The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-16
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-1Q6 N0W 4OrK COCCOn marKSC ClOS0Q easier
Sales 1000 bales at 282 cents.
AT Liverpool yestecday cotton was quoted
at 12ad. for uplands and 1asd. for Orleans, with
sales OF TO. 600 bales. t.
Pensacola is said to contain an enormous
amount OF lumber, awaiting shipment North.
1t is said that fifty Thousand people will
move from Me nhattan Island to the suburban
towns on the LIST May. Cause-high rents.
Two British war ships, the Royal Alfred
and the Niobe, are expected soon at New York.
The former is commanded by Admiral Sir G.
Rodney Mundy.
Colonel VIM. .. Mann. proprietor Of the
Mobile Daily Register, married his ward, Miss
Belle Jones, of Alabama, last Friday, at the
Metropolitan Hotel. New York.
"A married couple in Kentucky, both of
whom are deaf mutes, have an infant child that
can hear, and which, it is thought. will be able
to articulate perfectly in duo time.
The New York Express says: s'Plain black
silk suits. with little, ii any, trimmings. consti-
tute the spring walking costumes of many of
our most fashionable young ladies."0
"A. J. Walt. once one Of the wealthiest mer-
chants Of Memphis, became insane the other
day, epliJ a triends's head open with hatchet,
chopped the arm of another almost off, and
Anally. exclaimlng ''vain world, good -bye!''
thew himself from the window on the pave
ment, breaking his neck.
Three gentlemen Of Chicago-such is the
report-bave dubbed together and ordered
three copies Of Longfellow's 'Dante'' 10 be is
sued for them upon large paper, 10 be illustrat-
ed with Doro's and Flax.nan's designs and
many OF the rare Dante prints. Only three
copies will be printed, and the cost will be $1,000
per copy.
"A Japanese correspondent says the Gre
clan bend has been in fashion in Japan for four
centuries. Tho spinal curve had it's origin in
the custom which the Japanese ladies' have of
carrying their babies on their back, and the
pannier had its origin in tho broad silk girdle
which is swathed several times around the
waist and fastened in large bunch behind.
"A party Of men we're surveying for a rail-
road in New Jersey, aud Of course they were
entitled to the best there was along the line.
At one house they stopped at the proprietor
was little tardy in producing the cider. 1t
came atlast and was tasted by one Of the party
with great deliberation. ssHow much cider did
you make this yearP" he asked. 'Fifteen bar
rels," was the answer. Another sip. "Wen, if
yon, had had another apple you might have
made another barrel"
The celebrated McArdle case, in the Uni.
ted States Supreme Court, has been decided,
Chief Justice Chase delivering the opinion,
Diminishing the case "for want OF jurisdiction.
McArdie, it will be remembered, was the Vicks-
burg tMississippi) editor arresed by General
Ord, tried by military commission, and impris-
oned in 1857 for printing "seditious articles" in
the Vicksburg Times. On the trial by military
commission the accused refused to plead, and
pea Of not guilty was entered for him. The
United Stats Circuit Court in Mississippi
granted a writ of habeds corpus. The court
held that the question presented involved the
constitutionality Of the act Of Congress-, (the
Reconstruction act, in virtue OF which General
Ord placed McArdle under arrest, and he deci-
ded that act to be constitutional, thus decid-
ing that the prisoner was subject to arrest and
to trial before military commission. He was
therefore remanded. and the case came into
the United States Supreme Court on an appeal
from this decision, with the result above.
The Washington correspondent Of the
Baltimore Gazette, writing on Monday, says
"While the political carnival Is in progress in
Washington, and Executive favors are being
scattered broadcast among free American citi-
zens.' q courier arrives from the far-off region
OF Texas with official reports for the War De-
partment. At the little town Of Jefferson, on
the head of Lake Caddo, are now fifteen hun
dred United States soldiers, occupied in guard
ing thirty OF the most respectable citizens Of
the town, who were arrested more than four
months since, and who have never been allow
ed o trial or hearing Of any kind. No one Of
chem has ever been informed or the cause OF
his arrest. The courier announces to the War
Department that the soldiery have constructed
. stockade surrounded with ditch fifteen
feet wide and twelve feet deep, ana within the
stockade erected a frame shed in which the
prisoners are kept. A guard is constantly on
duty within the stockade and another outside
os the stoekade.@ No one, not even counsel. is
allowed to speak to one Of these prisoners,
except IN the hearing or file OF soldies. Even
their wives and daughters arc forbidden anv
intercourse whatever, except in particular
cases, VIII ere lady is occa asionaIly allowed to
talk to her hus band, who is brought out under
guard OF eight men to the entrance of the
stocAade, but all such interviews are Ii nited to
fifteen minutes. These prisoners have made
appeal after appeal for trial, but all in vain.
The War Department receives and enters upon
Its files these reports of Free American Oiti-
2ens' imprisoned, bat says--.Generai hey
nolds must attend to their trial or release: it ia
40 business OF the War Department."
-!ne terrible Blackstone tragedy in Phila-
oeipnia has been followed by one somewhat
similar out more sickening in it's details. At
Oakdaie township. Minn.. ON the morning Of
the 7tn instant, MIR. James r. Gray was dis
covered sitting on the steps OF his granary.
with rope In his hand, alternately screaming
and whistling. An alarm was given. and Mr.
Gray's father fastened to the house and push
cd open the door. His four little praLtling
grandchildren lay upon the floor side by aide
covered with quilt, with their throats cut
from ear to ear, and their faces gashed and
cnt In horrible manner. Turning from the
.sickening sight. he staggered back to meet the
gase OF his masiac SOD, VINO was advancing to-