The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-06
NEW s SU MI M "A r Y.

-The NEW 1Orh COttOu ueslh h0o ""S AAOAo
steady; sales $500 bales, at 25a25s.
At Liverpool cotton closed quieter; sales
10000 bales; Uplands sad,
Lord Brougham has lost the use OF his
tongue and limbs.
Florida planters are busy preparing their
land for crops. Orange culture receives in
creased attention.
Most of the freedmen around Gainesville,
Florida, have entered into written contracts
and gone to work.
There are twenty-five new railroads in pro-
cass Of construction within eighty miles nj
New York city.
Every line Of railway in France pays well,
but in a few years all Of them revert to the
government.
Cincinnati, by means Of a we'll regulated
system of charity, has given over eighty thou
sand bushels Of coal to the poor this winter.
in England, court has decided that d
stamped fac-simile Of signature bears the
same value as a written one.
aid is to be extended, from the Peabody
fund, to such colleges, seminaries and acade-
mics in Louisiana as are actually educating
teachers.
Working men of Nashville, Tenn, are
subscribing stock for the establishment OF a
cooperative store. The shares are five dollars
each.
Captain Kirker, well known Catholic
book publisher in New York, and formerly con-
nected with the United States army, died on
Saturday.
The street and stable manure of New Or
leans, carted to. the sewers aud lost. is To be
utilized and conveyed henceforth on cars to
planters on the line Of the Jackson Railroad.
The French strentes" amount to little
short OF eleven thousand million francs, OF
which more than ten thousand millions is at
three per cent, and the rest at four and four
and half per cent.
There is no event without it's advantages.
The Boston Transcript is Of opinion that there
has been more study Of the Constitution OF the
United States within the past five days than
during the previous five months.
Napoleon. it is said, intends 10 extend to
Constantinople the journey he will make to
Vienna in June or July next, in order to return
the visits received last year from the Turkish
Slltan and the Emperor Of Austria.
"A bill has been introduced in the Senate to
abolish the Office Of Adjutant-General of the
Army. This is intended to displace General
Thomas, lately nominated by the President ss
Secretary Of War ad interim.
Robert Watson Williams, young man Of
fortune, who died in New York last week, be-
uueathed to young colored man employed in
the Office of the New York Times, the sum OF
$4,000.
1t is understood that General Hancock has
asked to be relieved from the command OF the
Fifth Military District. The President has re-
ceived a number Of dispatches from prominent
and influential citizens Of Louisiana, request
ing that General Hancock may not be removed
from his present command.
"A year ago, when it was thought next TO
impossible that the Democrats should ever
again have majority N that body, the Ohio
Legislature passed 'sMetre politan Police Bill, !"
the object Of which was, OF course, to carry De-
mocratic cities for Radical candidates. Now,
however, the Democrats have the legislature,
and, although such acts are said to be uncon-
stitutional, they are proceeding to legislate
for the purpose Of perpetuating their ascen-
dGncy.
"A New York letter, dated Saturday, says !:
''The business Of the Bankrupt Court is rapid
ly on the increase. To-day, no fewer than one
hundred and fifty cases were acted upon; yes
terday, forty. The parties include men who
have been in almost every department Of bus
iness-the great majority OF them, however,
in comparatively small way"
Since the consolidation Of the railroads
from Norfolk to Bristol under one manage
ment, the policy seems to be growing in public
favor, and is likely to be applied to other
contiguous lines. There is rumor, for which
it is supposed there is good foundation, that
the several lines from Aqua creek to Weldon
will unite their fortunes, and that informal
negotiations with q view to that end are in pro-
gress.
recent article upon the political situation with
remark which is painfully suggestive. ''New
York." it says, "has grown calm again. Brsi-
ness men are chiefly anxious for some solution
Of the pending difficulty Whether that solu-
tion be just or unjust, is with the most of them
but secondary consideration. The market
cares very little for principles, and we all re-
member the sharp saying of Baumarchais,
that none knows neither family, country nor
honor"
The most noticeable feature of the speech
es made at the "Grand Mass Meeting" in New
York to protest against the action Of Congress
in the matter of impeachment was the oft-re-
peated declaration that the orators didn't mean
to fight all they wanted to do was to vote.
"Let the Radicals use the bullet" said one
speaker, "we'n use the ballot" And similar
were the utterances Of all the speakers The
idea of resort to arms is as little entertained
at the North as at the South. General Grant
can assume the purple whenever LIE pleases.
We have all become sick Of fighting, and ''the
empire is peace"
The New York correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Ledger writes on Saturday last: 'The
lull in the impeachment excitement which has
been 30 agreeable feature Of the past few
days, is succeeded by q relapse to feeling of
feverishness this afternoon, consequent upon
the submission OF the "articles" to the House.
The tenor Of private kilograms, too, said to be
from Democratic members Of Congress, is
squally, and leads to the belief tina. the Presi-
dent will certainly have to CO. The politicians