The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-06
VIEWS sum ri r z.

In New York uplsnds closed lower. Sales
400 bales at 9ssa2S2c;
In Liverpool cotton closed dull. Uplsnds
ON the spot l2ad and afoat lad; Orleans 12Sd.
Sales 5000 bales.
THE fashion Of the season is to present
baskets Of fruit instead of flowers.
~lGeneral Grant had a tooth drawn last Mon
day, according to Jenkins.
Alabama has new State seal, bearing the
motto, "Here we rest"
James P. Freret, one of the Leading eltl-
zens Of New Orleans, died last week.
The New York Legislature proposes to es-
tablish patent medicine commission.
IA sixty thousand dollar passenger railroad
or is being built in Jersey City for the Erie
Railway.
"A subscription is being taken in Kentucky
to buy John q. Breckinridge residence at
Lexington.
Private equipages, with gilded harness,
monogram and brass-buttoned coacbman, can
be hired by the month in New York.
The Episcop ,lians of Vermont propose to
erect a monument to the memory Of the late
Bishop Hopkins at Burlington.
Street gloves are now worn very Light
ORANGE, brown, fawn and lavender being the
fashionable tints just at present.
1t is said that since the President proposed
to let the Quakers control Indian affairs, all
the Indian ring politicians have taken 10 wear
ing bro ID brim hats. a..
Tie headlight of locomotive on West
ern road was recently extinguished by the
forcible entrance of jack snipe. Tine train
WAS running at q speed OF thirty miles, and
strange enough, the little bird escaped unin-
jured, Notwithstanding the crash of glass and
sudden shock.
The rapid immigration from the North
and West is already changing the entire popu-
lation in some sections of Spottsylvania aud
Caroline in Virginia. In the neighborhocd Of
Spottsylyania Courthouse. q dozen Northern
men have come in and are now actively at
work In the vicinity Of Guiney's Station, on
tho Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad, twelve miles from fredericksburg,
large sales have been recently made.
The Darien Canal Treaty has been reject
ed by the Colombian Senate by a large majori-
ty, ON the following grounds: First, that it
does not sufficiently guarantee the sovereign
vantages to Colombia are not sufficient; third,
thst the works should accrue to Colombia at
the end Of one hundred years, whether the
constructors have received pay for them or
not"
A letter from New York says: s.1he oppo-
gnents OF the excise law have won great ad-
vantage in the Assembly in getting through
an amendment which e1empts lager beer from
t he provisions of the bill. Republicans voted
I or it, as we'll az the De noorats, it would ap-
pear, in order to conciliate the German politl-
cal element. The lawyers say that the amend
rnent can be 30 construed as to permit the sale
Of that beverage on the Sabbath day."
Some nlischieyous boys in Nstchez. Miss,
q few nights since introduced q new feature
nto the festivities Of colored fair being held
in that city. These odious wretchss placed
cayenne pepper upon the hot stove and set
all the dusky damsels to sneezing to that e1-
tent that all the hooks and eyes were bursted
Off their dresses. They then, for the benefit Of
the dusky lords, introduced in the egg-nog Gro
ton oil as lubricator, and possibly to o.equalize
or nsutralize the effects Of the fusel oil already
i n theg admi1ture. The fair did not prove
.yery eminent success.
As one Of the "Forty Thieves" at Nibles
was stealing home the other night, she heard
the plaintive cries Of an infant, and going to
barrel that stood upon the sidewalk, she look
ed into it and discovered child about six
weeks old. She kindly took the little waif to
her home, and the next morning brought it to
the theatre, where, ia the presence Of the en-
tire theatre, it was christened Lydia Palmer
Jarrett. The "Forty1 registered an oath to
protect and educate the little wanderer, and
each one is to set apart weekly stipend for the
purpose. They ali hope that, like its name-
sake, it will "never say dye"
The following is an extract from letter
OF Hon. Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio, in reply
10 an address OF the National Executive Com
mittee Of eslored men: "But, in my Judgment,
much more remains to be done for can
never believe government perfect while it is
possible for one man to appropriate the avalls
Of the labor Of thousands, while those that
perform the labor pine away their life IN pov-
erty and destitution, or to monopolize an un-
limited extent Of Gods earth to the exclusion
OF others. These evils are yet to be corrected;
and may not expect that you who have been
80 lately emaucipated from the foulest oppres-
sion and injustice will take the lead in these
great and necessary reforms n
To the various paper productions of this
paper age-paper collars, paper shirts, and
even paper waistcosss, bonnets and hats-must
now be added paper cofins. NJ. Szerelmey,
their inventor, seems to have belief in the
universal adaptabihty of PAGER to all the needs
OF civilized life. He undertakes to coat ships
with it, and make them impervious to shot; no
employs it in tho manufacture CT construction
Of rocket cases, powder oanisters, railway car
risges, drain p,pes. and party walls. He claims
that it ID at once lighter, stronger, harder and
cheaper than any other material hitherto in
use for these purposes, not excepting iron and
steel and stone. His object in introducing it
in the manufacture Of cofins is to obtain what
so many people rather absurdly consider de-
sideratum-a perfectly air-tieht, waterproof
and damp-defying shell, which nothing from
without can penetrate, and nothing from with
in can escape.
Incorrect and incomplete lists have been
published of the States which have acted upon
the proposed Fifteenth amendment to the
constitution. The following statement has
been carefully prepared, and is believed to be