The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-19
NEW s sU M M A r <
Gold closed at New York at 9S1.

Gold closed at New York at 3St.
At New York Cotton was shade frmer
and in fair.demand; sales 5000 bales at 25a254'
The Liverpool Cotton market closed active;
sales 15,COO bales; Uplands in port, 10sa10{d.;
afoat, 1Old.
The price to be paid for substitutes in the
French military service is fixed at $3.50 francs
There are in San Francisco from 1000 to
5000 Chinese. The whole number in Callfor-
mia ranges from 10000 to 10000.
The block bounded by Magazine, Foucher,
Faeyfare, and Delande streets, New Orleans,
was burned out on Saturday night.
There has just been exhumed feeble
poem Of Poe's, written when he was eighteen
It is > hmpoon on clerk OF whom ne was
Jealous.
AN English fnancier is said to be IN Ala-
barna, advising the landowners there to form
ioint stock companies for the improvement OF
their surplus lands and the sale OF them to .ku-
ropean emigrants.
With reference to trade in Boston, the
Traveller of that city says that ''the market for
cotton goods continues firm, with an upward
tendency, and the dealers are rejoicing at the
prospect Of the spring trade"
The manufacture of cotton has been be-
gun in Utah. The Mormon journal at Salt
Lake City contains an advertisement INFORM
ing the faithful where they can purchase the
Justly celebrated Deseret Mill cotton yarn,
manufactured at President Young's cotton fac
tory"
MIR. Dickens is to receive the compliment
of press banquet in New York. 1t will be
given on the 18th of next month, just previous
to his departure for England, and Will be at
tended by numerous representatives Of the
publishing and journalistic interests OF the
United States.
England has not yet recovered from her
financial crisis Of 1866. 1t is compelling many
persons hitherto lavish in their expenditures
to retrench. The announcement is made that
in one English revenue district 1000 gentle
men have notified the officers that they have
concluded to dispense with keeping their car
riages, because they must curtail their eA-
penses.
in Poland, recently, there was an extraor-
binary shower Of meteorolites, caused by the
bursting of meteor. The light of the meteor
was visible for eight seconds, aad the eye
could follow the direction Of the fragments,
and the places where they fell were easily dis
covered the next morning. Some of the frag-
ments collected have been deposited in the
Polish museum at Yarsovia.
The members OF the Wisconsin Legisla-
ture formerly we're paid by the day, and the
consequence was very long sessions. Now,
however. they get $3.50 year, and the result
is that business is dispatched more promptly.
The system Of paying by the job is quite as
good one in law-making as elsewhere. In
the new constitution for New York, it is pro-
yided that the legislators are to be thus paid,
the members getting $1,000 each.
Sir Morton Peto, who is member OF the
English Parliament for Bristol, it will be re-
membered, after his recent disastrous failure,
announced his intention Of resigning. He has
since changed his mind, however, and declares
that he will do no such thing, much to the dis
gust of various anxious people Of Bristol. who
wish to be his successor in Parliament, and
and have actually prepared petition to that
body, asking that his seat be declared vacant.
The able argument Of Dir. David Dudley
Field in the McArdie case is summed up in
the following points: First, that there is no
reason for the proposition that Mississippi is
not now State of the Amer can Union; Sec
ond, that not only is she State Of the Union,
but her people have the rights OF citizens of a
State; third, that whether she be or be not a
State, has or has not the rights Of State, the
people there residing cannot be subjected to
military government by the Congress of the
United States; and fourth, that, therefore, the
petitioner, McArdle, is entitled to his release
from the military commission which presumed
to sit in judgment upon him.
The new English cabinet, of which Mr..
Disraei is Premier, consists Of the following
persons: First Lord Of the Treasury, the Right
Hon. B. Disraei Chancellor of the Exchequer,
George Ward Hunt; Home Secretary Of State,
Blight Hon. Claiborne Hardy; Foreign Secre-
tary of State, Lord Stanley; Colonial Secretary
of State, Duke OF Buckingham; Secretary Of
War, Sir ]. Pakington; Secretary Of State for
India, Sir Stafford Northcote; First Lord oi
the Admiralty, Right Hon. a. I. L. Cory;
Lord Chancellor, Lord Cairns; Lord President
Of the Council, Duke OF Marlborough; Lord
Privy Seal, Earl Of Malmsbury; Chancellor oi
the Duchy Of Lancaster, Right Hon. Wilson
Patten; President OF Board of Trade, Duke oi
Richmond; Postmaster-General, Duke of Mont
rose; President Of Poor Law Board, LORD
Devon; Chief Secretary for Ireland, Earl Mayo
the aspect of the impeachers last Friday
is thus described by a correspondent of the
New York Herald: "Along came Dir. Ashley
all ambrosial locks, with the face ofyoung Mr.
Shallow, Of Shakespeare, leaning on his ebony
staff. Original impeachcr as he was, War
wickian exultation came over his saponaceou:
eye as he smiled patronizingly on the Goddess
of Liberty. Forney was eating troches for his
throat's sake, that he might read himself mel
lowly into history ftom his Secretarys desk
Coltax wore his best black suit, an spoke tc
every man, woman and child al the way ur
the avenue. Henry Wilson tramped to the Cap
itol like benignant Father Mathew, who was
wishing to be unconscious of his prominence
in the Republic but couldn't. Ben Butler hat
laid himself out for the Richard Brinsloy Sher
idan OF the day, and had been reading Maeau
ley since midnight. He was dressed for tht
occasion in swalow-tail coat anu extra ex
posure OF linen, radiant in expression ant
keenly alive to the grand opportunity OF MAX