The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-22
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FRIDAY, APRIL %, 1870.
= NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold at New York yesterday closed at l3i ]
The New York cotton market was flrmer
closing quiet at 23>sc; sales 3Ooo bales.
At Liverpool cotton closed steady at IiSd /;
sales 1900 bales.
The California Pacific Railroad Company are
- building fifty cars to carry grain in bulk.
Richmond, Virginia, has importeda number OF
{: English sparrows.
= 1t Is rumored that the Legislature OF Georgia
Is about to sell the State Road.
Fifteen thousand cholera Deaths within six
weeks, have occurred on the Island OF Zanzibar.
Honorable Alexander II. Stephens's "Consti-
,tutional Views OF the War" Is now complete, and
will soon be ready for the public.
The belllgerency Of Cuba has been recognized
BY Eve American republics: Peru, Chill, Bolivia,
;.Coombia and Mexico.
5-The Massachusetts, House OF Representatives
rejected the ten hour labor bill yesterday, by a
vote Of 1Ta to aa.
"A dispatch from Liverpool announces that
the missing steamer City OF Brussels passed Crook
Haven yesterday morning under SAIL
-Iue mCcuElduu tttdt Has uCCn auJoui aSo W
Monday in consequence OF the sickness II tho re-
corder.
The Saco River, in Maine, is higher than at
any time since 1927. All the lumber booms and
many mills have been swept away.
And now the Prince Of Wales''is threatened
with another appearance In divorce court
This time the frail lady IS said to be a countess
the descendant OF q long line Of dukes.
There was sunshine, rain, sleet. hail and
snow in Atlanta, Sunday. The Constitution says
fears are entertained that the growing crops will
be seriously Injured by the cold snap.
Captain ]. D. Proctor, master OF transporta-
tion on the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad. was
shot in the arm and neck, at Norfolk, yesterday,
-.'stuoo-aomed John Sykes, who had Just
been discharged. Tne'wuuut Is not fatal.
The dividend paid on the 18th instant By the
New York Central Railroad amounts to $780,
600. It Is said to be the largest sum ever paid in
this country by corporation in single diyi-
dend.
THE famous traveller and explorer N. Paul du
Chaillu, who has been temporarily the guest Of
/ his venerable friend OF African acquaintance
g Rev. Dr.. Leighton Wilson, at his residence near
Mayesville, has consented to deliver lecture in
Sumter, and is afterward expected to visit Colum-
: bia. -
Rev. Henry Ward Reecher preached power
full sermon on Sunday eTening upon official cor
Fuption, and Illustrated particularly the New
York Legislature. He said that "not in Fulton
Market Is meat hung up and sold more openly
than men are quartered and hung up in Albany"
He also execrated the people who, knowing the
wicEedness OF their representatives, yet take
them by the hand and are friendly with them"
"A New York letter Of Monday says: IA party
:. OF about twelve hundred Germans left the city
this morning, In special train OF the South Side
Railroad, for the new city OF Breslau, which
number Of wealthy Germans have recently found
ed on Long Island, about thirty-two miles from
New York. The excursionists comprised many
Germans OF influence and position, who so to in
spect the grounds, With view to establishing
for themselves there permanent homes. The
site embracesan an area Of seven thousand acres"
Associate Justice Bradley has written to a
friend In Mobile, thanking him fer his congratu-
, latloas upon his appointment and saying:
"While have always been intensely national l
hare, nevertheless, felt kindly regard for the
Southern people, deeply realizing the difficulties
OF their situation. II there is any one wish that
Icherish more than another, it is to see the sub
ssantial classes OF the South ence more firmly
knit in attachment.to to the old government and
. the old nag. / hope the time May soon come
when the President and Congress shall deem 1t
/. wise and prudent to extend q general amnesty.
i have some idea OF making a little tour through
the States OF the circuit as soon as the court shall
ADJOURN
"A pleasant story has lately circulated about
Count Bismarck. A country slergyman, an old
fellow-collegian OF the Counts, was anxious to
get his son into tbs marines, and at length sum-
moned up courage to address his quondam COM
srade, entertaining, however, but.faint hopes OF
the great minister remembering him. Not being
much in the habit Of writing to grandees. the
good man could not for some time determine how
to begin, but ut length commenced his letter,
t.Your Highness." He sson received the follow
ing: "You old blsekhead de you think I have
forgotten the happy time when we studied and
drank together in Gottenssrg. and when we were
so often waiting on each ether? And, now, how
can you address me in such q foolish wayS Pray
never again call me Highaess. Let US continue
on the same terms as OF old. AS to your boy,
send him to me. I'll take care Of him.
e. NJ Yerger was brought before Chier Justice
Shackelford, OF the Supreme Court of Mississippi,
at Jackson, on Tuesday, on writ OF haoeaS COR
p,tS, and released or recognizance Of s15,ooO
The evidence taken before the military commits.
sion FOR the prosecution was read and subINtted
without argument. The judge referred to the fact
that the finding OF the commission was not ap-
proved by the President Of the United States, in.
asmuch as no execution OF the sentence of that
commission had been carried out. The evidence
was conflicting on some points, and does not war
rant the charge OF murder. 1t is evident the
crime was committed in the heat Of passion. and
therefore the case is bailabe. Judge Shackelford
is all appolntee'of General Ames. Yerger went to
his residence In q carriage, unattended, after his
release Any amount OF bail could have been oh.
tained. Tie Mississippi Legislature have appoint
ed committee TO prepare an address to the Gov
ernor, asking the Impeachment Of Judge Shackel.
ford for releasing ierger.
General Jordan has left Cuba on the road to
this country. 1t appears that'previous to the
MISSION OF General Quesada to this country, the
President Of the Cuban Republic had requested
information from his diplomatic representative
here as to the wisdom Of sending hitler some