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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-08

-XXTANTED. BY A LADY, A SITUATION
w as Housoke0p9r, or to make her self generally
useful. Compensation no otjeo as her desire ia to
obtain hone The best of recommeld dations can
be given Apply at No. 73 EAST BAY.
February Ha f4 i.' ~ tGtt
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49, - " =
moved unless he was recommended by the
Republicans in his community was marrow,
short-sighted, and radically wrong. When
ever man of good character applied to
have his disabilities removed it would be
the best policy Of the Government to re-
move them, and thereby win the support
of the conservative and influential men Of
the South.
Mr.. Nye Republican,, Of Nevada, said
he had satisfactory information that the
opposition to the relief of Rogers arose out
Of the fact thst as Auditor Of the State he
stood in the way Of Governor Wells's
scheme to sell to outside parties the inter-
nal improvements of Virginia.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen (Republican), Of
New Jersey, read the papers in the case of
Mr.. Rogers, showing that he had taken the
oath Of allegiance and had avowed his in
tention to support tae Government, and
that the removal Of his disabilities had
been recommended by Generals Schofeld
and Stoneman and leading members Of the
Republican party in Virginia. .
Mr.. Conness, in view of Mr.. Frelinghuy-
sens statement, withdrew his motion to
strike ont the name of Mr.. Rogers. The
bill went over, the morning hour having
expired,
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The State census of Missouri shows to-
tai population of 1,263,SO3, with 1S9, 745
for St. Louis.
The Alaska, from Aspinwall on the Goth
ultimo, has arrived in New York with
S104, 900 in gold.
A Spanish man of-war is cruising on the
southern coast for small steamer from o
southern port said to be carrying recruits
and supplies to the rebels in Cuba.
Over foot of snow fell in Lewistown,
Me-, on Saturday night, accompanied by q
heavy gale. The railroads in that part of
the State are blockaded. The storm at Au-
gusta, Me-, was also quite severe. Eigh-
teen inches of snow fell.
The post norton examination in the case
of the late DR.. Pomfret, of Albany, revealed
the fact that his death was caused by can
Ger in the brain-an extremely rare occur
-snce. With the exception of DR.. Hull, the
phys.':ans present ut the examination had
never seen Jingle case.
Ex-Governor SAM, n;,, % N,
Hampshire, died in Keefee ~ V ~ u 1e"
morning last. He was born in tfaaseeuay
in the year 1899, and was in the seventieth
| year Of his age. He graduated at Dart
mouth College in 1914, when not quite
| fifteen years old.
Another railway war, says the New York
Herald, has just been Instituted in the
courts--this time between the Atlantic and
| Great Western and the Erie Companies. 1t
| is instituted by the Great Western parties
to compel Erie to appropriate certain mo-
neys to paying mortgages on the Atlantc
and Great Western railroad.
AS Brownlow WAS on his way to Wash
ington, at Charlottesville, Va, according L
one of the Governors party, o number o.
young men entered the special car, one
about eighteen years old, with g pistol, wht
approached the place where the e1- Cover
nor was sleeping, and declared that III
would rather shoot the old skunk than eat
The pistol, it is said, was wrenched from TIT
Youngsters hand, and the party then left
The story is rather sensational.
The entire correspondence between Bishop
Whitehouse, of illinois,, and Assistan
Bishop Cummins, of Kentucky, is pub
lished. The former wrote to the latter tWlc
to dissuade him from visiting Chicago t
speak for certain societies, one of whlcl
Whitehouse termed schismatical, and de
signed to disturb his diocese while to speal
for the other-the American Church Mis-
sionary society-would raise serious ques
tons. Mr.. Cummins replied that he ha
accepted invitations, and could not yield t
Bishop Warehouses; dictation. The latte
then entered his protest against the con
templated visit, and sent notice thereof t
Bishop Smith, of Kentucky. Mr.. Cummln
again replied that by becoming bishop h
had not renowned the right to accept q
invitation from any rector, and entreate
Whitehouse not to raise on issue by deny
ing that right. Bishop Cummins preache
at Chicago, morning and evening, La
Sunday, and thus the matter stands.
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One House (oniy) of the Wheeling Legs
lature has passed bills 10 relieve L. s. nan a,
~ - = p Creeap, and John Brannon, from
the lawyers test-oath.
Anriyate letter from Mr.. George Peabody,
aa,ad London, February 9Th, states that ms
a aaoItb is very poor. He still takes the
neata interest in his American charities,
gr ra sneaks OF his Homes for the Poor IN II
M as gratifying success. Should
h;s health permit he expects to return 20
. n,i country, to rsnain, in 1870. ,.,
Henry Clay Dem, in letter to e!ils on
un nebis says Democratic societies
ars Organized inseveral Of the eastern
s,stss and also nhe middle and western !,
States States, underahd that the members Tst :,
,bsse societies plsss themselves TO vo; .
snr no man, for aanffice whatever, "n1 ,h :, :
-, in favor Of thentire abolition o. Inc e
nus ~ revenue s8m, and who is not al 70.
favor of repudiAg the entire war gen a
~. ~ the United sta4, except the pensions
onS bounty due hRldiers Of the un nn'
a.a,ss and the suppl Of the disabled oo 1,.
ssderate soldiers served IN 'ns fsnAA
Of that army" Z
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IMPORTANT DECISION IN INSURANCE.-A
recent suit against an insurance company
before the Supreme Court of Missouri led
to decision Of wide interest. The COM
psny resisted payment of loss on the
ground that the application for the policy
did not give accurate answers to questions
concerning the character of the title to the
property. The holder of the policy re-
sponded with proof that he had made q
frank and full statement Of the facts to the
company's agent when he was soliciting the
insurance, and that after this statement
the agent, saying it made no difference,
filled in the inaccurate answers in the ap-
plication. The court held the company re-
sponsible for this action of its agent, and
required the payment of the loss. The
principle thus established is of wide ap-
plication, especially in life insurance COM
panies, whose agents are often tempted to
slur over doubtful circumstances concern
ing the health or antecedents Of applicants
in order to secure the issue Of the policies.
Ne1o York Tribune.
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MURDER IN MONTGOMERY County, Nd -
On Wednesday morning week MIR. Thomas
Pennifeld, residing with his brother Levi,
about seven miles southwest of Rockville,
went into the woods to chop wood. Before
he left home he took from his trunk about
one hundred and fifty dollars, which he had
recently received. Nothing was heard from
him until Saturday, when his son-in-law,
Mr.. Hill, went in search Of him, and found
him in the woods, about three hundred
yards from the house, foully murdered, and
lying against tree which he had partly
felled. Upon examination, CHASTITY open
ing was found in the back part Of his
head, whole load of shot having passed
through and come out just below his eye.
Bone Of the shot were found imbedded in
the tree. The money which he took with
him, and pair of new boots which he had
on his feet, were taken and carried off.
Justice Lansdale summoned jury of in
quest, who returned verdict that deceased
came to his death by shot from q gun
in the hands Of q person to the jurors
MISUNDERSTANDING Sentinel.
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"Mack" states, in letter to the Cincln-
natl Enquirer, that Central Butler has
found out that sixty or more Republicans
in the House are national hank directors.
General Grant is reported as having said
that New England cannot have more than
one member of the CABINET, and that one
must come from Massachusetts.
Considerable comment il made on the as,
surance displayed Saturday by General
Butler in forcing himsel into the private
room of General Grant, who was engaged
in an important consultation with General
Sherman, and had givenorders that ne was
not be disturbed by any Sne.- washington
lette7-BaHm0re Stn.
General Sherman dismisses the ofhce-
seekers who are badgering him for his In
tuence with General Grant with the fol
lowing decisive refusal :" will not, under
any circumstances, recommend anybody TO-
any civil Office whatever, nor soilct from
General Grant the appointment OF any one
| will endorse your military career Tor
military appointment with pleasure wnel
there is o vacancy, but nothing more.
In Washington on Saturday, OF the sale
OF Mr.. Fendall's library, the Virginia
Historical Register and Literary Advert,
SER" three volumes, Richmond, 1848-oz, y
- nv, 70 =, Thomas 4. Wynne, superinsenden
Of the Richmond and Petersburg rsilro"''
81 ak dollars.
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Decision of the Great Wine Importa.
ton Cases at New Orleans-MOre
Louisiana Bonds to be Issued.

New ORLEANS, March LIN the United
States District Court this morning Judge
Durell decided the first Of the great wine
cases (Which have been on trial over a
monthly in favor of the Government on
three points-First, because of fraudulent
entry in not properly verifying the invoice
and declaration second, because Of false
invoice as to the kind of wine and third,
because Of the differentiation. This was
regarded as the test case.
A bill was introduced in the House Of
Representatives to-day, read and engross-
ed, providing for, the issue Of 100000
thirty-year six per cent. gold bonds, for
the payment of which guarantees of the
United States Government are to be obtain
ed. The bonds to be placed in market and
hypothecated for loans, the proceeds of
which are to be exclusively devoted to the
building and repair Of the levees and other
public works under the direction Of the
Board of Public Works, and the interest
and principal to be provided for by spe-
cial tax and the proceeds of sale Of swamp
lands otherwise undisposed Of.
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A WHIsKEY IMBRoGLIo IN New ORLEANS.
Neao Orleans, February PA man named
J. W. Elder was arrested last night on a
warrant issued by Commissioner Urban,
before whom he was charged by Assessor
Wolhey with perjury. His bail was fixed
at $4,000. The affidavit, in the making of
which perjury is alleged to have been com
mitted, states that Elder entered into the
business of distilling for the purpose OF
discovering the connection between the
whiskey ring and the internal revenue
officials, and that he paid General steed'
man 81 900, and monthly sum of $500 tc
assistant assessors, for the privilege of run
ming the distillery. The affidavit was made
before Assessor Wolfey, and gives de-
tailed account of systematic whiskey frauds,
with the names of the parties concerned
he himself being a participant.
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quiet; receipts light sales4of ssissd white
and red western Mt 41.s2; good Maryland red
at $3.50; fair Maryland red st $40; Ohio at
sl.so; Pennsylvania at sI.s5 to s17o; no SALES
Of prime or choice southern. Receipts OF Corn,
$500 bushels white, and 4, $50 yellow market
heavy for white, and sales light st 80 to ofc.,
and closed Mt 9oc. offered for prime; sales OF
yellow at 90 to s3c. Only sales Of oats reported,
SEQ bushels at 7lc., and 700 from store at nc.
Rye, sl.65-market firm for strictly prime.
Qorer, So common sold at 1916. Ear and
Timothy quiet.
Alexandria, ya.
In Alexandria on the 9th ultimo there were
small sales of red Wheat at 81. 80 for good; de-
mand moderate and receipts light. Offerings
OF Corr. :, 1892 bushels mixed, which sold at So.
81, and s5c.-principalIy at the Aforementioned
figure. Odts steady at 69c.
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COMMERCIAL.
Grain and FIour Markets,

Com AND FL0UR ExcHASss,l
" RICHMOND, VA, March ], 1869.
oYYERINGs.
Wheat.-White, 2iS bushels. Red, s74 bushels.
Obrn.-Whte, 2, Ol2 bushels. Yellow, 80 bush
els. Mixed. 1852 bushels.
Odts.-l, 25G bushels.
Rys-lSS bushels.
Meal PA bushels.
Whent.-White, bushels prime at $2.l5; 90
bushels good at $40. Red, 90 bushels good Mt
Is2a. 90 bushels ct Sl.77h ~ bushels very
fair at 81 IS; 3s4 bushels fair at Sl.65; IFS
bushels prime at So; As bushels very good at
81. 90, Sc bushels ut Sl.S7h-total, 7S4 bushels.
Corr.-White, 1876 bushels good on private
terms 6sS bushels prime 1t Sec. rs bushels
damp st s3c. 542 bushels very good at &c.,
total, / 500 bushels. Yellow, 80 bushels very
good on private terms. Mixed, so bushels very
good on private terms 60 bushels at SIC.
Oats.-l4O bushels very good at &c., 344 bush
els on private terms, lao bushels ut &C., l02
bushels at 82hc. Total, 726 bushels.
Rye-24 bushels good at $40; 80 bushels
common at 1928; 80 bushels very good ut
| 81 AZ.
Msa!.-Yellow, country, unbolted, "a bush
| els 1t Sic.
| Wheat White, 81 bushels Red, 1856 bushels.
Corn.-Wbite, 230 bushels. Mixed, zig bush.
| els.
Oats.-5OO bushels.
| REMARKs-Market for Wheat much lower.
Corn fairly active; demand chiefly from dis.
| tliers oats dull and lower. Rye unchanged
New York.
| In New York on the 9th ultimo Flour was
very heavy with q downward tendency
southern dull and declining; sales ut 1885 tc
Sc 90 for common to fair extra, and SO 95 to 81:
for good TO choice California quiet and heavy
sales Of 200 sacks at &c TO IS for old, and ssh
to $40. so for new. Wheat dull and nominallJ
lower. Corn lc. better, with light supply anf
good home trade demand; sales $4,000 bushels
at 80 10 s4Hc for new mixed western. Ry
dull. Barley in fair request; sales Of Canadi
| West at 81 l6, and German at 1922. Odh
steady; sales 46 GOO bushels 1T 7sA to 74c. TO,
western in store, and 75Ac. aioat.
Charleston, 8. C.
In Charleston 1T the close of last week Their
were sales of white Corn at 81. ~ weight, bulk
for white, and sl.ls in bags, bags included.
Lynchburg, ya.
1 In Lynchburg Corn is quoted ut 20 70 Tee
for mixed and white. Oats, SIC. to csc.
4 Boston, Mass.
In Boston on the 26th ultimc southern an
western yellow Grn sold at $i.Os to slo5
western mixed ut 81 to si.ol, and white ut CSC
to ST.. Oats, rs TO CSC. for southern and Yves,
ern. Rye, si.45 $l.56.
Baltimore, Md.
L In Baltimore on tho 27th ulsimo Whst
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THE WORKING PEoPLE.-It is reported
that the working people in New York have
been successful in obtaining the advance Of
wages demanded. It is asserted that the
clothing cutters and cigar-makers' strikes
are ended +; the printers, marble-cutters'
coopers', and slate-roofers' strikes, some of
which are only partial, will soon end, and
the excitement usually accompanying
strikes will then cease. The clothing cut
ters' strike closed on Thursday, all the en-
ployers in whose shops strikes had taken
place having conceded the scale of-twenty-
four dollars week set by the Union. The
journeymen gilders of New York are eff
fecting an organization preparatory to a
demand for higher wages.
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TEIEGRAPHIC NEWS.
NEWS FROM TEE CAPITAL.
SPECIAL THLEoRAMs TO THE DISPATCH.
EE1 WASHINGTON, March l, 1869.

AELEtEANo DIEfAIShs
EE9 WASHINGTON, March l, 1869.
GENERAL GRANT-HIS CABINET.
General Grant stated to-day that he had
concluded that he would not make known
the names Of those who are to compose hi
Cabinet to anybody-not even the nominees
themselves-until their names are sent tt
the Senate, and that the nominees them.
selves would be as much surprised as any.
body else when they read of the announce.
ment of their nominations.
Grant sent to the State Department to-
day to learn what had been the custom
among Presidents heretofore as to the date
of appointment Of Cabinet officers. 1t was
found that rs general thing the nomina-
tons have been made within very few
days after the Inauguration of the Presi-
dent-two days being about the average
time.
1t is expected that, in view of the fact
that the present members of the Cabinet
will resign on the Sd of March, thus leav-
ing the Heads Of Departments vacant,
General Grant will nominate his Cabi-
net on the day after his Inauguration.
SPANGLER AND ARNOLD TO BE PAR
DONED.
1t is understood the President has d.
rected pafdons to be issued for spangler
and Arnold, now Imprisoned at the Dry
Tortugas for complication in the assassi-
nation of Mr.. Lincoln.
G. B. LAMAR-THE PRESIDENT PRO.
POSES TO PARDON HIM.
The President also proposes to pardon
Gazzeway B. Lamar, who was tried in De-
cember 1865 by military commission for
continuing and conspiring with others to
defraud the United States by stealing cot
ton belonging to the Government valued at
about $4,000, which cotton had been cap
tured by the United States troops as the
property Of the. Importing and Exporting
Company Of Georgia, which company it
was alleged was organized to run the block
ade. Lamar claimed that the property
belonged to him that it was not
rebel property, and appealed to the secre-
tary of the Treasury for restoration of the
cotton, but WAS refused. 1t is alleged that
afterwards Lamar made an attempt, with
partial success, to appropriate the property
to himself. He entered suits to recover
the same, &c. The military commission
found him guilty, and sentenced him TO
five years. Imprisonment and fine of
$4,000. Lamar entered q plea to the
jurisdiction, and claims that he committed
no offence punishable by martial law, and
that he seized the property innocently.
LIEUTENANT BRAINE'S CASE.
The Attorney-General has reported to
the President in the case of Lieutenant
Braine, charged with piracy. It's thought
that the President will order the pardon
tomorrow.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON PREPARING TO
LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE.
The President has all the papers filed in
the executive mansion properly endorsed
and ready to be transmitted to the depart
ments to which they belong, and he is now
preparing to vacate the White House on the
Sd Of March, and leave it in possession of
the officers of the Metropolitan police to be
occupied by General Grant, if he should
choose to do 80, on the 4th of March.
WALLACE.
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GRANT PEPPERS THE RADICALS AGAIN.
Another Pennsylvania delegation has talked
with General Grant, who plainly suggested
that most of the members had already
signed request for another man. Some
had signed for several. Ii all these memo
rails should become known, some of those
who had put their names to them might
feel themselves put in ridiculous posi-
ton.
Grant said I" I think President should
be allowed to choose his Cabinet without in
reference from any one. They are his
confidential advisers, and ne must best know
whom he wishes to call to him in that ca
pacity. In other positions under the Co.
verrment he is likely to welcome sugges-
tons, for there are great many of them,
and he cannot be expected in every case to
know who are the best qualified men but
in selecting his Cabinet he may properly
act without suggestions from any source.
One thing he would say Those whom he
selected would al be men who were loyal
to the Union during the war, and who gave
n strong and faithful support to the plat
form ticket on which he was elected"
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F1RE.-On Monday last fire broke out
in the engine-house of the Northern Cen
trail Railroad Company at sunbury, Pa,
and was entirely consumed. The fire is sup
posed to have originated by an engine
standing in the house. The building was a
framed one, and the loss not heavy. This
is the second time the company's shops at
Sunbury have been destroyed by fire within
the last five years.
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THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT.-Iopekd,
Kansas, February 27.-The constitutional
amendment was ratified by the Legislature
to-day. The vote in the Senate was unani-
nous. In the House the vote stood GA to I.
The Kansas Legislature is premature in
its action. The amendment is not regu-
larly out of the hands of Congress yet, and
official ratification of the adoption of the
joint resolution cannot reach Kansas until
the latter part of next week.
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WASHINGTON NEWS.

TUX INDIANS - WINDOW VS.. LOGAN
cu,pp HlTs.--In the House Saturday Mr..
50GAN said he shculd like to see Mr.. Mix,
10 chief clerk of the Indian Bureau.
r,ountcd on high horse, under the lead of
tsc gentleman from Minnesota mr.. WIN
nnvi. with lasso in his hand chasing the
f,nrieen-year old Indian bucks to put
hrreohes on them. lLaughter.l What a
Camsnche walking up with q stove pipe hat
On his head before he got his breeches on.
iLaughter.l He was not willing to vote
money for any such ridiculous purpose.
Mr.. WINDOW suggested that whom they
got up caravan on the Plains the gentle
man from Illinois should accompany it as
clown.
Mr.. LOGAN: No, sir. Clowns are cheap
nowadays, and as the gentleman [Mr.
WrxDoMl will not be in Congress, his SER
vices can be got cheap. laughter But
if the gentleman will put on suit of SOL
dier's clothes, with musket and bayonet,
| will 90 with him and teach him to kill
Indians.
Mr.. WlND0M Will it cost q million of
dollars for every one you kill?
MIR. LOGAN: No, sir I will not charge
q cent. / never killed anybody that l
know Of, snd ] am very certain the gentle
man never will.
Mr.. WINDOW: l hope not.
Mr.. LOGAN: | DO not know why the
gentleman should think of employing me
as a clown.
Mr.. WINDOW; Only for your capacity:
that is MI. Laughter.
y
worth anything without clown.
Mr.. WINDOW That is why we want
you.
Mr.. LOGAN: ! am necessary in the
House. 1t could not spare me for mo-
ment. LLaughter.l These gentlemen have
been so much with Indians that they can
not behave themselves. There is not an
Indian squaw in the whole Sioux camp that
has not better manners than the delegate
from Dakotah. Laughter.l
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DISABILITIEs.-,The Reconstruction Com
mittee of the House, at their meeting Fri
day, had under consideration the Senate's
substitute to the House bill No. l746 ,-being
the first OF the bills for the removal Of disa-
bilities-when il was decided to add to the
bill the names Of Judges Campbell and
Watson, of Virginia; also about $50 names
Of persons from North Carolina. 1t was
further decided to strike out of the bill the
names of Messrs. Bentley, Gray, and Fox, of
Loudoun w. r. Drinkard, Of Alexandria
county and Vincent A. Witcher, Of Taze-
well.-AlerGndria Gazette.
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A DESPERATE RUFFIAN.-A murder was
committed about five months back at La
Rochenard, France, by man named Girau-
deau on his sister and her husband. Since
that time the police had lost all traces OF
the criminal, who was supposed to have
escaped abroad. He appears, however, to
have been wandering about from village to
village, and few nights back went to dc.
mand hospitality from Miller named
Maupetit, residing at Mauze, and who had
married his god-daughter. The man was,
however, terrified at receiving such guest,
and gave notice to the authorities. The
fugitive went to sleep in barn, and at
ahout S in the morning the gendarmes ar
rived. and after surrounding the building
ordered Giraudeau to surrender. The other
replied by firing two pistol shots, winch MIC
wounded two men-one mortally. The
officers then attempted to enter by tine roof'
but were repulsed, another being shot dan
perously. they then set fire to the barn,
and the murderer, finding that ne had nc
bope of escape, blew cut his brains,
OF the three gendarmes wounded one mas
died, and the others are not yet out OF Dan