The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-14
NEWS. OF THE DAY.


NEWS. OF THE DAY.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at l2a.
Cotton closed dull; uplands 2ls cents;
sales 1000 bales. a5 t
In Liverpool cotton closed quiet; luplands lOs
alosd, Orleans lOsd; sales 10000 bales.
5-Forney takes up the cause of Spain against
Cuba and compares it to that of the United
States against the rebel Confederacy. The
Spanish agents should understand that For
ney,s prices for advertising" are very high.
Chicago has new church-the First Con-
gregatlonal- al-which has just been finished at q
cost ofslSQ, ,9O0.. A popularity of this church
is that the reading desk or pulpit is provided
with ~ copper speaking trumpet, which is
connected with eleven pews, where, with rub
ber hose and cup atsached, the deaf may enjoy
sermon as well as those not so unfortunate.
"A Fenian general" in green uniform and
waving plume Of the same, lately called on the
British Consul in New York, and impressively
remarked: ~ have to inform you, sir, as the
immediate representative of British interests
in this city, that for every one of my captured
countrymen's lives that shall be taken in Can
ada, the lives of ten British subjects shall
answer In the United States" and boldly de-
parted.
1T is now pretty certain that "Brlck"
Pomeroy will succeed the Hon. John Morris
sey as member of the House of Representa-
tives from the Fifth District of New York.
Johns constituents are dissatisfied with him,
not only because he has been so seldom In his
seat this session, but on account Of that ALL
: ance with Greeley and the ant-Tammany
movement. Tammany won the fight, and
none but Tammany disciples can hope to come
to the next Congress from the Democratic dis
tricts of New York.
The editorial comments against the board
of examiners at West Point for their action In
rejecting the two colored candidates for cadet
ships as invIdious to the colored race, has
called forth statement from General Shriver,
inspector general, to the effect that Michael
Howard, colored, son Of member of the Mis-
sissippl Legislature, nominated by Mr. Purse,
was examined and found to be physically cr.-
pable but utterly unfit mentally, having at
tended school not over year. In the other case,
John ". Smith, OF South Caruiina, the board of
medical examiners unanimously certify to his
physical incapacity. He Is nearly blind at
times, and has affection of the lungs. 1t Is
stated that these two boys have been treated
with uniform kindness at the academy, and
the tricks that the boys generally play on new
corners have been omitted in their cases, lest
it.might.be said they were roughly handled
because of their color. The board of examin-
ers are OF the highest respectability, and ma
jority Of them Republicans.
"A West Point correspondent of the New
York Times, referring to the negro applicants
for cadetship, says: "That there has been d
great deal Of feeling among many officers, ca
dets and civilians concerning the presence and
disposition of these new amendments" Is
true. But this feeling has oeen more of per-
plexlty and anxiety than anything else in-the
effort to divine the policy that should prevail,
and to mark the Hne between the social and
the official treatment. The nearest approach
to real trouble has been in the mess depart
ment. At first 1t was debated whether the
colored ones should have separate table and
waiter Colonel Black decided that the cadets
should be Stree and equal" and that neither
white nor black distinction should be made.
The white walters, who manifested some signs
Of dissatisfaction, were assembled in the pres
ence of the officers, and informed that unless
they were willing to serve all the guests OF the
table alike they must withdraw. They have
remained. So the colored cadets eat side by
side with their paler comrades. They also
room In the barracks the same as the others;
and they are saluted and attended to, in all
their inquiries and duties, just as though their
skins had been bleached before they entered
the academy.
Brigham Young has lately delivered dis
course, in his tabernacle at Salt Lake, upon his
tribulations and family vexations regarding the
matter OF dress, which we find reported In the
peseret News. The occasion being impor-
tant and solemn, the prophet who, on all
other subjects, Is an absolute monarch, con-
fessed In open congregation that his wives
In nliyidually and collectively snapped their
fingers deaantly under his nose whenever he
attempted to lay down the law regarding
bonnets and pettlcoats. Brigham, moth
ing daunted, persists, with true Lincoln
ian pluck, in "pegging away" at the
existing follies of fashion. He told his
fair but fashionable followers that instead
Of ofwearing bonnets that did not screen.
their faces from the sun, or shelter their heads
from the rain, they should initiate the Quak-
ers and don drab or cream-colored bonnets
projecting in the front, perhaps six or seven
l nches rounding on the corners, with cape
behind; he did not think three straws and
ribbon a sufficient head dress for any of his