The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-18
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 1s, 1869.
NEIrs OF TITE,DIY.

NEJTS OF TIE DLY.
Gold in New York closed, on Saturday,
steady nt 3Oia3Ol.
Cotton closed firm with sales OF 2GoO bales
ut 2sac.
in Liverpool cotton closed flrmcr. Up
lands l2lal2ld; Orleans l24al2id. Sales 5000
balee.
"A cotton factory is being erected in Henry
County, Ala.
The furniture in the New York Grand
Hotel cost s2Od,Ood.
Tho Memphis vclOcpedc rink has been
converted into n cotton she'd
"A statue OF NJ Peabody is to be erected
at Rome, by order of the Pope.
There Will be $1,000 square feet of marble
in New York cathedral walls.
Prince Arthur's Canada holiday will expire
at the end Of the present week.
-Thirty-siX millions pounds ofblack tea have
been shipped to Great Britain this season.
1t Is proposed to organize rolling-mIn
company In Knoxville, Tennessee, with capital
of $3.50, 900.
The Texans complain of pork being five
cents pound when they can get beef at two
cents a pound. ~.
per, has just been sold to q Joint stock COM
pany for sl50,OOO.
Hon. Mr.. Buckalcw, ex-UnItcd States sem
ator, Is one of the Democrats Just elected to
the Pennsylvania Senate.
The Catholics have purchased the Turner
Opera nouse property at Dayton, Ohio, and
will erect on 1t n splendid cathedral. ,..
The Atlantic iron works ut Norfolk have con-
tracted to build five iron stcamboats-one for
Norfolk and four for Augusta, Georgia.
judgments having been obtained against
the City of Portsmouth, Va, General Candy
has been asked to stay execution, but declines
to do so.
Five hundred students have already ma
circulated at the University of Virginia, and
this number, 1t Is saId, will be Increased by at
least onesbundrcd.
r-Buenos Ayres adyices to the 9th ult.-aro
TO the effect that Lopez has not left Paraguay,
but Is at San Estanislaus with 1000 men and
twenty cannon.
1T is stated as remarkable fact that no
minister belonging to the IIolston Conference,
M. E.. Church South. has died during the con-
ference year just closed.
The Rev. DR.. II. N. Pierce has been elected
Missionary Bishop of Arkansas and Indian Ter
rltory by the Episcopal House of Bishops at
Trinity Chapel, New York.
Prussia and Austria are now on better
terms than for a long time past. Preparations
are making at Vienna to give the Crown
Prince of Prussia brilliant officII reception.
The number Of United States soldiers buried
in the Federal cemeteries in Virginia, cxcud-
ng those inferred at Arlington. aggregate 3d.
l0l. or these ,7S3 are in the cemeteries
near Rchmo nd and Manchester.
On and after the 10Th instant the time by
railway between San Francisco and New York,
Philadelphia and Washington will obe reduced
from seven to six days. Whenever expedient
anothrv reduction OF from twelve to twenty
hours can easily be made VIZ - . '.'io'f'
"A Bombay dispatch announces tho re-
celpt Of letter from Dir. Livingstone, the
great explorer, written in July, 1868, ut Lake
Bangelewo, stating In effect that .he was In ex-
cellent health, and that he believed that he
had discovered tho true source of the Nile.
Later advices locate him at Mills, on his way
to the coast. ~ II ,t4t
"A New York Judge has directed the grand
Jury to inquire If the fecent gold combination
In Wall streetwas not q violation of the-law,
making ft criminal offence for twenty or
more persons TO conspire together to commit
any act Injurious 10 trade or commerce. The
New York Times backs this ZIP by calling on
the grand jury to indict the Gold Ring. *
More "blg tree grovcsn have been dis
covered in California. They are giant red
woods OF the species famous In Calavcrns md
Mariposa, and arc found on thellead-wateil1ss Of
the Tnlare and San Joaquin Rivers. One OF
these groves Is Hnid 10 contain trees measuring
over one hundred feet III. n.circumfercncc, and
even these are reported to be cxcelled by those
In another grove.
The Howard Association, at New Orleans,
having In hand about twenty thousand dollars,
an excess of contributors made by citizens of
new orleans, New York, Boston, baltimore,
81. Louis, Cincinnati and other places, to re-
Aeve the sick and destitute during tho prcva-
lence Of the yellow fever. resolved last week TO
apply this money to the relief of suffering and
distress now existing in The orphan asylums
and other charitable institutions of New Or
leans. %rs. rl
Tho New York Association for the Proven.
.tion Of Gambling has Just Issued an anpea, tn
the public for material aid with which to nrosn-
cue ts WORK. During the past year 1t has sue
'ceeaed IN ehectually closing moro tlian three
hunured gaming haunts, besides reporting
over one thousand venturesome clerks to their
employers. In oil but q tlt!le Of tho cases 40
reported employees were retained I'm their no.
sltions under pledges TINT they would avoid
gambling in the future. Ha :s,le53
The Causes of decay in American com.
mcrcc are now bclng investigated in New
York by the Congressional Committee ar
pointed for the purpose. Among other re-
concentrations they are expected to make, is
one In favor of thc.repcal Of the law forbid.
ding tho re-tmnsier Of vessels placed under
foreign flags during tho war by American ship
owners, and the r%cnactment OF, tho law re-
curing at least TIM c-fourths or the Grew OF nm
American vessel to be american.
Tho Probable 'cffec. Of emancipation in