The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-10
N VS. SUM MAR Y.

NEWS sunni ARY.
d --Gold in New York yesterday closed active
! and strong at 33t.
Cotton was quoted at 2sa cents, with sales
$4,000 bales
j. Cotton in Liverpool closed dull and un-
changed, with sales of 1000 bales.
-Twenty-one Paris journalists are to run for
the Assembly.
The Vatican recently got on fire and mar
rowly escaped destruction.
"A $4,000 d'Alencon shawl appeared at
wedding reception in New York last week.
The Atlantic cable ia said to be growing
more perfect in it's insulation month by
month.
They have stylish parties in Boston at
which no one worth less than $3.50, 900 is ad! !!
mitsed. Il
To slake the thirst Of New York in part,
200 .OOO, 600 glasses of lager beer are annually
required.
IT. J. .Oakes, conductor on the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad, was shot and killed
in CourtIand Alabama, the other day, by the
keeper of an eating-house.
Tho slave trade, 1t seems, is not yet totally
Suppressed. "a British rigate recently caught
two slavers off Madagascar with one hundred
and fifteen negroes on board. Is IL
Prussian and French capitalists are pre-
pairing to build the largest hotel in Europe on
the banks Of the Lago Maggiore. 1t is intend:
ed to bay as cheap and good as it is large.
Wolves are making havoc among the hogs
4 and sheep in Amite County, Miss. They are
supposed to have been driven into that county
by the high waters in the Mississippi swamps.
-Ap apparatus has recently been construct
Ell in France by which pressure OF four hun
dred atmospheres can be continuously main
tanned in a vessel of water. Fish introduced
into this reservoir live and enjoy health under
this enormous pressure mentioned. 1t is
" therefore highly probable that the greatest
I depths Of the O. can may be habitable.
= The Pensacola West Florida Comm ercial
announces tho commencement of operations
on the railroad to Pensacola, near Molina and
states that the parties ere at present engaged
In getting out cross-ties, bridge timbers,, &C..
The editor says the operations are not on
very large scale, it is true, but give hope that
% Dur DDHfihhR tue last month, the price Of gold
has not been affected by violent fluctuations.
At the time of the Inauguration Of President
z Grant and the passage of the bill to strengthen
5 the public credit, gold fell four to five per
cent. below the figures that had ruled for
many months before. Since then the price
has been steady, and has varied but slightly
rom one thirty-one.
"A fashion correspondent writes: "This sea
son sees general revival Of braids for ladies'
bonnets-straw braids Of new and old designs
Then are interwrought with jet and pearl
ads-which is by no means an improvements
Straw may be braided ever so e1aborately, but
. 1t should not be worked up with materials for
which it has no sympathy-of which 1t has no
suggestion. Its freshness and breezeness-
SOUVENIR Of the fields wherein it grew-should
be allowed to assert itself, instead of being
smothered by, the Vulgar fripperies of the
Workshop 't ,1rt"a- y4+:r. IN
New York thieves have in training o num-
Der OF dogs for summer operations They are
taught by repeated endeavors to rush into a
room and seize from counter parcel and
quickly bring It, to his master. Their counter
ia made 90 as to resemble those in banks, and
the parcel is covered with yellow paper, and
made to look like the packages Of bank notes,
Shat are exchanged from one bank to another.
The design is to take or send by confederate
one of these dogs to the door of bank or
brokers' Office, where a parcel or package of
bank notes is seen to be lying on the counter,
and send him in. The trained animal darts in
and seizes the valuables in his mouth, and
rushes out to the place where he expects to
find his master.
The real reason why the President signed
the Tenure-ofSsAe bill is generally under
stood to be thS5sfH the presence OF Congress
ne believes himself powerless. He admitted,
n 80 many words, on Saturday last, that he
was to blame himself for the non-success of
the full repeal, which he would greatly have
preferred. He cosiders that when he gave in
to Messrs. Trumbun, Edmunds and Cenkling,
0f the Senate Judiciary Committee, by agree
ing to their amendments, that then repeal was
ost from that m oment. The President fresly
and frankly admits this to have been mistake.
Now that the thing is signed, the anomaly ia
presented OF two constructions being placed ON
this act-one by those compelled to accept it,
and the other by those friendly to it's terms
The most wonderful velocipede exploit on
record is thus described in the jacks onville,
ILL.,, Journal ION Saturday evening there
was quite large number gathered in Profess
sor Growers vel0cipede hall to witness the
proficiency and skill OF the professors pupils
on the wooden horse. IL appears that few or
the professors most advanced scholars have
been practicing on an inclined plane, which
mas heretofore been placed on the south side
OF the room. but in cleaning the hall in.the at
1ernoon the decline part had been removed,
anu Sne incline part was moved close to the
esst e,de OF the hall, SO that the highest part
rested on window-sili, the window having
oeen removed 10 the afternoon. Several OF the
new beginners had been showing their skill IN
riding round the room, and when M D,,n,.,,
came into the hall he was called upon 10 r;ds
and immediately complied, mounted tha ,,,.'
chine. and away he went at lightning aneea
around the hsll. AS soon as he had oot
the velocipede up to full speed. he went
straight for the incline plane, (sll who were
posted in the movement Of the plane supposed
1hat Mr.. Dunlap knew OF the change, and was