The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-14
N E VS. 8 U M M a Il Y.

VIEWS SUMMAR Y.
Gold closed dull in Now York yesterday at
S4l.
Cotton was firm, with sales Of $500 bales
at 33A cents.
In Liverpool cotton was active; uplands
131d.; Orleaus 1891; sales 1900 bales.
-"Comfortable cofins" are advertised in
Boston.
@-The Mexican Congress will soon it is said,
confer regal powers upon President Juarez.
"A vessel cleared at the Boston Custom
house the other day, for Constantinople, with
so ,000 muskets.
The prevailing dishonesty Of the age has
forced It's way into the vegetable kingdom.
<ecentury plant" less than twenty years old,
has just boomed IN Louisiana.
-Commodore Vanderb1lts daughter teaches
her daughters to mend their own stockings,
because she Gays, sthere is no telling what
may happen in this country"
The Spanish in Cuba are not sufficiently
well provided for oy the commlssary to make
any move at present. The insurgents are said
to be laboring under the same disadvantage.
Frederick Douglass. Jr.. recently married
q daughter Of Mr. A. Mo yneux Hewlett, of
Harvard University. Some Of the papers have
stated that the BRIDES father is white .aaan
and a professor in the college. This.is not The
case Mr.. Molyneux is mulatto. He was
formerly prize-fghter of considerable repute
in England, and is now instructor in gymn astics
At Harvard.
--Sickles. it appears. is to be confronted
when he comes up for confirmation, by as
many Republican senators as have not per
aonaI esteem, respect and friendship for a
murderer, plmp. liar. thief, defaulter and mutl-
neer. 1t will be interesting to note who will be
decent enough to Withstand the party pressure
and recall this man, whose presence abroad ls
q national disgrace.
"A New York journal has the following "No
other single fact demonstrates 80 palpably the
very rapid growth OF our city as the one stated
in connection with the ceremony Of breaking
ground for the new postofioe. The first shov-
elful of earth was cast by the man who formerly
carried our whole Southern mail in wheelbar-
row and took il over the river in q rowboat.
During one mans life that wheelbarrow load
has grown so that half dozen locomotives are
necessary to move it,"
.--Halifax is, after thia year, 10 be governed
by q new liquor lew. which provides among
ether thinga that liquor shall not be sold to
any Gffe nnlsss he bo-a stxuvoiier after nine
sa'cipos at msht, aud that nc one shall be
deemed atraveller who does not live moro
taaa .s,e r,ac from tase place .whese the liquor
is sold. Already the drinkers are laughing at
the ease with which they can get their regul ,r
supplies by going to different part OF the
city from that where they reside. ~
General Candy has issued an order revok-
ing so much of on order issued by General
YL& IL -
mittlnR certain officers who. could not take the
test oath to hold Offices to which they were
elected. 4 All persons holding Office and who
cannot take the test oath are 70 be at once re-
moved. General Candy seems determined to
enforce it IN every instance. aud the issuing of
the order alluded to is regarded by some as an
assurance that he will impose it upon the Lee
@aslature.s sa a' .stat t"H
=-SSesretass Robsson has at last changed ti,ib
nAme OF war vessels, in accordance with the
Wishes Of the public. The vessels were not
Rroperly named in the first instance. a law OF
Congress providing that those Of certain
class should be named after States, others after
rivers, Iudian tribes &c. Instead Of acting in
30 -ordance with this law when he concluded to
= make q change. Mr.. Borie selected names for
the vessels from heathen mythology or the
has issued an order. remaining the vessels in
Aceordance with the law. - ~
The New York Herald, of Wednesday, SAYS ::
Ewenty Cuban prisoners have escaped from
Narnrn ndO Pc; three arrived here yesterday by
the Cunard steamer and the rest are en- route
Scr this ~. They escaped from Fernando Pc
By means OIL canoe, and landed within the do
nninions Of the Ring OF Caiabar, who projected
them against the Spanish authorities until
THAR departure. The acuon of the King of
Oslahar was protected by the intervention Of
IN Engleh war steamer on that station. The
names Of the refugees are Jose Manual Ponce
DIR. Patrocinio Fraises and j. M. Fernandez,
M0rera.n o4 1ci
Some time in July last number OF enter
Trisinay merchants Of st. Louis commenced try-
ang she experiment of shipping grain to Liver
pool bv the way Of the M'ssissppi River and
the CUR of Mexico. The poiut OF interest to
be determined was the effect which the heat OF
southern ATTITUDES might we upon the grain.
Tho result proves mat no apprehension need
be en-, ertained on,.his score. The last steam
"er employed has just arrived st Liverpool, after
voyage OF three weeks in the hottest season
OF III, year, and delivered her cargo IN perfect
Condition. The net croft TO the shippers by
shls route Ia greater than by way OF New York.
-ChanR and Eng Bunker, the Slamese
XWios, returned from Europe ia the Oity o.
Antwerp which arrived on SUNDAY at New
York. They deny that they left America for
the purpo 80 OF beng separated and say that
tho rnnnor to that efEscs was merely sensa-
siOA q Barnums, The link which buds them
seems 70 have shrunken o. late. ana taey are
snors closely joined than befors. They q say I,
that they are now, deter mined 70 eettle down
~Sor the remainder Of their lives IN Mount AIRY.
Mastt CsrNhns, sther old homes IN whlch they,
spont thirty yesss % southern plsrters. Chang