The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-23
N E VS. SUM MAR Y.

-C0tCOn In new 1OrK yesterday ClOSoC
steady; sales 22e0 bales at 2S}.
In Liverpool yesterday cotton close rather
more active; uplands 12d., Orleans 12Ad; sales
$4,000 bales. a.->
when Bishop Simpson presented cane II
General Grant, with complimentary speech
the General replied that he hoped he should
never have occasion to use tho cane, but if b,
ever took it with him, he would probably for
get It at the frat place he went TO-.
Tho Now Orleans Crescent says: s'The
number Of clerks out of employ in New Or
leans now is very large, especially in the dry
goods line. Half dozen were hired off the
! streets the other day to work as walters in one
OF our hotels, glad to get something to do to
get their bread" a %.f
-Hsheral Grants administration is making Q
deep Dent in the government. The Springfield
Republican says: sit would be useless to deny
that the Presidential appointments are made
and cauvassed at Washington in manner that
# does not strengthen the new administration in
the hearts of the people,"
The Senate Committee on Commerce. at
their meeting on Thursday, considered the
nomination of General Longstreet as Surveyor
Of the Port Of New Orleans. The sentiments
OF the committee were decidedly opposed to
confirmation Of men who bore so prominent q
q part In the rebellion" They decided to re-
\port his name back to the Senate for that BODY
to take such action in the case as they may
think proper. There will be strong opposition
made to his confirmation by Southern senators
as well as some from the North.
"A negro in the Helena, Arkansas. iai]
has confessed to being enc of nine negroes who
formed a conspiracy 10 bura th at town in Sc D.
tember last, in order to avenge the hanging of
negro for rape He also confesses that Gene
raj Hindman was assassinated by one OF his
fellow-eonspirators Three of the party had
gone to Hindmans house for the purpose @.
burning it, he having prosecuted the negro
who was hung. One Of the number seeinp.
Aindman sitting at q window, levelled q mus
ket at hiun and fred. killing him. The others
becoming frightened fed, and abandoned the
plot to burn the town. Five OF the nine have
been arrested and are in jail.
Fifty passengers from California and Ne
vada. over the Union Pacific Railroad, publish
8 letter in the Chicago Tribune, in which they
complain bitterly of the treatment they re-
ceived from tho managers OF the road while on
their journey. They say that although the
road was impassable several days before they
purohas I'D their tickets, yet they were left
without information Of the fact. They also
state that unnecessary cruelty was practiced
upon the passengers at different points BY
compelling them to occupy caboose cars, with
out are, and by forcing them to walk half q
mile or more at varIous Hmes, carrying their
baggage, to change from one train to another.
"A dispatch from Cairo, ILL.,, says as the
steamer Belle Of Memphis stopped at DarnelPs
landing, three men. named DarneIl, got on
board, armed with rifles, but looking in no
way suspicious. They told the captain to land
at Island No. 10. az another party wished to
come on board there. As the boat landed at
Island No. 10, three men by the na1ne Of Lane,
appeared on the bank, and ono came on board
with his rife. AS he started up stairs he was
shot dead by the Darnells, who then ran back
to the cabin deck and shot the TWO lanes dead
who were standing on the shore. The Darnells
then went on shore and called to the captain to
take good care Of Mrs. Lane, 90 she had been
psctsbly raised. The cause of the difficulty
8 not known.
There is an undeniable satisfaction in see-
ing bitter bit. young man has just been
arrested in Now York for curious kind OF
fraud which will open an interesting question
Tor the courts. He sent to various parties
carefully worded letter which would lead tho
recipients to believe that for Eve dollars,-or
A6ftsen it they preferred to send 80 much
They might obtain Rve hundred dollars in conn
teHeit greenbacks. He really promised no
}, sAoAs thing, and those who were criminal
1,eRough or silly enough to send the money re-
ceived Photographic copies of the notes circu-
flaAeaI IElth the psraaission Of the government
T. and onaeale everywhere for ten cents each, the
TERMS .9f the promise being exactly falfllod
with these cheap photographs.
rRteOpA e} the most anomalous and romantic
Incidents connected with the hunt for place in
! Washington is, that at the present moment,
aioukmgv6er an Office, are members OF family
living Just out Of st. Louis, who knew Mr..
Grant several years ago, when he used to haul
woods 9zom fythe city to the farmers in the
suburbs: The plea special which they put in
iss thstlen onenotable occasion Mr.. Grant car
riedsonae fHefto them, and that the mother OF
the household called him in the back kitchen
and carefuliya aaEned considerably diIapi-
datod overcoht Of the then teamster and now
President saince. then the family have met
with teverses, and hearing OF the 'sgreat Amer
icanl gift enterprise set up since March 4,
I nave sent ON several of their number for an
osace for the zhusband OF the lady who sewed
the historical garment several years ego.
The telegraph told us something about
the revolt -at che Sing Sing prison. It seems
that IA accordascet With the usual custom,
several conviots we're taken from their cells Of
an early hour to prepare breakfast. With one
keeper in advance, the party passed peaceably
through the chapel, but when about to descend
!, tho stairs. b conyict caught the keeper around
the neck, and the rest Of fig. party gathering
around him, pushr him down, and each hold
ms 9 different portion ps boay, g gag was
plsced in his mouth. ! The man tried to give
y some alarm. crying .Let ME go /" but an omi-
nous warning was given him., Asking that his
property might not be takenawsy he submit
tod to the gag operation. After having accom-
plished their purpose, placing him in their
arms, they carried him down the stairs and