The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-18
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY is, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold at New York yesterday closed

Gold at New York yesterday closed weak
a 1875.
The New York cotton market closed unsettled
and decidedly lower. Sales 2300 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed quiet at 113Sd.
Sales 10 900 bales.
Deer is so plentiful in Mississippi this winter
that veniSon Is drug in the market.
Cincinnati proposes annexing to it suburbs to
make it city OF rorty-tw0 square miles.
The latest about the new Mississippi senator,
Reyes, is that he is more than half Indian.
At the municpal election OF Salt Lake City,
recently held, the orthodox ticket was elected by
a large majority.
The parlor Of the Leland brothers. big hotel
at Saratoga is to have walls OF mirrors, and to-
cost s75,oOO.
-Morrissey,s Saratoga clubhouse is to cost
$4,000, furniture a5 much more and the lair OF
the tiger $4,000.
The letter carriers in all the cities gen orally
testify to the declining interest in st. Valentines
day, as compared with former years.
Mr.. Joseph Wesley Harper died on Monday
last at his house, in Brooklyn, N. Y, at the age
OF eIxty-nlne. He was one OF the four brothers
who founded the famous publishing house of liar-
per & Brothers.
The "gaietics OF the season" are now tolera-
bly, numerous in Washington. A belle OF the
capital recently visited seven social entertain
mcnts in one night anG declared, as she conclu.
ded her half hour at the seventh, that she had
s;two more to go to" before daylight
in the English Parliament, on Monday, cores
pondence was called for with Canada and other
colonies, in relation to the removal OF troops.
Canada was commended for her consistent con-
servatism. New Zealand, it was thought, was
about to enter on a new and prosperous Ca
reer.
North Carolina has the champion old man.
He has reached 143 years by dint OF living on
purely vegetable diet and drinking spring water,
and Is likely to live as much longer, from all ap-
pearanees. He has survived seven wives, and as
tina las. one diod oiXty years ugo ne Is beginning
to feel lonesome and talks about going counting
sgain.
The New York Herald, OF Tuesday, says: "The
market for Southern securities was generally
steady and strong. The exceptions we're the new
Tennessees, which declined to 595l, and the South
Carolinas which were dull, aLa sold as low rs S714
for the old and 81 for the new. The following
were the prices at the last board: South Carolina
skies, ex-coupon, S7aSS; do new (October,) S5h
aSS.n
"A gentleman who was In New York last week
states that trade Is very dull there this winter In
nearly all branches OF mercantile business. While
at the customhouse, on Tuesday last, he was told
that no vessel had arrived from foreign port for
the forty-elght hours preceding, circumstance
that had not occurred before for the past twenty
years. There were at the time nearly one hun
died government inspectors waiting employment
In consequence Of the small number Of vessels
arriving.
The new disease called the relapsIng fererIs
rapidly injecting the lower and filthy districts OF
the City OF New York. On Saturday night every
bed in the fever ward of the Bellevue Hospital
was occupied by paupcr patients suffering from
the malady, and several OF the nurses and physi-
clans have been attacked by the contagion. The
board OF health have been compelled to treat the
poor who are infected with the disease at their
own houses, and are now attempting TO secure
separate building for them.
The strike Of the panoforte makers in three
OF the principal factories in New York still con-
tinues, seventy men having quit work. 1t Is as
serted that the hands now filing the places OF the
the striking bellmen are only cabinet makers.
OF the men recently discharged at the Brooklyn
navy yard, one hundred and fifty have been noti
ned to resume work. In San Francisco, Califor-
nia there are seven thousand laborers out OF
work, and 1t is proposed for their relief, to COM
mencc m extended system OF street improve.
ments.
Just before leaving Boston, Prince Arthur
sent to Miss Minnie Sherman, daughter OF Gene
raj Sherman, a chaste and costly gold medallion,
having his ikensss on one. side and that OF Queen
Victoria on the other. Accompanying the gift
was dellcately worded note, in which the
Prince begged that Miss Sherman would accept
Of the medallion as token of his appreciation Of
the generous hospitalities he had experienced at
the house OF her father, and as slight tribute to
the beauty Of American women, Of which she was
30 striking an exponent.
-Apropos Of the franking privilege, Don Piatt
writes: II am man remarkable for my honesty.
l am model. may say, without fear OF con-
tradiction, that am dragon CT virtue, and yet I
write You this with geld pen that Uncle Samuel
paid for, on stationery intended for the use of the
oyerworEed and underrad public agents, and
when done, will fold it In an cnvclope from the
same source, and mail under the frank Of an hon.
orabe member. Now, IL this can be done 10y Il
dragon OF virtue without pangs of conscience,
Nhos lnuot uc llle dDtSS Uu tue part vi Tic very
wckedf'
The Philadelphia Press says there can be no
doubt that the general apathy which prevails in
nearly every business centre is mainly due to the
unsettled condition OF national questions, inYoly-
ing the general industrial interests of the conn
try. The funding, currency aud tarn bills, now
pending In Congress, and the possible results of
the recent legal tender decision, are all so MANY
disturbing influences retardns improvement and
checking enterprise, aul unless some decisive
settlement be speedily reached, it is greatly to be
feared that the anticipated spring revival will be
like many other OF our hopes Of late, among the
non est inrentuS.
"A Columbia correspondent OF the Augusta
Constitutionalist writes: "You can have no idea |
OF what is going on here. h)w the State is pill
laged and openly robbed b. those carpct-baggers
and negroes. To give you an idea, ] was told
that Mr.. Speaker Moses, the son OF the Chief JUS
tce, degenerate son OF o degenerate sire, re-
ceived a thousad dollars for q single ruling on a |
railroad bill, and that his seeSly deposit in the |