The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-16
We VS. SUM MAR T.

AT Liverpool yestecday cotton was quoteo
at 12ad for uplands and 123d. for Or. ms, With
sales of 10 600 bales.
Pensacola IS said to contain an enormous
amount Of lumber, awaiting shipment North
1t ia said that fifty thousand people vii
move from Manhattan Island to the suburban
towns on the 1st May. Cause-hieh rents.
Two British war ships. the Royal ALFRED
and the Niobe, are ca ,ected soon at New York
The former is commanded by Admiral Sir G.
Rodney Mundy.
Colonel Tm. L. Mann, proprietor of the
Mobile Daily Register, married his wald, Miss
Belle Jones, of2Alaban,a, last Friday, at the
Metropolitan Hotel, New York.
IA married compile in Kentucky, both ol
whom are deaf mntes, have sI1 infant .,hild thai
can hear, and which, it is thought, will beabls
70 eIiiculate perfectly in due time. -
The EeW York Express says: "Plain black
silk suits. With lttle it any, trimmings, oonsti.
tute the spsins walking costumes of many Of
our most fashionable young ladies'"
"A. j., Wal. once ono Of the wealthiest mer-
,chants Of Memphis, became insane the other
day, split q triondss head, open with hatchet,
chopped the arm of another. almost off, and
fually, exclaimng "yain world, goodbye T.
threw himself from the window on the pave
ment, breaking his neck. -. -.
Three gentlemen of ChicaSo-such is the
report t-baye. dubbed together and ordered
three copies Of LongfelloV's Dante" 10 be is-
suedf,r them upon large paper. 10 beillustrat-
cd VITA Dore's and F!axlan's designs and
many Of the rare Dante prints. Only three
copies will be printed, and the costwill be $1,000
per copy
"A Japanese correspondent says the Gre
clan bend has been in fashion in Japan for four
centuries. The spinal curve had its origin in
the custom which the Japanese ladies have of
earring their babies on their back, and the
psnrIer had its origin in the broad silk grdle
which is swathed several times around the
waist and fastened in q large bunch behind.
"A party of men were surveying for rail-
road in New Jersey, and of course they were
entitled to the best there was along the line.
At one, house they stopped at the proprietor
was q little tardy in producing the cider. 1t
came atlast, and was tasted by one of the pa--..J
With great deliberation. Chow much cider did
yod msay gn1s yUU yne W WSsRed- "RiftAA.rTtysTS-c ySc
rsts, MAS the answer. Another sip. "Wsu,I
you hsd had another apple you might have
made another barrel."
TIE. celebrated McArdle case, in the Uni
tedBtstes Supreme Ceurt, has been decided,
Chief Justice Chase delivering the opinion,
Diminishing the case .gfor want Of jurisdiction.
McArdle, it will be remembered, was the Vicks-
burg. <Mississippi) editor arrested by Generai
Ord, tried by military commission, and lmpris-
oned in 1867 for printing ''sedltious articles IN
the yicksburR Times. On the trial by military
commission the accused refused to plead, ana
= plea uf not guilty WAS entered for hum. It's
United Stats Circuit Court in MISSISSIPPI
granted q writ Of habeds corpus. The court
held that the question presented lnsoiVeo .ne
oonstitutiona!ity Of the act OF Congress- lsne
Reconstruction ac!,) in virtue OF which 1eoerai
Ord placed McArdle under arrest, and ne decl-
ded that act to be constitutional, thus decid-
ing that the prisoner was subject to arrest ana
/, to trial before military commission. He was
therefore remanded, and the case came lnto
the United States Supreme Court on an appear
from this decision, with the result above.
The Washington correspondent OF the
Baltimore Gazette, writing on Monday, says
<rWhile the political carnival ID in progress IN
washington, and Executive favors are Deins
scattered broadcast among free American citl-
zeus.' q courier arrives from the far-oh region
Of Texas with official reports for the war De-
partment. At the. little town OF Jefferson, on
the head of Lake Caddo, are now fifteen hun
dred United States soldiers, occupied IN guaro
ing thirty of the most respectable citizens o.
.ths town, who. were arrested more than tour
months since, and who have never been allow
ed trial or hearing Of any kind. No one o.
them has ever been informed Of the cause OF
his arrest. .Tha courier. announces to the Wal
Department that the soldiery have constructed
q stockade surrounded with ditch fifteen
feet vide and twelve feet deep, aud within the
.sSoskadeI erected b frame shed in which the
prisoners are kept. A guard is constantly on
duty within the stockade and another outside
CT the stockade.. No one, not even counsel, is
allowed to speak to ono of these prisoners,
except IN the hearing OF file OF soldles Even
their wives and daughters are forbidden any
intercourse whatever, except in particular
cases, where lady is occ !.sionally allowed to
talk to her hus band, who is brought out under
o guard OF eight men to the entrance of the
stocLade, but ell such interviews are Ii 2ited to
fifteen minutes. These prisoners have made
appeal after appeal for trial, but all in vain.
The War Department. seceives and enters upon
it's files these reports Of Free American Citi-
gems imprisoned, but says-'General Key-
nolds must attend to their trial or release; it is
no business Of the War Department.
TIE terrible Blackstone tragedy in Phila-
delphia has been followed by one somewhat
similar but more sckeningin its details. At
Oakda1e Township, Minn., on The morning of
the 7th instant, Mr.. James B. Gray vas dis
covered sitting on the steps OF his granary,
with rope in his hand, alternately screaming
and whistling. An alarm was givon, and Mr..
Grays father hastened to the house aud push
ed open the door. His four little praLtling
grandchildren lay upon the floor side by side
covered with quilt, with their throats cut
from ear to ear, and their faces gashed and
<cut in horrible manner. Turning from tho
sickening sight, he staggered back to meet the
gaze Of his maniac son, who was advancing to-
wards him with rope in'his hand. Closing with
him at once, the agonized father would have ad-
ded another to the ehastly list Of victims but for