The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-13
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NEWS s UMMAR ".
Cotton closed In Liverpool at 12td. for up
ands. Sales 12 900 bales.
s. In New York cotton vas unchanged. clos
Ing at A@a34ac. Sales $50 bales.
-3o,a1 closed strong at 81.
It ,s sa,o that George Peabody designs to
administer upon hts own estate, and will leave
nothing Tor heirs or taxga:herers to quarrel
about. tt
. Colonel Sohu W. Forney aspires to be
elected United States Senator from NJ orth Oar
olina. He has recently purchased large tract
Of land there.
Artificial curls of all kinds are worn. The
frzzed curls on the forehead-the long heavy
curls behind the ear, and the short or long
curls which compose or fall over the chignon
Fort Pulaski is now rebuilding, under the
superintendent of the United States Engineer
Corps. Thirty-hve men are building up the
wlter battery, and when the work is com pleted
four 10-inch and two 15-inch guns will be
mounted. This armament, it is stated, will
contain the heaviest ordnance ever placed at
Fort Pulaski .4'' 'i~ &alA'1
The Norfolk, Va, Journal has been in
formed by gentleman OF the county that he
worked forty-three negro men up till 1868.
since which time fifteen have died. Oftwenty-
four negro women formerly owned by him, not
one has now q child alive. That journal hears
similar reports OF the decadence Of the race
from every quarter. -1ssts
The following sales of cotton were made
in New York last week: For July, 100 bales on
private terms; for October, 10) bales on pri-
vate terms; for November, 100 bales at 264c,
800 at 263c.; for November or December, so
bales at 853c.; for December, 200 at 25ac., $50
at 26c., 14Q0 on private terms, probably 252a
AGO.; for December or January, 100 bales on
private terms; for January. 200 at 25c., 500 at
25a cts.
General Forrest has made arrangements
to secure. within the next two months, a
thousand Chinese as laborers upon Southern
railroad which he b Is contracted to make. AN
agency has been established in st. Louis for
supplying, at the. shortest notice, whatever
number Of Chinese may be called for from any
part OF the country. and that agency has al
ready ordered $4,000. A grand enterprise for
the Introduction of Chinese to be- employed
upon the plantations OF the South has been
vigorously inaugurated at Memphis
The London Spectator, in all Nvserionsness
and With recastEekle courage. prop oses to have
that there is this in favor Of its recommend a.
tion. that he has. no children, and there is
need Of an authorized exponent o. Gath olic
feeling and opinion in the higher branch of the
Legislature. Seventeen years ago Cardinal
Wiseman was hardly safe in the streets of Lon
don; to-day it is earnestly proposed by grave
Journal to raise his successor to o grade of the
highest honor within the gift of the crown.
Truly. the age is progressive.
(. The New York HeraId's money article, of
Saturday. says: Southern securities were
. heavy and lower, tho weakness being most per-
ceptlbe in the New North Oarolinas, which.
continuing their downward movement, sold at
45. The exceptions were the Tennessees,
which were steady, and the South Carolnas,
which we're stronger. Prices closed on the
street as followe: Tennessee, ex coupon, Ola
61t; do new, 57a574; Virginia, ex coupon. 57a
674; do. new, 6Oa61; Georgia SKIES, 83a86; do.
sevens, 93a93a; North Carolina, ex coupon, 54a
543; do. new, Aa45; Missouri slxes, s7as7a;
Louisiana skies, 6Sa70; do. 'levee skies, 674at8;
&c. do. eights, 83A85; Alabama eights, 92a94;
do fves. 60a6S; South Carolina slxes, 68a7O;
do. new, 65a67."
-Ihe extraordinary rapidity with which
1ron'clad after iron-clad has been built and
launched in the Prussian ports and the
scarcely disguised pretensions OF the Prussian
Government to the supremacy OF the Baltic
SEA, have created no little jealousy and anxiety
In Ru ssia. Last year, at the suggestion of
Count Bism arck, the Prussian and Russian
Heets crused and man@ 1vrei together during
the summer months; but proposal to renew
the same exercises this year has met at Sc. Pc
tersburg with an unqualified refusal. This in
cident has caused much sensation in Russian
naval circles, the general impression being that
the government is aware OF the present snpe-
riorlty OF the Prussian navy, and unwilling to
let their fleet serve foil to that OF their ac.
tive and enterprising neghbor.
Eight street car conductors were arrested
in St. Louis the ether day, on the charge of
stealing their emJoyer's funds. The Demo-
crat Gays 'Places were found where conduo.
tors had sold packages Of single tickets, twen-
ty.fiye and thirty for one dollar, and the n,odus
operdnH Of gathering these tickets together
was also learned. On the Missouri and Cit.
gems roads the conductors have little spears
upon which they are ordered to stick the
tickets when passed to them by passengers.
ana this cancels them. Instead Of placing
them on this spear they make believe to do go
shen sIyly slip the little bits OF paper into their
pockets without the hole in 1t which renders IL
worthless. On the Fourth-street (People,s>
road, the conductors have punch, and by
failing to pnnch' ticket the same dishonest
aim IS reached"
"A ghastly Joke is reported from New Or
leans a young doctor OF that city paid bis
addresses TO lady, who. among other curios-
Nies IN nor parlor, had human skull, to
"nlch the physician took wonderful fancy