The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-20
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Gold closed steady at New York yesterda

Gold closed steady at New York yesterday
atS5a.
The New York cotton market was dal and
Ia1c. per pound lower. Sales l7Oo paies' ~
283a29c. ,..a,
At Liverpool cotton closed dull; uplanas
on the spot 11la11a; afoat the same; orlea's
11aa11fd. Sales $4,000 baies.
Peter McGregor, of Columbia, accidentally
sbot f. B. Wells, Of that place, on Saturday
n;ebt. The wound is not dangerous.
"A Christmas goose, sent by a kind friend
to two prisoners IN Canada jail, was stuffed
with files and steel saws.
According to Figaro there are more than
twenty thousand persons in Paris VINO never
wash themselves.
The Marquis of Butte has, says the West
minister Gazette, been just formally received
iato the Catholic Church by Monsignor Capel
at Nice.
The emigration from Prussia has attain
ed such considerable proportions OF late that
the Cabinet at Berlin has given instructions
to impede it by all possible measures.
The United States Senate having refused
IN allow the use of the capitol building for the
inauguration ball, it is now suggested that the
Smithsonian Institute would be an admirable
place in which to hold it.
1t is reported that q treaty of an offensive
and defensive alliance has been privately sign
ed between the czar and the King OF Prussia,
outside OF any interference on the part OF
Gortschakoff or Bismarck.
An association, with ramifcations through
out Spain, has recently been organized, under
the presidency OF the Marquis of Vlliupa, to
protect, it is alleged, the unity of Catholi-
csm, but in reality to pave the way for
pronunciamento IN favor Of Don Carlos.
Maria Christina. Queen Isabella's mother,
saws her daughters detbrone nent is her own
fault. She advised Isabella, many years ago,
10 have Serrano aud Prim court-martialled
and shot, and she positively refusel to act
upon her mothers humane suggestion.
"A Florence dispatch says that tho riots oc-
casioned ty attempts to collect the mill tax
have been renewed recently in various parts OF
the kingdom. Military force has been freely
used in ihe suppression Of these disorders,
and tweDty-s of the rioters have been Killed
or wounded.
"A correspondent of the Columbia Phoenix
save that lot OF imposters and swindlers are
travelling through Edgefeld County. with
few articles of goods to sell and SAMPLES OF
other goods to be delivered. The correspond
ent says that they are really engaged in offer
ing Inducements for cottor to be delivered 10
them regardless Of title, and warns all good
citizens against them..
AT Norfolk last week, in compliance with
instructions from the War Department, Major
General Barry, q. S. A., presented to Captain
Robert Creighton, late commanding the Bri-
tish ship Three Bells, but now commanding
the Royal West India mail steamship Vene-
zuela, the superb gold medal awarded him by
joint resolution Of Congress for his gallant
services IT. rescuing the survivors fthe Ameri-
can steamship San Francisco. The presenta-
ton was made in the cabin OF Captain Creigh-
TOMS ship, in the presence Of large concourse
of the leading citizens of Norfolk OF the Bri-
tish Consul, Myer Myers, and ola number OF
the officers OF Fort Monroe, several of whom
belonged to the regiment on board the San
Francisco OF the time she foundered.
The Virginia committee in Washington has
not diyulged much of the work it has accom-
plished in conferences with the members OF
the Senate apd the House, but it is eJorted,
upon what is deemed good authority, that such
a basis OF arrangement has at last been arrived
L. ,.o.a 10 fba
tive than to the Radical people of Virginia. 1t
is reported that the committee will not ask
that general amnesty be made the basis of ad-
justment. They are content for the presentto
submit to tho operation OF the disquali1cations
imUosed by the Fourteenth amendment, and
by the laws of Congress made in pursuance
thereof; but all they ask is that the Legislature
may be prohibited from imposing any new dis
quail fcations, such, for instance, as that con-
stables and other mlnor officers, who are not
contemplated by tho Fourteenth amendment,
shall be excluded +. ON Office because OF their
inability to take the iron-cad oath.
Tho WASH naton correspondent Of the
Boston Heluld says: ''Surratt is now in South
America, but Will return here in month.
le arm from OF oil his friends that he has pre-
pared a full AID explicit statement OF the con-
spiracy Which resulted in the death OF Prcsi-
dent Liucoln. LII this he denies all knowledge
of any ass. lnaton pot, but confesses freely
that Booth and himself aud Others were in o
plot to abducl Mr.. Lincoln. Flo declares that
assassination was elAspokcu of to him, and
was not agreed ON by Booth and Payne until
tho night il took place. He further insists on
the entire innocence of his mother, maintains
that ev ry effort was made to keep the abduc-
ton plot from hor knowledge, and says she
was simply tho victim Of unfortunate circum-
stances and the Vaccinations of the witness
Weichlnan, whose evidence, 1t will be remem-
bered, caused Mrs. Sul.att's conviction. Sur
ratt proposes to tell the good, bad and indit-
!erent, and make oath to it. He feels, it Is
said, that It Will be 80 impartial and straight
forward that it will be believed"
Congress ls far behindhand with it's busl-
ness, and the disposition to push it forward
does not seem to exist. With the exception OF
the Appropriation bill. it is doubtful whether
measures OF great importance will be got
through prior to the 4th OF M1rch. Not one OF
the appropriation bills has yet finally passed
the House, and the Indian bill still hangs LII
committee, the difficulty being to know exactly
what Indians to appropriate for. These bills
I m l., .,,.;dorod or the, wheel5 of The