The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-09
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Gold closed in New York yesterday dull
at 85. 81 =
-Cottonsiosed as., lsvet; sales 800 bales;
middli6g uplapda sAlc.
In liverpool Gotten ciesed dun at 1sid' Tor
uplands; sales 1000 bales.
The matrimonial market at White Sulphur
Springs has been the best of this season.
More deaths by drowning from surf bath.
ing have been reported this year tn IN ever be-
fore.
Seventy women two years ago emigrated
from Massachusetts, to Oresonfs Sixty y-nine are
now married. -
The price paid for the Beston-Advertiser 3
few days ago was s225,Oco. Six years ago tie
psper sold for $40. .009.
The eleventh and twelfth volumes Of
Frouds's History OF England, completing the
, work, viii be published in the autumn.
-lThs sues Canal is looked forward to by
British manufacturers as facilitating their
means OF obtaiuing agrsater supply tof East
Indian cotton.
The. meeting held in Washington on FRI
day night by the capitalists Of that city for
taking the preliminary steps for holding an
international exhibition in 1871 was decided
success. The utmost harmony prevailed. and
the enrgy displayed is strong premonition
ofe0cSess.;
aSNsarl Byron, Michigan, is spring ef
vvs&er 80 inpregnated with lime thas lit has
: formed about it's Issuing point, BY deposit, .
nstulal curb, B rock with hole in the ceptre.
Every twig end leaf over which the stream
from this spring passes is similarly coated
with fime.s ~ ,th = .- 80 s0 81
Tho Ranken Knitting Company, OF Troy.
New York, held meeting on Friday. and re-
solved 10 shut down their mill at oohoes forth
with, Oh account OF the scarcity OF cotton. The
sSandIaks Mills, New York, have already stop
ped nom the same cause, and it is said that
most, ienot all, the cotton mills. in the vicinity
yin likewise suspend.
Shipping articles, it has recently been de-.
cidsd d Kew York City, are invalid, unless .
Ayeosnt stamp is afixod for the signature OF
.esSA: :saiIot. To, ground -os the decision is,
shas the agreement is mlde between the mas
ter snf@eh man indisidpAiy, and that, there
fore, one Aya cent stamp, Nhicb was affixed
10 the articles under consideration, was insuf.
adsnkS ,,...s.., =. 10 l.ss...
A-The tour Of inspection now being made by
-tisgeresaxyeEthe Navy, has disclosed GER
tain very isdpQsssps facts in reference to the
coast Gs3ssHSesSof stessseof the United States. Score
faTy RSb6Sdn Is ACCOMPANIED by General Sher-
man. atid the two systems OF military aud ma
MI da5snce are compared with each other. Il
A repcrtsd. .te; be the opinion 6f both officers
that fofts srs inefacient in harbor defence; and
fhIs - Id the case Of Nav Orleans and Wcks-
.burs, il . feet could once pass fortit need
not sfsp u Batter II down. 1t ia even asserted
that the immense works at the Narrows ore
but o small protection to the City Of New York.
-S40rk on the new postofice for the city OF
Nal York to such an extentth
The proposed change Of site is no longer talked
OF, and is not desired by the government. The
excavasionhas reached depth Of twenty-five
feet, and tbswoFk Of laying the concrete Eoun-
Sdasion bed and, building the sustaining wall
has bsen begun The stone 10 all hauled and
nearly all the earth Is oarted away at night n
order to prevent blockade Of the streets.
Once month during Che progress OF the Work
q photograph OF the scene will be sent to the
supervising architect Of the government at
Washington, who will thus be enabled at .
Glsnce and with tolerable clearaess to discern
how much hast accomplished during the
preceding thirty days. q. ~
Some OF our exchanges have devoted con-
siderable space to speculations on one OF the
paogt startling OF astronomical facts, the ex-
ploeioR or rather the confederation Of the star,
Tsn-c Corona. !, II NOW appears that another and
much more impartant starts powslowly taking
itseN ont OF our system. Calculations OF exc.
frsordinary minuteness have demonstrst d
thst Sirius a6d our sun are mutually reced:' e
,frum one another ct the rate OF 29.4 miles psr,
second. In the end. therefore. though the dis
tanee of time strsjns the Imagination. We must
1ocs s,xht Of eirrus-that is TO say, provided
ne have notify that time gsined the capacity
Of watching the more distant universes to-
varalvhieh he must be teceding-sn fmprob-
.abiify. 9Ncehing ssSms 30 bear its final limit
as the power OF astronomical telescopes, While
she power ~ the human eye, lift alters at al,
probably decreases. NIX. .,4
The NeE York Mail. slluding tofthe extern
siyeprsparstious OF the merchants VI that city
-Sur ths f.B trade, says: 1T is singular and
suggestive fact that tue oaly buyers In our
market who, % q Glass. have an abundance OF
ready money, are II 'se who come from the
eoush-a region so long associated In oCr
mind, with the waste and desolation of war,
and with an unrsconstrueted condition OF bus
mess and productive industry. that it seems
odd to meet men nom there who are actually
s.aush', With the proceeds OF Southern pro
ducts The faot, however. u as undeniable as
u u saheerfal. The Southern peope. have
asarned econ ,my by the hardest OF expert
enees. They have been iaushs 70 raise thsr
own breadatufs; TO manuiaotape largely the
rooarser qualities Of clothing; to keep ont OF
debt and 70 live within themselves Is Il
strange THAI nov. sfteF tvo OF the most valua-
BE cotton crops ever gathered, they should be
comparatively rinh and snpplied with ready
money. and be found in our market, not ask
ing, as.oe old, for long credit. but seeking the
best ternas for cash down2"
Tho eccensricities o advertising are al
~vsys an interesting study. Just as We hear
that one OF tbs managers Of New York has en-
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