The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-04
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Cotton in Liverpool-no transactions.
John Watt, one Of the Oldest merchants
and residents Of New Orleans, is just dead.
-Brownlow is in favor Of dividing Tennessee
What territorial paradise Brownlow's hal
would bel
-Rey. John P. Hubbard has been acquitted
in Providence of ruf1ing the tranquility OF th'
Episcopal Church By uncanonical and Tying
like conduct.
1T is not now believed to be true that th'
verdict Of the Supreme Court on the legal tend
er case ia to be delivered, as has been reported
early this week.
Briggs Brothers livery stable and carriage
repository, in West Twenty-fourth street, New
York, was destroyed By fire on the night Of the
SOtb. Besides q large stock OF carriages
harness, &C., lost, about one hundred and forty
b orses we're burnt to death.
Hon James A. Seddon, Secretary OF War oil
the late Confederate States, has gone into mer-
camille life as o partner in the well-knewn irm
of G .oree Lee & Co. The new firm should at-
tain the highest success in business, With
sty!c so high sounding 10 Confederate ears as
Leg Seddon & Co.
General Lee received an offer from o Nc"
York insurance company of $4,000 year to
act as its general agent in the South. 1t was
declined through no want Of respect for the
company, wh:ch'is understood to be eminently
respectable, but because General Leo feels that
his mission is the education Of the youth oil
tho South.
IL, 1,,o1 ,p 7 o1,icono hptwanD two
h:gh-spirited gentlemen OF color, the parties
discharged their pistols without effect, where
UPON one of the seconds proposed that the
coabatants should shake hands. 70 this the
other second objected as unnecessary, 'for, y
said be, "their hands have been shaking this
half hour.
in 1861 the Israelites owned very little
real estate in New York city, preforrinS to Ia
vest in other substantial properties. Now they
are the chief owners of the land upon " .ich
that METROPOLIS is constructed. There is
scarcely fashionable avenue or street in the
upper part OF New York wherc they do not
hold tue best sites.
Only six months ago womans co-o2era-
'tiro association was organized in San Francis
.c co with capital OF less than nine thousand
dollars. It has furnished work to one hundred
and sixty-two women, has paid out nearly ten
Thousand dollars in wages, and has increased
it's fund by moro than thousand dollars, or at
a rate OF more than two per cent. month.
The annual sales of merchandise in Boston
amount to. nearly 1000, ,0O0,ooO. This is SEQ
ond to the sales of New York. Other Ameri-
can cities report aggregate sales as follows: !:
Philadelphia, s662, 900 900; New Orleans, $685.
900 GOO; Chicago, s342, 600, 900; Baltimore, s324
600 600: Cincinnati s213 900 900; st. Louis s213.-
100000; San Francisco, s151, 900 600; Louisville,
SIPS 600 900; Milwaukee. $1,000 600. None OF
the remaining cities reach s10C. 100000 of sales
annually.
The foreign immigration returns OF 1868
show, falling OF of thirty thousand 10 the
arrivals at New York as compared with 1867.
So fur as the Irish are concerned the emigra-
ton to this country will be less hereafter than
it has been in previous years, owing TO the dry
ing up of the source of supply in Ireland itself.
The decrease of German emigration to Ameri-
ca can be accounted for by the idea prevalent
in Europe that the demand for labor and the
reward for labor here at this time are less than
they have been in other years.
1t is estimated that no less than two hun
dred thousand persons ere nov residing IN
New York city who have no work, no real
homes, and. no means which insure them
livelihood Some of them beg or steal out
right; but a large number eke out miserable
existence by running into debt for lodging and
board, or by borrowing from week to vice.: Of
} whomsoever will lend them, or y quartorins
themselves on reluctant relatives or friends
The resnlu is reported to be al aggregate of
want, squalor, misery and degradation fearful
to contemplate.
The tunnel under the Chicago River, known
as the Washington street Tunnel, connecting
the south and west divisions of the city by o
solid and permanent roadway, has just been
completed, and VIII be open to tho public to-
day The contrac. price was s32S, 800. Tho
length Of the work is about 1905 feet; of the
retaining walls of the open approach Oh the
west side, about 800 feet, and 275 feet on the
east side. The length Of the main archway, or
covered way, is s32 feet There are three
archways leading through the tunnel; one is
for foot passengers, and two for teams and
horses.
The citizens OF Sau Francisco have formed
a join. committee on the investigation Of earth
auakes, who are authorized to examine into the
causes of their catastrophe, and tho hest
method OF preventing repetition of tie great
destruction of property in that city. The sub.
committees have already been formed to report
on building materials, lines, cement, structu.
raj designs, and on the history OF earthquakes
in California. The bricks used in San Fran
cisco are reported to be very defective, in con.
sequence of the ignorance of the proper pro-
portions and the proper way of burning them
The adoption of method Of bracing buildings
with iron rods is also recommended.
"A Washington telegram TO the Baltimore
Sun of Saturday, says: The effect of tie Presi
dents amnesty proclamation is yet tho subject
ofargument and doubt among Congressmer
and others, and it is asked, Docs the proola.
nation remit or cancel all penalties, and re-
lieve against all disabilities ?" Among com.
petent judges, there does not appear to be any
doubt that it can be pleaded in bar to pending
criminal prosecutions, and ttat it is within