The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-16
N II VS. SUM MAR

EdOid closed at NOW YORK yesterday at 800.
The nov York cotton market was quiet aud
unchanged; sales 11Oo 6sies at s44as4s cents
Cotton at Liverpool closed easier; uplands
Id; sales 10 600 bales.
The New York Hanson Cab Company has
oil it's stock subscribed.
White leather harness. with gold buckles, is
q nohby watering place style. 's j,
Hon. 8. g. Cox writes from Malaga that.
much of the vino is made from the potato. az
The New York Sun nominates Burlingame
for President In 1872 on the strength of the
Chinese immigration, ,.r, "a !.
Professor Maury, Of the Virginia Military
Institute has accepted the position Of Presi-
dent or the University, of Alabama. s.;.
"A silversmith in Smith6eld, England re-
Gently poisoned his wife and six children to
death, ending the proceeding by killing him
self, because he could get no work.
"A colored woman named Polly Garland
was 80 badly burned by the explosion of ke r
osene lamp. in Lynchburg, Va, on Sunday
night, that rho died IN q few hours.
The Detroit Post thinks that our naval
vessels, If we would have them inspire terror.
should receive such names as Cholera and Yel-
low Fever, Nitro -Glycerine, Susan B. Anthony,
Anna Dickinson. 30. -.,
General KIRBY Smith seems to be popular
as an instructor of youth. In one State alone,
says the Louisville Courier Journal, sixteen
hundred ladies have. promised him their SONS
:as pupils for his military academy.
The remarkably quick Qess than thirteen
days) passage out Of the yacht Dauntless, as
announced by the cable, 1s considered another
feather in the cap Of her owner, MIR. James,
Gordon Bennett, Jr! Mayor Hall, when he
heard the news, ordered Marshal Tooker to fire
one hundred guns in front of the New York
City Hall in honor Of the event, and the order
was promptly obeyed.' ~.
The important Office Of editor OF the New
York Times has been offered to the Hon. John
Bgelow, and he no ds the offer under con-
sideration. The attractions are said to consist
OF salary Of SIC. 900 year, with large in
terest in the proprietorship of the paperon
very favorable terms. As Mr.. Bigelow had
just completed his arrangements for a pro-
tracted residence in Europe, he naturally hesi-
tates to change his plans. . &SH
Tho Cuban expedition Zone hundred and
twenty men) that quietly slipped away from
New York, on the 23d Of last month, as auietly
returned to New York on Saturday evening
last, 10 the brig A. Eldred. The men made 4
laros.r but choIa-. aid yellow 1e1er wsrs pi1-
Saiing so badly in the irsurgent camp that all
hands concluded to return homo while it was
yet in their power to do so.
Another duel between two negro women,
rivals in the affections Of young man, came
off the other day in Tennessee. The battle
was with bludgeons. 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 was apparently getting the best OF
the 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 Ct
this country is soon to be called to take into
consideration what measures, if 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 country, calling their
attention to the matter, aud asking advice.
Representatives Of the trades union Of Califor-
mia are now IN New York and other Eastern
cities. agitating their brethren agains. John
Chinamap.
An influential deputation waited on the
Duke of Argyle. secretary for India, recently,
to urge ths total abolition OF duties in British
measure mitigate the distress now prevailing
in the cotton manufacturing districts in Eng
land. They gave the high price Of cotton as
the sole cause Of the present dis resse 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
five per cent, but that low rate yields over two
and half millions sterling. He told them
that the government had done all they possi-
bly, cou.d, by providing the planters with the
best cotton seed, aud granting other facilities
Tor raising large cotton crops IN India, to favor
this industry. He hoped, he said, that as
soon as the inland communicAtlons Of India
were more 'perfee@s the s1nnrr!ss g sStton tom
chat country would be ample. Planters and
cotton merchants in America should make a
note OF this.
-Advlces received in Liverpool report the
arrival, at Fernando Po, Of two hundred and
fifty deporlados. or political exles, from Hava-
na. sn the Soanish Government transport Borja.
These exiles, mostly men OF high position and
wesfth, complain bitterly Of the cruel treat
ment 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 sufferangs
were sue as to cause them to hail with delight
their being landed at this island, Fernando
.Po) in spite OF all the horrors which they an
ticipated from previous description" They
ALSO complain OF the high prices they had to
Dsy for anything out OF the way OF their AorAi-
nary allowance Of coarse provisions, one dollar
being CHARGED for bottle o. beer, and other
things in proportion. Shortly sfser they land
ed the island was placed under martial Law.
and even people connected with or belonging
to the mail steamer were prohibited from visit
ing or leaving her without spec,al peemit