The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-05-10
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TUESDAY, NAY 10, 1870.
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Gold closed in New York yesterday a
14Xc.
Cotton closed strong with sales Of $500 bales
in Liverpool cotton closed steady; uplands
1oX; Orleans II ,,.a11 "a; sales IL, 600 bales
Female telegraphers are pronounced sue
cess jn Russia li.a5t3 ..'.
-Rashion. :decrees that ladies' boots shall bt
laced 'hetearter-not buttoned.
-aShoo Piy,, has been introduced In London
by the Chrtsty Mlnstrels, and the London Times
coudescends to notice 1t In commendatory terms
-Ex-Confederate General Wigfall Is at Centra
City, Colorado, representing an English mining
company.
-Flotow's new opera shadow" and Bene
diets "Legend Of St. Cell" are the two coming
events In the European musical world.
San Francisco proposes to tax the Chinese
gambling houses for fund to pay the expenses
of the female slaves who want to return to the
Mowery Kingdom.
1T Is not fashionable for gentlemen to seHd
large baskets Of fnowers to their lady-loVers, but
very small wicker baskets, with delicate handles,
nlled With the choicest cut flowers, are consider.
ed.the correct thing.
-Abar OF red hot iron entered the abdomen
and passed through aworkman's body In Troy
mill recently, yet physician is made 10 say that
4sthe wound is not necessarily fatal"
THE Examiner, commenting on cotton pro-
duc.ion, says indefinite expansion Of 'manufac-
turing In England Is dlssolving view. Capital
and population increase faster than employment.
New fields are demanded. without them desti-
tuition and discomfort would become political
danger. The accumulation Of monster fortunes
In cotton spinning Is no longer possible.
The German Commercial Parliament, which
Bismarck inaugursted In; the hope Of bringing
about German unity, does not promise to realize
his expectations The South Germans are ss
anti-Prussian as ever, and are made to exhibit
their feelings more strongly by being brought In
contact with the PSusslans. A late meeting gave
evidence OF this.
The Australian preserved meat imported into
England, has, tits asserted, hitherto proved an
unsuccessful experiment, as people will not touch
the strange food, preferrlng to go without meat
altogether rather than taste an untried dish. The
importatlon OF live cattle from Brazil has, there.
fore, been attempted. and the River Plate Com
parry has recently sent 500 oxen, which arrived In
coed order at Falmouth.
The advance sheets Of the ex.Premler's novel,
lsLothair, q now In the possession OF Appleton &c
Co., are said by those who have been privileged
to read them to show no falling Oh in the Wit, sa'
tire political aphorisms, sparkling narrative ana
shrewd observations on men, women and things
that distinguish his early romances. THIS is DIS
raeliis first appearance as novelist since aooat
1s47-a circumstance that greatly proyokes curl.
osity to see his new venture.
An earnest beginning OF an extensive plan or
emigration has been made BY the. British and
Colonial Emigration Soclety-the object being to
rid the country OF surplus unemployed and
dangerous portion OF the population. The first
party OF emigrants sent out by this society, num-
oeripg about 600, left London recently for the
Dominion OF Canada The party consisted OF
men. women and children from the distressed
districts OF the me:ropolis-laborers and mechan-
ics-whose condition cannot fail to be improved
by the movement, whatever prospects may await
them In Canada. The Medway screw steamer In
which they sailed Is an iron vessel, and it Is said
that careful provision was made for their COM
fort on the voyage, which Is much more than can
be said ir respect to the ordinary arrangements
for the transportation OF emigrants to this coun-
try. :Other parties Of emigrants are preparing to
follow. TITS, and the Canadian government. is
making provision. by the establishment of suita'
BILE depots and agencies, for their reception and
designation TO, places where work Is awaiting
them, and where, In comparison with their fierce
struggle for existence at home, they confidently
look for splendid industrial Inheritance.
The "wendell Phillips among women" Mrs.
Celia Burleigh, of Brooklyn, n. Y, under the
auspices of Soross, ventilated her ideas regard.
ing ..Cnildrep, y on Thursday evening". She was
surrounded on hil sides Of the platform BY such
lovers Of reform, II not Of children, as Mrs. Jennie
June Croly, Miss Kellogg, Mrs. Wilbor, Mrs. HsrI
land, and several lesser lights Mrs. Burletgh Is
. lady above the medium height, and has the
general bearing Of respectable. school teacher;
is selfpossessed, and talks passionate and fervld
words without visible emotion. She addressed
ne, audience as gentlemen and ladies, placing
decided emphasis on the first word. The distlnc-
tive rights OF children were defined and insisted
upon With grace and spirit; their rights to be.
born under the best conditions and into q peace
1ul atmosphere. to pure air, to care that is not
:fuasing, and TO great deal Of judicious letting
:aIone. A child she regarded as an embodied In.
.terrosatIon, apd had right to have his ques-
tions answered. The differences In the education
OF Children, to her mind. were all wrong. Girls
should be taught to use the jack-knife, the ham
mer and the saT; to teach the boy how to take
entire charge Of his room would not lessen his
chances. Of an honorable manhood. The child
should also be permitted sovereignty OF his per-
son and freedom from Invasion" which right
precudes .unWarrsntable and iudlscrlmInate
"sisslng." -
The Senate Committee on Pensions, in making
up their report on what they evidently consider
q most avaricious demand on the part OF President
Ldncolns widow, say there Is no principle on
which pensions have hitherto been granted In
shis country which warrants them in granting
the relief asked for. They cite the fact that no
similar provision has ever been made for the
widows Of many civil officers, who, from the earl
Lest periods, have lost their lives while in the per-
tormance of public duties, and who left behind
them widows and orphans In bereavement, ag-
gravsted by poverty and want. The committee
were constrained to ind, from the facts before
them, that Mrs. L. could not in fact be In the des
titute condition which had been represented
and that her means must be reasonably sur