The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-22
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Hoes, One Dollar each.
NEWS UMMAR Il T.
-Iu. New York cotton was dull and heavy,
closing at 2SS; sales 1900 bales.
Gold fell to 40a. but closed at AZ. -
s--In Liverpool cotton closed quiet; upiands
iii; Orleans Ill; sales 10000 bales.
New Orirsssns congratulates itself that its
city scrip has come up to ssvents-five cents on
the dollar. q
The Sultan has publicly reSoked the law
forbiddios Christians to enter Mohammedan
mosques.
ST. Louis reports the receipt Of an invoice
OF teas, only thirty days from Yokohama. This
: haeins to bring the realities OF the Pacific
Railway before us.
Ss.-Mr:H. T. He,mbold, the well-known New
York druggist, resuras for this year an income
cf S152 9O6. All this comes from advertising.
Mr..Heimbold's expenditures tor advertising
average over $1o, 900 week.
-Forney has heen writing about Kennesaw
Mountain, which he says "was held by our
forces for many days against fearful odds"
"A C4DbkOU6 CIltlC G0kuiuoo toAASs sAAsss ~ We
the Confeder ties that heldit, and ''our forces
that formea the ..tearful Odds"
"A. T. Stewart pays taxes upon an income
Of s.. .O10 2ls, James Gordon Bennett s1sS 500,
and his son, James G. Bennett, Jr., $4,000.
Many other New Workers return incomes OF
hundreds Of thousands OF dollars. A. 7. Stew
arts income tax is $50 $40 80.
Tho nearest approach to utility yet ma de
In the velocipeds business is that Of an invent
or at Lapsingburg, New York, who has arrang-
Cd rocking chair seat to q three-wheeled We
hicle. The weight Of the rider in the act OF
rocking propels the machine at speed Of ten
. miles an hour.
:;i,--Another lot Of twenty-fOur Swiss immi-
grants have BEEN forwarded by the European
agent. Of the North Carolina Immigrant Asso-
cistion. A dispatch announced their safe ar
rival in New York. and they were expected to
reach Goldsboro in day or two. The COM
mittee authorized Hon. W. T. Dortch, one OF
their number, to distribute them 10 the mem
bers Of the association in Edgecombe and Will
son Counties.
Ahw-suit in New York is bringing out
some interesting facts concerning frauds in the
tea trade. One Of the witnesses says that the
maris on the packages are merely fancifuI to
attract the eye, and do not accurately describe
the quantity OF the tea. Som, teas are deng-
mated ..English Breakfast Tea" while such
ten as that. as tea. does not exist. 1t ia
either stSouchong" or some tea OF that class,
and they give it the attractive designation of
sTpglish Breakfast Tea" to distinguish it
from "Oolopg." In fact, it is becoming to be
understood that tea-drinkers are among the
greatest victims there are to the kind Of rascal
ity in China which in this country is 30 extern
>siyely prachced By the whiskey men.
The secretary OF the American Coloniza-
tion Soclety, writing 10 The Philadelphia Led
ger in reference to the statement that the
number Of crlorsd emigrants to Africa has TALL
en- of since the war, asserts that this diminu-
lion is only temporary, and has occurred only
in the year 1868 He gives th, number OF emit
grants coloulzed by the society in 1855 at 5H,
In 1866 at 62t In 1867 at $685. and in 1858 at 451,
making total IT 22a2 eolonizsd in the four
years since the war. He asserts that in no
equal period Of the societs's existence, except
one, hare 80 many emigrants been settled in
Liberia. Fhe numbers sont during the years
named, it ID stated. gives but the smaller pof-
,tion Of the persons who applied for passage.
The new cab act passed by ths Legisla-
ture provides that passengers shall be charged
but thirty centHfor any distance not exceeding
. mile. forty cents being the charge for two
persons the same distance; the same fate for
greater stances, o fraction Of q mile counting
always ssa mile. For any time not exceeding
an hour, single passengers seventy-fve cents;
for two persons, one dollar; and for any time
additional. for each hour or fraction OF an
hour, at the sauas rate. The law requires that
cabs shall be stationed at any hour OF the day
or night upon such streets Of the cities Of New
York and Brooklyn as may be assigned them
by the May or Of either city, and no cab-driver
win be allowed to leave his cab at depots or
steamboat landings until he is engaged by the
passenger. The capital Of the company is
496a00e.
-Alluding to the proposed admission Of q
negro printer into the Typographical Union,
the Washington Star says j: ''The question will
now come before the National Union in a new
form in the case OF Douglass. the colored con-
posito as the government Office. If it is pre-
seuted there without regard to the color ques-
sion, simply on the ground that he is under
the ban OF rejection by the Denver Union, the
National Union may escape acting upon 1t as
involving change in the constitution, which
requires years notice. But If it comes up
there squarely on tho question of admitting
colored compositors, there will be warm work,
as, from the tone OF the communications re-
,celved from Northern union by union men
here, urging resistance to the ad;alssion Of
Douglas, it is evident that the prejudice
against oolored compositors is not coafned to
any particular quarter or geographical ms."
The sensation in New York on Monday
was the failure Of Messrs. Schepeler & Co.'s
commission house. The house had borne
such reputation for safety, shrswlness and
business tact, that many p. rsous were at first
;nc,;nad IN he increfIulou5 and to suspect that