The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-14
VIEWS s UMMAR z.

Gold closed dull in New York yesterday t
34l.
Cotton was firm, with sales Of 25oo bales
=atS3a cents.
Ia Liverpool cotton was active; uplands
13fd.; Orleans 13sd.; sales 5000 bales.
-"Comfortable cofins' are advertised in
Boston.
The Mexican Congress will soon. it is said,
confer regal powers upon President Juarez.
"A vessel cleared at the Boston Custom
house the other day, for ConstantlRople, with
$1,000 muskets.
-lhe prevailing dishonesty Of the age has
fopoed ITS way into the vegetable kingdom. A
! stcsptury plant" less than. twenty years old,
has lust bloomed m Louislsns. ~ ~ q,
-Eommodore vanderbilt's daughter teaches
hef dadShters to mend their own stockings,
because she says, "there-is NO telling what
may happan ta this country" 4
Tho Spanish in Cuba are not sufficiently
: xell provided for Oy the commissary to make
anymose. 1t present. The insurgents are said
to be laboriug Under the same disadvantage.
Frederick Douglass, Jr., recently married
. daughter Of Dir. a. ho,yneux Hewlett, OF
Harvard University. Some Of the papers have
.stssed that the brides. father is white man
and . professor in the college. This.is not the
s .ssse. Mr.. Molyneu1 is . mulatto. he was
Z fbrmeriy sprizeedsbter Of considerable repute
In Knshnd. and is now insEuctorin gymnastics
: .as Harvard. Yvsz 81 t5--.,
--sickles, it appears, is to be confronted
when he comsa up for confirmation. by as
nany Republican senator's as have not per
,onai esteem respec. and friendship" for q
murderer, pump. lar. thief, defaulter ahd mua-
nssr. 1t will be interesting to note who will be
decent enough to Withstand the party pressure
aad recall this man, whose presence abroad ID
q national disgrace.
! "A New York journal has the following mo
.othcr single fact demonstrates 30 palpably the
yesS rapid growth OF our city as the one stated
! In connection With tho ceremony OF breaking
xroqad foe the new postof6ce. The first shov-
Alru, of earth wsscast by the man who formerly
! carried our whole southern mail in wheelbar-
row and took it over the river in roWboat.
During one mans life that wheelbarrow load
kas grown so- that half . dozen locomotives are
necessary to move it."
-Halifax is, after this year, 10 be governed
BY new liquor law. which provides among
ether things that liquor shall not be sold to
any one unless hs be traveller alter nine
O'Clock at night, and that no one shall be
deemed traveller who does not live more
chan one mile tom the place where the liquor
II sold. Already the drinkers are laughing at
chs ease with which they can get their regulir
supplies by: going toa different part Of the
1ityiHom that where they reside. 80
General Candy has issued an order revok-
ing 90 much OF an order issued by General
Stoneman, whilst in command in Virginia, per-
xaitting certain officers who could not take the
teSsoSth; to hold Offices to which they were
elected. All persons holding office and who
. cannot take the test oath are to be at once re-
moved. General Candy seems determined to
enforce it fn every instance. aud the issuing OF
the order alluded to is regarded by some ss an
assurance that he VIII impose it upon the Le-
sislature.
Secretary Robeson has at last changed tho
nauaa OF war. vessels, IN accordance with the
wishes Of tho public. The vessels we're not
pEoperiy namedin the 6rst instance. law Of
Congress providing that those Of certain
class should he named after States, others after
rivers, Indian tribes. &c. Instead OF actiug in
accordance with this law when he concluded to
u1ke q change, MI. Borie selected names tor
the vessels from heathen mythology or the
British Naval Rsgisrer.' Secretary Robson
has issued ap order. remaining the vessels in
accordance With the Law.
The New York Herald, Of Wednesday, says
sTwenty Cuban prisoners have escaped from
Fernando Pc; three arrived here yesterday by
tho Cuuard steamer and the rest are en- route
: coz this cl y. They escaped from Fernando Po
by means OF canoe. aud landed within the do
0inions of the King Of Calabar, who projected
them seainst the Spanish authorities until
their departure. The action OF the King Of
Oahbar was protected by the Intervention Of
IN EDgi1Ah war steamer on that station. The
names Of the refugees are Jose Manual Ponce.
Dr.. Patrocinio Praises and J. NJ. Fernandez
Nerera."
Some time in July last number Of enter
prising merchants OF st. LOUIS commenced Try
ing she experiment of shipping grain 10 Liver
pool By the way OF the Mississippi River and
the6uF of Mexico. The point Of interest to
be determined was the effect which the heat OF
southern latitudes might I've upon the grain.
The result proves that no apprehension need
be entertained on this score. The last steam
G employed has just arrived st Liverpool, after
. voyage Of three weeks in the hottest season
OF the year, and delivered beI cargo in perfect
condition. The net croft to the shippers by
this route is greater than by way Of New York.
-Cuang and Eng Buuker,' the Samese
Twins, returned from Europe in the City OF
Antwerp. which arrived on SUNDAY at New
York. They deny that they left America for
the purpose OF beng separated. aud say that
tho rumor to that eject was merely a sensa-
fion OF Barnum's. The link which buds them
seems to have shrunken OF late. and they are
more closely jolued than beiors. They say
that they are now deter mined to settle down
tor the remainder Of their lives IN Mount AIRY,
Aorth Carolina, their old home, IN which they
spent thirty yeals as Southern planters. Chang |
aud Eng ace now over fftr-eight years Of age. |
chane bss.s family OF nine and Eug OF eight.
-rhou art 30 near and yst 30 dear, might be
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