The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-02
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,.,as 11,d. Orleans 11Ed. Sales 5000 bales.
Miss Augusta M. st. Clair, the lecturer,
died al Salt Lake Thursday.
.-..He has hay-seed in his hair yet" Is the
Nav York slang for a legislator whose vote
can be secured by strategy instead OF money.
IT is now evident that Aenard, the color
ed member elect from New Orleans, Will not
get seat in the present Cnngress.
The new amendment to make negro sui
fraee imperative on all the States, passed the
Honse on Saturday by large majority.
DIR. French, who recently figured largely
in Charleston, has absconded from Winning
ton. N. c., leaving his debts unpaid.
TT ia asserted that one ofthe very first OF
General Grants official acts as President Will
be to order General Sheridan to the command
of'the Department of New Orleans.
George Alfred Townsend says That as late
as 1861 Forney was on tho point ofturn'ng MN
off his newspaper for publishing, as reporter
an encouraging account OF the 1ree netfo
population of Philadelphia.
"A iury in New Orleans last week rendered
a verdict of SIS, 900 against the Carroliton fa'i-
road Company in favor of lad olGht years
old. who was ran over by one OF their trains
and so severely injured that both his legs had
to be amputateo. III
john N. Langston, IA negro) of Ohio, Will
be an enp,icant for the ministership to Haytl
under Grant. This is tho Same position Offer
ad him by President johnson, but declined Tor
The reason that he would not dim his political
prospects bv accepting an Office under the pre-
sent administration.
The Manchester Examiner says that the
proposed ton per cent. reduction OF wages IN
the cotton trade is causing some commotlon
among the operatives in the neighborhood OF
blackburn. ED efforts ace being made ON their
behalf to obtain, as ap alternative, the adop-
hon of Snort time.
Tho real estate owners and agents IN
Washington have society. They furnish to
ZACH other list of bad tenants. telling how
thev use and iea-e the houses they occupy,
how much they owe, where they live, who
thew are, &C. The society members refuse TO
rent to q tenant who has defrauded any one
of their number.
At latest accounts Mr.. Cushing had LETT
Bogota for Panama, and it was expected that
he would leave the latter place for New York
bv III. steamer of this week. His mission IS
understood to have been an entire failure,
owing. it is sald, to the inherent jealousy snd
suspicion tinging the minds of the natives
when any proposition tending to the develop
ment of their country is made by authorized
agents of the United States.
"A Washington telegram OF Saturday SlEs 7:
ssThe Reconstruction Committee held meet
ing this morning and examined one witness
relative to affairs in Mississippi. Ihs COM
mittee will next week take final action upon
the question before them as to the admission
of Virginia and Mississippi, and also upon the
resolution Of General Payne, Of Wisconsin, IN
structing the, committee to inquire into the
eligibility of the Georgia delega ion in the
House. 1t is thought the committee will re-
port aga inst the delegation and declare them
ineligible to their seats"
We see it stated that Mr.. s. N. Pike, who
some time ago bought the ma lhes between
New York and Newark, with the expectation OF
making large amount Of money by draining
and 1eolalming them, is now convinced that
the enterprise cannot be made successful, and
has paid to tho contractors for dyking them
large sum to be relieved f1om the contract. 1t
is said, also, that he was last summer onerea
six millions for his bargain, which he refused
to accept. Samuel should have remembered
the old adage about q shoemaker sticking TO
his last. Whlskev is his "best holt" as NasDy
says.
"A suit has just been tried in New Orleans,
involving the question whether party was
bound low by notes given for slaves before the
war. The plaintiff sod his plantation, with
about 600 slaves, some time before the war,
and notes were gwen as part OF the prlcc. Inc
iury stood eleven for plaintiff aud one for dc-
fendant. The Supreme Court Of the United
States. in the case of Mrs. Gaines, AGENT De 10
Croix, recognize d the liability OF defendant tol
slaves. The same point also came up before
tie United States Court in Texas, and was SUD-
mitted to jury of negroes, who wore emanci-
pated by the war; the jury found that their
own sale before the war was valid. The ques'
ton remains open, however, in New Orleans.
The New York Sun says: "Wc learn that
the Trlbure Association has insured the life ol
Mr. Greeley for the handsome sum of sl00,COo
Thus even the death Of the great pubhclst,
like his life, will be TO his associates source
of pecuuiary benefit, for it ccn scarcely be sup
posed that the property Of the Tribune car
be injured to that amount by his celsing tc
direct it and write for it. Indeed, if the loss
of his services were equivalent to 500 QUO, We
could hardly expect that his associates woulc
consent to his accepting the dignity Of Ambas
sador to London. 1t is reoorted that The pre-
miums on this liberal insurance, amounting tf
$1,000 o year, are to be paid in advertising
This shows what keen eye to business lh'
people Of New York possess"
1t was stated some weeks ago that th'
orders relative to Banks supersedure OF Gran
before the fall of Vlcksburg had been abstra CT
ed from the files Of the War Department, ant
that Stanton approved, if he did not actually
direct. the orders to be issued. Thereupor
stanton authorized public denial OF TIL
trnthfulpess OF the statement, and tho pres:
generally gave Stanton credit for truth. FIoE
day to day recently, however, tho facts hav'
gradually come out, and now we have tho CYL
dence OF Stauton's clerk that he sent tie or
ders to the telegraph Office by direction
Stanton himself There arc undeniable TACT