The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-19
Tbe Gbaflestn,, Nems.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1869.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cotton closed in New York at 2eA cents
1or middlings. Ha "
Gold closed dull, at SOL.
In Liverpool cotton closed more active,
with quotations unchanged. =. t Iic
The horse-cars on one of the Boston lines
are now furnished with directories ofthat city.
The last payment but one in the $4,000
match between McCoole md Allen has been
made In st. Louis.
Olive Logan, in her book, says that Phila-
delphia is the great place for making symme-
trical limbs by padding.
"A Boston Fair weighs all It's visitors for
the " championship" Thirty thousand have
passed the ordeal, tho heaviest so far weighing
37OA
Mr. George Leigh, the eldest son of Mrs.
Leigh, proposes to bring an action for Sian
der against the publishers OF Mrs. Stoves
article. '' -
We believe that the day (or mighty is not
far distant when concerts Will be given stimuli
taneously In every State in this Union, at which
electrical pianos will be played by the same
musician. 1t will be a" matinee In New York 4
and evening concert in San Francisco.
"A New England newspaper, seeing that
almost as many cities wish to become the capl-
tai Of the nation rs In olden times laid claim :
to the honor of having been the birthplace of
Homer, audacioln proposes that the capital
shall be moved about among them, "like q
State agricultural fair or a menagerlc."
TO the great disgust, no doubt, Of the
"tuppcnny" papers Of New York, John Russell
Young will start, on the 10th of November, o
penny paper, 80 rs to get square with Dana,
who drove him out Of the Tribune Office Jay
Cooke & Co. are said to bc Mr.. Young's hackers,
and oil the funds requisite will be placed at his
disposal to eclipse the nastiness Of the Sun.
The total number OF graves of soldiers
who died In the late civil war now recorded in
the printed forms published by the United
States Quartermasters Department amounts
to about 10000 There yet remain to be
printed the records of. about 10000 graves,
making an aggregate Of SOC, 600, OF which the
names OF loo, 900 occupants win probably never
be known. - y
Never at any time during the last eight
years has the Gold-Room displayed the mori-
b'ind features which 1t shows ut present. II 1t
De not deail. It certainly looks CHASTITY enough
for death. The speetetors have deserted its
noisy and dingy precincts. Tie hundreds of
excited and roaring operators rho. from
morning till night for years past, have ean-
fronted each other around the 'fountain, have
disappeared, and only q few sombre brokers
are to bo seen. -.iEaa.
The new German flag does not seem to
meet with much favor. 1t is composed of
three horizontal stripes of black, white and
red, In equal widths. The var flag for the
navy is black st. Georges cross on white
Held, with the mercantile tricolor in the, upper
corner. The postoflice flag is like the latter.
with the addition of a cured post horn In the
lower corner. The mail packets are OBLIGED
py an absurd order TO carry this postoface fiag.
as Their national flag: The steamship com
-panios are very Indignant at the order. .
"A Washington letter says: SIT is believed.
that at the next session Of Congress the M 4
tionhi banking net will receive thorough over
hauling, and Tint greater restrictions Will tje,
imposed upon the banks. Some of them.
especially in the large cities, arc known known to
have violated the act of Congress to such an
extent as TO. warrant the Secretary of, The. !.
treasury IN taking away their charters. No,
action, however, will be taken until Congress-
meets, Wien tho Whole question Will be opened
. up by petitions from merchants and othera
who have suffered from tho conduct OF the
banks In using their finds for sncculntiye pur-
p0ses.n
"A Gentle in Salt Lake who has married q
Mormon lady liz in some dread OF the ssblood
atonement;"' He describes tile peculiar insti-
tuition as. follows: ..Well, these, fellows get \
grudge against q man, and they make out that
mes done something he can't atone for except
with blood, and then some of the elders hayc n
revelation that the mans got to be got ont of
the way, and they go for him. fTaint no use.
then. These revelations do tho business for
him. Mans found dead, throat cut, or some
thing OF that sort, and that's the last of It, No
BODY knows anything about 1t, and II you catch
'em ut 1t 'taint no use-thcy all stand by each
other"
The Alta California owns TINT s'the great
want OF California ut the present time is pop
= ulation," and says SIT must be admitted that
some disappointment has followed the COM
pletlon OF tho Pacific Railroad;" but adds
I'VE cannot help thinking that those who an
ticipated an Immediate accession to our popu-
latlon, and auddon increase In the price OF
real estate, md Immediate sales of agricul-
tlral lands NJ cxorbitant prices, to soy moth
Ing OF the cxtrayagant antclpattons OF mer-
cahtiie prosperity, take very short-3ighted
view OF the subject. The railroad will bring
Doth population and wealth to the country
within reasonable time; but some effort will
be required on onr part to show that there are
peculiar advantages OF climate and soil to In
duce settlement here, and opportunities moro
favorable than elsewhere for the profitable in
vestment of capltal.'
The manufacturers Of cotton goods in
Europe are dcvls!ng plans whereby the facto-
ries can be placed as near as possible to the
sources Of supply OF the raw material. Thus,
tho Lancashire manufacturers are contemplate
Ing the removal OF their establishments from
Manchester to the British East Indies. The
harseilles Journals, y also, are suggesting the
transfer Of the cotton factories from the north
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