The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-09
NEWS OF THE DAK.
Gold closed. steady in New York at 2si

Gold closed steady in New York at 26la
9sX.
5-In New York cotson closed heavy and Hc.
lower. with sales os2eos bales at -251s cents.
Cotton in Liverpool was quiet; uplands n%d;
sales 10, 900 bales.
-Four prominent English magazines are now
edited by ladies.
s-An the state appointments OF Thanksgiving
day, thus far, coincide with the Presidential ap-
pontment.
sEWilliam b Astor expects to have as isrge an
income as the Marquis Of Westminster when his
Ioag leases fall in.
Photographs are printed with ,haOrdnary
printers ink in London, 1000 impressions being
struck from one plate in day.
TIC LIQUORS connscatea in Boston during The
last three months were made into one huge punch
the other day and turned into the dock.
1t is worth something TO live among the d.
vorcers. TIE clerk Of the county containing Chi
cago makes 100000 q year from fees and salary.
Duluth, Mimi, which was a wilderness two
months ago, has now population OF one thou
sand, a big hotel, church, newspaper, and
school-house.
The Providence Journal says that the Ameri-
can Colonization Society is overwhelmed with ap-
plIcations, by some OF the best Of the freedmen,
80 be sent to Liberia.
The Alta California says 80 great many Jap
anese people, stimulated by letters from the Aidzu
Colony now here, and by other means, have re-
solved to leave their country and make their per-
maaent home in California"
-sIissourihas produced an arithmetical phe-
nomenon, named Fields, who, without the slight
ost tnnvta<f1n NJ letters or hpnreS solves any
mathematical problem-from twice two to the
calculation Of lunar eclipse-in three minutes.
The Virginia Pententiary, it is announced.
is about to commence making boots and shoes-a
Boston manufacturer having proposed to employ
three hundred OF the convicts in that business
and, having agreed to invest $50, 900 in permanent
machinery and the same amount in the purchase
OF leather stock.
THE Halifax Chronicle, in the course OF en-
article upon Canadian annexation, reasons thus
sIhe market OF the United States is necessary to
our lives. The marke; OF Great Britain is not.
Dreams will not clothe our children. The warmth
OF the shade Of brave nag will not compensate
for q barefoot winter"
-Importations OF railroad iron for the past eight
years exhibit the curious fact that the higher the
rate OF duty was raised the greater were the
amounts imported. The statistics confute all
theories In regard to the tariff that have yet been
promulgated, and furnish clue 10 the apparent
anomaly or the present large revenue from Gus
toms under the highest tariff known to our laws.
General B. F. Butler, while coming from Wash
ington In sleeping car, was robbed OF his money,
overcoat and undercoat during halt at Phia-
delphis, Pa. He borrowed O coat OF the negro
porter on the train, and, after reaching store
house, raised enough money to buy new gar
ments, and proceeded to Boston on an evening
boat. He lost about seven hundred dollars in
money and three or four thousand in checks and
drafts.
Louisville, Kentucky, it is asserted, has dou-
bled in size since the war. The newspapers OF
that city state that large numbers OF buildings,
many OF them very costly and elegant, have been
erected, that the boundaries have been extended
until the municipal area is twice as large as for
merly, and that the population has increase: In
like proportion, while manufactures established
many years ago, but never attempting competi-
tion with like manufactures in Cincinnati, are
nourishlng.
- "A washington letter says: 'The committee
having in charge the erection OF the equestrian
statue OF General Grant have obtained sufficient
ceeding with the work, and today directed the
sculptor, j. A. Bailey OF Philadelphia, to proceed
with the statue. The statue will be Of bronze, cast
from cannens captured by General Grant. 1t is
10 be OF colossal size. The pedestal is to be sin
gle block OF granite. 1t will he erected on the
terrace on the south front Of the Treasury Build
Ing. The full height OF the statue will be about
twenty-five feet, exclusive Of the pedestal. the
total cost, including pedestal, will be about
$55,o0o."
The issue between the friends and enemies OF
Paraguay bids fair to be carried on with good
deal OF yigor at Washington this winter. We
have become so accustomed to hear Lopez de-
scribed as the concentration of all wicSedness
that 1t is hard to conceive OF him as anything else
than monster But there is manfestly another
side both to the personal history of "the Para
guayan tyrant" and to the long contest he has
waged with his enemies. If General Mcmahon
sustaias his position he will not only place the
"ylctims of Lopezs cruelty" who have hitherto
had the ear OF the country, at disadvantage, but
he will put Brazil and her allies Oh the defensive
: The testimony now is abundant and promises to
clear up the confusion In which South American
affairs have been so long involved
The eminent French surgeon, Dr. Sequard, in
eonSersng recently with an American gentle