The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-29

cling it to twenty-eight days, except on leal
year, when cne is added. This arrangement
was generally adopted and endures to thi
day. The ladies have, for the past eighteel
centuries, enjoyed special privileges during
leap year. In an ancient Saxon law, it is en-
acted ''Albeit, as often as leape yeare dotl
occure, the woman holdeth prerogative over tn'
menne in matter of courtshipe, love and ma
trimonee; so that when the lady proposeth, i
shall not be lawful for MEME to say her nae, bu
shall receive her proposal in all good COURT
sic"
CITY FINANCES -GREENBAoKs VS.. CRY ScRn
{. ooD NEWS FOR EvERYBoDY.-It has been
ascertained, from undoubted authority, tha
Mayor Burns has succeeded in negotiating {
loan for the city to large amount. The money
has been deposited in the First National Bank
and will be used to pay off the floating debt o.
the city. The rumor of this transaction was
sufficient to materially appreciate the value o.
city scrip, and it readily sold yesterday fol
ninety-eight cents on the dollar. Orders have
been received by the City Treasurer to pay out
nothing but greenbacks, and the applicants for
this favored currency are constantly increasing
Monday being the frsS Of the month is the
great payday, and the information that green
backs are forthcoming, will cause many heart
to leap with joy. Policemen, street laborers
and city employees who have been struggling
to make both ends meet with deprecated
scrip, can now realize the full amount of their
dues. With the Golfers of the city replenished,
SINNERS autograph will again become ia
miliar sight.
The ordinance authorizing the issue of city
money limited the amount to $4,000. OF this
only s4SOOO was signed and issued. Since that
time it has been gradually redeemed, until at
large portion OF this is held by taxpayers, and
it is confidently expected that IN short time
city scrip will be thing of the past. The
sudden appreciation both of city stock and
scrip shows that the community have not lost
confidence in their securities. The former
have risen from 2Sa314, while the latter is al
most at par.
1t is expected that the taxpayers will now
promptly meet their obligations and enable
the City Treasurer to continue in well doing.
1t has been arranged to pay tho present i'm
mediate debt OF tho city, and it will not be
long before the interest and the past indebt-
edness will also bo paid.
In this connection it is proper to add that
the coupons on the Fire Loan Bonds, which
were heretofore payable in. New York, will now
be paid at the First National Bank OF this city.
The TRADE OF BALTIMORE WITH CHARLES
ToN.-The Baltimore Gazette, in replying to a
correspondent who contrasts the freight rates,
coastwise, of Baltimore with those Of Phila-
delphia, says: sIt is because the steam facili-
ties of Philadelphia to the South are inferior
to those of Baltimore, that the freights there
are sometimes lower than they are here. Phila-
dclphia is striving hard to recover Southern
trade which she will never have again, if Bal
tmore is true to her own interests. The ship
ping rates South are regulated here chiefly by
the New York rates, with which city Baltimore
has to compete. The rates to Charleston,
which we take as the chief Southern city, are
the same as from New York. The rates from
Baltimore TO tho interior towns between
Charleston and New Orleans are in many cases
sixteen to twenty per cent less than those from
New York. Tho Baltimore and Charleston
Steamship Company connects with no less
than sixteen different railroads, and takes
freight ola Charleston for almost any part of
the interior, South and West of that city. At
Baltimore it connects with lines leading to
Cincinnati, Louisville, st. Louis and Philadel-
phia, to which latter city cotton is brought by
this line. The last quotations in Charleston
give us as the rates by steam to New York:
cent per pound on cotton, $3.50 per tierce' on
rice; to Philadelphia, cent per pound on cot
ton, and to Baltimore cent per pound on cot
ton and s1.75 per tierce on rice. The rates
from the South to Baltimore are lower than to
Philadelphia or New York, and the rates out
are generally lower than from New York. Bal
timore is already getting the control Of the
Southern bacon trade, having shipped within
the past few days 800 hhds by the Charleston
line, and its cotton trade is steadily growing.
The Falcon brought TAI bales o few days ago,
the largest lot yet brought. Part Of it went to
Philadelphia. Why it came by the Baltimore
line is readily evident to any one who will take
the trouble to inquire and to draw deductions
which arc not influenced by partisan feol-
ing"
HOTEL ARR1vALs.--MAS HOuSe.-F. D.
Richardson, Mount Pleasant; DR.. NJ. NJ. Sans
and P. Hamilton, Beaufort; Captain A. L. Har-
rison, steamer Delaware; Captain Alfred B.
Deane, steamer Delaware; Darlington Mason,
Nashville, Tenn; A. S. Hall, city; r. L. Gen
try, Augusta, Co.; Geo. E. Ormsby, Illinois;