The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-25
!. NEWS OF TIE DAY.

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?. The New York cotton market opened firm, but
siesed heavy and In favor of buyers.
--At Liverpool yesterday cotton closed quiet.
,gpiands llHda11xd; Orleans ll%dal1Xd; sales
IL 600 bales.
Queen vIetorfa's eldest aanghter, the Crown
Princess or Prussia, Is said to he showing signs OF
insanity, caused by domestic trouble.
The amining share bubble" has burst In
california Mining stooks have deprecated i've
miilions OF dollars during few months past.
The North German merchant navy consists OF
we ships, with q united tonnage Of 1,2s9,es4
tena OF which Ile with 1o2 otonsl are steamers.
"A telegraph cable is 70 be laid from Port Said
to Suez on the bottom Of the canal, and the ship
has passed through that is 30 perform the work.
The old-fashioned arms used by the soldiers
sef Prussia In 1865, have Gil been remodelled and
ne government has nov 100000 needle guns at
It's disposal
1t is stated that when thelate George Peabody
Wm arty years Of age he was worth but $4,000,
pnd that In the twenty years following he &C
semulated his immense fortune.
American built horse-caru were recently in
troduced in Liverpool, and the Courier ofthat
city says @the pubic were not slow to recognize
the superiority Of this Yankee notion"
The street peddlers Of San Francisco, finding
the shoeblacklng teoth-wssh, itch-olntment and
pain killing trade to be waning, now sell "earth-
suakeometers, n to foretell the coming Of shake.
The Richmond Enquirer shows that the bank
ing capital OF Virginia, before the war, was
sbont sl1,o0000o, or SIS SO to each inhabi-
fant, and that 1t is now only $24oo,o ,ooo or $31s
to each hlnhabitant
4 lit is said that Jenny Lind Is to return to the
prac,ic OF her former vocation BY necessity, her
husband having squsndered her property by
dissolute ,ife, so that the musical couple are on
the verge OF poverty.
sE---It Is supposed that the land bill for Ireland,
which win be supported by Mr.. Gadstones min
istry, Is the joint production Of Mr.. Chichester
Fortesoue, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and
Mr.. Sullivan the Attorney General for Ireland.
Owing to the extensive destruction OF trees
in Victoria, the climate is changing. Near Bal
larat, the rainfall is sensibly diminished, and the
government is taking measures to prevent the
waste Of timber and to establish nurseries for
ifsrest trees.
The French capital possesses l73o cafes, be-
aiaes o. ,cafes.ooncerts. They employ from 5000
to 10, 600 persons, and the business done by them
aaounts to 12o 900 900 francs annually. The gratui-
lies from customers to the walters amount TO
5000, 900 francs yearly.
The citizens OF New Orleans int end to press
strongly upon Congress the advisabllity OF esta5-
5. fishing navy-yard at that olty. They say that
there is large area OF property already owned
2 BY the government, and extensive and suostan-
tial wharves, buildings, hospitals and workshops,
which can be cheaply adapted to the use OF q
naval station, and which have been for years OF
I no sort Of utility.
The investigation OF the Paraguayan difficult
ties by the Committee on Foreign Affairs has de-
veloped long standing difference between our
diplomatic and naval corps abroad, involving the
question Of ultimate authority; and concerns
charge that naval officers nave acted indepen-
IDENTITY Of the views OF our diplomatic representa-
tyes In important public matters which de-
maRded cooperative action. The investigation
WIN lead, 1t is thought, to deGnitivc regulations.
The sum OF $4,000 has been subscribed in
New York to erect a new Hebrew hospital.
Among the donors are A T. Stewart, $4,000; E. j..
King, $4,000; Benjamin Nathan, s25Oc; I. L W..
seiipmann, $500; Peter Cooper, s1ooo Jacob Sti-
aer, $500; Hoyt, Spragucs Co., $1,000; FISK *
Hatch, $1,000; Philip Speyer, $1,000; w. Batler
Duncan, $1,000; Lawrence Il. Cohen, $1,000; Isaac
Bernheifner, $1,000; Joseph St!ner, $1,000; II. b.
CIanln, $500; D. c. Hays, $500; Miss Hendricks
$500, and many others with IKE or less amounts
-Henry Ward Beecher has created new sen
ss.ion by taking ground in favor OF excluding the
Bible from the public schools. In his ThanksgiT'
ing sermon he contended that the reading OF the
Bible was no part OF the duty OF our common
school teachers; no portion OF the curriculum o.
tie school-room; no part OF the proper line to De
pursued in an aggregation OF children whose
parents are Of all creeds oil natonalities all pre-
tudices, all sorts and conditions OF men. The
Protestant he says has no right to compel TIE
child of Catholic to listen to instruction which
Z the Catholic disapproves; the Christian has ne
right to force tho child OF Jew 30 listen to tic
teachings OF the New Testament; nor should the
children OF atheists, skepLicS and dlsbci'eVcrs be
made to listen to either the Old or the New Tesla
ments..
The Georgia state Fair. at Macon, has been 4
triumphant success. Every section o! the State
was represented, both in person and ny its agr
cultural products, and the exercises were of
highly interesting character. Hon. Marx A
Cooper delivered an Grafton upon 1.-THE Destiny
of Georgia. - predicting that III time the 5oo'ooN
bales OF cotton now annually put into the marker
irom that State viii be manufactured within l's