The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-28
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FRIDAY, JANUARY IS, 1870.
NEWS OF TIE D-II.

At Liverpool cotton closed quiet and steady.
Uplands 1lald;. Orleans 11Nal2d; sales 1900
bales.
Hard times are reported among the upper ten
of New York.
E-To be anybody nowadays one must urst nc
viewed, then reviewed, and finally interviewed.
Between shooting and imprisonment, the lie
of Radical journalist is lively existence in
Paris.
The miners of Cheshire, Lancashire and North
Wales, England, have struck for reduction OF
the day. work to eight hours.
The new Bishop Of oxford was consecrated at
Westminster Abbey on Wednesday. The Greek
Archbishop Lycurgus was present.
The British Parliament reaSscmblcS on the Sh
ofFebruary. Francis Egercp will move and Dr.
Dixie second the address to the Queen.
Charles Thornton, an American, and mer-
chant of'Bradford, Yorkshire committed suicide
r3kre on Monday. The particulars are unknown.
-Atlvlces have been received from Bakers ex-
pedtion OF discovery up 10 the 1st of January.
at that time they were Ut the headwaters OF the
Nile. All we'll
1t IS SAID that there is powerful Fenan IN
fuence in New York adverse 10 any public demon
stration in honor of Prince Arthur when lie re-
turns to that city.
"A report has been current in England that
the Duke of Cambridge has resigned his position
as Commander-ln.Ch of the army, but 1t Is
positively contradicted.
Owing to fears Of continued drought, settlers
In Southern California are looking for pastures
further north, and some talk Of killing their cat
tie for hides and taow.
The new explosive, duaine, has been success.
fully tried at the Hoosac Tunnel. 1t has the force
OF nitro-glycerac, without any OF its danger 1t
Is to be regularly used i'll that work.
The Utah and Apache Indians OF the Cimma-
ron Agency, New Mexico, continue peaceable.
The Utes are still indisposcd to being placed on
the reservation in Indian Territory, preferring
New Mexico, If they submit at all.
announcements are out in London for work
ingmen's meeting to promote closer union OF
England and the colonies. Earl Grey Is to pre-.
side, and Messrs. Ruskin ana Froude will make
speeches; Carlisle, Mill and Tennyson express
sympathy with the movement.
-Eegleston the defeated Radical candidate for
Governor Of Mississippi, at the first election in that
State under the reconstruction acts, was the
principal competitor of the negro Rcvels, for the
short term seuatorshp. Poor iorick! not adj
judged by his party to be as good as negro.
The real estate in England belonging to the
late George Peabody, which has recently been
seized by the Crown on account o: the allenage OF
Mr. Peabody, consists OF between thirteen ana
fourteen acres OF land ut Stockwell on the Lon
don, Chatham and Dover Railway. 1t was pur-
chased ostensbly by Sir c. Lampson, for flo,621,
and was intended as part OF 4 third endowment
BY Mr. Peabody to the London working classes.
The finding Of the jury in favor OF the seizure OF
the property is simply in accordance with the
English law prohibiting aliens from owning real
estate.
The nero members Of the Georgia Legsla
ture are putting on extraordinary style in the
Bay of clothing The most OF them wear plug
hats and tirht breecheS. ard all sport gloves and
walking canes Several Of them have made dcs-
perate attempts to part their hair III the middle,
but very few have yet accomplished the feat. 1t
Is now the style among the white dandies to comb
their hair as far down into their eyes as possible.
and sume of the colored gentlemen have tried to
make their wool do the same way. so as to be
fashionable, but the result so far has been dis
couraging.
The proposition for the exclusion OF the House
OF Bourbon from the Spanish throne came before
the Cortes on Monday for final action, and was
Prim participated and made apersonal statement.
In the, course OF his remarks, he declared the
proposition unjust to exclude all Bourbons. He
desired to explain that his words were not de-
signed paStEpary to favor the Duke dc Mont
pensler; he &ohd go with the majority whoever
might be chosen. at length vote was reached,
and the proposal was rejected by large majori'
ty;yeas SO, nays Isl.
III lilo hrn loto inta of
the safety OF Dr. Livingstone, the celebrated trav-
eler. The secretary of the Central African Mis-
sion, under date of January 5th, has written
letter to the London newspapers OF the following
effect: "Bishop Tozer, writing from The Mission
House. Zanzibar, under date October 25, 1869,
says: Il spoke few days since with an Arab
trader, who informed me that he had seen Dr.
Livingstone four months before at Ujlji.' This
brings us to July. Up to that time, therefore, he
bad not been eaten by the cannibals, to whom he
alluded in his last letter.
1t is reported In the Washington corrcspon-
dence Of New York paper that in private con-
versation on Friday'last President Grant discuss.
ed at some length the recent speech ofMr. Dawes,
s.pointing out many inaccuracies in what Mr..
Dawes had said in relation othe estimates for
the next fiscal year." 1t is not stated however,
tion proposes to spend some fifty millions OF dol.
lars more than Andrew Johnson's administration
required In the last year of its existence If he
did, he would have to repudiate the figures OF his
own Secretary Of the Treasury.
"A handbill or poster has been issued in Great
B.Italn, proposing as "a remedy for the existing
distress" in London, "that proper and lawful
means be adopted to effect the annexation be-
tween Great Britain and her colonies and the
United States Of America" The paper gives as
the result Of annexation that the risk OF war
would be taken away by the removal OF jealousy
aud bad feeling, and that the savings from the
redured military expenditure could be applied to
am Iiorate the condition OF the poor. The hand
bill SAYS, also, that project Is on foot to pro-
mote annexation by meetings, Lectures the
press, &c.
There is some prospect, after all, that the
tax on incor es will not be extended so rs TO in
clude the incomes of the present year. The joint