The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-22
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-COttOQ clOSeu III NoW IotE uuoa1n60u,
sales 1900 bales.
Gold S4t.
Tea is raised in Louisiana as wei as Ten
nessee.
.-England's Abyssinian expedition cost
s5O,OoO,OOo
The new fashioned parasols resemble q
Chinese pago6a.
The snow was foot deep on the White
Top Mountain, near Abingdon, Virginia, last
eek.
The Bsptists have raised forty-six thou
sand dollars to build home for the aged in
New York.
The New York Sun says that since the
slave trade has been abolished, the tribes in
Africa eat their prisoners, as they canLot sell
them.
Maurice Strakosch is to bring out Rossinis
last work, the "Messe Solennelle, " in New York
about the S0th inst. Miss Kellogg will assist
In the production.
-Sickles has publshed.a 'sCard" saying there
is nothing but the sweetest harmony between
General Grant and himself. They have bad no
dlsputo-not bit Of it.
TIC actors in the Odeon Theatre, Paris,
have 4 three months vacation in the summer,
during which their salaries are continued pre-
ciscly as when in active service. The Odeon ls
naturally very popular theatre in the profess
sion.
before the end OF this month prisaie ex-
pedition to the North Pole will set out from
Glasgow. The explorer who is about to under.
take.:a perillous and extremely uncertain ad-
venture is Mr.. Lamont, late member OF Parlia-
meat for Buteshire, and fayorably known in
literature as tho author OF Seasons with the
Sea Horses" For his new expedition he has
fitted out in Scotland, at his own expense,
steamer OF two Hundred and thirty tons, called
the Diana, and has associated with him gen
tlemen who can aid him in the various objects
he has in view.
SHOCKING ingratitude," is what the New
York Herald calls Dana's publication Of the
following in the way of thanks to General
Grant: "'We must recollecl-Congresss should
recollect-that we live under an administra
tion, the first administration Of that character
in this country, which has openly recognized
the propriety of official discretion being inau-
enced by the payment Of money to the officer
to whom the discretionary power is entrusted
In some parts OF South America the profession
al begsar goes his daily round on horseback,
and the gift of few pennies, which would be
thankfully accepted by footman in the same
line OF business, is an insult to this consequen-
tial horsemau. Dana, we fear, is done for"
: An old gentleman named Anderson, who
resided in Baldwin County. Alabama, some
days ago found four negroes skinning one OF
his COWS which they had previously killed. He
went out to demonstrate with them on their
conduct, and was Immediately fred upon by
one OF the party, several buckshot taking effect
on his body, which caused him to fall. and it ls
not known whether this wound would have
killed him or not, but immediately after he
fell another of the party rushed upon him and
split his head open with an axe. They then
mutiiated his body most terribly with
hatchet. After this they, dragged his body off
into the bushes and concealed it. The negroes
we're subsequently arrested by the sheriff and
lodged in jail. One of them confessed his
PARTICIPATION in the crime and i'm 2licated the
others.
The Roman Catholic Cathedral, at the cor
ner OF Fiftieth-street and Fifth avenue, in New
York City, will be the most elaborate re elisious
edifice in the country. It covers an entire
square, and is estimated to cost, when finish
ed, nearly 50. 100000. The walls are rising
slowly, hardly more than twenty or thirty feet
having been put up thus far, and it will re-
quire several years to finish them. The work
has been stopped twice within d year-once on
account OF the strike of the bricklayers, and
once by reason Of a lack Of funds. When the
church is finished, it will give visitor better
idea Of the splendors OF the great cathedrals
of Europe than anything else he can see ia
America. Contributions are now being made
for this work by all the Catholic Churches Of
the city and State, and as the Catholics gene
rally succeed in any effort to raise funds, the
work is not likely to be suspended again.
l-Apropos of the Cuban question, some in-
teresting facts, II true, calculated to throw
light upon Secretary Fishs policy, have leaked
out. The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald Gays: SIT seems Fish,
though at first opposed to war with Spain, has
all along been in favor of the purchase OF Cuba
His idea has been that Cuba could be bought
for good round sum, and that, after all, it
would be the cheapest way OF solving the diff
Guilty. To go to war, he believed, would be a
more expensive way Of obtaining possession Of
Cuba than to accomplish its purchase by peace
fuI negotiation. With this purpose before him,
Fish induced President Grant to throw Sickles
overheard and to pick up Sanford as the man
for the Spanish mission. Grant had promised
Madrid to Sick,es; Of that fact there is not the
slightest doubt, but Fish talked the matter
h over with Grant, and finally got his endorse
ment of Sanford
British writer's are really growing very
personal. The London Standard is PUBLISHING
all kinds of revelations concerning Mr.. Glad
stones life and habits; Mr. Anthony rrollopc
is accused Of caricaturing public men in his
new novel, Phineas Fina; and il recent play
by MIR. Edmund Yates, the poet Swinburne is
brought forward in gross and offensive man.
ner. Moreover, says correspondent, "there
have appeared within the last few weeks sew
eral journals which openly violate oemmon de-
cency in dealing With private character. The
most malignant attacks are made under flmsy
disguises, and everybody wonders why some
of the aggricved persons do not seek for the pro-
lection OF the law. A shameful article was re-
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