The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-20

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Cotton closed dull and heavy at 2l3c. fol
middling uplands; sales 400 bales.
In Liverpool on Saturday cotton closed
dull at lO4d for uplands; sales 5000 bales.
-Twenty-one million dollars are annually
invested In lager beer In the United States.
The steamer Great Republic brought tc
San Francisco 1900 Chinese and 1889 packages
of tea.
I'm New York brainless youth displays his
weakness by lighting his cigar in public places
with greenbacks.
ALI the English newspapers report the
Derby day very dull affair, and the Oaks day
duller still.
The first English overland mail from Au-
stralia for London was received at New York
from the West on Thursday morning, and for;
warded by the Nebraska.
The convention Of German teachers in ses
sion at Vienna have declared in favor of the
exclusion of doctrlnal religion from schools,
and the retention of natural religion.
"A German inventor Is exhibiting talking
machine at Bremen. 1t Is made of wood and
caoutchouc end is of life size, in the form OF a
woman. 1t chatters away like any living
member of the sex.
The New York papers say that Gorham,
Gray & Co, the suspended cotton merchants,
have sufficient assets to meet all liabilities, es-
timated at 81, 100000 They suspended In an
ticipaton of future calls, in order to do justice
to all their creditors alike,
The Republicansin in Philadelphia seem to
have had lively time at their late election Of
delegates, generally agreeing only to disagree
violently. Desks were upset and chandeliers
broken at one place. Several negroes have
been elected delegates.
1t is lamentably singular that the red man
always wants to initiate first the vices Of the
white one Rum, gambling and lewdness have
nearly killed of the entire Indian race, and now
Spotted Tail wants TO be delegate to Con-
gress.
The Japanese government has granted
permission for the establishment of school
for the instruction of the native youths in for
eign languages and naval and military tactics.
The Japanese troops are now drilled on the
European system.
Dispatches have been received at the State
Department from the United States Minister
to England In relation to prosecutions Of con-
yerts to Christianity In Japan. Moral power,
tits said, can only be exerted, as force cannot
be used, there having been no treaty obliga-
tions violated.
The great volcano Of Asamayama, on the
Island of Niphon, IN the Japan Sea, quiet for
centuries, Is In active eruption, accompanied
By earthquakes disastrous to life and r-operty.
Similar disastrous commotions are reported in
Japan. An active volcano at sea, two hundred
miles from Yokohama, is also reported.
The crazy woman who has SO long been
haunting Hollywood Cemetery, in Richmond,
Va, has been taken by the superintendent
there. She had burrowed a hole in the grave
of her lover, and had, night after night, made
her bed there With all the strength of mad
ness she resisted those who In kindness were
trying to tear her away from her melancholy
pest.
. the Indians departed from the capt.
tai, President Grant handed s4O0 to Captain
Poole, and directed that each chief should
choose presents to the value Of 500. They
were accordingly taken to On uptown store,
where each filled large trunk with articles OF
various kinds. Combs, brushes, umbrellas.
blankets and beads seemed particularly to
please their fancy:> Swift Bear wanted to take
about dozen umbrellas, but was dissuaded.
-Postmaster-General Creswell has accepted
the offers recently made by the agents Of the
Cunard and Inman Lines Of steamers to trans
port the mafis from New York to Great Britain
and Ireland for the amount of the sea postage
on the mails conveyed as full compensation
for the service. The steamers of the CunarC
Line, leaving New York on Thursday of each
week, will convey the mails for the United
Kingdom, and the steamers of the Inman Line
leaving on Saturday of each week, will con.
vey the Irish mail only to Queenstown. Un.
der the existing arrangements, the mails fol-
Europe are regularly dispatched from New
York as follows: .OR Tuesdays, by steamers
of the Hamburg Line, to Plymouth. England;
Cherbourg, France, and Hamburg, Germany.
On Wednesdays, by tho steamers of the Will
-liams & Guion Line, to Queenstown and Liver
pool. On Thursdays, by the steamers of the
Cunard Line, to Queenstown and Liverpool,
and of the North German Lloyd Line, to
Bremen. On Saturdays, by steamers of the
North German Lloyd Line, to Southampton
and Bremen, and of The Inman Line, carrying