The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-27
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NEWS SU ID M a r z.
-eold closed in New York on Saturday at
140.
Cotton closed flrmer in New York on Sat-
urday. with sales Of 400 bales, at 18alStc.
Tn Liverpool on Saturday, cotton was more
.o+;ve. and advanced 1-16d. Sales 5000
Mrs. James Gordon Bennett wears one
hundred thousand dollars worth OF diamonds
20 the Opera.
Mexico pays her President thirty thousand
dollars. which is five thousand dollars more
than the American President receives.
The Newark inventor Of the steam man
promises to invent steam horse that Will
plough or run over q race course. dood oye'
Dexter.
A farmer In Northern Georgia, who never
made any money in raising cotton, has cleared
three thousand dollars this year on crop OF
wheat and corn.
--Minpesota has built one hundred and SIX
teen miles Of railroad during the past year,
thus adding afty per cent. to that previously
constructed.
-Louisians planters are improving upon
the contract system by giving their laborers
ticksts each day, good for the pay OF so many
hours as each may have worked, lazy or inaus-
tzious. -
"A new System Of telegraphing, claiming TO
obviate many of the defects OF the Morse sys-
Tam. was tried on the Western Union Com
pany's wires at Portland the other day, and was
reported to be quite successful.
h-At vicksburg, Mississippi, fires are becom-
ing 40 frequent that the insurance companies
are cancelling their policies. The City Coun-
. oil has passed an ordinance enrolling all able
bodied oitisers in body to be known as.
special city police, to look after incendtarles
and otherwise preserve order.
s-Railroad travelling, it is stated, is dscreas-
ing more than usual at this season Of the year.
Baggage cars, which are generally packed NTH
the trunks OF passengers, come through nearly
empty, and the conductors are having an easy
time. It pseds but few arguments like those
Of Angola to convince people Of the prudence
OF staying at home.
"A correspondent travelling In Utah ssys
that the waters Of Great Salt Lake rose last
year three Seet above their former level, and
sro still slowly Dut surely rising. The lake
lrans an immense district, and has no visible
outlet. Perhaps the modern Sodom will be sub
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spantohes, nash 1ssRd Rab Had = deSe u
Hale, the Minister to Spain, that his resigna-
don will be accepted. Some correspondence
has ensued, but Mr.. Hale has not yet availed
himself Of the opportunity to resign. The
Presidents reasons for wishing him to retire is
not yet known.
The Worlds Mexican correspondence says
that the "Lsglon OF Honor" consisting Of forty
Ays American soldiers, who accompanied
Juarez from the North to the capital, has been
ordered to disband Immediately and go home.
Nothing is said Of paying them their dues, and
there will be difficulty with them. They have
been shamefully treated by the government to
which they have rendered such material ser
Woes.
Peter Force ex-mayor Of Washington, and
known throughout the country as the owner OF
the valuable library recently purchased by
Congress, died on Thursday last, aged 70. The
deceased was native OF New Jersey, but has
residsd in Washington since 1915. He occu-
pied official stations, and was the editor OF
the official organ in John QUINCY Adams ed
Ininistration.
A bill has been introduced in the New York
Legislature providing it shall be unlawful for
one first cousin to engage or agree to
marry another first cousin Of the same con-
sansuinity. Any person violating the pro-
posed law may be punished by fine Of not
more than $1,000, or imprisonment for not
longer than one year, or both fine and impris-
onment.
- The semi-oHlcial French journal, La Pa
tris, asserts editorially that Russia is the only
power not now in harmony with the rest Of
Europe, and adds that the assurances Of pro-
longed peace are singularly at variance with
the fact that every power in Europe is arm
ing as If for anticipated war. It is said new
government loan for seven hundred and fifty
millions OF francs is soon to be put on the
French market.
From Mexico we learn that the mail route
from Acapulco to the City OF Mexico is now
open for the first time since Juarez reached
the capital; but the condition Of affairs in the
interior appears to be worse than ever. Rob-
berries are on the increase no stage passes un-
molested. Villages and small towns ara pluu-
dered and the people assassinated. Serious dis
turbances have broken out at Mazatlan. The |
ship Victoria, from Baltimore, was at Aca-
pulco on the 18th inst.
New Mexico is in trouble. Its Legislature
lstsly adopted, almost or quite unanimously, q
memorial asking Congress to modify the Gov
ernor's absolute veto power, from which there
10 now no appeal But the Governor promptly
getoed the memorial The act excited great
tndianation, ss an invasion Of the sacred right
Of petition. a rebuke Of the Governor by the
legislature was opposed by only four Senators.
Bays the New Mexican: ~ greater insult, a
more despotic act, was never perpetrated upon
whole people than this conduct Of the Gov
ernor ex ibits toward the whole population OF
New Mexico through their representatives,
MIR. John Charles Kesn, the renowned ira
aedian, died on Thursday, in London, in the
afty.seYenth year Of his age. Deceased was
the son Of the great but erratic genius, Ed.
mund Kean, and was born at Waterford, Eng.
land. Oh the 18th Of January, 1911. His first