The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-24
NEW sU M M A r z

The Liverpool cotton market closed buoy
ant at further advance. Sales $1,000 bales.
Uplands, on the spot, 12sd.; aaoat, 12ad.; Or
leans, 12td.
Mr.. Young sank 1000 in one month on
seEvery Afternoon"
Chinese coolies drown themselves at Ha-
ysna at the rate of twenty week.
"A ton of collar paper, it is stated, is made
daily at one mill in Pittsfeld, Mass.
The Richmond newspapers are comment
ing with great cheerfulness upon the prospec-
tive revival of the tobacco trade Of that city.
The New York Times thinks that General
Hancock would be the strongest candidate the
Democrats could nominate for the Presidency.
In Topeka, Kansas, the women, although
NOT nermitted to vote, have held caucus and
nominated candidates for the various city
Offices.
-Rumor saws that Mrs. n. B. Stowe has
seen cause, from personal observation OF the
Southern negroes, to modify her opinions as
to the intelligence, honesty and nobility OF that
race.
Two bells made Of the ordinary metal, but
cased with steel, and weighing respectively
seventeen hundred and twenty-five hundred
pounds, were consecrated last Sunday In Bal
timore. They were cast in Prussia.
Some of the leading New York hotels rent
for enormous sums. The Astor House, 1t IS
said. when reopened, is TO rent for s55,OOO
year; the st. Nicholas pays 5000; the Metro
politan $4,000, end the Fifth Avenue nearly
$4,000.
Cuba is in state of trepidation on account
of reports from Spain that the Captain Cen
eral and other high officials are to be removed.
The reason is said to be that there are various
hungry Spaniards anxious to fill their Places
in order to get some Of the Cuban plunder.
Several negroes have declared themselves
candidates for Congress in Virginia. DR.. Bayne,
in the Norfolk district; Jones. in the Rics mond
district; and Norton, in the Williamsburg dis
trics, are already candidates.; and, as the ne
groes preponderate in those districts over the
whites, it is not impossible for such men to be
elected.
Though the United States has not yet paid
for Alaska, the people Of that territory have
already fallen by the ears, and find it necessary
to 90 to law. It is announced that the tirst
case of litigation from Alaska has been brought
to Washington, and committed to the care OF
Robert J. Walker. It involves claims to land
in sitka, and shows that the spirit OF American
speculation has already forced its way into
those far of possessions.
The Mississippi River, near Vicksburg, IS
Il
said to be threatening to change its channel. I.
The point on the Louisiana shore of the river
opposite that city is being gradually worn away,
whilst q sandbar is being formed near the
yicksburg shore, and it is feared the river will
ultimately break {. new channel and close up
vicksburg harbor altogether. The press OF
that city are in serious alarm, and advise that
niles be driven and boat-loads of stone sunk
so as to prevent any further crevasse' and fofce
the river back to its old channel.
An English yacht, the Sultana, owned by
Mr. F. G. Ashworth, On English gentleman,
who, with the Hon. Mr.. French, Of England,
has been on q pleasure excursion for some
months past, arrived at Washington last week,
and has been towed to the navy yard. Since
leaving England she has sailed eight thousand
eight hundred miles, been at sea eghty-eight
DAYS, touching at Havana and the West Indies,
remaining in port eighty-nine days, averaging
one hundred miles por day. She is seventy
nine tons burden, with crew Of thirteen.
An extraordinary step has lately been
taken in photography. By process which IS
still secret, N. Adolphe Braun, cf Dornach
(Haut-Rhin) has produced an immense num-
Der Of absolute fdc-sinaiies Of the best draw
ings left by the great masters. These new
photographs are superior to oil former works
OF the same kind in the ordinary excelences OF
detail and surface quality. They also repro
duce exactly the tint Of the original, neutral
brown, red or greenish, as the case may be.
They are confidently asserted to be absolutely
permanent, but this must OF course remain to
be proved by time.
The French Government has determined
TO nav portion of the debt contracted by the
Emperor Macmillan during his reign Ill
Mexico. While repudiating all legal obhga-
tions for the Emperor's contracts, the Minister
of Finance conceded that so much of the
money as finally found its way into the French
Treasury, in liquidation Of the Emperor's en-
cagements, should be refunded to those Whc
furnished it. The amount which falls IN this
category is sixty-eight million francs, and fol
it France is to issue her own certificates OF III
debtedness. With the remainder OF the loar
the Minister says France had no concern.
The Boston Post, the leading Democratic
paper Of New England, is definitely out IL
favor of the nomination of General Hancocl
for the Presidency. 1t says that she combine;
for the position solid qualities of character ant
the propitious aids of fortune in striking de-
gree.s One of the Generals chief merits, IL
the eve Of the Post, is Its belief that "he was
the right arm OF the Army of the Potomac" IL
it's last and greatest campaign. His policy IL
New Orleans, and his letter to the Governor o.
Texas settle the preferences of the Post in his
favor. The journal named is shrewd in politi
cal forecast and circumspect IN making its
"iumps." So far as the New England Democ
racy are concerned, the nomination OF its chic
organ has a good deal of significance.
The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion exposes thu
Radical scheme to give the negroes control o
the Legislature. Two black counties, with al
aggregate population Of 3S,s57, are given sever
representatives, while only four are allotted tx
population of 40 1853 wherein the whites pre-