The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-23
NEWS SUM MAR z.


AT Liverpool cotton closed dull. Uplands
12L; Orleans 12ld.
The long train and dem:-corsage appe az
to be the prevailing style Of evening toilef.
The Cunard Company is building two first
class ocean steamships, which will be named
Abyssnia and Algeria.
In St. Charles-street, New Orleans, every
fourth house for the space OF four blocks ls .
licensed gambling hell.
The long gauntlet kid gloves, with innum-
efable email gilt buttons, are very fashionable
Just at present among the ladies'.
1t is ascertain ID that petroleum exists in
great abundance in the greater portion OF Eu-
rope and Asia, and no one need fear the e1-
haustion Of fuel.
We feel iespondent. The correspondence
OF the Alabama claims has reached ten octave
volumes, OF eight hundred pages each. yet the
discussion must all be done over again.
in New York there aye said to be lawyers
who yis,tthe iails and station houses with bags
full Of h46eas corpus petitions, &C., ready to
give instant legal relief to any prisoner who de-
sires it.! 81 = -.
New Orlelns has sensation in the dis
covery of s150,0UO in bonds, slowed away be-
hind the plasteriag in the auditors Office, sup
posed to have been placed there "for future
refere. .ce" by ex-Auditor Wickliffe.
"A metallic cartridge company in Bridge
port, Connecticut, has received an order from
Madrid for ten million cartridges, OF the Ber-
duL (sharpshooter) patent. This proves that
the Spanish Directory means business OF de-
cisive and not pacific character.
The physicians of New Orleans arc now
using sweet quinine. 1t is prepared from the
same material us thai formerly used, but by
chemical process it is diyes:ed of its bitter and
unpleasant taste, without taking away any OF
its valuable properties as an effective medi-
cine. 81
-Arench doctor is attempting the revival
OF the art, once attempted by the subtle genius
ofthe Greeks, of ensurng beforehand the sex
and The beauty of chil-ren. He is very conf
dent of succsss. 1t is no moro difficult, he
says, to have children Of esprit than to haVe
Arab horses.
The colored sovereigns at Washington have
their little jealousies. A negro who cried 'con-
traband" at some of the participators in the
Emancipation procession was Immediately
dubbed By tho Zouaves. "Carpetblgger" is
another term Of reproach applied by original
residents to newcomers.
Another monster blast has been made in
California, BY which mountain was demolish-
ed. A tunnel five hundred and seventy feet IN
length was made, and twelve hundred kegs OF
powder placed in it. A young lady was chosen
to establish the electric current by which the
charge was touched off, The mountain was
thoroughly shattered. .s1.
Last week the old Manhattan well Of New
York, whose whereabouts had been forgotten
for many years, vas rediscovered. Into that
we'll it was supposed that the body OF mur-
dered girl was thrown by her lover about sew
-euty years ago. The man was defended by
Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton and Edward
P. Livingston, and was acquitted, though there
was an almost UNIVERSAL belief that he was
guilty, but left New York Immediately and
never returned.
1.-THE highest store rent paid in Broadway,
New York, is that Of E. s. Jaffray's dry goods
store;o of Leonard-street, which brings
s6n,oQ0. The highest hotel rent is that Of the
Fifth Avenue, which rates at s100, 900 per an
NUN but the most profitable OF al edifices is
Trinity building. This ls occupied by Offices.
ItTcost about s2O0, 900, and rents for nearly
one-half that sum: Single Offices bring from
$1,000 to $4,000, and the coal trade is almost
entirely done there.
The Montgomery Mail states that num-
ber Of immigrants from Switzerland and Baden
arrived at Decatur, Ala, short time ago and
immediately received employment. The Mail
characterizes this as excellent news and e1,
clsisns s'Would that the hills and mountains
OF North Alabama could be filed with the race
Of William Tell" The Executive Committee
Of the State Agricultural Association have
taken steps to prepare for State fair, which
may reflect honor upon the resources Of Ala
bama and upon tho industry of her people.
Every encouragement to immigration is to be
given, and line Of emigrant steamships bo
tween Mobile and some German port is already
contemplated.
"A New York letter Of Monday says: ''The
belhgerent tone Of Senator Chandler's speech
this morning on QUE relations with England,
coupled with bis serious treatment u the sus-
geston that she should turn over Canada to
us as final settlement OF the Alabama claims,
creates some uneasiness among thoughtful
men, as tending to unnecessarily embarrass
the negotiations about to be set on foot by Mr.
Motley, and to make the controversy more diff
ficult to deal with than ever. The Wall-street
speoalators managed to turn that speech to
account, in running up the premium on gold
and knocking down the prices Of stocks. To
add to the excitement, bogus dispatches from
Washington have been freely exhibited in re-
lation to our critical relations with Spain on
the Cuban question. As soon as these Mum
chausenisms have done their appointed work
in depressing values two or three per celt.'
everything viii be serene again, and our for
eigr relations will be pronounced all right"
The Marshall, Texas, Republican, OF the
9th inst, gives the particulars Of an affair in
Rusk County that forms climax Of horrors.
The circumstances are as follows: "A young
man by the name Of Colonel Green, who is said
to have been new settler in the county, left
Henderson, on Saturday evening last, in state
OF intoxication, Tor home. When be got about
seven miles from town, OIL the Marshall road,
he stoppedat tho Widow Griffin place, where
body ofnegroes were making crop, and order
ed his supper. Whilo he was eating it he was