The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-03
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MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1870.
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

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Saturday last being Il holiday there were
no operations anywhercsn the cotton markets.
George D. Prentice is critically i'll at Lou
isville with rheumatism OF the heart.
The receipts OF the Union Pacific Railroad fol
November were S7l4,SS5. The expenses wef>
$499, Co.'S
The New York Times says that Rev. DR.. Sam
uel Osgood has adopted the Episcopal faith, ant
that his retirement from the Church OF the Mes
shah, (Unitaran) previous to his departure for Eu
rope, was made with this change in view.
"A large number OF merchants and poperty
holders residing in Victoria, Nanaimo, and othel
places in British American Territory, have sent q
memorial to President Grant in favor OF trans
fer OF British Columbia to the United States.
Washington negroes have another grievance
against Washington Radicals. The former at
tended Stanton's funeral in large numbers and
had good place in the procession; hut the latter
didn't allow the fact to get into the papers.
The leading New York hotels arc considering
the propriety OF cutting down their prices thirty.
three per cent. They could well afford to put
them down fifty per cent, and nearly all the
hotels in the country could join them. The day Of
war charges has gone by.
President Grants recommendation for the
repeal o. the civil tenure law has fallen pretty
nat. There has been no response oit whatever
in the Senate, and it is said that body Is not
moro flvorably inclined to surrender its control
over the offices than 1t was last spring.
Twenty insurgents were killed and sixty cap
tured in q sharp engagement Thursday at Magua,
in the Cinco Villas District, CuDa The Spanish
loss is not stated. Tamaseda reports that about
seyen hundred men, with their officers, have
laid down their arms in his district and that the
chief coca, and his men had surrendered In tie
District Of Remedies
The President OF the United States has been
selected to decide between Portugal and Great
Britain as to the ownership OF the island Of
Belania, and the piece OF territory opposite, on
the west coast Of Africa, claimed by both. 1t Is
stated that these positions are valuable only In
connection With facilities for carrying on the slave
trade.
The Augusta Chronicle says: "Superintend-
ent Hubert, OF the State road, has been dismiss
ed from Office by Governor Bullock. The new OIL
Gers of the road are said to be: Foster Blodgett,
superintendent; a. L. Harris, master OF transpor-
tation; W. a. Stalllngs, treasurer; Henry 0. Hoyt,
supervisor; James Mullen, master machinist; v.
A. GasEill, attorney for the road. The Legisla-
ture Is considered safe against Bulock's plunder-
ing schemes. Bullock's last move has sundered
the Radical party.
AT the auction sale OF Scranton coal in New
York, last week. the Delaware, Lackawana and
Western Railway Company sold seventy thous-
and tons. Stove coal sold at S. to So IS, more
than dollar less per ton than at the last sale,
but all other kinds advanced 10 to so cents per
ton. The first bid for egg coal was at 81 so, and
the price was run up until the first lot was knock
ed down OF SIS 65. The average price obtained
was SIS s21s. Steamboat coal started at 81 so and
sold up to 81 SIX, While CRATE started at 81 so
and advanced to SIS Tx.
The managers OF the proposed International
Exhibition at Washington deny that they ask any
appropriation from Congress. The citizens OF
Washington have already made bona Hde sub.
scription Of 100000, and have asked Congress for
authority to levy tax Of s5oo,0oo more. Men OF
capital stand ready to erect the requisite struc-
lures on this basis, with lien on the receipts for
reimbursement to the extent Of $l,5oo,o0o more,
which would make O total expenditure Of s., $780,
Co., or about the total gross cost Of the Paris
Exposition to which Congress appropriated
100000. Apropos to this, the st. Louis people,
whosshink their city ought to be the national
capital are moving for Worlds Fair to be held
there In 1871.
The West is not disposed to give up the idea
or getting the benefit of increased representation
under tho new census bill, and especially if the
whole number is to be increased to 300. Accord
ng to the usual order OF things there would be
no election OF members Of Congress under. the
new apportlonment till three years hence. But
the Western people mean to get the new members
at the next election, and will be quite likely to
have their way. The question OF apportlonment
had to be dropped from the census BILL or 1t could
not have passed the House before the recess; but
1t will come up separately at an early day, and
the Western men are preparing for big fight
over what they consider their rights. The West
expects to gain about fifty members Of Congress
under the new census.
Advance sheets Of the Introduction to Mrs.
Stoves new book In the defence OF herself and
Lady Byron have been issued by the publishers.
Mrs Stowe reiterates that her assertions about
Lord Byron in her famous Atlantic Monthly artl-
Gle are true. She repeats the excuse for the pub
Mcation of that article that Lady Ryron had been
previously attacked ia the Countess Guicciolli's
book, and in the journals which copied its state
ments. She says she has not personally read any
of the articles upon the subject which have ap-
peared in reply to hers. Friends undertook the
task for her. and gave her from time TO time the
substance of anything really worthy OF attention.
Now that the first fury Of the storm she provoked
Is spent, she will proceed, first, to prove what she
has asserted; and second, % add to her true story
such facts aud incidents as she did not think
proper at first TO state. What these additional
proofs are she gives no intimaton, and of course
1t Is impossible to sag how much weight should
beattached to them.
John G. Walker, the gentleman having in
charge the Chinese who reached st. Louis last
week. in a communication to the st. Louis Re
publican, says: There is little prospect at present
that John will trespass on the domain OF Sam
bo, to serious extent. Those who have held out
In hopes of procuring very cheap labor by import
ing it from the shores OF Eastern Asia, are,
hiuk, mistaken IN their conclusion. From one
end of SChiua TO the other the value Of labor in
American California is well known, and although
abor in China is very cheap, ablcbodiei men
will not engage to eXpatriate themselvrs fora
series OF years, except on condition of receiving
such high wages as will surely enable them to
returua home in, comparative atlluence. l
ama confident that no reliance can be