The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-11
No. l4e East Bay. Charles
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FRIDAY, MARCH II, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gold at New York, yesterday, closed firm
at l24 bid.
The New York cotton market closed firm
but very irregular; sales 1900 bales at 2lta2l 3c
At Liverpool cotton closed steady; up
lands lid; Orleans ll4allld; sales 10000 bales,
of which 1000 were for speculation and export
The Irish Times says that the writ Of ha
.beas corpus will soon be suspended in Ireland
The President has promised to send ten
thousand soldiers to Utah, if Mr.. Cullom's
anti-polygamy bill passes Congress.
The farmers of Bexar and adjoining coun-
ties, Texas, are introducing Mexican poems for
the cultivation OF cotton.
Violent letters from Henri Rochefort and
and other political prisoners appeared In the
Marseaise on Tuesday morning.
Tho result of the New Hampshire election
on Tuesday, shows Republican loss of $500
votes.
Queen Victoria is sick a-bed in conse-
.quence of the Prince of Wales being mixed up
in the Mordaunt scandal.
The Prince and Princess of Wales are
about to make tour of Ireland and great
preparations are in progress in the North for
their reception.
High life in New York had wedding the
other day, upon the invitation cards to which
were engraved the significant words "No
Presents"
The liabilities of the Liverpool andiMan-
chester cotton spectators, whose failures have
been announced by cable, are estimated at not
less than FIVE million dollars.
The volunteer Zamora, who assassinatcd
Isaac Greenwalth in the streets of Havana,
was executed on Monday in presence of large
detachment of the volunteers.
I'm the conference suggested by President
Grant for the better protection of ocean tele-
graphic cables, the Austrian Government will
he represented by Baron Won Lederer, minis
ter at Washington.
Eight hundred conscripts marched through
the streets Of Paris on Tuesday to the publica-
tion office of La Marseillaise, and there halted
and sang the Marseillaise. No arrests were
made.
The snow storm which commenced on
Sunday last covered an area extending from
the latitudes of North Carolina into the New
III,
the Atlantic seaboard.
1t would seem, from the kilograms and
paragraphs in our exchanges, that the resump-
tion of specie payments, so to speak, is be.
coming quite prevalent among the retail deal
ers in various parts of the country.
On last Saturday Mr.. W. D. Mann, pro-
prietor of the Mobile Register, was arrested on
the charge of defraudng the government,
while he held the Office of assessor of internal
revenue. He was subsequently released on
bond of $4,000.
1t is now forty days since the City of Bos-
ton sailed from Liverpool. and forty-three
since the Schmidt sailed from Bremen. The
anxiety OF those who have friends on board
these ships is fast sinking into despair.
The 'ssteam man" which was built In New
ark, N j., couple Of years ago, has been for
some months slowed away at the Union depot,
Indianapolis, on account OF the non-payment
>of freight.
The Atlantic cable on Saturday reported
the arrival at Liverpool of the first cargo of
Bombay cotton through the Suez Canal, and
if this revolution of trade in the East be fol-
competition with the American. in England,
NEARLY two months earlier than heretofore.
M. Olliviers speech at q political banquet
in Paris, on Monday night urged all political
parties to give the ministry assistance, and
because of errors which had been committed,
not to keep alo0f He predicted that, in spite
of difficulties and accidents unforeseen, the
ministry would yet succeed.
The New York Herald of Tuesday says :
AsThe State agent of South Carolina advcrtses
in another column that he will pay the April
interest on the new bonds In coin ut his Office
in this city. Under a recent law authorizing |
sinking fund about a million dollars OF the
State debt will be redeemed this year, the
State treasurer having at his disposal for that
purpose ST. 900 of various railway securities
and one or two millions worth of real estate.
located principally in the City of Charleston"
The Boston Journal says: General But
Ter has appointed to the cadetship OF the Essex
District at Westpoint, vacated by desertion,
young man named Charles Sumner Wilson, of
Salem, the son of Thomas G. Wilson, private
soldier, who died in the service Of the United |
.
where she has given him an excellent educa-
tion in the public schools, and he is said to be
well qualified for the appointment. 1t will be
observed that he bears the names of the two
senators from Massachusetts,, and his CON-
plexion is the same as that of the senator from
Mississippi"
Ex-Governor Letcher, of Virginia, has
published statement respecting the proposed
monument to Stonewall Jackson, saying s50,
900 is needed, and that no local or sectional
views restrict the scheme-that it is national
in its design and the North has cordially re-
spondcd to the appeal, and the East and the
West are moving. 1t is proposed to erect 4
memorial chapel at the Virginia Military 1nsti-
tute In Lexington, and, should the funds col
lected permit, a statue in bronze or marble, ''to
transmit to coming generations the features,
form and expression Of one whose name and