The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-20
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Gold closed in New York yesterday at 1881
Cotton closed in New York steady, with
moderate business. Sales 1900 bales at Csc.
At Liverpool Cotton closed quiet and
STEADY. Uplands 10dd.
The American silver coins, which people
so rarely see, are circulating in such grea
numbers in Canada that they are drug in the
market. $7,OOO,OOO Of these coins are now cir
culating in Canada, and the Canadians are anx
ious to get rid OF them, and impose duty o.
Is per cent. on further importations.
Stanton has issued orders requiring troops
in Washington to be in readiness to move at
moments notice, while forty army wagons, to
transport supplies, are ordered to be kept
available. This redoubtable array is supposed
to be Intended for the defence of the War Of
fee against Mosby's mythic guerillas from Vir-
ginia.
An important case came before Judge
Hauptman and jury in Morrisanis, New
York, on Thursday. Henry B. Dawson brought
suit against three members Of the Morrl sa-
mia Bricklayers' and Plasterers' Protective
Union, for combining to prevent his son from
learning the trade of brick mason with Peter
3, Dunham, master mason. The complain t
alleges that Dunham discharged the boy be-
cause the defendants refused to work for him
unless he did so, and damages to the amount
OF 500 were claimed. Five dollars and costs
were recovered, but the case will be taken be-
fore the higher courts on appeal. There it
will be decided whether the trades unions
have right to make rules that will prevent
boy from learning trade unless he complies
with such rules as are laid down by the socie-
ties. The case is important, and the result
viii be watched with interest.
"A Washington telegram of Tuesday night
says the bill which passed in Congress on Fri
day last, intended to prevent appeals in GER
tain cases to the United States Supreme Court,
was delivered to the President at o'clock in
the evening of that day, and consequeo otly the
constitutional ten days, excluding Sundays, al
lowed the President for holding bill will ex-
pire at o'clock on Wednesday evening the
25th instant. It is we'll understood that the bill
will be vetoed, but it is not likely that the
President will give the subject his undivided
attention until his answer in impeachment
shall have been presented in the Senate; so
that the veto message can scarcely be sent to
Congress until the McArdle case shall have
been decided. This decision is expected on
Monday next; but even should the decision
not be rendered until after the bill above refer
red to becomes q Law, it is the opinion Of re-
putable lawyers that the McArdle case cannot
be affected by this law, for the Supreme Court
has already obtained jurisdiction Of the cause,
and must proceed to decide it upon the consti-
tuition and the laws as they existed when juris-
diction of the case was acquired.
MIR. Donald Mckay. the weIl-known ship
builder, has written letter upon the depres-
sion in the shipping interest, which should be
scattered broadcast over the country as an evi-
dence of some Of the mischief which has been
wrought by the national legislation Of the past
seven years. So few American vessels have
been built of recent years that the average age
Of each vessel is ten years, and the trade once
dcne by them has passed to those OF other ma
tons, particularly of Great Britain. Among
the statements made in the letter is the fol-
lowing: ST have been endesvoring for several
weeks, and without success, to find sufficient
number of shipbuilders to sign call for
meeting of discussion, and the feeling among
those saw, was-they had given shipbuilding
up, and did not expect to ever lay any more
keels. Most Of these gentlemen have built
thousands Of tons Of shipping and employed
thousands Of men, and are we'll known to the
mercantile community. Within circuit of
five miles I can count twenty shipbuilding
firms who are now idle, and have been since
the war, and most Of them built from two to
four ships annually before the war;
1t was for long time the common con-
clusion among astronomers that the moon was
without any atmosphere and destitute Of wa
ter, and that, consequently, neither animal nor
vegetable life could be supported onits sur
face. But several eminent modern astronom-
ers have maintained the moon has an atmos-
phere, though OF q very limited extent. And
quite recently, Mr.. Schawbe, German as
Economical professor, thinks he has discovered
signs of vegetation on the surface OF our
SATELLITE. ~ l5 well huOha u41oo euO1O oAO SCA
tain dark lines or scratches, as they appear, ex-
tending across the slopes Of the highest noun
tains in the moon. These have been variously
explained, some regarding them as the beds of
dried-up streams; others as the channels left
by torrents of lava; others as having some
other origin. Professor Schawbe claimed to
have discovered in these lines greensh
color; which appears at certain seasons, lasts
few months, and then disappears. He there
fore regards those lines as belts Of vegetation.
If his observations should be decisively con-
firmed by those of other astronomers, it will
settle the question that the moon has both air
and water, and will therefore remove any pre-
sumption against the existence of animal life on
its surface.
Yesterday We reported the news OF the
elopement of Professor Anderson's wife With a
man named Norris, and the telegraphic state
ment that Anderson had killed his child and
committed suicide at Covington, KY. By la
ter advices, it appears that Professor Ander-
son is not the ''dead duck that the telegraph
made him out to be. The message was onlya
ruse to decoy the happy birds" into the
hands OF the 'fowler," andit did. The guilty
't'twain" took the back track, and at Middleton,