The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-05
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and }c. better. Sales 6500 bales at 304c.
Tho Liverpool cotton market closed at
12ld for mddling upland. Sales $4,000 bales.
Dickens gets 100000 for one hundred
nights, his final readings in Great Britain.
1T is not the Hon. Tom Florence, but his
paper, the Washington Union, that is dead.
The Pope attributes his recovery to Bur-
gu ndy, which he now drinks exclusively. in
stead Of the Roman wine which he has always
taken heretofore.
The employing printers of New york have
not consented to give the increased price de-
manded by the printers, and are endeavoring
to obtain hands from other Cities
The New York World, according to report,
intends to assert its independence, hereafter,
of all political parties, and Marble, in buying
the whole of the paper, designs to withdraw
from merely Democratic influence.
The recent heavy rains have caused
rapid rise in the Savannah River. Latest ae-
counts received from the Augusta Bridge re-
port its height at twenty-six feet, only lacking
six feet to enter the streets Of the city.
a negro woman was found dead in Colum-
Lus, Georgia, on Sunday last, from starvation
and exposure. She had been offered work but
refused, rcmarking that as she was free she
should labor no more. The coroner's jury
brought in a verdict of death from sheer lazi-
ness.
Reports have been current for some days
past that Bennett has been negotiating with
certain parties, we'll known in journalism, to
dispose Of half of the New York Herald The
reason assigned is that he wishes to have some
one to leave the paper to after his death. He
has no faith IN the capacity OF his son to man
ago it.
Senator Sprague and his wife have Just re-
turned from visit to Moorehead Lake, Maine.
This is the headquarters of the Kennebcc Land
and Water Power Company. in which Senator
Sprague is largely interested. The party were
conveyed by relays Of horses to the camp of
the loggels, where they spent two days and
two nights, ''roughing it in the BUSH"
-Ex-Confederate General Jubal EARLY, in
letter to friend, says that he looks upon the
Christmas proclamation Of President Johnson
as final acknowledgment of the United States
Government, in all it's departments. or it's in-
ability to hold any of us responsible under the
constitution anG the laws as they were for our
resistance to it's usurpatons."
"A young man while being married was
shot down by tho brother. of his bride, on
Thursday evening. in the Town of Cornersville,
Giles County, Tennessee. He fell in the arms
Of the GIRL who, assisted by friends, convey ed
him to bed, where the marriage ceremony
was finished at her request. In few minutes
the newly made husband expired. The mur-
derer escaped.
1t is SAID that the Senate committee on the
Pacific Railroads, at their meeting on Monday,
nearly settled the details Of their new plan to
encourage other routes across the continent.
They will in future favor the guaranteeing of
the interest on first mortgage bonds retaining
the title to public lands as security for the in
terest, the proceeds Of sales Of such lands to
be devoted to it's payment.
The we'll known Planters Hotel in Augusta
owned and occupied as a hotel by Mr.. Il. 8.
Nickerson, was levied on and sold at auction
by the United States Marshal on Tuesday
There were but two bids made, one by Barnes
& Cumming Of $38 500. This was followed by
o bid OF one hundred dollars moro, and tie
building without furniture, fixtures or sup
plies). was knocked down to jacob r. Davis
agent, for the sum Of thirty eight thousand
six hundred dollars.
Two important opinions were delivered by
the Supreme Court on Monday. One of them
expresses the opinion of the court that by a
true construction Of the internal revenue law,
it was not intended to tax the incomes of per-
SONS other than citizens of the United States,
wherever resident, and Of residents, whether
citizens or not. 1t also limits the State jurs-
diction to impose taxes. The other decision
holds that the income tax is constitutional de-
fines it's nature, and lays down the duty of as
SCISSORS as to returns of income made in coin.
Tho German immigration to New York
hoa n ON ora flui in r,P otl,o
tonalty during the past ton years, and for
the last three years it has not fallen far short
of onehalf Of the total number Of foreigners
who have sought to find homes for themselves
in this country. During the time last men
toned the aggregate number Of German i'm
migrants foots up three hundred and thirty
thousand. These immigrants are heartily
welcomed, and as they are absorbed into the
great cosmic character Of the population of
the country their effect upon our industries
is advantageously felt For the most part the
Germans bring with them sufficient capital in
money to enable them to take care of them
selves until they can find work, and thousands
of them are skilled craftsmen in the various
manufacturing employments.
The telegram announcing that the Illinois
Legislature had seeded Chicago to Indiana"
turns out to have been rather extraordinary
joke. It seems that last Friday the entire
Chicago delegation Except two) went home to
spend Saturday and sunday, ON the plea OF
consulting their constituents about the lake
front and the park measures" Whereupon a
MIR. Cook introduced, on Saturday, bill "to
incorporate the Farmers Elevator Company.
and to cede the City OF Chicago to the States
OF Indiana and Wisconsin" which "amid roars
Of lauehter was read third time and pass
cd--syes 7S, nays g." And, having accomplish
ed this stroke OF facetiousness, the House next
incorporated the Illinois Elevator Company,
with powers fully defined in section 2, name
ly, "To elevate the shrt-collar Of the gentle-
man from Pike" And 80 on.
A S.n Francisco letter gives an alarming
account Of the ravages OF smallpox through
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