The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-22
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

In New 1ork ycStc.uuJ Cotlou was 4o"oii
closing at 24Hc-
in Liverpool uplands closed at 11J&a11%d..
and Orleans al 11Hd.
General Lee contemplates visit to Europe
this spring.
Victor Hugo now says he "will raise hls voice
for Ireland"
The New Orleans Plcayure calls upon Demo-
Gratis to offer no opposition to Senator Revels' adj
mittance to Congress.
Preparations have already begun for the
great national shooting festival to be held IN
Cincinnati on the 14th September next.
The English army serving In India are to
wear boards II they choose, but when worn they
must be kept of moderate length and cut Pc
riodically, at the same time as the hair.
lit is said that a new description OF lava is be-
ing thrown from the crater Of Vcsuvius since the
last eruption. consisting OF crystazed salt. This
beautiful phenomenon has hitherto been un-
known in volcanic natural history.
They have taste In Washington. A cores
ponuent there informs the public that "the Shoe
Ply retort is universally regarded as the neateSt
thing done in Congress since some OF Thad
Stevens sharp re)oinders."
George Fox, o man OF considerable wealth.
dled = few days ago in New York, leavlngpr
erty valued at about s4oo,oco to the government,
fo- the liquidation OF the national debt. His relu-
tives are contesting the Will.
The New York gas companies make ont their
bills .by guess" One consumer found 1t out In
this way: One month two burners were used
and the bill was six dollars; the next month one
burner was used and the bill was considerably
larger; the next month he used every burner In
the mouse, and gas stove in addition, but the
bill was only five dollars.
A bill has been introduced in the Senate OF
California proposing an amendment to the State
Constitution which shall permit young men who
distinguish themselves by their industry and
morality TO vote at the age or is years, and to
hold certain local oflces iffortunate enough to be
elected to them. A board OF examiners Is to dc.
eide whether the young men ore worthy Of this
high honor.
"A Panama paper announces the completion
Of new survey for ship canal across the 1sth-
mus of Daren. Mons. Lucien de ruydt, French
engineer, has succeeded in laying out short,
safe and speedy constructed route from the At
lantic to the Pacific Ocean. The cost Is estimated
at seventy millions OF dollars, and the time re-
qu,red Tor the oomp pletlon OF the work from three
TO five years.
Mr.. Henry E. Sweetzer who died at New
York on Thursday, was best known to the general
public as one OF the original founders OF the
Round Table. literary and critical weekly,
which evnced decided ability In its earlier days,
ous which degenerated wefully at the last, and
was linallg merged with the New York Citizen.
Mr.. Sweetzer began his professional career on the
New York Times, but st the same time OF his
death he was one OF the ni-ht editors Of the World
He was the Arithmetic Man OF that paper. end
for several years he has compiled III: World
Almanac. lie was pleasant and versatile writer,
and could readily turn his hand 10 any depart
1ent in Journalism.
The high price OF lee, which, 1t Is feared. VIII
prevail next summer, has attracted the attention
of the hotel keepers OF New York City, and &
meeting was recently held to take concerted ac-
tion to obtain Ice at lower rates than those an-
nounced by the companies. At this meeting 1t
was asserted that all the Ice companies OF New
York are under one management and earn
profit OF from thirty to nifty per cent. on the gross
receipts. It was therefore proposed TO organize
new company, with capital OF 100000, for the
purpose OF supplying stockholders with lee at 81
u.
ers, and other large consumers Of ice, have been
invited to unite In forwarding thc enterprise II
Is believed that the company will pay handsome
profit, and at the same time supply Ice at low
rate.
Ia Washington dispatch OF Friday, to the New
York Tribune, says: Secretary Boutwell, was at
the capitol to-day and on being questioned by
leading member of the Ways and Means Commit
tee whether he favored the thirty million reduc-
tion OF internal taxes, which was formally agreed
to by the committee yesterday, he stated most
emphaticaly that he was opposed to such re-
ductIon at the present time. lie maintained that
It was very important that portion OF the deb.
should be funded before any reduction was made
He had no doubt that II the funding bill reported
by Senator Sherman was passed at an early day,
he would be able to fund five or six hundred NIL
lions within the present year. Money was abun'
fant in all the European capitals, waiting invest.
mens, and he had no doubt that several hundred
millions would speedily be taken. He hoped.
therefore that the committee would press this
measure as soon as 1t reached the House. THAT
until i've or six hundred millions OF the debt were
funded he did not think 1t advisable to reduce the
revenue. he said the President had never ind-
Gated to him that he desired any reduction OF the
taxes or the Funding bill postponed until next
year."
The latest reports from the ''Everfathful
Isle" are to the 10th instant. General Goyeneche's
report Of his expedition in search OF General Pu
clio has been made public, and, though it Is writ
ten in the usual pompous and exaggerated style
OF Spanish official reports t discloses that his cx
petition against the insurgents was failure.
Besides innumerasle skirmishes. the general I'D
mits of having but two serious engagements.
The first was at the fortified position OF Asiento,
defended BY only two hundred Insurgents, who
very naturally were routed by the forty-ive hun
drcd Spaniarlis The second engagement was at
the hill (lcmal of Imias. Here LOO well.armed
insurgents, commanded By General ua'e COLONEL
Bcauvilliers, the French artillerist. kept the
faroutnumbering Spanish column in check
TOT nearly an hour, and only retired, and
then In good order and with trinlng losses,
when a59.. being naaked By the Span!:rds.