The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-11
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MONDAY, APRIL II, 1870.
NEWS OF THE D1Y.

Gold closed IN New York on Saturday at l314'
Cotton closed steady. Sales 1900 bales. up
lands 2S14c.
in Liverpool cotton closed quiet. Upands
l11Gd. Sales 10000 bales.
The French Empress advocates the eiecti'n
OF ladies to the French Academy.
-Schuman's French ''Diorama OF Europe and
American is coming South.
The earth's telegraphie girdle is 20 be com.
pleted by line from San Francisco via Alaska
and Russia to China.
Hon. Henry A. Wise has been admitted to
practice at the bar OF the United States Supreme
Court, on motion Of Hon. Caleb Gushing.
The colored citizens Of New York celebrated
the ratification OF the Fifteenth amendment by a
procession 10000 strong on Friday.
The lecture recently delivered in New York
by the Hon. S. S. Cox, for the benefit OF the New
York Founding Aid Association, netted $4,000.
"A large proportion OF the newspapers on our
exchange list are freighted with more or less en-
ergetic protests against the continuance OF the
income tax.
Bombay cotton sent by way Of the Suez
Canal has been rctarned TO India, as yarn from!
England, in rorty-lve days. By way OF the Cape
OF Good Hope it used to take ninety days
Sylvester Breen, better known as Jack Rey-
mods. the murderer of William Townsend, gro
Ger, was hung in New York last Friday In tae
Toonbs prison yard.
The Prince OF the Asturias IS described by Miss
Anne Brewster as "a delicate but manly boy OF
fourteen, very fond Of study and with excellent
manners.''
In ireland, Tipperary, with population ol
25o.ooO, requires more police than Armagh, Down
and Antrim, with ! population of Million SUCH
is the spirit Of the ''Tipperary boys"
-ExPresident Johnson, who Is now at his
homein Greenvillc, Tennessee, Is preparing to go
to Europe this spring, expecting to be absent
about six months.
-Rcv,ls, the coored United States senator,
after the expiration OF his term March g. 1871
will 70 into the service OF General Ames and take
charge OF the latter's plantation in Mississippi
Mr. Scott Russell, In lecture at the Institute
OF Civil Engineers In London, argued the fcasi-
bity of, and predicted the early commencement
OF, work on q ship canal across the Isthmus OF
Darlen.
Professor Morse, the telegraph inventor, Is
now nearly eighty years old, and 1t It is proposed
to present him with national testimonial. The
te,egraphic operators are at the head OF the
scheme.
An organization OF Juvenile ROBBERS has been
broken up at Altoona, Henry County, III. They
had their regular passwords, &c, and had accu-
mulatcd quite stock Of plumber. Their leader
was thirteen years old, and was an Unsuitable
reader OF dime Iovels.
The north wall OF the mammoth iron building
74o and 742 Broadway, New York, fell on Friday
morning about O'Clock, with tremendous crash,
The building was owned by Wood & Brother,
carriage establishment. Damage $4,000. Nobody
was Injured. The recent rains had probably I'M
dermlned the foundations.
1t Is said that the women jurors In Wyoming
during the long Howie murder trial were taken
with their male companions to hotel every
night, and there placed In separate but adjoining
apartments to pass the picht. And here, every
morning during the Trial. upon arising from their
beds, these ladies kneeled together, and asked
wisdom OF God to enable them to properly and
wisely discharge their new duties. The men.
meantime, were drinking whissey and playing
blnT.
Commissioner Delano has Issued circular to
assessors throughout the country, in which lie
says the practice which has heretofore prevailed
OF publishing the annual list OF assessments made
in the income returns OF taxpayers must be dis
continued. lie believes that this practice is not
for the best interests OF the government, but that
it Is in many respects Objectionable and offensive.
This however, will not prevent the public from
inspecting lists, as heretofore, under the provi-
sion Of section 10, act July l3, 1896.
1t is reported in Paris that the Prince Impe-
rial OF France, who has lately passed his four.
teenth year, is soon tc be betrothed to German
princess OF high lineage" AS the Emperor OF
Austria has one daughter, the Archduehess Glselc
LouiSeMare, who is now In her fourteenth year, 1t
is supposed she may be the ''party OF the second
part She was born on the 18th OF July. 1s56,
while the Prince Imperial was born on the 10th OF
March. 1856, so that the Austrian Princess Is just
four months younger than the French Prince.
Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, has, i. is
thought, hit upon the true theory OF travel and
exploration in tire cebound regions Of the North.
In his next expedition he will not make the mis-
take which was fatal to Sir John Franklin IS expe.
ditlon-that OF attempting to subsst his men On
ship food. He and his men will live u?oa the
food appropriate to the Arctic regions and viii
thus. it is believed, obtain the hardihood which
will enable them to prosecute their discoveries to
the very pole
1T may Interest vessel owners and seamcn 10
iS" 'os the eSpcTllUeuL Vi WGtc1 DadSt lOT liou
ships has been satisfactorily tested and promises
to have a marked effect In the economy of navi-
CATION. Vessels built with water compartments
can thus take in or discharge ballast at any timr,
keeping themselves in perfect trim Steamers
thus provided may begin a voyage with no b.:.
last but their coal. As this ia exhausted water
could be pumped in, and the necessity of star,;n,
with an overloaded ship in order to carry suM.
cient coal for the voyage and ballast to serve
when the fuel is nearly exhausted, could be en-.
;.Tg!y o7c;come. The plan has already been cx.
:ensivcly adopted in pleasure and racing yac.:s
to diminish the danger OF the vessel sinking in
case of being capszed. Many OF the finest Tyn~.
built ships are now being constructed on Iii,
rinclple.
"A Washington dispatch of Wednesday to the
New York Tribune says: ''The question Of the
ontlnuance Of the income tax as appears bJ
etters and Information received here, Is probably