The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-08
Tbe GbarleStn,t Nems,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1869.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

At Liverpool cotton closed unchanged
Sales 5000 bales, of which 1000 were for export
and speculation.
Se--Dr. Cummings sent word to the Pope thai
he was coming, but Pho replied mono. -,
a large cougar is creating great conster
nation In the vicinity of Branham, Texas.
Another Cuban expedition Of four hundred
men, armed and equipped, is said to be abou
to depart from the vicinity of New York.
Mary Sullivan, a white woman widely
known in Richmond Va, drowned herself by
iumping into the dock at.that place on Sunday
last.
The French opera season in New York has
come to a disastrous close, though the hope is
expressed that the interruption may be tempo
rary only. y
II. q. -Touhey, editor Of the ST. Louis
Journal of Commerce, committed suicide by
jumping overheard from q propeller on Lake
Erie, a few days ago. "a s.o.rs 81 Il
:, "A detachment Of one hundred Zouayes, to
Join the Pope's army in Rome, have beenre-
.cruited in Canada. They sail at once, via New
York, for their destination. ~e 49,
THE new Swiss settlement in Grundy Coun-
-ty, Tennessee, is fourishing. The Swiss are
delighted With the climate and with the land,
which they purchased at fifty cents per acre.,
"A lady fell in Detroit t1e other day in an
attack of vertigo and was nearly strangled to
death By her artificial teeth falling into her
throat before the cause was discovered and re-
moved. .-1..,, ~. s.s o--s-- i.s-7.r
sS-Jersey, Hudson and Bergen cities, New
York, have agreed to consolidate themselves
into one city, and win proceed to organize as
q single city. Hoboken and other places in
the county refused to join in the movement
a'--The Northern papers come to us filed
With accounts Of the storm Of Sunday evening,
which extended from Maine to Virginia, and
was very violent, interrupting railroad and
telegraphic communication, and doing con-
siderable damage to real estate and works of
improvement.
:. Real estate in Philadelphia, it is said, is
worth nothing like what it was two or three
years ago, and is still declining in value. There
are more houses than tenants, and brick and
lumber are 30 low that buildings built when
prices were higher cannot compete with those
more recently erected.
j. Grant lately sat for his photograph on
horseback, but owing, it is said, to the crowd
In attendance to witness this heroic feat, the
picture proved failure. In fact, the cigar
stump could not be seen at all. Nothing
daunted, however, the great American travel
Ter intends to try it again the first fair day.
The Chinese Customs Department has sent
to Berlin to obtain German students skilledin
pathological pursuits. These young men are to
study for three years in China, until they be-
come thoroughly acquainted with the Ian
guage, and after passing an examination will
obtain good positions, with high pay. The
chief officer of the Chinese Customs depart
Snent is an Englishman.
Mrs. Ottendorfer is the sole proprietor of
the largest German daily newspaper in the
City of New York. Many years ago her hus-
band died, leaving her large family of chill
dren and small paper. She went earnestly
to work at once, attending herself to all the
details of the Office, and she now controls
very rich and powerful Journal She drives 10
her Office in the morning, looks after the null
home at three o'clock in the afternoon.
"A case came up before Internal Revenue
Commissioner Delano on Monday, in which
certain Western whiskey dealers had changed
the dates on the stamps on about one hundred
barrels of whiskey. The dealers contend that
they did not do this to defraud the revenue,
but with the view Of making the whiskey ap-
pear of greater age, and thereby enhance It's
value. The commissioner, not deeming this
an excuse sufficient to offset the law, which
imposes penalty Of 5000 on each package
thus tampered with, ordered that the parties
be prosecuted.
The New York Times says: "The fall trade
is upon us with brisk beginning and bright
prospects. This is CHEEKY fact, and more
than an offset, perhaps, for the anxiety and
. gloom which the Wall street storm has brought
to monetary circles. Save the dry goods
trade. which is affected through the price OF
2 cotton by the fluctuations of gold, no branch
of business seems TO have felt the financial
Hurry. The Southern trade Is reported as
'trebled over 1866, and the demand In various
branches show that both the South and West
are already taking great many goous from
our merchants. 1t is noteworthy also that q
betterclasso of goods, in general, Is called for
atthe South"
Commenting upon Mr.. Bigelow's withdraw
alfrom the Times, the Commercial Advertiser
says: Journalism fifteen years ago, when Mr..
Bigelow was the master-spirit of the Post, is
quite different from Journalism of the presea.
day. Newspapers were then in their small
clothes and editors were learning the journal
istic alphabet 1t has been ascertained that
something beside solemn, profound, and
stately leaders are required to make news
paper palatable to the reader and profitable to
the publisher. Mr.. Digelow is dignifcd,
conscientious and scholarly journalist, as every
one admits but Mr.. B. has been too long out
of the editorial harness and the management
of newspapers to make successful edltor-in-
chief"
The promise Of large supply OF Chinese
labor at no distant date makes any testimony
as regards the capacities of emigrants from