The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-06
NEWs sur MAR 2.

NEWS SUAMAR T.
Cotton closed in Liverpool unchanged.
Sales 5000 bales. Uplands lid; Orleans I'D.
Cotton close1in New York without decided
change. Sales $500 bales. Middings 2S2.
Gold closed at 35t. =, =
One patent medicine manufacturer adver-
tises in twenty-five hundred newspapers in this
country. II is almost needless to add that his
profits are enormous. .-l-
The most delicate and considerate project
OF reputation recently broaohed is contained
in Q telegram from Madrid to the English
papers, which announces that "the Minister
of Finances proposes to unity the public debt
BY allowing the next half-yearly interest, due
in June, to accumulate and be added to the
capital. .....s,5 .-,s.) .-,....s,t
-Rumors of Cabinet changes are again rife.
1t seems that q reorganization Of the person.
mel OF the government ia deemed party ne-
ccssity. 1t is said that many Of the Badical
senators and members who remain in Wash
ingtou express the conviction, privately, that
unless the Cabinet is reconstructed the Repub-
ican party will 90 to pieces, and the next
House Of Representatives will have Demo-
cratic majority. '.sar
The question whether the people Of Rhode
Island rally approve or disapprove the recent
course OF Senator Sprague will soon be sub
jected to partial but yet quite interesting
test. The term Of Office OF Thomas A. Doyle,
,he present Mayor Of Providence. is about to
expire, and he is candidate for reelection
ON the ,Sprague platform. The contest will,
Of course, be very ardent, but if Mr.. Doyle
should be successful, it will be impossible to
deny :aat the majority Of voters in that city
are su. ioorters ct the senator. ), %. al 70
Free and easy manners are invading the
domains Of the privileged classes in England.
A ''bloated aristocrat" writes to the Pail Mall
Gazette that member Of the House of Com
mons was recently seen sitting in the reading
room Of that assembly in his stocking feet.
ITO be sure" he says, Tuesday was very
warm day; but that, I venture to think, is no
excuse for this particular breach Of good man
n ners. .1uWhen the dog days come in, he may be
encouraged to strip himself still further-and
that would really be offensive"
The New York. Times says that the reason
why the papers OF that city have made no edi-
koriA reference TO the Dana-Young affair is
because they do not choose to deal with pri
-yste scandals. The Times has some whole
roma rennarks In fhis connection upuu tho i'm
bropriety Of catering 90 the morbid craving
for spicy sensational reading. All this is very
gratifying, and especially as eomiig nom New
York. The country has not been in the habit
oe expecting great things from that quarter
IN the way Of pewspapSr decencies ar amen
itias. nj 80 &. a+.lgaq = -s..' - 80 81 is
Ia extraordinary activity in agricultural
lands IN California has been result OF the
builatSs Of the Pacific Railroad. Branche,
frddtk that rosd Into al the hitherto neglected
regions are projected, and in some cases sur
veyed. New toms are springtng up in interior
losatitiss, and the demand tor money to carry
ontHese enterprises his produced atringen::
cyih:the money market. The widest mining
schemes meet With less favor now thas It is
seen. that Investments in farming lands, soon
to have qaick communication with the coast,
win pay u we'll and mrsh more surely
GTbe Psll Mall Gssette complains OF the
puHts familiarity between young men Of tie 2,
period and the Aspasias on Rotten Bow. iBut
short time since Phfyne was passed with
nod; now her carrisgs Is surrounded with as
many admirers as Il she had come from "s'me
dove.cpt II the country watched over by.
vHtlols mothar. The audacity OF these re-
unions aiampsecedmted." But the Bow is not
the only public place where these meetings
occur. There are well known perfumers' and
Jewellers shops ct the West End, notorious
for. .enteyprises not immediately connected with
bloom tor the lips and glitter for the eyes. .
"A lew DAYS ago N. de Lavalette, the French
Minister Of Foreign Affairs, informed the
Corps LegislatI that everything abroad was
quite pleasant, that the policy Of the Empire
was peace, and that as for Germany, France
wished to avoid all interference in purely Ger
man affairs. TO which Marshal Mel added, in
the senate, that France could, at a moments
notice, with out alarming any one, call 100000
soldiers into the field; that the six "great
commands" we're perfect armies, with staff and
everything complete, and that to Set any one
Of them in motion needed only telegraphic
order. Clearly; tho Emperor believes in say
ing. "i pas pacem para belluns."
IA bri,lis it Aurora Borealis was witnessed
in London on April 10Th, between the hours Of
midnight and balf.pa one o'clock in the morn
ing. Taking into account the difference otlon-
gitude, that period corresponds to seven and
hsh-past eight O'Clock, on the evening OF April
18th, at Philadelphia. So that the phenomena
probably extended across the whole width Of
the Atlantic" From Greenwich, where the
English observations we're made, it is reported
that the distance from the most eastern to the
most western streamer was 100 degrees, and
that at an altitude Of Is degrees waves of light
seemed to rise and break hike the foam Of waves
running over sandy shore. The display is
said to have been as magnificent as any in
Northern atitudee.
Ina conversation between the President
and several gentlemen respecting affairs in the
Island Of Cuba, the President, it is said, stated
that the Spanish authorities had acceded to
every request made by our government where
the rights Of persons or property Of American
citizens we're involved. and that the Spanish
authorities we're very confident Of their ability
to speedily put an end to the insurrection. On
the other hand he said the government had
been informed by insurgents, through our
agents now in Cuba, that they would eventual
" succeed in their revolution, although months