The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-01-10
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"WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1872.
NEWS OF TIE DaE.

-COCLOQ clO6eQ-QulSL III NNSU toAn 1SSNNA
day at 2Is cents for uplsnds; sales 27ls bales.
The Liverpool cotton market was enotet
firm, but unchapged; uplands l03d.; orlean
l0sd; sales Is, coo bales.
The colored people are said to be leaving
Illinois for the South, going chiefly to the Gui
States. = -
Joe Jeferson's orange Island promises
Weld of nearly two hundred barrels oforangei
this season. The crop is being shipped to st
/. Louis. g
There is great excitement over the silver
mines in Idaho, the ore of some Of which II
said to yield FROM, one to two3hundred dollars
perton. p:
1T Is reported that the Postmaster-Gene
raj with View of, signalling his career II
Office, intends favoring the adhesive matter
of. postage stamps. with the various popular
extracts, vanilla, wintergreep, &c.
-.Small- -po1 deaths in Phiadelphialast week
numbered two hundred and thirty, aboul
the same as the week before. In the number
of new cases reported there ls falling Oh. o.
about one hundred. 5aifa
sir Moses, Montsaore, now In his eighty.
eighth year, telegraphed to the chief rabbi oi
Jerusalem, soliciting him to. order prayers "
Jerusalem, and in all. the synagogues OF the
several holy cities, for the recovery OF the
Prince of Wales. .:.-...!-
in New York at sSrecent performance,
Nile. NIlsson.was 80 much annoyed BY theloud
talking Of some persons in one of'the stage
boxes, that che sent a note telling themilf they
were not more quiet sRe would speak to 1hem
publicly from the stage. -...-- -
The Baltimore Gazette in. noticing the
recent death 6f Mr.. B. F.. Gator, of. the well
knoRn firm OF Armstrong, Gator q Co., Of
that City, says: s'..Mr Gator was In the forty
eighth year, Of his age, and leaves widow
and five children. In al matters Of charity,
Mr.. Gator was a liberal 'giver, and, especially
to the people of the South, for whom his sym
6athies in their struggle and their suferings
were deeply enlisted. Strictly business man,
he amassed fortune, and 1t is but the simple
truth to say that no one was more endeared
Than Ii. to the hearts Of bis h:iendi. nor any
merchant in This city I'd In greater esteem
and confidence BY those who knew him or had
dealings with him.
The friends OF the smiling Vlce-President
wilIbs much relieved by the following formal
announcement: :sMr Colfax has ie!t himself
constrained by the earnest request OF his
friends to so far yield his private Wishes IN
regard to retiring from The public service, az
the close OF his present term Of Office, as to
say that while hs cannot ask tor a renomi-
nation, nor be regarded as antagonizlng the
able men whose names have been suggested,
he would feel it to be his duty to obey the
voice Of those who represent the party whose
principles he has for so many years INDICATED
and supported, and II they place him on the
nomination. fer the vice-presidenoy, at the
approaching Nattonal Republican Convention,
he will not refuse to accept the nomination"
The Washington correspondents Of The
New York Journal Of Commerce communl-
catesto that paper some interesting chapters
concerning ''publln land frauds," showing
land swindles, If the evidence cited is credi.
bic, on scale that dwaffs even the operations
Of the New York Ring. The criminal game Is
explained from Its inception among the New
Mexican sqaatters down to the confrmatory
acts Of Congress. The stealing of hundreds OF
thousands Of acres by tricks Of survey and
conveyance and other slow round-a bout pro-
cesses, is fearful crime for 1t wrongs, not one
man, but every citizen Of the Unitad States.
It is alleged that q half Of the immense tract
of New Mexico-an empire In itself-and
quarter. of Colorado, suffer directly from the
blightipg influence of these transactions. The
tenure OF properly all over that region is made
precarious.. The element OF uncertainty ope-
rates ,Djuriously on the enterprise of the set
tiers. Incthe wind-up Of the letter a.strong
hint is given of the controlling power of the
land grabbers in Congress, and the dire conss-
uuences that would betall that body if every
member elected by the aid of such persons
were expelled.
VIM. P. Burns, of Buffalo, New York, has
returned to his home from the diamond fields
ofsouth Africa. Mr.. Burns was at the dig
gings from May TO October, Inclusive, and
managed 20 accumulate about one hundred
and seventy gems, varying from one quarter
of a carat to twenty.seven and half carats In
size. His most valuable find, a stone of TWEEN
ty.fve carats, brought him SsaO in London.
The diamonds OF South Africa, as Is well
known, mostly incline to straw, color in hue,
and, as the supply has been immense, this
variety of stone has fallen prodgiousy in
value. Mr.. Burns adds, however, that bis
own good fortune is by no means fair sam.
pie of the luck usually met at the diggings.
He says that not more than two persons out
Of a hundred, on an average, succeed in
making q handsome thing Of the business.
Many suffer and toll for months and months,
and are glad at lastto get away penniless. Mr..
Burns reports the further interesting fact that
large proportion, If not majority, of the
seekers at the diamond fields are Americans.
This suggests thata new American State may
TINS arise in Africa, and the singular spectacle
may be presented Of Americans ruling in
Africa while Africans govern one-half Of the
United States.
The proposed syndicate of Jay Cooke, LIE:
Cnlloch q Co., aud the Rothschilds, for s6oG
100000 of the new United States funding
bonds, was the chief topic Of conversational
New. York financial circles on Saturday. 1t
became positively known that joint PROPOSE
tion from the TWO firms named to Secretary
Boutwell, had beer, recently transmitted from