The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cold at New York, yesterday, closed at l3{
alss.
The New York cotton market closed firm;
uplands 1916; sales 1900 bales.i
At Liverpool cotton closed 6rmer, at sida
ssd.; sales $1,000 bales.
General Sterling Price, who recently died
in Missouri, left an estate of 81, 100000.
John Morissey intends building q large
hotel at Saratoga, and has also offered sooo'-
900 for the Congress Spring grounds.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Bostwick has been appointed
clerk in the Washington Dead Letter Office,
vice Mrs. Petigru King, (now Mrs. G. C..
Bowen,) who recently resigned.
"A convict named Smith escaped from the
Connecticut State Prison, Saturday, by bur-
rowing six feet under the walls. He was in
for burglary for ten years. and had served
three.
The hardest season of the year In which
TO appear we'll dressed Is between the first OF
September and the middle OF November, when
it is too late for summer clothes and too early
for winter ones.
"A Paris correspondent of one OF the Lon
don papers has adopted an ingenious dodge TO
keen himself out of trouble. he carries about
his person paper on which is pasted his Pho
tograph, with the following certificate from
.ths War Office written beneath. "This Is 10
-certiry that NJ. - (whose likeness appears
above, Is well known to the writer, and Is
not Prusslan spy"
The New Orleans Picayune says that the
demand for laborers In that city to so to the
country is not as great as 1t usually is at this
season. as the rains have interfered with the
picking Of the cotton crop. The supply OF
white laborers at the Office of the German I'm
migration Society, and other labor agencies.
the Picayune says, fully meets the demand;
but in few weeks 1t is believed the supply OF
hands will not be sufficient. White laoorers
in that region are peid twenty dollars month,
with lodgings and raions free, and with the
passage paid to the plantations.
"A correspondent, who interviewed the
head Of one of our publishing houses, writes
that the novel business Is terribly overdone,
and publishers, as rule, look with doubt and
suspicion on every manuscript of new novel
or romance The correspondent in question
has made an estimate Of the novels offered,
reIected and accepted by the publishers Of
Ce whom he writes, and gives the following as
the correct proportions: Manuscripts offered
per year, 500; manuscripts declined per year,
4s0; manuscripts accepted per year, ten; sales
of novels printed, over 1000 copies three;
sales of novels printed, over 1000 copies, two;
sales Of novels printed, over 46O0 copies, one.
The pleasant story Of an organized band
ofpirates, operating on the Hudson River, is
the last blood-curdling sensation served up to
the dwellers on that beautiful stream By the
New York papers. 1t Is asserted that the COM
bined efforts of the Newburg police, the Cold
Spring Vigilance Committee and special de-,
tectives, In connection with the recent Cold
Spring robbery and murder, have led to the
discovery Of an extensive confederation Of out
laws, extending all along the river, whose ac-
complies are probably residents at various
towns: that they so from place to place on
pleasure yachts ard other craft, committing
depredations Of all kinds. 1t is certain that |
orglaries have been very numerous all along
the river this season.
"A New York letter, of the 9th instant, |
says: Though the European war Is undoubt-
tne ial trade, yet there are indications of |
ousy time among the merchants during the |
remainder of the month. The leadinS dry
goUds houses have their employees at work
till midnight, many Of them executing orders
for the South and West. The New Orleans.
Savannah, Charleston and Virginia steamships
are receiving as much freight as they car find
room for. while all the railroads leading IN the
same direction have their carrying capacity
fully tested, even at the advanced rates which
70 into operation to-day. This activity Is not
confined TO dry goods. The hardware, boot
and shoe dealers, and the grocers largely par
sieipate. The produce and provision trade,
perhaps, feel the effects Of the war most di-
rectly. The orders from the French Govern
ment, which came IN at the outset, have all
bsen, ,hled, with no present probability OF q
renewed demand even at the ruling low
prices"
Mr.. Halstead, editor Of the Cincinnati
Commercial, writes letter from Pont-a-Mous-