The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-15
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TUESDAY. FEBRUARY Is, 1870.
NEVIS OF THE D-d Y.

Gold in New YORK, yesteruas' eioseu
stronger at 1sHalsA.
Cotton closed heavy and declining; sales 100
bales at 25t.
in Liverpool yesterday cotton closed quiet
uplands 11A:d, Orleans 1ls!d sales 10000 bales.
"A bill has been proposed, which will be sub
mitted to the English Parliament. making the in
terest on consols payable quarterly.
The Ohio woman suffrage convention met al
Columbus on Friday last, and concluded to petl
tion the Legislature for the right to vote.
The New York Herald of Saturday, speaking
OF stocks, says: "The old South Carolinas were
steady and firm, but the new issues were weak
and lower.'
The Kansas Legislature wants Congress to
settle speedily the claim for damages sustained
In that State from the raid Of the Confederate
General Price, and also asks the same body to
build a canal to connect the Ohio and James
Rivers.
The new specimen plates for the forthcoming
fifty cent note, to take the place of the las!
series of that denomination so quickly and sue
cessrully initiated by three countereiters, will be
ready TO be submitted to the Secretary OF the
Treasury in a very short time.
The Chinese are becoming extensive purcllas-
ers ol real estate In San Francisco, where unim-
proved real estate pays one per cent. month on
lie lses to persons who desire to build. The sales
OF valuable property OF this kind to Cinnamon in
January amounted to 81, 500.
Washington society, say the correspondents,
Is soon to loose from its circles fair devotee,
sister of Senior Romero, who is about to enter q
convent Miss Romero is lady OF striking ap-
pearance, about nineteen years OF age, and adds
Mi i that hpiun
rare musician.
The abuse to which the working girls OF New
York are subjected at the hands OF their employ
ers have finally caused an effort to be made to
organize this class Of operatives into protective
body so that when once the scale Of prices is Sc
cured, the girls may be enabled, through their
union, to hold it. This would atleast be strike
that would enlist the sympathy OF everybody eX-
cept the grasping employers.
number Of gentlemen in Missouri have SUBJ
scribed over ten thousand dollars to raise
fund for the endowment OF chair in Washington
College, Virginia, to be called the Missouri Pro-
fessorshlp OF Applied Chemistry. Brevet Major
General William S. Harney, United States army,
St. Louis, Missouri, has subscribed $1,000 for the
endowment Of the presidential chair General r.
E. Lee's) of Washington College
1T Is stated that under 1.-The name, style and
tItlen OF woodhul, Claim & Co., the female
brokers in New York are getting to be quite popu-
lar large number OF bankers and brokers
offer them encouragement end support In their
contemplated business. Quite number Of car
riages with ladies roll up to their Office wishing
to make deposits Of money, give orders for buy
ing aud selling stocks, and to transact business
in gold and bonds to a large amount; and, Ii this
generous sympathy and goodwill increase, the
ladies, or those who are spoken OF as standing IN
the background, will make good thing OF 1t,
and the firm be established as a fixed and perina-
nent institution.
"A dispatch from Fortress Monroe gives de-
tailed account OF recent experiments, authorized
by the government at Washington, With newly
Invented projcctile that promises to perform won
ders In the way OF knocking things to pieces at
long range. 1t Is cannon ball within cannon
ball. When the big ball has accomplished its al
lotted distance it fires OH the smaller ball, Which
attains greater degree OF velocity than had
been obtained by the big ball-that Is "gocs it
faster than its parent" As the experiments
lust made are regarded as successful by the gun
ners at the Fortress, there seems no reason why
the principal Of the invention should not be eN.
tended without limit-ad intnit,,,n. Then in the
event OF war with q foreign nation-China, for
instance-our gunners at Fortress Monroe would
only have to get true range in order to batter
down the great gates OF Pekin.
-Ir.J. C. Derby, in former years prominent
publisher at New York, has established in Au-
gusta new Southern enterprise in the book line.
Some time ago, Mr.. Derby purchased an eNten-
sive fruit farm near Aiken, and has determined
to make it his permanent residence. Having
ample leisure and means, he proposes, not only
to furnish pabulum for the body, but also nour-
ishment for the mimi. To effect the latter pur-
pose, he will nauguratea book agency, on the SUBJ
scrlpticn plan system which has grown into
such magnitude OF late years. Mr. Derby's pres
ent field of labor comprises the States OF Georgia,
South Carolina and Florida. Through this terri
tory he will spread agents for the sale Of many
really valuable works, over which he has eXclu-
sive control. Mr.. Derby, though Northern gen.
tleman, Is such one as we are heartily glad to
welcome in our midst Would we had thousands
more like him.
y. W. Alvord, the general superintendent of
the Freedmen's Bureau, has written 4 letter on
the condition OF the freedmen Ia South Carolina,
in which he says: "The older coiored people of
Columbia and surrounding country 2:e unusually
intelligent and prosperous, one man, skilful ME.
chanic, being worth $4,000. More than forty
heads OF families have, within the past six
months, purchased city property for homes at
from $500 to $1,000 eacl. 1t is the testimony Of
well.informed gentlemen that the whole co'ored
population OF upper South Carolina Is, in gene
:ral, in thriving condition, with better houses,
clothing and family comforts from year to year.
The State appropriated $4,000 last year to buy
land for homesteads for the freedmen, and up.
wards OF 40, 600 acres OF this land have been sold
to them during the year. The Governor will re-
commend an appropriation OF 100000 this year
for the same purpose"
The last ceremonies over the remains Of
the illustrious philanthropist were performed on
Tuesday last II the village in Massachusetts
which bears his name. The funeral was attended
by between 5000 and 10000 people, including
many distinguished persons, and the order OF en-
ercises, substantially as arranged, were carried
out, despite the severe snow-storm that prevailed