The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-16
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Gold was quoted in the New York market
At noon yesterday at 39i.
Cotton at New York yesterday was frmer
$ and improved to s1as1s.
AT Liverpool, yesterday, cotton was quot
ed . fraction higher; uplands ltd; Orleans
1aaal2ad.; sales II, 900 bales.
The Boston Post nominates Charles Fran
els Adams Tor Vice President on the Democrat
10 ticket. -.
1t is said that John Quincy Adams, Jr.
WIN again run for Governor Of Massachusetts,
en- the Democratic ticket.
sSs-At the memorial celebration in Richmond,
ON Saturday, fourteen thousand Confederate
graves in Oakwood Cemetery were decked with
flowers.
John Stuart Mill is about to publish new
edition Of his fathers Analysis Of the Phe.
nnnena of the Human Mind" with copioue
xnnctations.
Governor Patton, Of Alabama, has been IN
Boston for several days, examining the public
institutions in thst city, with view OF improy-
ing 1pon them il Alabama.
3 AT Colts firearms factory. in Connecticut
:. business is very brisk, the hands being en-
: gagged in making so, 900 Berdan rifles for Rus
sis. About four hundred workmen are nov
!. employed.
s5 As an evidence OF the decline Of American
shipping, Consul Morse, at London, reports to
the State Department that, whilst in 1861 there
:. vere Two hundred and eight arrivals Of Ameri-
Gan vessels in London, in 1885 the number had
declined to forty-nine.
~ Tho New York Herald reports that on Mon
:, day the rather significant event took place oil
Senators Fesseuden, Trumbull, Henderson,
var Wrinkle, Grimes, sprague and Chief Justice
Chase going home in company to dine with the
Iast-named gentleman. 1t may be trifiing
circumstance, but the impeschers take it sadly
i 10 heart.
An exchange says that hen has the ca
pacity Of laying six hundred eggs and no more.
Usually they lay o few the first year; from
three hundred and t.enty to three hundred
and seventy in the next three years; and the
rest from the fifth to the ninth year inclusive.
The true economy, therefore, 10 not to keep
/, hens after their fourth year.
There is q rumor afoat in Paris that the
Sultan WAS so well pleased with his late visit to
the western capitals that he is going to repeat
II this GUNNER, and will probably extend his
Zip to the United States, in the history OF
= L. a Il IL
which he is said to lake great interest. he
fikes to make sea voyages, and the distance
win not deter him.
8 Sir Robert Napier, Knight Companion OF
ne Bath and Grand Commander of the Order
uf the Ssarof India, has been appointed by the
Queen 8 Knight OF the Grand Gross Of the Or
-dm Of the Bath. The English papers, COM
met,finp on this appointment, states that Ma
mar has taxen his first step in the line OF
Tnnumotion upou. the dead body Of Theodore
nmeen yicto,ia is reported to have writ
asn an antooraph letter to the widow Of Thorn
Z. rpArcv McGee. expressing her sympathy
.,,d no,n,d doIance and how highly she apprecia-
- tba ,asIertions Of Mr.. McGee. during his
Hsa.t;me for the imperial cause in the land Of
h;a .dontion. The Duke of Buckingham, it is
said, has also written. letter to- the widow,
conveying the regret Of her Majesty's minis
ters that 30 able statesman and 80 good
citizen should have fallen victim to assassi-
nation.
in virginia, the Supreme Court has dectd-
edfhat in debts contracted in Confederate mo-
nsy, the amount shall be commuted INTO Fede-
faimoney, at the value OF the Confederate
money when the debt mstured, and not when
Il was contracted. 1t has also decided with re-
ference to the distribution Of the assets OF the
old Virginia State banks, that the noteholder
shall not have preference, but that they, the
dspositors and al other creditors, shall share
alike. .:.,;!s
Sergeant Frank Forester, OF Company d.
Ywenty-ninth United States Infantry, who
wrote to Mosby to propose coup esa. asains,
Congress, mas oeen sentenceo Dy cou.. niaf 't1Ai
10 be reduced TO the ranks anu 70 !ofiei' poi-
tion OF bus pay. General EMORY In approVlns
the sentence, says IL was oouotiesS pfonounoeu
under the behef tnat Inc onenoer lnsenaea oiny
practical JOKE, ana ne hopes ~ WIZ SetVe %
aWarmng 20 o.hefs "no n's .l 70 ess.a .sn..O -
joke on sucn suplecIs. Soine ooe'uein pap..'
had attributed the iet1er 70 d governments oo-
tecaye.
'-Ihe qaadrennia a9aless " ,no D.'.p' -
the Methodist Eplscopai Cnurcn' Jus' uen'oi-
ed before the General conference Nv" ~ SOC
sion at Chicago, gives an account OF Inc sousn-