The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-07
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NEWS sU M M A r Z.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at 1Ss !
a1ssa.
COTTON was quoted In New York yesterday
: az S2as2ac for miadhngs. Sales 100 bales.
in Liverpool cotton was lower; uplands
12ad .1s;.@.-., I s. : :.
the Austrian ambassador in that city, died yes
terday.
The Maison Dore il to be turned into q
frst-class theatre, to- be called the uni
Square Theatre. =
Eleven negroes are accredited as delegates
tothe Rspubiean Nstiopsl Convention at Chi
caeo, an fsom Southern States. s..
The length Of the span Of the Cincinn sti
snid Newport bridge over the Ohio has been
finally fixed at three hundred feet.
-Ststelburg has been appointed as ambassa-
dor Of the Russian Government at Paris, To
succeed Baron Budberg, resigned.
sv-Iadies now ornament their handkerchiefs
with large monogrsms in the centre, the let.
Aeers embroidered in different colorad silk.
e. & "A Boston specnlator Is reported to have
made s12ao0Gby buying cotton at 14cents q
pound aud selling 1t at 20 cents. : rs
"A Madison Avenue N, = residence has
carpet On the drawing :room Of velvet with .
large monogram IN the centre. It cost $76Oo.
-Carlotaas health, it Is announced, contin-
uss to improve, and her Ultimate recovery lie
anticipated. She now has periodical fits ol
7 Ssslocminess. but they are daily growing less
hequent.
= Three Baltimore aldermen, were, on Fri
day, expelled from the City Council on the
report of an investigating committee, which
gcharges them with corruption in connection
with the issue Of Western Maryland Railroad
bonds. ,s,ses,.a:E:s.-,
"A New Orleans correspondent writes rela-
tive to- the Louisiana sugar crop, that the
plantations are. doing well this year, and 1t is
sgroand to produce one hundred and fifty thou
sand hogsheads Of sugar, provided it Is not
Killed and ehoked out by politics"
e I'm Algeria, the Arabs are said to be still
diving by hundreds of starvation; in one dis
;strict fifteen hundred natives have perished
within twenty.nine dsys. Il is shocking to
relate, but it is stated ON the best author
sity, that many -m the miserable creatures,
driven mad by hunger, have turned canni-
halls. ..,s;,::.,s., 4
-A;Washington letter says ssMr. Stanton
has moved fom the War Department. to his
own house again, having become satisfied that
an danger; Of his being elected issoyer., BE
now IsaYas the War Department. at the same
hour "a the other clerks, and may be seen most
any fine afternoon Stunning himself on the steps
eof his mansion. 80
-Dr. Edward GotthriI, commissioner to the
Paris Exposition sfsom Louisiana, has arrived
in Washington from Europe, having in charge
the History OF the Caesars BY. Napoleon, which
ms presented by the Emperor to the City Of
New Orleans. The volumes sre now on e1hibi-
ton ct the State Department, and VIII be taken
.toNew Orleans IN . few days. -
General Meade hss refused to obey writ
Of haoeas, corpus Issued by Judge Busteed in
Alabama. The writ Was issued in favor Of Mr..
3. Randolph, who under arrest for an assault
npon s4,o q negro, and who has been ordered for
sffisl befbre . military commission. General
Meade refuses to release the prisoner, and di-
rects that the trial be proceeded with.
9 4fhe California, Democratic Convention on
Thursday instructed its delegates, 70 the Ma
Eonal Convention to vote tor Governor Haisht
as CaliSornias first choice for the Presidency.
Should no advance be made by other States for
hiR nomination, the delegation ID instructed to
unite with the friends OF Pendleton IN the
Northwest in demanding his nomination.
Female suffrage meetings are being held
IN England, and it is the evident intention Of
Tie advocates OF that extension Of the franchise
TO make sn,eafnest iendeavor to get it granted
BY Parliament. There is o g National Society
for Women's Suffrage . IN England, under
whose suspices these meetings are held, and
numerous female operatives appear among the
speakers. "
The Washington correspondent Of the New
York World, writing under date Of Sunday last,
says: srThe President win probably submit to
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