The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-26

Hotices. 40 cents line. Marriage and Funeral NO
iises, One Dollar each.
VIEWS SUM MARY.
Gold closed in New York on Saturday &C
tive at ss9ss8a. =
.,s- q Cotton closed steady; sales LOO bales al
in liverpool on Saturday cotton closed
firm; uplands 12fd.; Orleans 1Sa13td.
-Twenty-three States have adopted the
fifteenth amendment. Four more are required
to makevitj q part Of the constitution.
There will be four negro members in the
Virginia Senate, and fourteen in the House.
Two Of them are Conservatives, and the rest
are Radicals.
Senator Cole, Of California, thinks that
Mexico is the destined goal Of AsiAtic emiSra-
tion on this continent, and wants it diverted m
that direction. --------
"a correspondent Of the Auti-sisvery Stand.
ard calls on, that Journal tonote the fact that
tohl Browns Hymn was entirely omitted from
thsPeaee Jubilee programme.
DIR. Mettauer, OF Macon, Ga, bad terrific
haud-to.handA fight with 4 oolored higbwayman
the other night. he succeeded in planting a
knife blade in his antagonists shoulder.
The best Grafton at the, recent commence
msnt Of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.,, was
delivered BY W. Byron Buckingham, Of Barn
well County, 8. G. His subject was. 1gnatius
AoyelA.2. = - -. :; -, - 80 q
" The .oolored mechanics; Of Baltimore and
the State Of Maryland are organizing into
trades, unions and Ssocieties or their own, as
the white men refuse to admit them into their
unions. .... -ii-;
The Supreme Court OF North Carolina has
Just 1decided that intermarrisge between q
msmber Of the oolored race and member OF
the white tace is unlawful, and therefore veid.
according to The laws Of the State.
.a-Captain E. G. Barney, agent OF the Selma,
Rome and Dalton Railroad, has sold, condition.
ally, twenty thousand ae:es OF land belonging
TO the railroad, and lying in Calhoun County,
Ala, to q company Of one hundred and sixty
Belgisn fsmites.
Secretary Boutwell,, the other day, in
answer ID An inquiry when he intended to
make another sale Of gold, replied that he did
not know whom another sale would be made,
butthst be was not inclined to sell gold until.
the premisms shall be greater than at present.
"A 1oolofed man named Francis Grant, an
employe at the brick yard Of Messrs. LaRoche,
Chsppeii Co., near Savannah, ascended to
the top OF the kiln on Friday last for the pur-
pose Of lighting his pipe, and while there was
struck BY lightning and instantly killed. y.
The agents Of the Government Of Brazil
having promised to the American emigrants
who. went, there great quantity Of scres.
rations and supplies generally, It seems proof
OF fbaseness and treaehery tha. in no instance
did The sovernmeht perform its contract Oae
Who started ous with three thousand dollars
came, ,bank slthout penny. -
q IA feassessment Of the income lists Of the
eitismsI Of Waxhinx.on has been ordered by
the Reyeaue Bnraan. occasioned by the nune-
rous coApAints % false returns, aud numbers
of charges hst wealthy people hare made no
refprns ffr at alI IT isnot improbable that simi-
shr ordsrs wiH be;issued to theessessors Of oil
the principal cities ofthe oonntry.... -
The announcement ofsu express train that
.shafl run from Liverpool to London in four
hours ia remarkable event. The distance is
two hundred miles, and in order to make the
fifty miles per hour it will be necessary to
make it q through train-that is, to allow no
stop between the two places The necessity OF
stopping for water is obviated by mechanical
means. a.
The discussion Of the raturps Of incomes
by citizens Of New York, has brought to the
notice Of the revenue bureau some remarkable
facts. One merchant on being overhauled as
found to have evadCd the tax to such an extent
that hs owed the government seventy-si1
thousa I'd dollare, and had to dlssoree; another
owed twenty.slx Thousand dollars several had
evaded to the extent of twenty and twenty-five
thousand, aud so on for quantity.
"A brilliant meteor, Of an emerald green
color, and apparently as large as the moons
s,mi-diameter, was seen IN New York on the
evening Of July 20, at 9 hours IS minutes. 1t
moved slowly into sight AZ point in the north
q east about forty five degrees above the hori-
.spn, and after passing for FIVE seconds With its
train Of red, yellow and blue, over an arc OF 80
degrees, in direction north by west, it sud
denly disappeared. This meteor is reported
10 be very remarkable, rs it cast deep shs-
dow even under moonlit sky.
: The first suit for divorc, from Mormon
has been put on record. The Fourth District
Court iu San francisco recently granteda di-
yorce to young and beautiful lady who was
married to Joseph J. Smith, Of Salt Lake City.
The lady testified that Smith In deacon in the
Mormon Church. and that he always treated
her kindly, they having lived pleasantly to-
sether for several years. Recently, however,
Smith concluded to have q second wife to
which Mrs. Smith objected, and so when the
deacon took home his new bride, wife No. l
returned to her mother.
Prom the time OF Peter the Great up to
about month ago. the priestly character has
been hereditary in Russia, and the Lev1ticai
caste 30 formed has increased in numbers and
poverty until it came to number with its fami-
lies nearly 100000! This hereditary character
the Gear has abolished. A ukase prepared in
silence. and Unexpectedly published, entirely
: changes an institution which h 8 hitherto been
the mainstsy OF autocracy. Vested interests
are carefully respected. 1t born Of priests
and deacons the children o. the clergy will
..s...t, he ya tbo anciaI ,,neItion of gentrv