The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-01
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sales 1000 bales ut 28Aa282c.
Cotton in Liverpool closed yesterday quiet
at 11bd for uplands; Orleans 12td; sales 10, 900
bales.
The bridge across the Mississippi, at st.
Louis, is to be at once begun.
The London Fun proposes to re-christen the
Russian capital ''St. Pattisburg."
The very long gauntlet kid glove still re-
tains it's great popularity among the fashiona-
bile young ladies.
The Richmond Whig Gays it has gratifying
assurances that General Grant will give Vir-
ginia fair election.
The slave trade is said to be extinct, the
English squadron to suppress it being W tn
drawn from the African coast.
The Cornell University, at Ithaca, N.
rs said to be negotiating with John Stuart Mill,
to get him to accepts professorship.
The Nonpare' and &c Red, White and
Blue" are to be matched across the Atlantic.
the one making the longest time over to be the
winner.
An able-bodied negro died Of starvation
at Columbus, Ga, recently, the evidence at
the inquest showing that he starved rather
than work.
The faro bankers Of New Orleans are try
Ing to make the United States Assessor call
their game lottery, 80 that they may be taxed
and find legal existence.
William Sturgis, Of Chic lgo, who hast Just
yone into bankruptcy, reports his liabilities at
four n; lion, four hundred and ffty-ave thou
sand do,lars They do everything on liberal
scale in Chicago.
1t ls reported that on the 1st of July the
emigrant will be able to leave New York city
and make the through trip on the railroad to
Sacramento for less than 500 in currency; cost
for passage and through tickets for passage
in frst-cass cars will not cost over 800 in
gold.
Incredible as it may seem, q three story
brick house, eighteen by forty feet, and in the
construction Of which 42.s5o brick were used,
was built in Lancaster, Pa, last week, in nine
teen and half hours. and persons were living
in it within three days from the time it was
commenced.
The Massachusetts Senate has concluded
to exempt lager from the catalogue Of intoxi-
eating drinks which are to be forbidden by the
prohibitory law, provided that the article
does not contain more than three and one-half
per centum of alcohol. Furthermore it is not
to be sold at public bar or to be drank on the
premises.
Mr.. Patrick Henry Jonee, late registrar of
of New York city, in place Of Mr.. Kelly, who
was nominated but not confirmed by the SEN
ate. He is the same gentleman who generous
ly came forward and accepted the registrarship
OF New York city, made vacant by the death OF
Charles g. Halpine, (Miles OReilly) to whose
widow he turned over the full salary of the,of-
foe for the unexpired term.
-General Howard proposes to continue the
n1r OF fho GNy,fh hso6
commenced while he was at the head OF the
Freedmens Bureau. It is stated in recent
reports that State Superintendent, under the
Bureau, show desire for a continuance of
this work at all points except in Texas,
where prejudice is 80 strong that it is found
impossible to do the proper educational work,
and within brief period not less than sixty
schoolhouses have been closed. For the
purpose OF continuing the work, General How
ard proposes to raise the funds in the North.
1t is said that General Lee who was, at last
accounts in Baltimore, is about to visit Presi-
dent Grant. dispatch to the New York Her
aid says "a gentleman who processes to know
the facts connected with this projected visit
states that General Lee, who is now in Balti-
more, where lie has been staying for q week
past will come to Washington shortly, and
rs stated that the General will visit the White
House during his stay here, and will have one
or more interviews with the President, who
has requested General Lee to call upon him.
1t is intimated that the object OF the inter-
view sought for by the President is to obtain
from General Lee his opinion in regard to the
working Of the reconstruction laws in the State
of Virginia, and Of the present temper OF the
leading citizens of the South. What other
anstters are to be touched upon by the two
principal military chieftains is not definitely
known, but from all that has leaked out con-
corning the proposed conference it is fair to
infer that it will be Of more than ordinary
Significance"
"A New York letter, OF Tuesday, says: SIT
is long while since anything has ,casioned
80 much remark in newspaper circles as the
scandalous developments contained in the Sum.
OF this morning, concerning the way in which,
tits alleged, Mr.. John Russell Young, manag-
ing editor Of the Tribune, has been using the
influence Of his position to prornose his own
pecuniary interests at the expense las it is
further alleged) OF Senator Cameron. OF Penn.
sylvania, Judge Chase, and othor prorniu mt
politicians; also, the Tribune stockholders:
also, the New York Associated press. The
whole press feel that the profession mas i,een
disgraced by these doings OF one OF ,ts mann.
aers, II true; and, IL NOT true, that It has bean
not less disgraced by the publications in the
San. It is due to Mr.. Young to say that ha
ds yet to have hearing before the public, and
that 1t would be unfair, in the meantime. to
condemn him, unheard, however much appeap-
ances may be against him. And yet, II must
be added, that at meeting OF the Tribune
stockholders last evening, he was deprived of
his posiHon-though, for some reason or
other, the vote was reoonsidered, and 30 the
gentleman still holds on"
The project Of ship railway across the
1sthmus has been discussed OF late, and me-
norial in that behalf was lately offered by Mr..
WILSON In the Senate. The idea is OF lcadinr
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