The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-28
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steady and unchanged,
The Liverpool cotton market closed ire
gular; uplands, 115a12d.; Orleans, 12ta12Ad
sales 5000 bales.
On Saturday New York policeman receiv.
ed cable dispatch stating that rich relative
in England died the day before, leaving him
$4,000 In gold. He promptly resigned.
DIR. George W. Howell, Philadelphia ply
sician, committed suicide on Sunday by shoot
ing himself in the bathroom Of his residence.
He was laboring under depression caused by
pecuniary difficulties.
The Observatore Romano says that Plus
TX is now engaged in negotiations with Cen
eral Grant, with view to sending Nuncio to
Washington to represent the Court Of Rome in
the capital of the United States.
The appointment of Mr.. Simon Wolf, q
wealthy Hebrew Of Washington, to be register
of deeds for the District Of Columbia, an Office
worth from $4,000 to $4,000 per annum, was
made, it is said, in Difference to that class Of
our citizens.
A few days since several distinguished"
colorcd men, Lieutenant-Governor Dunn. of
Louisiana; cx-President Roberts, Of Liberia;
B1ssctJ, minister to Hayti; and Downing, of
Washington, were entertained at the Union
League House in Philadelphia.
The cotton trade at Blackburn, England.
is reported to be in very depressed condition.
ne mills, including several of the largest,
are entirely stopped, and others are running
short time. 1t is stated that the poor law
officials are overburthened with applications
for relief, and that the appointment Of assist
ant relieving officers Will be necessary.
Minister Hale having rendered his resig-
nation of the Spanish mssione lat the request
Of the administration, and the same having
been received sat the State Department and ae-
cepted, th45 ure Of confirmation in the Senate
of MRr Sanfoyd aa his successor, leaves the
mission vaeaat. General Sickles, it is positive
ly stated, Wiube appointed by the President
as ministes to Spain to fill the vacancy, and
commissioned ssin accordance with the pro-
visions OF the amended Civil-tenure act.
TIE Everett House ana metropolitan Hb-
tel, in New York. have backed down on the
question Of receiving coio1ed guests The
former took in a dark skinned hunt or for quar-
ters, and the latter suffered Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Dunn (dun-colored) to grace the regis
ter with his name, whereupon he was assigned
room, with walters, Sen to make him at ease
bis inn. These hotels are in fair way to
Increase their custom in the dark line-if they
opt in direction which, from the strong pref
udces existing in New York, will render q re-
dnatiel Of fare inevitable. The Astor bravely
1sGnds by it's resolution. announced with un-
surpassed brevity, thus: Impossible"
The recent senatorial tiff between Sprague.
or Rhode Island ,and Abbotta( ta(carpet-cagger,l OF
North Crrolina, presented some funny points.
'ssYou see," said sprague, ''Abbott is a Yankee.
and he is sharp enough to know that it would
not do for him to go back to North Carolina
after having been called puppy dog here in
the Senate without some show at what they
call chivalry in the South. Why, the very me-
groes down there would not speak to him."
SeThe people ofmy State" said Abbott, "would
think very strangely Of me were to submit
tauaely to the affront Of Mr.. Sprague or any
other man. II I were to lie under
this insult my people would turn me out Of the
State whenever might show my face there
The tenth Provincial Council Of Baltimore,
convened to deliberate ON matters Of Roman
Catholic discipline in the province and chiefly to
consider the most effsetual means of carrying
into execution the DEGREES Of the Second Penary
Council of the Church in the United States,
which have been already revised and approved
by the Holy See, was formally opened on Sun
day=the Feast of st. Mark--at the Metropoli-
tan Church, in that city, in the presence Of o
congregation crowdiug the Cathedral to it's
utmost capacity. Among the prelates present
were Right Rev. Bishops Lyn,h, Of the diocese
OF Charleston; Persico, Missionary Bishop in
the Southeast; Whelan, Of the diocese OF
Wheeling, Western Virginia; McGill, OF Rich-
raond,:Vrginia; Wood, OF Fhiladelphia; Domi-
nee, oS Pittsburg; O'Hare, of Scranton; Shaun
ahan,; OF Harrisburg; Muller, OF Erie, PennsyI-
vania; Becker, OF Wilmington, Delaware; Glib
bons, Vicar tAp ostolc of North Carolina; tho
Mitred Abbot, OK the Order OF st. Benedict.
and Archbishop spalding, Of the archdiocese
OF Baltimore, Metropolitan IF the Province
Mr.. Beecher's latest eccentricity is to take
up the cudge1 for the practice which some
persons have Of dyeipg the hair. The rever-
end moralist writes to the New York Ledger
''If man Is young, and from some peculiari-
ty OF constitution, or by reason Of sickness, is
premstHrely gray, whether he shall dye his
hair or not is a matter or his own. IL he will
be the happier for it, let him do it. If his vie
VIII love him any better, or il she will be made
any happier, in the name OF love let him dive.
Family happiness is great blessing to pur-
chase as 80 small a cost as bottle oe hair dive.
Rut is 1t seemly for an old man to put on the
appearance Of youth. and not to meet his tate
brayely? This 10 aHquestion OF good taste. For
ourselves, We prefer gray hairs. A buokisl,
old gentleman OF seventy-ave. returning every
month from his barber with glossy brown
/ locks, 10 not our style Of manhood. But If he
laikes II, he might do things far worse. We
admire the bravery in woman by which, 81
thirty-flve. she carries her locks full Of silver
And yet, II her happiness may be promoted by
hiding the early gray, we see no reason fol
CRITICISM"
1t is estimated chat the winnings OF Ems,
Baden, Wiesbaden, Homburg, and Nauheim,
have amounted since 1850 to an annual grand
total Of II. 600, 900 francs. OF this sum HON.
burg. whore play goes ON oil the year round,
excepting Sundays and Haete days. (giving o 60