The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-04-04
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OFFICE No. 10 HAYNE-STREET.

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In Liverpool yesterday cotton closed at a
decided advance. Uplands on the spot 12a
12td; to arrive 12sa12id. Sales 10000 bales
Manchester adviccs favorable.
The mysterious cave under New York is
twenty feet beneath the surface and of unex
plored extent.
1t is reported that the butterfly CT the
army worm has appeared in Baton Rouge Par
ish, Louisiana.
The New York papers record the death Of
DR.. James NJ. Quin, an eminent homeopathic
physician OF that city, aged sixty-two years.
He was also distinguished for his great musical
abilities.
The Petersburg Express announces tina
within the last ten days twenty-one persons
from Pennsylvania have settled within the I'M
mediate vicinity of that city, upon farms pur-
chased for cash or its equivalent, all being
practical farmers.
Ono OF the managers of impeachment was
strorg supporter OF the President two years
ago, advised the veto of the Freedmen's Bu-
reau and Civil Rights bills and regarded that
policy as altogether lovely. But he couldn't
get MIR. johnson to approve cotton claim OF
$4,000, in which lie had contingent fee OF
$4,000, and thercupon it became his duty to
impeach the Executive who wouldn't do dirty
work for his friends.
MIR. Thaddeus Stevens is in daily attend
ance, not only upon the House, but upon the
sessions of the Reconstruction Committee and
hoip If
both. The Tines Washington correspondent
says that he is apparently stronger than he
has been for some months, aud he attributes
it to the fact that Downing is feeding him on
terrapn, English snipe and hook. That alone
is enough to live for.
MIR. Burlingame closed his official career
as United States Minister at Pekin, China,
with two very interesting presentations. i
portrait of Washington was given to the ven-
cradle Seu-Ki-Yu, who was banished by the
late Emperor for euloSlzing the father OF his
country. and one of the finest watches of the
American Watch Company was presented to
the Rev. Pere Gillie, for his Christian kindness
in saving the lives of several Americans who
had been shipwrccked OIL the COrean coast.
The Washington Star of Monday evening
SAYS: ''As the case now stands, the prosecu-
ton expect to be able to close within week at
the furthest, and it has been stated that four
days would be amply sufficient. 1t is under
stood that the majority of the evidence will be
documentary, and will be in charge Of Messrs.
Boutwell, and Williams. Messrs. Butler and
Bingham, and perhaps Wilson, will conduct
the cross-examinations. The closing argument
will be made by Mr.. Bingham"
A report of the condition of the Russian
serfs, at the beginning of 1868, has just been
published From this it appears that there are
still $685. 1882 serfs not emancipated. The num-
ber of the emancipated serfs is nov 6,146,635,
including 1,16s, ,14O in Lithuania. Of these, only
$3.50 have obtained their emancipation by
voluntary agreements entered into with their
masters. The remainder have become proprie-
tors through the Intervention of the govern
ment, which has appropriated somc $500, ,OOO, QUO
for the compensation Of the old landholders.
The British navy for 1866, according to the
estimates just laid before Parliament, is to cost
s56, 900. The navy consists of SIX hundred
and twenty-four ships, including thirty iron
clads, and ffty-fvc thousand men are employed
to man these vessels. Yet, with all this enor-
nous force and great expense, the British navy
is unsatisfactory to that nation. The London
papers say the Admiralty itself is compelled to
admit that the ships of the British navy are
every way inferior to those Of France and the
United States.
"A letter from Pesth says that the daughter
of man employed IN the roads near that
city, and who resided in cottage between Alt
Ofen and Uernm, Las just confessed in fit of
remorse, that in concert with her father she
had committed not less than sixteen murders
during the last ten years, for the purpose oil
robbing tteir victims. Seven skeletons had al
ready been discovered by the authorities, and
information given BY the young woman had led
to the finding of the nine others.
Mr. Disracli has four dukes unde: him in
his ministry. No wonder he says he cannot
bring forward an educational scheme OF the
kind he would prefer. The marvel is that he
can drag these encumbrances along as fast as
he does. The dukes to whom we refer are the
Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Marlborough,
the Duke OF Montrose, and the Duke OF Buck
ingham--the latter real Plantagenet, whose
ancestors occupied themselves four or five hun
dred years in pulling out the teeth OF Alr. Dis
raeis ancestors by way o. extracting gold.
Hon. A. II. Stephens, since bis return home,
has expressed himself rs having been profound
ly impressed with the general quietude, not
only Of Washington City, but the whole North.
The Radicals, ne says, are serene in the con-
scious possession of almost, if not quite, abso-
lutte dominion. The Democrats are passive
under affections, deemed inevitable for the
present. and only hopeful of the future through
the irstrumcntality of peaceful ballot in No
vember Fighting is about the last thing
thought about on either side, tho one party
TRANQUILITY usurping every department OF the
government the other party tamely submit
ting, and, like Micawber, compiacently hoping
for something to turn up.
The New Orleans Bee says that the late
Judge Taney refused to receive sreenbacks in
payment OF his salary, Gil the ground that the
Constitution of the United States itself pro-
yides that ''the judges, both of the Supreme
and Inferior Courts, shall receive tor their SER
vices q compensation which shall not be
diminished during their continuance III Office.
This according to Judge Taney inhibited tho
Treasurer from paying him in anything else
than gold or silver com, or it's equivalent. Mr.
Chase was then Secretary of the Treasury, ant