The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-06
NEWS sU M MI a r z.

Gold closed at S4a.
in the New York cotton market yesterday
sales amounted to 1000 bales at 27c.
in Liverpool cotton was active with saies
OILS eco bales. Uplands 11td; Orleans llso.
"A daughter Of General Earl Van Dorm was
recently married in Mississippi to MIR. +. a.
Lumsden, of Louisiana.
The Emperor Of Russia forbids the papers
tomake mention of any future attempts upon
his life.
General John c. Fremont would like, it is
said to represent the United States at the
Tuilleries.
An English Catholic paper prints list ol
two archbishops and ten bishops shortly to be
appointed Catholic hierarchy in Scotland.
The engineer of the Georgia Air Line Rail-
road Company advertises for proposals to
finish the first twenty miles of that road.
Macon has pledged $4,000 to complete the
Macon and ugusta Railroad, between Macon
and Milledseville.
The Marquis of Butte is said to have pur-
chased most of the Hastings property and sold
it back on lew terms to the family.
The Atlanta Constitution says company
of Northern capitalists are about to erect o
magnificent hotel in that city.
The publishers of Putnam's Magazine OF
fers liberal prizs for the best article on ''Ad-
vertisins and advertising agencies-their uses
and abuses"
"A Mr.. Shannon, native of the Emerald
Isle, born in 174O, making him 119 years old,
passed through Searcey, Ark, lately, on foot,
en- route to Texas.
Two young ladies of Iowa have taken up
lands in that State under the Homestead act,
and purpose removing upon them, to run
farm on their own account.
Cotton merchants in Columbus, Ga, are
now buying cotton in New York. They can
make more money by this plan than by pur-
chasing in and shipping from Columbus.
Mrs. General Gaines does not yet handle
any of her great New Orleans fortune. Heavy
debts, slow judges and cunning lawyers keep
her out of her own.
The "dance macabre," introduced. .at the
court at Compeisnc by Princess de Aetternich
and others of the .third series, is called as
. internal, epileptic and savage as the antics Of
the Apaches around burning victims.
Severe snow-storms are said 10 have taken
place at Chicago, Illinois; Boston and Spring
field, Massachusetts,; New York, Buffalo and
Albany, New York, on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday last, blocking up roads, delaying
trains, &c.
"A movement is on foot in New York City
looking to the removal Of the present police
magistrates and securing the elevation to their
places of gentlemen Of probity, honor and legal
attainments. The movement is non-partisaa
in its character.
AT recent trial Of a revenue case in New
Yo7k, skillful experts swore that some speci-
mems of foreign brandy which were submitted
to them were not only genuine, but were worth
$12 per gallon in gold, when it was afterwards
proved that they were manufactu :ed in Brook
.lyn, and were NO. brandy at all.
"A consolidation Of interests in permanent
broad gauge line between TIE Atlantic Ocean
and the Mississippi River, at st. Louis, has
been effected, and she change Of gauge Of the
Ohio and Mississippi Road has been stopped.
A system Of through trains for freight and pas
seagers is at once to be esta ablished. 1t is adj
ded that the entire route between st. Louis
and New York is to be furnished with double
track.
On Saturday, evening q band of armed ne
.groes, nearly one hundred in number, entered
the Town of Darien, Ga, with two white men
in custody, whom they commanded the sheriff
of the county to put in irons and confne in the
county jail. The officer told them he could not
do this; there must be some process OF law
before these men could be deprived of their
liberty. Tho negroes said that this made no
difference; some OF their party had been shot
at some time previously; these two men had
been arrested on suspicion, and if the sheriff
did not place them in irons they would take
them out and shoot them on the spot. Seeing
that he had no other course to pursue, the Off
Ger obeyed, and incarccrated the men in order
to save their lives.
The following is complete list, hitherto
unpublished, of the indictments for treason
now on file in the sfice OF tho Clerk Of the Uni
States Circuit Court for the District of Vr-
ginia: Jefferson Davis, john G. Breckinridge,
Judge Henry W. Thomas, Ex-Governor William
Smith, General Wade Hampton, General Ben
jamin Huger, Ex-Governor Henry A. Wise,
General Samuel Cooper, General G. W. G. Lee,
General R. E. Lee General W. H. F. Lee, Sec
retary 8. R. Mallory, General William Malone,
General James Longstreet, General Fitzhugh
Lee, William E. Taylor, Oscar F. Baxter,
George ". Alexander. General Epps Hunton,
r. H. Booker, NJ. D. Corse, John R. DeBree,
General Roger A. Pryor, Major d. B. Bridg-
ford, General Jubal A. Early, General Richard
Ewell, Thomas P. Turner, William S. Winder,
Hon. James A. Seddon, George Booker, Will
liam q. Payne, Cornelius Bayles, Richard S.
Andrews, William B. Richards, Hon. Charles
j. Faulkner, R. Il. Dulaney, W. N. McVeigh
and a. B. Tyler. Nolle prosequtS have been
entered in the cases of Hon. Thomas S. Bo-
cock and Judge Robert Ould.
The Savannah papers of Monday give very
little additional Of interest in regard to tho
disturbances on the Ogeechee. The Morning
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