The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-01
Tbe GbafleSto1t 9ems,
SATURDAY, JANUARY /, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cold closed in New YORK nrmeI at LV4'
in Liverpool cotton closed active; uplands
1lssd; Orleans 117sd
in New York cotton was &c higher, closing
at 95Xc for middlings.
Victor Buny, President elect OF Switzerland,
died Tuesday.
The coming session OF the French Legislative
Corps has been fixed for the 10th OF January.
The Governor of Illinois refuses to commission
woman as notary public because an official BOND
would be necessary, and, being married. woman
she is legally incapscitated from giving the bond
required.
Washington correspondents say astrong ef-
fort lis being made to induce Commissioner De-
lano to recommend areduction OF the income tax
to three instead Of five per cent.
Three members OF German family living
near Belvidere Illinois, are reported to have died
recently from eating trichiua pork, and eight
other persons are -prosrated and will probably
die from the same cause.
- The yachts Dauntless, OF New York, and Cam
bria, OF England, are announced for an ocean
race on the 4th Of July next, from the Old Head
OF Kinsale, on the Irish coast TO Sandy HOOK, for
aplate valued at sa5o.
"A few days before his death Mr.. Stanton
sent for Rev. DR.. Sparrow, OF the Fairfax Fir'
ginia) Theological Seminary, and was baptised by
him. DR.. Sparrow was professor in Kenyon
College at the time Mr. Stanton was student
there.
Count Napoleon Daru, and Louis Joseph Buflt,
chiefs of the Left Centre, and Falhouct and Sc
girls, members OF the Right Centre, have refused,
il ia stated, to enter the new French Ministry.
Hagne, present Financial Secretay; LIE Bruf, Min
lister of War, and Admiral Riganlt will retain
their positions. N. Rouhcr has been appointed
President Of the Senate.
-AWashington dispatch to the New York World
\says: 'The Southern carpet-baggers In Congress,
1t is reported, intend to take more prominent
part hereafter. Voting as body, they would be
able to decide many questions and to exact con-
cesslous. 1t Is understood that some Of them
propose to attempt an organization which will In
sist upon q moro liberal policy than has hereto
fore been pursued by Congress in respect to ap-
preparations for the internl improvements in the
South"
No decision by the Supreme Court upon the
eonstitutionalIty OF the legaltender acts need be
expected for month, II ever The court has ad-
iourncd until the 18th; Congress will meet week
earlier and the abominable bill OF Trumbull or
2OmebUluX WOIbcy Will plopooiJ oSNSAAS - 40" w
fore any decision shall be reached The same
may be said OF tho Missouri test-oath case. 1t is
not improbable that lin consequence Of the ap-
pointment Of new judges these cases may be re-
CURED to be reargued.
The washing and ironing Of the Socialist
Community at oneida, New York; is performed
BY an apparatus which, with the buildings con-
tanning It, costs $4,000. The community is COM
posed Of two hundred and thrty-seven members,
who every week send eighteen pieces each to the
wash. The charge Of each person amounts to
tventy-nine cents, or about twenty cents adozen.
The result of these operations, 1t Is asserted,
shows that cooperative washing association
ooald be established with great saving of ex-
pense- to the members.
MI. Washburn Is in the field again with bill
providing tor taking the -telegraphing business
cut OF the hands of private individuals and cor
porations, and giving 1t to the Postofncc Depart
ment He would forbid absolutely, after July
"a, 1871, all persons except those employed by the
government to receive money for the transmission
OF kilograms. Twenty cents Is to be the Uniform
tarR for messages OF thirty words or less, includ-
ing date address and signature, with one cent
added for each additional word. The press Is to be
accommodated at even lower figures No franks
are to be allowed, and secrecy Is to be insured
by heavy penalties for dlvulsing messages. Sta
tions ore to be established at every town and vii.
,ace. and o system of telegraph money orders ar.
ranged
With regard to the appointments made by
Gen. Grant to high ofices Of State, the New York
Sun SAYS: "Whoever, with all the facts before
him, will undertake to say he was not governed
by considerations of pecuniary presents to hing
SELF, is simply incapable Of weighing evidence, and
ia incompetent to perform the duty Of juryman
in o case involving ten dollars. One act OF re-
ceiving large sum Of money and then appoint
Ing the give to a high oliee-one such act, of
which Gen. Grant has done SO many openly and
publcly-one such act, We say, If done privately
and afterward proved, would have impeached
auy President that ever lived. 1t weuld have i'm
peached George Washington, and it would have
convicted Andrew johnson. No such pecuniary
stain rests upon any other President"
The New York Star says there is great distress
among cigars makers OF that city. One OF the
heaviest manufacturing firms, it says. has dis
charged at least one thousand hands within the
past three weeks. Other trades and businesses
however are suffering in like proportion. 1t adds:
lowing to the unsettled condition OF the gold
market the wholesale clothing firms, whose en-
ployees in this city are numberedby tens ofthous.
auds have almost entirely ceased manufacturing
goods for future sales. Previously, It has been
the custom OF these manufacturers to improve
tue winter months in making up goods for spring
and summer salce, and this custom has served to
render this season Of the year one OF prosperity
for the journeymen. This winter, however, ar
fairs present an entirely different prospect, and
instead Of steady dow Of work and few idle
hands, we md hardly sufficient business being
transacted to employ oncialf Of the operatives.
The same is true Of the carpenters, bricSlayers,
Iaborera, coopers and others, thousands OF whom
have been obliged to leave the city in quest OF
work in other localities
"A Washington correspondent of tic New
YORK World writes: Although the President
DELAYS to Ill the vacancy on the Supreme bench
nv the death Of Mr. Stanton. there Is growing
impression that the vacancy will be given 10
Judge Strong, o! Pennsylvania. IT Is also stated
that there Is new candidate for the vacancy on
the bench occaslontd by Mr.. Stanton's death. Ihis
candidate is no other than the Iion David &.
Cartier, now Judge Of the Supreme Court Tor this
district, Judge Cartier Is believed to have haa