The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-01
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| AT New York cotton closed steady and
active. Sales $500 bales, at 26c.
4 The Liverpool cotton market closed firm:
,,plands on the spot 10bd., afoat 1O2d; Or
cans I'D. Sales $1,000 bales.
England has to send to this country for
obsters.
The first velocipede has appeared in New
Orleans.
-General George b. Mcclellan is now named
as Secretary of War in Grants Cabinet.
Boston has 'veloclpedagogues' to teach
the people to ride that vehicle.
The first Strawberries of the season made
their appearance in the New Orleans market
asst week, selling So the basket.
Alaska contains about $4,000, 600 acres,
and was purchased at little less than two cents
the acre.
Over 10000 plants have been sent from tho
experimental gardens at Washington to all
parts Of the United States.
DR. Pusey is charged with encouraging
confession and epjoinipg penance upon tho un-
der-graduates of Oxford.
A Massachusetts physiologist asserts that
there are no fine singers who use tobacco. 1t
3 proved in the dissecting room, he claims,
that tobacco Injuries the voice.
1T is claimed that the commerce o. Chi
cago is moro than two-tnirds that Of the port
of New York, although Chicago harbor is
closed by ice four months i'll the year.
An apostle of Mormonism IL Denmark
writes to Brigham Young that there are five
thousand members of the Mormon Church in
that country.
Nearly every American newspaper now
prints column Of short items. They are
quite popular with readers, and editors have
{ ound it out.
President Johnson, it is understood, in
ends retiring all army officers over sixty-two
years Of age, among whom are Adjutant- Gene
41al Lorenzo Thomas, Paymaster General Brice
and Lrigadicr- G Genaral Philip S.. George Cooke.
"A Washington correspondent Of one OF the
New York papers disposes Of the generaship
-question as follows ''The Office of general,
especially created for General Grant: is to be
abolished this session of Congress- to take ef-
feet the, 4th Of March next This will leave
General Sherman in command OF the army,
with the rank OF lieutenanS-gencral."
The st. Louis City Council has been peti /.
tionod to print and circulate document setr
ting forth the ad7untage of that city as nal
tional capital. st. Louis is fourteen hundred
miles from Now York, thirteen hundred miles
from New Orleans, two thousand miles from
San Francisco, and about seven hundred miles
rom the Northern border.
"A writer in the Richmond Wig and Dis
patch, who is said to be 'tone of the most dis
tinguished statesmen in the Valley OF Vir-
ginia,'' after setting forth ''the difficulties OF
our situation; of the impossibility Of avoiding
negro suffrage, and Of the possibility of es-
Gaping other and worse evils,'' advises the
people of Virginia to agree upon the platform
of universal amnesty and universal suffrage"
and, framing q constitution upon this basis, to
-dsk at the hands Of Congress it's substitution
or the s'obnoxious instrument proposed by
the late convention.
The fact that venders Of quack medicines
and newsdealers have taken to forging the
names Of senators and members of Congress-
and use their names to swindle the Postoffice
Department out of thousands OF dollars, calls
/ or the immediate action Of Congress. There
but one way to remedy this growing evil
and that is to repeal the law and appropriate
2 liberal allowance to senators and members of
Congress for postage. The persons using
them should not only be exposed, but brought
to Justice. The Pos.oface Department could
readily find evidence to convict the parties en-
gagged in this systematic swlndlc.
n The Cuban insurgents hold out we'll. 1t is
Dpow about tnree months since, with only five
FAhundred mon, they raised the standard of re-
volt. Though all tho Spanish troops in the
island, and all the volunteers that could be or
dGanized are sent against them, they appear to
Zoe stronger and more determined than ever.
They have now in the field at least fifteen thou
isand mon, tolerably armed and provided, who
Z have had experience Of campaigning and Of bat
ytle, and do not hesitate to cope with the veto
rams OF Spain. Not only is the whole eastern
portion OF the island in their hands, but they
lare gradually advancing westward, ana even fill
Havana with alarm.
i 1t appears that the ordinary and the OK
sItraordinary abuses OF the Ganking privilege
8are not enough. Members hav, not only been
M tNakiag everything indiscrlminately them
9aassss, and having fac simile stamp of their
Ieutog.aph made, that evary mechanical faci-
s| l.,;. 1t .e employed for increasing the post
IS flee deficiency, but, these devices not having
kmals lalF4 eheap enough, counterfeit stamns
Ehave been prep ed in New York. Senator
SMorgan's frank has thus been counterfeitea
to an alarming extent, and likewise that or
representative Lincoln. Is there any better
escape from this fraud than in abolishinp the
\ whole system.
The Washington Evening Express vouches
for the credibility OF gentleman who saws. in
ats columns, that when Judge Campbell. Of
South Carolina, was in Washington attempting
to arrange terms for the separation of his
State from the Union, President Lincoln pre-
pared proclamation giving his assent. The
writer says that shortly after the breaking of
OF the effort to avert the dire catastrophe Of
war. gentleman having free access to the
private Office Of President Lincoln repaired to
the capital Of South Carolina and deposited
with high official Of that State o manuscript
proclamation of President Lincoln, duly pre-.
pared and ready for his signature, announcing
TO the American people that, rather than
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