The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-23
!, NEWS OF THE DAY.

yesterday st 96K.
--in New York cotton closed lower at 25%
cents. .ss -.
~ In liverpool yesterday cotton closed steady;
1p,ands llxd; Orleans l1Id.
indianapolis has spprop rated $4,000 for a
3. prison to be devoted exclusively TO women and
girls.
s "A caSe Of torpedoes exploded in q candy fac
81 tory at New Orleans, on Wednesday, killing two
men and considerably damaging the building.
"a North Carolina paper records the singular
fact that no minister OF the Baptist Church In
tiat state has died during the past ecclesiastical
ssyear.
s IA New Orleans court has been called upon to
decide whether q pew In church is personal
property Ter, as the law says. moyahie) or real
estate tmmovablel
-AEosed horsenesh in England seems to COM
naand higher rates than with uJ. Prom s75,ooo
to $4,000 haya figured in the sales Of the more
celehfatet specimens.
The Iurida papers urge the planters to raise
I sugar and abandon cotton. Sugar and fruit,
they say, are the natural products Of the State,
ana much more profitable than cotton.
"A pneunatie propelllng company is aoout to
Z supply New Orleans with o line Of street railway
cars. TO be propelled by air. The machinery is all
,constrncted. and ia said to work experimentally
4 like charm.
zsrhe returns from seven out Of the eight
counties In west Florida, to wit:oaldoun, Escam-
: bta, Franklin, Holmes, Santa Rosa, Walton and
washington, show q majority Of ass votes for an
nexation TO Alabama. Only about thiity per
scent or thewhoie vote was cast, thus showing
great indinerencs on the subject.
IA New YORK letter says: "The keynote Of
: most Of the Thanksgiving sermons here was the
!. Bible In the public schools. Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher and Rev. DR.. Ever, cergymen OF very
Z sdifIereDt types OF religious thought, expressed
1hemEeises In favor OF condtionally dissociating
I the schools from State support. Mr. Ever being
q risuast, his views appear to excite no surprise,
but e good many Of the Plymouth Church brethren
4 hardly know what to say or think of the utter
&pces OF their pastor"
-Don Piatt writes TO the Cincinnati CONNER
sciel: '.As for Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan,
fear that under the impartial pen Of military criti
ciSm, especially after the Confederate side is
heard, theae, our shadowing laurels, will wither
and fade, aud the verdict will be- that these Off
GERS had the good luck to be in command when
the Confcderacy fell TO pieces from exhaustion.
s or the three, General Sherman is certainly the
most unfortunate. Prom the time he and Grant
threw portion Of their army on the wrong side
Of the river at Shiloh ar permitted it 20 be sur
pslsed and butchered, with the only excuse
ever heard that one officer was drunk and the
other crazy,) 70 the march from Chattanooga to
Atlanta, where he lost more men killed and
wounded than his enemy had under him, we
have succession Of military biunders.n
Somebody writes to the New York World
page narration Of his or her visit to the Mrs. Brig
barn Young. They inhabit large house with
IN efsgy Of cyouching lion at the door, and are
generally very comfortably OF. Mrs. Amelia,
whose sharp tongue keeps the Prophet in check,
sleeps In plain but neatly furnished bedroom,
In which is French bedstead, several chairsf a
dresging table, looking glass and bureau. The
noor Is covered with an ingram carpet She says
that the old Hnaids in Utah are increasing in
numbers, ana that yoong girls are strongly op-
posed TO having more than one husband. Petty
jeafousies have much TO do with the disturbance
sf domestic tranquility. Amelia expects that one
day the Mornons viii return TO Jackson County,
4 III Missouri, whence they were forctSly expelled,
and ocepp5 again their property and their Zion.
& me visitor took peep into the suppsr-room.
2 TWO long tahIes ran the whole length, a. which
were seated the wives aud children. The two
Oldest wives occupied the head OF the table, Brig
ham being absent, and rise others were placed n
order, each with her children around her attend
ing to their wants. The meal appeared TO be
pialn one. consisting simply OF bread and butter.
with some preserved fruits, or bread and nille.
Hebr aA WAS struck with the absence oil babies
from the assembiage, and, upon inquiry, learned
that for about elk years past. Brigham has ceased
10 be fa her. His irss wife has not yet been fully
rcconcied to polyeamy.
"Details OF the Milwaukee Theatre holocaust
are received. The fire wax communicated from
broken Kerosene lamp, and, in less time than It
takes 50 write 1t, the whole siase was cnyelopea
An f1arnea, Before the audience had time TO rush
70 tie aoors the whole interior OF the theatre was
a uiass Of are. The scene which ensuea battles
Saescription. Hen and boys rushed for the door,
scvertarning and ramplin5 upon each other IN
sneir esras,ble to- escape tho terrible death
threatened them. After the rush had somewhat
: ceased, hearsrend ng cries for assistance were
heard pr6ceedng from the interior OF tne ourn
tug hui ding, and after dll gent exertion, seVera
Z psrscns were ex:rcated ativs. Two dead oodies
were thea tken out, and, as they laJ In the oeao
honee, pseeoased most sad and heartstcHenlnS
= epsc&as. N the eioshiAg was burned Oh.