The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-02
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Gold closed in New York at 31&.

Gold closed in New York at 31t.
Cotton in New York closed dull and lower.
Sales 700 bales at 294c.
In Liverpool cotton closed dull; uplands
LTD; Orleans 124d. Sales 5000 bales.
The Improvement of the ST. Johns River
bar is shortly to be commenced.
Mr.. Seward is the only Secretary Of State
who has served through the Presidential torn
since 1900.
Fred Douglass is advertised at Cincinnati,
Ohio, as s'the most intelligent colored man in
the world.'
Negroes are not to be admitted to the in
auguration ball. The committee have set
tied the matter finally.
DIR. Sears, the agent Of the Peabody Fund,
is now limited to 100000 per annum in his dis
tributions to eleven States, the time in which
the trustees were allowed to use the principal
having expired
Brick Pomeroy says that at the death of
Lincoln his paper had less than one hundred
and fifty subscribers, all told He now claims
a larger circulation than any paper in the Uni
ted States except the New York Tribune.
N. B. Forrest, having been elected Vice
President Of the Memphis Association Course,
writes q letter OF declension, in which he says
he has given away his stock in the Association,
and will not in future take any part in matters
pertaining to the turf.
1T has been found by experiment that dry,
pulver 5ed earth makes sn excellent dressing
for ulcers and purulent wounds. 1t not only
absolbs the bad odor arising from the matter
discharged, but SO ms to exercise healing in
fuence, causing healthy granulation to take
place and greatly diminishing the inflamma-
fo1l 10 trina hot Sc o1,s, oe IL
curative agent, it is discovery only exceeded
in importance by that of quinlne for fover and
ague ether and chloroform as anmsthetios, and
belladonna as a remedy fo1 scarlet fever.
The New York He,ald Of Saturday SAYS
southern securities were characterized by
strong undcrtone, doubtless the reflection of
the foreign advance in United States bonds.
Speculators are not slow to see the ultimate
effect OF this Improvement abroad and buy
ers' optlons' which are rather rare transac-
tions in such securities. are beginning to lind
place in the Isis Of sales. North Carolinas
were frmer in consequence of the Supreme
Court decision as to the Chatham bonds, and
Tennessecs through feeling that the admin
istration Of the acting Governor, who succeeds
Brownlow, will be opposed to further issues.
The market was generally dull as to the num-
Der Of TRANSACTIONS"
A man in New Orleans took out an acci-
dent insurance policy before starting on q
journey, and happened TO be killed by rail-
road accident. The widow, armed with the
newspaper report in which his n,me was mon
toned amorg the killed, presented herself at
the Office OF the company, but was informed
that more definite proof would be necessary.
''Why, OF course, he's dead said the bereayed
lady. THAT is possible" said the polite off,
cial, sand, my dear madam, am very cory
for it," Yer sorry, are you, sorrS?" .sOf
course am; sine rely sympathize with you
in your bereavement ''Yes, exclaimed the
excited and bereaved lady; that's always the
way with you men. you are mighty polite about
everything else, but whenever poor woman
gets chance to make little money, you're
only sorry" And the indignant lady lett the
room in search ofadditional proof.
In recent conversation, Genral Grant
said he did not like the present bonded ware
house system. He Thought that on the whole
it encouraged foreign manufacturers to send
hither all their surplus goods. to the exclusion
of our own, to be stored by the United States,
and kept ready for every favorable turn of the
market. He said. on the subject Of the in
crease Of his salary being mentioned, which
had been under discussion in Congress, II
shall live on what Congress gives me, spend
ing Of course every cent oft, and If more as
given me should spend all. have no de-
sire, and do not expect, to save anything from
:::y sa!a =, whatever it may be. for my kind
friends have plac mo in position which
leaves me free from all anxiety about future
want, or the wants Of my children. We shall
have enough 10 live on, and it is better for
them (meaning his children) that they do not
rely too much upon money"
The arguments Of the New York Times
against the Ttnure-of-office bill are almost as
forcible as those OF the Democrats when the
bin was passed. But 1t was another OK then.
It plaintively asks: "Why does not some sena-
tor bring in bill to abo ish the Office Of Pre-
sident and declare the Senate, or rather the
dominant party majority Of the Senate, to be
the executive power of the government It.
would certainly look better to do this than to
seek the same end by piecemeal legislation
and by practical construction. as the
Senate is nov doing;" and deliberately
declares in italics that ''The Republicans
in the Senate intend to control General Grants
appointments to ofice-the senstors from each
State taxing charge OF those within that State"
lOuSS IL CuuCuuOS, 40 oAO ibW SChuUb, We
shall have feeble, lax and inefficient admin
istration Of the OWL service, no matter who
may be Presiient;" and concludes with the
suggestion that ''ir the Senate had any proper
sympathy with this demand of the people. and
any due sense Of the necessity of this great re-
form. 1t would repeai ths obstructive and uu-
wise law and leave to General Grant the means
OF performing the duty imposed upon him by
the constitution, to 'take oare that the laws be
faithfully executed" Which was all good
some time since, and pertinent, but Andrew
johnson was President. The quarrel is q very
pretty one, indeed.
"A New York letter says Of the Chinese in
that city: 'There are in New York about three
hundred natives Of the Flowery Kingdom.
nearly oil men. A few Of them are married to
white women, just as few negroes are. but
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