The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-26
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Gold closed quiet at New York yesterd

cotton was dull anu neaVy, put c1oseu Luore
steady; sales 1000 bales at 22sc.
AT Liverpool cotton closed firm and with
more activity; Uplands, on the spot, 9sd; te
arrive, esd.; sales 10000 bales.
The Freedmens Bureau ceased to exist III
Kentucky on Saturday, the order OF Genera
Grant for its 6lscontinuance not having beer
revoked by Mr.. Stanton.
The Eufaula (Alabama) News says: 1.-THE
result OF the re-registration, just comple'ed In
this State shows difference in favor OF the
whites Of nearly three to one."
Paris hopes to have an underground rail
road ere long-a line which will form complete
underground connection between all the railway
termini Of Paris. There will be one bridge
over the Seine and one tunnel over it. Three
Yourths Of the railway and its branches will be
in tunnel or covered way.
From Mexico uio Havana we learn thai
the revolt in Sinaloa has become serious, anc
moro troops have been sent to General Corona
who is in command Of the Mexican forces in
Mazatlan. The insurgents are reported to be
within twenty miles Of the latter city, and are
said to number twenty-five hundred men.
The Missouri Radical Convention was per-
manently organized at st. LOUIS on Saturday
last. Among the resolutions adopted was one
affirming that the sovereign political power o
the republic is vested in the people, and that,
under the Constitution Of the United States,
Congress represents that sovereignty The
resolutions close with an endorsement Of the
acts Of Congress.
Professor Palmer, the Fly Man" who has
been exhibiting in London, walking on glass
ceiling with his head downwards, fell head
foremost the other evening. The ceiling was
eighty or ninety feet from the ground, but q
netting was spread for him about thirty feet
below the ceiling. He struck upon the back OF
his neck just within the netting, and was
scarcely injured, but the escape from terri
BILE death was very narrow. He did not finish
the performance.
Petitions are announced as having been
signed in England, by nearly Il, GOO persons
PRAYING that single women and widows, duly
qualified as ratepayers, may be allowed to
vote for members of Parliament. The move
ment is supported by Lady Anna Gore Lang
ton, Lady Amberley, Sir George Bowyer, Mrs.
SomeryiIle, Sir Rowland Hill, Tho ODonnog-
hue, Mary Hewitt, Lord Romily, Lady Gold
smid, Rev. Charles Kingsley, Sir ]. Simpson,
M. D., Mr.. Goodwin Smith and others-cer-
tainly good array Of names.
"A special dispatch from Philadelphia to
the Washington Express says: Outside OF
stocks and gold gambling, fears are entertain
ed that the unsettled state Of the political ho-
rizon will act with damaging effect on the
spring trade about to open. The Presidents
intJn ion of testing the constitutionality OF the
civil tenure bill in court is understood here
by the thinking few, and they chuokle ct the
act OF the Radicals in Congress in CONFUSING
the country. The reaction, it is thought, will
be damaging to not few ofthe over-ambitious
gentlemen in the House.
"A French paper gives an anecdote OF the
balls at the Hotel de Vile, where the company
ia usually rather mixed" Here one meets
al classes Of people, fact which proves, as NJ.
Delrieux said in the Situation newspaper, tbs
liberal principles Of NJ. Haussmann. At the last
ball the Countess de c. discovered coming
towards her Towering waistcoat, which asked
her hand for quadrille. "Thank you, Mon
sieur," replied the Countess with great polite
ness, recognizing the wearer Of the waistcoat;
sI am not dancing tonight; the shoes which
you sent me home this morning hurt me hor-
ribly."
The N. Y. Tribune of Monday morning takes
yery strong groun> in favor OF the impeach-
ment of President Johnson. 1t says there is
no avoiding this conclusion-po explaining it
away-1o middle course. Congress must as
sumo the responsibility Of impeachiDg him.
Not to do so, i'll the face Of this fragrant and
insolent proceeding, is to become partner in
the crime. It is no time to consider party in
fuence OF impeachment, or its effects upon
Presidential candidates. We would rather see
the Republican party, candidates and all,
driven to the deserts of Arabia, than to have
them tremble one moment in the presence OF
this high duty"
The New York Times is alarmed ct the
preference shown by Mr.. Stanton, editor Of
the Revolution, for handsome men, in Wash.
treton, as the most meritorlous statesmen.
The Times remarks ut is scarcely necessa-
ry" [scarcely necessary, indeedl] "for us to
add that we cannot assent to any revolution
which is to introduce such tests of political
merit as these. When o2era-glasses, instead
Of the constitution, are to determine qualifica-
tions for Office, when none but good-looking
men like Ben. Wade are to be deemed fit for
the Presidency, and when tho handsomest
men like our Senator Conkling are to carry the
day against all competitors, it is quite time for
ordinary mortals to take their stand.'
Official representations have been mado to
General hancock of the impossibility of meet
ing the indebtedness of the State of Louisiana,
or of even paying it's officers. From the fact
that the payment of arrears of taxes being
suspended by legislative action until 1870, the
appropriation act having expired on December
31st, 136- General Hancock has therefore or
dered Mat licenses to trade, professions and
occupations, together with the revenue duty
and taxes Of the State shall be payable and
collected in legal tender notes. The funds
thus collected are to be applied to the pay
ment Of the judicial and civil officers of the
State, and to other purposes specified The
appropriation act is also to be continued as far
as it may be applicable to the specified expen-
ditures and assessments.
During the war Frenchman Of the name
Of Cluseret took service with the United States
troops, and as he had shortly before quilted
the French army, in which he had attained the