The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-12-04

Gold closed on Saturday at lO4alOS.
I'm New York cotton closed frmer; up
lands 10 cents; sales 244O bales. o..
in Liverpool cotton closed dull and IN
changed; uplands 3d., Orleans s5alod.; sales
10000 bales.
General Joseph E. Johnston is preparing
history OF his campaigns for publication.
The son of the great novelist has dropped
The Jr. from his name, and is now "Charles
Dickens"
AT the beginning Of next year Every Sat.
urday is to drop It's pictorial character and
will resume its original octave form.
The New York .'Committee OF Seventy
say Mayor Hall must resign, or he viii oe
removed. .as.,,-,s. -. .g,.
The trial Of Mrs, Wharton, Of Baltimore,
the alleged poisoner, begins at Annapolis to
day.
The hotel called the Branch House, a,
White Bluff near Savannah, was burned with
all its contents, last Thursday night.
The Russian fleet leaves New York FOL
New Orleans at an early day, where 1t will
await the conclusion Of the Dukes tour, and
then proceed to China
re Democratic State committee OF Louisi'
anshaye issued an address declining alliance
with either wing of ths ruling party, and urg-
ing maintenance Of the party organization.
The Northern papers are filed with ac-
counts Of the results Of the cold; the canals
are generally closed, and river transportation
Is seriously checked.
The Car uses o dihsrent gauge for his
railways from that Of any neigt snring country.
He does not, intend to have Bismarck SEND
Prussian locomotives to st. Petersburg as ne
did 10 Paris. sst"Ig - -
IL is said that o. the first Of January
George william Curtis will assume the posi-
tion of editor-in-chief- of the New York Times,
vice Lewis j. Jennings, with view to Ameri'
-canizlpg the paper, which has been too Eng
liah In its tome ~
The Posts little joke on Comptroller Con-
molly, OF New York, upon his Incarceration,
was to remark that sshe was literally too full
,forrutterance,. for 1t was impossible even to
ball him out, nor would he permit the reporters
to pump him" ~ v 's IN - as
In, ths Supreme Court Of New York, Judge
Spencer last week decided thaSa- mock mar.
rage followed by cohabitatton Of the parties,
and mutual public acknowledgment as hus-
band and wife, is valid marriage, according
to the laws OF New York State. - '.s
The congressional appropriations 80 far to
the customhouse at New Orleans tnominally
to the construction Of. that buildipg) amount,
according to the New Orleans ''customhouse
organ, p TO $780, 600. This looks like very
promising emulation Of the Tammany County
Courthouse in New York.
"A paper addressed to Horace Greeley,
asking him 10 secome candidate for tn g
Presidency, in opposition to Grant, has been
quietly circulating throughout the North and
West for some time, and has received the sig-
nature Of many leading Democrats and promi-
nent Republicans them such names
as VIZ. n. Evarts, Charles 0'Cohor, Horatio
Seymour, Senator Thurman, and many leading
Republicans throughout the United States.
"A New York telegram Of Thursday, in de-
scrib!ng the commitment of Comptroller Con-
molly TO Ludlow street jail, says:- several
persons were in vain asked TO become his
mreties, and at last at midnight Connolly was
forced 10 admit that further search was useless,
and reluctantly consented to be conveyed TO
jail. he was kindly received by Warden Tracy,
and provided with comfortable bed. As il
In mockery Of his present humiliation, the
first object meeting his gaze on entering the
tail was full.size portrait of himself in days
of prosperity, with selfsatisded smile on a
sleek eountenance. Connolly seemed much
depressed In spirits and looked in fact bro
ken-hearted man"
Notwithstanding the cold weather the
price Of coal is falling at the North. At the
auction sale Of one hundred thousand tons Of
Scranton coal, in New York, on Wednesday,
lump closed at three dollars and fifty cents
per ton; steamboat at three dollars and seven
~ cents; CRATE at four dollars and fifteen cent?;
egg sold mainly at four dollars and twenty
seven aud half cents; stove tiuctuased be-
tween five dollars and seven. and half cents
and five dollars and twenty-five cents, closing
downwari; chestnut sta, ted at three dollars
and eighty-fve cents, and closed at four dol
lars and seventeen and q halt cents. These
npr-es establish an average decline on every
size ranging from twenty-seven and half
cents per ton on egg to s.xty-ave and half
cents on chestnut.
BY the provisions of the Ku.Eiux law, the
power to suspend the writ Of habeos corpus
expires with the coming Congress-. lis be
lieved that the President, in his forthcoming
message, will recommend It's extension at
least one year, On this point there is expect
ed to be q hot contest in Congress, which will
develop the strength of the opposition among
Republican members to Grants nomination.
The President has decided not to suspend the
writ of habeas corpus in jackson and Calhoun
Counties In Florida, as recommended by sena-
tor Osborne. Akermsn has been Instructed
to make thorough investigation Of the con-
diticn of each district where Ku-Kiu1 outrages
are reported, and to. satisfy himself that the
Klan is too formidable to be managed by the
State authorities before the operations Of the
Ku-Klux law are any further extended.
Governor Caldwell, OF North Carolina, IN
replyto resolution Of the Senate OF that State
requesting information In regard to the seizure
/. Of any citizens OF North Carolina by Federal
troops or ofncials, and the carrying Of them
beyond the borders Of the State and their i'm.
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