The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-13
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL ls, 1870.
NEWS OF TIE Day.


Gold Yesterday, at New York, closed nrm-
er ut loI.
The New-York cotton market closeu duii ana
heavy at 23s4a23'sc; sales 1900 bales.
At Llyerpool cotton closed quiet; up!aads
1lhd. Orleans I'D
Two hundred and fifty Cubans let New iorA
last Tuesday for Cuba, via Florida.
Charles E. Lockwood has been awarded Slo'-
900 by New York jury for injuries sustained oy
him on the New York Central Ratlroas.
The Stanton memorial fund amounts 70 sl4S'
900, and is on deposit in New York, drawing in'
terest for Mrs. Stanton and children
The rice crop in the vicinity OF Havana Is
likely to be small this year. The recent heaVy
floods have done much damage there.
Fred. Douglass Is lecturing In the towns anu
cities in the northern part Of New York, ami Is
creating q decided stir. 1t is stated that lie Is
engineering for Congress
The trial trip OF the English iron-clad yam
guard" Just concluded, proves her to be tho sw;it-
est of armnred ships. She made fraction under
fifteen knots an hour.
The deaf mutes OF San Francisco have organ
lied themselves into . permanent association
'sfor the suppression OF pretended deaf and dumb
swindlers, vagrants and imposters."
A New York gentleman has ordered, from .
European manufactory, set OF lace curtains
upon which are to be worked the portraits and
monograms OF himself and family.
in China 1t Is the custom OF parents to give
away girl baby soon after birth, to be the future
wife OF III, son OF friend OF her parents, and she
Is brought up in the family OF her future husband
Madame de Stael once said: 'If were mis-
tress OF City languages would think in the deep
German converse in the gay French, write IN the
copious English. sing in the majestic Spanish de-
liver in the noble Greek, and make love in the
soft ltalian.''
The American Aat;-Slavery Society, after an
existence OF thirty seven years, formally dsoand-
ed at New York on Saturday, having accomplish
ed every object of their mission, not slave re-
ma!ning in the land. The closing meetings were
or very interesting character. During the pro-
ceedlngs it was stated that there was not a single
member who attended the first meeting.
Mrs. Nancy Hayes, an aged lady, who, ~i'h
alementet husband, occupied house on I"ehIy
third street, in Richmond, Virginia, was iouho
dead last Saturday. having been dead three
weeks. Cows and chickens on the lot were lounu
starved to death. The husband was also nearly
starved. iIc had been telling the heisn-
bors when they came In, that his vile was asleep,
and her death was not known until that morn
ing. The husband had rot mind enough to un-
derstaud what had happened. The parties
came originally from Philadelphia
Several changes in the officials OF New 1orA
CITY are reported. CITY chamberlain Pc'cr b.
Sweeny resigned his office or saturday. ls was
rendered by the Mayor TO Hugh Smith, o"s ue-
clined 1t Is considered G',s Of the most lucrative
oflccs in the city. 1t is rumored that Senator
Rra6ley has been offered the chamScrlanship OF
the city, vice Sweeny, and accepted. 1t Is re-
Dol ed that Fo!ice superintendent Kennedy has
resigned, aud that Captain Jordan will be his sue
cessor. Wm Tweed Is to be commissioner OF
public works and Mr. Bradley will be president 0.
the Croton Water Board.
"A little after u O'Clock, on Saturday, terrific
boiler explosion occurred IN Baltimore, a. the
Chesapeake Steam Sugar Refinery, owned by
Stirling i Ahrens, lying between and extending
from ODonuelrs to Dugan's wharf, below Pratt
street. The boier.room and kiln-house on Da-
gan's wharf were completely wrecked, and. hf
teen feet OF the steam bakery OF James Beatty *
Co., adjoining on the north, from base to rooi'
was blown into fragments. Four persons are
known to have been killed, and probably two
more Some six or eight others were seriously
injured. Surrounding property on all sides re-
celved considerable damage from the explosion.
in recent debate on the Irish Land bill in
the House OF Commons. Mr. Gladstone having
noticed that a member quoted the Welsh pro-
verb, "a nation Is stronger than law" cmphaii-
cally said: Sir, admit it; admit mo-e-a ma
ton is stronger than parliament; but will add
vet another saying--there is something else
stronger than O nation, and that something Is
Justice" Later on he said "rhs face OF Just &C
Is like the face of the god janus. 1t is like the
face Of those lions, the work Of Landseer. which
keep watch and ward around the record OF our
country's greatness. She presents one tranquil
and majestic couatenance towards every point Of
the compass and every quarter or the globc.'
Tho noa,ing population OF Florida has been
very large the past winter and still a nImbcr Of
strangers are enjoying themselves there.
writer, In speaking or The climate, says: "Bren5
1t may BE- stated that we are In a latitude 80 lc-
grees, narrow peninsula q wilderness OF pine
forest, aromatic with resnous odors. the Atlantic
on the one side the Gulf OF Mexico on the other,
and the broad, tepid galf stream almost surround,
ing the State, gently modifying the atmosphere.
The sea breeze tanning the land by day, tho gulf
breeze cooling the air by night. Such natural.
regular ana uniform causes Of themselves assures
pleasant and genial climate; nowhere else on
this continent Is there such junction OF favora-
BILE elements',
The Income Tax bill which, at the instance OF
Mr.. Sherman, has just passed the Senate, pro.
Vides for the Continuance during 1870 OF the taX
OF five per cent. on incomes derived from the fol-
lowing sources, to Wit: Dividends of banks. trust
companies, savings institutions and insurance
companies dividends anh interest oa The bonds
OF Internal Improvement companies, and salaries
of persons in the civil military, naval. or other
employment Of the United States. The other sec
.tioas Of the law which Impose = tax OF five per
cent on the gains, profits and Income Of every
citizen, have been postponed for consideration
when the general revenue law comes op lcf're
Congress for action. There should, us the Paili-
delpha Ledger justly remarks. be no more !inS-
ering with this odious and unequal "inoome tax. I"
It should be abolished alin.:, til r.
-Colored persons in the Northern States arc
already sending on complaints to Washington