The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-13
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Sales 1000 bales at 80 cents.
Cotton in Liverpool closed easier but not
lower. Sales 5000 bales. Uplands 12&d.a12Sd.
NO life insurance company has ever failed
in this country.
Mexican journals accuse Minister Rose
Grams of limiting" at ann exation, in his public
utterances.
--Bonnets are worn smaller than ever A
putting Of velvet and fall of lace, and 10 +! you
have : bonnet
--High-nccked dresses are cut little lower
in the front to make room for the locket so
much worn at present.
The Georgia Legislature has passed res
olution to elect Representatives to Congress on
the first Monday in April.
Tho New York Society for the Prevention
of Gambling captured thirty-two clerks last
month, in tho different gambling saloons of
the city.
The Countess of Sartiges, wife Of the for
mer Minister of France in this country, who
was Protestant has just become Roman
Catholic.
The society to propagate the Catholic
faith received q million dollars last year, of
which nine-tenths was from one cent per week
subs ,riptions.
theatre, at New York, by introducing scene
in which Miss Efie Germon rides velocipede
on tho stage.
One OF the gambling establishments at
Baden-Bade has offered Mrs. Lincoln $4,000
per yoar to remain there as tho guest Of that
establishment for throe years. The offer has
been accepted.
The Now York gossips say that Edwin
p0o% ~, L,or
Mcvicers juliet, for several months, and the
probabilities are that he will soon change the
role to that of Benedict.
-Ihe tota! cost Of the Prussan war of 1866,
as verified by the Berlin Court Of Accounts,
amounts to 15O83O, ia thalers (three francs
seventy-fvc ccntimes each), and of which 729,-
O96 wore for secret political purposes.
"A correspondent mentions that hencefor-
ward there will not be two altar lights during
the celebration of the Sacrament at st. Alban's,
Holborn, LONDON, but that seven pendant
lamps will be kept constantly burning before
the altar
-at the opening of the legislative Cham
bers in Paris, the procession was attentively
watched by ex-Queen Isabella from her present
abode. It was remarked that sho wore a look
OF doep melancholy, doubtless caused by
former renollections
The authorship Of ''The Girl Of the Period"
and otaer essays or The same Class published
in the Saturday Review, is now attributed on
good authority to Mrs. Lynn Linton, author of
s'Lizzio Loron" and other novels. Edmund
Yates says so, and he ought to know.
"A curious feature marked the business of
the London Stock Exchange fortnight ago.
There WAS revived demand for the Coincide
rate loan, which was quoted at f9 1Os The
idea that some recognition of these bonds
may be given by the Anglo-American com
mission, has brought about this renewed
speculation.
There is no mistalong the feeling engen-
dered among the several factions of Republi-
cans. 1t is quite bitter, but except as to the
Wade and Butler controversy, the probability
is 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 correspo ndent
tells how Eugenie dresses. When the Empress
is about to pass from her apartment to her
dressing-1oom, the first femme de chambre
touches an electric bell that corresponds with
the room overhead. Thereupon q trap-door in
the ceiling Of the dressing-room opens, and
the toilette the Empress has signified her in
tention Of wearing is lowered from above
petticoats, slip, dress, tunlcs all ready to put
on, one inside the other, with their trimmings
OF flowers and ribbons, founces and lace. A
quarter OF an hour after she is dressed. neck
lace, Jewels and earrings are in their places,
and then the hairdresser is summoned; for the
Empress. contrary to the usual fashion, leaves
her coifure to the last. The whole process is
completed in less than half an hour
The Herald Of Wednesday reports: "South-
ern securities were more in demand. Private
investors and few OF the country banks were
purchasers. The market closed with tho fol-
lowing quotations: Virginia, OK coupon, 564a
81; do, new, 62a623; do, registered stock sofa
81; Georgia SKIES, s2a84; do. sevens, 922a93; do.
sevens, interest payable in Georgia, 87a9O;
North Carolina, OK coupon, 68a6sa; do, new,
613a624; Alabama eights, 93l94; do. fves, 65a
66; South Carolina SKIES, 7sa74; do. new, 71a72;
City of Memphis SKIES, 53a54; City Of Atlanta
eights, 80a8t; City Of Savannah seveps, 89a90;
City Of New Orleans consols, 1880; Mobile and
Ohio sterling 62aa63; do eights, 50a52; Missis-
sippi Central Railroad. first mortgage, 68a7O;
Memphis and Charleston, first mortgage, GOA
%; do. second mortgage, 74a76."
There is o precious row in the Congress
sional camp at Washington. The Republicans
are divided into four parties one sustaining
the action ofthe Senate in the Georgia matter;
another sustaining the decision Of the House,
which was the reverse OF that Of the Senate on
the same subject; another party sustaining
the rulings OF Speaker Colfax apA Senator
Wade, the latter characterized by Butler as
arbitrary; and another party maintaining that
General Butler was right in the positions he
argued. The Democrats favor any and all
positions that are calculated to increase the in
felicity and confusion among the various fac
tions OF the Republicans, and they take COM
fort in tha nroanect OF q lio braach hatm maor,