The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-11-20
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co,a closed in New York yesterday dul
and lower atS45.
$500 bales. at "a.
EIn Liverpool cotton closed firm and slight
,v higher. with sales Of 1000 bales; upiand'
10}d; Orleans lid.
Colonel VIM, NJ. Halsey has been nomina
ted for Mayor by the Democrats OF Atlanta.
IA claim against the City Of New Orleans fol
$4,000 for damages during the recent rio's
has been presented
That very clever, faeile and sensationa
writer. Miss Braddon, has joined the stan O.
the Saturday Review.
The custom of searching baggage a1 uai
weston, in transit from Brownsville to New VI
leans, has been abolished.
california proposes to hold Worhs saii
IN 1870, andthe Pacific Raihoad agrees TO car
ry passens ,rs at half fare.
"A Texas paper asserts that not towh IL
that State, except Galveston, uses anything
except gold and silver.
General Sickles, previous to the election,
wrote to q g entleman in Ohio: "Do not regard
me as a rash man when tell you that New
York is as sure for Grant as Ohio" Inc oen-
ersl missed his guess that time.
Secretary McCulloch says that under IT
circumstances would he remain in othce af.er
tho fourth Of March, and that his only desire
is to faad over the department to his success
or in the best possible condition.
IL is stated, on what appears to be good au-
thority, that Archbishop Manning and BISHOP
UlisThorne will soon be made cardinals, and
Bishop PATTERSON will be made Archbishop OF
Glasgow and Primate of all Scotland.
-Califcrnians expect to make the journey
from San Francisco to New York by rail next
fourth of July, and the wonderful pro-
gress of the Pacific Road encourages US to nope
that their expectations may be realized.
The darchloness OF Hastings is rather
better of than she was with her husband alive,
as she has large dowry, is only twenty-slx
years old, and can mourn luxuriously until she
sees ft to marry again.
The Deseret News, Mormon organ ut SAT-
Lake City, thinks that the lessons Of the recent
earthquakes is that the people should adopt
Mormonism, polygamy and the prophecies Oh
Joe Smith.
The Louisville Democrat has been sold t"
John E. Hatcher, well known Southern Jour-
nalist, and ". Henry Perrin, late Secretary OF
the Journal, will be the publisher. Hatcher
will be the managing editor. The paper Will
be Dem ocratc.
"A ia mily in Wilmington n. c., has had'
within the last twelve months, two marriages,
two births and two deaths-a strange ad-
mixture Of the joys and sorrows, the smiles
and tears, the happiness and misery OF this
earthly existence.
The Richmond Wing, which is controlled
now By a distinguished gentleman who was
ore of its proprietors when John Hampden
Pleasants was its chief editor, declares, IN It's
issue of Saturday, that it believes that. the
bulk Of the.people Of Virgins would be Wiling
to extend the right Of suffrage 10 negroes.
There are symptoms Of reaction In
Spain. Five hundred and sixteen ladies OF
Madrid have presented an address to the
President of the Council requesting the pre-
.seryation of the churches which have been
ordered to be pulled down, and also the MANI
tenancs of other religious establishments.
1.-The Baltimore American says that General
Grant has already, in private conversation, ex-
pressed the hope that tho adoption OF en
amendment to the constitution proclnimins
universal suffrage, without distinction OF race
or color, will be one of the first acts OF the ap
preaching session of Congress.
-Congressman Dickey and Hon. E. Nc
Pharson are engaged in winding up the affairs
Of the late Thaddeus Stevens. They ind only
enough personal property to pay his debts
and his real estate consists of o house IN Lam
caster. estimated at SIS. 600, and his iron fur
mace property, estimated at from s5O,OOo TO
s60,O00.,
The Richmond Dispatch says MANY In
oiiirics are made as to whether MIR. Davis will
have to appear before the United States Gu
.cuit Court on the fourth Monday OF this
month. Such is the condition OF his recog-
nizance, but it is by no means certain that ne
will personally appear. If Mr.. OConor ana
MIR. Evarts, who represent respectively the
accused and the government, deem his per
senai appearance necessary, it IS agreed
that he shall be informed by telegram over
tho cable%
We find the following paragraph going the
rounds OF the Northern papers: "Of the rlne-
teen million acres OF land in the State OF South
Carolina, only one-fourth is under cultivation.
The remainder, some fourteen million i've hun
dred thousand, is mainly in primeval forest.
Fully half of the 4,6OO,OOo now under quasi cul-
tiystion is for sale, somo cf it even as low as
one dollar per acre, and ranging from that up
IN twenty dollars. Good farms have, within
the wear, sold as low as three dollars per acre,
and. in certain cases. even below that"
"A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
saws sThe grade Of General will be filed by
Grant, unless Mr. Johnson is -ungracious
enough to wish to take chance at 1t, oat 1t Is
not probable that he will find any OF the great
Major Generals willing to take his commission
So will promotion be made to the Lieutenant
Generalcy, and I incline to the belief that Gen
eral Grant will follow the course o, his Juds-
ment and nominate General Thomas. L was
in group Of army officers the other day. all
OF them attached to the person of Grant, and
they expressed the assured opinion that Grant
would no; only fill the grade of General when
it became vacant, but would advise against
abolishing it, unwilling to take tho position
.,I - 20 Tho only soldier worthy of such eYal-