The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-08
N E W s s U MI MAR Y.

$40.
Cotton was firm, with sales OF $500 bales,
at 283c.
In Liverpool cotton was steady; upiands
1a3a12ld; Orleans 1aaa1aad; sales 5000 bales.
-,t--Ar reelored law schools in moderately sue
oessful operation in Washington.
~ The railroad from the Pirmus to Athens
has been inaugurated and thrown open to the
II p ubiic. ..''a
Y I. 1.-The poles Of the telegraph across the
= plans are said to be source Of delight to the
i b Rffaloes, which use them as scratching posts.
= The Paiisian journals say that the Minis
Ter OF War has made preparations for calling to
t he flag at any moment the 100000 men on
10nge. t4lc4G III;
'GPrinoe Gortschakof, Russian Prime Min.
ister, has contracted for 100000 needle guns
(system Baranow,) to be delivered with as lit
le delay as possible.
The United States Supreme Court have re-
:, used to grant q writ of error in the case OF G.
6. S.Twitchell, convicted Of the murder of Mrs
Hill in Philadelphia. =,
The Prussian journals state that Protes-
tant jubilee is to be held next autumn at Ber-
lin, to form q couhterl Disc to the council to
assemble at Rome. A preparatory meeting is
The French Journals generally applaud
the proposed British legislation on the Irieh
Church. They say that tho Irish Church has
long been blot on the banner of freedom
which England holds on high for the worlds
admiration.
--The press of Philadelphia concur in con-
demnins the so-called confession of Twitchen
IS falsehool, and it has strengthened greatly
IN iaf in tIo
Mis-, Twitche!l. 1t is thought now that there.
is no hope OF escape for him.
tq The Marquis of Wes minister, the richest
nobleman Of England. has on income Of So
50O.OO0 year, whch in ten years from now
will be doubled by the expiration of ninety
nine year leases in Belgravia But he has a
softening brain, and has become idiot ).
"A dispatch from Providence, r. l., an
j, ,nOunces the death from apoplexy, on Thursday
last, OF General Burton, Colonel of the Fifth
s-Artiuery. General Burton Is we'll known for
1sl4s Afhd treatment Of ex-Presldent Davis when
- prisoner. He was afterwards commander OF
: the post at Columbia, s. @. .
r Revolutionary troubles continue in North.
,ern Mexico. Long rebel manfestoes are widely
circulated in secret in Acapulco; they denounoe
To intrigues, duplicity and despotism OF the
substitution Of Poririo Diaz, or some other
popular leader, at the head Of provisional
government.
The wife of Marshal Valiant, who recently
leu shaved regularly every day for many
ears. she had thicker beard than 10 st
men. During her last illness her beard ha-
came 80 bushy that when the physician who
vaslts all the dead to see that they died o natu-
h.. n
MS gentleman 3 position2"
s'"aLCharles Snowden Fairfax died on anndav
tBarnum's Hotel. IN Baltimore, at the age Of
'0rty years. He was chairman of the Califor-
IN 10 delegation to the last Democratic National
Convention, and had been tive years clerk of
the Supreme Court Of the State. He was de-
sceRdsnt of the last Lord Fairfax, and was
ENTITLED to the distinction Of tenth lord had he
famed the position. ea 4a
M. Louis Ulbach. an eminent French
ournalist, was recently fined three hundred
rancs for stating that the name Napoleon was
derived from two Greek words, which signlfied
hangman. The Public Minister thought the
8 entence too light, aud appesled aga,nst l. to
the Imperial Court. The result is that M. Ul-
ach's fine has been raised to Eve hundred
francs, and, IN addition, he is to suffer six
months imprisonment. M. Ulbach is a candi-
date for the representation Of the Aube.
T. The WashinSton correspondents have
8 nally agreed that John Jay will, be sppoin.ed
Minister to England, Motley to Vienna, Gene
raj Butter6eld to Paris; and George Wilkes, Of
New York, Minister TO Mexico. It 5s whispered
shout in certain confidential circles that Bena-
/; tor Sprague contemplates the purchase OF the
National Intellisencer, and that he Intends to
give it q new lease OF life in engineering new
political movement, on an independent tack,
i n behalf OF Chief Justice Chase for the success,
sion. ;H,
Mrs. Dolly Chandler and one hundred and
nnety-four other women have sent remon-
STRANGE to the Massachusetts Legislature
against woman suffrage, believing that it
would diminish the purity, the dignity, and
the moral influence OF women, and bring into
the family circle dangerous element of dis:
cord, without securing additional strength
efficiency, or wisdom to the government Of the
natlon," and ask to be let alone Gin the condi-
tion allotted to us by nature, by custom. and
by religion"
On March Gath the committee was to Law
before the Spanish Oortes the DIR aft OF the new
oonstitution. It was stated that the bases OF
Shls constitution are---a Monarchical Govern
mene, Two Chambers, q Senate and Congress-.
Inc senators are to be elected by the Provin-
clal Councils-sour from each province for =
term OF twelve years; the deputies are to be
elected Tor three years, by uni 5ersal aufYraoe
The King is to reign for elyhteen yeays.' 4
majority OF the committee are favorable a. tha
separation OF the Ohurch and State. Tta
minority propose that the Roman Catholic reli.
,gion shall be the State creed, but with tolere-
ftiOn for other professions. Liberty Of the press
sand the right OF pubiis meeting to be guaran-
Heed.
The English papers show bad state Of
affSirs in the manufacturing districts. During
Friday and Saturday last fifteen hundred per-
sons were relieved at the Blackburn office, and