The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-27

difficulty with patro! of soldiers on the
night mentioned, and mo1tally wounded SOL
der. The soldiers turned out to the escue of
their comrades, and general melee ensued.
About two hundred shots were fred. num-
Der of balls entered private residences and
wounded citizens, while some were also wound
ed IN the streets. The fighting was not con-
faed to any particular locality, but shifted
every few minutes, making all parts of the
town unsafe to Its inhabitants. The citizens
took no part whatever in the affair.
There is great excitement IN WASHINGTON
over the preparations lor Inauguration. Every
body is talking of the grand reception and
ball, of the immense procession that is to es-
dence for the next four years, Of the Executive
reception that will follow his entrance to that
ancient mansion, of what the President will do
when he gets there, and Of everything that
bears the slightest relation to the great day
which will usher in the administration and
the new dispensation. The hotels are already
we'll filed and nearly every vacant room has
been secured in advance. The ball will be
magn lficient affair, to which tickets are being
sold at the rate of one hundred per day. It is
still racklng question whether negroes shall,
be ADM, ted. The New York Times advises
them to meet the managers on their own
ground. aid treat the whole affair with lofty
contempt by refusing to patronize it. BY
taking this course they may not assert their
moe1easloie rights as American citizens, but
they will at least show that they understand
some OF The elements Of high breeding,
the Washington correspondent OF the New
YORK Sun writes under date of the Esd instant ::
The silence which has so long been preserved
by General Grant relative to his Cabinet was
broken to day by his voluntarily speaking to
several friends of his future intentions as to
the War and Navy Departments. He said that
General Schofeld had taken the War Depart
ment at his personal request, to keep out
man VIII m he could not have got along with
had not General SchofeId accepted it, and that
he should renominate him as Secretary of War.
not With Intention Of having HIM remain per-
manently, but As compllment-not as an idle
compliment. for he considered him the best
man in the country for the position. He said
he should ask senators to confirm him. with the
express understanding that he should remain
but q few weeks. There were some changes which
he desired to make in the army, and he could
better make tn m with General Schofled in the
War Department, and when, added General
Grant, what have in my mind is accom-
plished, shall send in the name Of an eminent
CIVILIAN upon whom have fixed to take Scho-
neids place. He continued that he did not
think any officer of the army or navy shou. d
hold a civil office as vt would be the mea "a of
introducing politics into the army and navv. a
thing which he earnestly desired to ayoid. and
under no other circumstances than the rras-
ent, IN General Schofelds case, would he nomi-
nate an officer even for day. This will ems
bic urofficial Cabinet makers to leave thu
names OF Porter and Sohofield off all future
states for the Army and Navy Departments.
He remarked 10 reference to direct question
about Fenns, vania, that he should take q Cabi-
not officer from that State, but that it would not
be one who 10 involved IN any cliques, but would
be one in whom the whole Stats will have
confidence; that he is a man of great ability. a
staunch and carly Republican, and warm
personal friend; and, he continued, no one
VIII be moro surprised than the gentleman