The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-09
NEWS OF THE D-IT.


Gold closed steady in New York Mt 2Gsa
2sN.
I'm New York cotton closed heavy and &c.
lower, with sales of 1000 bales ut e5i. cents.
Cotton in Liverpool was quiet; uplan,ls n,sd;
81 alcs 10 900 bales.
-Four prominent English magazines are ow
edited by lndcs
Ali tile State appointments OF Thanksgiving
day, thus far, coincide with the Presidential ap-
poiniment.
William Il. hsior expects to have as large an
Income rs the Marquis OF Westminster when his
long leases fall in.
Photographs are printed with thc ordinary
printers Ink In London, 1000 impressions being
struck from one plate in Gay.
The liquors conhscated in Boston during he
last three months were made into one huge punch
the other day and turned into the dock.
1t Is worth something to live among the Iii
verccrs. The clerk OF the county containing CHI
cago makes 100000 year from fees aud salary.
Duluth, Mnn., which was Il Wilderness Two
months ago. has now q population OF one thou
sand, big hotel, church. newspaper, ami a
school-housc.
The Providence Journal says TINT the Amcr
can Colonization Society is overwhelmed with ap-
pllcations, by some OF the best Of the freedmen
TO be sent to Liberia.
~
anesc people, stimulated by letters from tile Aidzu
Colony now here, and by o:her means, have re-
solved TO leave their country ana make their per-
manent home In California;
Missouri has produced an arthmctical nhe.
nomcnon, named Fields, who, without the slight
est knowledge OF letters or figures solves any
mathematical probem-from twice two TO the
calculation of lunar ccpse-in three minutes
The Virginia Penltcntary, II Is announced
is about to commence making boots AMI shoes-a
Boston manufacturer having proposed TO cnpluy
three hundred OF the convicts In that business.
ana having agreed TO invest $4,000 III permancn,
machinery and the same amount in the p,irc;ius.
OF leather stock.
Tile Halifax Chronicle, in The course Of an
article upon Canadian annexation. reasons thus:
Ihc market Of the United states is necessary To
our lives. The markc: Of Greut Britain is not.
Dreams VIII not clothc our children. tt, warmth,
OF the shade Of Il brave iiag will no: compensate.
for Il barefo6. wintcr.n
-importattons OF railroad iron for the pas; eight
years exhibit the curious fact that the higher the
rate Of duty was raised the greater were the
amounts imported. The statistics conlutc ail
theories In regard to the tariff that have yet bee,
promulgated, ana furnish clue to the apparent
anomaly OF the present large revenue from Gus.
toms under the highest tariff known to onr laws.
-Gcneral Il. f. Butler, while coming from wash
ington In sleeping car, was robbed or his money.
oVercoat and undcrcoat, during a halt at PhiIa.
delphia, Pa. lie borrowed coat OF the negro
porter on the train, and, after reaching store
house, raised enough money 10 buy new gar
menis, and proceeded to Boston on an evening
boat. lie lost about seven hundred dollars In
money and three or four thousand in checks and
drafts.
Louisville, Kentucky, 1t is asserted has dou.
Oled III size since the war. The newspapers OF
that city state TINT large numbers OF buildings,
many Of them very costly ana elegant, have been
erected, that the boundaries have been extended
until the municipal area Is twice ns large as for.
merry, and that the population has Increased I'm
like proportion, while manufactures established
many years ngo but never attempting compcti-
ton with like manufactures In Cincinnati, are
nourshing.
"A Washington letter says: "The committee
having In chnrgc the erection OF the equestrian
statue OF General Grant have obtained sufficient
amount OF Subscription 10 warrant them In pro.
cectllng with the work, ana Io.tlay directed the
sculptor, J. ~ bailey, or Philadelphia, to proceed
with the statue. The statue will he OF bronze cast
from cannons captured by General i;rant. 1t Is
10 be Of colossal size. The pedestal Is to bc IL sim
gle block OF granltc. 1t will bc erected OH the
terrace on the south front OF The Treasury Build
ing. The full height OF the statue will bc about
twenty-five feet, exclusive OF the pedestal. The
total cost, Including pedestal, Will be about
$55,oOo." '''
Tho Issue between the friends and enemies OF
Paraguay bids fair TO be carried Oh with n GOOD
deal OF vigor NJ Washington tiiis winter. we
.havo become SO accustomed to hear Lopez dc.
scrbed as tho concentration nf all wickcdness
TINT IL Is hard to conceive Of hin, as anything else
than monster. But there is Manifcstly another
side both to the personal history OF s.thc Para.
guayan tyrnnt" and to tho long contest he bas
waged with Ills enemies. II General McMahon
sustains his position he will not only place the
"vctms of Lopcz's cruelty" who have hitherto
had the car OF the country, at disadvantage, but
he will put Brazil and her allies OH the defensive.
The Testimony now is abundant and promises to
clear UP the confusion in which South American
affairs have been no long involved.
Tho eminent French surgeon, DR.. ScgunrL, I'm
convcrsng recently with an American gentle.