The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-31
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from Liverpool caused decline, ard the &C
vance was partially lost closing at 27a274, Wit
no buyers over 27c.; sales 1000 bales.
In Liverpool Cotton closed firm; Upland
115d.a11Id.; sales 80. 900 bales.
Moses Beach retains an interest of $50, 90
in the Sun.
The Pope blessed King Louis on his deaf
bed by telegraph.
-"Oh, Stubs, where is thy Victory; oh
Boggs, where is thy S Tyng!" ezciaims th
Chicago Post.
The election for Governor and other Stat
officers in Rhode Island takes place on We'd
nesday next.
The President and his counsel in th: inl
.peachment trial arc to be photographed. The
impeachment managers have already been
photographed.
The Russian Government, it is announced
has given orders 10 the commanders Of Rus.
sian vessels that they are not to transport any
more refugees from Crete. There are already
sixty thousand in Greece, and they are sal to
be in danger Of starvation.
"A physician il Germany announces case
where child was born with smallpox, the
mother herself not being affected at all. She
had accid ntally come into communication
with q severe case Of smallpox about six
weeks before the birth of the infant.
The Arlington estate, in Virginia, opposite
Washington, formerly the residence of Gen.
eral Lee, is to be cut up into five and ten acre
lots, and let out for cultivation to the coiorei
people.
The installation Of the Prince Of Wales as
Knight Of st. Patrick, 1t is said b. the London
Times, will be celebrated with all the splendor
which it is possible to bestow on the cere-
monial. No similar spectacle has been wit
messed since the visit of King George ". to
Ireland.
The House committee on coins and coin
age have agreed to report o bill to provide for
moro uniformity in coinage of two, three and
five cent pieces, to be composed of nickel and
copper, the two cent pieces to be of particu-
lar size described in the bill, the three cent
pieces to be OF a size larger, and the FIVE cent
CONT coin to be larger than the three cent,
thus regulating the size proportionately to the
value of the different coins.
-Thaddeus Stevens. owing to his feeble
ness, has to be daily carried in chair to and
from his lodgings to the House of Representa-
tives. To perform this labor, he employs
couple Of athletic attendants, and few days
ago he startled them whilst carrying him, by
halting them and gazing into each of their up
turned faces, marking in his quaint style,
'sWell, boys, what am to do when you are
both dead and gono?"
The commissioner of internal revenue has
rendered decision in the spurious champagne
wine cases. He holds that winos made by The
infusion Of carbonic acid gas, and put up in
bottles similar to foreign champagne wines,
are subject to tax of Sc per dozen. all OF
the wines known as the spurious champagne
wines, between 100000 and $500, 900 worth of
which werc seized BY Collector Shook, in New
York. some time ago, were put up rs above
described. This decision Will not only bring q
to the government, but drive out of
use those fraudulent champagne wines.
The Jews Of New York are, it is said, en-
leavoring to induce the legislature to abolish
he Office of Superintendent OF Police, or at least
% remove Kennedy the officious. There is o
lueer report, however, which if true guaran-
'ees long lease of Office to the inventor of the
hoax and the apprehender of
peaceful citizens. 1t is that Kennedy, by the
i'd OF his detectives, has compiled certain
Mysterious book in which arc recorded the
'rivate doings Of leading officials, Legislators
nd influential citizens-men who control con-
entions and appointments, and are power in
he State. The story goes that he has used I
he machinery of his department to track ,
very Albany or Washington Official who has
ONE TO the city, to note all his sins. small or ,
reat, to the minutest detail, the sum lost at
aro, or the name OF the syren in whose smiles
10 basked being carefully preserved. Armed
nth this record he can bring troops OF the &
lo ,onorable and the most influential to his !
upL oIt at the first whisper of removal. j
Wednesday was "Opening Day. in New =
ork,-that is, the day Of the season when the ,
'odistes display for the first time their spring
!shions. The streets we're thronged with Ia h.
les, and all the principal establishments we're
,owded with their patrons, who criticised b
s4Sy NoIoiUSASo ohS0I III DOH y
ets," and called this article of dress sshate- n
j, and that perfectly splendid" The sa- =
ent points Of the new styles appear to be that :.
onnets are smaller and more flimsy than ever.
lat the sensible fashion of wearing short s.
rect dresses is to bc continued, and that eve Il
ng dresses may be cut in almost any way. r,
divided they be furnished with trail long fl
lough. One reporter says that there never q,
Is time when greater latitude was allowed .,
full dress toilettes, but he evidently means
ngitude, for he adds, provided the train is u
az and the skirt narrow, "the rest OF the III
ess may be left to Providence" And when NJ
e fashions have come to such pass as this, III
is quite certain they are no longer proper II
bjccts for newspaper discussion. q,
In the matter Of professional fees. the hc
lnts Of the New York bar, not to speak of br
pSmies, are as fortunate, Ii We may be-
We report. as they arc skilful In the Jumcl
case, for instance, Mr.. Martin, WHO az
lred for the defendant, received 9 ice of
1000, while O'Conor, who gained tac suit.
,keted $4,000 as his reward. These will T.
cs, often involving the labor Of weeks, and IL,
n months, in their preparation, and requir-
arguments Of an inIerminablc length, seem s''
De pecuiarly profitable. The leading coun- In
in the Rose will case nrobahlv rncp;ynd q | TO