The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-01
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Gold closed in New York on Saturday

2s5c. Sales 1900 bales. -,
AT Liverpool on Saturday cotton closed at
1tad for hollands and LTD for Orleans. Sales
10000 bales.
The Grecian bend has reached California,
bnt there it is called the Pacific slope.
Mrs. General Grant is said to have the
smallest foot Of any lady in Washington.
,ia.::Florida has eighteen million acres OF land
snb,ect to location under the Homestead act.
THE failure of the Merchants National
Bank OF Little Rock, Ark, is announced.
IT is generally conceded that MIR. Blaine
v;,, be the choice Of q majority of representa-
tiyes for speaker OF the next House.
Affirm in Brookline, Maine, have shipped
to New York 10 600 pounds of founders within
the last four weeks: = :,
lager beer containing copperas and ale
s.doctt redn with salt, lime and alum are among
the latest adulteration discoveriesin IN New 1ork.
"A handsome set OF plate bas been present.
ed 10 Mrs. Abraham Lincoln by the admirers
of her husband aS Frankfort-on-the-Main.
a monument to cost $4,000 is to be erected
over the remains of Sam Houston, at Hunts
vile, Texas.
French citizens of New Orleans have sub
scrbed sos, ,0SO to the stock of cotton mill to
be erected in that city.
The report OF the Onieda Community
shows constant increase Of the cost OF living
for several years, until it averaged 81 80 per
week to EACH person in 1858.
The general opinion Of Congressmenis is that
the first session he next Congress, COM
mencing on the fourth of March, will not last
over four or five weeks.
Florida planters are preparing for planting
cotton largely this year. They think the unus'
ually cold weather there has destroyed the
oaterpillars.
Tho New York Fire Commissioners sre
emulatipS the vigorous measures taken by the
Board Of Health for the suppression OF 1.-THE H.
legal and dangerous traffic in kerosene"
The New York Express predicts prosper
GUS spring trade and an early commencement
of it, owing to the prospect of speedy opening
OF navigation.
Mr.. Manton Marble has bought out all the
other owners OF the World newspaper. and is
now it's sole proprietor. The price paid for one
.ouarter of the stock was one hundred thou
sand dollars, exclusive of any real estate.
A curious question is coming up for de-
cision in the Massachusetts, Supreme Court.
The contest is between the mother and the
af6anced bride of 8 gentleman wh> had in-
sured his life and assigned the policy first to
the young lady, and then, without her knowl-
edge or consent, reassigned it to his mother.
The mother asserts that an engagement Of
marriage does not constitute an insurable IN
terest.
"A Washington letter Gays: ut is finally
settled that we are to have grand inaueura-
ton ball in this city on the night OF the 4sh
of NJ arch, and this afternoon permission was
given to the managers to make use of the north
wing of the treasury building for that purpose.
This is the new addition to the building now
nearly finished. The supervising architect
says be can have the rooms ready for the ball
.by the time they a1e required. One Of them,
called the cashiers room,' will be, when COM
pleted, one Of the most elegantly finished
rooms or halls, if not the very finest, in tho
90 untry. Its walls are Of the richest italian
marble; he height Of the ceiling from The
floor is thirty feet"
"A distlnguishe French mronaut, NJ. Chcv-
alier, announces his intention to undertake an
erial voyage to Europe, starting from New
York next April OF May. N. Chevaior has
been more than ordinarily successful IN past
attempts. he once made the journey from Paris
to the Russian frontier, distance of over SOW
en- hundred miles in less than five hcura.
Upon another occasion he crossed st. Georges
Channel from Dublin, and has accomplished,
without injury, several ascensions III France
and Englands The trip across the Atlantic
suggested itself to him within the last year,
and like most men FOR whom dan or has sort
of fascination, his resolution to try this most
hazardous feat gathered strength from delay.
The air ship in which the experiment is to be
attempted is coufillngly styled L'Esperauce-
Its height is nincty-fve feet, its diameter one
hundred and fifty feet, and it requires one
hundred and twenty thousand cubic feet OF
gas to initiate it. Attached to the ship IS an
enclosed car capable of carrying about fifty
persons, with provisions for ten days
voyage.
The four colored militiamen connected
with the force stationed at Mlrlon. Crittenden
County, Arkansas, who perpetrated hendish
crime upor several women living in the v!cini-
ty Of the camp, were arraigued before court
martial on the 18th ult., and were convicteu of
the alleged charges, and shot by order Of the
court on the following day. The vote OF the
court in deciding the case Of all the parties
was unanimous fo- conviction. Upon the close
of the trial the criminals were confined to the
euardhouse and were allowed the company OF
the oolored ohaplalns connected with the force,
who administered religious consolation to their
troubled minds till the time arrived for their
execution, which was formally announced to the
prisoners hull hour previous to their death.
The intervening moments between the an-
nouncement and the tlmo they were shot were
of dreadful agony and wailing, mingled with
cries to the officers to abate their punishment,
and PRAYERS to the Giver of their lives for par
don and mercy. Their piteous and loud cries
rent the air, and were heard throughout the
ne,phborhood, sending chill OF horror to all.
The men and officers OF the garrison we're.
however unanimous in their condcm iation OF
the Outrage, and not word OF ofremonstrance,
or an intimation of resistance to The execution
of the 81 ntcnce of the court, Was heard. On
ILo,o,tro,y II woa fao rod nv the officers, from