The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-03
NEW 8 s U MI M A r z.

In Liverpool cotton closed yesterday at q
decline of Id. Uplands 3D..
The fishing season is about to commence
on the Potomac.
The Southern Accident Insurance Com
pany of Lynchburg, Va, has determined to
wind up.
Mrs. Stanton Is publishing series of ar
ticles about the ''strong minded women OF the
Bible"
"A Boston paper intimates that since free
soup was introduced in that city, the deposits
in the savings banks have increased.
The municipal election In Cairo, ILL.,, on
Wednesday, was carried by the Democrats by
ever two hundred majority. The present mayor
of Cairo is Republican.
Alexander II. Stevens is receiving the cor
dial hospitalities Of Boston citizens but all re-
ference to the civil war is studiously ignored
on both sides.
in MIR. Bingham's bill removing disabilities
from certain Southerners, not one OF them has
any title except Longstreet, who is spoken OF
as General James Longstreet."
Iowa has three women editors-Mrs.
Money. of the Jefferson Era; Mrs. Hartshorn,
of the Corydon Monitor; and Mrs. Mary Read,
of the Wright County Register.
Seven hundred and e;ghty-three petitions
in bankruptcy have been filed in Virginia since
the law went into effect. Of this number not
more than ten have been by creditors.
The Mardi Gras celebration took place at
New Orleans on Tuesday, and professions,
balls. and parties we're the order of the day
and evening.
-Nitro-glycerine has been used in firing the
blasts at the Hoosac tunnel, and with most
satisfactory results. Its explosive force proves
to be FIVE times that Of gunpowder.
Rev. DIR. Sears, agent of the Peabody AS
sociation, addressed the common council OF
Petersburg, Va, last week, and made dona-
tion of $4,000 for the benefit Of the public
schools.
Tho admission Of q negro TO membership
in the organization known as Good Templsrs,
has created schism in the lodge at Spencer
port. N. Y. Msmbers were about equally divid-
ed on the question.
AS an evidence that it is possible to &C.
ceptably fill an Office in America for q long
time. it is announced that Samuel Livermore
has been postmaster at Fluvsnna, New York,
for forty-one years. His bondsmen who pledg-
ed themselves for his integrity in 1877 are
alive, and remain his securities.
"A National Fair, under charge Of COM
mittee. OF whom the President is Mrs. Lieuten-
ant-General Sherman, is to be held in New
YORK on the 14th Of April, for the relief OF des-
titute widows and orphans of soldiers and
sailors who lost their lives in the service OF the
country.
The New York Herald's Washington spe-
cial claims that Messrs. Trumbull, Fessenden,
Anthony, Upton, Sprague, Van Wrinkle, Wiley
and Sherman, Republican members, will vote
with the Democrats on the impeachment ques-'
ton, and that impeachment will be defeated In
the Senate, as there is no charge on which TO
base conviction, and fears are entertained that
the measure will be unpopular with the people.
"A paper mill at Petersburg, Virginia, 1t Is
announced, has an agency in New York, and
supplies several OF the daily and weekly pa
pers Of that city. The waste from the cotton
mills and the rag stock from Virginia and
North Carolina, which has heretofore found
market in New York, is now worked up at
Petersburg, where good soft water Is abun-
dant. The proprietors claim that they can
land paper in New York and compete with any
Of the Northern mills.
The Senate consists Of forty-three Radicals
and ten Democratic Conservatives. BY pro-
vision OF the constitution 'no person shall be
convicted without the concurrence OF two
thirds of the members present." which, in the
present case, would be thirty-six, 80 that the
Radicals have enough votes to insure the con-
yiction Of the President and seven votes to
spare, if every Senator who was elected as
Radical shall allow his political hostility to
President johnson to overcome his sense OF
duty.
Governor Ward, of New Jersey, has vetoed
the joint resolution withdrawing the consent
OF New Jersey to the proposed constitutional
amendment. He says the resolution has no
validity; the ratification having been already
made, no further action can be taken by the
State, except the matter be again submitted
by Congress. No time was setby Cong. ess for
the ratification by sufficient number OF States;
and, therefore, New Jersey cannot avail herself
Of any right to Withdraw because of the delay
by other States. The veto Was read, and by
the constitution lays over one day.
The grand jury Of Baltimore having asked
instructions as to whether they should take
cognizance OF the publication OF The flash
weekly papers issued in New York and sent
broadcast over the country, Judge Gilmor re-
Piled: 81 think it proper to say that do con-
slider them of q grossly obscene and immoral
character, and believing that the structures
passed on them are merited and borne out by
those instances SO brought to my knowledge,
do charge you that your duty is to present any
and every party of whom you may have evl,
dence that he is concerned in vending, pub
fishing or circulating such sheets"
An immense mass meeting of citizens op
posed to impeachment was held Friday even
ing at Cooper Institute, New York. James
Gallatin was president. Resolutions were read
declaring the present political crisis as fraught
with danger to republican institutions IN the
United States; that government by and under
q written constitution is the only safeguard OF
freedom; affirming the right Of the President
to remove members Of his cabinet; and de-
claring the attempt to deprive him of that
right monstrous perversion of the powers
conferred upon the House Of Representatives.