The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-25
NEWS So UMMA Try.

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-Yesterday gold ut Now York was active and
steady. closing ut 3S, ths highest prioo Of tho
day. ..
Tho Now Yo k cotton market was without
decided change; sales 500 bales at 35c.
AT Liverpool cotton closed dull; uplands
1sja1sid, Orleans 13s,l4l; saIos 5000 bales,
whereof 1000 we're for speculation and export.
p 81 Tho ,Merrmack priu. works at Lowell,
Mass., arc to be closed from q lack OF orders.
1t is estimated that there arc 10000
Chinamen in the United States, and moro
coming. "a . 81 ,t. ~ 49,
John G. Breokinridge, it is said, will DO Of
fered chair in the; Law, school, Of Kentucky
University "
The Duke of Newoastle's family motto is,
<'Loyalty knows no shame" Tomahawk thinks
1t appropriate. -.
1.-The Gear has banished the stern father
from Russian novels by. declaring tnat no girl
tshai be made to marry anybody she does not
like. '',i-'.t -
Three companies OF State militia, number
ing in all about s5 men, have been sent to
Lebanon, Ky, to DO distributed in the lower
counties where the regulators have been de-
predating. ~ %'. ,3 ~. 'at
.cals Of the results Of the elections this fall in
Ohio and Pennsylvania. As yet. but $50 has
been raised In Washington to buy up voters in
sthe latter State. ;-oJ..;;-i.-
The two negroes who outraged young
were taken from the Jail OF that town by a. par!
day Jmorning, and hung ,,: ~. ~; ,'i .
Ar Anfr a hon
man OF great wealth, formerly connected with
to have left the diplomatic service, and to have
taken holy orders at Rome.
--hssher1ff's officer, in executing writ
:againstthe goods Of an absconding debtor in
.Ambyyille. Canada, seized the artificial teeth
of the debtor'a wife while they we're Temporal
rily removed from her mouth.
But little doubt is now said to be enter
tanned OF andrew Johuson's election to the
Uuited States Senate. Bailie Peyton. whose
name has been used in connection with the
senatorship, is understood to advocate John.
sons reelection.
Commodore Vanderbilt was married Sat-
urdAy morning. at London. Canada. to Miss
Frank Crawford, daug4ter Of Robert Il. Craw-
ford, OF Mobile. Augustus Sohell. OF New
York, and superintendent Tillinghast. OF the
New York Central Railroad were the only per-
sons present.
4 perrlble floods have occurred on the River
.Yanfzee, China. There we're three feet of water
ON the bank at Haotow. TIE entire country
for miles back of the river was covered with
waller, resulting in great destruction to tho
crops and loss of lfe.i Kin-Kiang. and Chin
Khan were flooded. ~; y
Tho Countess Kisseleff. well-knoan visl-
tor at the Kursaai OF Homburg, had made q
resolution not to play, although che frequent
ed the gaming tables. A player having told
her that zero had won twics running, she
placed ten louis on the lucky zero. which won
a third time. The Countess pooKetcd ESQ and
exclaimed. ''Yet they wish me- to renounce
playi"
"A curiously composed group has just been
photographed at White Sulphur aprlnga. It
consists Of General r. e. Lee, Mr. Peabody.
Wise. Beauregard, Gary, Conner.
lilly, Lawton and Magruder, and Messrs.
Brent. W. W. Corcoran, James Lyons and
Blacque Bey. Mr. Peabody is the central
figure, and Immediately on his right is seated
Aaenerai Lee. i' ' !.
The great ship canal which is to connect
Amsterdam with the North Sea, OF cost OF
az 900 900 RuiIders. is now once more in pro:
stess. the Government of the Netherlands
having relieved tho contractors o, certain
difficulties which for q time htndered tho
work. Tue canal will be about fifteen miles IN
!eI9eth. The opening OF the new port as har-
lSs lBnsr9f refuge will be boon to all the mariners
who navigate tho North Sea-,
.-EExcursions to tho Holy Land are In vogue
among the Parisisns. Within couple OF years
Caravans" have been carried there, fed and
lodged there, and brought back for fxed Sum
pehhead. A new ''oarayAn" was announced to
'dsaFe Paris this month. These expeditions are
In the hands OF o set OF Francleran monks
Who shave amonastery in Paris, and who claim
to Hste the RuardanIhp Of some OF the holy
places In and about Jsrt oIem. '.
The Oldest theatrical manager In America
Uh point OF experience) is Ben De Bar, OF st.
dh.0ptba,. who is probably the weal,hiest also.
John L. Ford, of Baltimore, is the 80 ,on i. His
theatre tthe Holiday.street) Is the oldest now
existing. having been built in 1872. iJ. 81.
Mcyhoaeri (R Twin Booth's ha,her-in-Iau,) j..
l.. rWaf8ck, Ben. De Bar, John 7. Ford, and
Moses Kim ell, ofthe Boston Museum; are the
Wealth. ct manhgers in America. -
"aThs Pail Mall Gazette adds up the winnings
OF Biue Gown, whose proposed sale at fsOoo
Te So sa.ely noliced. AS o two.year old he won
i99r races with 4l405 stakes in the aggregate.
4fs dthrse years OF ago he won nine races, inolu.
saammg: the Derby for 1858. and brought to his
owner IN stakes s10 04O. Thus far lhls year he
hSSaI IHpHh 7hye races, aud s1ogJ making the pret-
q, ,seg5fgate Of fl2. sea. 70 which add the sum.
afflfs0op pfog which iho isto be sold, and his
aynef,Elb havs realized a18 6s2. or very, near.
" 500 900 IRON this one horse. h, ..
~, ,r+AranP Psabody's gift to General Lees q col.
lege Is referred to in warm terms OF. gratitude
'CStlie Vifxinis' papers. ihe LydohDurR Yir.
glnian SAYS 1t Is not 80 much the money wtifoh
he hAsNlYaHeas as tho anlmus that has been iu- 2
,dissteaAsth tho gift, that has endeared HIM to
thed5onthsrnpeople;a and IL thinks that ~ ;ttie