The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-19
VIEWS SUM Nh r 7.


Sales 800 bales at 2s4c.
At Liverpool cotton closed fiat; uplsnds
lad; Orleans 12ld. sales 5000 bales.
Kentucky is geing into artificial fish cul-
ture:
-E1-President Roberts, Of Liberia, is now
visiting the scenes Of his childhood in vr-
ginia.
Grass is six inches high in some parts OF
California, and SNOW is sixteen inches deep IN
other parts.
..-Rsv. a. ". Bsecher's mife makes five thou
sand dollars year ''pln money! by editing
skIother OF Home"
Mr.. Ferber, German-American. lately re-
visited bis birthplace, sauer, in siIesia, and
presented ten Thousand dollars to its poor.
The son of New Orleans banker is to
marry the Princess crolina Bonaparte, the
one furnishing the title, the other the cash.
"A man named Wlhnghan,, said to be from
South Carolina, was killed on Georgia rail-
road few days ago, while on his way to see
his brother III Atlanta.
The Miss Van lew, who has been appoint
ed postmistress at Richmond, Va, was Fed
eral SPY during the war, and is said to have
furnished Grant repeatedly with valuable In
formation.
The clereymen attached to Trinity Church,
New York. have had their salaries raised, and
il one instance there has been the very hand
some advance from twenty-five hundred dol
lars to ten thousand dollars.
Somebody at Washington announces that
Four .rapslations are making OF "Badeau's His
tory of Grant" into French, Spanish, Italian
and German. Nobody has yet undertaken, we
believe, to translate it nto English.
"A shoe dealer of Cleveland has invented
novel apparatus for measuring lady's foot.
With this machine correct measur .ment Is
taken OF every part that the shoe covers, SO
that the whole shoe can be m ide the exact
size and shape desired.
1t is pleaded in the mitigation OF the de-
scent from Dix to Washburne as our represen-
tatiye at Paris, that Washburne can't speak
French. 30 that be will not be able to let peo-
ple perceive how little he knows. But, alas,
the Emperor Napoleon speaks English.
Tho cotton trade in England is very dull,
and the foreign papers report that very few OF
the large manufacturers are running their
mills six days in the week. The majority OF
the establishments have been open only tour
and five days in the week, aud now the time ls
genera Iy to be reduced to three days.
"A Washington dispatch to the New York
Herald says: Professor e. D. Bassett, OF the
Philadelphia f.olored High School, colored, is
an applicant for the office Of Minister Resi-
dent and Consult -aener Ito Hayti. He Is sup
ported by George T. Downing. Professor Bas-
sett was attended ~ quite rerinue OF premi-
nent eolored backers, who took position in the
marble room and exhibited considerable inge-
nuity in button-holing senators"
-Ad miral Farragut was the irst citizen to
whom Presidep. Grant communicated his Cab
met sppointments. The admiral called just
after General Rawlins had lefttar the capitol
with the nominations, and the President asked
him to guess who was the Secretary OF the
Navy. .Farragut guessed successfully A. b.
Rice. Griswold, Stuart, Creswell, Holt, Bout
well, Hawley, and several other names, the
President telling him after each one to guess
again, until he gave it up. The President then
informed him, and proceeded to give thu
names Of the other Cabinet Ulcers.
1t will be recollected that President Grant,
Immediately upon taking h's Office directed
that certain pardons issued by President
johnson, should be revoked, or withheld rom
the persons intended to be pardoned, in certain
cases in New York, Massachusetts,, and else
where. Attorney General Hoar has had this
subject under consideration, and it is under
stood he decides that the revocation OF the
President will not stand in law; that the act
Of the Executive was complete when the War
rant Of the pardon was placed IN the hands OF
United States marshal or other officer; and
that If the persous intended to be pardoned
shall not be released, that upon haoeas corpus
the courts would release them.
w hen our lady readers ride on yelocipedes
thew must wear the following dress, prescribed
by the s.Yelocipedist:" "Let the outer dress
skirt be ma SO as to button it's entire length
in front he hack part should be made to but
ton from The bottom to point about three
eiguts OF yard up the skirt. This arrange
ment does not detraot al all from the appear-
auce of an ordinary walking costume. When
the wearer wishes to prepare for drive, she
simply looseus Two or there OF the lower but
tons at the front aud back, and bringing to-
gethsr tie two ends OF each side, separately,
butto Us them around each ankle. This gives
full ekirt around each ankle, and when
mounted, the dress falls gracefully at each side
of the front Wheel"
AT the Charity Hospital in New Orleans,
on Thursday last, there passed away from this
life, with not friend o. relative at his bedside,
and utterly penniless. man who at one time
was perhaps as widely known in the South,
particularly during the days OF the Confcdc-
racy as any one ID it-a man who was at the
head Of the leading publishing house Of the
South, with quite handsome Fortune of his
owns. e. Goeizel, OF the firm of s. 81. Goet-
zel & Co., booksellers and publishers, Mobile
and New Orleans. Mr.. Goelzel died OF con-
0nmntion. from which disease he had been suf-
fering for years, and which, duri lS the latter
days of his life was the cause OF acute and
terrible pain. reducing him to mere shadow
of his former sc.f. long before he sought the
refuge Of an hospital.
The order drafted By General Schohe:c
for the consolidation of the regiments no" IN
service in accordance with the provisions OF
the new law for the reduction OF the army, mas
been issued. The cavalry and'artillery reSl-
ments re main unchanged. The forty-flve reei-
ments OF infantry are to be consolidated INTO
tvonfr-Svs Tb;s.vyilI throw twelve colonies,