The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-17
NEW IS s UMM RY.

Gold closed in New York yesterday at 33.
Cotton in New York was quiet OF 1880;
sales 1900 bales.
Major Charles o. Rogers, principal proprie-
tor Of the Boston Journal, is dead.
Miss Van Lew, of Richmond, has decided
" that her proper title is postmaster and not
postmistress.
The aurora borealis was very brilliant
northward. The telegraph lines were much
interrupted.
Count Bisma rck's two sons are 10 enter the
army. One is to join the Kings Hussars OF
Bonn, and the other the Lancers, now garri-
soned at Hanover.
In nearly all the North schleswig Parishes
the Prussian Government has substituted Ger
man for Danish Clergymen, and the Danes alb
stain from church-going in consequence.
Green peas. shipped from Charleston, s.
O., we're sold in New York last Saturday at
from 81 to Is per bushel; and lettuce from
Savannah, sod in New York for SIS so per Dbl.
Let us not despair Of the Republic. The
Imperialist. journal established ia New York
not long since to advocate monarohical form
OF government for this country, has died for
want Of support.
There is to be sharp struggle between
Chicago and San Francisco for the trade of
Idaho Montana, Utah and the White Pine re-
gion-a trade likely to add largely to the wealth
OF the city that succeeds in controlling it,
The spirit photographers are undergoing
a criminal prosecution in New York. 1t will
be remembered that they pretended to furnish
the picture Of q deceased friend whose shad-
'owy resemblance invariably appeared at the
shoulder OF the sitter, but was produced by or
dinary scientific means. They declined to
answer to the indictment.
Don Piatt has suddenly become O trfle
acldulatod in his re marks upon Grant. Per-
maps that :" little business which occupied lust
ten minutes" didn't turn out happily. At any
rate, this is bit OF his recent sarcasm s'The
bold, direct way in which Grant invited to his
Cabinet the mon who had made him handsome
presents, and ,hen put all his relatives in Of
nee, took from the transaction any suspicion
OF wrong intent. It was only laughable."
Commander F. 8. Fillebrown, of the
United States steamer Narragansett, reports
under date Of the 9TH. instant, from Havana,
the particulars of two passengers, CubarTs,
having been taken out OF the American achoou~
er Lizzie Major ten leagues from the coast oi
Cuba, by the Spanish frigate Fernando Catoli-
ca, and imprisoned. The two persons were
named d. Santiago A. Anible and Don Ramon
V. Raivas. 1t seems that they took passage
in the Lizzie Major at Havana for New Orleans.
The schooner touched at Remedies, took in
cargo, and sailed on the 26th of March for
f7ss sstination. She was boarded the same
day by the Spanish rigate, as above stated.
The prisoners were carried back to Remedies
and incarcerated. One OF them is q lad OF
about ten years OF age. They were visited in
prison by Mr.. Stone, United States Consular
agent at that point, who made demand on
the Commandant of the Province for their re-
lease, who did not feel authorised to release
them without orders from his superi 9rs. The
case having been made known to MI. Hall,
: United States Cousul General at Havana, he
has brought it to the attention Of the Captain
General Of Cuba, who has ordered thorough
Investigation to be made. The ground Of the
arrest is said to be that the names of the pas
sengers were not on the manifest of the
schooner. 5a
The foreign nominations as o whole are
said to be very unsatisfactory to the Senate,
although party fealty will secure their conHr-
NATION. MIR. jays assignment to Vienna is
regarded as frst-rate sUoond-raie sort OF COM
piiment, and his friends are the reverse of well
pleased, except as to the small thankfulness
with which commensurate favors are received.
Mr.. Jay has amassed large fortune, and has
acquired the reputation Of . good deal Of cul-
ture. More over, he directly rs presents q deal
of subscription and the wheie Of the Loyal
League. His claims we're rated high, ndtheyl
!. are feit not TO nave been duIy rewarded. The
@upersedure Of Henry SANFORD at Brussels by
the unknown J. Russell Jones, ofIllinois, made
great consternation in the Senate. ''Who is
Jones?" took the place of the -conundrum,
esWho is Borie 2" and in every instance 1t was
given up. There 10 q likelihood Of Pile de-
clining to 60 to Venezuela. Clay. to Liberia.
Z. and Bassett. to Hayti, are two negroes, one of
I Leuisiana and the color OF an old saddle; the
other Of Philadelphia and genuine black.
They are said to be men Of ability and wealth.
The nomination Of ex-senator John 8. z. Gar
9 lisle, OF West Virginia. to be minister resident
at Stockholm, is TO Radicals decided surprise,
to say the least. He is regarded as cautious
conservative, and his party status can be un-
derstood from the fact that he was fair Demo
.crat while senator from that State. Governor
'Curtin's going to st. Petersburg is commented
upon merely as proximate initiation Of his.
tory.
The Philadelphia press gives the following
account OF the experiments on the body Of
Gerald Eaton, who was hanged last week for
murder: Arrangements were made by the
i1f1endS OF the condemned to have an effort
made to resuscitste the body. Accordingly, q
committee appointed for the purpose were in
waiting OF the prison at tho time Of the exeou-
stion, and the bodys wrapped in blankets, was
brought to the nniverSlty. The drop was four
feet; the cord around his neck was smsllone.
he hung by his neck thirty minutes, and there
were signs Of lie only four minutes after the
drep. Ten minutes after being cut down. he
WAS placed upon the table In the anAphitheatre,
&he tiIna eIapaing from the execution being
;forty-Soup minutes. Six ounces OF whlskey
were injected into the bowels, and oEe gsllon
OF pare oxygen gas was forced into the lungs,
-Mnd powerful galvanic battery applied 10 tho
nednlle oblongatA and the pit OF the stomach.
AT the Same time the tongue was withdrawn
from the mouth, and the body turned from side
TO side, after the method Of Marshall Hall, tor
.nT4f<cdal raafrirnfi0r In four or My0 uOfnfateA