The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-09

Pork 78s. for new Western prime Mess. Tai
low 4Ss. Cd.
LIVERPOOL, January s-Evening.
closed heavy. Sales 5000 bales. Uplands, in
port, lid, to arrive, It'd; Orleans 7ad. Mar
kets unchanged.
Our Washington Dispatches.
DEPOSITION OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TO
THE EpREsDFNT-REvENUE.RE RECEIPTS GENERAL
NEWS.
WASHINGTON, January 8.-The President
and Secretary of State have decided that the
acceptance of a commission from the Emperor
Of China by Minister Burlingame, at once de-
poses him as the official representative Of this
government. The mission is therefore de-
clared to be vacant, and T. W. Williams, the
First Secretary Of Legation, is placed in charge.
The ninth article of the first section of the
constitution declares that no person holding
any Office Of profit or trust shall, without the
consent of Congress, accept any Office, title, or
emolument Of any kind whatever, from any
prince, king or foreign state.
Anegro named Thornton whie coming from
church with two women, happened to run
against another negro, who stabbed him to the
heart and escaped. m.
The Republican bolt in the Pennsylvania
Legislature at Harrisburg continues.
The Ohio State Democratic Convention have
assembled. Their favorite candidates are
Pendleton for President, and Thurman for
United States Senator.
Col Murray, the Inspector of Customs at
Panama, is dead.
The French steamer Louisiana msde the
trip from st. Nazaire to Aspinwall, forty-seven
hundred and thrty-two miles, in sixteen days
and nine hours. c .,,
A gold medal, valued at four hundred dol
lars, was presented to the President by COM
mittee from Philadelphia. The medal is three
inches in diameter; on the diverse side there
ia an excellent likeness of the President, with
the date of his birth and his Inauguration as
President; on the reverse is the following in
scription: "With courage and fidelity he de-
Tended the Constitution, and by justice and
msgnanimity restored the alienated statos."
The presentation address was made by Col.
Hsgner.
The President responded. returning his
thanks to the club, and trusting that their con-
Adence in him had not been misplaced. In
conclusion, he pledged himself that his future
course should be as the past, all his efforts
would be to maintain and uphold the const'-
tution. and assuring the committee that the
presentation was particularly gratifying at this
time. and that he would cherish it until the
last hour of his life. The President then took
each member Of the committee by the hand,
and some time was passed in conversation be-
fore the committee Withdrew.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
The Committee Of Ways and Means have
decided to appoint subcommittee on the
whiskey metre, and suspend further action at
present .....-...-......s.-
Secretary Seward spent part Of the day In
the House Of Representatives.
1t is confidently stated that five of the Su-
preme Court judges will decide adversely to
the constitutionsity Of the Reconstruction
acts, in q case daily expected to come up.
P. B. Foaks, of Philadelphia, has been nomi-
mated as naval officer at New Orleans.
The Committee of Ways and Means will re-
port adversely 10 the amendments Of the
cotton tax bill as adopted in the Senate, and
will demand Committee of Conference.
A committee Of citizens from New York and
Connecticut presented the President with a
cane made from the charter oak.
Thomas N. Stillwen has been nominated as
Minister to Venezuela.
The revenue receipts to-day we're three hum
dred and forty thousand dollars.
The Committee on Foreign Afairs In the
House have reported "a resolution requesting
the President to intercede with Victoria for
Father McMahons release.
The report maintains the innocence OF Nc
Mahon. The committee Nefuseda to couple ths
names OF other Fenians with his, as the cases
we're not homogeneous.
length, Mr.. Orth maintaining that the Ameri-
can views regarding naturalization must be
enforced if necessary by arms. After some
further discussion, the subject was postponed.
The Senate amendments to the bill in rela'-
ton to the cotton tax were referred to the Com
mittee Of Ways and Means.
The Senate proceedings were unirnportant.
a Jolut leSoiu'iou, proposing W ouAn o'eA
into the treasury the proceeds of captured and
other property remaining in the hands Of the
treasurer, was discussed at length. The gross
amount involved was $4,000, 900, of which
s24,0OO,OOO remain in the hands Of the treas
urer, $40, ,OOO, 900 having been paid to owners
and for expenses. The action Of the treasurer
in disbursing the s1O,O0o,OOO was seriously
questioned.
a resolution, instructing the Judiciary Com
nittee to report bill to vacate the present
illegal and unauthorized governments In the
Southern States, and to provide provisional
governments until they are reconstructed, was
laid over.
Aresolution was passed, calling on the Pres
ident for information whether the bill ABOLISH
ing the word sswhite" in the district laws ane
ordinances, is considered law by the Execu
tive.
Adjourned.
The Georgia Military Convention
ATLANTA, January 8.-A resolution OF wei
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