The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-04
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY +, 1870.
NEWS OF TIE D-IT.
Gold at New York yesterday closed at 2Ol


at 252z. Sales $500 bales.
No cable kilograms were received yesterday on
account of arrangement of the wires.
The Russian loan, recently put on the market
In London is great success.
There has been remarkable increase IN the
number of cases Of smallpox in Paris.
Tho President has recognized Ricardo Palo-
snino as Consul of Spain at Philadelphia.
Half Of the cotton mills Mt Wigan, England,
,sh'; we're recently compelled to stop on account
Nor d ot:ike among the operators, have resumed
work. -.
a sharp debate took place on Tuesday in the
Corps Legisatif on the DEGREES for temporarily
admitting iron and cotton fabrics. On vote be-
: ing reached, the government was sustained.
The United States and Mexican Joint Com
mission for the settlement Of claims adjourned
on Monday last, to meet again the first Monday
in June, 1870, when all cases on the docket will be
adjudicated.
-Rumors of the death Of the Pope were again
current in Paris on Tuesday. 1t has been ascer-
tanned, however, that his Holiness has been af-
nicted by an epileptic fit, and that his illness is
not regarded fatal.
The Kansas Senate have passed a concurrent
resolution asking President Grant to recall Hugh
Ewing, Minister to the Hague, denying that he is
a resident of Kansas and charging him with sup
porting the hereses of Andrew Johnson.
The decision of the Supreme Court affirming
the validity OF the Missouri test oath produced
considerable surprise in st. Louis. At Jefferson
City quite sensation was produced when the
action of the court was announced in the Lcgisla-
1ure.
1T was the invariable custom OF Mr.. George
d. Prentice to rise carly in the morning-some
hours before his younger associates were awake
and to begin at once the labors Of the day. That
was the ''invariabc custom'i Of nearly all the
-,editors OF Mr.. Prentice's day and generation.
Now they anticipate the day by working all
night.
William E. Matthews, colored man, has
been appointed to q clerkship in the contract
.ofice OF the Postotfice Department. There arc
several colored route agents in the Southern
States, but this Is the first instance OF the ap.
.DoIntment OF q colored man to clerical position
in this department. There are now about twenty
coIored clerks employed in the several govern
ment offices in that city,
William Garrison, OF Plattekll, in the lower
part Of Ulster County, New York, committed
suicide in the most horrible manner on Thursday
afternoon last. He was found by his daughter
,inlaw in the act OF trying to disembowel himself
with large dull table knife, and had already
terribly mutilated his person. Medical aid was
called in, but he died in about half an hour. Mr..
Garrison was about seventy years DID, and leaves,
st is said, fortune of s25O,ooO
Before the recent excitement in Paris, says
correspondent, the American colony there, es-
pecially recent importalons. have shown the
usual avldity for 4 court presentation. The Seri-
GUS questions in these affairs is The dec0eite lea-
ture for ladies past their youth and OF lean habit
The court rule requires bare neck and shoulders,
but for those who arc OF Tharaoh's lean kind. and
have no pearls or diamonds to cover the bone and
ythe shrivellcd flesh. tho ruc is exceedingly vcNa-
Ious. So say the ladies'
Olive Logan has been "intervewed" In
Chicago, and express $ her opinion OF Prince Ar
fthur as follows: prince Arthur is q little Eng
sHsh snob. saw him ten years ago, when boy.
with his mother in London. He had on Scotch
suit. l am much pleased with the action of Bos-
ton in declining 10 give him public reception.
1t was very dgniicd. The people who toady to
him now will sur y he cut If they meet him in
England. That is the way with all the English
:arstocracy in this country. They eat all the good
dinners they can get, and cut their frienos over
Ehere."
Between Albany and New York navigation
may be said TO ne entirely open and free. A con-
siderable quantity Of broken ice has lodged at
TWO or three points, including Hudson, Kings
ton, Low Point, West Point and Peekskill Bay, but
this forms no impedment to the passage OF yes
sels. Sunday and Sunday night number OF
steamers, towboats and barges and sailing craft
were passing up and down. On Monday the tug
Aable, from Albany, with tow Of barges, passed
West Point bound to New York. Between New
burg and New York the water is nearly clear of
.siee. and all kinds OF vessels are plying.
Don Platt thus describes the personal ap-
pearance OF James Fisk, Jr., while before the
A.gold corner' investigating committee at wash
-dngton: "Fisk, Jr rolled into the committee
with the life and uproar Of steamtug. His short,
Eat person was set OF in tile luudest Of clothes.
A diamond cleaned from his cascade of white
linen, like q headlight from locomotive, while
\ huge cable gold chain fell in festoons from his
neck, as far down as that part Of his person
where the leg ends and the body begins. His
plaid pantaloons, ofthe most pronounced pattern,
and the black velvet jacket were OF the sort, in
the way Of costume, one sees in low comedy upon
the stage"
-Fhe Tariff bill, which came into the United
States House Of Representatives on Tuesday af-
ternoon, met with a rough reception, and in an
hours debate, which sprung up contrary to the
Intention OF The ways and means the measure got
some severe blows from Allison, Of Iowa,
on the Republican side, and Brooks and Marshall
on the Democratic SIDE 1t was charged that
good portion Of the free list was actually in the
Interest OF manufacturers. That although the lu-
ties on sugars were reduced, the classification
was that the reduction resulted in positive ben
.e1t to the renners; and that while pig and scrap
iron were brought down two dollars per ton, the
new classification OF this important interest was
such that the bill actually afforded increased pro-
lection to iron manufacturers. These announce
ments created considerable surprise in the House,
and the bill does not start out with very bril-
liant prospect OF success. 1t is to be taken up on
February 18th, and considered from day to day
tiu disposed OF.
The Senate Finance Committee have substan-
eialIy agreed upon funding scheme which has
!. thc approval Of Secretary Boutwell,, who has been