The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-08
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SATURDAY, JANUARY s, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAT.

-luc 'NcN .1Olh SObtoh 'uaihS0 was tNASs ~A'N
steady at 25<c5; sales 1900 bales.
AT Liverpool cotton closed quiet and steady
sales l., 900 bales uplands l11zd.: Orleans llAd
President Grant and Secretary Boutwell, arc
said to be opposed to free banking law.
The Governor of Colorado in his message rc
the Legislature recommends the establishment
OF female suffrage.
-Eaterprising Frenchmen are preparing an
expedition to recover five hundred millions oi
francs in treasure, lost some years ago in Spanish
vessels on the coast OF Spain.
Letters from Rome state that Hon. Charles
e'Conor, OF New York City, is receiving great at
tention from the prclatcs and other high dignit'
ries there. He had q special reception from the
Pota.
The negro school trustees have forced ano-
ther negro child iIlrO the white schools OF Wash
ingtor City. This time the color sticks ont un.
mistakably, and there is good deal OF excite
ment about 1t.
Immense. coal beds arc reported to have been
discovered in British Columbia One vein OF btu
mnous coal is said to be thirty feet thick. and the
coal free from sulphur, and located near the Cali
fornia and Oregon Railroad.
"A divorced woman In Boston, whose late hus-
band has died. leaving property to the amount Of
5000, ,o0O claims the administration OF his estate
on the ground that the divorce, which was OBJ
tained according to the laws Of Indiana, is inval-
Id according to the laws OF Massachusetts.
The Legislature OF New York, on Wednesday,
repealed the act OF ratification OF the Fifteenth
Amendments, adopted by the preceding Legisla-
ture, which was then Republican, sby considera-
BILE majority. The vote in the State Senate on
the repeal was 16 to 49, and in the House 65 to So
a Joint majority of12.
The investment OF Regent Serrano with regal
power Is talked Of In Madrd but the Cortes, 1t Is
said, will hesitate to take so extreme measure.
The friends of Montpensier are reported very ac-
tive. The dowRfall OF Prim and his party is at
tributed by the London Times to the unreasona-
BILE prolongation OF the provisional regime.
-Aa appalling tragedy took place at Sleepy
Hollow, near Poughkeepsie, New York, on Satur-
day, in which v. W. Buckhout shot his wife and
Alfred Randall, New York merchant, and SOM
Charles Randall. Mrs. Buckhout and Alfred RAN
dali are dead while the younger Randall lies in
critical condition. Some ascribe the deed to
jealousy, while Others assert that the murderer
is insane.
Governor Geary's message to the Pennsylva-
mia Legislature ON Wednesday, among other
things, favors the recognition Of CEban indepen-
dence, and advocates the policy OF expansion OF
the currency by establishing new National banks
where none now exist The State receipts )ast
year were not quite five and quarter millions,
and the expenditures nearly five millions. The
State debt amounts to s32,S14,ooo.
1t Is reported in New York that another yes
sci, IN English brig, has got out with arms,
large assortment OF ammunition, and men for
Cuba. 1t is stated that she flies American cSlors,
has two pivot guns, so men, 80 Of them Cubans.
The vessel 1t is alleged, Is not capable OF doing
any fighting, Notwithstanding her armament.
The Cubans now claim to have three armed YES
sells at sea- Thirteen more Spanish gunDoats are
ready to go to sea from New York.
Two old and influential London newspapers
have suspended publication, and every year the
field of Journalism in the metropolis Of England
Is being opened up to the London Times and Tele.
graph-levIathau concerns, which, through able
and admirable editorial and business manage.
ment, have steadily grown in wealth and impor-
tance ever since their institution. The two
Journals which have just died were the Morning
Herald.and Evening Star. The first named was
for many years the leading Tory organ OF Eng
land.
The projected railroad from Norfolk, through
Virginia and West Virginia, to the Ohio River, Is
likely to be built. The Richmond Dispatch gives
the names OF prominent New York capitalists
who are interested in the scheme, with the sums
they are willing to invest in the enterprise as fol-
lows: Messrs. Fisk & Hatch, 100000; A. A.
Dow, 81, 900, 600; C. P. Huntington, $1,000 600;
and Messrs. Bliss, WInslow. Wainwright and
Stewart, each 81, 600 900. Three per cent OF the
money, it is stated, was to have been paid Janu-
ary l. and the work Is to be completed within
two years.
The .'pneuma.ic tube' under Broadway Is
causing trouble. The street above it has sunk
from six to nine inches, and there Is some discus
slon upon the subject OF closing the street to
travel until the matter can be investigated es
danger to human life Is apprehendCd. The
Mayor OF New York has attempted to have an OK
animation made, but the agent sent by him for
the purpose was repulsed. The work goes on
still, and the company is apparently determined
to defy interference. At any rate no person au-
thorized by the city government is allowed to
visit the work. but the Mayor Is aroused on the
subject, nd declares his intention to prevent the
prosecution of the labor unless it shall be proved
not to endanger life and property.
The English iron.clad frigate Monarch, with
the remains OF George Peabody on board Is under
orders to make her voyage under half steam,
when the wind is unfavorabe, aud under sail
alone when the wind is propitious. This is done
because her coaibunkcrs will only hold enough
fuel for six days. steamiug. The United States
corvette Plymouth will keep in sight of the
Monarch as convoy during the entire voyage, and
the funeral neet is expected to arrive at Portland
about the 18th instant. where 1t will be joined by
the tron.clads Mlantonomah and Terror, from
New York and Boston. AS soon as the Monarch
is sirnalled OF Portland our iron .cads will fire q
funeral salute from their colossal ffteen.inch
guns, which will be answered from the Monarch
and Plymouth.
Mrs. Irwin, a sister Of Mrs. Stonewall Jackson,
has secured patent for an improvement iu the
construction of houses which, 1t is claimed, will
create new era in architecture. Mrs. Irwin
proposes sixwalled or heXagonal apartments,
which are not only much handSomer, but really
cheaper than the quadran.ular form. wall OF
eighty feet built iu the hexagonal form includes