The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-13
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VIEWS UMMARY.
Cotton closed in Liverpool ct 12ad. for up
lands. Sales IL 600 bales.
in New York cotton was unchanged, clos
Ing ct S4laS4}c. Sales $50 bales.
-9old closed strong ct 81.
III Is said that George Peabody designs to
administer upon his own estate. and will leave
nothing tor heirs or ta1gatherers to quarrel
about. .,.,.e
Colonel John W. Forney aspires to be
elected United States Senator from North Car
olina, He has recently purchased large tract
OF land there. 81 ~!
Artificial curls Of all kinds are worn. The
frizzed curls on the forehead-the long heavy.
~urls behind the ear, and the short or long
curls which compose or fall over the chignon.
Fort Pulaski is now rebuilding, under the
supesiptsndencs ofthe United STATES Engineer
Corps ,Thirty-n.e mon are building up the
water battery; and when the work is completed
four 1O-inch and two 15-inch guns will be
mounted. This armament, it is stated, will
contain the heaviest ordnance ever placed at
Fort Pulsaki. 40 90 IL - . -"
The Norfolk, Va, Journal has been in
formed by gentleman Of the, county that. he
worked forty three negro men up till 1858,
since which time fifteen have dad. Oftwenty-
four negro women formerly owned by him, not
one has nov : child alive. That journal hears
similar reportSsof the decadence Of the race
from every quarter. :. ri.r1s iigs 5--,t
Tho following sales OF cotton were made
inNeW York last week: For July, 100 bales on
private terms; for October, 100 'baies on 'pri-
vate terms; for November, 100 bales at 26ic.,
500 at 2s}c.; for November or Oecember, 80
bales ct 35lc.; ,1oe December, 2est 252c.. $50
st &c., 14O0 on private terpa ptebably 25la
&c.,; for December or January. 100 bales on
private tezms; for January, 200 ct 25c., 500 at
35A cts. 4--''
General Forrest has made arrangements
to secure. within the next two months,
thousand Chinese as laborers upon Southern
railroad which he has contracted to make. An
agency has been established in st. Louis for
supplying, at the shortest. notice, whatever
number of Chinese m.y be called for from any
part of. ths country. and that agency has Al
ready ordered 50, 900. grand enterprise for
the Introduction Of Chinese 70 be employed
upon the plantations OF the South has been
vigorously inaugutased at Memphis. =,
y, Tho London Spectator, in all seriousness
and with remarksbleeoursge proposes to have
Archbishop Manning msde .peer. It thinks
thatthere is this IN favor Of its recommends!
ton, that he has no children, and there Is
need Of an authorized exponent o. Catholic
feeling and opinion in the higher branch OF the
Legislature. Seventeen years ago Cardinal
Wissman was hardly sale in the streets Of Lon
don; today it is earnestly proposed by grave
journal TO raise his successor to grade Of the
highest honor within the gift Of the crown.
Truly, the age is progressive. i-''''
.eAghe New York Heralds money article. Of
Saturday. says :, southern securities were
heavy and lower, the weakness being most per-
aeohb.e fnsthe New North Csrofnss, which,
continuing their downward movement. sold ct
81 The exceptions were the Tennessees,
whsch were steady, and the South Carolinas,
which we're stronger. Prices closed on the
street IS follows Tennessee, ex coupon, 61h
61i;d new, 57sNi; Virginia, ex coupon. 57s.
57f; do. new. 6oa61; Georgia skies, 83aS6; do.
se7ens, ss.sSl; North Carolina, ex coupon, ga
S4a; do. new. 44a45; Missouri; SKIES, 87as7a;
Louisiana sixes, 6sa7O; do. 1evee skies. 67Aat8;
de- do. eights, ssaS5; Alabama eights, s2As4;
do. flyes, eoass; south Carolina slxes, 6sa7o;
do. new, s5aS7."
The extraordinary rapidity with which
iron.clsd after iron-clad has been built and
launched in the Prussian ports. and the
scarcely disguised pretensious OF the Prussian
Government to the supremacy Of the Baltic
S.a, have created no little jealousy and anxiety
In Russia. Last year, at the suggestion Of
Count Bismarck, the Prussian and Russian
feets cruised and man@uvrei together during
the summer months; but proposal to renew
the came exercises this year has met at Sc. Pc
tersburg with an unqualified refusal. This in
cident has caused much sensation in Russian
naval circles, the general impression being that
the government Is aware Of the present supe-
riarity Of the Peussian navy, and unwilling to
Let their aeet serve - foal to that OF their &C.
tive and enterprising neighbor.
Eight street car conductors were arrested
in 81. Lonis the uther day, on the charge Of
stealing their employers funds. The Demo-
crst 4a5s: "Pisees we're found where conduc-
tors had sold packages Of single tickets. twen-
ty-n7e and thirty for ono dollar. and the nsodus
operandt Of gathering these tickets together
was also learned. On the Missouri and Citi-
zens', roAda the conductors have little spears
,1r,Sn which thew ,are ordered to stick the
tickets when passed to them by passengers,
and this cancels them. Instead Of placing
them on thus spear they make believe to do so.
thsn slyly slip the little bits OF paper into their
pockets without the hole IN 1t which renders It
worthless. On the Fourth-street (People's)
read, the conductors have punch, and by
failing to punch a ticket the same dishonest
aims reached, ,..
"A ghastly joke is reported from New Or
leans "A young doctor OF that city paid his
addresses to lady, who, Among other curios-
Stsoo in hnp n~rlor hnA