The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-26
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'-r-rhe New York cotton market was firm.
Sales 400 bales at 2S3a29c.
The Liverpool Cotton market closed with
uplands at 12sa12ld; Orleans .123a12ad; sales
15eObales.
- "A Yankee soap merchant has succeeded in
. extracting from Grant letter of recommen-
dation for his soap.
"a chain.bolt has been put upon the White
House door, at Washington, the more efec-
lively to keep out office-seekers who won't take
STno" for an answer.
-Ex-President Johnson arrived at his old
home in Greenyile, Tenn, on Saturday, when
he received warm reception from his old
,leighbors.
IL "A Canadian newspaper indirectly reports
) the depth OF snow there, by announcing that
travellers horse was fatally injured by becom-
ing entangled wltl, a telegraph wire twenty
!; feet from the ground.
ia Memphis paper says that jury IN that
city, having found man guilty OF numbering
q citizen who is alive and well, are now debat-
Ing whether to rescind their verdict or let the
convict murder the citizen.
1-sS---1ho result of a careful search through
New ork city for house, showed that in the
entire space included between Madison avenue
and Sixth avenue, from Fourteenth-stroet up to
Efeenth-street, there we're very few houses OF
the rent was as low as $4,000, and these
we're smau and undesirable.
,,v.-Cc tain Protestant Episcopalians in the
dioc, of Illinois have issued protest against
what .ey believe to be the Romanizng ten
;,dencies of Bishop Whitehouse and others OF
: his school. convention of all who sympa-
thize with this protest is called to meet in
Chicaso in June next, for discussion and con-
sultation.
The ''two H's," Hancock and Hoffman, are
proposed by Democrats for the next Prcsiden-
tial election. But the Montgomery (Ala.) Mail,
on the other hand, suggests, s'Lot our motto,
in anticipation OF the next Presidential canvass,
be, Patience, Prudence and Perdeton.' The
question is. therefore, which is the better mot
to, .the two R's" or "the three P's."
1t appears that the Missouri Leg stature
was in too big hurry about the ratification OF
the suffrage amendment. Some one telegraph
slase tho lpaan+ aud tla1 ,aat :
and the Legis lature does not reassemble until
next year. This shows the bad effect of ratify-
ing amendments on telegraphic messages.
The doctor against whom a verdict Of ten
rthousend dollars for breach Of promise was
recently given in Warren County, Ohio, had
converted all his property into ready cash, and
as soon as the verdict was given he took him
self and all his worldly goods into a far coun-
Try. This was the case in which the defence
MAS that the promise Of marriage with pretty
milliner could not be carried out because she
was Of African descent.
Surget, ninety seven years old, died
in New Yo.k last week, and left property val
ued at ten millions Of dollars. He was Creole
'Frenchman, but was born in the United States.
he lived By rule, and was very abstemious,
drinking nothing but water. he used to say
that he had secret of longevity which he
bought Of gipsey woman when he was sail
or, and he thought he should live to be huI-
dred. For many years he srsnt his winters in
Mississippi, but when the war broke out he
came % New York, where he remained until
he died.
L. The mammoth festival on Boston Common
seems to be no longer problem, but an as
.sured promise. Money, it is said, pours in by
millions, and whatever the music may be,
there is certain to be mighty noise, and
crowds OF enthusiastic spectators, and me-
:1norable celebration altogether. The exercises
are to be held in an iron amphitheatre, to be
erected for the purpose. The festival proper
will last about week, but the building will
stand for at least month, and be used during
that time for monster concerts, oratorios, and
similar decorous Publications. The middle of
June is the time fixed for the opening.
The later mails from Hayti bring the for
NAL document prepared by the leaders of the
insurrection there, placing the srebel" Pro-
gYisional overnment and Hayti itself under
the protection Of the United States. This pa
per, soon after its adoption by the s'rebel" Gov
eminent, fell into the hands of Salnave. 1t
has Just reached this country. 1t is little
singular that the insurrectionists were, until
they offered this protectorate to the United
States, bitterly opposed to the annexation of
the island to this country, and denounced both
Salnave and Baez for favorins annexation.
The Independence d'Hayti, the srebel' organ,
declared that "the Haytien is prepared to
bury himself under the ruins OF his country
rather than lose his nationality" A great
thing is such o nationality to be buried for
But even now the Haytien proposes to give it
away. A great country is Hayti!
Fernando Po, where the prisoners OF state
in Cuba are to be conveyed, is an island, forty
four miles long and twenty miles broad, situat-
ed on the west coast of Africa, in the Blight of
Biafra, alb out twenty miles from the nearest
point Of the main land. Fernando Po is in
latitude about three degrees thirty minutes
north, is trayersed by mountain ridge
which at Clarence Peak rises to tho. height of
1O,65O feet, or over two miles; is fertile, well
watered and thickly wooded. 1t contains, in
state of nature. large hocks OF soats and
sheep, and swarms Of monkeys of great siza.
The climate, excessively hot at all times, be-
comes intolerable during the rainy season,
when pestilential wind blows from the CONT
nent of Africa. The native population consists
oftwelve thousand negroes, inhabiting fifteen
The English Government, between
1927 and 1884, made an attempt to form
,olc,y, but failed In 1874, Spain again took
possession and established a penal settle
ment.
"A Washington telegram of Tuesday even
oon zox,o. suTba fac that