The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-26
N E.Ws SUM MARY


Gold at New York yesterday closed quie
at31t.
The New York cotton market was firm
Sales 400 bales at 282a29c.
The Liverpool Cotton market closed with
uplands at 12aa12ld; Orleans 12aa12ad; sales
5000 bales.
"A Yankee soap merchant has succeeded in
extracting from Grant letter Of recommen.
dation for his soap. 81 t~- =
"A chain-boIt has been put upon the White
House door, at Washington, the more effec-
lively to keep out ofice-seckers who won't take
s'no" for an answer. "'
-.Ex-President johnson arrived at his old
home in Greenville, Tenn, on Saturday, whom
he received q warm reception from his old
peighbors.
"A Canadian newspaper indirectly reports
the depth OF snow there, by announcing that a
travellers horse was fatally injured by becom-
ing entangled with a telegraph wire twenty
feet from the ground. +
"A Memphis paper says that jury in that
oity, having found q man guilty Of numbering
a citizon who is alive and well, are now debat-
ing whether to rescind their verdict or let the
convict murder the citizen.
The result Of a careful search through
New York city for q house, showed that in the
entire space included between Madison avenue
and Sixth avenue, from Fourteenth-street up to
Fifteenth-street, there were very few houses Of
which the rent was as low as $3000 and those
were small and undesirable.
-Cc.,sain Protestant Episcopalians in the
diocet ,of Illinois have issued protest against
WHAT cy believe to be the Romanizing ten
denotes Of Bishop Whitehouse and others of
his school. A convention of all who sympa.
thize with this protest is called to meet in
Chica 20 in June next, for discussion aud con-
sultation,
-Ihertwo HIS" Hancock and Hoffman. are
proposed by Democrats for the next Presiden-
tlal election. But the Montgomery (Ala) Mail,
On the other hand, suggests, "Let our motto,
in anticipation of the next Presidential canvass,
be, Patience, Prudence aud Pendleton.'" >" The
question is, therefore, which is the better mot
to, "the two Hs' or ''the three PSI
1t appears that the Missouri Legislature
was in too big hurry about the ratification of
the suffrage amendment. Some one telegraph
ed them the wrong amendment. and they rati,
l1ed it, so that now the work goes lor nothing,
and sAe Legislature docs not roasscnADle until
pex&sGer This snows TIC Ind tess8s II 1Tatify
lhe DOCTOR against .whon1sa. yar4At,k Of ten
tAcuaana dollars s asffs M e. ..oaa EoIiAIe was
recently given in Warren County, Ohio had
converted all his property into ready cash, and
as soon as the verdict was given he took him.
self and al his worldly goods into q far coun-
try. This was the case in which the defence
was that the promise Of marriage with pretty
naillner could not be carried out because she
was Of African descent. r@.iaesv
jacob Surget, ninety seven years old, died
in New Yo,k last week. and left property val
ued at ten millions of dollars. He was Creole
Frenohman, but was born in the United States.
he lived by rule, and was very abstemious,
drinking nothing but water. He used to say
that he had a secret Of longevity which he
bought Of q gipsey woman when he was sail
or, and he thought he should live to be hun
dred. For many years he spent his winters in
Mississippi, but when the war broke out he
came 10 New York, where he remained until
he died.
The mammoth festival on Boston Common
seems to be no longer d problem, but an as
sured promise. Money, it is said, pours in by
millions, and whatever the music may be.
there is certain to be q mighty noise, and
crowds Of enthusiastic spectators, and q me-
morable celebration altogether. The exercises
are to be held inan iron amphitheatre, to be
erected for the purpose. The festival proper
will last about week, but the building will
stand FOR at least month, and be used during
that time tor monster concerts, oratorios, and
similar decorous Publications. The middle OF
June is the time fixed for the opening. M
The later mails from Hayti bring the for
NAL document prepared by the leaders Of the
insurrection there, placing the ''rebel" Pro-
visional Government and Hayti itself under
the protection Of the United States. This pa
per, soon after Its adoption bv the s'rebel" Gov
srnment, fell into the hands Of Salnaye. II
has just reached this country. It is alittle
singular that the insurrectionists we're, until
they offered this protectorate to the United
States, bitterly opposed to the annexation ot
the island to this country, and denounced both
Salnave and Baez for favoring annexation.
The Independence d'Hayti, the "rebel" organ,
declared that ''the Haytien is prepared to
bury himself under the ruins OF his country
rather than lose his nationality" A great
thing is such nationality to be buried for
But even now the Haytien proposes to give il
away. A great country is Haytil & @t
Fernando Po, where the prisoners OF state
IN Cuba are to be conveyed, is an island, forty
four miles long and twenty miles broad, ,situat-
cd on the west coast OF Africa, in the Blight OF
biafra, about twenty miles from the nearest
point OF the main land. Fernando Pc is in
latitude about three degrees thirty minutes
north, is traversed by mountain ridge.
which at Clarence Peak rises to the height Of
l0,65O feet, or over two miles; is fertile. wen
watered and thicklyy wooded 1t contains. II
state OF nature. large flocks Of goats and
sheep, and swarms OF monkeys Of great siz ).
The climate, excessively hot at all times. be.
comes intolerable during the rainy season.
when pestilential wind blows from the conti-
nent OF Africa. The native population consists
Noftwelve thousand negroes, inhabiting fifteen
villages. The English Government, between
1887 and 1894. made an attempt to form O
colony, but failed. In 1914, Spain again took
possession and established q penal settle