The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-31

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NEWS MAR T.
Gold in New York closed on Saturday, at
ssi.' oooo
.cotton closed frmsr. Sales 1900 bales at
50 cents. :.
in Liverpool cotton closed quiet and steady.
Sales 10 600 bales at IL I'd for uplands.
The famous yacht Wanderer has been sold
st Norfolk, Va, for $3.50.
One hundred and sixty-four steamers have
been destroyed on the Western rivers since
September, 1867.
"A kerosene disaster occurred in Hoboken
Thursday night, fatally burning lady and her
son and seriously burning her husband.
Tho marriage of Mira. Belle Boyd, formerly
Of Martinsburg, West Virginia, to MIR. John s.
Hammond, took place in New Orleans on the
17th Of March.
THE work Of repairing Fort Pulaski has
been begun. The contract for clearing the
snoat has been awarded to Mr.. Thomas Glea-
sou, ut the sum OF go. 600.
The latest about Bismarck is that he
thinks that Napoleon and Francis Joseph de-
sire peace, but that their wives, the Empress
eS, want war with Prussia.
The Washington Star says: "Miss Pamela
OsnninghG1n, the President Of the Mount YER
non Association, left Mount Vernon yesterday
for brief trip to South Carolina"
The citizens Of Cuthbsrt, Ga, have order
cd rheir mail stopped at Wards Station. They
preser to hire boy to go after it daily, than
to have it pass through the hands Of thenegro
pcetmsster.
The Gsumenicat Council. it is announced,
viii positively be formally organized at Rome
On December SLh, and at Consistory to be
hSId III JunsShe Pope viii publish full instruc-
iiopusI Tor the. pralates attending the Council.
The commission appointed TO provide lodgings
Sbr Bishops without means Of their own, has
secured two hundred aud fifty apartments.
The New England Womsn's Suffrage So
csety is going to spread itself into National
Association, and has resolved accordingly.
Nrs. Julia Ward Howe addressed the CONVEX
lion in session ct Boston, on Thursday, and in
ths coursa Of her remarks said that under the
urouont ,coudition Of social and fashionable
IssSgsS!a many women are merely sources Of
exponse, consuming much and producing no
tAinS.-Suftage is expected to reverse the pro-
position. .,-.u~y-
-Tuesday last was day of horrors in New
York. On, the water, the steamship Norwalk
oo,2idod with -s-soo6 xuo -wss tn1uenapetJ
..ml ml-.An.;.r~-fossu OF $fU.UUO; an AUSTRIAN
s6ip, valued. at $S6o. 900, was run into and sunk
By the steamer Russia;.s boy named mccor-
mick Vas pushed overheard by his companions
and vn drowned; and the boiler OF steana-
tug exploded, causing the death OF two men.
Onshnd. .ien thousand barrels Of petroleum
snd several vessels, in all valued at 100000.
rsre destroyed BY FIRE; firm Of Wall-street
brokers' ware reported to have decamped with
3s6. 600 that didn't belong to them; Mr. Barrett
Van Aukeu, preaident Of silver mining COM
pGnr. made desperate but unsuccessful at
tempt to commit sEicide by cutting his throat,
and Charles b. Starr shot himself four times
before taking his own life; two or three swind-
ling cases; couple Of mysteries, and half .
dozen minor sensations. This may be called
very lively showing for q dull season.
"A Warrington telegram to the New York
Tribune says :. ..'Some time sgo the acc?unt-
ina o6soees of the Treasury Department noti-
Sed General g. 7. .Beauregard, who was, at
thA. breaking ont Of the war,-s major in the
army and Superintendent in the West Point
Niiitary Academy, that he was charged on the
books II the Treasury Department the amount
OF 40 80 on account OF the Quartermaster's
Nepsetmenf; and requested him to pay the
sEmes On the 90th mat. Beauregard replied hom
New oflesns, inclosins his account amounting
to tt6E5y fm transport from West Point to
New Orleans in January aud Februsry, 1861,
IN obedience to orders from the War Depart
ment relieving him trom duty. as Superinten-
dent Of the Military Academy, and sending
himbaek to New Orleans, his former post.
Beauregard says he presented his account to
the proper officer in New York, the Quarter
master here being out of funds, but that it was
not paid, and has not since been paid. He
therefore requests the Department to deduct
the amount Of SO so from s165 so, and remit
him the remainder as soon as convenient. He
closes by saying his resignation from the mill
iary service OF the United States was accepted
February 20, 1861, and signs himself as Presi-
del,tof the New Orleans, Jackson and Great
Northern Railroad Company. The question
was referred to the proper legal officer Of
the Department, who has to-day decided ad-
yersey to the claim for sl65 so, in accordance
with the JOINT resolution Of Congress, approved
March 2, 1867, to prohibit the payment by any
officer Of the Government to any person not
known 10 have been opposed to the rebellion,
and in favor Of is suppression"
The Cincinnati papers are fullo par ticu-
lars of the recent destruction of & gasome.eri in
that city. It was swung upon iron columns
forty feet high; it was composed Of sheet iron,
and was seventy-6ve feet in diameter. Nothing
now remains of it save the mass OF iron of
which it was composed, lying scattered in the
immense basin of water over which it hung, and
the huge iron columns to which it WAS
suspended. It held at the time of the
accident s75,dOo cubic feet of gas. which
had all in one seconds time vanished
like flash Of powder. So sudden was it's
consumption and dissipation into the atmos-
phere that no fire communicated to anything,
and, strange to say, little or no damage
mas done to surrounding buildings save the