The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-04
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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1870.
NEWS OF THE D4Y.


Gold at New York yesterday was weak-as
low as 14zss, but closed at Is.
The New York cotton market was steady at
22zae3c Sales 5000 bales.
At Liverpool cotton closed fiat. Upands
111fd.; Orleans 11kd. Sales TO- 900 bales.
-whittemore had c good cry in the cloak-room
after the resolution Of censure. ~
John c. Breckinrldge is about to take editorial
charge of Eone OF the Lexington tKyl news
papers. tt..f as.5' .b
The STAT Contributors says that he has made
$4,000 by lecturing this winter and would nave
made more II he could only lecture and tend door
at the same time. ~
The ePostmaster-General has dealt o fatal blow
at she franking abuse. He shows by official 1g-
ures that there passed free through the mails,
during the month OF January last, matter which
ought to have paid postage to the amount OF
sI50, 700. Yet these figures are made up from par
tial returns Of only 454 postotces. There s clear
evidence that the frankiug privilege OF each OF
the 2s3 members Of Congress costs the people
more than sSOOo-neary twice the amount paid
each member Us salary. Argument cannot
strengthen such figures.
"A daughter OF Josiah King. brother OF eX-
Governor King, Of Rhode island, now lies dead In
Stonington, Conn, yet such Is the remarkable
preservation OF her features and complexion,
and such the retention OF warmth in the body,
that the best medical men are in doubt as to
whether the case Is one Of actual death or enly
temporarily suspended animation. All the ordi-
nary tests Of life and death lead to the inference
ohok t., ou,-l ,rbI 0hc n
phenomena OF death leads to counter conc!u
SION. The case is considered one OF the most re-
markable on record.
-"Joseph Jefferson Trip Van WinSle,) who,
with Mr.. John Owens (Solon Shingle) and num-
Der Of other friends has been for some time,"
says the New Orleans Plcayune ION visit to the
Teche country-where they have been indulging
In hunting excursions, which, though they don't
pay, In o pecuniary sense, are immensely proata-
Bile as relaxation from arluous dutics-has pur-
chased Orange Island, situate in the Parish OF
St. Mary. We are gratiaed TO learn that Mr.. JEFF
ferson' has Identified himself with the people OF
the South, and doubt not they will extend to him
tho right hand Of fellowship"
-Misslssipppi breathes free now that military
rule Is withdrawn. On Monday last E. NJ. Ter
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Jackson, since June last, on the charge Of killing
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph G. Crane, was trans
ferred to the custody Of the sheriff Of Kinds Coun-
ty byan order OF the Adjutant.General OF the
United States Army. Lieutenant William At
wool; d;tAdjutantGeneral OF the Fourth Military
District, Immediately made an aftidayit before
Judge Cabaness, presiding, charging Yerger with
the murder OF Colonel Crane on the Sth OF June,
1869. Counsel for the defence waived an eIami-
nation, and Yerger was commit, ed without bail.
Some months ago the moulders OF the Excel
slor Iron Works, in New York, struck Tor an ad-
vance Of wages. The company secured noa-so-
eiety men and discharged the strikers. The form
er are now in the shop afraid to go out, because
the society men are always waiting outside to
beat them. The employers, in order to keep
them, have turned the shop into boarding
house, and the men for several weeks have had
their meals brought to them and slept inside the
shop. At night they play cards, and have been
provided by the, bosses with moderate amount
Of drink and everything needed. The society men
are still watching the shop, night and day, and
promise the insiders good whipping when they
Do come out.
Boudon contemporary on the subject Ct q pro.
posed translation OF. the Scriptures, under the
authority or the bishops OF the English Episcopal
Church, The great objection to the proposal is
that the new translation would be received with
suspicion or openly rejected, by sects outside the
Episcopal Church. Lord Shaftesbury says: "The
English Bible, as altered by the bishops, will
cease TO- be Bible, not only OF the nonconfer.
uffsts, but OF the Scotch and Irish Presbyterian
Churches; 1t would cease to be the Bible OF our
brethren in the United states Of America, and Of
every Protestsnt speaking the English language
over the entire surface OF the globe"
The 'State Department has received q dispatch
fcm Minister Motley, at London, statiting that
the British steamer Bombay collided with the
United States steamer Oneida, near Yokohama.
The lat,er went down, and is is reported one hun
dred and twenty lives were lost. The Navy De-
partment has not received particulars. The
British steamer Bombay is large mail steamship,
and could easily sink the Oneida by striking her
amidships The Oneida was considered one OF
the best sloops-of-war in the navy, aud her COM
modore one Of the most experienced and rella-
ble She had been ordered to San Francisco, and
1t Is the opinion OF the naval ocials that she had
Just left Yokohama for that place when she was
run into by the British mail steamship on her
way to the bay. or course this is but surnise.
She mny have been anchored in the bay, and
struck during fog, or at night. II she was on
her way home, there were a number of officers
on leave from the squadron who were doubtless
on board OF her. No names Of the lost or saved
have yet been received The latest dispatch says
thss fty.sx OF the officers anu crew of the Oneida
were picked up by the Bombay boats.'s
-Thewar :of:the blondes upon the editor Of the
Chicago Times, for his unpalatable criticisms,
vas remarkably vigorous but OF short duration,
the Amazons beating hassy retreat after an on
slauglt of two minutes An eye witness OF the
entire 3fnterview'' says that Immediately after
Henderson asked Mr.. Storey his name, Miss
rnom,1son "ssashed' at him with the whip, fol.
,ovedby MISS Markham; that Mr.. Storey grabbed
at Miss Thompson; that Henderson then grabbed
ar. Storey, and three or four other men pitched
into" Mr.. Storey on behalf of the women. Lydia
was pale with excitement, and glad az whae she
had done. Pauline was comparatively cool and
collected. following 1p, ION time" Lydla's initial
Nov, and bit her lip with reXasion when she
remembered that ~. Storey tore her choicest