The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-12
N 10 Ws s. U M M Il r. z.

Gold in New York on Saturday closed at
$50.
Cotton was firm, with sales of 5000 bales at
e5o.
In Liverpool cotton was firmer, with sales of
600 bales; uplands 12sd; Orleans 124d.
The Philadelphia Press afarms "aIthorita-
vely" that Mrs. Twitchen will publish state
ment within a few days. @
Tho net profits on q sugar plantation in
he Parish OF Landry, Louisiana, last year,
with ninety acres cultivated in cane and eighty
corn. amounted to twenty-five thousand 81 K
hundred and sixty dollars.
German Capitalization has gained ano ther
victory on the question Of tho language to be
adopted in giving the word Of command to the
roops. Henceforth the German Is t. be used
or the whole Cis-Leithan portion of the Aus
rian monarchy.
1t is almost incredible that in the Massa-
husetts Legislature, few days ago, an
amendment to the liquor bill was offered, pro-
viding that any clergyman furnishing ferment-
ed wine at sacranental communion table
shall be deemed guilty of keeping q publ :.
bar The Boston Hsrald reports this fact.
Tho Gazette de st. Petersburg states that
sanguinary conflict has just taken place at
Cronstadt between the seamen and soldiers in
that town; nearly four thousand men took
part in the f. ht, which resulted in six of the
oombatants being killed and many others
wounded. Several officers were ill-used in at.
tempting to put stop to the disorder.
-M;. Benjamin Wood, Of New York, is out
with q challenge, as follows First. That the
Evening News clrculates daily more copies
than the New York Herald. Second. That it
olrculates moro than twice the combined clrcu-
= alton OF all the other New York evening pa
pers. Third. That it has larger circulation
than auy other daily in the United States.
Will wager $1,000 on each proposition, proceeds
to 60 to some charity in New York
The Cincinnati Gazette (Radicall is op-
posed to any more test oaths. It says s.Ex-
perience has proved that swearing will not
make rebels loyal nor save country. It was
supposed that by tradition the American peo-
pie were opposed to test-oaths, but in the ex-
citenent of war we have pushed the oath busi-
ness to extremity. We suspect that the whole
result may be summed up in this: that our
extra oaths excluded only the honorable men
among the rebels. and admitted the worst,
who took the oath and remained just as they
were before
"A correspondent OF the New York Tribune
b as visited dri l-room used by Cubans in that
ity who are engaged in recruiting for the rev.
olutionary forces. He says elm reply to
). questions it was stated that there we're
probably 1900 Cubans drilling in this city, in
hirteen different halls, besides four or five
hundred in Philadelphia. When they would
all, no one seemed to know, as the leaders Of
heenterprise kept that a secret, even from the
aptain. but it was asserted that plenty Of am
munition and Spencer rifles would be forthcom-
ing whenever needed, and that two companies
ne of GO men and the other of 70, had already
eft"
"A dispatch to the New York Tribune says:
SThe message OF President Grant, in regard to
econstruction in Virginia and Mississippi, was
expected by those familiar with his views.
His policy is believed to be similar to that
teadily urged by the Tribune, viz Universal
mnesty and universal suffrage and it is GER
ain that he is strongly opposed to the dis
reimbursement and disqualification clauses
ontained in the Virginia and Mississippi con-
s titutions. he wishes to see these submitted
eparately. and also the county organizat,on
ystem, so that if they are rejected working
6 overnment may still be promptly organized
Or the two States in accordance with the pol.
oy ofthe Reconstruction aots OF Congress. He
opposed to all other tests than they propose,
. nd desires all these questions to be promptly
Q nd peacefully settled" VIZ
Sir Edward Ounard, one OF the owners OF
he Cunard ilne OF steamers, it is announced,
led suddenly OF heart disease in New York on
he evening Of April7. he was the son OF Sir
amuel CunaTd, who was IN 1859 created bar
onet OF the United Kingdom, for his services
establishing the trans Atlantic steamship
l ne. Sir Edward Cunard was born in Halifax,
= H1nvv nals g.,
daughter Of Bache Mowers, merchant of
New York. His residence was on Staten Is.
and, New York. Lady Cunard died in 1866.
The line OF mail steamers with which the name
ofCunard is SO famiiiary connec ed, was start
cd by The father Of MIR. Ounard in 184O, at
whose death, in 1865. Edward inherited both
the title and the business. He had previously
managed all it's affairs on this side Of the At
lanti, The line was started with four vessels
subsidized by the British Government, but so
successful did the enterprise prove, that from
time to time other lines we're also started by
the company, and now they have twenty five
vessels on the Mediterranean Sea, on the At
iantic, and elsewhere. The Cunards, father
ana son, preferred safety to speed in their veg
seis, and hence they always enjoyed the public
oonnoence' which they hold even to this day.
-Onder date OF New Orleans, April 8, the
new xork Herald publishes the following: can
expedition is now fitting out in this city which
will be Of. the most formidable character. and
which the government, If it desires to naintain
it's popularity and retain the affections Of Che
people, it had better mot interfere with anv
further than to make show OF good faith to.
ward the Spanish Government. The progress
OF tire expedition may be retarded by official
interference. but it cannot be stopped. There
are men ut the head Of 1t and men at the back
oft who never say fail, and those who are In
the secret here look forward to certain success
and beneficial results. Cuba must be free,
tho wstchword Of the expeditionists, and
they win not stop until the command becomes
fact. That such men Oh Francis p. Blair and
General Bteedman are deep In the movement is
ao SECRET here, and Ia common talk. That She