The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-23
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Gold closed in New York at 35a

Cotton in Liverpool closed active uplands
11ada11sd, 1 Orleans 11ida115d sales $4,000
bales.
1t is said that the members Of the new
English House OF Commons are, as a body, re-
markably ugly.
Mr.. w. A. Rosborough, of Chester, s. O.,
died on the night of the 7th instant, aged fifty
eight.
1--WE doubt" says the London Spectator,
elf any English writer now living writes so
pure classical English as was written by Ma
thaniel Hawthorne"
In one day last week nearly s12,O worth
Of cotton was sold i'll the Village of Anderson,
s. G. The lntelligencer says: This will do
very well for village within sight Of the Blue
Ridge Mountains.
AT recent fete given by the Pope, the sa-
looms Of the Vatican were crowded with ladies,
whose presence is said to have been an Incl
dent without example, and to have greatly
scandalized the old prelates.
Tho correct pronunciation Of Greek and
Latin has recently been the subject of animat-
ed discussion in England, and member of
Cambridge University has published an OK
tended article in the Pathological Journal, ad-
vising the adoption of the Continental method,
that is, assmilating the vowel sounds to those
Of the Italian language.
"A frightful explosion of burning fluid
occurred at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on
Thursday evening, by which q young lady,
Miss Kate Rupert, had her person terribly
burned from her forehead to her feet. She
was carrying little child up stairs, at her
mothers home, when the lamp exploded, burn
ing the clothes off her body and setting fire to
the house. The child was not hurt
"A meeting of the spinners and manufac-
turers of Rochdale has endorsed the resolu-
t'on or the Manchester meeting in favor of
working mills only thirty hours week during
January and February, provided one-haR Of
the cotton spinners assent. 1t was reported
that all the spinnors of Littleborough had
agreed to work short hours during the time
stated.
1t is stated that District Attorney Court.
ney, of New York, having applied to Attorney
General Evarts for instructions in the case of
Commander Braine, Of the Confederate navy.
tried and sentenced to Imprisonment for
offences connected with the rebellion, MIR.
Evarts has instructed him to direct the release
OF the prisoner under the recent amnesty pro-
-clamation.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions. on the 10Th, again disc lssed the st.
Thomas treaty, and decided TO postpone com
ing to any conclusion until Denmark has am
pie opportunity to appear by its representa-
tlves before the committee, and to put in
evidence concerning the whcle history Of the
case. There is some doubt about the terms Of
solution of this complicated diplomatic ques-
tion.
"A fresh batch Of absurd rumors are in cir
oulation in New York concerning the assassin
OF the murdered MIR. Rodgers, but as they do
not serve to throw any light us to his where
abouts, they are scarcely worth repeating.
The clue which those wonderful fellows. the
detectives and the newspaper reporters.
thought they had, to the State prison bird
Tom" appears to be lost.
The golden yellow hair, 80 much admired
and sought after this season, is produced by a
solution Of arsenic with mordant OF the
hydro-sulpkate of ammonia. In dyeing the
lighter tints, however, it becomes necessary to
submit the hair to process Of bleaching,
which is commonly Effected by solution of
one or other Of the alkalies by chlorine, by
chloride Of soda. or lime. When the arsenic
dye is used, or in fact when any of the above is
applied .seclusion for few days becomes q
necessity.
Several inventions now in operation in Ell-
rope have yielded a1nmense fortunes The
patentee Of device for dressing millstones
with revolving diamond, an American inven-
ton, has realized over one million dollars the
first year Of his patent. The exclusive right in
England, for ten years is estimated at $5, ,O0O,-
600. 1t is said that MIR. Bessemer derives an
annual income OF So 000, 100 from his British
steel patents. In these cases genius is we'll re-
warded.
A correspondent in the New York Times
relates the circumstances of an order to Gene
raj Banks to supersede General Grant shortly
before the fall OF Vicksburg; that Banks refused
to obey, DC. He does not say who issued the
order, but mentions that it was not long after
Grant became aware for the first time (abont
five weeks ago) Of the existence OF the order,
that Mr.. Stanton announced his intention to
retire from public life. In connection with
this, by way Of throwing light upon the case, IL
may be stated the papers show that the order
TO supersede Grant was issued by direction of
Stanton.
The Californians look with contempt upon
the new veloclpede tThey will do very well, -
says an editor, "ior Paris, where many people
cannot afford to keep horses, and could mot
ride thom very well il they did; but they will
never do in Caiifornia, whore boys Of ten years
OF age ride full-grown horses at the ton oi
their speed around the streets. How would a
man look who has felt his blood stirred by O
ten mile dash In California saddle feel on
4insling himself trunillinc himaelf Ahrouot ~.
streets like schoolboy We would as soor
think of riding o. brcom-handle, or rocking
.hobby-horse."
AT the Lambeth Baths, London, on Satur
day evening, January 2, MIR. Reverdy Johnso1
was presented with an address by the working
men Of South London, expressive Of good vii
towards the people Of the United States and q
appreciation Of MIR. Johnson's public conduc