The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-15
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Cotton closed on Saturday in Liverpool ut
uplands 12sa124d.; Orleans 12aa12ad Sales
1000 bales. e
Miss Maggie Mitchell is building thirty
thousand dollar house in New York.
Within the last six months two thousand
persons have died of smallpox in San Francis
co alone. rs NI
"A locomotive which is put in motion
without steam or compressed air, is on exhi-
bition in New York.
Tho Social Equality BILL" placing the two
races on an equal footing. has been passed by
the Louisiana State Senate.
"A Paris shopkeeper has been fined for ex-
hibiting goods in his window marked at o
lower figure than he would sell.
The Spanish Provisional Government is said
to be twice as cxtEaHagant as Queen Isabela's
was, and the people are grumbling.
President Roberts, Of Liberia, dined at
Senator Summers last week, the first time
colored man has sat at o senatorial mahogany
Tho Norfolk Virginian claims an area of
six hundred and forty thousand acres of s'oys-
ter rocks" in Virginia, Yielding an annual rev.
enuo Of s1O,O0O,OOO. y
The relatives Of Atzsrodt lately made ap-
-
removing his remains to the family burial
ground The President granted the request. \
England is now paying SIS, 600, 900 year for
her standing army. 1t is 10 reduce this ex-
penditure that all the British regulars are to
be withdrawn from Canada carly next summer.
.E5-One of the editors Of the Montgomery
IAla) Mail was recently sent to prison for re-
fusing to serve as q juror, the court declining
to accept his plea FOR exemption that he was an
attorne y-at-law. ia&
Louis Napoleon will enter upon his sixty.
second Year next month, and the Empress in
August will celebrate her forty third birthday.
They both look young for their years, in spite
of the cares OF State. 81. .
Greece has sent an answer to the peace
conference, giving her adherence to the peace
protocol So Crete has yet to await her day
Of coveted escape from Turkish rule. The
Russia in tho promises. s
The friends Of John c. Braine, the alleged
Chesapeake depredator, are using their utmost
endeavors to have him released. He is confined
in the county Jail in BROOKLYN, New York,
and has become mere wreck of his former
self, being afflicted by disease aud compelled
to go about on crutch. h@
-Galignani says that, through the efforts
of General Dix. Americans will in future be
4, allowed to enter, live in and leave Franco with
out passports, a remarkable concession enough,
considering the combustible character that
attaches to some of our wandering citizenship.
Americans arc now free Of most European
kingdom, with the notable exception Of the
cCzar's territory. And yet Russia is the pow
or towards which free American sympathies
ilogically tend-a striking illustration that ex-
tremes meet 4 sssf
"A Washington dispatch of Friday to the
Baltimore Sun says General Grants pur-
pose with regard to- his Cabinet has at last
been divuIged. It is reported to-day, and
upon the very best authority, that the first in
fimatiop any one will receive with regard to
his appointments will be in the official COM
munication to the Senate on March 5th. If
his appointees are confirmed their names will
be announced if they are rejected, he will re-
quest that no announcement be made. The
scores Of members who are anxious for Cabinet
appointments are not at all pleased with the
we'll understood purpose of the President in
this respect" l .s5.s H
"A Washington telegram, Of Friday, says:
: Tho committee on invitations and sales OF
tickets for ths inauguration ball, it is said,
have not taken into consideration the question
whether colored people shall be permitted to
participate in the entertainment. They have
Intentionally avoided all discussion upon that
perplexing point. and mean to sell tickets to
everybody who will buy. and let the matter in
dispute take care Of itself. There are those
xUho r,lo - H.
committee take ground on either side of the
question before the ball takes place. In that
event it is thought that vote Of the committee
will decide against the admission Of colored
people" . ,ss
@ Under the head Of "Reticent Visitors" the
Jacksonville (Fla.) Union says {: ssSeyeral Gu
bans arrived in this city on Thursday morning
last, a part Of them registering at their hotel
from New York and others from Honduras.
They were very gentlemanly, well educated,
and conversed freely upon general subjects.
but nothing could be learned from them as to
their business IN this CITY. On Sunday morn
ing the party was increased by the arrival OF
twenty-three others, making in oil about forty
five OF them. registering from Honduras and
Havana. Immediately after they had break
tasted, the entire party sproceeded to Dibble's
wharf, where they were promptly met by the
steamer Henry Burden, which they had
chartered for Nassau, N. P. The whole
company were very reticent, and nothing
was known concerning their destination,
previous to their departure, except by the agents
OF the steamer and the custom house officers. u
The Savannah Advertiser OF Saturday adds
s'A small craft left this port, or rather was to
leave to-day, about whose movements some
suspicious might wen be entertained, she be.
ing pierced for two gums and about to sail ION
o cruise We learned from a. gentleman Just
from Cuba that above two thousand mon had
already landed on the island from various
Southern ports, and that numerous expeditions
OF moreer less importance were under way"
2s3" "A New York letter says Of the late James
II. Brady: ''The last time that saw Mr.. Brady
-yvoa when in corn nv with JohY, m Hnffoay