The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-13
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Cotton in New York closed dull and lower
Sales 1000 bales at 80 cents
Cotton in Liverpool closed easier but not
lower. Sales 5000 bales. Uplands 12ld.a125d.
No life insurance company has r failed
In this country.
Mexican journals accuse Minister Rose
Grams Of limiting" at ann exation, in his public
utteIances.
-Bonnots are worn smaller than ever. a
putting Of velvet and fall Of lace. and 10! you
have bonnet.
-Hgh-aocked dresses, are cut little lower
in the front to make room for the locket so
much worn at present.
Tho Georgia Legislature has passed q res
olntion to elect Representatives to Congress on
the first Monday in April.
The Now York Society for the Prevention
of Gam bling captured thirty-two clerks last
month, in the different gambling saloons OF
>fhe city.
The Countess of Sartiges, wife OF the for
1ner Minister of France in this country, who
uss a Protestant has just become Roman
Catholic.
The society to propagate the Catholic
faith receivc.,a million dollars last year, OF
which ninc-tenths was from one cent per week
subscriptions.
-Jol,. Brousham has made hit in his new
theatre, at New York, by introducing scene
in which MISS E fife Germon rides yelocipede
on the stage.
One nf tho gambling establishments at
Baden-Dadsn has offered Mrs. Lincoln f2OOO
Der year to remain there as tho guest OF that
establishment for three years. The offer has
beer accepted.
Tie New YORK gossips say that E1w'n
Booth has been pla! ing Romeo to Miss Mary
McVickors' Juliet, for several months, and the
probabilities arc that he will soon change the
role TO that OF Benedict.
Tho total cost OF the Prussian war Of 1856.
asysrified b. the Berlin Court Of Accounts,
r.ts to $50. $50, ia thalers (three francs
,,evensy-fve confines each), and of which 49,
0y6 were fer secret political purposes.
"A CORES 2ondent mentions that hencetoi'
ward there will not be two altar lights during
the celebration OF the Sacrament ct ST. Adams,
Hoborn, London, but that seven pendant
hmps will be kept constantly burning bcfo7e
the altar.
NJ the opening of the Legislative Ciiam-
bers in Paris. the procession was at,entivoly
watched by ex-Queen Isabella from her present
abode. 1t was remarked that she wore ''"k
of deep melancholy. doubtless caused by
former recollectlouS
The authorship Of "The Girl of tho Period
s1nd other essays OF the Same class published
In tae Saturday Review, is now attributed on
good authority to Mrs. Lynn Linton, author OF
<sLdzze Loron" and other novels. Edmund
Yates says so, and he ought to know.
a curious feature marked the business OF
4he London Stock Exchange a fortnight ago.
There was a revived demand for the Corfcde-
xate loan, which was quoted st se 10s The
idea that some recognition of these bonds
may be given by the Anglo-Americau com-
mission, has brought about this renewed
speculation.
There is no mstakIng the feeling engen-
dared among the several factions OF Republi-
cans. 1t is quite bitter, but except as to the
Wade and Butler controversy, the probability
5a that the storm will blow over before the sun
sets tomorrow. Butler and Wade are posi-
tive men-both courageous and determined
warm friends and intense haters. What will
come of their "little unpleasantness" is not
easily OWNED.
"A peculiarly favored Paris correspondent
tells how Eugenie dresses. When the Empress
Ii. about to pass from her apartment to her
dressing-room, the first femme de chambre
touches an electric bell that corresponds with
Che room overhead. Thereupon trap-door In
The ceiling OF the dressing-room opens, and
TIE toilette the Empress has signifed her in
tention Of wearing is lowered from above
peiticoats, slip. dress, tunics, all ready to pat
ra, one inside the other, with their trimmings
of hoYers and ribbons, founces and lace.
quarter of an b our after she is dressed. neck
lace, Jewels and earrings are in their places,
md then the hairdresser is summoned; for the
Empress, contrary to tho usual fashion, leaves
her coiffnre to tae last. The whole process Is
completed in less than half an hour.
Tho Herald of Wednesday reports: "South-
aun securities were more in demand. Private
InvestCrs and few of the country banks we're
purchasers. The market closed with the fol-
lowing quotations: Virginia, ex coupon, Sega
81; d., new, 62a625; do, registered stock, sega
81; Georgia SKIES, s2aSi; do. sevens, 922a93; DO.
sagens, interest payable in Georgia, $3.50;
North Carolina, ez coupon, 6Sa6Ss; do, new,
613a62!; Alabama eiGhts, 90 81; do. fvcs, 65a
66; So1th Carolina sixss. 73A74; do. neE, 71a72;
City OF Memphis SKIES, 53a54; City of Atlanta
.eights, sOaS4; lily OF Savannah scveas, s9a9o;
City OF New Orleans consols, 1880; Mobile and
Ohio s.erling 62sa6s; do eishts, 5oa52; Missis-
sippi Central Ralr~ad, first mortgage, 6sa7o;
memphis and Charleston, first mortgage. goa
81; do. second mortgage, 74a76"
There ia precious row in the Congress
sional camp at Washington. The Republicans
ere divided into four parties one sustaining
tho action OF the Senate In the Georgia matter;
another sustaining the decision Of the House,
which was the reverse of that of the Senate on
Tho same subject; another party sustaining;
fhe rulings of Speaker Colfax and Senator
Wade. tho latter characterized by Butler as
arbitrary; and another party maintaining that
General Butler was right in the positions he
.urgued. Tho Democrats favor any and a
uositions that are calculated to increase tho IN
Felicity and confusion among the various fac