The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-15
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Cotton in New York closed on Saturday
dull at 29S. Sales 1000 bales.
Cotton closed on Saturday in Liverpool st:
uplands 12sa123a.; Orleans 12sa12td. Sales
1000 bales.
Miss Maggie Mitchell is building thirty
thousand dollar house in New York.
Within the last six months two thousand
persons have died of smallpox in San Francis
co alone. 5f!'
"A locomotive, which is put in motion
without steam OF compressed air, is on exhl-
bition in New York.
-Tho Social Equally bill" placing the two
races on an equal footing, has been passed by
the Louisiana State Senate.
"A Paris shopkeeper has been fined for ex-
hibitiny goods in his window marked at a
over figure til an he would sell.
The Spanish Provisional Government is said
O be twice as cxtravagant as Queen Isabella's
was, and the people are grumbling.
President Roberts, of Liberia, dined at
Senator Summers last week, the first time q
colorel man has sat at senatorial mahogany.
-1uS Sit'iiiio Sh "ASS W
six hundred and forty thousand acres OF ''oys-
ter rocks" in Virginia, yielding an annual rev.
enuo of s1O,O100O0.
Tho relatives Of Atzcrodt lately made ap-
plieatioa 70 { he President for the privilege of
removing his remains to the family burial
ground. The President granted the request.
England is now pay ing SIS. 900. 900 a year for
her standing army. Il is 10 reduce this cS-
penditure that all the British regulars arc to
be withdrawn from Canada carly next summer.
Ono of the editors of the Montgomery
{Ala.) Mail was recently sent to prison for re-
fusing to serve as juror, the court declining
to ACCEPT his plea for exemption that nc was an
attorney-at-,aw.
Louis Napoleon will enter upon his sixty
second year next month, and the Empress IN
August will celebrate her forty-third birthday.
They both look young for theiryears, IN spite
of the cares OF Sta!e.
Greece u Is sent an ansWer to the peace
conference, giving her adherence to the peace
protocol. So Crete has yet to await her day
of coveted escape from Turkish rule. The
combined European powers are too much for
Russia in the promises.
The friends of John c. Braine, the alleged
Chesapeake depredator, are using their utmost
endeayors to have him released. Heis confined
N the county jail in Brooklya, New York,
and has become mere wreck OF his former
self, being afflicted by disease and compelled
to go about on crutch.
.-Galigrani says that, through the efforts
of General Dix, Americans will in future be,
allowed to enter, live in and leave Franco with
out passports, remarkable concession enough.
considering the combustible character tha.
attaches to some OF our wandering citizenship.
America - are now free Of most European
kingdoms, with the notable exception OF the
Cars territory. And yet Russia IS the pow
or towards which free American sympathies
illogically tend-a striking illustration that ex-
tremes m:et.
l,. "A Washington dispatch of Friday to the
Baltimore Sun says General Grants pur-
pose with regard to his Cabinet has at last
been diyuiged. 1t is reported to-day, and
upon the very best authority, that the first In
timation any one will receive with regard to
his appointments will he in tho official COM
munication to the Senate on March 5th. If
his appointees are confirmed their names will
be announcel; il they are rejected, he will re-
quest that no announcement be made. The
scores of members who are anxious for Cabinet
appointments are not at all pleased with the
misunderstood purpose Of the President in
this respect"
"A Washington &c ,gram, of Friday, says:
tssrhe commit tee on Jtations and sales OF
tickets for thu inauguration ball, it is said,
have not taken into consideration the question
whether colored people shall be permitted to
participate in the entertainment. They have
Intentionally avoided all discussion upon that
perplexing point, and meac to sell tickets to
everybody who will buy, and let the matter i'll
dispute take care Of ITSELF There are those
here, however, who are planning to make the
committee take ground on either side OF the
question before the ball takes place. In that
event it is thought that o vote OF the committee
will decide against the admission Of colored
people,"
Under the head Of '.Reticent Visitors" tho
Jacksonville (Fla.) Union says Several Gu
bans arrived in this city on Thursday morning
last, part cf them registering at their hotel
rom New York and others from Honduras.
They we're very sentlemaniy, well educated,
and conversed freely upon general subjects,
but nothing could be learned from them rs to
their business N this city. On Sunday morn
ing the party was increased by the arrival of
twenty-threc others, making in all about forty
five Of them, registering from Honduras and
Havana. Immediately after they bad break
tasted, the entire party proceeded to Dibbles
wharf, where they were promptly met by the
steamer Henry Burden, which they had
chartered for Nassau, N. P. The whole
company were very reticent, and nothing
was known concerning their destination,
previous to their departure, except by the agents
Of tine steamer and the custom house officers" I"
The Savannah Advertiser OF Saturday adds !:
-eA small craft left this port, or rather was to
leave to-day, about whose movements some
suspicious might we'll be entertained, she be-
ing pierced for two guns and about to sail 'on
a cruise We learned from gentleman just
from Cuba that above two thousand men had
already landed on the island from various
Southern ports. and that numerous expeditions
of more er less importance were under way"
A New York letter saws OF the late James