The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-26
. NEWS OF THE DAY.

in New York cotton closed quiet and firm
middlings 264c. ...e
Gold closed heavy ut 3Oj.
In Liverpool cotton closed unchanged.
Bridal breakfast parties, two days before
the wedding, to show Off the presents, are 6
late invention.
There are still living In Paris about one
hundred persons who remember the cxecu.
tlon ofKing Louis XVI.
DIR. Mary Walker has been lecturing in st.
Louis on the necessity OF law compelling
men to marry before they reach the age OF
forty.
King William, OF Prussia, offers the Popc
carpet 10 cover the floor of the hall In which
the great council will meet. It will cost
$4,000.
1t is reported that Madame Jenny Lind
Goldschmidt will sing in her husbands orato!
RIO "Rnth,r Q. Exeter Hall, LONDON, about the
IIlh Of next month. ~!
Tho manufacture 81 tcsoclo7Tsca ve, ,rans OF
.e 1attlc Of New Orleans ia n rcgua. employ
hcnt Iii that city, In view Of the .nslon to
such as may succeed In proving thcr Identity
Tho total profits Of the Peace Jubilee at
Boston are stated Mt $6882, and the Executive
committee have decided to give that to AIR.
Gilmore, In addition to the s32, 900 from the
benefit concert
"A quarry Of the finest quality of lithogra.
phic stone has just been discovered upon the
farm Of w. Taylor, five miles from st. Louis.
Lithographcrs pronounce 1t fully equal to the
best Bayarian stone. & iac,siH .ria ya.. ,ldl
The disappointed Johnson men In Ten
nessee have already prepared another pro
gramme, /. e., 'Bfownlow'is Is shortly to die and
A. ]. to be elected In his place, and get into
the Senate ahead of Cooper.
North Germany is strainihg every nerve
to develop commercial intercourse with for
eign natlops, and with that object Count Bis
marck has already established l2l new consul
lates in both hemisphercs.
"A single English colony hns lately bought
eo,oec acres ctlcrd In kaasss. The tract Is 70
be divided among no fewer than 1900 families.
consisting Of wclLto-do farmers and artisans.
GERMAN and Swedish polonistsi have also pur-
chased largely.
The castor bean, from which the oil is
made, is becoming ian important industry in
Perry County, California. One prominent
dealer received at fifs warehouse 1000 bushels
in one day, paying$ So is per bushel. It yields
more bushels to the acre than wheat.
-Tho'Ne~ York Herald says that in his
forthcoming message, the Rresident will re-
commend that the internal revenue taxes re-
main undsturbcd for one year, after which
time the adminlstrationHwill have the debt
well in hand, sp that q material, reduction of
taxation can be secured. ...,.
Sir John Macdonald, In conversation the
other day. deciafed there was s,oms ssnse IN
the anneIxtioG OF cunadn to the United states
but mons whatever In Canadian independence.
'"hen we are ready for or-anncxation, % said he.
VI shall go In first for q sixteenth amendment
TO the constltutio4, so thata foreigner can be-
come president, and then run for the ofice.-
Tho American Churchman, of Chicago.
says that the'knaves Of Utah ore nearly oil
Yankees, including the "apostlcs," '.bishops,"
and "elders," and all who get the tilhes; while
the dupes arc mainly very degraded European
peasants, many of thom from England and
Wales, and members by baptism of the English
Church. it says: 'Thero ncvor existed but
one Mormon Irlshman, and Mormon Irish
woman is something totally unknown to
naturalists"
The Sultan and the yicrroy OF Egypt con-
tinue to be at loggerhcads. Tile foreign now
ers have of late advised the Porte not to drive
Egypt into corner. Russia fnpd Prllssits
however, abstain from taking On active part In
tnese complications. The principal point OF
dinerenceis in regard to the right of Egypt to
negouate loans. AS Egyptian credit Is much
higher than that Of tho Porte In the English and
french markets, the Sultan wishes to borrow
upon Egyptian. accoant.'the money which he
can't raise upon his own, and that is about the
Thole story
General shermsa1 inl conversation with
prominent cltizeni q day or two since, alluded
to the question Of tho removal of the capital
nom Washington to the Mississippi Valley,
and said that outside Of his. personal Views its
present consideration was fotas,eAs it'~6hid, !,
take ono hundred years to get "a biti :t6A that
ehect through the House Of Representatives;
one hutdis cd years to get one through the
senate; and, eycn after tho passage Of the bill
Oy both Houses one hundred and one years
: uop Z. ii'a n.dsom.