The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-19
Tbe Gba9leStpar qemS.
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1870.
NEVIS OF THE DAY.

Gold closed steady at l2t.
I'm New York cotton closed dull and heavy
at 232c; sales $500 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed firm; uplands
lid.
JEFF Davis is writing novel to be publish.
ed in England. Its scene is laid in the Mexican
war, and it will not touch recent politics.
Supervisor Perry reports that the assess
ment for the Third South Carolina District
for the years ls69-7O exceeds that Of the pre-
vious year $S735 03.
The Governor of Texas has been petitioned
to postpone an execution on the ground that
the condemned man should have longer time
to prepare for death, and that his health is not
good.
-Forney quotes Hamlet TO prove Goods
providence" in Revel's presence in the Senate,
but overlooks the best point in this connec-
ton: ITO this complexion must we come at
last"
The Chinese have coal mines which they
have worked for hundreds rfyears. They are
very economical in their u.s. of coal. They
prepare it for use by grinding or pounding 1t
to powder and mixing it with clay. Some
times the powder is soaked with water and
laid around the fire.
The Columbus, Georgia, Sun has not yet
definitely ascertained what became Of the
negro who murdered the little white boy in
Harris County, on Sunday. He confessed the
crime, and it is authenticaIly reported that
while being carried to Talbotton JAIL he was
!.lost."
1t is contemplated to start another large
cotton mill at Columbus, Georgia, of the same
capacity of the Eagle and Phoenix Mills-20,
600 spindles-on lots between that property
and the Muscogce Company. Experienced
manufacturers OF means are moving in the
matter. Columbus will then have three mills,
running $4,000 spindles.
The sale Of ice on'the Isthmus Of Panama
is monopoly, for which the Boston Ice Com
pany has just contracted to pay to the Colunl-
bian Government $275 a month for the term of
three years. The use Of ice has become abso-
lutely necessary on the Isthmus, and the right
to supply this luxury was sold by the govern
ment at auction, and the premium was raised
from 5000 month under the previous contract
to s275.
The American Peace Society is now ex-
tending Its operations to all parts of the coun-
try. 1t is, with the aid of the Friends Peace
Association, sending documents to every min
lister in the United States. and furnishes tracts
to any one requesting them, free, if desired, or
at the rate Of one dollar for one thousand
pages, If the recipient is willing to pay for
them. It also desires to employ agents and
colporteurs in every county.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telc-
graph is authorized to contradict the report
that France has proposed to the other great
military Powers o general disarmament.
France has made no proposal for the reduc-
ton of the military force, and is not likely to
do so after Count Bismarck's speech. The
reduction of the military contingent lately
made known, means simply that o certain
proportion OF men have been sent on turlough.
Desirable rs it may be to lessen the taxation
caused by q large army establishment, this is
not the moment for making any reduction"
The Illuminating power of gas, it is as
serted, depends upon the temperature of the
air In which it is burned. Taking the amount
OF ligh1 emitted al 65 degrees Fahrenheit as
the standard OF 100 parts, it has been ascer
aained that the Illuminating power Of gas at &c
only 80, or one-third of what it is at
65 degrees. Increased heat, however, is not
attsndedby corresponding increase Of light,
for the Illuminating power at 2l2 degrees is
only lO4 and at 800 degrees only lls. The
condensation of the hydro-carbon vapors,
through the effect of cold, is supposed to be
the cause of the loss of light.
"A aEyoming paper exults in the excitement
'causedby, the female jury in that Territory. 1t
asserts: THE next morning after the drawing
Of the iuty;sl the particulars, together with
the names of the ladies' were published in all
the leading journals Of Europe, and furnished
to the crowned heads, to prince and peasant,
to digeseTSith, their coffee at the breakfast
table. Even more remarkable results than
this have sprung from (which as yet we are
not at libsrty.to make public. We doubt If the
firing upon Fort Sumter raised greater ex-
citement in the world at large than the selec-
ton of females to act as jurors away out here
in the Rocky Mountains
The sa9dis|ky lohio) Register says: ''It
is safe 70 ssaF thsHtIthe party to which the peo-
pie for. the, next. twenty years will give their
suppoa. .,must hWeras the chief plank in its
platform economy in all departments of the
government, honesty and fidelity in the col
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and taxes, and steady re-
drctioG on. taxes so far as such reduction Is
consistent If y il thee; payment of necessary es-
penses, the intereston the public debt, and a
reasonable Jsar n m9nnt mFNo to the principal of
such debt. That the people now demand such
plank e y Their W party platform as the chief
plank, mo Intelligent observer can deny.
Henccforth noi ipossieae excuse can justify de-
lay in the adoption of such a plank"
George Wilkes, editor of Wilkes Spirit Of
the Times, was, thrashed ON Broadway, New
York, last Tuesday evening. by Major Leland,
near tie St. Julian Hotel, On Saturday an
,-,;oIn onnearrl in the Spirit headed "Self