The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-06
NEWS So M M a Ic Y.
Gold closed in New York at S5t.

Cotton in Few York closed less active anc
a shade easier; middling 3O3c. Sales S6Ot
bales. -
Cotton in Liverpool closed easier but MOI
lower; uplands 124d., Orleans 12sd Sales lo,
900 bales. =.
The "German is going out Of fashion II
New York.
-Brownlow pardoned three hundred con
victs last year. and is still at it.
The New York Times says: "Mossrs. Ma
son and Slidell will shortly return to this
country in company with Jefferson Davis
The entire Village Of Craieville, Orange
county, New York, with five hundred acres Of
land and a cotton factory, has'bsen sold fol
$4,000.
1t has been discovered that 81 600 600 oi
church funds have been loaned for speculative
purposes in Wall street, and that several
churches are mortgaged for the same purpose.
-Routledse Sons, the London publishers,
are said to have paid LORD Lytton sSO 600 for
fifteen years copyright OF his works, and have
lust extended their privilege for six and hall
years longer.
"A negro girl, aged eleven years, eight
months and eighteen ,ys, living near Pulaski,
Tennessee, a short time since, gave birth to
fem,le child. The mother and child are both
living and in perfect health.
a -Messrs. Charles Astor Bristed and William
Young are engaged in transatins Victor Husos
new novel, '.Dy order OF the King" which will
appear iii the new weekly paper to be publish
ed BY the Appletons.
Miss Katie Putnam disports on the bicycu-
lar vclocipede at the Davenport Qowa) Thea
tire. During the performance Kate wears a
bycicular garment. s'She makes the machine
zip" is the comment of the local papers.
The Prussian Militurv Gazette says that
tho German military organization IS now COM
plete. and that "a million of soldiers can, at
any moment, be placed under arms by single
telegram from Berlin
-Stka is said to bo nearly depopu:ated
Every one who vent there wanted to keep sa-
loon. There being no one TO pay for drinks,
where all we're barkeepers business became
dull, and now the emsrants are going back to
San Francisco.
"A company has just been formed in Balti-
more to build a new theatre for Mr. John L.
Ford. A lot has been bought at the corner OF
Baltimore and Paca streets t cost # $780,
600: Tho theatre is to be one Of the largest in
the Union, and viii front 154 feet on Baltimore
street and 176 feet on Paca-strcet.! q
-"General Grant," SAID distinguished lady
to the General the other day, rather confiden-
tally, 81 am just dying to know who the Cabi-
), &C. tl,ouoh - coi1 fbn
General. II am, indeed" said the lady; 'just
diving Of curiosity. Then the General, in
low voice, replied: swell, Madam, that is just
what sirs Grant says."
"A Washington telegram to the Boston Ad-
vertiser says: General Grant, in conversation
this morning, took square ground in favor OF
the principle OF impartial suffrage. He seemed
to have some doubt about the power oil Con-
gress to regulate suffrage by law, but said
that there could be no sound objection to sub
hitting constitutional amendment to tho
people. He spoke of the one passed by the
House on Saturday as embodying the right
idea, but expressed no opinion on the Ian
suage therein chosen. He said explicitly that
the principle Of impartial suffrage is. right in
itself, and added that as we have, through the
Reconstruction acts, imposed negro suffrage on
ON the Southern States, it is only fair that the
Northern States should give the ballot to their
own cololed citizens. Fe thought the ques-
tion at issue had better be disposed OF as soon
as possible, so as to take disturbing clement
out of our affairs, and indicated hope that
the amendment would be passed by Congress
before the end OF tho present session"
The irrepressible relict Of the la,e Prcsi-
dent Lincolu has again failed 10 enlist the
sympathies of Congress in her behalf. Tho
Senate Committee on Pensions do not consider
her proper object Ct national charity, and
in reporting against the joint resolution for
her relief, they say\so with as much bluutness
rs is compatible with common courtesy. Ac-
cording to the statement OF one OF the execu-
tors OF Mr.. Lincoln's will, he left to his family
property to the value Of nearly s1UuCW, to
which Congress has sincs added s25,00O as
free gift to the unfortunate widow. 1t is
thought that under these circumstances
she ought not to be in state o. des-
titutiop, and her plea for assistance in
forma pauperis appears 10 excite tie disgust
Of majority of the party to which her late
husband belonged. The Pension Committee
do not consider themselves authorized, G;i1cr
existing laws, to grant pension exceeding
thirty dollars FER moath, but with bitter
irony suggest that, if Mra. LIS claim Is on ac-
count Of extraordinary military or naval ser
vices, it had better be referred to tho military
or naval committee! This is the unkindest
cut of all, as it is generally understood that
the only services" rendered by the lady have
been to persons who had axes to grind at the
White House, and were willing ito come down.
handsomely for bacs-3sairs help in getting
them sharpened.
"A terrible tragedy occurred near Se4elis-
vile, Ohio, last month. One Thomas Carr
fell in love with daughter of his employer,
Miss Louisa Fox, and desired to marry her.
The young lady being but fourteen years old
the suit was denied by her parents, and Carr Mt
once determined upon murder. He procured
razor and started for the house of Mr.. Fox,
when he met Louisa on the road, accompanied
by a younger brother. Carr turned about and
they walked together. During the converse
tion. which ensued, tho girl told hun that her
grandmother, whose house she had just lett,
had told her that her parents had determined