The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-15
Tbe Gbaflestn1t 9ems.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1869.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

aSOi.
The New York cotton market closed quiet
and heavy; sales 5000 bales at 263c.
At Liverpool cotton was tending down;
uplands l2td., Orleans l2sd.; sales 5000 bales.
Dark brown hair rules highest in the Paris
market.
A theatre is about to be erected in Peters
burg, Virginia. .-
Over one million dollars worth Of i'm
provements are going up in Nashville at pres
ent.
james Fisk, Jr., began life as a menagerie
employee, and served a long time in stirring
up the animals"
The late President Pierce left no family.
His wife died several years ago, and their two
children died before her.
At the funeral of the late General Esca-
lante, IN Spain, the emblems of masonry were
for the first time exhibited in that country.
Vermont Is the only State that was unrep-
resented at the session OF the United States
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at San Francisco.
= Hon. John D. Phelan, Of Montgomery,
Ala, has accepted the position Of professor of
law at the University Of the South, Sewanee,
Tenn
A gentleman has bought o farm Of about
forty thousand acres OF land in Virginia, where
he proposes to plant and cultivate German
colony.
The Hon. Jefferson Davis still remains at
Barnum's Hotel, Baltimore. His brother came
on from Mississippi about week ago, and is
with him.
The beotblacks of Cleveland have petition
ed the Mayor for protection against the police,
In document setting forth that they are all
4ssons of patriots"
1t is reported to be the opinion Of the Off
clals in Washington that the Hornet was run
into Wilmington because those managing the
expedition could not agree to proceed.
Mrs. Norton proposes that the women OF
the State of New York hold an election In No
yember, at the same time with the men, to
show that they could go through the motions
without disgrace to themselves.
The celebrated trotting horse Dexter made
q hall mile In one minute and four seconds on
Prospect Park course, near New York, last
Saturday afternoon. This time, 1t is needless
to say, has never been equaIled.
Nearly two thousand passengers, consist
ing mostly of emigrants, arrived at New York
Sunday, in the British steamers Idaho, France
and Britannia, the first two from Liverpool
and the Britannia from Glasgow. g.
1t costs 1000, GOO, 900 francs to run the
French Government year. The reformers
propose to cut down this expense three-fourths
by disestablishing the church, repudiating
prfnceIy endowments, and discontinuing sine
cures.
At Columbus, Ca, they are making cotton
blankets, apparently very warm and comfort
able, with good body and nap on each side,
handsomely bordered in colors. They are
much cheaper than woollen blankets, and less
porous. :
Among those named for the vacant United
States Judgship of the Ninth Circuit, embrac-
ing Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North
and South Carolina, are Judges Underwood,
George II. Lee. and Alexander Rives, of Vir-
ginia,a and Chief. Justice. Pearson, Of North
Carolina.
1.-The cultivation of cotton in the East In
dies, it is asserted, has become more popular
among the natives who nave discovered that
it is more profitable to grow cotton at twenty
cents pound,y than to ra'se the millet grain
for consumption OF home. The cotton export
ed from IAdia in 1850 amounted in value to
S27, 100000 but the crops for 1869, it is esti--
mated, will bring 500, ,749, l25. The East In
dian cotton is short staple and decidedly infe-
rior to that grown in the United States but
H., hoe hnQD QYprciSp0
and more attention paid to packing the bales
without the admixture of dirt.
A peace alliance, 1t is announced by the
London News, was entered into between Aus
tria, Prussia, Russia and Great Britain, at the
time when the prospect Of the speedy death
of the French Emperor was believed to be Ger
tain. Napoleon, however, recovered, and Lord
Clarendon was commissioned to inform the
Emperor of the understanding between the
great powers and to explain their motives. 1t
is also announced that Lord Clarendon will
avail himself of the opportunity to inform the
Emperor that he will not be allowed to divert
attention in France from his domestic policy,
BY wagng war against Prussia. Every effort,
1t Is believed, will be made by the great powers
to induce Prussia not to give any provocation
to France. -
The New York World says: 1T is fact
generally well known that the War Depart
ment is in possession Of large number OF
documents known as the Confederate
archives The most important papers, how
ever-those embracing the diplomatic cores
pondence of the Davis government with for
elgn governments-have never been uncarth-
ed. and it is now stated, on what appears relia-
BILE authority, that they were sent to Canada q
few weeks before the fall of Richmond in
charge Of Davis private secretary. An eX-
Confederate officer testiies thai in 1861 these
archives were sealed and deposited in the
vaults of a bank in Montreal. These docu'
ments are said to be valuable as affecting the
Alabama question, and showing to what ex'
tent England was committed to the Confede'
racy"
The Atlantic Cable Is report ID to have re-
ceived fresh injury. The cable laid in 1866
has parted at a distance of about seventy
miles from Hearts Content, and this is the