The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-28
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aSSb $50. q g-;
AT New York yesterday cotton closed
steady and unchanged.
The Liverpool cotton market closed ire
gular; uplands, 11ba12d.; Orleans 12ta12Ad
sales 5000 bales.
On Saturday New York policeman receiv
cd cable dispatch stating that a rich relative
i'm England died the day before, leaving him
$4,000 in gold. He promptly resigned.
DIR. George w. Howell, Philadelphia ply
sician, committed suicide on Sunday by shoot.
ing himself in the bathroom of his residence.
He was laboring under depression caused by
pecuniary difficulties.
The Observatore Romano says that Plus
TX is now engaged in negotiations with Gen
eral Grant, with q view to sending Nuncio to
Washington to represent the Court Of Rome in
the capital of the United States.
The appointment of Mr.. Simon Wolf, q
wealthy Hebrew Of Washington, to be register
of deeds for the District of Columbia, an Office
worth from $4,000 to $4,000 per annum, was
made, it is said, in Difference to that class OF
our citizens. ii,
"A few days since several distinguished"
colored men, Lieutenant-Covernor Dunn. Of
Louisiana; ox-President Roberts, Of Liberia;
BIssett, minister to Hsyti; and Downing, OF
Washington, we're entertained at the Union
League House in Philadelphia.
The cotton trade at Blackburn, England,
is reported to be in a very depressed condition
ne mills, including several of the largest,
arc entirely stopped, and others are running
short time. 1t is stated that the poor law
officials are overburthened with applications
for relief, and that the appointment Of sssist-
ant relieving officers Will be necessary.
Minister Hale having rendered his resig-
nation of the Spanish missioneat the request
OF the administration; and the same having
been recaiy gtEe State Department and &C.
cepted, tMa IRE OF confirmation in the Senate
OF Mn eSanfoy aa his successor, leaves the
mission vacant. General Sickles, it is positive
ly stated, WllIbe appointed by the President
as nninisteg to Spain to Gil the vacancy, and
conpais ioned accDrdance with the pro-
vision6 OF the amended Civil tenure act. ..r
TIE Everett Honss ana Metropolitan Hb-
tel, in New York. have backed down on the
question of receiving coiored guests. The
former took in dark-skinned hunt or for quar-
ters, and the latter suffered Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Dunn (dun-colored) to grace the regis
Ter with his name, whereupon he was assigned
room, with walters, &sD to make him at ease
bis inn. These hotels are in a fair way to
Increase their custom in the dark ine-if they
DO not charge too much. But they have set
opt in direction which, from the strong pref
udices existing In New York, will render re-
dnatjen OF fare inevitable. The Astor brayely
Sbnds by it's resolution, announced with un-
surpasssd brevity, thus Impossible"
The recent senatorial ti{f between Sprague.
or Rhode Island ,and Abbotta( (carpet-cagger,l OF
North Crrolina, presented some funny points.
'ssYou see," said sprague, s'Abbott is Yankee.
and he is sharp enough to know that it would
not do for him to 20 back to North Carolina
after having been called puppy dog here in
the Senate without some show at what they
call chiyalry in the South. Why. the very me-
groes down there would not speak to him. !"
N'The people ofmy State, said Abbott, "would
think very strangely OF me were to submit
taaey to the afHront Of Mr.. Sprague or any
ether man. 4 II were to lie under
this insalt my people would turn me out Of the
State whenever might show my face there
The tenth Provincial Council Of Baltimore,
convened to deliberate on matters Of Roman
Catholic discipline in the province and chiefly to
consider, the most efEsetual means Of carrying
into execution the DEGREES Of the Second Plenary
Council OF the Church in the United States,
which have been already revised and approved
by the Holy See, was formally opened on Sun
day-the Feast OF st. Mark-at the Metropoli-
tan Church, in that city, in the presence Of q
congregation crowding the Cathedral to it's
utmost capacity. Among the prelates present
were Right Rev. Bishops Lyn3h, OF the diocese
OF Charleston; Persico, Missionary Bishop in
the Southeast; Whelan, Of the diocese Of
Wheeling, Western Virginia; Mcesill, OF Rich-
ds:Nirginia; Wood, Of Fhiladelphia; Douaip
nee. oS SPittsburg; O'Hare, Of Scranton; Shaun
ahan, ,,ne Harrisburg; Mnller. OF Erie, Penusyi-
vania; Becker, Of Wilmington, Delaware; Glib
bons. Vicar ZAP ossolio Of North Carolina; the
Mitred Abbot. OF the Order OF st. Benedict,
and archbishop spalding, Of the archdiocese
OF Baltimore, Metropolitan 0f the Province.
MIR. Beechar's latest eccentricity 10 to take
up the cudgel for the practice which some
persons have Of dyeiDg the hair. The rever-
end noraliet writes to the New York Ledger
''If o man is young, and from some peculiari-
ty Of constitution, Or by reason OF sickness, is
prematursly gray, whether he shall dye his
hair or not is a matter OF his own. IL he win
100 the happier for it, let him do 1t. Ishiss vie
wiM love him any better, or IL she will be made
amy happier, in the name OF love let him dye,
Family happiness is great blessing to pur-
Gasase at so small cost as a bottle or hair diva.
Eut is is seem'y for an old man to put on the
appearance OF youth, and not to meet his fate
.bravely2 This iS aNquestion OF good taste. For
ourselves, we prefer gray hairs. A buckisla
old gentleman OF seventy Ave. returning every
month from his barber with glossy brown
i locks, is not our ssyle Of manhood. But IL he
aaikes n, he might do things FAR worse. We
aiasnirs the bravery In . woman by which, Of
&hirty-fves she carries EsT iochs full OF silver.
And yess III her happiness may be promoted by
hiding the early gray. we SEQ no reason fcr
critcism." .ss
1t is estimated that the winnings of Ems,
Baden, Wiesbaden, Hornburg, and Nauheim,
have amounted since 1850 TO an annual grand
fetal Of ~. .000, ,0eO francs. OF this sum HON.
burg, whore play goes ON all the year round,
.exeepting Sundays and s2ete days. (0fyiD1 a 10.