The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-27

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NEWS SUM MARX.
Gold on the streets in New York, yesterday
oMas quoted at 31A.
Cotton was quiet with sales of $50 bales al
282a99c.
NO markets in Liverpool in consequence O
the holidays.
There is over 50 900 600 invested in mena
geries and circuses in this country.
"A new Masonic temple wss dedicated ir
Richmond, Va. on Monday night.
: North Carolina makes more money from
-7her peanut crop than from her cotton crop.
Mobile has just organized yacht club,
and expects to invest heavily in aquatic sports
during tho coming season.
~ 1.-The statue Of Washington, which Butler
: kidnapped from New Orleans, has arrived back
there and is exhibited at an agricultural fair.
Hundreds Of United States soldiers sta
e-tioned in Dakota are said to be married. to
Indian women, who make faithful and indus
- -trious wives. a T .E%
Copper ore Of great richness is being found
in Rowan County, N @. Specimens have been
QCOURuC ~ uGlclSus WulCu COnCdlu IOlGy-uV0
per cent. of pure metal { r,.I. :
= The committee on mines of tho Richmond
dva.) Chamber of Commerce is gathering and
:. compiling statistical and general information
Of tho mining interests Of the State. Ah Y
That incorrgible old wag, Prentice, says F.:
" 1WstGenoral LongstreeVs cause was defeated in
: the war. He accented the situation. He has
r1beet offered the New Orleans Surveyorship.
No -, - L,s&, 81 /. =.
"A cell for meeting in New York, to ex--
press /, npathy for the Uubans in their present
sst4uggl,, appears in the New York papers. The
Z signers are w. c. Bryant, Henry Ward Beech
-er, G. A. Dana, J. G. Bennett, Geo. Wilkes, G.
w. Curtis and others.
"A proposition to encourage immigration
into Kentucky was defeated by the Legislature
on the avowed ground that such measure
would finally have the effect to overturn the
existing political supremacy of the present en-
lightened law makers Of the State.
Whilst the Maine Legislature was recently
debating the bill for the abolition of capital
punishment, an amendment was proposed that
! previously to the hanging Of criminal chloro-
form be administered to him. This was vehe-
nently opposed, t'Hccarec It was dangerous 10
lite, aud finally rejected
N.C Ncw~~I.4A i!u. AID s. To1l.aeyeTv j,5
nclis.ag the condition OF ,he stock lAArkor on
sho previous day, says "Southern securities
EoAo 1uli, oxoopt South Carolinas, which ad-
8 vanced about one per cent, owing to the adop-
tion Of legislative measures looking to the
payment Of the next quota Of interest"
The White Pine silver excitement is una
bated, notwithstanding bitter cold weather
and heavy snow storms are prevailing there.
The rush Of people thither is increasing, and
new and rich discoveries are daily reported.
Hundreds Of companies are already incorpora-
ted in San Francisco to work the White Pine
mines, and are still being formed at the rate OF
three to five per day.
Some of the principal banks in Now York
: City are going to change from the National to
cthe State system. on cccount OF the new law
forbidding national banks to certify checks in
advance of actual deposits. The requisite pre-
liminary steps have already been taken by the
NCity Bank, the Fulton Bank and the Bank Of
North America, and other banks are consider
ing the propriety OF doing the same. a
The Rtualists at st. Adams, Christ Church
and the Church Of the Annunciation, New
York, it is said, have arranged to introduce
various new ceremonies on Good Friday and
Easter, which have heretofore been practiced
only by the most advanced of that school in
England. Bishop Potter, aware Of the fact, is
said to have addressed private remonstrance
to the respective rectors, with what effect re-
mains to be seen. @t -spca ssA
A very sensible movement is on foot in st..
Louis, 10 call an Irish National Convention
OF delegations from the Irish religious bene-
VIOLENT societies of the United States, the OBJ
] cot being to form central bureau in New
York, with auxiliary societies through all the
States, for the purpose OF furnishing aid and
information to Irishmen in regard to the price
OF land, labor. &C., and to render any other
assistance necessary to procure the benefits Of
Irish emigration.
u "A New York letter Of Tuesday says: SIT ia
stated on what ought to be reliable authority
namely, that Of some Of the Cuban Junta here--
that not a few of the officers who went to Cuba
in the Henningsen expedition are from this
city. They are good politicians as well as
good soldiers. Making no doubt Of the eatab.
ishment OF Cuban iadependence, they expect
to return to the United States senators and
members of Congress. and SO have deemed il
best to be on the ground early'' pat s. 4
1T is stated in recent letters from Havana,
that Notwithstanding the insurrection in Cuba
NO failures Of any consequence have yet occur
red IN that city, and that the notes OF the
Spanish Bank can be sold at q slight discount
for gold. The market price OF the shares
however, has declined from fifty per cent. pre-
Enium to FIVE per cent. discount, while tht
shares OF other banks have experienced SINH
lar or greater decline. All kinds of real and per
sonal estate have declined in price. Houses il
Havana, which would have sold for $50, 900 q
year ago, can be bought for $4,000 now. and
even ct that rate moro sellers than purchasers
are to be found. In the interior towns the re
tail mer ,hants have generally closed up theil
. business, and the retail traders in Havana
IL lie asserted, will soon be obliged TO follow
\ their example. The poorer classes have nj