The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-10
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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1870.
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

NEWS OF TIE DAY.
The gold excitement in New YORK yester
day was OF one time intense. A report of the
death &C the Emperor and Prince Imperia
caused large amounts of specie to change
hands. At the close gold was l0tal02, with
declining tendency.
I'm New York yesterday cotton closed firm
having recovered the decline of q quarter al
which the market opened.
in Liverpool cotton closed steady; uplands
Id; Orleans lid.
-ssLordn Ainsley has reappeared in New
York.
Lydia Thompson has made $70,0 900 since
she left New York.
JEFF. Davis is making success in life in
surance. They say he took 500 policies in three
days in Huntsville, Alabama
Mr.. Sumner is preparing speech in which
he will advocate the reduction of letter-postage
to one cent.
An exchange says that there was nothing
improper in the Prince of Wales letters to
Lady Mordaunt except the grammar.
Yacht owners in England must certify
that they are worth from $4,000 to s5eoo annual
income.
The florist who succeeds in producing
blue dablia can take the $4,000 prize depos-
tied in the Bank of England by an enthusiastic
potaniSt.
-Barnum, in public lecture, has told the
Bostonlans how to be happy by temperate
living, and how 10 get rich, by unlimited ad-
yertising.
-Nettie Chase, daughter Of Chief Justice
Chase, is about to publish book on the nursery
songs of several lands each one with an orlg-
nal Illustration of her own. The lady Is said
to be an unusually fine artist.
"A meeting was held at Fairmont, West
Virginia, February 26th, to promote the con-
struction of a railroad from Pittsburg, Pa, to
Charleston, S. c. Committees were appointed
and other steps taken to forward the object Of
the meeting.
The eminent and wellknown Methodist
divine and scholar, Rev. John McClintock, D.
D., died last Saturday morning, at the Drew
Seminary, Madison, New jersey, Of which in
stitution he was president. His disease was
typhoid fever.
Salt Lake, in Utah, is seven feet higher
than it was ten years ago, and is constantly
rising. 1t has been urged by those who have
paid attention to the subject that the rise Of
water there would produce solution of the
Mormon question before Congress would act
upon it.
"A Boston young man, Catholic, intended
to be married on Tuesday evening, but at the
last moment ''recollected that ne had forgot
tenn to procure license. He dashed out Of
the. house in pursuit Of the priced bond paper,
but it was too late; the Office was closed. Lent
began the next day, and for forty days he
must pine, as no marriage can be celebrated
in his church during Lent.
There are unmistakable signs, says the
Washington correspondents, that Butler Is
trimming his sails for a breeze to watt him
into the Presidential nomination, and is re-
ported to have said in private conversation
that he has no rival but Grant. One of BIS
partisans recently made the extreme remark
that he s'didnt believe that B. F. Butler ever
wronged anybody out Of five cents" Spoons
are not legal tender.
"A New York letter of Saturday, says:
''The spring business may be looked upon as
having fairly opened. The heavy decline In
gold has had the effect to induce many pur-
chasers to take hold, who had previously
been keeping back, and the result is, the dis
tribution within the week OF larger amount
of merchandise, of one kind'or another, from
this centre, than has been the case for long
while. One of the leading dry goods houses
has marked down its prices to comparatively
low figure to-day, and other dealers, next
week, in all probability, will be obliged, if they
desire to keep up with the times, to follow its
example. The only drawback to prosperous
season, viewed from the standpoint of to-day,
Is the apprehension that the farmers will hold
back their produce in the hope of obtaining
higher prices for it, when gold reacts. AS but
few f1hancicrs here expect any such reac-
tioh, the talk is that the farmers will be very
nnwise if they do any such thing"
"A Washington telegram of Mondays date
says: "The House Military Committee was en-
gagged to-day in hearing testimony IL relation
to the case of Mr.. Bowen, of South. Carolina.
Mt. John Mccarthy, of this city, and Mr.. Ell
lott, of Philadelphia, appeared before the
committee. Mr.. Elliott testified to having paid
$1,000 to Mr.. Mccarthy for the appointment of
his son, but he had had no busine 50 with Bowen
in relation to it. From the testimony of Mr.
Mccarthy it appears that the papers were c.
tained from Mr.. Bowen by man named
Gushing, who resides in Bowens district, and
who asked for the appointment on his own
account; that Mr.. Bowen gave the papers to
Ar. Cushing without any consideration, and
that Mr. Cushing in turn gave them.to Mr.
Mccarthy, and that he (McCarthy) sold them
to Mr. Elliott, and pocketed all the money
that passed in the transaction. The committee
acquit Mr.. Bowen of being actuated by any
improper motives in the transaction"
The saucy Suns Washington correspon-
dent, who is ever telling tales out of school,
says that whoever will take the pains to exam
inc with care the testimony before the COM
mittee charged with investigating the gold
panic of September last, will see that, in spite