The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-04
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1870.
VIEWS OF THE DAY.

WEDNESDAY, NAL 4, 1oto'
VIEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed strong at New York yester-
day at 14zsa15.
The New Yerk cotton market closed dull and
weak, sales 1908 bales.
AT Liverpool the cotton market closed quiet
ana-steady. Uplands 1oN; Orleans l1ha1lId.
sales1D, 600 bales. -
Father Ryan, the poet priest, Is contemplat-
ing aEuropesn trip In Q few weeks: xta 3
-The Amerlcus, Georgia. Courier announces
the sudden and mysterious death Of Colonel Wm
II. Brown, of Marion County, Georgia. I..s5
The Pope, after allowing the custom to lapse
for two wears, has awarded the Golden Rose to
the Empress Of Austria.
President Grant went from New York to Ell
sabeth, New Jersey, on Saturday evening, to visit
his. brother-in-law, Mr.. Corbin.
At n meeting OF citizens OF Philadelphia, on
Saturday, a committee OF forty was appointed to
solicit subscriptions for the relief OF the Rich
mond sufferers.
Paris Figaro relates how recently the Eng.
lish.Iorf Chancellor, on visiting the lunatic asy'
INN OF Paris, was himself taken for lunatlc,
and oniy recovered his liberty on the arrival OF
rond'Iyons, whose face fell several inches on
finding the chief law oflcer Of the Crown luxa-
Rating In strait Jacket.
-.Patent Inuards, % Is the extraordinary name
given to sheets Of paper printed on one Side WIN
advertisements, news and extracts, and sent to
various country journals in the Western States,
whShuse the blank sidefor theirlocal news. The
Idea Is to save the country paper the cost Of COM
position.
.-"The President has been persuaded BY Cres:
welfto do avery mean thing. He has appointed
negro postmaster at the University Of Virginia
No one can doubt that this appointment was In
tended to mortuy General Lee, twho is president
Of this institutiou) TO trritate the scholars and
inture the college as much as lay In the power OF
the government. Time has been, when wars
were ended, that previously opposing generals OF
armies. were scrupulously punctiuous In their con-
duct to each other. This little piece Of petty
malice shows Grant to be very small man. IN
deed, at bottom" lOnly, unfortunately, General
Leeas-pres!dent Of Warrington College, at Lex
ington, and not OF the University, which Is at
Charlottesville --.,.-l: 81, -...;--.
7Xtthe recent meeting of the Radical editors
I, OF washington, at the house OF. Charles Brooks
Adams, considerable dissatisfaction was express
ed With the way In which things were working
in the Radical party: Thenscessity for the crea.
tton of q third party seemed to be upper most IN
tile minds OF these gentlemen, and before they
adjourned they agreed upon the following points,
which are 10 form the basis OF the Hexe politlcai
campaign: First. A tariff for revenue only.
sec6hd Specie payments. Third. A modmeo
ciyiI service bilI 1t WAS claimed that the west
ernG Gtdenback theory>aad seen It's best day, and
that strong spstie feeling is rapidly extending
oYectheWestern States. - .-5', Ia e. ~.
= FLORENCE Nightingale has popularity that
{ Sasf sfffthsrto escaped the scrutiny OF the great
ferret. Jenkins. Alady just returned from Eu-
rope called on Miss Nightingale. and during the
conversation could nottut notice her foot. She
had never heard that Miss N. was lame. OF NAL
formed; but was certain that something was the
matter Her curiosity prompted her to inquire OF
somemutual friend, who at once explained that
MISS Nightingale, despising the modern instru-
ments of torture vended by fashionable shoe
makers, is accustomed to plant her stocking foot
firmly on piece of leather, draw the outline OF
the 1gurei it forms, and have her shoe made to
correspond exactly with 1t.
Tho warehouse. OF Lyman, Wells & Co.. at
Unioiaf Springs, alabama, was struck by light
ming on Thursday last, and In few moments the
entire structure Mas In flames No, one was in>
,urea: The nte seemed to catch from the ground.
The warehouse and offices were OF wood, and
capshfe-of holding. some 1000 bales Of cotton.
They were erected two or three years after the
war. In the warehouse were about $50 bales OF
cotton, 80 Of which were saved. 1t was princi-
pally owned by planters, and only 5000 OF $1,000
of it insured. In the house were also some 80
casks OF. bacon. somewerc rescued. A few bug
pies and carriages were run out. Some fertilizers
were also lost The total loss must be in the
neighborhood Of $4,000 or s4s,eoo.
"A memorial Of the WorkinHmen's Society Of
New York, very ably gotten up. has: been sent to
General Schencli, and by him submitted to the
Committee on Ways and Means. The memorial
lists ask that the street railway companies be re-
auired to pay their own tax upon passengers In
stead flevying t per capita, or that they be re-
uured to pay the whole OF the enc cent per capita
into the Treasury. They say that the companies
nrss,collect i've cents fare from each passenger,
and then charge the passenger one cent addition
al to cover the government tax, which Is but
-one-elghth OF cent In this way they get from
the passenger seven.eighths OF cent wrong
fully, which they do not pay to the government,
and that the aggregate Of this fund In New York
amounts to over two million dollars per annum.
The New York Daily Bulletin says that while
there are good many merchants In town from
the West and Northwest, Southern buyers are
still scarce. The editor says: "rarious reasons
are assigned for this apparent Indifference 1t Is
ascribed BY some to the political disturbances
aresulting from the failure Of attempts at recon-
construction; by others to the heavy purchases
made last fall In our market by that section, and
which to q great extent remain undisposed OF;
and still by others to the proposed investment Of
all the available capital In cettou planting for the
ensuing crop. However correct or otherwise
these theories may be, the fact remains that the
Southern merchants who entered our market In
the early part OF the season have confined their
purchases to very limited amounts. While buy