The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-11
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At N ew York cotton closed very firm, but
less active; sales $500 bales at Csc.
The Liverpool cotton market closed firm;
uplands 10Hd., Orleans 11td.; sales 12 600 bales.
Shooting bufaloes from car windows is a
favorite sport on the Union Pacific.
General Butler recently dined at tho New
York Manhattan Club, the aristocratic social
headquarters of Democracy on Fifth avenue.
The T exas Herald describes the friendly
Indians who are assisting the troops to fight
the savages on the Western border as "Red
Boys in Blue"
TO the long list Of candidates for the
United States senatorship from Pennsylvania,
the name of Edwin NJ. Stanton has recently
been added. csc
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, sailed
in the steamer Iowa, on Sunday, for Glasgow,
on the way to Paris, where the cord which
has so long united them is to be severed.
Ole Bull, the famous violinist, was among
the pass engers on the America, recently de-
stroyed by fire on the Ohio River, and escaped
only with his violin and the clothes on his
back.
Russia, wishing to keep the people con-
tented and happy, has determined to erect ten
theatres in the workmen's quarters Of st.
Petersburg. It is thought that they will prove
a good commercial speculation in the end.
On the day of Baron James de Rothschild's
funeral, his widow gave orders that every beg
gar who came to the door should receive a gold
piece of twenty francs, and that in pursuance
Of this order no less than sixty thousand dol
lars was given away in the course OF the day.
"A Chattanooga paper states that French
gentleman, named Bryant, has purchased land
on Missionary Ridge, with the intention OF
establishing there colony Of French wine
growers. The site is said to be admirably
adapted to the purpose.
General Howard has written letter to the
Secretary Of War requesting that an examina-
tion and report be made Of the administration
OF the Bureau of Refugees, freedmen and
Abandoned Lands, from the 18th day of May,
1865, to the 31st day Of December, 1868, wheE
the bureau proper will close by limitation.
"A life insurance company of Hartford, re-
ceiving no returns of funds from their agent at
Atlanta, Ga, sent for him, and committed him
to jail upon his arrival at Hartford last week.
The amount due is about $4,000, and he claims
that he has never received it from the SUBJ
agents.
Sperm oil has been gradually abandoned
by the Lighthouse Board, and lard oil has been
substituted. Kerosene and other forms of
petroleum are not used, on account Of the
danger arising from their infammable charac-
ter, and the explosiveness of their vapor when
mixed with atmospheric Dir.
An effort will be made to have a law enact
ed exc mpting Virginia, Texas and Mississippi
from the provisions Of the law discontinuing
the Freed mems Bureau after January 1st-the
object being to continue it's operation in the
States ma med until Congress shall deem them
fit subj ects for reconstruction.
Mr.. Stevens, old seat in the House has
been regularly assigned to General Butler.
The latter occupied it by sufferance all of last
session, for MIR. Stevens always occupied a seat
near the speakers desk. but it is said that MIR.
Stevens on his deathbed requested that Mr..
Butler might retain the seat, and his wishes
have been respected.
An equal suffrage meeting was recently
held in Cincinnati, at which fifty persons
twenty-five of each se1-were present. Reso-
lutions were adopted setting forth the princi-
pie that, in arepublican government, the right
tovots should not be restricted to any class,
color or sex. An association was formed for
the promotion OF universal suffrage and equal
rights.
The ecclesiastical authorities of Spain,
isreported, intend to call general council II
Toledo, to deliberate on the new situation il
which the church is placed by the revolutiol,
and by the proposed proclamation Of the prin-
ciples of religious liberty. 1t is proposed that
each bishop should afterwards communicate
to their Clergy, in a sort of'provncial synod,
the deJisi on which may be arrived at.
The commander-in-chief of the insurgents
in Cuba is Don Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, q
lawyer. sugar planter, and large land own
er. He is said to be worth 100000. In the
island of Porto Rico, the leader is DR.. R. E.
Betances. Among the two thousand prisoners
now in the Spanish jails, as insurgents, it is
asserted there are to be found some Of the first
men in the island of Cuba, physicians, lawyers,
priests, p rofessors, wealthy planters and mer-
chants.
The National Board of Trade resumed it's
session in Cincinnati on Monday, and con-
tinued its discussion of the financial question.
On Tu esdsy the report Of the committee on
the subj ect Of taxation on cotton was referred
to the Executive Council. Several PROPOSE
tions manaGng from commercial organiza-
tions were appropriately referred, and then,
after voteof thanks to the Mayor and City
Council, the Press, and the President and Sec
retary Of the Convention, the body adjourned.
SO me time ago Mr. G. h. Mccormick, the
inventor of the reaper that bears his name,
gave 81 co. 900 TO endow the Old School Presby-
terian, Theological seminary, at Chicago, to be
paid In annual sums OF s25, 900. He has made
three payments, amounting to $4,000, but de-
clines to pay the remaining s25, 900, on the pre-
text that ''the concern has been run less as q
theological seminary than as mandatory of
political preachers Of the Jacobin persuasion"
AT the National Board of Trade, now in
session at Cincinnati, the secretary Of the
Board of Trade of Boston rea an article on the
decline in American shipping and the remedy.
It was asserted that since 1861 the tonnage of
the United States has been constantly and ra-
pidly decreasing, and that the aggregate de-
crease in the Six years from 1861 to 1867 was