The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-07
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o,ad 5u1l and q shade lower, DuG clOSeu iuoHe
.staady. sales 1000 bales at 24aa25c, closing at
Csc.
The Liverpool cotton market yesterday
closed irregular. at about s5d on the spot tor
Unlands. and ssd to s2d to arrive; sales looo
bales. Manchester firm.
Bankruptcy aourishes in Montgomery
Ala. On last Saturday alone two hundred ap-
plcations we're Sled.
"A municipal election was held IN LOCK-
haven, Pa, on Friday. The Democrats CAR
ried all the wards.
Hon John E. Ward is lecturing ON China,
IN the Georgia cities, in behalf of the fund for
the support OF the widow of the late. Bishop
Elliott.
In New York city, during the past year,
the various passenger railways carried lOO,-
Os7249 passengers-an increase OF nearly a
million over the number cs eried the preceding
year.
Mr.. Murdoch is advertised to give series
NJ readings in Chicago for the benefit OF Mrs.
Dickens, poor widow in that city, and sister
in-lsw Of Charles Dickens, whose writings
abound in benevolent characters and OPEN
handed charities. This is rather rough on
Dickens.
"A Savannah letter, alluding to the recent
r;se in cotton, says: sMore than one firm
prides itself on having made neat piece OF
trade during the short-lived upward flight.
One house, that of Moses & Brady, are said to
have netted fifty thousand dollars by the sud-
den rise."
in order to add to the present stock OF
light literature, it is proposed in London, and
is meeting with favor. to establish society to
translate into English and print the best
stories, from nations and languages hitherto
disregarded, including Morse, Persian and
Hindoo tales, and Magyar and Finnish
legends.
There is some speculation as to the length
Of time that will be allowed the President to
prepare for trial, after settling the prelimina-
ries and notification has been served. The
general impression is that he will get from ten
to twenty days to arrange his defence. Mean
time the two houses will proceed with their
regular legislative business.
1t is announced that in England, whilst
the poor marry, the wen-to-do avoid marriage
to m,nh I'm extent that TWO women In every tfTe
of the whole number Of English women are un-
married, and the total Of these unmarried
amounts to the great number of 1,527,OOO. In
London, forty-one per cent. OF the women or
manageable age are spinsters, and IN tlve
English counties there are forty-fve per cent.
"A destructive fire took place in Milledge-
vile on the morning Of the 4th instant, burn
ing the bakery of Mrs. Haug, on Wayne-street,
ieyelry store of Mr.. James Supple. the MILL
nery establishment of Mrs. Leikins, the barber
shop on the northwestern corner OF Wayne and
Green streets, the jewelry store of MIR. Miller,
the confectionery establishment Of MIR. Conn
(which was also the Office Of the Southern Ex-
press Company, and MIR. Haug's shoe store.
Gen. J. B. Steadman publishes card in
the New Orleans Crescent, in which he says:
GAS understand there are some citizens who
do believe that I entertain sympathy with Cen
eral Grant, I deem it due to myself 10 say that
am as strongly opposed to the political views
and action of General Grant as any man in
Louisiana. The usurpations Of Congress, sus-
tanned by General Grant, are as abhorrent to
me as they are to the great body of tie con-
servative people of America, and most earn
estly hope that both he and Congress may be
defeated in their attempts to trample upon the
constitution and usurp the government
1t is known that very considerable amount
Of Confederate money, including some cash
balances in Liverpool, were attached by the
United States Government in England, but
some of the principal witnesses having been
personally implicated in secession, and their
estates, if any, on this eide, liable to confsca-
tion, the English Vice Chancellor decided that
they could not be compelled to testify where it
would criminate themselves. To remedy this
obstruction, so as to make full discovery and
surrender of the Confederate property
abroad, Congress has just passed an act OF
indemnity in certain cases, to relieve the COM
mon law disability referred to.
The editor of the Petersburg Index tele-
grsphs from Washington to his paper us fol-
lows "The universal opinion among those
best informed here is that the deposition OF
MIR. johnson is already fixed fact. The i'm
peachers are very bitter in their expressions.
and announce the determination to finish the
Job cut out for the Senate with all possible dis
patch" This comedies with the statements of
all the best-informed Washington correspond
ents. Whence those who find in impeachment
nothing but good joke derive their intorma-
ton we cannot imagine. If some unexpected
turn is not given to the trial, Mr.. Johnson
might as well prepare to give place in short
time to old Ben Wade.
AS new social experiment for London,
newspaper of that city announces that in the
fashionable part of the town, in row of build
ings called "Belgrave Mansions" on Lord
Westminster's estate, the rooms are to be let
siDgly or in suites as unfurnished apartments,
each tenant furnishing them as he pleases. A
company provides all necessary servants, and
there is coffee room for the use of the ten
ants. There is no obligation, implied or un-
derstood, that the tenants should take their
meals in the house; they are free to live as they
like, and can procure their wine, tea, coffee,
and everything else wherever they choose-in
abort, it is proposed that they shall enjoy as
much privacy and independence as if they
were in houses of their own. 1t is believed the
London club system is capable of useful de-
velopment in this lection, and the expert
ment is regarded with GU osity
The Cincinnati Commercial unoualiiedly
sustains the Presidents position. Itsays: "It