The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-04
NEW : So M NJ A K Y.

Gold closed in New York weak ae ols'
-cotton in New York closed quiet; sales
1900 bales at 29l29l.
Cotton in Liverpool closed at 115d for up
lands, end 12ld for Orleans, with sales OF SOOo
bales.
Savannah, Ga, is shipping pine lumber to
Seotlsnd.
The New York World denies that COM
plimentary dinner was rendered to General
Breckenridge at the rooms OF the Manhattan
Club.
williamsburg, N. Y, it is said, contains
among its population one hundred Mormon
families, some of the "saints" having as many
as eleven wives.
The freedmen behaved 30 gallantly and
efficiently at the recent fires at Lexington, Va,
Inst resolutions ofthanks we're rendered them
at public meeting.
The New York b-lcklayers, hotel walters,
house painters, journeymen tailors and gas
and steam filters are all preparing for s'strlkes'
during the spring or summer months.
All the tobacco factories in Leesburg and
.Roxboro', N. c., have been closed BY the gov
.ernment officers, and it is reported that the
sameis true Of all the factories in the whole
Greensboro District.
Nothing more has transpired with relation
to Cabinet matters. Dir. Stewart is now count
ed ut altogether, and the correspondents are
-ain at sea with reference to the coming
Pennsylvania. The friends Of Hamilton Fish
assert positively that he has been assured of
the Treasury Department.
The foreign journals report that novel
nhanoeuyre is practiced By the French troops
in garrison at Lyons. AT the sound OF the
tuyle the soldiers spread themselves out in
liz, plain in two lines. Throwing off their
knapsacks the men Of the second line pass
them to those of the first, who, placing them
on their OWL, form rampant, behind which
both lines lie down. The men Of the first line
begin firing, while those OF the second line
supply them with cartridges, and confne them
selves to that occupation.
The Goldsbolo' (N. C.) Messenger pub
fishes an interesting letter from MIR. VIM. f.
Atkinson, tie agent of the Eastern North Ger
olina Immigration Society, under date Of
4.Horgen, Switzerland, February 4th, 1862"
in which he states that he is succeeding very
well in filing MS mission. Qaite number of
families have been engaged. The firstlo was
to have started from Zurich on the 2Sth ult.,
and Havre or the 4lh CT March. THIS lot will
consist Of over one hundred persons, men, wo-
men and childIca, and should reach Colds
boro' about tho last of this mouth.
Financial speculatlons, it is stated, have
recently bocomsvery popular among the poer-
er classes in France, and especially among the
peasantry. Enterprises OF every description
are placarded on tho walls of small country
towns and out of-the-way villages, and the
shops are fur>islled with printed prospectuses
for wrapping up small parcels OF goods. Cheap
financial publications, especially for the work
ing classes, have been started at very consider
able outlay. These journals, published week
". contain information for small capitalists,
and are sold at a very low price. This rage for
speculation is explained by the entire annihila-
ton Of political spirit in France, and the wild
schemes now before the public, it is asserted,
are highly injurious to public honesty. Let US
avoid the like state Of things in the United
States. It is bad enough here now, with gamo-
ling speculations in the larger way.
/. "A nice way of overcoming bashful scruples
has been found in North Carolina. AT recent
wedding guest proposed that one man IN the
company should be selected as president; that
this president should be duly sworn to Keep
entirely secret all the communications that
should be forwarded to him in his official de-
partment that night; that each unmarried gen.
tlemah andlady should write his or her name
on a piece of paper, and under it place the
name Of the person they wished to marry, then
hand it to the president for inspection, and ii
any lady and gentleman had reciprocally chosen
each other, the president was to inform each
OF the result. and those who had not been re-
cip.ocal in their choice were to be kept entirely
secret. After ilia appointment OF the presi-
dent, communications we're accordingly haaded
up to the chair, and it was found that twelve
young ladies' and gentlemen had reciprocal
choices, and eleven of the twelve matches were
solemnized.
On Saturday, General Van Allen formerly
Of General Hookers staff, and in commandat
Yorktown), who has recently arrived from
Cuba, had On interview with General Grant in
behalf OF the Cuba revolutionists, who wished
him to urge upon. the President elect and
upon leading members of Congress the neces-
sity of giving them some encouragement IN
their efforts to free Cuba. General Grant re-
Piled that the Cubans not only had his earnest
sympathy, but he was disposed to give them
the more substantial support of official recog-
milton. SPAN, by her unfriendly course to US
during the rebellion, had relieved us of any
obligation to consider her interest in the mat
ter. he favored the resolution offered BY
Senator Sherman Saturday night, authorizing
the President Of the United States to acknow-
ledge the Independence of Cuoa when, in his
Judgment, it would De proper.
"A Southern delegation of representatives
in Congress-. consisting Of Messrs. B. F. Whit
temore, OF South Carolina; Mckee, OF Ken
lucky; Kellogg, Of Alabama; Kitchen, Of Wes.
Virginia; Blackburn, OF Louisiana; Boyden. OF
North Carolina; Hamilton, Of Florida; Bo!cs, of
Arkansas, and Arnell, Of Tennessee, had an
Interview with the General on Monday morn
Sng. The chairman OF the delegation Mr.
Whittemore-stated they had called to make
known to the General the confidence Of the
loyal people of the South in his administra-
tiou. and to acqnaint him with the condition
nj affairs and wants Of the people in those
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