The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-17
NEWS sum ma r z.


Gold closed in New, York yesterday at Ss.
Cotton in New York was quiet at 2S&c;
sales 1900 bales.
Major Charles o. Rogers, principal proprie-
tor of the Boston Journal, is dead.
Miss Van Lew, of Richmond, has decided
that her proper title is postmaster and not
postmistress.
The aurora borealis was very brilliant
northward. The telegraph lines were much
interrupted. -:
Count Bisma rck's two sons are 10 enter the
army. One is to join the Kings Hussars at
Bonn, and the other the Lancers, now garri-
soned at Hanover.
in nearly all the North schleswig Parishes
the Prussian Government has substituted Ger
man for Danish Clergymen, and the Danes abb
stain from churoi-going in consequence.
Green peas. shipped from Charleston, S.
c., we're sold in New York last Saturday at
from 81 to Z Is per sbushel;, and lettuce from
Savannah, sold in New York for IS 30 per bbl.
Let us not despair of the Republic. TIE
Imperialist, a journal established in New York
not long since to advocate monarchion form
of government for this country, has died for
want Of support. II
.-Thore is to be sharp struggle between
Chicago and San Francisco for the trade OF
Idaho, Montana, Utah and the White Pine re-
gion-a trade likely to add largely to the wealth
of the city that succeeds in controlling it.
The spirit photographers are undergoing
-, Mar
be remembered that they pretended TO furnish
the picture of deceased friend. whose shsd-
owy resemblance invariably. appeared at the
shoulder of the sitter, but wss produced by Or
dinary scientific means. They declined to
answer to the indictment.
Don Piatt has suddenly become tribe
acidulated in his re marks upon Grant Fer
haps that :; little business which occupied gust
ten minutes" didn't tura out happily. At any
rate, this is q bit OF his recent sarcasm: "Tne
bold, direct way in which Grant invited to his
Cabinet the men who had made him handsome
presents, and hen put all his relatives in Of
fee, took from the transaction any suspicion
of a wrong intent. It was only laughable."
Commander F. S. Fllebrown, of the
United States steamer Narragansett, reports
under date Of the 7th instant, from Havana,
the particulars Of two passengers, Cubans,
bavine been taken out OF the American schoon-
er Lizzie Major, ten leagues from the coast OF
ca, and imprisoned. The two persons were
named D. Santiago A. Anible and Don Ramon
Y. Rsivas It seems that they took passage
in the Lizzie Major at Vavana for New Orleans.
The schooner touched Remedies, took IN
a cargo, and sailed on the 26th of March fer
her destination. She was boarded the same
day by the Spanish frigate, as above stated.
The prisoners were carried back to Remedies
and incarcerated.3 One OF them is a lad of
about ten years OF age. They we're visited in
prison by Mr.. Stone, United States Consular
agent at that point, who made q demand on
the Commandant of the Province for their re-
lease; who did not feel authorized to release
them without orders from his superiors. The
case having been made known to. Mr. Hall,
United States Consul General at Havana, be
has brought it to the attention Of the Captain
General of Cuba, who has ordered thorough
Investigation to be made. The ground OF the
arrest is said to be that the names Of the pas
,sengers were not on the manifest OF the
schooner.
Tho foreign nominations as whole are
said to be very unsatisfactory to the Senate,
although party fealty will secure their confir-
nation. Mr.. jays assignment to Vienna is
regarded as 6rst-rate second-rate sort OF COM
pliment, and his friends are the reverse OF we'll
pleased, except as to the small thapkfulness
with which commensurate favors are received.
Mr.. Jaw has amassed large fortune, and has
acquired the reputation Of good deal OF cul-
ture. More over, he directly re presents deal
OF subscription and the vhele Of the Loyal
League. His claims we're :ated high, and they
:. are felt not to have been duly rewarded. ;The
.supersedure Of Henry Sanford at Brussels by
the unknown J. Russell Jones, Of Illinois, made
great conformation in tho Senate. "Who is
Jones 2n took the place Of the conundrum,
ssWho is Borie ?" and in every instance it was
given up. There is likelihood OF Pile de-
cttutug to go to Venezuela. Clay, to Liberia,
and Bassett, 70 Hayti, are two negroes, one OF
Louisiana and the color Of an old saddle; the
other OF Philadelphia and genuine black.
They are said to be men Of ability and wealth.
The nomination of ex-senator John S. q. Car
Isle, Of West Virginia. to be minister-resident
at Stockholm, is to Radicals decided surprise,
to say the least. he is regarded as cautious
conservative, and his party status can be un-
derstood from tho fact that he was fair Demo-
,crat while senator from that State. Governor
Curtin's going to st. Petersburg is commented
upon merely as pro1imate initiation Of his
tory.
The Philadelphia press gives the following
account Of the experiments on the body of
Gerald Eaton who was hanged last week for
murder: Arrangements were made by the
friends Of the condemned to have an effort
made to resuscitate the body. Accordingly, a
committee appointed for the purpose we're in
waiting at the prison at the time Of the execu.
ton, and the body, wrapped in blankets, was
brought to the university. The drop was four
feet; the cord around his neck was small one.
he hung by his neck thirty minutes, and there
were sic 1s OF life only four minutes after the
drop. Ten minutes after being cut down, he
was placed upon tho table in the amphitheatre,
the time elapsng from the execution being
ferty.four minutes. Six ounces OF whiskey
vere injected into the bowels, and one gallon
of pure oxygen gas was forced into the lungs,
and powerful galvanic battery applied to the
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