaps,
Tor your correspondent that his wife and i've
followed aud overlooked him at this point"
Some French soldiers were lately taken
prisoners by the Canaks, and one Of them was
killed and eaten. HIS comrades describe the
process. The Canaks first decapitate their
Eiotim, matter Of no small difficulty, consid-
eriug the bluntness OF their hatchets. Ten to
ffeen blows are necessary. The body is then
hung up to tree by tho fee. and The blood al
lowed to run out for an hour. Meanwhile a
hole yard and a half deep and yard wide is
dug in the around. The hole is filled with
stones, and then in the midst OF them great
fire is lit. When the wood is burnt down
little and glows with heat. it ia covered over
with more stones. Tho man Is then cleaned
out and divided into pieces about foot long,
the hands aud feet being thrown away as
worthless. The pieces OF tho man ore placed
.on the leaves Of large rose tree peculiar to
tho tropics. The meat is surrounded with
oocoaI uts, bananas, aud some other plants
noted for their dolicAle flavor. The whole is
then tied together firmly, the fire 10 removed
from the pit. the meat IL placed In among the
hot stonep, aud thus, carefully covered, is LEFT
TO cook for an hour. Women do not partake
OF this warriors feast. den alouo are permit.
tod to enjoy 80 great an honor and 30 rare
6delioaoy.
The Cuban attack on Los Tunss ia de-
.scrIbed in Havana correspondence. The at
,tscking party had bul two osnnon, while the
;SpaniArds had Six, all In embrasures, and this
advantage 10 artillery told very fayorably in
tho Hght on the side OF the garrison. For
moro than six hours the. Insurgents pressed
tho spaniards. but to no avail. They wers
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