The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-09-21

Gold closed in New York at l4aal45.
Cotton closed firm; uplands 2osc; sales
2loo bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed heavy; urlar as
s9as3d., Orleans ssa92d.; sales $4,000 tales.
MRS. Mcfarland Richardson will open q
store in Chicago.
Miss Laura Fair gives dark hints of shoot
ing a certain Chicago reporter in case she is
cleared.
California is shipping pears to Eastern
markets by the car load, and the growers are
realizing handsome profits.
The cotton receipts ct Macon. Georgia,
since the lst inst, have been lighter than for
the same time in any year during the past
twenty years, If the four years Of the war are
excepted.
The public school com mittee of Boston de-
clines to abolish corporal chastisement OF male
pupils, on the ground that the "best teachers"
do not abuse it. Granted; but If hogging be
requisite for the moral and intellectual ad-
vancement of male scholars, why should Its
advantages be withheld from the other sex
Such glaring piece of injustice must shock
all who uphold the equality OF the sexes.
"A street car dummy is to be tried In De-
troit. The car Is so arranged that the engine
consumes its own smoke and steam, and
moves along the street noiselessly and smooth
". The cost OF running 1t is four-fiths less
than by horsepower. One dollar per day will
keep 1t in fuel, and two men can run 1t. 1t is
30 arranged that the engine only occupies
Surplus room under the floor of the car, 1t
being somewhat higher than ordinary cars.
Some excitement has been aroused In New
York over the stay Of proceedings granted by
Judge Pratt, of Brooklyn, in the case of Buck
hout, the Sleepy Hollow New York) .-urderer,
who was TO have been hanged on Friday last.
What adds 10 the public disp!easure In this
matter Is, that it was the same Judge who,
when all efforts had failed elsewhere, granted
similar stay of sentence last July In the case
of Foster, the carhook murderer. The system
under which Pratt has acted In these two cases
is one whereby any one Of the thirty.three
Judges of the Supreme Court in the State can
grant stay Of proceedings In the case Of any
sentenced murderer, whether the trial occur
red within bis district or not.
The Chinese of California were, few
days ago, about to meet In place called
Chinatown, for the purpose OF holding what
might be termed campmeeting. pavilion
was erected, and large number Of Josses, or
Chinese gods, were in position awaiting the
coming Of the faithful. Some Of these idols
were tall, some short, some corpulent, and
some thin; in fact, JOSS was there in every
shape and of inrariable ugliness. The prin-
clpal JOSS is a dragon OF hideous meln and i'm
mense length. Allthese gods will be worship
ped at once by the Chinese at this campmeet-
ing, and the whole affair will be, as one of the
Celestials sententiously remarked, "Alee same
as Mellican man preachee."
"A New York telegram, Of Tuesday, says:
"There was excitement In Wall street to-day
caused by manipulations for higher rates of
interest, and before the close of bank hours
call loan rates were put up to seven per cent.
For the first time in months they were up to
legal rate of interest. The advance in money
was warranted by the legitimate demand. Al
one time during the afternoon 1t was reported
that large city bank had called In all Its loans
about s5, ,000, ,0OO-and agreed for considera-
tlon not to lend any money for specified
time. This report, which was not without its
influence, was authoritatively denied at the
close. The gold syndicate made another sue
cessiul squeeze in cash gold to-day. At an
early hour the syndicate and Its Canadian
bank, and other friends, cllled In their gold.
previously loaned, and sent into the gold room
to bid furously and in extravagant manner for
the use of cash gold. By this device the bor-
rowing rate Tor cash gold was run up to seven
sixteenths."
BY late arrival from Nassau we learn
that the cyclone which recently swept along
the North Atlantic coast struck the Bahamas
about twenty.tour hours before its effects were
felt here, with disastrous energy. The gale,
or succession OF gales were terrific, the storm
shilling from the northeast to the southeast.
The whole coasts Of the islands are s,rewed
with wrecks, from which much valuable prop
erty and many lives have been destroyed.
Sweeping through the island of Abaeo, the
storm completely divided it into two islands,
carving with its violence large number of
inhabitants, who have been the victims OF its
fury. large amount Of property was also
carried away and probably buried in the sea.
The ripe ifuit crop OF the various islands COM
posing the group has been entirely swept
away. Nothing remains of the orange or
banana crop but the very young growth, and
the trade In these fruits has been very serious
" disturbed. Taken in connection with the
effects of the tornado in Florida, we see but
little prospect for the usual fall and winter
supply Of tropical frrits for this market
There is in New Orleans q small commu-
nifty # Sclians through whose Intercourse
with each other appears to run thread CT