The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-25
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Gold at New York closed yesterday, at SSi
The New York cotton market, was quiet
and steady sales 14O0 bales, at 24t.
AT Liverpool, cotton closed quiet and un
changed, sales 10000 bales, Uplands 1Otd
Manchester news was unfavorable.
The further postponement of the trial O.
Jefferson Davis will be officially announced
within day or two, from April 14th to May
4th. This change, it is stated, is rendered
necessary by the fact that the new term Of the
court commences on May 4th, and the twenty
days intervening between April 14th and May
4th is not considered sufficient time in which
to try this case; hence the government has
made further postponement of the trial.
The conservation OF Bishop Beckwith, the
new Episcopal Bishop Of Georgia, will occur
ON Thursday, the I'd of April next. The Right
Rev. DR.. Atkinson, Bishop Of North Carolina,
ia to act as consecrator, assisted by the bish-
ODDS of South Carolina and Alabama. The SER
mon is to be preached by the Right Rev. Dr..
Wilmer, Bishop of Alabama. Bishops OF other
dioceses are expected to be present, and large
numbers of distinguished visitors from all sec
tions. The ceremonies will take place OF sa-
vannah.
Judge Hunter, Of the Criminal Court at
Memphis, who has distinguished himself by
the incarceration Of editors in that city, las
adjourned the court on the double pretext
that it is impossible to enforce his decision,
and that his life has been endangered. The
Memphis press ridicule alike his actions and
his assertions. The main cause of his closing
the court appears to have been the release Of
the editors Of the Avalanche on writ Of hdbeas
corpus, which release he declares was illegal.
Within the last fortnight large number
of petitions have been presented to Congress
from paper-makers, printers, type-founders
and book-binders, against the passage of the
International Copyright law now under con-
.siderstion. They have their origin in the fear
that the bill will operate adversely to American
industry by transferring to England the manu-
facture of English books and magazines re-
uuired for this market. From what we can
hear, there is little probability that Congress
will pass the copyright bill under considera-
tion.
Liberia is agitated by the suffrage ques-
ton. At present, only those possessing q very
visible admixture of African blood are admit
ted to citizenship; but a party has lately ar
rived which proposes, as measure Of justice,
to enlarge the area Of freedom by enfranchis-
ing the down-trodden white trash. The con-
servatiyes strongly oppose 30 fragrant de-
parture from the ancient landmarks of the con-
stitution, and contend that there is no safety,
socially and politically, except in maintaining
the republic as it was made by it's founders
strictly colored mans government.
Mr.. Van der Weyde. an insurance agent in
New York, writes to the American Artisan that
in France the party in whose house fire oc-
ours never receives pay for the loss. His
neighbots who lose by his carelessness all get
!, their insurance money, bat the man upon
whose premises the fire occurs receives moth
ing, whether the FIRE is the result Of careless
ness, or of crime, or of misfortune. Mr.. Van
der Weyde says that this regulation is enforced
by order Of the Emperor, to whom, indeed, he
seems to give the credit of originating it, and
that the rates of insurance are lower in France
than in this country. We do not know what is
done in case the burned premises are occupied
by one person and owned by another. If the
regulation is wise one-and upon this point
we express no opinion-it will doubtless soon
Ibe brought into use in this country.
in building houses it has become COM
mon practice for the builders to buy the doors
and windows already made. 1t is now pre-
posed to supply them in like manner with the
walls and ceilings, in the form of slabs, to be
used as a substitute for lath and plaster.
These slabs are made of cane iber--a cheap
material obtained from the cane OF the South
ern cane-breaks by disintegration effected by
the explosive force Of steam, and costing about
ten dollars ton, mixed with clay, rosin size,
and other cheap materials. The cane fiber is
also made into paper Of various kinds. The
following advantages are claimed for this new
building material In q few hours all the
walls and ceilings Of honse can be put up by
mailing them to the ordinary battens upon
which the laths are nailed. The work can be
done as we'll in winter as summer time, and no
drying is required. The 6brous slabs do not
warp, crack, break, peel, shell, erumble, nor
decay; and they keep out damp, heat, and
cold better than lath and plaster. They are
somewhat similar but asserted to be superior
to the panels or wainscoting found in many
palaces and mansions in England. Their cost
is said to be less than half the cost Of COM
mon lath and plaster. 1t is proposed to make
them 6re-proof and waterproof, that they may
serve for the roofs and outer walls of houses
better than clapboard and shingles. Accord
ing to estimates which have been made, the
cost of an ordinary cottage house will be very
much less than the present cost of frame
house Of the same size (; and it is claimed
fibrous slab houses can be erected in less than
one-fourth of the time now required to erect
other houses.
, A Northern correspondent writing from
Florida, urges the advantages which that State
offers to immigrants, and adds eff they are
working earnest men, they cannot fail to become
wealthy, and with half the labor demanded at
the North OF West. Lands are now cheap, in
fact large tracts are divided up, and alternate
sections are given away to actual settlers.
These rich lands are in the market. One gen.
tleman have met, is the owner of many thou
sand acres of the richest lands insthe State, lay
ing along the st. Johns, where steamers are
passing daily, and landing at points on them.
In the enterprising spirit OF his far-seeing wis
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