The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-15
NEW 8 sU MI M A R4Y.

Gold WINS somewhat excited in New York
Yesterday, having risen to Alt, but receded at
the close to 40s.
Cotton closed 3aa cent lower in New York
Sales 21OO bales. Middling 2Osa2O2c.
In Liverpool cotton closed frmer yesterday
Uplands SAas5d.
California is going into the cultivation OF
silk, for which the climate is very suitable.
The Chinese on the Central Pacific ball
road work for about one dollar day and find
themselves.
"A trotting horse was sold by weight in
Chicago. At s145O per pound he realized for
his owner s15osO.
"A bill was recently introduced in the Penn
sylvania Legislature to abolish ''days OF grace"
upon negotiable paper. The proposition was
defeated.
The committee on elections in the Mime
sofa Legislature, has reported fayorably upon
the proposition to resubmit the negro suffrage
question to the people.
The Chamber Of Commerce Of New York
has refused to make lawyers members OF that
body, and several legal gentlemen were "black
balled" on Thursday last.
The Winsted Conn., Hoe Company, manu-
facturers Of Southern hoes, have stopped work
entirely for the present, throwing about sixty
hands out Of employment.
The Astor House is to remain hotel for
seven years longer, new lease for that term
having Just been executed. The new lessee is
Captain Roddington Stetson.
The Chicago Times states that on Sunday,
January 10, General Grant was shamefuly
drunk on the streets of Warrington, only be-
ine able to walk by the aid o. his father-in-
law, General Dent.
Friday and Saturday Of last week are
thought to have been the coolest days OF the
season. In New England, Saturday morning
was the coldest felt since that Of January 24th,
1867. when the thermometer marked from 25
to IS degrees below zero in Connecticut and
Massachusetts. In exposed positions around
Hartford, Saturday morning, the temperature
ranged from % to "a degrees below zero.
"A New York correspondent says: "Pike,
the millionaire, who, as an extensive distiller
and projsctor Of opera houses, is said to have
offered q million and half in gold for the
property running from Eighth to Ninth Ave
nue., on Twenty-third-street the sellers having
the privilege of removing the dwellings, now
occupying the site, which he wants for
mammoth hotel The offer was made on Sat-
urday."
New York contains fully 'i seventy thousand sa and
Israelites. In one congressional district there
must be not fa- from twenty thousand. In this
locality the Jewish Sabbath is faithfully and
strictly observed, and on Sunday blocks Of
stores, occupied by Jewish tradesmen, are
open for the transaction OF business. The
police are vigilant in enforcing the Sunday laws
against all whose stores are not closed on Satur-
day.
The New Orleans journals speak Of an ex-
tensive csving in Of the levee in that city.
From Clouet-street down to the refinery, below
the convent about one thousand feet OF the
outer edge Of the levee and bulkheads have
slipped into the river, and will need to be re-
paired before the next rise, or that portion Of
the city will be overfowed. At the point oppo-
site Clouet-street the -levee has sloughed off
within six feet of the curbsto 10 and presents
threatening appearance.
One of the subordinates in the American
Exchange Bank in New York city has been dis
missed from his Office because he has been
speculating in Wall-street contrary to the e1-
press terms Of his engagement with his en-
ployers, who, as q precaution, forbid officers
and clerks in the bank from entering into any
speculations. The clerk in question had been
engaged in the bank for the last eighteen
years, and although his pecuniary loss was
quite triling and his accounts with the bank
correct, sti1, in conformity with this safe rule
for the officers and clerks OF all banks aud
financial institutions, he was summarily dis
charged.
Tine Constitutional Convention has agreed
to an article for the new constitution providing
that any officer accepting bribe to influence
his official action shall be deemed guilty of
felony, and, on conviction, shall be punished
by five years imprisonment and fined not ex-
ceeding $59OO and that any person offering q
bribe shall be liable TO similar punishment.
1t is stated that Secretary Seward, by di-
rection Of the President, has written to Charles
O'Oonor and James T. Brady, Of New York,
asking them to go to Europe and appear as
counsel for the American citizens under trial
for completely in the Fenian proceedings. No
answer has yet been received, but If these gen.
tlemen do not accept, the tender will be made
to others.
"A New York gossiper says "after seeing
the Black Crook and Golden Branch for so
many months, the fashionable world is enam-
cred Of legs and arms, and resolves to assure
itself that graceful ankles and round limbs are
not confined to the demi-monde. This is the
legitimate conclusion after seeing so many
Amazonian costumes at the fancy balls, with
satin bodices, scarlet and blue saoques, steel
shields, helmets and spears, with tights as
comely and CATERS as golden as those of Bon
fsnti herself. How many young ladies Sc
cretly practice hitting mark on the wall with
their agile toes in their own rooms, it is inn
pertinent to inquire, but the ballet fever seems
to have wild run in New York ut present
among the ladies as well as the gentlemon."
Some of our stars earn, or get, these sums
DER week: Edwin Booth, sSOOO; Joe Jefferson,
$4,000; Maggie Mitchell, $500; Owens, $1,000; J.
8. Clarke, $1,000; Barney Williams and wife,
$1,000; Brougham, $500; Mrs. Lander, $500;