The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-15
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and more active. Middllngs 2S4a29; sales $500
bales. Gold closed at 322.
1t is becoming the fashion in New York to
issue wedding in iitation, with &c No presents"
on them.
The great competition in theatrical busi-
ness In New York is said to be interfering with
the profits.
Was Eaton innocent2 Who poisoned
TwitcheIl? are the questions which agitate
Philadelphia
Missouri imposes State income tax which
the Missouri Supreme Court has just declared
to be unconstitutional.
Cuban correspondents say the rebels there
started practically without firearms, and that
now they are one-quarter armed.
The Senate in executive session to-day
ratified naturalization treaties with Baden,
Wurtemberg, Hesse, and Belgium. and also
trAdes-mark treaty with Belgium.
The Pontioal anniversary celebration
which took place at New Orleans on Monday,
is said to have been the most magnificent
spectacle ever Witnessed in that city.
"A steam propeller, carrying arms and ma
materials OF war, and also about one hundred
aud twenty men, left New York, it is said,
few days ago, in aid ofthe Cuban insurrection-
lists.
"A billiard congress, it is announced, will
soon be held in Boston. Preliminary arrange
ments have been made, and committees ap-
pointed to raise funds. procure q hall, and draft
rules for the proposed congress.
"A woman IN Now York broke keroseue
lamp over her husbands head, after all unsuc-
oessful attempt to sca!d him with hot water
from tea pot ana to brain him with stove
lid, but in so doing she burned herself so Sc
veroly that she has since died.
Tho Cuban Junta hold o meeting at New
York on Monday. The proceedings were
secret; but it was intmatod that strong ex-
petition in aid of tho Cuban insurgents has
set sail from Southern port, under command
OF dlstlnguis cd American officer.
The winter in Europe, it may be remem-
bered. was exceedingly mild, the blossoms
coming out in J nuary, and persons sitting in
the open air as in summer time. Now, how
ever, We hear that on March 9th and 28th. q
terrible storm prevailed throughout Europe.
At Birmin CHAM, and all o yer the north OF Eng
land, snow tell WlGnOut lutorrllsslun for four
teen hours. In Paris, tfe snow lay for foot
deep on the ground. The Pyrenees in the
south of France are covered with SNOW and
the bears have been coming down to the villa
ges and have carried off the sheep and COWS.
Captain General Du,oe has the reputation
Of being prudent judicious officer; but he is
cursed with subJrunates who are as fit to be
trusted with power in this crisis as monkey
would be with lighted candle in powder
magazine. IF he have any control whatever |
over the Spanish naval officers in the West
India squadron, b cannot safely lose one hour |
in using it, We have hardly had time to re-
ceive the pa ticulars of the late outrage ON an
Amerca IN vessel, till the Nassau Herald comes |
with details of yet more wanton anu foolhardy |
performance. Not satisfied with their excellent |
prospect of embroiling their government in it's |
time OF distress with the United States, they |
have now oontrived to offer an equal or greater |
indignity to Great Britain. Pursuing 9 vessel |
into British harbor, they first insisted on |
their right to search it, and then absolutely |
landed detachment of marines, and secured |
the island for the crew Of q Cuban privateer |
that had, the day before, been driven upon the |
reef The Nassau paper speaks under q par |
donable excitement in pronounciny this I" no.
thing short Of declaration OF war against
Great Britain" and assuming that "it seals
the fate Of Cuba ;" but certainly no more mar
vellous example Of audacious folly has marked
the annals OF the Spanish navy in Western |
waters. The violation Of International Law
is so palpable that it cannot be regarded as
other than intentional and deliberate.
The progress OF the Cuban revolution is |
commented upon in the New York Tribune |
Since its inception it has received no one
serious defeat. but on the contrary has daily
enlarged its active boundaries and more
seriously imperlled the Spanish rule. The
Provisional Government of Cuba is at this mo-
nsent master OF at least three ftths OF The en-
tire area of the island; it commands all the in-
terror lines OF communi ation within the reyo.
lutionized territory; it threatens the control Of
the spaniards over the remaining two-afths; it
has confined the troops operating against them
chiefly to the seaboard and to the walls OF
few principal towns; it has an organized semi
military government, whose authority is readily
and seriously respected by the people; it has to.
day an army OF over 40, 900 men in the field, and
could easily double that number IL IN possess
sion OF arms and proper equipments. SO much
the revolution has practically accomplished. It
has in reality done much more, for from the
outset 1t has established the policy OF emanci-
patton and full acknowledgment fall it's citi-
zens as Its purpose. The moral value of this
unqualified position has been immense. There
is another notable feature in the success so far
achieved. It is that 1t has been gained by the
almost unaided exertlcns of the Cubans :hen-
selves. In spite OF all reports, there has
been but very slight aid given from the out
side. either from our shores or other Of the
neighboring American States.
A New York letter OF the 10th instan.
says: 'The glories Of Broadway are numbered
The bill turning 1t over to railroad corpo-
ration to do pretty much Shat they like with 1t
has passed both houses Of the Legislature, and
now waits but the Governor's signature to be-
ccrae law. It empowers the coaporators to
cut up, not only Broadway, but Lexington
avenue, one OF the finest and most aristocratic
&horoughfates mp town. An ugly feature Of
the crooked processes whereby this end has
been accomplished was the refusal to give
the job to responsible parties who we're viii.
Ang to pay $4,000 600 into the city trea-