The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-06
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Gold closed in New York on Saturday at

closing AT soc.
In Liverpool cotton closed buoyant and ad
vancing, sales 10000 bales; Uplands on the
spot 12sa12sd., 10 orrive 122d.
There are one hundred and seventy-nint
ocean steamers belonging to the port of New
York, with an aggregate tonnage Of 233,61S
tons.
-rhe steamship Vile de Paris recently &C
complished the distance between New Yorl
and Havre in eight days and sixteen hours, be
ing the quickest trip on record.
Serious riots are said to be apprehendet
at Nassau, New Providence, because of the
disendowment OF the churches by the Legisla
ture.
The Alabama and Florida Railroad has
Just been sold for s55 O0O. 1t is forty-fve miles
long, thirteen miles of the distance being il
running order, and the price named included
four engines, thirty-four cars, Office, and al
fixtures.
The theoue in Richmond, Virginia, which
was destroyed by fire during the late war, and
rebuilt before its close, was sold this week to
Monsieur Paul, the French Consul at that
place, for 100000 cash. The property was
owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Msgil.
The Abyssinian expedition is encountering
fresh difficulties at every step. The advance
of the British force had reached Lake Ashange.
The country was found to be barren and almost
uuinhabitable the natives refused to furnish
food or forage for the cattle, and King Theo-
dorus had despoiled the country in all direc-
tions.
Baltimore having found her new steam
line to Bremen to be q success at the start, a
project has been broached there to begin Sc
cond line to Havre, and one wealthy citizen
John Hopkins) offers to pay for building the
first steam:r himself. The Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad is said to earnestly advocate
these steam lines.
The marriage is announced at Pultney-
vile, n Y, March &c, of Captain James T.
Holling, to Miss Mary, eldest daughter Of Pro-
fessor Samuel Owen, (the celebrated glass
blower.) By this union some complicated re-
lation ships are secured. Professor Owen had
married for his second wife, the sister Of Cap
tain h, and becomes father-in-law Of his FORM
er brother-in-law. The Captain becomes hus-
band Of his niece, and grandson Of his own
father. And Mrs. H., by marrying her uncle,
becomes dnughter-in-law to her former step
mother.
The Roman correspondent Of the Pail Mall
Gazette says he is positively assured on good
authority that France and Prussia have con-
-cluded q convention, by which those powers
agree, whatever events may arise, or ehatever
their own relations with each other, that they
will maintain the independence Of the Holy
See and the integrity OF its present territory.
This compact has been communicated to the
Italian Government, and has called forth no
objection from Gen. Menabrea, though it must
be regarded as solemn guaranty Of the Papal
sovereignty.
Official adyices from Japan report the ex-
pulsion Of the Tycoon from Osaca after five
days. fighting. On the 4th OF February the
Japanese attacked with rifles the foreigners at
Osaca, wounding two Frenchmen and one
American sailor. The assailants were finally
dispersed by an armed party OF American ma
rines and sailors. Subsequently the envoy of
the Mikado arrived, and peace was restored.
The foreign Ministers demanded an apology
and the punishment Of the offenders, both OF
which were accorded. The Tycoon has since
abdicated, as reported unoficially in previous
accounts from japan, and the Mikado now ex
ercises supreme authority.
General trade, says the New York CORES
pondent Of the Philadelphia Ledger, is called
more active by some houses, though, as gene
raj thing, there is still much complaint at the
busin ess Of the past two days. Buyers ap-
pear to exercise great caution, and the tight
ness in the money market is not without an ef-
feet. There has been increased activity in do
mestic cotton fabrics, owing to the fact that
some OF the competing jobbing houses reduced
the price OF sheetings and shirtings one and
two cents per yard. Domestic woolens mode
rately active, at steady prices. Foreign dress
goods dull. Boots ard shoes and carpetings
show little more activity, but everything
else inactive.
"A Washington dispatch says that "the
difficulty between Gen. Butler and Gen. Grant
has been at last amicably arranged. The
friends of both parties have been engaged for
some time past in sort Of diplomatic cor
respopdence with view to bringing them to-
gether. The chief actor in this business has
been George Wilkes, who has been here for
some weeks, ostensibly as a spectator Of the
impeachment trial, but really as negotiator
between Grant and Butler. The latter's re-
sentiment against Grant has been very bitte-.
He could not well forget his pungent criticism
on his military services when he alluded to him
in his report as being corked up at Bermuda
Hundred. After this had been satisfactorily
explained away by the diplomatic Wilkes, But
ler said Grant had lnsulted him by sending
him an invitation to his reception after having
stated to the country in his report that he was
scorked up.' This also was fully explained, and
Butler has consented at lasS to smoke the
pipe of peace
The correspondent Of the New York Herald
SAYS that the bill for regulating the succession
to the Presidency, now before Congress, is not
go innocent as it looks. It is only designed
as stalking horse to be trotted quietly through
both houses of Congress in two readings; after
which it is to be suddenly saddled with revo-
iutionary amendment proclaiming General
Ulysses 8. Grant the successor to MIR. johnson;
and this is to be put through both houses
without debate under the gag law OF the previ-
GUS question: The bill is based on the idea
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