The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-14
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I'm Liverpool Cotton closed at Bid. for Up
lands. Sales 10000 bales.
General Forrest has fled q petition OF
bankruptcy in Memphis.
John G. Breckenridge was at Constantine
pie December 18th, en- ro,ne for Syria.
The remains OF Poe are to be inferred at
Green Mount Cemetery, near Baltimore.
The insurance companies of Chicago have
raised their rates 25 per cent, which has oaus-
ed great outcry.
-Hahyaktakee, the principal member Of the
Japanese troupe, now performing in New York,
died on Saturday night.
"A gold snuff box, valued at three hundred
dollars, has been presented to Marshal Kane,
ofBaltimore, by the police force of that city
The Ohio river bridge at Louisville will be
finished in 1869; it will cost s1,6O0,Lo0, be
ninety-fv feet above high wafer, and be one
mile long.
The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger
is the name of weekly paper recently started
in New Orleans in the interests Of the Catholic
Church.
Parker Pillsbury, the ancient abolitionist
and co-worker with Garrison and Phillips, is
stumping New Hampshire for the Democratic
candidate this spring.
Dickens has sister-in-law, living in
Chicago, the widow Of his brother Augustus,
who died there tw1 or three years ago. Mrs.
Dickens is keeping boarding house.
Cincinnati has established Strangers'
Home, where persons happening in the city
for night or so, and who are out Of money,
may find clean and comfortable lodgings and
meals.
If any of our readers desire to know how
popular sensations are created, let him reflect
upon the fact that the theatres Of New York
expended more than O,0UO in advertising
last year.
Bishop Williams, Of the Catholic diocese Of
Massachusetts,, has declined to allow the Catho-
nc clergy in Worcester to say high requiem
masses for the repose Of the souls Of Alien,
Larkin and OBrien.
The Circuit Court Of Richmond, Virginia,
has decided that the attachment Of Clafn q
Co., of New York, for s4S, 900, on which, Stein
fcient cause, and should be abated.
Colonel William Lamb announces that the
steamships will resume their trips from Nor
folk to Liverpool this month, and continue
running regularly through the season. The
Worcester will leave Norfolk February 17th.
Some sixty or seventy young looking men
passed over the Raleigh and CASTOR Road last
week Oh their way to the West uta Weldon.
They said that they were leaving North Caro-
lima on account Of the gloomy and unsettled
condition OF things.
There is lady in Boston, it is said, who
has furnished homes for over seven thousand
foundhngs The demand for children for
adoption in that city appears to be very g eat,
which seems to accord with the statistics that
have been given as to the decline Of births
among native families in Massachusetts,.
The venerable Bernard Marigny, Of New
Orleans, died last week. The deceased bore in
his veins the blood of French nobility; was born
the inherltor of vast and most valuable estates,
comprising in part one of the four divisions of
New Orleans; was educated like nobleman's
son, and lived to manhood Under the flags of
France and Spain respectively.
in Franklin county, Tennessee, o company
Of German emigrants have recently settled
upon upwards Of eight thousand acres Of land,
which had been purchased by an agent sent in
advance Of their arrival. The new corners
represent capital of one hundred thousand
dollars, and it is anticipated that within few
weeks an additional tract OF four thousand
acres will be bought for the same purpose.
"A Kentucky stock-raiser, it is stated, pass
ed through Nashville few days ago, literally
loaded down with gold watches and every des-
cription of jewelry, which he had obtained in
Georgia and Alabama in exchange for ono hun
dred and sixty head Of mules which he took
South. In the absence of currency, many peo
pie Of that section found it necessary, in order
to procure farm animals, to part with what few
valuables the war had left them.
"A Washington letter Of the 11th inst. says:
General Longstreet has been the recipient of
much attention during his visit here, both
from the army oficers and the politicians. At
General Grants reception on Wednesday night
he divided with Sheridan the honor of being
the greatest attraction. When his name was
announced by the usher, General Grant i'm
mediately turned from the person with whom
he was spesking, and met General Longstreet
half way, presented him to Mrs. Grant with
great cordiaity, and remained in conversation
with him for several minutes.
"A bill is pending in the New York Legisla-
ture which requires every railroad company in
the City Of New York to place safety-guards
upon the wheels of it's horse-cars, 80 as to pre-
vent loss u life In case of accident. It is not
stated what is the exact nature Of the safety
guard, but the proposed penalty for disobe-
dience is fiue Of fifty dollars for each car IN
provided with such an apparatus, while the
companies remain liable for the damages
caused by negligence. Life and limb should
be made safe on lines of city travel if possible.
The accidents on the horse-cars are of very
frequent occurrence in most Of the cities hay
ing such lines.
"A telegram from Vicksburg, dated the
28th ultimo, stated that on that day Ser
geant Gilbert h. Bates, Of Wisconsin, who
made bet to carry the stars and stripes
from that place to Washington, unarmed
and without money had started on his journey.
The sergeant was soldier Of the Union army;
was one of the first to enter the service, and
one of the last to leave it. Democrat from
principle, he remained true to the party dur