The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-02
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Gold closed in New York on Saturday Al
141s.
Cotton closed shade frmer, with sales O.
1000 bales, at 22a22s cts. for Middling.
In Liverpool on Saturday cotton CLOSED
heavy with sales Of 1000 bales. Prices un
changed.
The Hon. George Loyal, a venerable eiti
zen Of Norfolk, died on Monday, aged 70 years
Indians Furnishes miscegenation with s5OO(
fine and Imprisonment.
"A newspaper, with the title OF "Repudla'
ton" has actually been started in 81. Louis.
One of the hotels 30 quickly put up at
Pithole during the oil excitement cost $4,000.
It has lately been sold for $4,000.
-Ex-President Pierce says the Democrats of
New Hampshire have been strengthened by
the tern things have taken at Washington.
MIR. William Young's new evening paper in
New York, from which great things are expect
ed, will be called Every Afternoon.
Mrs. Fanny Kemble will begin series OF
readings in New York next Monday. She will
read first "Coriolanus, midsummer Nights
Dream" sThe Tempest" and 'sKing Lear"
The Hebrew Messenger states that there
are in New York city seventy thousand He
brews. or more than one-ffteenth of the entire
population.
"A brother Of Owen Lovejoy is stumping
New Hampshire in behalf Of the Democrats.
So are John Quincy Adams and Parker Pills
bury.
The GROSS receipts Of six theatres in New
Orleans for the year 1867, as reported to the
Internal Revenue Department. amounted to
$422,S94, estimated in greenbacks.
During the recent cold weather, man and
his horse, travelling in Southern Louisiana,
we're frozen to death, an uncommon occurrence
80 far South.
"A process has been invented by which
scraps of leather are worked over into largo
sheets, 80 that the new article is as good as the
piece from which the scraps came.
VIM. Wright Parker was hung in Whining
ton, N. O., on Friday last for the murder of
VIM. Childress. He made full confession of
his guilt.
-S,ckles has left New Hampshire in disgust
and gone to Connecticut. The Radicals in New
Hampshire could not afford to pay him the
high price he asked for his services.
Governor Vance, Of North Carolina, has
.receiyed the nomination as the Conservative
candidate for Governor Of that State, and Col
E. D. Hall, of Wilmington, for Leutenant-Goy-
ernor.
The Jacksonville East Floridian welcomes
the arrival in that city OF ncmber OF men
from Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota, who
came there to settle in the country and 60 to
work.
"A letter from Hon. j. G. Sinclair. Demo-
cratic nominee for Governor Of New Hainp-
shire, contains tins sentence: Everything
looks well, and We are sure OF the State by
more than two thousand"
The Monroe (La.) Telegraph says the
boats from Arkansas con,e down piled up with
cotton as long as it will stay on. 1t was COM
ING down at the rate Of five thousands bales
per week.
In New York plan has been broached to
receive quotations Of the labor market from al
the prominent points Of the West, so that emil
grants may bs sent at once TO the points where
their services will be most in demand.
General Robert E. Lee, who has steadily
refused to write book on the late war, has
just completed the manuscript of his long
meditated memoirs of his father, comraonly
called "Light-Horse Harry"
The Boston Traveller says, sThe demand
for boots and shoes is not large, but orders
are constantly coming from the South and
West, aud there is a prospect of fair seasons
business"
The Tallahassee Sentinel Book, Job and
Newspaper Printing establishment is offered
for sale at q price less than one half the amount
of the gross earnings Of the Office, during
either one of the past two years.
The Louisville Board Of Trade have adopt
ed resolutions urging Congress to give prompt
" the aid sought for by the commissioners Of
the levee board of Mississippi, in order that
the alluvial lands OF the river valley may be
recovered.
Capt n. F. Maury, the distinguished as
tronomer and mathematician, formerly of the
United States Navy, and subsequently in the
Confederate service, will return from his long
exile during the approaching summer, to ac-
cept position in the Virginia Military Insti-
tute.
General Meade has issued an order to the
effect that the charges against Mayor Anderson
and the Oity Council Of Savannah, not having
been proven before the Military Commission
appointed to Investigate the alleged mal-ad-
uinisIation, the case be dismissed for want Of
proof.
-rhe New York correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Ledger says: ''The spring trade is be-
ginning to open, but it is hindered by the poll
tical excitement at Washington. Many West
ern and Southwestern merchants are IN town,
but their purchases thus for have been made
rather sparingly, from hand to mouth, in
fact"
People in some parts OF the United States
build their houses in such way as to admit
of their being moved about from place to place.
Thus it is stated that "house on runners"
passed through Grand Rapids, Michigan, a few
DAYS SINCE, in which was stove, table, o bed,
and other necessary articles of furniture, the
house afording accommodations to family
who were bound for point one hundred miles
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