The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-01
NEWS sU NJ MI A r. z
Gold closed in New York yesterday

sales 5000 bales; Middllng 27a27sc., mostly at
e7Ic., at which figure the market closed.
in Liverpool cotton closed yesterday ac-
tive; sales 10000 bales; prices unchanged.
The Yallabusha and Yazoo Rivers have
oyerfowed their banks, and the flood greatly
interferes with planting in Mississippi.
"A grand niece of Benedict Arnold is said
to be employed as clerk in one of the depart
ments at Washington.
"A late invention for pegging shoes consists
in twisting polygonal wire, and then cutting
out short lengths. A peg of this kind driven
in a shoe enters readily, and rarely, if ever,
falls out, like the straight kind.
AT the readings OF Mr.. Dickens at Wor-
cester, Massachusetts, recently, it is said that
the first three rows of seats were reserved for
deaf persons, an arrangement which developed
an amount Of deafness in that city which was
most astonishing.
The Mexican authorities have imposed a
very heavy fine upon the owners of the British
steamer Danube for their outrage upon the
customs officials at Vera Cruz. It will be re-
collected that to evade payment ofproper duties
upon his cargo, Captain West carried the entire
board of Customhouse officers three miles
away from land, and then dropped them in an
open boat to shift for themselves as best they
might. The Captain will be imprisoned upon
his return to Vera Cruz.
Senator Hendricks, of Indiana, stated in
Congress the other. day, that at present the
expense annually of each soldier in the army
wss two thousand dollars, and nearly two mil
lion dollars for each regiment; the total cost
being about one hundred million dollars year
for an army OF fifty thousand men. The sena-
tor urged that, with proper management, the
army expense could be cut down forty millions
year, and in this matter the taxpayers are
deeply interested, and should urge rigid
economy.
General Hancock, writes a Washington
lady correspondent, was at the Presidents last
levee, the handsomest man woman's eyes
have ever rested upon in the military service.
Queen Bess, one Of the greatest women that
ever lived would have made him Prime Min
lister at once, and if Andrew Johnson wishes to
emulate this illustrious woman, and add glory
to his declining reign, none but Senate lost
to the most exquisite emotions will interfere.
Towering whole head and shoulders above
foreign Ministers and all others in the room,
ones eyes must be raised to view the stars on
his shoulders.
VIM. NJ. Estelle, prominent lawyer of
Jackson, Miss, and member Of the State
Democratic Executive Committee, was bru-
tally assassinated at his residence on the night
of the 23d instant. It was generally believed
that he was mistaken for Mr.. Stricklin, the
Conservative delegate from Tippah county to
the Reconstruction convention. Mr. Strickln
resigned his seat in that body on the Oath, and
offered S1OO for the assassins, which Governor
Humphreys, increased to $500. An internal
revenue officer Lamed Miles Gibbon, from st.
Louis, was subsequently arrestedup circum-
stantial evidence. Intense excitement prevails
there.
Conspicuous among the persons at the
Presidents last levee was representative OF
the French Legation, Partisan to the core,
Johnny Crapaud in all his glory. Instead of
nosegay, Louis Napoleon's decorations dangled
from stray button-hole; and when we say
that his white kids were imaaacul tie, that his
necktie echpsed the proudest triumph Of Beau
Brummell, and that he was as plain in form
and feature as only Frenchman dare to be-,
we have complete picture OF foreign diploma
cy, one item excepted: this was q little jeweled
opera glass, curried IN his left hand, and when
any Of our fair countrywomen with bare, daz-
zling shoulders came within certain distance
of his august person, instantly the glass was
levelled to an exact angle with the parts ex-
posed, with no more fear or hesitation than
the doctor who brings the microscope to bear
upon a bit Of porcine delicacy, when the cry
OF trichinia is heard throughout the land.
General Samuel F. Cary, of Ohio, oDc of
the two Republicans who obeyed their con-
sciences rather than the mandate Of Thad.
Stevens, and did not vote for the impeach-
ment OF the President, has written frank
and manly letter to friend in Ohio who
thought that he had reason to complain Of his
(Mr. Cary's) course in this matter. General
Gary says: ''You say voting for impeachment
would have clearly placed you (me) with the
Republican party that you and others voted
for me because was Republican. and inti-
mated that my Republican friends in the
Second District are mortified at my course.
Did you understand when was o candidate
that was to vote as might be directed by
the leaders of my party; that was to go it
bhnd,' and surrender my conscience to the
keeping of others? IF that was your UNDER
standing, am sorry that you were deceived
that you did not know me better. T supposed
that my best friends, among whom 1 counted
you, believed that would think, vote and act
for myself as my Judgment and conscience
directed. The impeachment of the President
is very grave matter, and under oath I could
not say that I believed him guilty OF high
crime and misdemeanor, nor do l suppose at
this moment that one out of every ten of the
Republican party believes him guilty. I am
no defender Of Andrew Johnson OF his policy,
but I cannot therefore pronounce him guilty of
high crimes as charged. II every friend 1 have
deserts me I shall pursue straightforward,
Conscientious course, and preserve at least my
own scf-respect."
The end of wretched lie is chroniclcd i'll
the New York papers. Peter Hcndrickson, u
man seventy-ive years of age, was last week
found dead in his bed at hou.e in which he
had for years lived solitary life. He had APP
parently struggled long in agony, and seemed
to have Yielded up his spirit with greater re-
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