The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-17
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Gold closed in New York at SIS.

al 153, SdlSo 5Vo o@ieS' I..l,,,
Cotton in Liverpool at noon' Ses.e,u@'
WAS quoted declining uplands lz4a' oFt0"n'
19ad; sales 5000 bales. 49,.
..Fonr thousand million pounds OF rags at
-..-..toa to he annually made into paper II
the world.
TT is stated that new locality has peer
found in Germany for the celebrated Soienno
fern hthographic stones.
"A Vienna millionaire recently committed
suicide, but before he did ii he made bonhre
Of all his paper money, bonds, Jewels deeas
&C.. in order to spite his heirs.
They tell OF Fifth Avenue mansion deco,
rated with point lace curtains, India shaw
coverings on the furniture, bronze doors, ano
silver monograms on everything
in Boston 4 grocer once had but foul
weights, with which he weighed any number Of
pounds, from one to forty. They consisted o.
one. three, nine, twenty-seven pound weiSnts'
"A Washington telegram says: "Nev. MI
Lewis, Pastor of st. Johns Church, Eplsco-
nen n, behalf OF the relatives of Harold.s
friends, has applied to the President for per
;,oise;on 10 remove the remains TO the famliy
battle-ground Application mas now Deen
mode for the bodies of all those executed tor
complicity in the assassination OF Mr.. Llrcoin'
ex.sot Payue, and there is no doubt sna1 tpe
President will give orders according to the re-
quest OF the petitioners"
A Washington letter OF Sunday says
ITO insure the passage of bills at this session
of Congress, irrespective OF the Presidents ap-
proval or disappToYal, it will be necessary t-iat
they got through both branches by noon vi
next Saturday, the Goth instant. Accordingly,
to ;ecure action upon the resolution amend
ing she constitution as to suffrage in case OF
veto by the President, Mr. Boutwell, Will to-
morrow move that the House concur Ill the
Senate amendments to the resolution"
Tho mammoth OK General Grant, which
was presented to the President elect In New
York, has arrived safely in Washington. This
animal is mobile specimen, perfectly white, and
weighs over three thousand pounds. The OK is
consigned to q committee consisting OF Mayor
Bowen, Hen D. Cooke and Mr.. DeHaas, and
will bo exhibited at some suitable place IN the
city till about the 25th instant, when he will be
slaughtered for use on Inauguration day. BE
is eleven years old, was once presented to
President Lincoln, and by linn given to the
sanitary commission, whose funds by lis eS-
Libitiou during the var were increased about
$4,000. Ills skin will be stuffed for the Cen
tral PArk MUSEUM, New York, and his skeleton,
at the rcques. OF Professor Agassiz, deposited
in tho Museum of Comparative Zoology, at
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
General Cushing, the United States Special
Commissioner 10 Bogota, in connection with
the Isshmus Canal, returned TO Panama from
his mission on the 4th inst, and arrived in
New York by tho steamer Henry Chauncey on
Saturday It is stated that the General has
been entirely successful in his mission, and
brings home with him q treaty for the pro-
jected Isthuus canal, which only awaits the
approval OF the Congress Of the United States.
He arrived in Washington yesterday. During
his stay on the Isthmus, at Aspinwali, General
Cushing, accompanied By the United States
Consuls al Panama and Aspinwall, and other
gentlemen, called on his ExcelIency the Presi-
dent, and was received with military honors
and with the most becoming courtesy. After
wards General Cushing was entertained by
General Smith, at the United States Consul
late.
1t seems to be pretty generally conceded
that Mr.. Johnson, on retiring from the Presi-
dency, will plunge at once into the political
struggles Of Tennessee; and it seems to be
equally we'll understood tina: if he does, he will
make lively times for everybody concerned. A
Nashville letter in the leading Democratic
paper of St. Louis, the Republican, says there
is "a good deal Of opposition to the project on
the part OF the Democratic leaders; but this,
he thinks, will make 40 difference With the re-
suit. for he adds. that he never knew Mr.. john
son nominated OH the Democratic ticket with
out grest opposition from the party; but that
he always succeeded. The writer adds s'John-
son is not party leader, but leader OF ccr-
tain class Of the people. He is party driver.
IF it is his intention to canvass Tennessee tor
the Office Of Governor, he will do it, no matter
what Democratic leaders may say, no mattev
what bondnoldins Conservatives may say, no
matter what the Conservative papers of Ten
nessee may write on the subject. But none OF
these will openly oppose him. I caa safely
predic5 that A. J.'s can, ass for the Governor
ship OF this State, should it be made, will not
be exccllsd by anything in the way of political
drama, yet enacted, for richness of entertain
ment.n
"A Washington letter to the Baltimore Ga
zette says: t,'The examination of private SER
wants on Mr. Corcornn's claim excites no Iittlo
comment IN diplomatic circles. The claim for
the occupation OF property BY the Lincoln ad-
ministratio:: ,sas allowed in the Treasury De-
partment. Congress not denying the Justice
OF it, seeks TO avoid the payment of it BY tax
ing Mr.. Corcoran with disloyalty. Accordingly
MIR. Brewer, who was scarcely grown man
six or seven years ago, is brought before tue
Committee Oh the District OF Columbia, &c
whom the Gam has been referred in the Sen
ate, aud allowed to testify in an examination
strictly er parse, that at private dinner at thu
Russian Minister'S very prominent gentle
man-onc OF the old school-said that he would
give ten thousand dollars to have JEFF. Davi
come to Washington and hang Liucoln and hi
Cabinet, upon which DIR. c. slid that he woui'
give ten times as much. No gentleman
possessed Of that tact which long political ex
perience gives, would have so compromise
minister in troublous times. Besides which
another ceutleman, said 10 have been present
5ooIores that he never was at such dinner