The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-22
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-GOlu IN NEW IOrK CiOSeQ at 500.
AT New York cotton closed firmer; sales
$500 bales at 29a, with some sales at 292c.
The Liverpool cotton market closed active
uplands 11ad.; sales 18, 600 bales.
-Pollard's successor sspels public without
"k."
-Parepa goes West and South during the
winter, then to England and in the fall starts
for a trip around the world.
-Tomahawk considers that John Bright
might better have kissed Yctoria's hand than
have licked the feot Of crowd.
Jefferson DaYis writes from Europe to q
friend that he intends to spend the winter in
the southern part of France
"Not guilty." said an Omaha jury, ''but il
the prisoner is smart he will leave the territory
before night" He left.
"A portion of the anti -Ritualist party in
Australia have formed what they designate q
ssFree Church Of Eng land, !" and have elected a
bishop. He went through form Of consecra-
tion, took the oaths OF supremacy, and on the
following Sunday held q general ordination.
-Advces from Rome state that the prepara
tions for the Gcumepical Council are being
actively carried on. The assembly will be
held in st. Poter's, and already the arrange
ments arc being made in the nave, at the port
where the Pope each year washes the poor
mems feet.
A London dressmaker has been fined for
keeping her girls at work after halr-past four
O'Clock on Saturday. She urged in extenuation
that she was engaged on large order for
dresses for corps Of "Girls Of the PERIOD in
did not avail her.
Prince Sa'm-Salm, whose record embraces
service us an Austrian cavalry officer, a French
officer in Algeria, service in Spain, as brigadier
in the Union army during the rebellion, and as
an officer under Maxmilian in Mexico. has now
accepted q commission as major in Prussian
regiment of grenadiers.
One effect of the Presidents declaration of
full amnesty will be to clear the docket of the
criminal court in Knoxville, Tennessee, Of
about thousand cases of treason. Indict-
ments are pending against nearly evcry rebel
who set foot in East Tennessee, from JEFF. Da-
Wis down to colonels of regiments who chanced
to pass through there.
"A correspondent of the New York Times
describes the Mikado Of japan as youth of
sixteen, with sensual and vacant counte-
nance. hard head and false eyebrows painted
pat way up the fuIuhead. Ten yeal3s ago he
was considered o god, and his existcIrf doubt
ed by sceptical Japanese; now he appears in
public, and is to be the real ruler Of his peo-
pie.
The Georgia correspondent of the New
York Times says "The cotton crop is good;
the relations between whites and the negroes
friendly. the former paying promptly on all
their contracts for work. and the latter beng
satisfied with the results of their labor. In no
part Of the world says the correspondent, lis
the corresponding class of laborers as pros
porous, in material sense, as these negroes.'',
The Nashville Banner publishes extracts
from letter from Amos A. Lawrence. of Mas
sachusetts. in which that eminent New Eng
land manufacturer extols the advantages Of the
south, particularly Tennessee, 1or carrying on
cotton manufacturing. Mr.. Lawrence takes a
practical view of the subject, and urges the
working of smaller farms and the employment
OF the extra capital in manufacturing and
mining.
General Grant is now running the gauntlet
IN the way of receiving political committees
and delegations, and with all his reticence he
manages to make every interview 'sverv pleas
ant" and satisfy all parties that he is for gra-
tifying their respective wishes Both parties
from Virginia were highly gratifcd with Gene
raj Grants assurances, while his intimations
to the opposing delegations from Mississippi
are considered "encouraging."
-Mormonism is likely to have an uncomfort-
able time of it il MIR. Ashley's bill passes
through Congress. 1t will effectualy dismem-
Der Utah, take away piece after piece OF the
territory and, giving it to Colorado, Nevada.
Montana and Wyoming, Brigham Young will
find his premises so contracted that, instead
OF o State, he will rule over o township. The
problem OF Mormonism will thus be solved
and it's high priest brought down to an ordi-
nary taxpayer.
The United States House of Representa-
tives have adopted the following: Resolued
That in the present condition OF the national
finances no further subsidies ought to be given
by Congress, either in bonds or money, to rail-
road or other corporations, or to promote local
enterprises. but the whole resources of the
country ought to be applied to the pressing
necessities OF the public service, in such O.
maner as will relieve the people from the bur-
dens Of taxation"
The Now York papers, friendly to Cover
nor Morgan, are terribly severe on the men,
bers OF the Assembly who were reckoned as
certain for him, but who voted for Fenton in
the caucus; and corruption is plainly limited at
ii not openly charged in some instances. We
dare say that the same complaints would have
been made on the other side had the result
been different. and probably with as much
foundation. 1t is the old story of the outs
agsinst the ins, and we always take it with
salt.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
thinks that the adoption OF Senator Sherman,s
finance bill would, in all probability, have
very important result, not at all contributing
to the interest OF the North or promotive Of
the resumption Of specie payments. The
Sonth, it says. has o deep-rooted prejudice
against greenbacks and National Bank -saoles,
which now shows ikaalE ir, anna aanA;1,.,a 10,