The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-25


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-Cc,d % Now YORK Yesterday closed at
32y@33
Cotton closed in Now York dull and lower.
Sales 1900 bales at 2a4a29A.
Cotton at Liverpool closed fat. Uplands
I'D; Orleans 124d.
Commander Winslow, and his crew. of the
Kearsage, will receive $19O00o for the capture
of the Alabama, should Congress pass the bill.
There are signs, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch, OF o great emigration southwark in the
early spring. Many families are preparing to
leave Pittsburg for Virginia. Kentucky and
Georgia.
"A new law in Cincinnati prohibits the ope-
ration Of commercial agents or &c drummers''
in that CITY. travelling agent Of New York
hat and cap establishment has just been fined
$50 and costs, and another agent double that
amount.
long and serious debate over the Alabama
claims treaty when it comes before them, not
withstanding the reported adverse decision Of
the committee. The treaty, therefore, will not
probably be brought up this session.
"A joint resolution was adopted in the Lou
isiana House on Saturday authorizing the Gov
ernor and Treasurer to hypothecate State
bonds whenr,c II is deemed necessary to pro-
VII FOy tha Of tLo ;r&o
coming duo, on bonds. The rate Of interest
on such loan not TO exceed seven per cent.
Governor Brownlow, on Saturday, issued q
proclamation declaring martial law in the
Counties Of Jackson, Gibson, Maury, Madison,
Haywood, Lawrence, Giles, Marshall and Over
ton. General Cooper has been ordered to send
troops to those counties, and to arrest and
punish all evil-doers without reference to civil
law.
A letter from A. w. Clark, United States
Consul at Valparaiso, dated January 10th,
states that the yellow fever had again made
its appearance in most malignant form at
the ports south Of Callao. The disease was re-
ported as moro virulent and fatal than last year
when at ITS height. Vessels arriving at Vapa-
raiso from the affected ports wore strictly quar-
antined.
"A prize of $40 was recently offered to any
member Of the Connecticut Teachers Institute
who would write and spell correctly the words
in the following sentence: 'sIt is an agreeable
sight to witness the unparalleled enlbarrass-
ment OF harncssed peddler at attempting to
gauge the symmetry of o peeled onion, which
sibyl has stabbed with a poniard, regardless
of the innuendoes of the lilies Of carnelian
hue" :. Thirty eight teachers competed for the
prize, but not one was successful. >.,.
General Grant, it is said, becomes more
communicative as the time for his Inaugural
tion approaches. He recently told an old Con-
nectieut friend that he would put no military
or naval officers IN his Cabinet but should in
vite civilians to fill them al. man of the
most eminent ability is to be offered the port
folio Of Secretary of State; and from the de-
scription of the kind of man General Grant de-
sires for the position, the Connecticut gentle
man says there are not more than three men
in he country who Will come up to the mark.
"A colored man, j. s. Richardson, Of Wash
ingtop, has addressed note to Mayor Bowen,
as chairman OF the committee on the sale of
tickets for the inauguration ball, stating that a
number Of his friends from Philadelphia and
New York would be in Washington on the 4th of
March, and asks whether any distinction on ac-
count of color is to be made il the sale of tickets
Mayor Bowen addressed him reply, in which
he says that s'any person of respectable char
acter and standing in this community who ap-
plies and pays for q ticket to the inauguration
ball, to be held in the north wing of the
Treasury Department, will not be denied, at
least so fur as my action is concerned. The
questi of color never having arisen in the
committee, I cannot, Of course, decide for
them,'
The question OF the confidential character
OF telegraph1c message has recently been
raised in England on the trial Of the electi m
cases. The judges presiding over these new
tribunals are authorized to ''ca ! for papers,"
but great mplaints are made because Judge |
1soo,A- oYi, inanaTer OF mug .,o,i.
Telegraph Company to produce bundle of |
kilograms bearing on tho Dublin election.
The manager protested, assuring the court
that the company mad always considered tele-
gram as sacrel as if seal were attached to it. |
The judge. however, advised the manager
mot to mind what the company thought: he
had the telegrams aud must produce them. al |
though. OF ronrse, he had only done his duty
in objecting, The English journals, in COM
mentlng o. this order, argue that kilograms
are letter I'd spatched by means Of electricity.
and that. in compelling their production. Jus |
tice Keogh ac' oil in precisely the same way as
If he had instructed one OF the officers of his
court to 60 down to the candidates private
residence, break open his writing desk and
seize all his letters.
A duel was fought at New Orleans last
week, between Louis E. Mouaaer and ID. 7. |
Lawson. !, The weapons we're small swords
and the meeting look place little below the |
levee 10 the presence OF two or three hundred |
soldiers. Moussier, the survivor. makes the |
following statement: "Once on the ground. |
hesitated some time after the swords were
drawn about fighting. and attempted to avoid |
Q difficulty. 1t was not until he had cursed !
me, and had run the point OF his sword against |
9,and tlaatI mo lo anu lz.,,xsa |