The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-27
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not very active Sales 1400 bales at 29a294c
Cotton in Liverpool closed easier but nc
lower. Uplands 11Bd; Orleans 12ld; sales 6,Ol
bales.
-Alaco dress which costs $4,000 in gold g
Brussels, appeared at recent reception i
New York.
A flag made entirely Of silk grown an
manufactured in California is to be raised owe
the capitol Of that State.
The Catholics OF Columbus have resolvet
to build cathedral to cost s25, 900, and tn
money has been raised.
The decision OF the North Carolina Su
preme Court adverse to the Chatham Road ap
preparation, has the effect to reduce the Stat
debt msny millions ofdollars.
No quorum of the Georgia Legislator
could be obtained the other day on account o
large auction sale of condemned government
horses, which was In progress in Atlanta.
The Mormons had an execution last week
The criminal vas brought ironed into the court
yard, where there was crowd of some fou
hundred, an ] seated in chair. he then rea(
aloud chapter from the New Testam, mt, tn
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from the sheriff, he was shot dead.
Some idea of the immense extent of tht
petroleum trade of this country may be form.
ed when we siats that the production for the
year 1868 amounted to 3,715,71 barrels, oi
which thsre were exported 2,6SO. .030 barrels
leaving for home use 1.O35 I'll barrels. Add to
this the decrease in the stock, 217, ,973 barrels,
and VIC find that the total consumption in this
country Of Pennsylvania oil in 1868 was 1,252,
1874 barrels; the production of West Virginia
and Ohio, about 125000 barrels; decrease Of
stock in the same States about 40 600 barrels,
making the total consumption of crude oil in
the United Stats DUNG the year 1868 about
l49.1S4 barrels.
The Nashville Union says: "There resides
On Hardin Like, twelve miles from the city,
Frs Dinah Yies, widow lady, who is now
yergipg on her ono hundred aud fourteenth
year. She is vigorous aud healthy and is,
though almost Incredible to relate. still able
to ride horseback and attend to her personal
wants. She has been married three times has
over four hundred descendants living, and has
been widow for twenty-three years. She has
one great-great-g' eat-srand daughter three
years of age. Then she has daughter named
Mrs. Sawyers, who is IN her ninetleth year.
Each one of her husbands served i'll tho revo-
lutionary war, for which she draws pensions"
The negroes and United State soldiers at
Jacksonville, Florida, bad riot on the night
Of the 3D. which resulted in one negro being
killed, one soldier mortally wounded, and
several eitizeps wounded. The negroes raised
difficulty with patrol of soldiers on the
night mentioned, and mo1tally wounded sol
der. The soldiers turned out to tie rescue OF
their conrrdes, and general melee ensu d.
About two hundred shots were fired. A num-
Der Of balls entered private residences and
wounded citizens, while some were also wound
ed IN the streets. The fighting was not con-
fined to any particular locality, but shifted
every few minutes, making all parts of the
town unsafe to Its inhabitants. The citizens |
took no part whatever in the affair.
There is great excitement III Washington |
over the preparations .or Inauguration. Every |
body is talking of the grand reception and |
ball, of the immense procession that is to es-
cort the newly installed President 10 his resi-
dence for the next four years, Of the Executive |
reception that will follow his entrance to that |
ancient mansion, Of what the President will do |
when he gets there, and Of everything that |
bears the slightest relation to the great day |
which will usher in the administration and |
the new disPensation. The hotels are already |
well filed and nearly every vacant room has
been secured in advance. The bail will be 4 |
mag n!ictnt affair, to which tickets are beng |
sold ut the tate OF one hundred per day.. 1t is
still racklng question whether n groes shall
be admitted. The New York Times advises
them to meet the managers on their own
ground ard treat the whole affair with lofty
contempt by refusing to patrou;1e 1t. By
takii 6 this course they may rot assert their
indetcaslb.c rights as American citizens, but
they will at least show that they understand |
come Of Tho elements of high breeding.
-rbe Washington correspondent of The New |
York Sun writes under date OF the 23l instant {:
"The silence which has SO long bceu preserved |
by Genera! Grant relative to his Cabinet was |
broken to day by his voluntarily speaking to |
several friends of his future intentions as to
the War and Navy Departments. He said that
General 6chofed had taken the War Depart
ment at his personal request, TO keep out
man VIII m he could not have got along with
had not General Scho6eld accepted ii. and that
he should reuominate him us Secretary Of War,
not with intention of having HIM remain per-
but As complimentary az On idle
for he considered him the best
man in the country for the position. lie said
ne should ask senators to con6rm him. with the
express understanding that hc should remain
but few weeks. There were some changes which
he desired to make in the amy, and he could
better make tn m with General Schofoa in the
War Department, and when, added General
Grant, what have in my mind is accom-
plished, shall send in the name Of an eminent
civilian upon whom have fixed to tako Scho-
ield's place. He continued that he did not
think any officer OF the army or navy shou d
hold civil Office. as 1t wou d be the mea 8 of
politics into the army and navy
thing winch he earnestly desired to avoid; and |
under no other circumstances tran the pres
eut, IN General Schofelds case would he nomi-
nate all officer even for dry. Tins will ena-
BILE al official Cabinet makers to leave the
names O. Porter and Sohofeld off al future
slates fur the Army aud Navy Departments.
he remarked iu reference to direct question