The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-21
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Gold closed in New York at 354.
Cotton closed in New York active and
higher, at 294a29A
Cotton in Liverpool closed steady at 11ad
for uplands, and 11sd for Orleans.
The Detroit Tribune calls Black Kettles
orphans "fatherless skillets."
An acute observer has discovered that the
Grecian bend is not INDUCED in by ladies' in
Strengthened circumstances.
Another English Roman Catholic prelate,
Or. Clifford Bishop of Clifton, is to be made a
cardinal
The Rev. DR.. Furman, Of South Carolina;
is to bo announced in this weeks Religious
Herald (Richmond. Va.) as one of the editorial
corps Of that excellent paper.
An English grocer has left $4,000 to
Charles Dickens, providing he will read the
SsTrial from Pickwisk'' to the grocer's family
once yearly until he dies.
Three explosions OF kerosene lamps in
New York City on Saturday night, chow many
more may have occurred that did not come to
the knowledge Of the police nobody can telD,
are tho sufficient comment upon the late
frightful report of Professor Chandler.
We learn that efforts recently made to have
a mail route between Fair Bluff and George
town, via Conwayboro', have been successful
and tho route has been established. We pre-
sumo it win beopened as soon as the postofh-
ces and masters have been designated and ap-
pointed.
Punch gives the following scene at coal
Dealers: Girl-Please sir, mother says what
is Goals now? Retail VcnderAOne and five
pence hundred. Giro, how dear. The
last was only one and two pence. Retail Vend-
-er-Very true; but you must know that
Goals is Goals now. Girl-O, won't mother be
glad; sho said the last was all slate.
"A recent English writer says that the dis
tinctive difference between on English and
purely Irish face is, that the former looks as if
the hand of nature had been passed over it
downwards when coming into the world, while
the Irish face looks as if, on that occasion, the
hand had been gently passed over the features
in contrary or.upward direction.
Intelligence has reached Washington from
an authentic source that the Spanish Govern
'iont is iayoraby inclined to transfer the is
land Of ,,nea q and tsst the
meet with fros>Ess y, .yss ~.
d. os,r people - pps q isSss S5js an
neA4i.oa az Cuba& The CONAN sSSsI Ion Which
Spain would part with tne island have not
transpired @
1t can be stated with authority, that the
President will soon pardon DR.. Mudd, one Of
the convicted conspirators The application
made in DR.. Mudd's behalf by the Conserva-
tive Congressman and other public mon. has
been successful, and the papers OF release are
even now being prepared, and in q day or two
will be published. That the remaining suffer-
ers will fail TO receive clemency may seem
strange, but the Executive custom is not to
issue pard2ns in advance Of applications, and
the other men do mot appear to haye the
friends in place who appeal ID their behalf.
That DR.. Mudd's release, however, will lead to
a successful ende&yor for the release Of the
rest is not unlikely. 'a4N,
The statements about the provisions Of the
Alabama claims treaty differ so widely that it
is impossible this morning to ascertain the ex-
act truth. One point not heretofore given is,
that twelve months are allowed for the ex-
change Of ratlfcations. This delay is taken as
an indication that our Secretary OF State and
Lord Clarendon have very little saith in the
chances Of their convention before the Senate.
A partial canvass Of the Senate sustains this
opinion. Five Of the seven members Of the
Committee on Foreign Relations are known to
be opposedto the treaty. This would insure
its defeat when brought by the committee to
the Senate for action. There is reason to be-
lieve that the treaty will be rejected within ten
days.
One OF the most remarkable snow storms
ever seen in the South. fell in Mississippi and
Alabama last Sunday night Cars which arrived
at Memphis from Huntsville we're still covered
with snow, although the day seemed quite
warm. In the region Of Huntsville, Alabama,
the snow fell to the depth Of ten inches, and
in some places, in the hollows and cuts of the
railroad, it had dritted to the depth Of three
or four feet, and the passage OF trains was
greatly impeded. At Holly Springs, snow fell
Monday night three or four inches deep, and
Monday following rabbit hunting prevailed
throughout the borders Of Marshall County.
At Vicksburg, where magnolias bloom and
orange trees smile in mid-winter, the snow was
over foot deep.
"A great and bloody battle, between Sheeri
Ali aud Abdool Rahman, the rivals for The
throne Of Afghanistan, is reported to have
taken place by the latest dispatches from India.
The former is q son and the latter grandson
OF the late Dost Mohammed, one OF the most
celebrated Princes OF Asia in the present CEN
tury. 1t is asserted that this victory win re-
suit IN the permanent establishment Of the ar,-
tEority of Sheeri Ali, who is declared partisan
Of England. Another Afghan Prince, who has
joined the Russian army in Central Asia, had
lately visited st. Petersburg. Asghanistan,
now contested by rival native princes, it is be-
heved by many persons, will soon form tho
battlefield between Russia and Great Rrita;s,
1t seems that the colored dressmaksr to
Mrs. Lincoln is not the only contemporary az
tist Of that class who seeks to turn q connec-
tion with conspicuous personages to good ae-
count by writing. A Corsican peasant named
Grisceli. who was born near tho birth -placss III
the first Napoleon, and In later wears became a