The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-23
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Gold at Nov York yesterday was quoted
helvy at 81.
The New York cotton market was hoavy;
sales 800 bales at 334c.
AT Liverpool cotton closed firm; sales Is,
900 baes; upanls 124d.
Mr.. jefferson d wis intends returning to
his home IL Mississippi in short time.
The cornerstone of new Jewish syna-
gogue is to DO laid at Richmond city to-day.
General Lee has had house built for
him by public subscription at Lexington, Vir-
ginia.
VI The 'Young Mems Sodahty," of st. Louis
has sent tho Pope two Thousand dollars and an
address printed in purple letter. on white SAITH,
and bound in gold and pearls.
"A lady, who has just returned from pass
ing the winter in Florida, states that planter
made his appearance in town from the depths
of the everglades, bringing with him two ne
oes for saleI He was actually ignorant that
there had been q war! Imagine his feelings
at the sudden depreciation of his movable
property.
The New York papers say that an Amazo-
nian boat race came off in New Jersey Wsdnes-
day evening. The boats were light Whitehall
skiffs, painted the same colOrs as the dresses
Of their fair crews, by which they were desig-
mated. These were red, white and blue.
There were three of them, all four cared. with
male coxswains. At the start, the Cygnot shot
ahead, and elatcd with their success, the crew
broke out in cries Of exultation and merry
shouts to their competitors, as: 'Throw us
line, Sue, we'll tow you;" Hurry up, Lizzie,
or you won't get any Strawberries "Come on,
girls; what are you hanging back for ?" inter
spersed with merry psals OF laughter that soon
exhausted their breath, and cause them gradu-
ally to lose their handsome start and to come
in last in the race. Tho prizes consisted of
miniature oars Of gold, bearing inscriptions of
the date Of the race, each member Of the VIC
torious crew receiving one.
The new giant blasting powder is exciting
great opposition among the miners in Cali
fornia, who assert that its fumes are more
noxious than those Of ordinary gunpowder.
But the other advantages of the giant powder
are manifest. 1t has five times the explosive
force Of gunpowder, and slna ailer drill holes are
sufficient. According to trial recently made,
it appears that at the current rate Of wages it
cost $5 SO ton to extract quartz rock with gun
powder, and 50 % with giant powder. The
mine owners are, therefore, highly pleased with
the new powder, but the drillers and b!asters
are opposed to it, and in Nevada have organ
lied an extensive strike, refusing to work for
mine owners using giant powder. Under these
circumstances. the mine owners have made ar
rangements for tho more extensive employ
nlent Of Chinese laborers. The giant powder,
although opposed by the miners, will increase
the demand for their labor. as many mines now
closed on account of the expense caa be worked
at profit.
Only very small fraction of the capacity OF
the telegraph wire is yet availed of by any in
strument now in use. The currents of cleo
tricity pass more rapidly and frequently than
any present human means can employ in the
transmission Of signals. But new system
has been well nigh perfected, which multiplies
to an immense extent the present rate of trans
mission: and which is likely to work q great
revolution in the business Of telegraphing.
Already o rate OF from five hundred to one
thousand lotters a minute have been attained;
and it is believed that this can be increased by
improvements in the machinery, to two thou
sand letters per minute. If this is realized,
and thers is no reason to suppose it may not
be, tho only question being that Of tho power
ofhuman ingenuity to avail itself OF tho ca
companies will be able to transmit dispatches
for about the same price that the postoffice
nov charges for postage on letters. The real
expense and delay will lie simply in reducing
the messages to wr ting.
MIR, John Stuart Mill, arguing in his new
BOOK on the Subjec.ion Of Women, that women
possess more rapid insight into character
than men, and that their vocation for govern
ment is conspicuous, says that it is especially
true II we take into consideration Asia as well
as Europe; and then follows curious bit from
his own observation II Hindoo principally,
he remarks, is strongly, vigilantly and oconom-
ically governed, in three cases out Of four that
priucipsiity is under a woman,s rule. s'This
fact" "adds Mr.. Mill, ''to me an entirely unex-
pected one, I have collected from long official
knowledge OF Hindoo governments, There are
many such instances; for though, by Hindoo in
stitutions. woman cannot reign, she is the le-
gal regent OF u kingdom during the minority OF
the heir; and minoritles aro frequent, the lives
OF the male rulers Delng so often prematurely
terminated throu III the effect OF inactivity and
sensual excosses. When we consider that these
princeHsos have Doyer been seen in public,
have never conversed with any man not Of
their own family except from behind curtain
that theydo not road. and il they did there is
no book in their language which can give them
the smallest instruction on political affairs,
the example they afford Of the natural capa-
city Of women for government is very strik-
Ing" The reply that queens are better than
kings, BECAUSE under kings women govern,
but under queens, men-Mr. Mill considers
bad joke.
In the Uaited States Circuit Court at New
York, Judge BlatchHord has dacidad> that tha