The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-22
NEWS OF; TIE DAY.


1850 bales. .,, .
m. Liverpool cotton was quoted dull a
the close on Saturday; uplands lltallsa, VI
leans llaal1ad; sales 10000 bales.
-Alwall, In course of erection at ArKWai
DIV. Scotland, tell! and killed nine persons:
The Edgar Stewart, with supplies for In
Cubans, Is b~lockaded at Kingston, Jamaica
"A Havana letter Gays that the vitality o
ths iusurreotion is far from being suppressed
rcThe smallpox deaths at Philadelphia las
v,eek were ,sfxty-one-a decrease Of nine.
sg.A9gpecialirom Rome'saysIths Italian Gov
eminent thinks the Geneva arbitration shoulc
not consider indirect damages. .c..
AAtelegram from Berlin says that the EN-
parorZ William has sprained bis knee, n Il
suffering considerable pain from the accldent
l.-Aedispatch from Paris states that Casl
mir psriere has declined the French mission
toFneland, and Duke DHarcourt will proba
bly, be appointed. ~
Two more verdIcts against the Staten Is
lsnd, Kerry ,Company,fof. $4,000 each, damages
for loss of life by the Westasld disaster. nave
been obtained.
-epipions in New York about the new city
oharte, .direr, some holding 1t as security
against future misgoverpment and fraud, and
others That 1t is as bad as the, Old Tweed affair
The Mexican reYolntionlsts being pre-.
vented from advancing on Aatamoras Tor LACK
OF supplies, the sloyallsts there are !aoont g
assume the offensive. ~ t.!
uAyhs NssIssippi River, In the: vicinity o.
the: steamer Oceanusn disaster, mas peen
dragged for several miles; but the only BODY
found was thatof q lion cub belonging to q
menagerie which was on board.
Mormon murdefers, who had disappeared
tom Salt Lake CITY for fear Of arrest, are no"
returning, under the effect Of the recent su-
preme Court decision, and abusing and perse.
outing the gentiles. .sl.oa
Throw turns ont that the Federal Govern
mu,eant cleared about eight millions Of dollars
In the Illegal sale Of arm to the french he'
ppnnbIIc,.e This modest little sum, 1t appears,
IA not get exactly into the treasury, but was
used. 1t Is alleged, for current expenses OF the
War Department. Mr.. Secretary Belknap
will have q chance to let the country
knox.how the money was expended, who got
Il, by what authority It was diaourseo'
Let us have light.
1.-THE ~Philadelphia Press, in referring to
the .drif OF sentiment in Pennsylvania fela-
tive to the nomination of Hartranft, as indl-
Gated by the public press, says 1.-THE dlssatis'
faction is general" Of .course, every enort
VIII be made 10 patch up atruce between the
bellIeerents, but the breach is daily widening,
and that consummation now seems impossi-
biie!h sThe Hartranft faction is gently suing for
peace, but the opponents of the 'Ring" are
determined to have a new and proper candi-
date as the only condition upon which they
d ,support the Radical ticket.
The War Department has just published
the opinion of the Supreme Court Of the
United states, for the Information OF all con-
cerned, denying the Jurisdiction Of State
courts to Issue a writ Of habeas corpus for
the discharge Of q person held under the
authority, or claim, or color Of the authority
OF the United States, by an officer OF the gov
eminent, when that fact appears upon alppli-
cation for the writ, or to continue proceedings
under the writ when issued, after the infor-
nation in this respect has been given In the
return of the writ by the officer having the
custody of the prisoner.
G1LMIss Ann Pamela Cunningham, regent OF
the Ladies' Mount Veraon Association, pub
fishes the report ofAargaretJ J. d. Sweat, vice
regent Tor Maine, dated July, 1870, in regard
To- Miss SC.'s services as regent at Mount Yer
which she says Of Miss c. that "by
her personal supervision, close economy and
wise precautions, she has brought the associa-
ton ont of debt and preserved a cordial sym
pathy oil action among the vice regents, which
isinYaluable in such an aflliation. 1t Is not
too much to say that the self-denylng enthusl-
asm which Mi.s Cunningham has brought to
'hear: task is absolutely without 8 parallel; and
the whole country should know that, during all
these years, and through all these personal sac
ridces, this unsel6sh and high-minded lady has
never accepted one dollar Of remuneration, and
now attends TO all the added duties of her
position without q salary, compensated only
by the measure of her success In administra-
ition ana the grateful recognition of those who
know how inestimable have been her services
siCliyia"-Mrs. Emily Edison Brlggs-alse
prints another card in a morning paper, sug.
eestlng that a committee Of Intelligent, dis
interested women be at once appointed (bul
not by the regent) to 60 to Mount Vernon,
endowed with tha power to examine the &C
counts of the private secretary, as well IS to
summon witnesses, who, under oath, will be
obliged to throw light on this important sub
ject. If this be done, she promises 10 be pres,
emit and faithfully report the proceedings to
the public. II
-On Friday the speaker laid before the
House of Representatives q message from the
President, in answer to a resolution of the
House, in relation to the sending of United
States troops into South Carolina, in which
he, states that at his request the then attorney
general (Akerman) visited the locality report
, ed in, instruction, and that he reported to
him that In certain counties in that State COM
, binstIons for free political action did exist;
athst such combinations embraced ,two-thIrds
.ofthe active white population, and had the
sympathy OF the other third; that they were