The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-28
NEWS sU M M A r Z

Sales ZSUU DaleS at ZlaAlac
in Liverpool yesterday cotton closed dull
but steady; Uplands on the spot ssd.; to arrive
9td.
Canada has adopted judicious severity
with regard to application for divorce. They
must give notice in the newspapers for Six
months before their application can be re-
ceived.
in New Jersey, strong effort is being
made to procure the passage by the legisla-
ture of a law to have vegetables in that State
bought and sold hereafter by weight, instead
OF by measure.
The Great Eastern steamship has been
laid up in idleness for several months, waiting
for some new Atlantic cable company to COM
mence operations, as that seems to be almost
the only business she is fitted for.
Manufacturing ls gradually extending in
the Southern States. The Mobile papers re-
port, with much apparent qualification, the
opening of new paper mill in Alabama, on the
line of the Mobile aud Ohio Railroad.
"A torrent Of boiling water burst up
through the shaft of an artesian well, which
was being sunk at La Crosse, Wisconsin,
scalding several men, melting off the snow for
some six acres and boiling things generally.
The Indians are lively in Texas. Flakes
Galveston Bulletin tells story Of German
whose horse became tired, and who was cap
tured by the red skins. They only aayed him
alive and then let him go. From the position
In which the body was found, it is evident tlat
the miserable man ran hundred yards after
this torture.
Another terrible accident is reported in
New York from the explosion of coal oil lamp.
It occurred about daylight on Friday morning,
in tenement house. The house was partly
destroyed; the inmates had narrow escape
with their lives, and some eight persons, near
ly all children, were badly burned. The ne
cessity Of the greatest care in the use of coal
oil cannot be too strongly impressed upon the
public.
in Arkansas, the Reconstruction Convention
having framed new State Constitution and
adjourned. General Gillem, commanding the
department, has ordered an election to be held
e. H--rl-~----r4or>- .~y~~l:--- - i,--t Uoiinti-
tuition, by the registered voters Of Arkansas.
beginning the 18th day Of March, 1868, and
continuing until completed. The election, it
will thus be seen, is 10 continue for an indeh-
mite period. Polls are to be opened in every
precinct of every county of the State.
-Advices from Mexico state that the Me1i
can Government has recognized the English
and Spanish debts, and that sinking fund
has been created for the redemption Of the
converted bonds. The revolutionists in Yuca-
tan hold possession Of the town of Tramal;
which was besieged on the 18th instant. Gen.
Alstorre expected the place to capitulate on
the 18th. number Of leading rebels, who
escaped from Sisal on the schooner Oriente,
we're driven ashore by two Of Juarez's gun
boats.
The life insurance business has grown
most rapidly in the United Stales. There is
scarcely State that has not one or more COM
panies organized; and in Connecticut we find
that the town Of Hartford depends for its busi-
ness almost solely upon its insurance compa-
MES. In New York, thlrty-fve years ago,
there was but one company. At the end Of
1856, there were twenty-five; and as the ccun-
try grows, and as people become more i'm
pressed with the necessity Of taking care Of
themselves and their families, we may look for
a prodigious increase in the years to come.
The Democracy of New York City are de-
lighted with the decision Of the National Ex-
ecutive Committee in favor Of New York as the
place for holding the National Convention.
They will now go to work and push forward to
completion the magnificent new Tammany
Hall in Fourteenth-street, in order that the
convention may hold it's deliberations there.
They intend also TO erect mammoth marquee
in Tompkins' Square, near by. tor the special
accommodation of the army Of outsiders, while
there ia talk OF having general illumination
on the evening Of the day on which the nomi-
nations will be made, with salvos Of artillery
every hour till midnight from Union Park to
the Battery.
The world, before long, will have enough
transatlantic cables to satisfy its wants.
France is about to have one; Spain is prepar-
ing to submerge another; and the latest news
from Europe says that Portugal is to have one.
The Portuguese Governr lent has given Mr..
Meddlicott, Lisbon merchant, and Mr.. Rum
ball, Of London, the right to form company
which shall lay down line from Falmouth, in
England, to Oporto; thence to the Azores, and
from there across to the West Indies, or to
some part OF this continent. This competition
will have the effect Of lowering the cost of
ocean correspondence, and merchants will
prefer the cable to the postofice for the trans
action of their business. The estimated cost
Of the proposed Portuguese line is sS,00O,0O0.
The Washington correspondent Of the Balti-
more Sun writes: ''The regret that the services
Of Hon. Reverdy Johnson have not been Sc
cured TO the State of Maryland by his re-elec-
ton is universal here among the Conservatives.
There has been great qualification afforded by
the report that it was probable that the Legis-
lature of Maryland would elect Reverdy john
son for the term for which Ex-Governor Philip
Francis Thomas was elected, and upon the re-
signation OF Reverdy Johnson of tho seat
he holds until March 4, 1869, would elect
in his room some senator who could aid also
BY his vote in checking the Eremoval Of the
President by the impeachment process. With
two Maryland senators in their places, the
President cannot be removed. Without their
aid it is claimed that the vote would be large
enough to secure ths result for which the i'm
parchment was designed.
The New York correspondent Of the Phil