The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-27
NEWS SUM M4 II z.

VIEWS so II II 4 h I.
Gold ON the streets in New York, yesterday,
was quoted at 31{.
Cotton was quiet, with sales of $50 bales at
2s2a2sc.
No markets in Liverpool in consequence ol
the holidays.
There is over $4,000. 900 invested in mena'
geries and circuses in this country.
"A new Masonic temple was dedicated II
Richmond, Va, on Monday night.
North Carolina makes more money from
her peanut crop than from her cotton crop.
Mobile has just organized yacht club
and expects to invest heavily in aquatic sports
during the coming season.
The statue of Washington, which Butler
kidnapped from New Orleans, has arrived back
Aere and is exhibitedat an agricultural fair.
Hundreds OF United States soldiers sta
tioned in Dakota are said to be married to
Indian women, who make faithful and indus
trious wives.
"copper" ole of great richness is being found
in Rowan County, N. c. Specimens have been
brought TO Raleigh. which contain folty-hve
per cent. of pure metal.
The committee on mines of the Richmond
e<Eaa. Chamber of Commerce is gathering and
compiling statistical and general information
of tho ::inine interests Of the State.
That incorrigible old wag, Prentice, says !:
nGeacral Lopgstreers cause was defeated in
thTs:war. BE accepted the situation. He has
been offered the New Orleans Surveyorship.
Again ..c accepts the situation"
"A Ill for meeting in New York, to ex-
press :npathy for the Cubans in their present
strugg..,, appears in the New York papers. The
sieners are W. c. Bryant, Henry Ward Beech
er, c. A. Dana, J. G.. Bennett, Geo. Wilkes. g.
". Curtis and others.
"A proposition to encourage immigration
into Kentucky was defeated by The Legislature
ON the avowcd ground that such q measure
would finally have the effect to overturn the
existing political supremacy of the present en-
lightened lawmakers of the State.
Whilst the Maine Legislature vas recently
debating the bill fer the abolition OF capital
punishment, an amendment was propo that
previously to the hanging of criminal chloro-
form be administered to linn. This was vehe-
mently opposed, "because it was dangerous to
life" and finally rejected. .-.---,-.-
The New York Herald Of Wednesday, IN
u0r10Ipg cvnaitian of the-s stack market ON
the previous day, says: Southern securities
were dull, except South Carolinas, which ad-
yanced about one per cent, owing to the adop-
lion OF legislative measures looking to the
payment Of the next quota of interest"
The White Pine silver excitement ID una
hated notwithstanding bitter cold weather
and heavy snow storms are prevailing there.
The rush of people thither is increasing, and
new and rich discoveries are daily reported
Hundreds of companies are already incorpora-
ted in San Francisco to work the White Pine
mines, and are still being formed at the rate OF
three to FIVE per day.
Some of the principal banks in New York
City are going to change from the National TO
fhe State system, on cccount OF the new law
forbidding national banks to certify cheeks IN
advance OF actual deposits. The requisite pre-
liminary steps have already been taken by the
c;tv Rank. the Fulton Bank and the Bank u
North Ameri ca, and other banks are consider
ing the propri ETY. Of doing the same.
The Ritualists at st. Adams, Christ Church
and the Church of the Annunciation, New
York, it is said, have arranged to introduce
.vsrious new ceremonies on Good Friday and
Easter, which have heretofore been practiced
only By the most advanced OF that school IN
England. Bishop Potter, aware Of the fact, Is
said TO have addressed private remonstrance
10 the respective rectors, with what effect re-
mains to be seen.
"A yery sensible movement is on foot IN st.
.Tou;s 10 call an Irish National Convention
OF delegations from the Irish religious bene-
VIOLENT societies of the United States, the OBJ
ect being to form central bureau IN New
York. with auxiliary societies IL rough all the
States. for the purpose OF furnishing aid and
information to Irishpen in regard to the price
of land. labor, &C., and to render any other
assistance necessary to procure the benefits OF
Irish emigration.
A New York letter of Tuesday says: sit is
stated on what ought to be reliable authority
namely. that of some of the Cuban Junta here
that not few of the officers who went to Cuba
in the Henningsen expedition are from this
city. They are good politicians as well as
good soldiers. Making no doubt of the ostab-
Ishment OF Cuban dependence, they expect
to return to the United States senators and
members of Congress. and so have deemed 1t
best to be on the ground early"
1t is stated in recent letters from Havana,
that notwithstanding the insurection in Cuba,
no failures of any consequence have yet occur
red in that city, and that the notes OF the
Spanish Eank can be sold at slight discount
for gold. Tho market price OF the shares,
however, has declined from fifty per cent. pre-
MUM 70 five per cent. discount, while the
shares of other banks have experienced o SINH
lar or greater decline. All kinds ofrealan per-
sonal estate have declined in price. Houses in
Havana, which would have sold for $4,000
wear ago, can be bought for $1,000 now. and
even at that rate more sellers than purchasers
are to be found. In the interior towns the re-
tail mer chants have generally closed up their
business. and the retail traders in Havana,
it is asserted, will soon be obliged to follow
their example. The poorer classes have no
money to spend, and The wealthier ones are
endeavoring to provide for the exigencies OF
the future by reducing their expenditures 10
the lowest possible limit.
Another disconsolate lover has committed
murder and suicide in Newark, NJ. HIS name