The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-11
NE US s NJ III 4 r y.

Cotton in New York closed 1 lower ut 29e;
sales $50 bales.
In Liverpool cotton closed dull; uplands
1sa1e,d: Orleans l2la12sd; sales 5000 bales.
No first-class hotel in New York will re-
ceive colored guest.
-Louisiana proposes to license gambling
houses at $1,000 each.
"A law has been passed in Kentucky pro-
-hibiting marriage between first cousins.
An owl was recently captured in the main
top of the Cunard steamer Cuba in Jersey
CITY.
Blue coats with gilt buttons, and vests and
crayats of white satin, are the new style of eve
ming dress in Paris.
The North Carolina Land Company lately
sold twenty thousand acres Of land for $780,
600 to Germany colony.
Kansas boasts that it's salt springs are in
ce1haustible, and produce the purest salt to be
obtained in the United States.
All the fffcmen Of Chicago are insured in
the Travellers Company, of Hartford, for two
thousand dollars each, by the city merchants.
White kid gloves are no longer fashionable
for sull-dress occasions. Light yellow, cream,
or lavender are the "corre, t" colors now 10
vogue.
The State of Alabama gives five thousand
dollars to the widow of each person assassina-
ted in that State. Husbands are getting
anxious.
The Boston Transcript says Judge Hoar
would now be Governor OF Massachusetts,,
hid be consented to become candidate last
autumn.
Nike McCoole is getting quite aristocratic
since his marriage in st. Louis. His saloon has
been removed to handsome building in res
pee.able locality.
Congress and the Legislature of Massachu-
sets are said to be the only legislative bodies
that adhere to the old custora of engrossine
bills on parchment.
The City of Key West, Florida, is at pres
,ent literally overrun with Cuban refugees,
and every. vessel, steamer, yacht or smack al
riving flom Havana is generally crowded with
them.
1t is noteworthy that of the men selected
for the new Cabinet not one has achieved the
distinction of place in Appleton's ''New
AmerlCau CyClopdeule, VI Ill Ino iaIOoI oui-
tion of "Men Of the Time."
Never before the present time was wi ole
military staff of commanding General ordered
into the Presidents house as assistants, and
to execute the orders of the highest civil officer
Of the country. Spurs and epaulettes.
The immense Maxwell House, in Nashville,
which in it's unfinished condition was used as
.:,.I.- .kol fba 10 r1r
ready fur occupation. Its cost approaches s4Oo,-
600, end it is one OF the largest hotels in the
country. The lot on which it is built was
bought In 1880 for $11.
.ia-Richard Busteed suggests that fund be
established in the Treasury Department in
which the people, rich and poor, might be free
to give what they pleased to pay of the public
debt. He recommends that the volunteer ser
vices of the press, pulpl. and proscenum could
be brought to bear in aid Of the project, and
offers his own services for the purpose.
The New York Times, speaking of the ar
rival Of e1-Secretary Seward in New York, says:
ssHe proposes to make visit. before many
DAYS, to Aiken, South Carolina, partly for recre-
alton and partly to pay visit to MIR. Weed, OF
whose rapid improvement in health he receives
very gratifying reports. MIR. Seward Is unre-
served and mphatic in expressing his approx
al of the Cabinet selected by General Grant,
and his predictions Of the entire success OF
his administration"
"A. T. Stewart must have been very 10th
to give up the Treasury Department. He au-
,thorized the following statement to be pub
lished in the National Intelhgcncer OF Tuesday:
e"Mr. Stewart will not recede if he can accom-
.modate his extensive business connections so
as to obYiate The present difficulty; and In this
view he has offered to make an absolute trans
fer and disposition Of all interests and profits
which may be derived from carrying on his bu-
siness during his official term, the transfer to
be made to three eminent gentlemen as trus-
fess. who shall have the absolute disposal of
the funds thus acquired for the use OF public
charity in the City of New York; the trustees TO
select the charity, and to be absolute IN the
matter"
The Washington Star says: "It is ra-
ther singular circumstance that the d'ihculty
now existing in regard to the Secretaryshlp OF
the Treasury should also have been metin tho
experience of the late Confederate States Gov
ernmeut. It will be remembered that when
that coucern WIS set up the United States sta
tutes at large we're adopted and put in force
bodily, which, OF course, included the acts i'm
posing restrictions on tho Office in question
In time, Mr. Trenholm, one Of the largest
merchants in the South, was called to the
Treasury Department, and he filled the ofhco
for some time before his neligb,ity was dis
covered When it was pointed out he severed
his connection with all mercantile interests in
this country, although we believe hc main
tanned his relations with foreign house."
The spring elections throughout the in
terror of New York State show very CRAFTY
ino increase of Democratic strength. Pough-
keepsie has elected q Democratic Mayor, for
the first time in its municipal existence, by q
majority OF more than 200. Newburg has
heretofore been strongly Republican, eltcting
city officers OF that stripe, and giving ma
;ority for Grant fast fail. The Democracy has
now made clean sweep, electing the whole
municipal ticket except one Alderman and one
Supervisor. For the past three years tho he
nnblicans have CARED the City of Oswego. but
last week the emocrats elected their candidate
by majority the largest ever received by
= mayor in that city. Columbia County has
made gain securing two-thirds majority IN