The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-19
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The New York cotton market yesterda
was less active and strictly favored buyers
Sales 800 bales at 28Bc.
At Liverpool cotton closed fat; ,upland
lad; Orleans 12ld. Sales COCO bsles.
Kentucky is going into artificial fish oul
ture.
-Ex-President Roberts, Of Liberia, is nov
visiting the scenes Of his childhood in vlr
ginia. n n" 4
Grass is six inches high in some parts o
California, and snow is sixteen inches deep il
other parts.
Rev. d. w. Beeoher's wife makes Ave thou
sand dollars year spin money" by editing
'Mother ut Home"
Mr.. Ferber, German-American, lately re.
visited his birthplace, sauer, in silssia, and
presented ten thousand dollars to it's poor. ha
The son Of Q New Orleans banker is tc
marry the Princess Carolina Bonaparts, the
one furnishing the title, the other the cash.
A man named Willingham, said to be from
South Carolina, was killed on Georgia rail
road, few days ago, while on his way to see
his brother in Atlanta, -
The Miss Van Lew, who has been appoint
ed postm;stress at Richmond, Va, was a Fed
eral spy during the war, and is said to have
furnished Grant repeatedly with valuable in
formation. a'
The oereymen attached to Trinity Church,
New York. have had their salaries raised, and
IN one instance there has been the very hand
some advance from twenty five hundred dol
lars to ten thousand dollars.
Somebody at Washington announces that
four trapslations are making OF 1'Badeau's His
tory of Grant," into French, Spanish, Italian
and German. Nobody has yet undertaken, We
believe, to translate it INTO English.
"A shoe dealer Of Cleveland has invented a
novel apparatus for measuring q lady's foot.
With this machine correct measur .ment is
taken of every part that the shoe covers, so
chat the whole shoe can be m ade the exact
size and shape desired.
1t is pleaded in the mitigation of the de-
scent from Dix to Washburne as our represen-
eative at Paris, that Washburne can't speak
French, so that he will not be able to let peo-
pie perceive how little he knows. But. alag,
the Emperor Napoleon speaks English.
The cotton trade in England is very duh,
and the foreign papers report that very few OF
the large manufacturers are running their
mills Six days in the week. Tho majority Of
the establishments have been open only four
and Eve days in the week, and now the time ia
genera Iy to be reduced to three days.
A Washington dispatch to the New York
Herald says: professor =. y. 6assett, Of the
Philadelphia ''olored High School, colored, is
an applicant for the Office Of Minister Resi-
: dent and Consul-G ener Il to Hayti. He is sup
ported by George +. Downing. Professor Bas-
sett was attended ~ quite q retinue OF promi-
nent solored backers, who took position in the
marble room and exhibited considerable inge-
nuity in button-holing senator's"
-Ad miral Farragut was the hrst citizen to
whom PresIden. Grant communicated his Cab
met appointments. The admiral called just
after General Rawlns had left for the capitol
with the nominations, and the President asked
him to guess who was the Secretary Of tho
Navy. Farragut guessed successfully A. FL.
Rice. Griswold, Stuart. Creswell, Holt. Bout
we'll, Hawley, and several other names, the
President telling him after each one to guess
again, until he gave it up. The President then
informed him, and proceeded to give ths
names Of the other Cabinet tficers ~.
1t will be recollected that President Grant,
Immediately upon taking his Office, directed
that certain pardons issued by President
Johnson, should be revoked, or withheld from
the persons intended to be pardoned, in certain
cases in New York Massachusetts, and else.
where. Attorney General Hoar has had this
subject under consideration, and it is under
stood he decides that the revocation Of the
President will not stand in law; that the act
Of the Executive was complete when the war
rant Of the pardon was placed in the hands Of
United States marshal or other officer; and
that II the persons intended to be pardoned
shall not be released that upon hdbeas corpus
the courts would re ease them.
w hen our lady readers ride on velocipedee
they must wear the following dress, prescribed
( by the "Velocipedist:" '.Let the outer dress
skirt be maze so as to button it's entire length
in front he back part should be made to but.
ton from The bottom to point about three
eights of o yard up the skirt. This arrange
ment does not detract al all from the appear.
= ance Of an ordinary walking costume. Wher
the wearer wishes to prepare for drive, sh,
simply loosens two or there OF the lower but
tons at the front aud back, and bringing to
gether the two ends Of each side, separately
butte ns them around each ankle. This give
full skirt around each ankle, and whel
mounted, the dress falls gracefully ct each sid d
of the front Wheel" fDats
AT the Charity Hospital In New Orleans
z ON Thursday last. there passed away from thi
life, with not friend OF relative at his bedside
and utterly pepniless. man who at one tim
was perhaps as widely known in the South
particularly during the days OF the Confcde
racy as any one in it--a man who was ct tn
head of the leading publishing house of tn
South, with quite handsome fortune Of hi
owns. RI. Goetzel, OF the firm Of 8. FL. Goe
zel &c Co., booksellers and publishers, Mobi
4, and New Orleans. Mr.. Goetzel died OF cor
sumption, from which disease he had been su
sering for years, and which. duri ~ the latte
days Of his life was the cause Of acute an
terrible pain. reducing him to mere shade,
OF his former self. long before he sought th
refuge Of an hospital.
Tho order drafted by General Schohe
Tor the consolidation Of the regiments now