The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-01
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FRIDAY, APRIL l, 1870:
NEWS OF THE DAY.

in Liverpool cotton closed quiet and
steady. Uplands l0s; Orleans 1ltall!d.
One firm in Minnesota town shipped
1000 rat skins to market last week.
-'sShoo-hyn has boddered Bryants Minstrels
to the extent of about $4,000 clear gain.
An important meeting has been held at
Quebec to encourage manufactures, which, the
speakers declared, could be carried on in that
city more cheaoly than almost in any other
part of the world.
General Walker reports that the Chinese
imported BY hira to work on the Texas Central
Railroad labor steadily with docility, and evince
not the slightest inclination to strike. He is
about to send ftc more.
Richmond wants the James River deep
ened from l3 to Is feet, and 100000 to do it
with A committee has been urging the mat
ter upon Congress; $22, 800, it is said, suficed
in 1852 to give depth Of l3 feet where there
was but 10 before. The appropriation Of
5000 900 they say will assuredly give Is feet
now.
The reports from fifty-one oil districts in
the Pennsylvania regions show an aggregate
increase in daily productions in twenty-one
districts Of seven hundred and ninety barrels,
and an aggregate decrease in twenty-six dis
tricts of three hundred and siXty-three barrels,
there being no change in three districts. The
net increase of daily production was, there
fore, four hundred and twenty-seven barrels.
A new bill for the regulation Of peddling
Is announced in the Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture. Among the articles enumerated in
which peddlers arc forbidden to traffic are
indigo and jewely. The reasons alleged for
these prohibitions are indicative of o belief
that the class of statesmen who disposed Of
wooden hams has by no means lost its cunning.
Jewclry is not permitted because ofthe facility
with which the spurious manufacture can be
passed of as genuine; and there isa clay in
Connecticut that can be so eolored that one
eighth part of indigo is Sufficient to make 1t
saleable a the pure dye.
As melancholy interest attaches to every
dncident that possibly may afford clue to the
fate of the City of Boston, the following. from
the log of the brig Iaboatia, at New York,
from Pcrnambuco, is worth placing on record:
1'March 22d, at P. M., passed through large
quantity of wreck stun, consisting OF panel
works, deck houses &C., which appeared to
have been not long in tho water. Also passed
q boat, bottom up; the boat was varnished.
The wreck stuff extended for q distance oftwo
miles, Regret is expressed that the captain
did not make an effort to secure the boat or
obtain some other proof Of identity.
The Darien expedition has reached Gale
donia Bay and started upon its work of ex-
ploration, and all connected with the eXpedi-
ton are very sanguine of success in discover
ing an easy route for the construction of ship
canal Contrary to the general expectation.
the Indians have thus far been very friendly,
thoug. somewhat frightened, and have assist
cd the explorers in every possible way. The
expedition has already cut q road three miles
in length into the interior, meeting with
river which Is said to flow. into the Pacific
Oceal Captain Heine, an American, who ar
rived at Aspinwall by the stea-lship Alaska,
on the lst instant, claims that he knows Of q
route across the Daren superior to all others.
by which he can pass from Aspinwall to Pana-
ma entirely by water. In proof of this asser-
tion he chartered small sailboat, and, accom-
arriving safely at Caledonia, but when he will
put In an appearance at Panama 1t is not easy
to conjecture.
MACK" the Washington Correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, recites the following
painful narrative. SIN conversation with
very Intelligent and accomplished lady from
Maine few days since, learned the follow
ing facts, which throw q shadow of a sad ro-
nance over the Oneida disaster. Commander
Williams, the highest officer on the vessel,
and one Of the lost, was widowcr, of some
thing less than forty, and the father of two
bright little children. In May last he contrac-
ted IN engagement for second marriage,
which was to have taken place very soon after
the arrival CT the Oneila in the country. | be-
1ievc it was fixed for the middle of April He
left the United States for Japan in June last.
and just before his departure he was one of q
dinner party at which my informant and the
afianccd bride were also present. Had he re-
aurned safely he would have known a fate
winch MS brave heart would not have met
win Inc cool courage that faced death at his
post on the quarterback. Since the first of
Jauua-y his two children and his intended
wife have died. When he left Japan he had
not heard this sad news, but supposed he was
coming home to meet them all in health and
happiness. So to one, ut least, of the gallant
men who went down in the il-fated steamer
death cannot be called disaster.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe must be
happy. if we are to believe the story of an un-
:mannerly interviewer who recently thrust
his unwelcome face into her presence in the
quiet of her winter home among the orange
groves OF Florida. Here, he says, he found
Professor Stowe and the little Stoves. To
start with, this ubiquitous quilldrircr asserts
that the Professor furnishes suggestions for
the sermons Of the redoahtable Henry Ward
BeecAcr! Then he thinks IIarric. looks care