The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-15
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and full one cent lower; sales 1900 bales, clos
ing at sac. ..tea - .-
AT Liverpool cotton closed nominal; up
lands 1Sid; Orleans 1S{d; sales 5000 bales.
Tho Hon. R. NJ. T. Hunter declares that
he has forever retired from public life.
Two hundred Cinnamon are about to be
set at work to reclaim $4,000 acres OF swamp
land near Susan, Salona County, Cal.
Alexander Dudley, Esq, for many years
nresdent of the Richmond and York River Rail-
road. died at Richmond on Friday night last.
George F. Adams formerly merchant IN
Augusta, Ga., and captain in the Confede-
rae service during the war, died in England
ON the Doth ultimo. ~e
Henry Hart,,a prominent citizen OF New
Orleans, connected with the railroad and omni-
bus interests of that city, was drowned at
QRand Isle onsSaturday last
-Lsading Southern railroads have agreed
to pass delegates md honorary members OF
Louisville Commercial Convention free. The
committee of arrangements have sent clrcu-
lar to other roads asking favorable rates for
delegates.
Brigham Young has organized co-opera-
tye storess throughout his Kingdom, the di-
vision Of profits being nine.tenths to the
stockholders, and one-tenth to the church. 90
where you will. you find sign boards inscribed
as follows: "Holiness to the Lord. Zion's
Cooperative Mercantile Association"
Anew Hneof German steamships will soon
be established between the Prussian port Of
:ssettin and the port Of New York. The pre-
Rnainary details have already been arranged,
.a,d in q few months two steamships Of the line
viii begin their trips. Stettin is the capital Of
the Province Of Pomerania, and is one Of the
most important Of the Prussian ports. tt
!, situated on the Oder, eighty miles from Berlin,
With which it is connected by railroad. When
kaiirect intercourse is established between Stet.
Tin and New York, it will doubtless result in
great increase of our commercial relations
NTH that part Of Germany. Not only will ad-
ditional alfhcifitiesbe furnished for commerce.
but also for emigration; and the inhabitants Of
the Baltic Provinces will be enabled to take
their departure for America without the ne
oessity Of the long and expensive railroad jour
ney to Hamburg or Bremen.
z-Dr. Nichols, editor Of the Journal OF
Chemistry, and scientific writer Of some re-
pute. expresses the opinion that the cool aver
age ten1peratureof the summer just past is
. due to The presence of spots on the sun. Dur
lug both June and August unusually large
spots were visible upon our !urninary, and
both these months were much cooler than
the average. What is the nature Of the
spots, or dark patches referred to. even
scientific men are in complete ignorance,
but they are known to be OF immense area,
for some OF them have been accurately
measured. ADuring certain years the whole
/. equatorial region Of the SUD has been
croadedwith these spots, several OF them coy-
ering spacs TWO or three times the diameter
of the earth, and it is certainly quits reasona-
blet suppose that they sensibly diminish the
amount Of heat rays coming from the sun to
the earth. secohi, the Italian astronomer, has
carefully studied these spots. and thinks he
has discovered at least this much about them,
that their variation is confined to period
which is all bnt trieunal II this is so, law
may vet be discovered which will enable Us to
foretell these spots and the variations in tenn
psrature which they OCCASION, if we cannot
explain them.
The project for grand international ex-
hibition in Washington, in 1871, brings bright
visions to some OF the psople there these dull
.dsys. For want Of better amusement, they
tickle themselves with such fsnciful calcula-
tons as the following: It, IS estimated that
seven squares of ground will DO required for
the necessary buildings, streets, avenues, foun-
tains, &C.; hat Ave millions Of people will visit
the exposition. from whose admission fees,
sayfftycents each, the sum Of 81 500, 900 will
be realized; that twenty-five hundred articles
villbe on exhibition. each having itsrepresen-
tatiye man, who viii, it is fair to presume, ex-
pend in the city daily at least 50, thus making
an aggregate OF SEQ thrown into circulation
in the c,tY per day during the continuance o.
the ex1o ition-in all probability six months;
that it ia not at all improbable to suppose that
the expenditure OF each of the FIVE millions Of
visitors to the exposition would be at the
least SO or s20, this within the six months
amounting to The enormous sum OF $50 000, 900
or 800 900 900; that these almost fabulous
sums OF money would be left in the City of
Washington, and distributed among It's me-
ohanics and merchants and hotei-keepers and
Professionalism and property-owners.
"A horrible sensational story has been set
afoat By correspondent OF New York paper,
in connection with the late coal mine disaster
at Plymouth, Penn. According to this CORES
pondent, an an agonism has existed in that
section. for year or two past between the
Welsh miners and those of the other nations,
based upon the partislity shown to the former
in the way OF promoting them to fill most Of
the superior positions around the mine. This
antagonism has developed itself in evidences
OF ill-feeiing. The Welsh have always been
slow to strike, and in the meetings Of the
miners unions they hav0 nearly unanimously
voted against the 'basis." which ia a
term expressing an agreement among the
miners 70 strike whenever the coal fell,
and not work until it went above that figure
again. The o,her miners have mostly favored
this mode OF proceeding, and the Welsh alone
hsve been opposed to it. Three months ago a
meeting was bold, at which, after much de-
bate. 1t was agreed on al sides to strike. The
ssrike was f,ilure. and the Welsh were more
indignant th n ever with th,se who led them
into the frultless struggle to uphold the
sshsa;a I'm Monday. she 9Th instant, the