The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-31
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Gold in New York closed, on Saturday, at
800.
Cotton closed Armer. Sales 1900 bales at
30 cents.
In Liverpool cotton closed quiet and steady.
Sales 10000 bales at 114d for uplands.
The famous yacht Wanderer has been sold
al Norfolk Va, tor $3.50.
One hundred and sixty-four steamers have
been destroyed on tue Western riyers since
September 1867.
"A ke rosene disastere occurred in Hoboken
Thursday night, fatally burning, a lady apd her
son and seriously burning her husban@
The marriage Of Mrs. Belle Boyd, formerly
of Marti nsburg, West Virginia, to Mr.. John s.
Hammond, took place in New Orleans on the
18th Of March
The work of repairing Fort Pulaski has
been begun. The contract for clearing the
moat has been awarded to Mr.. Thomas Glea-
son, at the sum OF $50. 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: s'Miss Pamela
Cunningham, the President of the Mount YER
non Association, left Mount Vernon yesterday
for brief trip to South Carolina"
The citizens of Cuthbert, Ga, have order
cd their mail stopped at Wards Station. They
prefer to hire boy to go after it daily, than
to have it pass through the hands of then
postmaster.
The Ecumenical Council. it is announced,
will positively be formally organized at Rome
on December 9Th, aud at Consistory to be
held in June the Pope will publish full instruc-
lions for the preates attending the Council.
The commission appointed toprovide lodgings
for Bishops without means of their own, has
secured two hundred and fifty apartments.
The New England Woman's Suffrage So
ciety is going to spread itself into National
Association, and has resolved accordingly.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe addressed the conven-
hon in session at Boston, on Thursday, and in
the course Of her remarks said that under the
present condition of social and fashionable
usages, many women are merely sources Of
expense, consuming much and producing no
thing. Suffrage is expected to reverse the pro-
position.
Tuesday last was a day of horrors in New
-To1h. On tho water, the Steamship 9JorwA1h
collided with scow and was Immediately
sunk, causing loss of $40 900; an Austrian
ship, valued at $500 ,000 was run into and sunk
by the steamer Russia; boy AIMED McCor-
mick was pushed overheard by his companions
and WAS drowned; and the boiler Of steam
tug exploded, causing the death Of two men.
On land, ten thousand barrels Of petroleum
and several vessels, in all valued at $500000.
wore destroyed bv fire; firm of Wall-street
brokers ware reported to have decamped with
$65. 900 that didn't belong to them; Mr. Barrett
Van Auken, president OF silver mining COM
pany, made desperate but unsuccessful at
tempt to commit suicide by cutting his throat,
and Charles H. Starr shot himself four times
before taking his own life; two or three swind-
ling cases; couple Of mysteries, and half q
dozen minor sensations. This may be called q
very lively showing for dull season.
"A Washington telegram to the New York
Tribune says: "Some time ago the acc ?unt-
ing officers of the Treasury Department. noti-
fed General G. +. Beauregard, who was, at
the breaking out Of the war, major in the
army and Superintendent in the West Point
Military Academy, that he was charged on the
books of the Treasury Department the amount
OF $40 30 on account OF the Quarterma aster's
Department.; and requested him to pay the
same. On the Goth inst. Beauregard replied from
New Orleans, inc!osing his account amounting
to $185 50 for transportation from West Point to
New Orleans in January and February, 1861,
In obedience to orders from the War Depart
Ments relieving him from duty as Supernten-
dent OF the Military Academy, and sending
him back 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 $40 80 from $165 so, and remit
him the remainder as soon as convenient He
closes by saying his resignation from the mill
tary service Of the United States was accepted
February 20, 1851, and signs himself as Presi-
dent Of 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-
yerse.y to the claim for $165 50, 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 to have been opposed to the rebellion,
and in favor OF is suppression.'
The Cincinnati papers are full of par ticu-
lars Of the recent destruction of gasometer in
that city. 1t was swung upon iron columns
forty feet high; it was composed Of sheet iron,
and was seventy-tiye 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 WIS
suspended. It held at the time OF the
accident S75.COo cubic feet of gas. which
had all in one seconds time vanished
Like flash OF powder. So sudden was its
consumption and dissipation into the atmos-
phere that no fire communicated to anything.
and, strange to say, little or no damage
was done to surrounding buildings save the
jarring Of walls and the cracking Of few
psnes Of glass. 1t was fortunate that but one
man met his death by the explosion. He was