The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-12
NEWS UM II i r Y.

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I'D; Orleans 12la12ad.
New Jersey is shipping mari 10 Connec-
ticut.
-Cariotti Patti will sing in this country next
winter.
The st. Louis ''Free Mason" newspaper
objects to the formation of Masonic Lodges OF
colored men. The objection is uaheeded, how
ever.
- Report says that Reverdy Johnsons sue
cesscr will be nominated during the present
week.
1t is said that the Indians of the plains will
not take scalps from the heads Of negro SOL
dieIs killed in battle.
The statesmen of the Senate first confirm
ed Secretary Stewart and then discovered that
by law they couldn't do any such thing.
-Seventy-five clerks. and employees (male
and female) of the Treasury were discharged
on Saturday in consequence Of lack OF work.
The politicians were too much for Grant.
He wanted Stewart and Stewart wanted Welis'
bnt they were determined to thrust Boutwell,
upon him.
Hong Kee g. Co. is another Chinese firm in
San Francisco that has detaulted and cleared
.fcr the Flowery Land with cable dispatch on
ahead of them for their arrest on arrival.
-The first child born ia tho White Pine Sill
yer District, nine thousand feet above the sea,
has been presented with several thousand dol
ars in silver bars by the delighted miners.
Celeste Lenoir an old French woman, died
in New Orleans the other day. In her youth she
had been vsuand,ere under Napoleon, and
had shouldered musket in one engagement.
"A Boston photographer has taken group
that is rather unusual in these days. 1t was
photograph of four generations ages as fol.
lows: Eigbty-two, fifty, twenty-three and three.
DIR. Sears explains that Kentucky, Missou-
ri and Texas we're exempted from the benefits
Of the Peabody Southern educational fund be-
cause they suffered less from the effects OF the
war than other Southern States. 1t was to this
latter class OF States. ost devastated by the
war, that the aid furnished by MIR. Peabody
was intended to be given.
The New York Ferald, of Tuesday, in Its
money article referring to the day before, says:
"Southern securities were very strong, and the
feeling in the market was quite cheerful.
North Carolinas were better on account OF the
passage of the new State Tax bill, and Tennes-
sees were higher. Louisianas are steady at
last prices, with the inquiry for the evee eights
and old State sixes."
Louisa NJ. Jacobs, an octoroon, has brosght
suit in the Court of Common Pleas in New
York against New York and Savannah Steam
ship Company for having refused her pas
sage northward on board one OF their vessels,
after having purchased a first-class ticket. She
laws her damages at five thousand dollars, and
her mother claims five thousand dollars more.
The trial commenced on Monday.
The Northern Pacific Railroad, failing to
get money subsidy from the government,
now courageously proposes to go to work on
its own bonds, backed by its original land
grant. Congress has voted it permission to
issue bonds for this purpose. The Southern
road is already building its line through Mis-
souri, with it's own bonds, and will soon be able
to reinforce these from the sale Of its very rich
lands.
"A breach Of promise case was recently de-
cided in the County Court of Warren County,
Illinois, in which the defendant, man of con-
siderable wealth, set up the plea that the
young lady was Of African descent. Several
medical witnesses testified that personal ex-
animation disclosed indubitable indications of
African blood in her veins, although she was
perfectly white, and had moved in the best
white society in the county. The jury returned
verdict in her favor to the amount Of ten
thousand dollars.
The Washington correspondent Of the So
vannah Republican writes: 1T was the inten-
of General Grant to have included Gener
al Sickles in his assignment OF new command
ders to the military districts of the South, and
return that, old officer to his old quarters at
Charleston. But the South Carolina members
of Congress-, assisted by several members
rom North Car olna, entered such IN earnest
protest against 1t that Grant has postponed
the matter for further consideration. But ii
Sickles is at all desirous of assisting Grant in
his measures of revenge on Andrew Johnsons
policy, 1 have no doubt but that he will be sent
back to Charleston, notwithstanding the pro-
test above referred to-"
-Thurlow Weeds paper, the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, says 4" There is no dis
guislng the fact that Grants Cabinet is not ac-
ceptable to the extreme men OF the party.
There are but two pr5nounced Radicals in the
Cabinet-Mcssrs. Washburnc and Cresswell.
MIR. Alexander T. Stewart was ncvcr identified
with the Radical party. II, acted with the
Philadelphia movement. General Cox was
outspoken against the extreme men Of his par
ty, and openly opposed the negro suffrage
in his own State. His nomination
is not acceptable to the Radical party
of Ohio. The united effort on the part
of the opposition to Mr.. Stewart to place Mr..
ot massachusetts, who is recognised
as one Of the Rad cal leaders IN Congress, fur
nishes ground ofssuspcion that the extreme
men of the party are determined to have q
Radical and Protectioaist at the
head Of the Treasury Department. Leading
gentlemen at Washington believe that in order
tb preserve the unity aud harmony OF the
e.sy e.,sSy. the Secretary OF the Treasury should be
IN accord with the majority in Congress. MIR.
stewart is not only regarded unsound on suf-
fr.ee. but on the tariff question. Hence comes
the opposition"
-O.nsda papers give somo particulars o
the shooting of Ensign Whitaker: OF tfe
British army, by young Chaioner, in Montreal
On Wednesday OF last week. Whitaker Be-
daoed Miss Chaloner last Augtst, after havlrg