The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-25
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-Gold in New York yesterday closed al
s2Hasa.
Cotton closed in New York dull and lower
Sales 1900 bales at 294a29s.
Cotton at Liverpool closed fiat. Uplandi
I'D; Orleans 12{d.
Commander Winslow, and his crew, of the
Kearsage, will recsive $4,000 for the capture
Of the Alabama, should Congress pass the bill
There, are signs, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch, of great emigration southwark in the
early spring. Many families are preparing te
leave Pittsburg for Virginia, Kentucky ant
Georgia.
"A newlaw in Cincinnati prohibits the ope-
ration of commerce. agents or drummers'
in that city. A travelling agent Of New Yorl
hat and cap establishment has just been ineo
$50 and costs, and another agent double thai
amount.
1t is understood that the Senate will hold
long and serious debate over the Alabama
claims treaty when it comes before them, not
vithstanding the reported adverse decision Of
the committee. The treaty, therefore, will not
probably be brought up this session.
"A Joint resolution was adopted in the Lou
isiana House on Saturday authorizing the Gov
ernor and Treasurer to hysothecate State
bonds whenever it is deemed necessary to pro-
vide .or the payment of the interest due, or
coming due, on bonds. The rate OF interest
=. IL nor onnt
Governor Brownlow, on Saturday, issued
proclamation declaring martial law In the
Counties OF Jackson, Gibson, Maury, Madison,
Haywood. Lawrence, Giles, Marshall and Over
ton. General Cooper has been ordered to send
troops to those counties, ar to arrest and
punish all evil-doers without IT ,rence to civil
law.
"A letter from A. ". Clark, United States
Consul at Valparaiso, dated January 10th,
states that the yellow fever bad again made
it's appearance in most malignant form at
the ports south of Callao. The disease wasre-
ported as more virulent and fatal than last year
when at lts height. Vessels arriving at Valpa-
rsiso from the affected ports were strictly quar-
antinel.
"A prize of $40 was recently offered to any
member of the Connecticut Teachers Institute
who would write and spell correctly the words
in the following sentence: cit is an agreeable
sight to witness the unparalleled embarrass-
ment OF a harnessed peddler attempting to
gauge the symmetry of peeled onion, which
a sibyl has stabbed with poniard, regardless
of the innuendoes of the lilies OF carnellan
hue."h Thirty-eight teachers competed for the
prize, hpt noS one was successful.
General Grant, it is said, becomes more
communicative as the time for his inaugura-
tion approaches. He recently told an old Con-
n.cticut friend that he would put no military
or naval officers In his Cabinet, but should It.
vite civilians to fill them all. man OF the
most eminent ability is to be offered the port
folio Of Secretary Of State; and from the de-
scription Of the kind OF man General Grant de-
sires for the position, the Connecticut gentle-
man saws there are not more than three men
in the country who WHY come up to the mark.
"A co!ored man, ]. s. Richardson, OF Wash
ington, has addressed note to Mayor Bowen,
as chairman of the committee on the sale of
tickets for the Inauguration ball, stating that
number Of his friends from Philadelphia and
New York would be in Washington on the 4th of
March, and asks whether any distinction on nc
count Of color is to be madeil the sale oftickets
Mayor Bowen addressed him reply, in which
he says that s'any person of respectable char
acter and standing in this community who ap-
plies and pays for ticket to the Inauguration
ball, to be held in the north wing Of tho
Treasury Department, will not be denled at
least SO far as my action is concerned. The
questi Of color never having arisen in the
committee, I cannot, of course, decide for
them"
The question of'the confidential character
of a telegraphlc message has recently been
raised in England on the trial of the clecti N
cases. The judges presiding over these new
tribunals are authorized to ''ca.l for papers"
but great complaints are made because Judge
Keogh compelled the manager of the Magnetic
Telegraph Company to produce bundle OF
kilograms bearing on the Dublin election.
The manager protested, assuring the court
that the company mad always considered tele-
gram as sacred as il seal were attached to it.
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''not to mind what the company thought; he
had the kilograms, aad must prodacc them, al
though, OF course, he had only done his duty
in objecting." The English journals, in COM
mentng on this order, argue that kilograms
are letters dispatched by means of electricity,
aud that, in compelling their production, Jas
tioe Keogh acted in precisely the same way as
if he had instructed one of the officers of his
court to 60 down to the candidates private
residence, break open his writing-desk and
seize all his letters.
"A duel was fought at Now Orleans last
week, between Louis E. Moussicr and D. F.
Lawson. The weapons were small swords
and the meeting took place little below the
Ievee, in the presence of two or three hundred
soldiers. Moussier, the survivor. makes the
following statement " Once or the ground,
hesitated some time after the swords were
drawn about fighting, and attempted to avoid
difficulty. It was not until he had cursed
mo, and had run the point of hi7 sword against
nv hand, that made any unge at HIM what
ever. Upon first gong on the ground, had
stuck my sword into the levee bank, and re-
peatedly told him he had no proyoca'ion for
fighting. Finally, when he had several times