The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-09
NEW S s U M M A r Y.

Gold active at 945.
Cotton in New York advanced lc; sales
yesterday 10000 bales at %.
Cotton i'll Liverpool frmer; upiands lld
Orleans lid.
Henry Clay's son Theodore is an inmate ol
the lunatic asylum at Lexington.
Monogram kid gloves are the latest in
New York.
The spirltualists Of New York are said tc
be rapidly increasing in numbers.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, pays o
rent of s96. .640a year.
"A Broadway store in New York makes q
specially of renting wedding presents.
We see it stated that the commissioner ol
bankruptcy at Richmond, Va, during the past
year has pocketed nearly s1O0. oOOin fees.
up to this date. there have been three
thousand three hundred bankrupt cases in
Virginia.
OF the 100000 marriageable women OF
England, $500, 600 are unproyided with hus-
bands.
The Atlanta Constitution publishes letter
from one Of the largest real estate agencies in
New York, in which it is predicted that there
will be large movement of men and money
toward Georgia and the South generally in a
few months.
The great popularity of Henry Ward Beech
er among the Brooklyn church-goers finds a
significant index in the remarkable result OF
of the sale recently of pews in Plymouth
Church, The receipts amounted to an aggre-
gate OF ninety-seven thousand dollars.
"A boot-black organization has been put in
operation in the City Of New York. BY paying
two dollars mouth one can have his boots
polished every morning at his home, and as
often during the day as he may choose to call
at headquarters"
The colored citizens OF the United States
will hold national convention in the national
capital on Wednesday, the 18th instant, to take
into consideration all matters effecting their
new relations to public affairs and their course
Of future action.
--latest advices from Africa confirm the re-
cent report relative to the safety OF the great
African traveller, DR.. Livingstone. 1t is said
he is somewhere in the vicinity of Lake Nyassa,
near the confines Of Zanzabar. Owing, it is
thought, to the wars between the natire
tribes, his progress has been impeded, and
consequently he has been unable to reach the
seacoast.
The New York Journal OF Commerce says:
Mr. Charles Easton, formerly a cotton broker
in this city, retired several years ago from
business with an ample competence, and has
NJ n far, ~ fho
ago in less than his usual robust health, and,
gradually failing since, departed this life on
Sunday last, in the sixty-dfth year Of his age.
He was emineutly an honest, faithful man
trusted and beloved by all who knew him.
Frank Leslie's new illustrated newspaper,
the New T.orld, proposes to introduce new
feature into American journalism. It will give
bill Of fare adapted to each day Of the week
throughout the season, with directions tor its
preparations, &c. This is Partisan idea.
Baron Brisse, in Paris, famous epicure, pub
fishes every morning, in one Of the daily pa
pers, what he is going to have for dinner, and
80 famous has his bill OF fare become, 40 taste
full and appropriate to the season, that several
of the great restaurants regulate their dinners
by it, and hundreds of private families, instead
of giving particular directions to their ser
wants, tell them to follow the Baron's direc-
tions.
The use of steel, instead Of iron, for the
rails of railroads, has not been productive OF
the saving which was at first expected. The
surface of the steel rail is indeed harder, aad
therefore wears better tEan iron; but steel has
not the tough, fibrous character OF iron, and,
in frosty weather, it breaks with alarming
ease. Then, although the first cost Of steel is
nearly double that of iron, old steel rails sell
for little or nothing, whilo old iron rails are
worth half the price of new. Taking all these
facts into account, it IS found to be cheaper
to 10y down good IRON rails than steel ones, ex-
cept in the vicinity OF stations where there is
great deal Of friction from the frequent
breaking up OF trains, and but little rapid
movement. Experiments are, however, being
made, and with considerable success to manu-
facture an iron rail with a steel top, so as to
combine the youghncss aud cheapness OF iron
with the hari-wGaring surface of steel.
The Reconstruction Committee holds u
session every day. It was determined the
other day to have printed tor distribution al
of tho evidences submitted, affecting IN al.y
way the interests Of the southern people.
proposition is pending before the committee
to reject the votes OF seven counties in Misss-
sippi which gave 1000 Democratic majority,
and by the rejection of which the constitution
could be declared adopted. A large number
OF afidavits have been filed charging that the
election in these seven counties was fraudu.
lent, bur the reports OF General Gillem and his
subordinates show the election to have been
fairly conducted in all respects. Statements,
afidavits and protests ale pouring in on the
committee from Georgia Radicals, oil protest
ing against the proposed Congressional inter-
ference with the affairs of that State. Mr..
Farnesworth, member OF the committee, has
in course of preparation bill relieving from
political disabilities large number OF citizens
in each of the States lately in rebellion. He
hopes to be able to report this bill in few
days, and if successful, it may soon be followed
by another of still more general character.
"A Washington letter o. Wednesday to the
Baltimore Gazette says: s'There was great in
terest manifested day by all parties in the
House of Representatives to hear the Hon.
Elihu B. Washburne, as it was generally un-
derstood that he would speak by authority