The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-20
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Gold closed steady at New York yesterday
at $50.
The New York cotton market was dull and
Aaac. per pound lower. Sales 1700 bales, at
2s2a29c.
AT Liverpool cotton closed dull; uplands
on the spot 114a11a; afoat the same; Orleans
113a11ad. Sales 10000 bales.
= Peter McGregor, of Columbia, accidentally
shot E. B. Wells, OF that place, on Saturday
night. The wound is not dangerous.
"A Christmas goose, sent by 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 who never
wash themselves.
The Marquis of Bute has, says the West
minister Gazette, been just formally received
into the Catholic Church by Aioiisgnor 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 me asures.
The United States Senate having refused
to allow the use Of the capitol building for the
Inauguration ball, it is now suggested that the
place in which to hold it.
1t is reported that treaty Of an offensive
and defensive alliance has been privately sign
cd between the Gear and the King Of Prussia,
outside OF any interference on the part Of
Gortschakof or Bismarck.
An association, with ramifcations through
out Spain, has recently been organized, under
the presidency of the Marquis of Villuna, to
protect, it is alleged, the unity of Catholi-
cism, but in reality to pave the way for
pronunciamento In favor Of Don Carlos.
Maria Christina. Queen Isabella's mother,
says her daughters dethrone ment is her own
fault. She advised Isabella, many years ago,
to have Serrano and Prim court-martialled
and shot, and she positively refused to act
upon her mothers humane suge eestion.
"A Florence dispatch says that the riots oc-
casioned by attempts to collect the mill tax
have been renewed recently in various parts Of
the kingdom. Military force has been ffe eely
used in the suppression Of these disorders,
and twenty six Of the rioters have been killed
or wounded
A correspondent of the Columbia Phoenix
says that o 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 cotton to be delivered to
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, U. S. A., presented to Captain
Robert Creighton, late commanding the Bri-
l:c9,o D1lIc
the Royal West India mail steamship vene.
zuela, the superb gold medal awarded HIM by
joint resolution Of Congress for his gallant
services in rescuing the survivors Of the Ameri-
can steamship San Francisco. The presenta-
tion 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 OF number of
the officers Of Fort Monroe, several of whom
belonged to the regiment on board the San
Francisco at the time she foundered.
The Virginia committee in Washington has
not divulged much of the work it has accom-
llished in conferences with the members Of
the Senate and the House, but it is re. .,orted,
upon what is deemed good authority, that such
a basis of arrangement has at last been arrived
at as will be more acceptable to the Conserva-
tive than to the Radical people OF Virginia. It
is reported that the committee will not ask
that general amnesty be made the basis Of ad-
justment They are content for the present to
submit to the operation Of the disqualifcations
imposed 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
oil oh, for svcoto ~
stables and other minor officers, who are not
contemplated by the Fourteenth amendment,
shall be excluded from Office because of their
inability to take the iron-clad oath.
Tho Washington correspondent OF the
Boston Herald says: s'Surratt is now in South
America but will return here in month. +
learn from one of his friends that he has pre-
pared full and explicit statement of the con-
spiracy which resulted in the death of Presi-
dent Lincoln. In this he denies all knowledge
Of any assassination plot, but confesses freely
that Booth and himself and others were in
plot to abduct Mr.. Lincoln He declares that
assassination was never spoken OF to him, and
was not agreed on by Booth and Payne until
the night it 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 her knowledge, and says she
was simply the victim Of unfortunate circam-
stances and the Vaccinations OF the witness
Weichman, whose evidence, 1t will be remem-
bered. caused Mrs. Sur1atts conviction. Sur
ratt proposes to tell the good, bad and indiE-
ferent, and make oath to IL. He feels, it is
saids that it will be 40 impartial and straight
forward that it will be believed"
Congress as FAR behindhand with it's busi-
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 Marcn. Not one Of
the appropriation bills has yet finally passed