The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold closed at New York yesterday at 20t.
The New York cotton market was quiet and
steady at 25Xc; sales 1900 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton was steady; uplands
11Xd; Orleans 1lzd; sales 900 bales.
Wilmington, N. c., paves her streets with saw
dust.
a State Female Suffrage Convention is to
meet in San Francisco i. ,nuary %.
"A game Of chess la ling ten years has just
been decided. One Of the players lives In Ger
many, the other in New York.
John Brougham is in Buffalo, Mrs. D. P. Bow
ers 10 in New Orleans, and John E. owens Is In
vlcksburg.
-one thousand dollars reward has been offered
dn New York by q mother for the recovery OF her
child, seven years DID, stolen" by the father, who
has been divorced from the mother.
Governor Haight, OF California, in his mes
sage Just at hand, takes ground against Chinese
immigration, but favors the admission Of Chinese
testimony in the courts.
General Canby has ordered the payment, on
New Years day, OF one per cent. OF the Interest
due on the Virginia State bonds, both coupon and
registered, on the 1st OF January last.
I'm q street atfray in New Orleans last Friday,
Mr.. p " Ducros, secretary OF the Knickcrbockcr
Insurance Company, shet and mortaly wounded
Mr.. E. ]. Byrd. The parties are connected by
marriage, and the encounter grew out of family
differences.
The Richardson Mcfarland case Is to be re-
yiyed in the Surrogate's Court, in New York, In
contest for his property. Mr.. Richardson did not
make WILL and his relatives Intend to contest
the legality of the death-bed marriage on the
ground that the dying bridegroom was under the
influence Of opiates at the time, and did not know
what he was about.
in consequence OF the receRt seizure OF alfthe
sugar in the bonded warehouses Of New York and
Brooklyn, for alleged frauds in weighing trade in
that article has been seriously interfered with, and
the price has advanced from two and quarter to
two and half cents per pound, according to
grade. contemporary hopes that it Will not
turn out by and by that the officers engaged in
making the seizure were in q combination 10 get
I'D a corner in sugar, and invoked the power OF
government TO do what they lacked the nerve and
capital to accomplish in the usual way. But
stranger things have happened.
The sharpest censures bestowed upon the
4sbigamous wedding" in New York are by the
religious press The Catholic press, holding strict
notions upon the sanctity OF the marriage tic.
have been poi1uedy condemnatory OF the affair,
Episcopalians, the Methodists, the Baptists, Pres
.byterlans and Congregationalists. The Church
man, (Episcopalan,) in review OF the conduct OF
Messrs. rockingham and Beecher says positive
ly: at was gratuitous piece OF wrong-doing.
1t could be nothing but the merest form, ana lis
sole meaning was to give On additional pang TO
the murderer, and 10 throw contempt upon the
law OF the State OF New York and tile holy ordi-
of hfcI, ,uynt
the marriage"
-Apropos OF the "equal rights" business In
Washington, "Mack" tells this story "a negro
member Of Council recently offered and secured
the passage OF an ordinance denying license to
any restaurant or place OF amusement that refused
to treat negro customers ON perfect equality
with whites The father OF that measure Is the
owner OF the principal barber shop In the
city. While one OF his workmen was scrap
Ing my chin the other day, asked him
II he ever had any oOlored customerSf no.
sab, we don't shave no Eigsas In dis
Shop was the prompt reply. 'But,' said l,
asuppose coIOred IMAM were 10 come in and sit
down in one Of the chairs, like do, what would
you dop Put him our, sab ! Some shops'll
shave niggas, but dis isstoo 'spectabe for dat
lyon wouldn't refuse 10 shave the cOlored Con
orressmen from Louisiana would you" Yes,
sah wouldn't shave no niggas, no however if
dey was President. One o. General GRANTS mig
gas came here one day-but he didn't git no
shaye-no sah. Wese got all we can do to shave
de white folks, and don't want no niggas.'"
The bushwhackers who attacked Mr.. Turner,
Of Spartanburg, on the sth, and wounded his
daughter, have since set fire TO bis house anu