The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-21
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in Liverpool cotton was neS'y' uPi""
12aa12g: Orleans 1Sa13t; sales 5000 bales.
The famous Koopmanschaap Is again IN
New York. ..,
Palace the anvil chorus is to be sung by SOoo
voices
The 'original press used by Benjamin
Franklin" is said to be in 175 different Ameri-
can printing Offices.
William Madden, a respectable young
man, while passing up Broadway, New York.
ON Thursday, was shot and killed by William
j. Hamilton, barkeeper, who suspected
Madden to be Marlin Allen.
Sir Samuel Bakers expedition to the
sources OF the Nile, it is announced, started Oh
knoust 18th. The army Of exploration consists
.of.l7OO men; the baggage, stores and merchan-
disc TO be used in The trade with the natives
have been sert on in advance. Sir Samuel
Baker, With his pers rsonalstaf and Lady Baker,
were to leave in o few days.
Work on the New York postoface founda-
tions is going on rapidly. In the day time
tbree hundred and fifty men and one hundred
and seventy carts are employed. By night the
p,acs is Illuminated by three calcium lights,
and about one half as large force OF men and
carts are employed as during the day. Adver-
iseraents are out for large increase OF the
force. Hosting engines are now IN use, and
will greatly facilitate operations. considera'
BILE part Of one side of the foundations has al
ready been laid.
The annual book-trade sale began in New
York on Thursday. The catalogue bore the
names OF most Of the principal publishing
houses in the country, and the bidding was
much higher than last year. The Appletons'
consignment was first disposed, OF, but the
prices obtained we're not as good as was
expected. The standard publications Of
Messrs. e. 81. Butler and Company, OF Phila-
deIphia, commanded the best prices, the works
Of Burns, Goldsmith, Campbell and others
selling for $5, or only dollar and q half less
than the retail price.
George Francis Train has written letter
TO the New York Sun, in which he says that ne
is stdyingn to be General Grants successor,
and, moreover, that he is going to the White
House in spite Of church or party, friend or
kindred, society or club. Five things, he says,
mako o President: Locality, Availability, Or
ganisstion, Money and Brains, and all these
he can command. He will soon take the
stump in his own behsii. and speak every
night until 1871. He has done lecturing for
charity, two years OF that work earning for
him nothing but the titles Of Mountebank,
Charlstan and Lunatic. He declares that there
shall be no more softening OF the brain, but
q hardening Of the heart, and he will show the
individuality OF the citizen has been destroyed,
thereby s'makiDg the Fourth Of July sham,
the Declaration Of Independence fnrce. and
the great American people gigantic oligarchy
OF corrupt politicians.
MIR. William Henry Hurlburt has reached
London, and the first Of his long series OF Eu-
ropean letters for the New York World has
been printed in that journal The closing
paragraph refers tc Napoleon's health, and is
quite interesting. He says that friend. whose
sources Of information are OF the best, has in-
formed him that the Emperor has really been
very Ill, but with strictly local afection-an
affection painful alwsys, in extreme old age
parii,ous, bu. at the Emperor's time OF life and
to .. man Of his ssineuIarly vigorous constitu-
ton, in noWise positively dangerous. He has
undergone an operation, has been relieved OF
the local inconvenience under which he suffer-
cd, and is IN fair way OF going about his busi-
ness and his pleasures again as freely as at
any time within the last ten years. His con-
dision wasaggravated by undue haste in walk
ing after the operation, but the effects OF this
indiscretion are rapidly disappearing.
Miss Anna Dickinson is giving the people
of San Francisco her impressions OF Mormon
ism. The Chronicle newspaper of that city,
dated on the 7th instant, gives full report OF
her lecture delivered on the Sunday evening
previous, from which it appears that Miss
Dickinson likes Salt lake City, which she calls
the Sodem Of the Plains, quite as heartily as
she detests it's inhabitants. The streets are
wide and clean. the buildings are beautiful,
and the scenery around it is picturesque; but
the men and women that inhablt it
bear on their faces the stamp Of brutality
and debasement, and even the little child
rem that play in the streets are wretch
ed and nahealthy looking, with coun-
iensnces that reflect the most brutal pas
sions of men. Miss Dickinson visited several
Mormon families, and conversed freely with
the women concerning their condition. None
of them, she says, are happy. They wear
s'debased, serylle air." and look moro like tole-
rated slaves than beloved companions. Many
ofthem are worn and faded and slckly-made
so by excessive child-bearlng, nearly all the
middle-aged women having borne from ten 10
fifteen children. Some d,d defend polygamy
at first, but closer questioning revealed sad
unrest and discomfort. One woman was es-
pecially earnest in her assertion that she lived |
happily and would not change her condition If |
she could; but when Miss Dickinson questioned
her about her early Eoghsh life. and painted |
the picture OF the little cottage at home and |
the courtship, aud at last the marriage to one
vbole-souled, honest husband; and how they
vouId live together, and how she would wait
At the door of their home aud watch for his
coming 10 the evening; and when she asked
her il she could not be happy in such home,
he Mormon wife ''put her handsome hand to
,er face and bowed her head and cried, Oh.
nv God couldntIl' And then it was plain'
was easy to sec how that woman really
hought and felt"
MI. q. rockingham, New York -mer-
hsnt. was released from the Bloomingdale In
.ne Asylum few do sgo on writ Of hd6eds
,.-,,. ua hsd hesn an inmate OF the ineti.