The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-23
NEWS oFrHE DAY.
In New York, yesterday, gold closed 8

NEWS OF THE DAY.
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In New York, yesterday, gold closed al
III.
ss<LCotton closed dull: at 2lgc. for uplands.
.;:5%TGAin Liverpool, yesterday, cotton closed
dull; uplauds l04d.; Orleans lotd.
General Longstreet, surveyor OF the port
OF New Orleans, is seriously Ill.
Queen Isabella has notified Louis Napoleon
that she has abdicated the throne of Spain In
favor Of the Prince Of Asturias, her boy.
The New York papers soy that the mana
gers of the Beethoven Festival will sustain
/ loss Of $40, 900 on the weeks performances.
Red Cloud and his band left New York
sufficiently civilized 10 each wear linen dus-
ter
III Is recorded, as remarkable fact, In In
diana, that one judge there has refused
digorce. .1r,. - ~eas-z 80 aa.:
The New York Tribune calls the anvil
chorus and artillery accompaniment at the
Beethoven Festival there, "the quintessence
of slam.bang."
The Archbishop of Canterbury, In q late
address, .discourages any counter movement
An the Church of England 10 the Gcumenieal
Council.
Sir Charles Mordaunt intends to appeal
from the decision of the Divorce Court to the
House of Lords, and thus obtain q hearing OF
hts suit against his wife.
Cancer, the disease ofwhich Jerome Napo-
leon Bonapsrte, Of Baltimore, died few days
since, Is the family disease: as it were, Of the
Bonapartes. Napoleon the First died of 1t, as
did also his father. =
"A French paper in New Orleans comes to
. us with this paragraph: '"Charles Dickens,
the great American ,ronsncer, died yesterday
of apoplexy. He was the Walter Scott of
America" ------..,-e. -.....s... -
1.-The Macon Journal learns that violent
Tornado passed over Randolph County, Ca, on
the. 18th instant, tearing away the fences.
trees and everything inits way-twisting of
the cotton plants and the corn close by the:
roots. But the worst effect of the storm was
the blowing down of.the cabin OF q family
named Applewhite, all Of whom were wound
ed, with the exception of little child, and
two of them, it. is feared, mortally. The path
OF the tornado was as distinctly marked as if
laid out by asurveyor. -, =.
There are two hundred piano forte manu-
,fSceurers in London, and they make 104, 600
pianos each year. The Loadon Figaro, In view
.ofthe fact that pianos are not exported thence
.toany, cities of the European Continent or to
America, wonders what becomes of these In
struments. It is really subject for wonder.
Pianos last a long while. They are seldom
destroyed; except in conffagrations, and it
would seem as1f there have already been con-
structed as many as would supply all the play
ers In the world. f.5...-..
.T-Aremarkable story has circulation in Eng
land In regard to the publication Of ''Lothair"
by the Messrs. Appleton, CT New York City.
N1s said that these gentlemen desired to.enter
into an arrangement with the Anglo-American
Telegraph Company for telegraphing the whole
OF "Lothair" to New York in forty eight hours,
evidently convinced that the ten. days start
which would thus be obtained over American
publishers would amply repay the cost of the
experiment; but the cable company declined,
their facilities not being sufficient.
Our governments, it appears. has minia-
ture war on hand. The announcement comesl
from Germany that in concert with Great Bri-
tain and the North German Confederation, We
ore TO make common cause against the Chi
nese pirates. The statement referred to speaks
somewhat grandllequently about "the fleets Of
the three nations and general plan Of opn-
Tarions," but it may, we presume, be taken
tad hiatt tba will
perceptible. increase in the war expenditures
ofthe countries engaged The Chinese Gov
ernnment ''is to be permitted, If 1t pleases," to
take part In the hostilities.
The London correspondent of the New
York World has Interviewed Mr. John Bright.
the leader of the woman suffrage movementin
England. Mr.. Bright's views Indicate how the
men and women who think with him in Eng
land regard the leaders of the woman suffrage
movement in American. Mr.. Bright said she
had no sympathy whatever, with the reformers
of America like Tllton, Stanton and Anthony,
who sought the suffrage for women in order that
with it they might overturn society and bring
about reign of free lovers, free divorce, and
the abolition Of the headship of men in the
family. Happily, In England, the agitation in
favor of woman suffrage had been kept wholly
Tree from such issues as these, and the persons
engaged in it regarded the doctrines preached
on the rostrums of woman's rights meetings
In America with horror and disgust
The petition Of Amos 7. Alderman, Of
Georgia, lately nominated for attorRey-sene-
rel in pace of Mr.. Hoar, written by himself,
sskln. for the removal OF his disabilities, re-