The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-23
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helvy at 81.
The New York cotton market was hoavy;
sales 800 bales at 334c.
AT Liverpool cotton closed frm; sales 49,
900 ba,es; uplands laid.
MIR. Jefferson Davis intends returning to
his homo IN mississippi in short time
The cornerstone cf y new Jewish syna-
gogue is to b. laid at Richmond city to-day.
General Lee has had house built for
him by public subscription at Lexington, Vir-
ginia
ii The "Young Mems sodality," of st. Louis
has sent the Pope two Thousand dollars and an
address printed in purple letter. on white satin,
and bound in gold and pearls.
"A lady, who has just returnsd from pass
ing the winter in FIJI vida, states that planter
made his appearance in town from the depths
of the everglades, bringing with him two ne
oes for salel He was actually ignorant that
ihere had been war! Imagine his feelings
at the sudden depreciation OF his movable
property.
The New York papers say that an Amazo-
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 Oygnet shot
ahead, and elatcd with their success, the crew
broke out In cries of exultation and merry
shouts to their competitors, as: 'sThrow us
0un fopv - ~ ~
or You won't get any y.strawberries;'' 'Come on,
girls; what are. you'hangipg back p inter
spersed with merry psais OF laughter that soon
exhausted their breath, and cauee 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, eaoh 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 Ave times the explosive
force Of gunpowder, and smaller drill holes are
sufficient. According to trial recently made,
it appears that at the current rate Of wages it
cost $5 80 ton to extract quartz rock with gun.
mine owners are, therefore, highly pleased with
the new powder, but the drilers and blasters
are opposed to it, and in Nevada have organ
ICED an extensive strike, refusing to work for
mine owners using giant powder. Under these
circumstances, the mine owners have made ar
rangements for the moro extensive employ
ment OF Chinese laborer-. 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 can 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 elec-
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 presen. rate of trans
mission. and which is likely to work great
revolution in the business of telegraphing.
Already rate Of from five hundred to one
thousand letters a minute have been attained;
and 1t 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, the only question being that Of tho power
of human ingenuity to avail itself Of tho Ca
pacity Of the electric current, the telegraph
companies will be able to transmit dispatches
for about the same price that the postofice
now charges for postage on letters. The real
EXPENSE and delay will be simply in reducing
the messages to WI. ting.
- MIR. John Stuart Mill, arguing in his new
book on the Subjec.ion Of Women. that women
possess a more rapid insight into character
tSihan men, and that their vocation for govern
ment 10 conspicuous, says that it is especially
true il we take into consideration Asia as well
rs E9ropes and then follows curious bit from
his own observation. If Hindoo principally,
he remarks, is strongly, vigilantly and oconom-
ioally governed, In three cases out Of four that
priucipaiity is under womana rule. ssThis
fact, adds Mr.. Mill, '.to me an entirely unex-
pected one, have collected from long official
knoWledge OF Hindoo governments. There are
masiy stich instances; for though, by Hindoo in
stttutions. woman cannot reign, she is the le-
GAL regent OF u kingdom during the minority OF
the heir; and miroritles ars frequent, the lives
\ Of the male rulers being so often prematurely
Terminated throu the effect Of inactivity and
sensual excuses. When we consider that these
princesses have peyer boen seen in public.
have never conversed with any man not of
fheir own family except from. behind curtain.
that they do not read. and iR they d,dthere is
no book in their language which can give them
the lest instruction on political affairs,
the sXanapfe they afford OF the natural capa-
city oT women for government is very strik-
Ing" The reply thai queens are better than
kings because under kings women govern,
but under queens, uen--Mr. Mil considers
bad joke.
- I'm the United States Circuit Court at New
York, Judge BlatchSora has decided that the
recall OF the pardon which wab made out in |