The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-17
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sales $500 bales nt 8Oc.
AT Liverpool cotton closed shade frmcr;
uplands 18d.; Orleans 134d; salos 5000 bales.
Tho garrison at Fort Mcpherson, Nobrae-
ka. enjoyed, on tho 9Th Instant, the first snow
storm OF tho season.
Tho orange groves on the st. Johns River,
Fiuridn, aro said to be moro fruitful than for
ten years previously
Tho coolest piGco in London is tho reading
room OF tho British Museum. which, strange TO
say, is cooled by steam.
The Avondalo RELIEF fund in Phila dolphia
amounts 10 over 5000 000 Tho Richngs con-
Cert in behalf of the sufferers ncttcd s77915.
Train told tho Mormons tho other evening
that he had 'more power in directing public
s.2!aion than any other five hundred men in
tho nation.'
The Israelites of Now York havc organized
freo burinl society, Tor the purpose Of pro-
rleing decent interment for all Isiaoltes who
die there In Strengthened circumstances.
Tho electrical method is to be adopted for
lighting tho street lamps in Boston. The on
tito city can bo lighted by this process in five
minutes, and the lights can be as quickly ex-
tinguishod.
james Fisk. Jr., the great railroad specu-
ittor, IL rather ali exaggerated specimen of
the genus American. He now proposes to lay
third rail over tho Rochester and Syracuse
Railroad from Albany to Saratoga to connect
With the Susquchana route, aud thus give q
oadgaugc connection with tho West. II the
company refuso to extend aid in tho matter,
Fisk proposes to build L new railroad on his
individual responsibility. Ho also intends
building monster steamer to run between
1i,,n o,,IN .l-
will bc tho largest vessel of tho kind in tho
world. Long live Fisk
The Delaware, Lackawauna and Western
Railroad Company, owners of tho AvondaIc
mine, havo given $40. .O6O for the relief of the
Avondale sufferers. Tho company do not be-
lioSo that the lro in the mine was the work of
incendiarics, but was the result of tho Careless
ness of minor who descended the shaft with
bundle Of hay. which became ignited from
the lamp tho miners carry on their hats.
Adams EIpross Company have contributed
$1,000 for tho sufferers. Work at all the mines
is now going on quietly, except at Avondale,
wherc $4,000 and several months time must
be consumed in repairs.
"A quoor case has been submitted to Gone
raj Spinner, United States Treasurer. for an
opinion. It seems that litigation is going on
in ono OF Tho Prussan Courts whero tho qucs.
tion OF consideration turns upon the genuine
ness of corlain Confederate treasury notes.
Ono party holds that they are counterfeit,
who tho other maintains that they are genu-
inc, aud, therefore, consideration according
to tho terms OF tho contract. A specimen of
the notes has bccn submitted TO General Spin
I,or through Baron Gcrolt, the North German
Ambassador, for q decision ns to whether they
are genuine or not. he 10 Of the opinion that
tho specimen submitted is genuine issue of
tho Confederate Troasury, but he declines to
hayo his opinion considered as evidence in tue
mattor. The question now arisos, who can
givc competent evidence of The gcuuineuoss of
these notes, and, if genuine, what is their
market valuo in Germany?
"A manuscript in n bottlo, presumed 10 be
relic Of the franklin Polar Expedition, was
picked up the other day Mt San Buona Yon-
tura. on tho Pacific coast. In it the finder was
requested to forward 1t to the Secretary Of the
Admiralty, London. or tho British Consul
at tho nearest porl. The req lost was printed
in ak commercial languages. Tho margin
and cvory vacant portion was filled with writ
ing relating TO SIR John Franklin and party,
tho lost Arctic explorers. I he document was
evidently cast into the water in latitude GO
deg. 81 min. 40sec., longitude 98 deg. 4 min.
sec. 1t giyos an account Of tho Jssortiop OF
the ships Ercbus and Toll ror. The party
numbered ono hundred and fvo at the time of
the drsertion, undor command OF +. q. NJ.
Crossier. Trey succeeded in reaching the
above latitude and longitude, where they
found a relic OF the late Sir John Ross. It
states that tho party wintered at Bsochy Is
land in 1846-47, and Sir john Franklin died
juno II, 1847. It containa many interesting
incidents connected with tho expedition.
Emigration to the Weat. it is stated, he's
received grcat impetus from tho completion
of the Pacific Railroad, and from tho work fur
nishcd to lab0rcrs on other railroad routes to
California. smaller proportion than over OF
the omigrants arriving from abroad, 1t is be-
Heyod, romain in 'he Atlantic Stntos. The pas
Bcngers on tho emRrant ships no sooner land
at Castle Garden than ihoY commence making
inquiries as to the shortest routes to tho West,
~"a r.~.""i "a Ciiei. Io.L.. ".tL. 1ILLiu
delay as possible. II is believed that. during
the no4t twelve molths, fully hundred thous.
and persons, both ratiyo aud foreign born,
will remove and settle in Kansas and tho Statcs
beyond. It is reported that villages arc
sprin9ing up in every direction. whore n year
ago thero was nothing but prairie, without O
village or even hut. At Laramie, fvo hur-
dred and sevonty-two miles west OF Omahe.
thero was not house to 10 seop two years
ago, and now tho traveller moots with -four
ishlng town with fifteen hundred Inhabitants
fne railroad depot. good hotel and largo
stores.
-California papers are received. with full ac-
counts OF the recept election in that State. The
San francisco Herald says it was a positive
tidal wave. sweepIng over the whole coast, and
leaving tho Radical party stranded and shat
tered, 90 that they can peyer again enter into
the sea OF politics in California. WHAT is ono
OF the most Observable fea ure, In the result
10 that tho Radical party Is broken into small
Fragments. In the CITY OF San Francisco It did
not emerge onco from It's shell or show it's
head. Ono wing voted the Democratic ticket,
and OF tho other wing vast numbers ataid away