The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-02-26


The New York cotton market close
steady at 223 cents for uplands, with sales Q
2lss bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed dull; upland
lid, Orleans l1aalltd. The sales amounte
to 10000 bales.
John d. Surratt Is teaching school q
Brookville, Montgomery County, Md.
-Legrand Lockwood, the New York banker
is dead.
The preparations for parade on 81
PatrIck's Day in New York and adjacent elite
are immense. -.
The German Democratic general commit
tee. OF New York, has adopted strong resolu
tons complimentary of Schurz.
The Alabama Legislature has passed
sinking fund bill for the extinction OF tn
State liabilities.
The admission convention at Salt Lax
has adopted resolution in favor Of female
suffrage.
1t is proposed to substitute vast mirror
for the drop curtain at the Paris Grand Opera
House.
1t is rumored that W. B. W. Bernard, o
st. Louis, has been appointed collector OF Gus
toms at New Orleans, vice Casey.
The Chicago Germans are out In opposi
tion to the recently enacted temperance Law
In that State, and want air holes in II for wine
and lager.
WIN. Heath, OF the firm of Heath q Co..
New York City, has been arrested on the
charge OF perjury, in connection with stock
dealings.
j. q. Hackett, confidential clerk in Low
enstein's dry goods establishment, at Memphis,
has been arrested, charged with seventy-hVe
thousand dollars embezzlement.
Hereafter nobody is to be hung for muir
der in Kansas until one year after conviction,
and not then unless the Governor issues
warrant for execution.
Miss Adele Caroline Longtellow, niece OF
the celebrated poet of that name, was lately
received into the Roman Catholic Church at
Boston.
DIR. TAYLOR, health commissioner of Balti-
more, reports that smallpox Is prevailing In
an epidemic form in that city, and is tearfully
on the increase.
The Grand Duke Alexis has forwarded
handsome bracelet, mounted with diamonds,
pearls and opals, to Lotta, the actress, now
playing at Memphis, whom he saw In New
Orleans.
The Importers and Grocers Board of Trade
of New York City have petitioned Cungress to
do whatever 1t intends to do in regard to the
tariff upon tea and coffee, so that the dealers
In those articles may know what they will
have to depend on.
1t appears that while France has sent an
ambassador to the Vatican, (who loses no op'
portunity of ostentatously d splaying his sym
pathies with the Holy Father,) her represen-
tatlye to Italy has not yet arrived at Rome,
where are already established the ministers
from Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia
and Belgium. Considerable annoyance pre-
wallis In consequence of this fact In Italian
court circles in Rome.
The latest curiosity of life insurance Is that
the existence of Mr.. P. 8. Gilmore has been
insured for 5000, 900, In fifteen different Offices
by the guarantors of the Boston Jubilee Fund,
the policies to run for six months. This Is
the handsomest testimonial which Mr. Gil
more has ever received-all the gold-headed
canes and pieces of plate In the world would
be nothing to it, for 1t is simple admission
of the TACT that without him the monster tete
could not go on at all. No Gilmore, no Ju-
bllee
AS at present constituted, the German
Parliament comprises one hundred and forty
one titled gentlemen, among whom are eleven
princes, eleven members of the high civil ser
vice. and fourteen who have held the rank OF
ministers at various times and In various
States; forty-four military, led by General Won
Moltke; twenty-seven representatives OF the
schools and universities, and eighteen church
men, of whom fifteen are Catholics. The old
est member of the Parliament is Herr Won
Franckenberg Ludwigsdorf, who was born In
1855.
The method of warfare adopted by the
commanders of the Anglo-Indian expedition
against the Looshias seems to be to devastate
and lay waste as they advance, without regard
to the measure of opposition which they may
encounter. Several of the journals OF India
protest against this course. The Bombay
Gazette says: s'We read Of one village after
another burnt to the ground, with immense
stores of food collected by the miserable pop.
ulation to feed them for many months to come.
This work of destruction seems to be carried
out with pitilees severity, though the resis-
tance to the advance of the British troops Is
80 trialng that there is in truth mo enemy for
the troops to contend against"
"A balloon ascent unprecedentedly salts
factory is reported from Vincennes, France.
During the siege of Paris one NJ. Dupuy de
LONE received from the Government Of Ma
tional Defence an offer of twenty thousand
dollars for balloon which he undertook to
furnish, but 1t was not finished prior to the
capitulation of Paris. About three weeks ago
when all was complete, he made an ascent
With thirteen men, and the result seems to
have proved to demonstration the perfection
of his method of guiding. The balloon is said
to have obeyed the helm with the utmost
alacrlty, and to have progressed readily in the
teeth of the wind. If this goes on, railway
and steam-packet stockholders must prepare
for tall. London and Paris will become q
three.days journey from New York when the
wind favors.
The far-tamed Jenner has now rival ir
tho noraon of Or ZlelZer. of Berlin, who has