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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-21

Conslg noes per south Caa Ollna Natlroaa
Juno 40.
12l bales Cotton, 70 bales Domestice S12 bbls Ma
val stores, 1S8 casks Clay, cars Lumber. 4 cars
Wood 2 oaEs Shingles and staves, / car Stock. TO
Railrosd Agent. g W ktt fens. Klnck wickenberg
b 90. Q Erahe q Co. y T Getty. Olaghorn, Her
ring Co. w ENnith, Johnston Crows Co, Ken
dali b Dockeay, w Roach. J Morshall Pelxer, Rod
eers q 90. Mure & Co, Goldsmith b 90. and j
IA ,iJ juno I'D.
IA bales Cotton, do7 bbls Naval stores, Lumber,
esock. Mdse. SOTO J Marshall. Jr. y Stoney, J
p Wreften. w welsh. Btsohoff & Co. ] A Quacken-
6uek. holnes h Calder, Howard Bro, A Quinn, q
Walter Co. Wagner & MonseeR, Kirkpatrick &
Witte Mowry & 90, Reeder & Davis. W Z Ryan, A A
Goldsmith Co. Fripp May Ferguson, Wei
ling. simmons, and w T Sanders.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-21
Roston Market.

BOSTON, June 1e.-ooTroN.-The market for
cotton IL quite hrm and prices have been steadily
advancing the past week. With the prospect Of
Light supplies the balance of the season. holders
further advance. The sales have been 5000 bales
and We quote 27a2sc for ordinary; 29ha2sc ior good
ordinary; 30Ha31H for low middnng and 31xca
S2Hc tor middling. including uplands and Gnlf
stock on hand about 7OeO bales
DoMEsIIca activity in cottons, and
there is very hrm feeling with the pl lospect of
further advance account of the increased cost OF
production. Woollens have been selling freely,
the clothlers having been tree purchase 8, but
prices continue 20 rule low.and unsatisfactory.
GUNNY CLoTH.-Demapd quite active anu sales of
1700 bales at 22Aa2Sc currency. and 101c gold, In
bond. Higher pri now asked.
GUNNx BAas.-.Marketq q iet at 1616a17o, currency.
HAx.-The sales have been at Sl8a28 per Ton and
supplied. A
NAVAL STORES -In spirits turpensine the sales
have been small at 4ea47c gallon. closing OF AGO.
In tar, rosin and pitch very little dong.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-21
wtlmington market.

Wilmington Market.
WILMINGTON. June 19-TuRpENTnE -Saies of
15 barrels ct IS for virgin and % 6Ua2 65 for yellow
dip. per $50 lbs. =.
kpIRIrs TURpENT1NE.--Sales of 200 bbls at 3S%o
per gallon. Other sales have also taken place, but
we could not get the repo' to.
PosIN.-462 barrels changed hands at 81 70 for
black. 81 80 for strained, delivered. % for extra No.
2, 50 25aS rs for No. l. and $4a5 for low pale,
TAR Only 20 bbls. received and sold at - as per
barrel. -'-r"' $50, 4N
CoTroN-one email lot u bales) sold at aoc for
mixed
HAY--1s4 bales Northern sold from wharf at zoe
per 100 lbs. i
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-21
Yrugs, Gbemi' ais, Gte.

II H E HI ID II UGS .
JUST RECEIVED,
GRIMAULT & CO.'S PRESENTATIONS Il
IODIZBD SYRUP OF HORSE RADIsH
VEGETABLE CAPSULES OF MATICO
SYRUP OF HYPOPHOSPHITE OF LIME
GUARANA POWDERS.
All fresh from Paris, and for sale by
Dr. HI. BAER.
May 8 No. 13a MEETING-STREET
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-21
@ariuf Mems.

Port OF Ctarleston. June 2l
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
The Two Yolops.

When Gutenberg, the frst printer,
was working in mis- cell in the monas-
terry of st. Abersg0t, he tells Us that
he heard two voices address him.
The one bade him desist told him
the power his invention would put
into the hands, of bad men to .propa-
gate their wiekedness; told him how
men would prOfane the art he had
created, and how posterity would have
cause to curse the man who gave It to
the world. So impressed was Gutten-
berg with what he heard, that he took
hammer and broke TO pieces the
types he had so laboriOusly put
together. His work Of destruction was
only stayed by another voice, sweet
and musical, that fell on his ear, tell-7
ing him to 60 on and rejoice 10 his
work; that ali good might be made
the cause Of evil, but that God would
bless the right in the end. So to all
of us still come those voices that came
to Gutenberg; the one calling Us to
work while it is. called to-day, to try
to leave this world better than We
found it; and the other tempting u
to give over, and take our ease, to
leave plOw in mid-furrOw, and to rest s
on our oars when we should be pull
Ing against the stream.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
From New America, by W. Hepworth Dixon
American Ladies'.

"What do you say now to our ladies2"
said to me bluff Yankee, as we sat last
night under the verandah, here in the ho-
tel at Saratoga. "Charming, of course"
answered, ''pale, delicate, bewitehing;
dashing, too, and radiant" "HOo!" cried
he, putting up his hands; "they are just
not worth a d-n. They can't walk,
they can't ride, they can't nurse" "Ah,
you have no wife, said I, in a soothing
tone. "a wife!" he shouted, "I should
kill her." s'With kindness?'' Ought" he
answered, "with poker" Look at these
chits here, dawdling by the fountain.
What are they doing now? what have they
done all day? Fed and dressed. They
have changed their clothes three times, and
had their hair washed, cOmbed, and curled
three times, That is their life. Have
they been out for walk, for ride? Have
they read book, have they sewn a seam?
Not bit of it." "How do your ladies
spend their time?' "They put on good
boots, they tuck up their skirts, and bark
away through the country lanes. L was
in Hampshire once; my host was a duke;
his wife was out before breakfast with
clogs on her feet, and roses on her cheeks;
she rode to the hunt; she walked to the
cOpse; ditch would not frighten her;
hedge would not turn her back" 'Why,
our women, poor, pale"-. "Come,"
said, "They are very lovely" "Ugh,' said
the saucy fellow, ''they have no bone, no
fiber, no juice; they have only nerves; but
what can you expect? They eat pearlash
for bread; they drink ice water for wine;
they wear tight stays, thin shoes, and bar
rel-skirts. SHeh things are not fit to live,
and, thank God, in hundred years not
one of their descendants will be left
alive"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

Modern research has determined a
curious circumstance in an organic
contrivance in the camel, which is
intended to supply them with food
from a storehouse in their own bod
les, till supplies are attainable from
sources.
The hump is an immense collection
of fat, stored in rcticulated cells, pill
ed up one upon another, which is
concentrated food. When fodder can
not be had, as frequently occurs on
their long caravan travels in the des-
ert, a peculiar set of absorbent YES
sells draws upon the magazine-the
hump-earrying the fat into the cir
culatiou until food from without puts
stop to the draft on their back. The
hump is very sensibly diminished at
tlmes-even being almost completely
leveled; but that which was thus bor-
rowed to sustain life temporarily, is
Immediately replaced when the
stomach is set in motion again in its
accustomed manner.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
DeeIine tn ColoniZalion.

African Colonization, according Ia
the Baltimore Sun, is on the decline.
Previous to the war, the Colonization
Society often found difficulty IN prOyi-
ding adequate conveyance for emil
grants to Africa but during the lass
two years great difficulty has been ex-.
perieneed in finding employment for
the vessels owned bythesociety. The
regular fall expedition Of 1868 to LIE
IBERIA was dispensed with entirely, for
want of passengers, and this spring
less than one hundred emigrants have
applied for berths. The ship Col
eOnda, purchased by the Stevens be-
quest, aud belonging to the Colonlza-
tiOn Society, has recently returned
from voyage to Europe, and will
probably be again sent out as a mer-
chant vessel. The indispositiOn to
emigrate to Africa is believed to be
caused by the improved condition Of
the eolOred race in the United States,
caused by the abolition Of slavery.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
Miscellaneous.
A Balloon Duel.

Perhaps the most remarkable duel ever
fought took place in 1903. 1t was pecu-
liarly French in its tone, and could hard
ly have occurred under any other than a
French state of society, NJ. le Granpre
and M. le Pique had quarrel, arising out
of jealousy concerning a lady engaged at
the Imperial Opera. They agreed to fight
a duel to settle their respective claims;
and, in order that the heat of angry pas
sion should not interfere with the polished
elegance Of the proceeding, they postponed
the duel for month, the lady agreeing to
'bestOw her smiles on the survivor of the
two, if the other was killed; OF, at all
events, this was inferred by the two men,
if not actually expressed. The duelists
were to fight in the air. Two balloons
were constructed precisely alike. On the
day denoted, De Granpre and his second
entered the car of one balloon, lie Pique
and his second that of the other; it was in
the Garden of the Tuileries, amid an i'm
mense concourse of spectators. The gen
tlemen were to fire, not at each other, but
at each others balloon, in order to bring
them down by the escape of gas; and as
pistols might hardly have served the pur-
pose, each aeronaut took blupderbuss in
his car. At a given signal the roTes
tlat retained the cars were cut, and
the balloons ascended. The wind was
moderate and kept the balloons at about
their original distance of eighty yards
apart. When half mile above the sur
face Ofthe earth pre-concerted signal for
firing was given. NJ. Ie Pique fired, but
missed. NJ. de Graupre fired and sent a
ball through lie Pique's balloon. The
balloon collapsed, the car descended with
frightful rapidity, and De Pique and his
second were dashed to pieces. De Granpre
continued his sseent riumphantly and
terminated his aerial vOyrge successfully
at a distance of seven leagues from Paris.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

A Rich Story.


A tall, awkward looking chap just
from the Green mountains of Vermont,
came on board one of the splendid
North River boats at Albany. His
curiosity was amazingly excited at
once, and he commenced "peaking,n y
as he called it, into every nook and
corner on the. boat. The captains of
fee, the engine room, the water closets,
the barber's shop, all underwent his
inspection; and then he went on deck
and stood in amazement at the lever
beam, the chimneys, and the various
."fxins," till at last he caught sight of
the bell This was the crOwning won
der, and he viewed it from every pO-
sition, walked around it, got down on
his knees and looked up into it, and
exclaimed;
"Wall, rally, this beats the bell on
our meetiug-house a darned sight"
By this time, the attention of the
captain and several of the passengers
was attracted to this genius.
Chow much would you ask to let
feller ring this bell?"
You may ring it for dollar, sir"
said the captain.
"Wall, it g bargain, all fair and
agreed, and no backing eout.D
'It s bargain" said the captain.
Our hero went deliberately and
brought seat and took hold of the
bell rope, and having arranged every
thing to his satisfaction, commenced
ringing, slowly at first, and gradually
faster and faster, till every body on
board thought the boat was on fire,
and rushed on deck, screaming with
alarm.
There stood the "VarmOunter, ring
ing away, first slow and then fast, and
then two or. three taps at time. The
passengers began to expostulate; the
captain said it was a bargain. But the
passengers became urgent that the eter-
nal clangor should be stopped. All
the while there sat our hero undis-
turbed, ringing away more ways than
a cockney chime ringer ever dreamed
Of. At last the captain began to think
it time to stop the simpleton but his
answer was:
(" A fair bargain and no backing
eOut," said he, and rang away for dear
life.
"Well," i" says the captain, "what
will you take to stOp?"
"Wall, cap'n, 1 guess I sheant lose
nothing if 1 take FIVE dollars and
free passage to New York, but not
darned cent less.
"Wen, sir, walk down into the Of
flee, and get your money and a passage
ticket" answered the captain.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
A Handsome Thing.

The Delaware tribe of Indians became
extinct on the 10th of April, 1867, by the
removal of some and their union with the
CherOkees, and by the naturalization of
others as citizens of Kansas; and yet an
Indian Agent for the Delawares is still
drawing his salary from the Government.
The President, not aware of the facts, nom
mated Quaker for Delaware Agent, but
he was rejected by the Senate! POmerOy
knew about it, and desired to continue
his friend as Agent for tribe that has no
existence, and whose salaries and perqui-
sites make it a fat situation, with nothing
to do except to invest his plunder in the
corner lots of Kansas cities! 1t is said that
the large supplies formerly drawn for the
Delawares eontinueto be received by the
Agent. At all events, there is an Indian
Agent for a tribe that does not exist. Of
course no Quaker was wanted to make
peace with the Delawares.-[Cin. Times.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
"Swpet fields beyond the swelling foo !,
Stand dressed in living green -
AFaithfulD Dog.

A child about five years of age,
daughter Of James ParsOn, who lives
in the vicinity of Little Sodus, n. Y,
last week fell into well and was res
cued from drowning by a spaniel be-
longing to Mr.. Parsons, which had al
ways shown great affection for the
child. The we'll is about twenty let
deep, and at the time of the accident
contained about fifteen feet of water.
The curb was low, and the child leaned
over and fell in. A man who was
passing along the road, some distance
from the well, heard peculiar cries from
the dog. who was running frantically
around the we'll The man got upon
the fence and saw the dog jump into
the well. He then ran to the spot
and saw the child upheld by the dog.
Both were Immediately rescued, al
though the little girl was supposed to
be dead. She was resuscitated with a
good deal of difficulty, and is now all
right.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

A AMIsAPPREHENsION.-We reCollect once
being very much amused at the relation of
the following anecdote, from the lips of a
very amiable, and withal, very modest
widow lady in New Jersey. Soon after
her husband paid the debt of nature,
leaving her his legatee, claim was
brought against the estate by his brother,
and a process was served upon her by the
sheriff ofthe county, who happened to be
a widOwer of middle age. Being unused,
at that time, to the forms of law-though
in the protracted lawsuit which followed
she had ample opportunity of acquiring
xperience-she was much alarmed, and
meeting, just after the departure of the
sheriff, with female friend, she excIainl-
ed, with much agitation,-
"What do you think? Sheriff Prince has
been after mel"
"Weu," said the considerate lady, with
perfect GOODNESS, che is a very fine man,
"But he says he has an attachment for
me-" replies the widow.
"Well, have long suspected he was at
tached to you, my dear"
"But you don't understandable says I
must go to court"
"Ol that's quite another affair, my
child; don't you go so fast as that; it is his
place to come and court youI'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

THE EXODUS FROM CANADA.-The Fran
co-Canadian, paper published at St.
Johns, Canada, says that at the station of
that town alone they sell emigration tick
cts to the amount of $500 to $1,000 every
day. Other stations nearer the line they
sell larger amounts yet. In one range in
the parish of st. Alexander, eleven farms
have been completely abandoned, and are
offered for sale or to let. Every Sunday
the public crier has long list of public
sales of furniture and implements by par
ties who want to obtain the means of Ieav-
ing the CO untry. At Sherrington, twenty
FIVE families left in one day; and at st. Val
entine grand mass was celebrated on the
departure of fifty young men.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

Being satisfied from observation
and experience, as well as from medic
al testimony, that ardent spirits, as
a drink, is not only needless but hurt
ful, and that the entire disuse of it
would tend to promote the health, the
virtue, and the happiness of the COM
munity, we hereby express our convic-
ton that should the citizens of the
United States, and especially the young
men, discontinue entirely the use Oft,
they would not only promote their
own personal benefit, but the good of
the country and the world.
7 JAMES MADISON.
ANDREW Jackson.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,
NJ. VAN BUREN,
$500 FRANKLIN PIERCE
JOHN TYLER,
z. TAYLOR,
WILLARD FILLMORE.
49,. JAMES X. Polk,
JAMES BUCHANAN, l-.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
ANDREW JOHNSON,
US. GRANT.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y, March Il,
1869.
J. N. STEARNs, Eso.-Doar Sir:
In 1888 I visited Presidents Madison,
Adams, and Jackson, who signed the
above. The document is on parch-
ment; and has been presented to each
succeeding president, and eheerfully
signed, with the exception of Presi-
dent Harrison: he died before it was
sent on. He, however, before he died,
abandoned an interest in distillery,
to indicate his testimony, and would
doubtless have signed the declaration
ifit had been presented TO him. The
early signatures were obtained before
total abstinence was fully established,
as the only platform on which the re-
form could rest with hope, as it was
found, beyond cavil, that alcohol was
the same fatal poison when used as a
drink in feymented ardent spirit as in
distilled. The Presidential Dpclara-
ton was handed to our present Chief
Magistrate day or two after his inau-
guration, which he promptly signed,
making thirteen signers.-Edward G.
Delavan, in National Temperance Adj
vocate.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

LIFE INA YANKEE PRIsoN.-The
Massachusetts folk are remarkable;
there's no use denying the fact.
Fast day was observed in their State
prison by 263 convicts, who were Civ
en- the freedom of the prison yard
They passed an hour or two in a man
ner best suited to their respective fam
cies, but the great sport of the occa-
sion was the trials at riding the two
wheeled velocipede, six or eight Of
which machines had been specially
provided for the occasion. At noon
the cOnvicts were furnished with ex-
ira ratious; including plum pudding
for dinner. Why professional Grim
inals abide in these regions when
Massachusetts invites them so cOrdi-
ally to live there, we cannot imagine.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

The SEXES IN DREsDEN.-A cor
respondent in Dresden writes that it is
good to. see the poor people have hoI-
iday-they work so hard and so con-
stantLy with little rest on Sundays.
The women, especially, toll like beasts
0fburden; hard, physical labor falls very
largely to their share. You see them
in the streets saving wood, one hold
ing each end of the saw; they tug
along with loaded handcarts, employed
for draught almost as commonly as
hOrses-much more so than men.
They carry huge baskets on their backs,
under which they must bend far for
ward Such figures are among the
cOmmOnest you meet. In doing rough
work. and even such as demands sim
ply muscular strength, there is no diff
ference whatever in their favor, unless
it be as a weaker animal. And it is
not only in the lower classes that one
notices this want of regard for women.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

NOTHING LEAVES Us AS IT FOUND
Us.--If a sheet of paper on which
key has been laid be exposed for some
minutes to the sunshine, and then in
simultaneously viewed in the dark, the
key being removed, a fading spectre of
the key will be visible. Let this pa
per be put aside for many months,
where nothing can disturb it, and then
in darkness be laid on a plate Of hot
metal, the spectre of the key will again
appear, This is equally true Of our
N nds. Every man we meet, every
book we read, every picture or land
scape we see, every word or tone we
hear, leaves its image on the brain.
These traces which under ordinary
circumstances refnvisible, never fade,
but in the intense light ofcerebraI ex-
citement, start into prominence, Just
as the spectre image of the key started
into sight on the application Of heat.
1t is thus with all the influences to
which we are subjected
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

It is said that the exOrbitant char
ges at the various summer resorts in
this country last season, have d u
large number of people who have
hem in the habit of Vi-it NJ them, to
make their pr, paratiOns to visit Il Q
principal cities in Europe this sum-
mer, because a tour in the latter will
involve less expense than a few trips
to our local springs and watering pla-
ces. It is estimated that the cost Of
brief tour in Europe, will be about five
or six hundred dollars, while the
amount necessary 10 enjoy life in the
cool retreats of this country would be
necessarily greater. Over one thOu-
sand passports have already been is
sued and the applicants are becoming
more numerous daily.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
A traHeler stonnad Id q nnhlin honse

A traveller stopped at a public house in
Vermont for the purpose of getting din
ner, knocked, but received no answer
Going in, he found a little white-headed
man in the embrace of his wife, who had
his head under one of her arms, while
with the other she was giving her little
lord pounding.
Wishing to put an end to the fight, our
traveller Knocked on the table, and cried
out in a loud voice, "HallOa, here! who
keeps this house2"
The husband, though much out OF
breath, answered: "Stranger, that's what
we're trying to decide"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13
The Pacific T2aiIroods.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2.-The Gem
trail Pacific Railroad Company, yester-
day, finished their portion Of the road,
with the exception Of two connecting
rails, which Governor Stanford will
lay Friday or Saturday of the present
week. A celebration of the event Is
to be held in this city and Sacramento,
for which extensive preparations have
been made. Further survey Of the
Salt Lake & Columbia River Railroad
has been abandoned for the present,
and the surveyor recalled.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-13

RANIF.-This new textile plant is
drawing more attention than any now
city presented to Southern cultivatOrs
since the war. A number Of planta-
tiOns in Louisiana and Mississippi are
this year devoted to its culture, IS
they formerly were TO cotton. It has
one signal advantage over cOttOn-it
can be harvested aud handled by ma
chinery'
Ramie belongs to the nettle family;
the lint or fibre, used for cloth, is the
inside bark, obtained, as fax is, by
breaking, or otherwise getting rid Of,
the stalk. 1t yields two or three times
as much as cotton per acre, and requires
less cultivation. When properly han
died, the fibre is of a lustrous white
color, little rough to the touch. The
cloth made from it has rich silk hue,
and lasts a long time. 1t does not
give cloth agreeable to the touch, as
cotton or silk, but for all outside fab
rics, and especially for muslins, it is
superior to either cotton or linen. At
present it sells in London for sixty
cents pound. To engage in raising
ramie, a Southern farmer needs only
to obtain the cuttings, and, at harvest,
a machine for cleaning the fibre, which
will cost about s225.-LHearth and
Home.