The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-04
NEWS or THE D.IT.

In Liverpool cotton closed dull; np!ands la
l2Hd; Orleans .Hal2Md.
lin New York cotton closed duh and shade
lower, at 25a2ikc.
The Washington Corporation Attorney has
decided that permission or school trustee Ia sur
ncicnt to admit n co.Orcd child into n pubi.c
school.
Mr.. Schneider has bccn ra.cleotcd president
or The French Legislative Corps 1t is feared in
Paris that there will he disturbances on the ami.
\vcrsary Of the death OF Ba,tdin.
"A negro killed a sheriff nj New Iberia, Louis.
lana, the other day, and The citizens hung the
negro.
Mexico ia 10 have n Pacific Railroad, and the
right 10 build IL has been awarded to Samuel
iDrannnn. OF San Francisco.
Tile increase OF duty on French textiles has
created considerable agitation in commercial
circles ut Manchester, England.
Prince Summanna and suite, from Japan are
en- route, pfa Pacific Railroad, for New York, cs-
corted 10y member OF the nrm OF Koopmanschaap
& Co.
Two Mormon apostles are travelling In Mnssa.
ch usetts, trying to make prosclytes, ana CON-
plain bitterly because DR.. Todd who preached In
their temple, refused TO admit them to his pulpit
They shy they belong to u corp OF two hundred
missionaries sent by brigham Young TO States
having more women than men.
The government works at IlarperS Ferry.
West Virginia, we're sold on Tuesday Mt auction.
For the muskct factory, on the Potomac, $I70, 900
was received, and for the rifle factory on the She.
nandoah, $4,000. The sale includes the buildings,
grounds, and the magnificent wntcr power 1T
tached to them. The purchasers will use the
buildings for manufactores.
The Legislature OF Vermont, at its recent scs-
sion, exempted from taxation for five years all
manufacturing establishments hereafter erected
In the State, and all their capital and machinery,
and also the new capital and machinery put into
buildings not now used for manufacturing pur.
poses, whenever the capital used amounts to $1,000
or more. The hill was opposed on the ground OF
doubtful consttutionalty, hut the need OF the
State oyerpowercd ell objections.
Tho Secretary OF the Treasury has received n
communication from Savannah, Georgia, asking
that permission lie given the Vernon Shell Road
Company, OF that city, to import from England
Tree or duty, traction cnginuI be used OIL their
road between Savannah and Ycrnonburg. They
state IL iB to ho used A. an experiment only, and
II It should prove successful would be OF great
advantage to the country ut large, rs 1t would
facilitate travel between the railroad dcpots and
the river landings, anu the agricultural products
;oI the country could nc moved more speedily and
at less expense than by teams. ~.
"A Southern Pacific Railroad, II is assorted, Is
now In active progress, and will be completed
much sooner than is generally Imagined Six
distinct companies, created by as many separate
State charters, 1t Is reported are now at work I'm
building line from San Diego California. To
Norfolk, Va. This route, It Is claimed. Is nine
hundred miles shorter than the present line by
the Onion Pacific and Central Pacific roads, The
snmmits, IL Ia stated, arc lower aud the grades
less steep than on the northern route, while OBJ.
struction by snow is almost OH lniposslbllity The
most eastern link In the chain Is the ,NurGoIk and
Grand Western Rairoad,n which runs through
the southern counties OF Virginia, from Norfolk
70 Bristol Tennessee, q distance or four hundred
and thirty miles.
Tile Davenport Brothers, now In Chicago nTc
meeting with their usual success in creating "a
sensnton. gentleman published In tho PAPERS
challenge, Offering 10 wager 0nc hundred dol.
lars that he could tie the brothers SO that tley
could not free themselves Without emitting thc
ropes, at the same time Offering to, bet nnothrr
hundred dollars that he could prove that he had
already no tied them. All agent OF tho Brothers
called upon the challenger, offering to accept his
proposition. but ia alcy Immediately disagreed
on the mnttcr OF the rope that should be used,
the affair came tn nothing. The curious pnrt OF
this case In thut the challenger Ia an ardent
spirituaiist, who believes IN oil the usual mani.
festations Of mediums, but regards the Daven.
por's IVY humbnga. hut tile brothers., Il ls wcl!
known, DO not now cloim any spiritual assistance
IN thelr extraordinary performances. but exhibit
themselves simply AZ Juggers. r
The vaults OF the United States snb.tra,srrv
in New York City, two in number. arc described
as follows: The sides and roof arc oomposed Of
eight feet granite masonry ami two feet OF Iron
plates. Between tile layers OF plates arc m,,sxct
balls lnld In Io1se. The door Is composed OF
thirty eGt OF masonry and two feet OF iron plates.
also with q layer OF muskot balls. Each vault |,
closed ny four iron doors weighing two tons each.
and fastened by two combination locks to each
door. The thre inner doors are locked without 0
key, whiIe tho locks ON tho outer ones arc opera
ted by means OF an lnstrulnent about an Inch
long by haf an Inch Wide. Each vault Ia about
Twelve feet slnarc. On Tho sd,s Of each apart.
m1nt are built one hundred and twenty chests OF
iron, eash OF the capacity OF q quarter OF mil
Hon dollars In gold coin. Each chest, whom full