The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-06
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1869. =
NEWS OF THE Day.

The New York cotton market was quiet
and unchanged at 2sc. Sales 1900 bales
"A system of public schools is about to be
established in Atlanta, Ga: 81
": aDr. Hayes intends TO lead an expedition
toward the open Polar Sea next year.
The grape crop in Tennessee this year Is
said to be abundant beyond precedent.
George F. Whitehurst: ESQ.,, prominent
citizen of Norfolk, Va, died suddenly on
Thursday last, in that city. -.
Nashville is boasting of her Immense
boot and shoe trade" Alarge woollen factory
Is about to be established there.
General Rosecrans, says the San Francisco
Bulletin, is going to make s5,0O0,Ooo out Of his
mining speeulations in California
John Morrissey has been to hear Beecher
preach, and he says that he never saw man
ttcet the devils head in chancery 30 quick In
sl his life.n
"A premium pig, only eighteen months old,
and weighing over seven hundred pounds,
was exhibited at the Mexico (Missouri) fair
last week.
Mr.. 8. S. Conant. formerly of the New York
Times, has formed literary connection with
the Harpers, and has headquarters at their
publishing house. j"
A suicidal mania is raging in the Prussian
army, and in few weeks, at the camp OF Bor-
ma, near Leipsic, ffty-four soldies have put an
end to their existence.
A New York company has purchased
large tract Of land on the Rappahannock
River, Va, including the water-power at
Wheatley's Mill, for $4,000.
Mr.. Joe Jefferson's four performances In
Brooklyn reached an aggregate OF $4,000, OF
which he received $1,000, and c. W. Tayleure
the other, after paying all expenses.
Mr.. Seward returned to San Francisco
September %. His progress in the southern
nnrtion of the State has been continued ova-
tion. He sailed for Mexico on the SOth ult.
The warehouses on the wharves at Gal
weston, Texas, are overfowing, and freights
could not be discharged last week for want
of shelter. Busy times are expected for
months to come.
The Tupelo, Mississippi, Spectator, Of the
18th, announces the death Of DR.. William Cal
houn, who was taken suddenly Ill while visi-
ING q patient, and died almost Immediately.
he was cousin Of John C. Calhoun, and not
unlike him in personal appearance.
The firm OF Lockwood l. Co., OF New York,
deny the rumor that the liabilities Of their
house are between twenty and thirty millions,
and positively assert that they are not involv-
ed to the extent of half such an amount
The New York Independent states that
two-thirds of the students in the general Epis-
copai Theological Seminary in that city have
lust gone over to the Roman Catholics. The
institution is said to be under decided High
Church control.
Prince Arthur and his distinguished COM
panions were greeted at Toronto, on Saturday,
by about thirty thousands persons. Formal
addresses were presented BY the corporation,
and appropriate responses were made. The
party afterwards drove through the principal
streets, which were gorgeously decorated and
brilliantly illuminated:
1.-The Great Eastern is the great cable layer,
and now having done such good service IN
the Atlantic, she is about to show herself IN
that part of the Indian Ocean known as the
Arabian Sea. At last accounts the Great East
ern was slowing away forty miles daily Of the
cable soon to be laid between Alden and Bom-
bay. a distance of one thousand eight hundred
miles, more or less.
The Colorado Herald, Of September %,
saws: Gamma Dickinson created q sensation in
Georgetown yesterday morning, by mounting
on q large horse .straddle-ways' and riding
away for the Range, at seven o'clock in the
morning. She was dressed in bloomers, and
wore a gentleman's overeoat. Her delicate
little foot and finely turned ankle were encased
in substantial boots, with buttons up the sides.
An eye witness gives the number OF the boots
at two and half"
James Gordon Bennett, Of the New York
Herald, is not in so precarious health as the
papers have stated. Advancing years and the
intense mental activity of almost half cen
t.,ry of Journalism have, doubtless, produced
some effect upon him, but he still supervises
the Herald. Mr.. Bennett commenced his ca
reer In Charleston, South Carolina, in 1892.
Afteryard he went to New York and became
connected with the Courier and Enquirer. On
the 9th of May, 1885, he issued the first num-
ber of the New York Herald.
The New York Herald Of Saturday says o.
the late crash in Wall street: The crisis In
Wall street seems to have passed. Affairs yes
terday were brighter than on any previous day
since the commencement of the panic week
ago, and every one is now hopeful that by Mon
day the danger will have passed away. Avery
large proportion Of Fridays transactions have
been settled by mutual agreement between
contracting parties, and, with the prevention
of coercive measures and the encouragement
to continued forbearance and cooperation
among sufferers by the crash, it is expected
that not only win tottering bones be preserved
but firms already bankrupt will be re-estab
lished."
Some serio- comic scenes have been report
ed in New York since the beginning Of the late
gold panic. The latest incident of this charac
ter reported is, that after the gold speculation
the Hon. John Morrissey found himself thu
creditor of the immortal Fish, Jr., to the tune
OF 500. 900, of which amount he tried In vain tt
obtain possession. AS the story goes relying
on his personal vigor, the ex-pugilist sent wore