The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-12
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OFFICE No. 1s HAYNES7REEE.

Gold closed yesterday at New York at 9ss.
The New York cotton market was shade
firmeS, but closed quiet. Sales S2OO bales at
254c.
At Liverpool, the cotton market closed
quiet. Sales 1900 bales. Uplands on the
spot and afoat 1Ota104d.
Queen Victoria has twelve grandchildren.
Maryland has repealed the law requiring
registration Of births, marriages and deaths.
General Grant spends couple Of hours
every day with Mr.. Stanton, who still remains
intrenched in the War Department.
"A general change has taken place in the
Turkish cabinet, all the Ministers having re-
signed but one.
The Papal troops are to be armed with the
American Remington rifle, which is considered
better than the much lauded Chassepot rifle OF
the French infantry.
1t is lucky for fellow to have Queen for
mother. Prince Alfred went into the mines
at Bellaret and dug out gold nuggets that had
been carefully placed there for the purpose.
Hon. Robert Hooper, who has been promi-
nently identified with the financial, mercantile,
and manufacturing prosperity of Boston for
many wears, died on Thursday at the age Of
seventy-seven years.
The Empress Carlotts has addressed to
the Pope touching letter, imploring his
prayers for the soul Of her unfortunate hus-
band. The letter is written in very good
Italian, and exhibits no traces Of the late lu-
macy of the Empress.
D,;,oo Nopo1oo-. yante his cOusin the
Emperor, to resort to war as means of re-
storing his waning popularity, and as the only
means of saving the Napoleonic dynasty. He
thinks war with Prussia for the Rhine Prov
inces would be good movement.
There is q curious rumor IN Washington
that Mrs. Senator Sprague, who is quite q
politician, sympathizes strongly with the Presi--
dent, represents to her husband and her father,
Chief Justice Chase, that tits an act OF tyranny,
and that MIR. johnson has only stood up for
his rights.
j. Stuart Mill writes to lady in Michigan,
that in his place in Parliament, in his writings,
and by every other influence he possesses, he
has long done the best he could to promote
the admission Of woman, not only to political,
but to all other rights, on the same conditions
So men, and that he intends to perseyere in
this course.
The Fenian prisoners who were captured
recently at Dungarvan, Ireland, were offered
their pardons on condition that they would
give their parole to leave the kingdom. The
prisoners unanimously refused to assent to this
proposition. double guard has been placed
around Newgate, where Messrs. Burke, Casey,
and Shaw (the Fenians), are confined.
in Philadelphia, six women physicians re-
turn incomes ranging from $1,000 to $4,000
year. In Orange, New Jersey, there is another,
whose annual income ranges between $4,000
and $4,000. In this city, there is one whose
income is rarely less than $4,000 year. Some
of these physicians are successful surgeons as
well as capable medical practitioners.
Mr.. Gathorne Hardy, in the House of Com
mons, stated that the police were perfectly
advised of the intention Of Fenians to blow up
the wall of Clerkenwen prison, but waited to
surprise the perpetrators as they approached
to light the fuse. They supposed, however,
the explosion would be attempted at night,
whereas the work was done in broad day.
The wife of David Lewis, residing near
Sharpstown, New York, last week while ascend
ing the stairs with child in her arms and a
kerosene lamp in her hand, was burned to
death through the kerosene exploding in con-
sequence of the air coming down stairs and
forcing the fame too near the fluid. MIR.
Lewis was severely burned in trying to save
her.
The plan Of the English Government in
regard to the pacifcation of Ireland embraces
the following points The consideration OF the
church question will be deferred until after
the reoort Of the commissioners has been
made. Another commissioner is to be appoint
ed to report on the relation OF landlord and
tenant. charter is to be granted to the new
Roman Catholic University, and Irish railways
are to be subsidized.
With refe 'ence TO telegraphic delays, it is
recorded that Massachusetts cotton manu-
facturer sent dispatch to Memphis, few
weeks ago, ordering his agent to sell his goods
in store there, but the dispatch was not re-
ceiyed until three days after it was sent.
Meantime his goods advanced, and he made
$1,000 in consequence. He does not propose 10
sue the telegraph company for damages, but
if prices had gone down instead of up, he
would probably have taken different course.
An important opinion was delivered on
Monday, in the United States Supreme Court,
by Justice Nelson, in the case of Suchet Maui
ran us. the Alliance Insurance Company, and
four other cases. The case involved the ques-
tion whether the Conferate Government was
de facio government, which was decided af-
frmatively. It was held, however, that the
States should not lose their status as members
of the Union. This opinion has been much
commented upon as possessing consid erable
political significance. The Chief Justice and
Justice Swayne dissented.
The last ball a. the Tuileries was very
crowded. The Empress wore robe of green
Grape trimmed with evergreens. Green is the
color of the house Napoleon. Upon her brow
flashed bee OF diamonds and rnbies, which is
the emblem of the Bonaparte family. The
Princess Metternich, Austrian Ambassadress,
was enveloped in perfect cloud of white gauze.
The Princess Korsakof (Rus5ian) wore d1ab
Grape. A very pretty young lady in a pink
robe, had ridiculous wings of white satin at
the back. But still more ridiculous was the
appearance of an English beauty, large, full,
pink and white, who wore mduue crape, cover