The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-17
VIEWS sum MAE 2.

tiees. One Dollar each.
NEWS SUN MARY.
Gold at New York yesterday closed at S6l.
The New York cotton market was heavy;
sales $500 bales ut SOC.
AT Liverpool cotton closed shade hrmer;
uplands 1Sd.; Orleans 1sid; sales 5000 bales.
The garrison at Fort Mcpherson, Nebrae-
Ia, enjoyed, on the 9th instant, the first snow
storm Of the season.
The orange groves on the st. Johns River,
Florida, are said to be more fruitful than for
ten years previously.
The coolest place in London is the reading
room Of the British Museum, which, strangeto
say, is cooled by steam.
The Ayondale relief fund in Philadelphia
amounts to over $2O0. 600. The Richings con-
cart in behalf Of the sufferers netted $77s 10.
Train told the Mormons the other evening
that hehad '.more power in directing public
opinion than any other five hundred men in
The nation"
The Israelites Of New York have organized
free burial society, for the purpose OF pro-
viline decent interment for all Israelites who
die there in straightsned circumstances.
-Ths electrical method is to be adopted for
lighting the street lamps in Boston. The en-
tire city cen be lighted by this process in i've
minutes, and the lights can be as quickly e1-
tinguished.
james Fisk, Jr., the great railroad specu-
,ator, is rather an exaggerated specimen OF
the genus American. BE now proposes to lay
n third rail over the Rochester and Syracuse
Railroad from Albany to Saratoga to connect
With the Susquehana route, and thus give
broad-gauge connection with the West. 1.-THE
company refuse to extend aid in the matter,
Flax proposes to build new railroad on hls
individual responsibility. he also intends
building monster steamer to run between
Albany and New York, which, when completed,
will be the largest vessel Of the kind in the
world. Long live Fiskl
The Delaware, L. -<awanna and Western
.Railroad Company, owners OF the Avondale
mine, have given $4,000 for the relief OF the
Ayondale sufferers. The company do not be-
lieys that the FIRE in the mine was the work OF
incendiazies, but wss the result OF the careless
ness Of miner who descended the shaft with
ahundle Of hay. which became ignited from
the lamp the miners carry on their hats.
Adams Express Company have contributed
$1,000 for the sufferers. Work at all the mines
Ia now going on quietly, except at Avondale,
-La-a nsn noQ -aAnA.a1-zann tina zarat
Be consumed in repairs.
"A queer case has been submitted to Gene
raj Spinner, United States Treasurer. for an
opinion. II seems that litigation is going on
in one OF The Prussian Courts where the ques.
tion of consideration turns upon the genuine
ness of certain Confederate treasury notes.
One party holds that they are counterfeit,
while the other maintains that they are genu-
inc, and, therefore, . consideration according
to the terms OF the contract. A specimen OF
the notes has been submitted to General Spin-
ner through Baron Gerolt, the North German
Ambassador, for decision as to whether they
are genuine or not. He IS Of the opinion that
the specinUn submitted is genuine issue Of
the Confederate Treasury, but be declines to
have his opinion considered as evidence 70 tue
natter The question now arises. wno can
give competent evidence Of the genuineness OF
these notes, and, il genuine, what is their
market value in Germsny2
"A manuscript in bottlo. presumed TO be
q relic Of the Franklin Polar Expedition, was
picked up the other day at San Buena Ven-
tura, on the Pacific coast. In it the 6ader was
requested to forward 1t to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, London. or the British Consul
at the nearest port. The req lest was printed
in six commercial languages. The margin
and every vacant portion was filled with writ
ing relating 10 SIR John Franklin and party. |
the lost Arctic explorers. The document was |
evidently cast into the water in latitude So |
deg. 81 min. 0sec., longitude 98 deg. min. 5 /
500. II gives an account of the desertion OF |
the ships ErebRs and Terror. The party |
numbered one hundred and 6ve at the time OF |
the desertion, under command OF F. B. n. |
Crossier. They succeeded in reaching the /
above latitude and longitude, where they |
found relic Of the late Sir John Boss. It |
states that the party wintered at Beechy Is
land in 1s46-47, and Sir john Franklin died |
June II, 1s47. It contains many interesting |
incidents connected with the expedition.
Emigration to the West. it is stated. has |
received great impetus from the completion |
of the Pacific Railroad, and from the work fur |
nished to laborers on other railroad routes to |
California. smaller proportion than ever Of
the emigrants arriving from abroad, 1t is be-
ieved, remain in the Atlantic States. The pas
seng. 9 on the emigrant ships no sooner land |
at Ce. tie Garden than they commence making |
inquiries as to the shortest routes to the West.
and proceed on their journey with as little |
delay as possible. It is believed that, during |
the next twelve months, fully hundred thous- |
and persons, both rative and foreign born, !
will remove and settle in Kansas and the States |
beyond. II is reported that villages are |
-springing up in every direction. where year
ago there was nothing but prairie, without
village or even hut. At Laramie, five hur-
drsd and seventy.two miles west OF Omaha, |
there was not house to be seen two years |
ago. and now the traveller meets with -four
ishins town with fifteen hundred Inhabitants,
fine railroad depot, good hotel and large |
stores.
-California papers are received. with foil &C
counts OF the recent election in that State. The
San Francisco Herald says it was q positive
tidal wave, sweeping over the whole coast, and
leaving the Radical party stranded and shat
tered, 90 that they can pever again enter into
~ = soc ~ nol;k,cs In California What ia one