The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-24
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The New York cotton market was quiet
and easier; sales 1000 bales at 24sc.
Cotton at Liverpool closed easier, but quo
tations we're unchanged; sales 10000 bales;
Uplands 10td.
The Confederate cavalry General N. B.
Forrest is extensively engaged in Life insurance
business.
The White Fawn, the Black Crooks sue
ceseor, has passed its sixtieth representation
in New York.
The impeachment of the President has
had one result already for which it is said he
is devoutly thankful. 1t has scattered the
crowd Of applicants for Office which usually
hang around the White House.
Chicago, on last Sunday night, had seven
large warehouses, all in row, entered by
burglars and robbed-a feat which the Chicago
papers think unequalled as yet by the burglars
Of any rival city on the globe. =.
in California the farms average nearly 700
acres each, whilst in Massachusetts the average
is but 81 acres. New York has the largest
number Of farms-196, ,0O0-whilst Rhode Island
has the smallest, her total being less thai 5000.
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York Times states that the impeachment man
ayers have virtually agreed to abandon the last
article in the indictment, known as Buffers ar
ticle, if the defence should propose to summon
witnesses from distant part Of the country,
and thereby delay the trial.
Theodore Tilton, of the "Independent, :"
was in Washington the other day, and made
the following remark to rather dull member
of the House, who, elevating his glasses to the
gallery said: "What would you do, Mr.. Tlton,
ifyou could not distinguish your friends in the
gallery ?" 'sWhy, sir" replied Mr.. T., II would
try to distinguish myself on the floor"
In New Orleans they have found gas as
good or better than that furnished by the gas
company, at q depth Of forty feet below the
surface of the ground, and propose to use it.
1t is caught ~ q tank. They propose to form
Joint stock company to enable planters and
all others in that alluvial region to avail them
selves of the discovery. TIE gas will be found
anywhere in TIE swamp region.
We find the following remarkable para
graph in the Congressional Globe. 1t is taken
from General Logan's recent speech upon
alleged frauds in the United States Treasury:
81 believe, before my God, that there are men
in that department who are defrauding the
government, not only in the saf Of its bonds,
but by giving out copies Of your dies, 80 that
your bonds may be counterfeited. believe
your bonds have been duplicated; believe the
department has paid duplicated coupons of
your bonds; believe it has taken counterfeit
notes which were sent there for redemption
and set them afloat over the country again.
The Department has done all these things,
and yet it finds defenders in both ends Of this
capitol
II steamers can be worked by the help Of
petroleum, it will be great advantage toship-
owners and all others concerned-that is to say,
the rest Of the world as long as the supply Of
petroleum may hold out. Colonel Foote, OF
Boston, has been carrying the government ship
Palos up and down Massachusetts, Bay with pc
troleum, and is now about to bring his own
vessel the Island City, round to the great
ports, to exhibit her performance. In his late
experiments he used coal tar, and worked his
machinery in the most satisfactory manner. It
would be gain to do away with the heavy
necessity Of coal, and this use Of petroleum
may be good step forward in the direction
of the other motor, which, no doubt, will yet
suggest ITSELF and supersede oil those now in
use.
Under the operations Of the Atlantic cable,
and the West India telegraph, the trade be-
tween Europe and the United States is under
going q change in its management, which Is
vastly to the interest Of shipowners. For in
stance, merchant in this city dispatches
telegram by Atlantic cable to the master Of his
ship at Liverpool, ordering him to Key West,
Fla, for orders. The captain, on reaching
that port, notifies his owners Of his arrival,
and they at once direct him to clear for Savan-
nah, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston, or wher-
ever else freight offers at the bestrates. These
advantages are fully appreciated by the mer-
camille community, and the central position
and convenience Of Key West as port Of
call are making themselves felt by adding
greatly to the trade Of that place.
Two libel cases have just been decided in
New York, the one in which Moses s. Beach, OF
the New York Sun, was sued for $4,000 dam
ages for copying paragraph in regard to Mrs.
Dean-Boker (whose marriage some years ago
excited much sttenion), and in which the jury
gave verdict for the defendant. The other
case was That of the "Nation," in prosecution
commenced against it by conductor on the
New Jersey Railroad, for remarks, on his con-
duct at the time OF railroad accident, result
ing in the killing Of Professor Dwight In this
suit also the jury gave verdict for the de-
sendant, making up their minds to that effect
in five minutes. In the case Of Mr.. Beach, &c
was shown that the ibelous article complained
of had been copied by his agent without his
knowledge from another paper, had been
printed without any intention of wrong, and
when apprised Of the wrong done, that it was
at once retracted, etc. These decisions do not
hold out much encouragements to suits for Ii
bel against newspaper editors, especially
where from the general character Of the jour-
nalists, it is the aim to give correct informa-
tion, not to injure any one, and when wrong is
done, to repair it as far as possible. Con-
scientious journals are always solicitous in the
first place to be right, and when wrong to get
right, the one quality usually accompanying
the other. And 1t may be added that this
careful class, who are always ready upon fair
and courteous representation, to correct inad-
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