The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-06


Gold closed yesterday in New York at Sss
Cotton closed dull, with sales OF 700 ba lie
i'm Liverpool cotton closed unchanged.
1t is rumored in Paris that the En- pero
NapoIeonis H. s==e.ss 20 - -
France has resumed diplomatic relation
with Tunis. se..,tses.-i. =
The two steamships Of the Boston an
Liverpool line: have been sold at auction 70
$750,OO0, to New Yorkers, it is said.
THE bill making appropriations for tn
execution of the Reconstruction acts has be
come law without the Presidents signature
The military force Of Austria is being re
organized. The standing army will consist o
eight hundred thousand men, and the Land
.wehr Of two hundred thousand. =
The Spanish Government has grantedau
thorizations for the establishment Of additional
submarine telegraph lines in the; Gulf o
Mexico.
Weston, the pedestrian, has. commenced
another walking match IN Boston of one hun
dred miles in twenty-three consecutive hours
for wsgerd d $500. '-',s.,ss: - s$ssss 49,
Competition between, rival steamboat com,
panies has brought fares down to fifty cents
from New York t. Providence, and one dollsl
nom New Yorkto Boston, -. ,'.-'--s- !.
The Germans in San francisco have re
ceiyed acknowledge for 5000 in gold thal
they forwarded for the relief Of the Berlin suf:
ferers. stt,e,.i.s *. s, - ( -
-salome, Prince AcaiIle Mnrats bride, has
been, educated carefully and strictly, onepoint
being that she was compelled to rise at five
]. o'clock, summer and winter, and mend her own
stockings. iat,s ss.sJs- - - $ - E
& The statement is going the rounds that il
! The fame Of a candle be applied to, a finger OF
toe OF 5 supposed corpse. and raises e wet bis
5 ter, lie is not extinct. VIII somebody please
put candle to old Ben Wade's extremities.
Ashley, the infamous original impeaoher,
Of Toledo, Ohio, is sending around circulars
among his leading constituents inquiring
: whether it VIII be best for him to try for a
reelection. - - 81 -
"A man lately advertised that on the receipt
Of ten cents he would send q splendid steel
engraving Of .sthat. noble hero, General jack
SON. The splendid steel engraving, proved
to obea Two cent postage stamp.
$ The National Board Of Trade organized on
Wednesday in Philadelphia by electing Charles
G. Masero, OF Boston, president. The dele
gates from Charleston, s. O., Wilmington, DEL,
and Newark, n. J., were admitted after con-
test.f go -, -,,f
The banking and currency committee Of
the House Of Representatives have considered
and tabled petition signed by FIVE hundred
citizens Of Montgomery, Pennsylvania, urging
that the yignettes Of Fessenden and Chase be
taken of the national currency.
-Woolley, the recasant witness. has been
rsmoyed from the room: Of the Committee on
Foreign Relations to the room Of Miss Winnie
Beam. His only companion therein is the un-
( finished statue Of Lincoln, which Miss Ream
WAS compelled to leave in her studio because
removal would be destruction of her work.
MIR. Harrison Reed, Governor elect Of Plo-
ri1k, VIII. Glisson, Lieutenant Governor elect,
and @. M: Hamilton, Congressman elect from
Florida, accompanied by United States District
Judge Boynton, of Key West, and others, have
arrived in Washington, for the purpose Of urg-
ing the early admission Of that State into the
Union under the Reconstruction acts.
The list Of names canyassed for the Demo-
crstie nominations is Hofatio Seymour, Of New
York; Thomas, A. Hendricks, of Indiana; Geo.
q. Pendleton, of Ohio; George B. Mcclellan,
OF New Jersey; General, W.. s. Hancock, of
Pennsylvania; Chief Justice Chase, OF Ohio;
Admiral Farragut, Of New York; James A.
Englah, Of Connecticut.
Mr.. James Small, Of Washington city,
voted the Conservative ticket Monday. 1t is
stated that on MIR. Small appearing at the
postof6ce Tuesday morning to resume his
duties as letter carrier, he was ordered to
leave Immediately. But if Southern man
discharges . negro for voting to disfranehise
Z him, some miserable military satrap declares
that the public snail be taxed to support the
negro. ~s.; ~
During the examination Of Collector Webs
ter, of Baltimore, by the impeachment Com
mittee, the witness was pretty severely sbadg-
cred by Mr.. Butler, and the New York World
says: some Of the questions asked by Butler
was as to how he (Webster) knew the Presi-
dent wonld be acquitted, to which Webster
answered, well, General, do not really know,
but I suppose it was much the same way as
you knew how impeachment would result when
you telegraphed to. New Hampshire that con-
viction was certain; that Wade and prosperity
would come IN with the apple blossoms.
This sally from Webster was badly reished by
Bu.icr."-
The navigation Of. thes Danube is an
object Of great interest to parts of Ger
many very remote from the mouth Of thst
great European river. The Commission of
the Danube, established at Galatz in 1850,
by virtue of article sixteen OF the Treaty
Of Peace concluded that year at Paris, pro-
poses, in order to complete the navigation
works at the mouths Of that river, to contract
aloan not exceeding s624, ,s75, which the prin-
cipL powers consent to guarantee, each in an
equal share. In consequence, a bill authoriz-
ing the Northern Confederation to undertake
this obligation has recently been laid before
the Reichsrath at Berlin.
An important insurance case has recently
been decided in the Supreme Court, sitting at
Boston, Massachusetts. Six New York aud
two Baltimore companies resisted recovery on
policies ofinsurance effected in February, 1866,
On the ship Young Mechanic, her freight and
outfit, amounting to one hundred thousand
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