The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-27
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THO Now york, gold board was closed on
Saturday. Informal. transactions we're made
at o.. ni ''ei ar /
Cotton closed hoavy. Sales 7co balcr.
Middling 29c. n'Snla
in liverpool on Saturday cotton closed
flm.r. Sales 10000 bales. .Uplands 12ld.a
,12ld.
t.ii.-Androw johnson has been invited to speak
at Atlanta.
james Sadlicr, of tho we'll known Catholic
book establishing firm, D. u j. SadIier, is dead.
Charles Sumner is announced for quad.
rupedantio lecture on the qnostion Of Caste,
which he will deliver all ovor tho country.
Tho noted monk who has "gono back on
the Popo" adopted the name Of Hyacinthe.
His real name is Loyson.
.a General Joseph e. Johnston is now the
general agent for Georgia OF the Liverpool and
London aud Globe Fire Insurance Company,
and the New York Life (nIutual.)
-Chiof Justice Chase has just invested $22-
900 10 8 tract OF land. containing forty acres,
located near Washing ton, aud known as "Nfe-
tropolis Wow" A fine mausion is crocted ON
tho land, ana the Chief Justice viii make this
his home. W.
"A sut-committee Of fifteen was appointed
at Washington on Thursday night by tho genc-
raj Committees Of One Hundred, appointed by
public meeting ,somo timo ago, to report al.
outline'of q plan for agrand International Ex.
position at that city in 1874. aaaa .iyig
Forty eight iron-ola,ls arc now In o sea-
going condition, and arc ready for immediate
use and by tho 18th of Docomber next from
fifteen to twenty sloops aud frigates will be
ready for service In fact, tho navy will then
be on. o complete war footing,
The New York jobbing house OF Burchard,
Wilson & Co., fancy goods. at No. 81 franklin
street, has suspended, with liabilities amount
ing to over $loO, 900. They offer to pay sixty
oents on tho dollar, In six, nine and twelve
months, without interest. Tho proposal has
been accepted by majority OF tho oreditors.
"A day or two ago a company OF fitty-f1ve
German emiRrants loft New York for MISSISSIPPI
pi via Washington, Knoxville and Grand Juno.
tion. They arc the first instalmen5 OF q coony
numbering somo six hundred and fifty, who
have purchased a tract of land aud propose to
locate In the vicinity of Water Valley, ,Misss.
sippi.
The question is asked what Agassiz meant
in his Humboldt speech when he said: ',Here
Sohimper and Braun for the first time dis.
ouSsad the laws Of phyllota1is, that marvellous
rhythemicalr arrangement OF the leaves OF
plants which our great mathematician in Cam
bridge hos found to agree with the periods Of
rotation Of our planets"
"A letter from private source in Cuba
states thht jealousy. influenced by malignity
or Spanish Rold.s has necesstated o reorganiza-
tfon'of the patriot armv and compelled Ccs-
pedes to take command. General Jordan to bo
chief OF staff Two Dominicaus, who were
generals in the patriot army. had heep assas-
sinated because they were foreigners. This
beginning may, it is foaIed, end diastrousiy to
the patriot cause. rsi s..i>.a ..ss--,s,s.
Tho Countess Guiccioli replies to Mis-
Stoves article on Byron' 5 'acandal,t Madame
Ia Countess pretends to be In constant COM
niunication with tho spirit OF Lord byron, and
she was informed by the poet two yoars ago
that .an American author was preparing to
write on:his lifsaibook full Of falsc aud horri-
bio things.e Now. il somebody would ark
Lady Byron we. could get both sides OF the
sk.ry. But the matter is about settled, at
ready. 20 2 = y'r,amnzi ir' . Gia
Farm assecistions are popular among the
Germans residing 10 New York City. A tract
OF land composed Of 10000 acres, in Potter
County, Pa, has been settled on this plan, and
has located upon IL a thriving village, called
Germania, Tho farms of twenty five, acres
each arc sold for $500; and arc paid for III in
staments or S2n Week. The assooIations Or
gapsed Ter the purpose Of obtaining farms at
low rates consist OF fiftv members each, and
purchase large tracts OF 1850 acres. -
1t is stated. That. the City of Havara, be-
:ore the revolt Of Yara. claimed 250. 900 inhabi-
tanls. There are now, at the very outside
figure. no more than 80 600 People there.
Thocssnds Of spanish merchants aid traders
have fed to SPAN. Thousands OF wealthy
Cdbans have gone to, New York. New, Orleans,
Baltimore. Mexico aud Europe;i while veryI
many thousands OF Cdbans have drifted into
the interior 10 join tho Cuban army. Not ouly
havo men gone. but at least 1B 900 ladies' have
also left Havana for d Hyrent towns OF she inte-
rIor. l. is estimated TINT there are now 10 600
empty hvuses in tho city. Fl
-hrs. ,H. WaddIuger, a lady Of high social
position and much intelligence, rom Hanover,
Germany, has recently mado tour OF observs
tioD through tho South. Her purpose was to
determine. in behalf or fhtrselt and others, the
question Of removal to America and her i'm
pressiops are communicated In letter to the
MemPhia, Appeal, FROM which tho following et-
tract is taken: 1.-THE opinion entertained pre-
vions to my visit that tho Southern statos we're
wants Of my countrJmeh than the North west,
has been fully confirmed. and !. shall not fail to
30 advise them OF their interest 10 the matter,
AMI to use whatever inaueuoe i may be able to
exert. both among my friends In Germany as'
well as those in tile States north and ~eet OF
yours. IN giving sueh directions 70 emigration."
The trouble IN the Methodist Book Cop
eerp vas discovered some months ago, but
La - IA
horg robbery antil ,'hls. Az limo. rba oopoern
hiss been pIuadered Of no money, but hss sm-
ply suffered . feddctton "a proh. sBy the dis,
honest. ,extravaRspoe OF hs employees. II sp-
pears that the :maEiKsrs Of the printing. and
binding departments, instead iof bnyin& the
paper, ink; udAiin. ftsAtnat add 70 on! usSd III
the manufacture Of books: directly from deal
ers ilthoss sSticlss AAye been 10 the habit Of