The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-24
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In LlVefpool yesterday. cotton closed dull;
sales 5000 bales; uplands I'D.
The Spanish Finance Minister proposes to
abolish the salt and tobacco monopolies.
Fashionable parasols in Paris this year
have handles OF green and red morocco.
The prices Of admission to the Boston
Peace Jubilee have been fixed at $5. 80 and 90.
There are fifty Chinese Catholics in San
Francisco. some educated in the Catholic
seminaries in China and able to- speak Latin
fuently.
1t takes fifty-seven paymasters, from
brigadier-general down.. to do nothing in the
Morld but pay off the present standing army OF
the United Statee.
"A Texas gentleman has received q quanti-'
ty OF silkworm eggs from France through the
post. Some Of the eggs hatched on the way,
and The worms were living on their arrival.
Tho Columbus (Ga.) Sun reports that one
OF the weaIthiest and shrewdest tinanciers in
Georgiaesays that. the States credit has been
ruined electrically, and is changing his invest
ment from Georgia bonds to other and better
securities. 'f,ti1 .:-..i2 a "a
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe gives up her
plantation in Florida, for the reason that her
ftitle, acquired at military tax sale, does not
hold hood; and the original owner regains
possession, paying Mrs. stowe the amount she
expended for the estate. +oCtl
"A communication from Berlin states that
emigration to America is likely to assume
extraordinary proportions this year. Juring
the ls st three months 1000 persons have passed
through that capital on their way to Hamburg
and Bremen. They come principally from
Pomerania and Eastern Prussia.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams is quoted as
having said that the treaty lately submitted
about the Alabama claims was a good treaty,
creditab!e both to Lord Clarendon and MIR.
johnson, and that it ought to have been adop-
ted with some slight changes. Moreover. he
thinks Summers speech on the subject did
more harm than good.
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Com
pany propose to build q tunnel under the west
end of Baltimore, so as to facilitate the pas
sage through that city. The tunnel will cost
about a million Of dollars, and it is expected
that 1T will be done by the middle Of next Jan
uarY. Il will pass uuder the gas andlwater
pipes, SO as not tointerfere with them.
AT the annual meeting lof the National
Boakdtof Underwriters in New York on Wed
nesdAy, discussion occurred, without action,
upoTca proposition looking to o reduction of
commissions to agents. An ordinance to reg
ulate storage and the sale Of petroleum, gaso-
lene, 1&c., was adopted. which fixes the tests Of
places so used at one hundred and ten degrees
Fahrenheit. -., -e,- i-.
General Grant, since his Inauguration as
President, has made the following appoint
nlents Of colored men Postmaster at Colun-
bia. IS: O., worth $1,000 q year: assessor of the.
first district Of Louisiana, worth $1,000 a year:
two justices Of the peacs in the Districto Of Col
umh,a, worth $l0QOoa year each; minister 10
Hays, worth $500 q year; minister and consul
to Iabsrias worth 5000 = year, .eI ,a' ia 2l, y,
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, after consent
ing to sing in New York for the benefitof the
Cuba revolutionists, reconsidered the matter,
and refused because the gentleman with whom
sshg has contracted her professional services
had engaged to bring her out at Havana next
autumn, in which case any apparent manifes-
tatiQp Of sympathy for the insurgents here
would be likely TO prejudice her popularity. .s
lone OF the Old crew Of the Alabama, who
is.n6w:on board the Virginia at Fest Boston.
says. that the yacht Deerhound, which rescued
Senames and his officers after the vessel was
sunk w the Kearsage of Ohsrbourg. was in
reality paid tender Of the Alabama, had ON
board at the time'th captured 4chronosaeters,
andA few days before had brought from Eng
land ffty trained gdnners, who were working
the Alahsrc.'s gaas during ~ ssss ssat.
"A New York letter OF the 20th instant says:
@'The talk in, Wall-street to-day is OF the large
amounts of money which some Of the gold
spectators have made by the advance in the
premium following the belligerent speech of
Senator Chandler. One per- cent. advance in.
half an hour for parties who buy and sell by
tho one hundred thousand dollars is o nice
little fortune, and more than one name is men-
toned who made the lucky hit"
The actors and actresses engaged on the
London stage. desirous OF having an opportu-
nifty OF hearing one OF Mr.. Dickens readings.
but being prevented by she nature OF their avo-
cations from attending any entertainments in
the evening, addressed letter to Mr.. Dickens.
requesting him to give what in their own per
lance would be called q morning performance.
TO this appeal Mr.. Dickens has acceded. And
@1h give three morning readings ia London! &
with the other advances Of the day In rail-
road travel, must be noted an arrangement
winch has Just been completed for. throurh
trains between New York and New Orleans.
Ehe only change Of cars on this whole trip win
DO at Louisville, which is very nearly q half
way point The through time will be seventv.
six hours. Sleeping-cars are to run ~, =,
trains. and berths or sections may be secured
for the whole trip. At most seasons of the
year the difference Of climate between the ter
zninal points Of this immense line will require
passengers to provide for change Of clothing
during the journey.
1T 10 stated, semi-oficially, that the re-
'ceiDas from customs now promise to be the
largest OF any one year in the history of the
Eovsrnment-reaching probably Sl9O. .OOO. 600
nCf 92O, ,O0O 900 In excess Of the estimates. ana
1T isnoe impossible that they may even reach
The high figure OF $20O. .000.0 900. The intornal
revsnue receipts to the present time are in ex-