The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-27
For ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
NEWS OF THE DAP.

NEWS OF THE DAP.
Gold closed steady at New York, on Satur-
: day, at ll!allf.
Cotton was dull and unchanged; uplands
2lc; Orleans 21ac; sales 300 bales.
In Liverpool, cotton closed steady; up
lands lOal0td; Orleans l04al0ad; sales 10000
:, bales
Philadelphia is to commence work on its
four public baths Immediately.
Mobile has refused, by q majority OF SOoo,
to have the ssNicolson pavement"
Judge Field, of the United States Supreme
Court, has been elected professor of law OF the
University of California.
"A drama entitled 'sThe Fiend of New Or
leans" is running in one of the cities OF south
e:n France. General Butler is the "Fiend."
Mrs. Gum, of Indiana, has gone off with
stranger leaving disconsolate husband and
several little sons of Gums.
The marriage Of the Marchioness Of Hast
ipgs with Sir George Chetwynd, Bart, vas
solemnlzed June 9, at st. James Chur. \, Pic
cadilly, In the presence of brilliant assem-
blage. =:
Sixty thousand cotton operatives In Ian
cashlre, England, have by deputation asked
OF the manufacturers an increase OF wages.
They were promised an advance If the prices
Of goods should warrant 1t. K
MANY of tie Dakotah Indians are formally
taking homesteads and settling themselves
down to live the life of civilization. Although
they are of pure Indian blood and cannot speak
aword of English, they have adopted our Co.'S
tune. g3.:..i.;:g i5.5f
The cotton merchants and brokers Of New
York have appointed a committee OF thlr-
teen receivers, exporters and brokers to report
at a fncure meeting plan of organization for
cotton exchange, embracing regulations to cor
rect abuses In the cotton trade OF that city.
An organization called the Union League,
and having for its object the annexation OF
Canada to the United States, it Is said, has Just
been started in the Dominion. Branches are
to be established In every town to agitate the
subject .l....
Chicago, the fastest city Of the fast West,
is increasing her debt with much greater rap
idity than she Is her population. In the last
three years 1t. has more than trlpied,' until
now it amounts to over seventeen millions OF
dollars. - s.-5a -
"a New Jersey paper reports that more
.dEprces have been granted by the chancellor
. OF that State since the war than in all the time
previously since the formation of the State,
aad It claims that not one of them has been
granted without good andlsuffcient cause.
!: Another Of the, early friends and founders
!: of Punch is tleadEMr. Evans, of the we'll
2known publishing firm Of Bradbury & Evans.
1.-THE mortality. in the London Punch Office OF
late years has been startling, and the survivors
must feel like men who have outliVed their
geensesration,soD gene 20 ,..ao
MAdvices from Havana to the 23d instant
state that Astatic cholera has appeared in that
CITY and on some of the gunboats, and Is rep
resented as raging violently In the interior.
It is also stated that the ravages of the small
pox continue un$bated. The presence Of these
epidemic diseases In Cuba admonishes us to
the utmost caution in our commercial inter-
course with the island.
rOf the speedy coming to this country Of
Christina Nilsson, the accomplished and popu'
lar prima donna, there is now no reasonable
cause of doubt. Max and Maurice Strakosch
are both interested in her engagement, and
they have appointed the evening OF Monday,
the 18th of next September, for her debut in
New York City. During her American engage
ment, she vii! sing in concert, in opera, and
In orator;o.
The large failure of gold and stock broker
IN New York on Thursday was on account OF
operations for young Edward B. Ketchum, he
who, some two or three years ago, was con-
vieted of frauds In connection with the failure
of the banking house of his fathers firm. The
broker James Boyd, it would appear, has been
carrying about S., 100000 in gold on contracts
said to have been made for the account oi
Ketchum. He had also lines lin all some
$4,000 shares) of leading stocks. Many settle
ments are said to have been made privately,
and his friends assert that his actual loss will
not exceed $4,000.
We begin to hear the comical side Of the
monster Beethoven festival in New York.
Some amusing things transpired behind the
scenes, which appear to be Infinitely more
Gsnny than those presented to the audience.
In the confusion. and general discord of the
..striking' singers, all the ''strlkers'' were
resticulating and talking In all the Ian
euaees of the continent Of Europe at once, ae-
peallng to everybody and anybody who appear
ed by any possibility to have any authority. Pa-
repa sent word from her dressing room to the
manager, the message being carried by her
agent that she would net sing. ''She no sing" :"