The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-23
NEWS OF TIE DAP.

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cents; sales s0s bales.
AInIiverpool cotton closed easier; uplands
sad.;, Orleans siasid.; sales Is, 1000 bales.
Mrs. Vailandigham isllstin unconscious
She fills to recognize Intimate friends at her
bedside. /, i lid
in the Tobacco Fair at st. Louis, Virginia,
Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee. Louisiana, Texas,
Mississippi and Missouri are represented.
james NJ SWallack is engaged for a South
ern starring tour next fall, under the manage.
.ment. OF joint. Ford.
The planting of rice in louisiana has
fallen Of, so that a crop of. $4,000 barrels, or
I6,0 00lO 700 pounds, is considerediau outside es-
innate" - 80, I,=. {
-A,tornado at Scranton, Indiana, carried a
house ten rods, killing q man and severely
wounding his son and daughter, besides hurt
ing FIVE others. - 90 - - -!
The. appearance of Darwin's book has
been followed, the London papsrs say, by q
great increase in the number of visitors to the
monkey.house in the geological gardens, Re-
gents Park. r.
Another colored cadet has been added to
the number already appointed TO West Point,
Congressman Turner; colored, of Alabama,
having nominated a colored boy of Selma,
named JohnM:y Gee, to that position
The Board:of Health of New York have
been officially notified that the, yellow fever
has broken out suddenly and with unusual vlr-
ulence at Vera Cruz, and other points on the
Calf coast. AS g consequence all vessels
coming from that quarter will be subject to
the strlctest quarantine. A&i y
The London Court Journal contains the
following official court notice, given by order
of Queen Victoria: "The Lord Chamberlain
has been commanded to give notice that the
high. square-cut gowns which have Of late
been occasionally worn by ladies attending
her Msjesty's courts and drawing-reoms eau
not be considered as full DRESS or In future
be admitted on these occasions" . ~
As heretofore announced by telegraph,
Queer Y:.Gtoria is 30 highly pleased with the
result o. the late Washington treaty negotla-
lions that itseems as though she could not do
enough to express her gratitude towards the
high Joints who contributed to bring it about.
Earl de Grey was recently created a Marquis
for his share In the good work, and now pro-
fessor Barnard is to be rewarded by a seat in
the Privy Council.
Several Englishmen, nearly all from Lon
don or Sheffield, have been found among the
captured Communists. From 800 to 700 pris.
oners are sent every day to Brest, La Rochelle,
L'Orlent Cherbourg and ether seaports,
whence they are to be. transported forthwith
to Cayenne, New Caledonia and the coast of
Africa. AT this moment thousands of these
unhappy exiles are on the ocean, on their way
to!their captivity in these far distant lands.
-Advfces from Buenos Ayres to May 18th
state that the yellow fever is diminishing, the
mortality having. been reduced to fifteen or
twenty deaths daily. The business men are
returning, a few stores have been opened,
and occasionally ladies are seen IN the streets,
It is calculated that the entire number of
deaths from yellow fever will amount to thirty
thousand; but as there are no means of verify
ing the figures, the estimates are mere matter
OF conjecture. The mortality among American
residents has been small, most OF them being
able to leave the city, and those who were at
tackled having recovered, in consequence of,
receiving better treatment and attendance
than the generality of the sufferers.
The New Orleans Picayune last week said:
There liz to be a meeting Tuesday at tbs Cot
ton Exchange, to organize an iron barge line,
to carry cotton on the lower rivers. Those
engaged In the. cotton trade are convinced
that it 10 to their interests to subscribe to the
stock of this company, and we doubt not that
ample money will be raised, and we hallhave
a line running to Memphis, next winter, bring
ing cotton down at fifty cents per bale, or less.
In addition to this, an association OF steamboat
men and capitalists has been formed already,
to be- kpown.as the National Iron Steamboat
transportation Company. This corporation
will Immediately. commence the construction
large carrying capacity and unusual speed, Ito
carry cotton on the lower rivers. The parties
engaged in this enterprise are energetic and
practical men, and fully aware of the impor-
lance of economy In the river transportation.
They have made q bold start, and will. doubt
less realize enormous proftsfrom their invest
ments.
"A company has been chartered in Penn
sylyanfa to build areilway, with a thirty inch
gauge. from Philadelphia to connect with the
Pennsylvania Central Road in Chester County,
passing through Upper Darby, Hereford, Ma
pie, Newton and Paoli. Another narrow
gaug.:. road win shortly be commenced from
Bells Mills Station, Blair County, On the
Pennsylvania Central, and across the Allegha.
ny Mountains, a distance Of about twelve miles,
passing through Bells Gap. Yet another
narrow gauge company has been recently in
corporated, with the right to build a road
from The City of Lancaster to Reading, and a
movement Is also on foot to construct q mar
row gauge. road from Media to Chester, in
Delaware County, with every prospect of sue
cess. All this goes to show that narrow gauge
railways will play a very important part in the
future development of this and other coun:
tries, and that, a few years hence, these
cheaper roads will form the rule and the cost
ly wide gauge lines the exception.
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