The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-16
EWs SUM RI.

Gold closed in New York yesterday active
at $751;.
Cotton closed heavy and decidedly lower.
Sales 1900 balos. Middling 30Ao.
In Liverpool cotton close Irregular, Sales
20OO balos. Uplands 1871; Orleans 13id.
Tho lessee OF tho postofico fenco in New
York will clear 100000.
Private thoatricals have boon tho rage at
m,ny Of tho watering places, and will be very
popular in Now York society tho coming winter.
There aro said to be SS 600 members of the
order of knights Of tho White Camclia in
Texas. It is said to comprise the best and
wcalthcst citizens of tho State.
-Manassas, va., is rapidly improving. It
has now about eighty buildings, two churches,
thrco schools Zone colored,) two hotels, one
steam mill, one sumac MILL fvo stores, ono
newspaper, ono tin shop, two shoe shops, two
whoelright shops.
Although Vermont is understood to be tie
stronghold of tho Republican party, yet the
Democracy mado great gains at tho last State
election. The Montpelier Argus has carefully
written summary of the result, showing no less
than fvo towns which have been redeemed, and
will this year be represented by Democrats in
the Legislature.
the statement that President Grant, when
called upon lately by Father Wilson. Of st.
Domnio's Church, in that city, for contribu.
tion, replied that ho 'had no money to spare,
and II he had, none Of it would be given to.
wards Catholic objects, as during tho recent
war tho Cath olcs, as / 1dy, were rebels, and
had identified themselves with slavery and re-
bellion."
The ticket headed by Judge Dent, and
nominated by the recent Conservative Republi-
can Convention in Mississippi, is said, by the
local papers, to combine oil the clments of
strength. The candidate for State Auditor is
Colonel A. W. Willis, Union officer lately de-
capitated by Ames. Tho candidate for Attor-
ney-General is General Robert Lowry, an ex.
Confederate. Tho candidate for Secretary Of
State is Thomas st. Clair, q respectable colored
man, builder by trade; and Joseph McCloy,
publisher Of the National Republican newspa-
per, is the nominee for State Treasurer. The
Dent candidate for Congress In the Second
District is Judge William Kellogg, late men,
Der OF Congress- from Illinois.
The Humboldt medal, struck in the United
States to commemorate the hundredth ami
versary OF tho birthday Of the illustrious
German philosopher, naturalist and traveller,
is work Of great merit The medal, two
inches in diameter, is composed of bronze; tho
diverse presents q profile head OF Won
Humboldt, copied from the best models to be
procured in Germany, with the inscription,
s'Alexander Won Humboldt" in large letters,
and underneath tho name, in smaller letters,
"Born September 14th, 1863, died May 9th,
1885," tho reverse contains the legend, s'Earth
and Heaven he explored, revealed Nature and
freed the mind" This medal was executed by
Mr.. Anthony @. Paquet, of Philadelphia. the
skilled de-sinker, whose other medals and
whose seven years service in the United States
Mint, have proved bis ability as an ortist.
"A special dispatch to the Now York Times,
from Washington, says: "There is good reason
to believe that Senator Sumner who is to pro.
side at the Massachusetts, Republican State
Convention at Worcester, on tho 22d instant,
designs on that occasion to make an important
and possibly very significant speech on the
present condition OF public affairs. 40 is
known 10 be dissatisfied with tho present atti-
tude Of the administration on the foreign ques-
tions, Cuba aud Alabama claims, and will
strongly oppose any movement for the recog-
: tion OF Cuba, to which he fears the administra-
tion Is already committed. he Is for main tain
ing the high ground OF non-interference, thus
enforcing great moral example upon Eng
lands attention, and increasing by it's effect
the enormity OF her wrong-dolng in the hssty
and complete recognition OF the Southern bol-
ligerenoy." ..
Fall bonnets are decidedly larger than
those Of last season. They are high, towering
structures, in the Henri Quatre and Louis
Quinze styles. and once more begin to resem-
BILE bona Jfde bonnet. The frame fits the
head like close cap. and worn very far for.
ward. lAstanding reyers OF velvet or silk is
turned up at the front and at the back The
space between these is filed by high Wat
teau puff, on which is looped mass o. trim.
ming, which seems to be held IN place by the
upright revers. Narrow ribbons tied under
the chin hold tho bonnet securely. Another
style, of Quakorish simplicity, resembling an
infants bonnet in shape, has close fitting
band in front, and deep. fiat back, or crowd,
falling To two or three curves below to fl over
tho coiffire Of ciiatelain braids, with reference
to which 1t was evidently designed. Tho front
frames the face plainly, without ornament; the
back is adorned with trailing feathers and
vines that hang among tho low braids. ~
An exhibition OF noble devotion to duty,
under tho most fearful trial to which human
nature could be subjected, is to BIO recorded
OF an obscure servant OF a railroad near Now
York City, The. decd demands tho warmosl
and widest recognition. It needs no fine words
to embellish It. Tho simpest recital OF the
facts sufioes for placing the aoMon before the
world. us worthy Of. its homage. Albert Q.
-"k6r Is the watchmah Of the PsssA,o River
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