The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-18
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Cotton closed in New York Yesterday dull
under decline of Bale.
in Liverpool yesterday cotton closed dull
at slight decline. Uplands on the spot 12s
12sd.; to arrive 12ta12ld.
The Mormons expect 10000 emigrants
from Europe this season.
Last week two parties Of English and
Scotch immigrants arrived at Lynchburg, Va
Connecticut did not go for impeachment.
1t did not go for Grant. 1t is opposed to both.
1t said so in plain English.
1t is estimated that the machinery OF
Great Britain does the work of four hundred
million men.
Chicago is claimed to be the distributing
point for no less than twenty thousand Ameri-
can postofices.
The culture of tea is about to be introduc-
ed in Jamaica under the auspices of the English
Government.
Accounts from Texas indicate that there
is better feeling between the freedmen and
planters than at any time since the conclusion
of the war.
John Bell, of Tennessee, is said TO be still
alive, and living on a plantation near the Cum
berland river He is in his seventy-sixth year,
and has very feeble health.
1t is not true that Archbishop Manning
has prohibited the performance of any but
Gregorian music in the Catholic churches Of
England. The bands still play.
Eugene discards trails, and all female
Paris is cutting Oft the extra length Of its
dresses in despair at the mutabiity Of human
affairs.
Judah P. Benjamin, some time ago,
brought suit in New Orleans court, for fees
for legal services rendered before the war, and
the case has just been decided against him, on
the ground that he forfeited all his legal rights
By participating in the rebellion. MIR. Benja-
min is at present practicing law in England.
The House of Lords in England is said to
have recently taken step in the right direc-
ton After discussion, their lordships agreed
to abolish, in all ordinary cases, the right Of
voting by proxy. This plan of voting can only
be resuscitated, with the consent of the House,
after notice Of several days. duration.
The French Emperor, according to the
statements Of the Paris press, intends to dis
solve the French Legislative Corps about the
middle OF May, and order new election. he
is engaged at present in the usual electioneer-
ing schemes necessary to obtain majority OF
the deputies who are about to be chosen.
George Francis Train still continues an in
= mate of the Dublin City Marshalsea, detained
at the suit OF the Ebbu Vale Iron Company. He
uiilizes the time by preparing voluminous cor
respondence and editing "a weekly" the Ele-
phant and Castle, which is chiefly compila-
ton of personal "reminiscences, SC.
Monday being the anniversary Of the
birthday Of Thomas Jefferson, the States
Rights Society Of New York city celebrated
the fifth annual anniversary of the society
with reunion and banquet at the st. james
Hotel. Mr.. It. b. Seymour, Of Connecticut,
was the principal speaker on the occasion.
The funeral Of D 8rcy McGee took place
at Ottawa, Canada, on Monday, and was very
imposing. Business was entirely suspended
in the city, and many buildings were draped
in mourning. The funeral sermon was
preached at the Cathedral, and thirty thousand
ssss:bbsoyae followed the hearse to the cemetery.
&Considerable canvassing is going on in WASH
ington over the Radical nomination for the
vice-presidency. The contest has practically
narrowed down to Wade and Colfax. Wades
chances look the brightest. His friends count
upon one hundred and thirty-four votes among
the delegates already elected to the Chicago
Convention, while MIR. Colfa1 is sure Of but fifty
two.
MIR. Elijah NJ. Z. Glenn, the New York leg
charge one Of his associates with an attempt
to buy his vote, has resigned his seat in the
Assembly. He says that he has ''become sat
isfed that there is no reasonable hope that the
investigating committee will thoroughly in
quire into and impartially report upon the
charges preferred, and the honor Of the House
will remain without vindication."
B. F. B. and Chandler of the Senate we're
Talking up the avenue the other day, when
Butler broke out: s'Well, Chandler, you have
heard me called a id rascal often enough,
but did ycu ever hear anybody call me a id
fool?" "Not exactly" replied the amiable
senator, ''but I often heard you called a
sspooney,' Ben" 'What sort of spooney?"
said Ben., not taking the joke. ''Why, silver
spooney of course
Senator Harlan has come out f1t-footed in
favor Of uneducated negro suffrage. He says
that it is difficult and hazardous question,
but that q knowledge of the three Rs is rot the
only avenue t, intelligence, and that Shy their
instincts or by Divine interpositiou, the blacks
have obtained a just comprehension of the
great question in controversy He says they
have voted everywhere and all the time on the
right (Radical) side, and this inspires me with
great confidence in them for the future.
The Earl of Cardigan, in England, is dead.
He was q General of the British
army, and at the time of his death was seventy
one years OF age. He is famous as having led
the celebrated ''charge of the six hundred" at
Balaklaya, in the Crimean war. He was man
of gleat personal courage, but rigid and
most overbearing officer; and his conduct in
leading his men to be destroyed in this cele-
brated charge into 'the valley OF death has
been severely criticised, notwiths standing the
general admiration the exploit caused.
From Madagascar there comes terrible
story OF shipwreck. a Frer:h vessel bound
from Calcutta to Marseilles vas wrecked on
the reefs Of Isle st. Brandon, and the crew
tooL IN their boata two in number One of thtm