The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-25
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FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1870.
NEWS OF TIE Day.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Sold at New York yesterday closed at l2s
The New York cotton market closed steady
at 22lc; sales $500 bales.
Cotton closed dull at Liverpool at Hall sd
The delegate in Congress from Arizona has
,signiied his intention of appointing an Indian
to West Point cadctship.
An Ohio murderer, who escaped convic-
;tion on the plea Of insanity, now refuses to pay
his lawyers for the same reason.
Many of the New York churches decline IL
renew the engagements for choir singers at
the high prices paid'last year.
The, Wyoming delegate to Congress, in
order to carry out the female suffrage laws OF
his Territory, intends to send a young lady
cadet to West Point.
The Raleigh (N. c. Sentinel reports that
eighty thousand partriagges have been shipped
alive from that vicinity to New York during
the season, the price being twenty cents q
pair, although few sold as high as fifty cents.
The papers say that carloads of brush are
being taken 10 Sandy Hook to be placed on
the beach, in order to- form sand-bars which
will prevent the sea disturbing the railroad
track. From which we infer that brush is Of
more effect than MIS- Partington's broom,
The sheriff of the City Of Richmond has
levied on all the fire apparatus OF the city, in
Gliding the steam fire engines, hose carriages
and hook ad ladder truck, and advertises
them for sale at auction, to satisfy executions
!. in his hands in favor of parties whose liquor
was destroyed in 1865 on the evacuation of the
city.
Henry Bessemer, the inventor of the steel
process, has Patented plan for the preven-
tion of seasickness. By the application of
the principle upon which ships compasses
are suspended, he p-ovides room which will
be perfectly free from the rolling or pitching
motion of the vessel. working model,
which has been already constructed, shows
the simplicity and efficacy of the plan.
The Selma (alatama) Times reports that
there are now greater calls by planters upon
commission merchants for advances than have
been made since the war, and even before the
war. It laments this fact, and also that the
advances are asked by the planters to enable
them to increase their cotton planting opera
tions to the neglect Of all other crops, when
they ought to plant corn.
The fremen of Mobile have for many
years made the 9th of April gala day, and
the ladies having charge of the orphans OF the
Confederate dead also appeal to the citizens
to aid them on that day by attending fair,
held for the purpose of raising money to feed
and clothe these children. 1t was on the 9th
of April that General Lee surrendered his
army to General Grant.
Private letters from Archbishop Purcell, OF
Gin ncinnsti, now in Rome, express wonder at
oftruth that reach the press, both Catholic
and ncn-Catholic, concerning the doings of the
great council He expresses surprise that the
correspondents at Eome should even obtain
the modicum of truth contained in their re-
ports, and states that the official report of the
council will not be completed for years, not
probably till very many of those who partci-
long home. The bishop inLimates that the
question of infallibility has not yet been Of
fcially considered before the council.
The bark Benefactress, which recently
arrived at San Francisco from Yokohama,
Japan, made the passage in twenty-six days,
one of the quickest passages, it is asserted,
ever made between the ports. The Benefac-
factress brought cargo of ll,0oO packages of
Japanese tea, which were at once forwarded
to New York by the Pacific Railroad. This, ii
is stated, is the first cargo of tea ever shipped
over the Pacific Railroad. As tea is affected by
the heat generated in the hold of the vessel
during the long voyage around the capes, it is
believed that this important article Of food can
be brought to the United States in a better con-
dition by the overland route. Since the arrival
of.the Benefactress, the steamer China, from
Yokohama, is reported at San Francisco, with
cargo including lO,S9O packages of tea and
l65 bales Of silk, of which 573O packages of
tea and As bales Of silk are to be shipped to
Atlantic ports BY way of the Pacific Railroad.
"A report was read before the American
Colonization Society in New York on Sunday
showing that from the first departure of COL
ored men from this country for Liberia, who
were shipped at New York in 1920, the tide of
immigration increased every year until up to
the present date the number of eolonsts land
ed on Its shores amounted to 10000 freedmen
and unfortunates rescued from the captured
slave-traders by our war vessels. During the
last four years 2+oO persons have been sent
thither, and nearly twice as many applications
were made by those desirous of returning TO
the land of their fathers The population of
Liberia amounts to nearly 100000, all doing
well, enjoying the rights and privileges of a
republic whose constitution is framed after
that of the United States. These colored peo-
pie have college with thirty-three students
at present, and there are fifty churchesin the
country. Now the society holds nine hundred
applications for passage to the new land; aud
although it owns ship and building in Wash
ington, yet needs $50, 900 to carry on the work
ofcolonizing Africa with intelligent negroes.
The horrors at Long Branch during the Sc
we're storm of Wednesday last were fearful.
This famous beach presented many scenes of
thrilling interest Several recsals making for