The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-28
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NEWS SUM MARY
Gold at New York yesterday closed weak
at 39,39s.
The New YorIz. COTTON market closed firm
er; sales $500 balessat 2s2c. 7
At Liverpool cotton closed at 11jd. for up
lands and 11ad. for Orleans; sales 15. 900 bales.
The truck trade Of Nolfolk, Va, this sea-
son, it is estimated, will amount to about $2,-
100000.
Nov York rel;gionists are taking on Eng
1ish airs, hooting the ritualistic services in st.
Adams Church.
-5trakosch has engaged A1boni to sing in
Rossinis Mass, for two months in the fail. He
pays her $4,000.
-Mr. Treasurer Splinter sleeps with his bed
jamm I'd up against the door Of tho principal
vault in the Treasury building.
An illinois farmer set fire to the grass on
his prairie land'the other day and burned up
his two children who were out at play.
An agent of st. Louis immigrant import
ing house is at Selma. Ala, making contracts
with planters fer Chinese laborers.
Thirteen divorces we're granted in Hamp-
den County, Mass, last week. The parties are
all natives and to the manner born"
Among the prizes recently drawn in Yer
mont lottery wero 5000 gilt rings, worth half
cent each. and $50 empty hour barrels.
--WarteI, Christina Nllssons tutor, recently
received present OF twenty-five thousand
francs from his successful and grateful pupil.
In Indianapolis, a marriage license was re.
Gently issued to young couple who have al
ready once been married and divorced, and
who are still under age.
Mrs. Stanton says the Fifteenth Amend
ment ''caonot with justice bo passed until the
women of the country give their consent to
this new step in their political degradation
"A negro doctor in Georgia prescribed for q
rheumatic old woman that she should bury oil
her huaband's money uudsr stone in the gar
den. She did 80, and though the rheumatism
didn't vanish, the money did.
The Hon. James NJ. Mason, the envoy Of
the Confederate Government to England, has
returned to ths United States after his long
exile and reached his homo in Winchester last
week. r
Mr.. 8. Wolf Register Of Deeds at Wash.
ington, D. c., thiL ks the negro is to bscome
'the beadsto as Of our social and political cul-
ture." This is, evidently, Wolf in sleeps
clothing.
Western papers declare that the Pacific
Railroad has bfouSnt this Pacific coast nearer
toOnaha,than to Wa ashington. and upon this
very evident proportion want the national
capital moved West.
The height Of impudence has been attain
cd by = Connecticut attorney, who lost all his
money at a faro-bank in Hartford, complained
of the place to the police, got his money back,
and took the same money to the same place
the same night to play again.
There is some Anxiety at the State Depart
ment from the fact that no news has been re-
ceived from our minister to Paraguay, General
Mcmahon. II is thought that McM ahon has
been seized by Lopez and carried into the in
terror. where he will have no means Of COM
municating with his friends.
"A New York correspondent says: "Ihe dry
goods market continues depressed. The dis
tributive demand and the general complaint is
That the mills are either working without profit
or positive loss. Stocks meanwhile are accu-
mulatlng, and the talk is that there will soon
be material cuItalmcn5 OF production. Many
staple goods arc selling below cost. Leading
prints r,main at twelve to twelve and half
cents"
Colonel Edgar w. Dennis, judge advocate,
Tor some time past on duty in the Office Of the
Judge Advertisement in Washington and
well known in this city, has tendered his re-
ssignation, to take ehsct Immediately. Having
served through the war and during recon
Struc;ion, he rctires from tho army to take the
position OF attorney il tte Kansas Pacific Rail.
Nay Company, with present headquarters at
Topeka.
Tho appointment OF Thomas L. Tullock as
ark NJ }c 1rooo otyvxy Sn
severe BLOW to all tho clerks who failed to sui
scrlbc to the campaign fgnd Of the Republican
party. Now, 1t is said, b, is cont,iving to have
them all removed, though many are sound
Republicans, and ony had the rashnoss to re-
fuse to contribute what they could not afford.
Tits further said that in short time hence o
CIRCULAR will bs sent to I'LL the clerks asking
for confession Of their political creeds prior
to future removals. @s
The London Times thinks that the United
States is IN peSp.exing pred:camcnt. While
they accuse Great Britain Of doing erievous
wrong by assuming state or war whe,e mono
existed, they arc a. this moment prosecuting
an action as the Queens Bench. in wh:ch they
are compelled not only to admit, but to estab.
lish, the pretensions OF that very government
whose authority they would otherwise repu-
date and decry. The case alluded to is that
against br Potter TAFT for the value Of cloth de-
posted with him b. the Confederates. Says the
Times: "The United States sue Sir Peter Tait
Representatives Of tae Confederate States and
anorder to secure themselves standing ground
tney are compelled to assort that the Con-
nederate States were q dc facto government.
This assertion the defendant calls upon them
10 prove, and chen the Plaintiffs, for the pur-
Dose OF p1oos. actually Fat il that very procla-
nation OF neutrality waich, In othar nacoiia-
lions. they have so strongly denounced. When
this proclamation was issusd. there was an
they have repeatedly contended. no war. and
yet they now appeal tc it as evidence Of the
war; The Times is at q loss to conceive how