The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-04
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1869.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cotton was hrmer at Zf4 cehes, Will e'ieo
of 400 bales.
-a-fn Liverpool cotton was quiet Middling
uplands i2,d. Sales 1000 bales.
;.L2Mr. George William Curtis declines the
nomination Of the Republican party Of New
York for Secretary Of State.
The Jewish Messenger says there are In the
United States $50 synagogues, Of which thir-
teen have been established during the Jewish
year 5629 Just closed.
- Florida has no banks, .and her merchants
and planters complain that they have to obtain
money abroad at expensive rates, or at nome
at an extravagant per cent
The method by which 1t is proposed 10 get
,up an international exposition at Washington
is to establish a capital stock ofa million OF
dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each.
THE treaty between the United states ana
,Hesse Darmstadt has been officially proclaimed.
II regulates citizenship as with the North Ger
man Confederation, on the basis OF naturaliza7
tion.
The new opera house at Memphis, Tenn
CWas iraugurated on Monday nightto a crowded
audience, Miss F5ddes, an English blonde,
-easion. = ,'.- "
The Radicals threaten that if ex-President
Andrew johnson Is elected United States sena-
tor by the Legislature Of Tennessee, the Senate
VIII refuse to admit him on the grounds Of dds
loyalty"
IL concert in aid of the home for destitute
Catholic children. at the Boston Coliseum, on
Sunday evening; was attended by over $4,000
persons There was chorus of 400 voices,
with so brass and 20 reed pieces.
S,-A planter near Selma, Ala, has been boast
ing of what his hands did at cotton picking on
the 24th ultimo. They began at sunrise, stop
ped about thirty minutes for dinner, and
wound up-a4-saAaaat----.,wr ,wrisht. nicked 6ls
00unds, Peter 523 pounds, January 4S1 pounds,
-Marenda S72 pounds, Frances $50 pounds, and
Mary S2s pounds.
Coal is tumbing in price. At the sale Of
Scranton coal by the Delaware and Lackwan-
ns Railroad Company, in New York. last week,
o.00C tons were sold at decline OF more than
one dollar in prices since the lst Of September.
The following were the prices: 10000 tons
lump at IS I2a5 Is; $1,000 tons steamboat at
s5a5 OH: 10000 tons crate at seas S5; 10000
tons egg at Sc 60as 65; $1,000 tons stove at
s6 s5a7 2aa; Il, 600 tons chestnut at IS 55a5 5sa
8 During recent visit to New York President
Grant expressed desire to purchase some ci-
ears, and visited quite number of establish
ments for the purpose Of testing their brands,
&c. The result was, that, unknown to each
other, each dealer visit iresolved to make the
President present, and he received not less
!. than seventy thousand prime Havanas. This
win keep him in cigars for some time, as he has
never been known to extend his cigar case to
q friend or visitor.
During the recent gold panic frugal office
clerk In New York bank drew all his savings,
amounting to some $3.50, and speculated in the
street. Fortune smiled on him, and by Friday
morning he had made $4,000 profit. His en-
ployers, surprised at his luck, advised him to
invest that amount with them, and they would
s.make hundred thousand for him." He very
naiyely replied "Charley has made fifteen
cool; Charley viii stop!" Charley that night
was worth fifteen thousand dollars -Charley's
employers not fifteen cents.
1t Is stated that the Commissioner Of Inter
nal Revenue has prepared q circular Of instruc-
tions, to be sent to the deputy assessors OF each
district, In reference to the assessment Of the
income tax thorough recanyass of each di-
vision Is to be made after October lst Every
house Is to be visited, and the names of the in
mates obtained. Persons who have no income
to be taxed must make an affidavit to that ef-
feet, and those who have made no returns are
to be summoned to appear OF the office OF the
assessor, and in case of failure to respond are
subject to penalty. The duty of energetic ac-
ton is impressed upon the assessors.
{ g lin New York, on Wednesday, the Repub-
ncan State Convention nominated full ticket
for State officers to be elected this fall, headed
by George William Curtis as candidate for Sec
retary of State Resolutions were adopted in
favor of equal suffrage to oil people, without
distinction of race or color; in favor of the Fif-
teenth amendment; sympathizlng with all op-
pressed people everywhere; sympathizing with
the people Of Cuba in their efforts to relieve
themselves from the yoke of government in
which they have no representation; in favor OF
the payment of the national debt in full in COIN
.denouncing all schemes or pretexts for repr-
diation in every form, and denouncing corrup'
legislation and corruptionists.
The Washington Chronicle Of SATURDAY
saws: ssThe efforts that have been made 10 In
duce foreign emigration to the southern
States have been quite successful. An agent al
present IN Sweden has just forwarded com
pany Numbering upwards Of 100, whose dest;
nation y Water Valley, Miss. Many of then
ere mechanics, and have secured employment
In advance on the Mississippi railroads The
agent writes that he was only two weeks il
collecting this party. He says that any mum
her of valuable emigrants can be secured TO
the South there by sending over agents to maxi
proper representations to them. They know
X Init little about the South, and need informa
- lion But when they arrive at New York
= without previous arrangements, it is almos
impossible to divert them from the great cul
rent going westward"
General Lew Wallace-who Is to som
extent responsible for the fact that American