The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-30
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH so, 1870.
NEWS OF THE D4T.
Gold yesterday, ut New York, closed quiet

Gold yesterday, at New York, closed quiet
at liz.
The New York cotton market closed
heavy, but unchanged; sales 270o bales.
AT Liverpool, cotton closed quiet; sales
10000 bales.
An Ohio man wants, to bet on lady Con-
gressmcn within three years.
The New York Masons are to erect aR
asylum for aged Masons and orphans, TO cost
$500,OO0.
The female Anti-slavery Society of Phila-
delphia formally "disbanded" on Thursday,
after having existed for thirty-seven years.
General Sherman has written letter In
opposition to the bill before Congress for the
reduction of the United States army.
John Stuart Mill objects to the Educa-
tional bill, because it requires religion to be
taught to the minority at the expense Of all.
Over two hundred houses and twenty-five
bales of cotton were destroyed by recent fire
in the Town of Compt,h, near Nagpou, in the
Presidency of Bengal.
The negroes, formerly slaves, among the
Cherokees, Creek and Choctaws, claim to be
citizens of those tribes and to have set apart
for them their proportion Of the appropriation
annually accruing to those Indians, to be
devoted to educational and other purposes.
The New York Evening Post asks why not
make Alaska penal colony, and send con-
victs there from all the States, and says: ''The
new purchase is now worthless; it could be
made useful as penal colony. Convlcts sent
thithcr would have new career opened to
them; they would not be made worse, but bet
ter by the mode OF life they would lead there;
and they would cease to be q charge to the
community"
The New York papers are filed with glow
ing accounts Of the grand opening OF spring
fashions by the modistes of the metropolis
Frem morning till night Broadway was gayer
and more brilliant than ever; elegant equpaGes
blocked the approaches to the marts of fashion,
and bonnets and dresses were on exhibition IN
bewilderng variety and profusion. There is
nothing Of revolutionary nature either in the
styles or materials to chronicle.
With the confirmation OF Judge Bradley
the United States Supreme Bench is once
more full The following is q list OF the judges
with their ages and the date Of their appoint
ments: Salmon P. Chase, Ohio, age e., ap-
pointed 1864; Nathan Clifford, Maine, age &C,
appointed 1858; Samuel Nelson, New York, age
II, appointed 1916; David Davis, Illinois, age
IS, appointed 1862; Noah H. Swayne, Ohio, age
60. appointed 1862; Samuel F. Miller, Iowa,
age 81, appointed 1862; Stephen j. Field, Cali
tornia, age SO appointed 1868; VIM. Strong,
Pennsylvania age 6l, appointed 1870; Jos. P.
Bradley, New Jersey, age 81, appointed 1870.
The points of the debate in the United
States Senate, in executive session, upon the
grees, If the correspondents arc to be relied
on. Nr. Sumner, it is understood, in his speech
strongly opposed any attempt to annex either
the territory or the people of tropical climates.
He contended that the United States should
endeavor to concentrate their empire and
strength within the temperate zone, and be a
nation whose basal element is Anglo-Saxon,
and whose institutions shall be development
OF the natural tendency of its present people.
He advocated federation Of the West India
Islands under the protection of the United
States, when the people of those Islands shall
signify desire for such protection. He
charged the existence of corrupt motives on
the part of outsiders, who have interested
themselves in the treaty Senator schurz, it
is stated, will also speak against the treaty.
"A brief telegram from New Orleans an
nounces the death of Hon. Pierre Soule, aged
50 years. Mr. Soule was distinguished for inn
passioned orat0ry and an adventurous career.
He was born at Castillon, in the Pyrenees,
during the first consulate Of Napoleon, his
father having been q lieutenant general in the
republican armies Of France. In youth Pierre
Soule was destined for the church, but went
Into politics in early life, and was active in the
conspiracy against the BourbonS, which result
ed In Imprisonment. Escaping from confine-
ment he embarkedin journalism, went to Chilli.
and finally turned up in Baltimore, where he
arrived from Port an Prince, in September,
1926. In the same year he removed to New
Orleans, adopted the law as his profession,
rose to distinction by his talents and eloquencc,
and was sent to the United States Senate in
1s47 TO fill a vacancy. He was reelected to
the United States Senate in ls49, and was
prominent during .he political agitation pre-
ceding the late war. For some years past he
had been hopelessly insane.
The New York correspondent of the Bos-
ton Journal describes new invention for dis
placing steam by electricity, and says that
lathes, planing-machines and other mechani-
cal arrangements are driven by this power
To run an engine Of twenty-horse power by
this invention would require only space Of
three feet long, two feet wide, and two feet
high. The cost per day would be thirty-fve
cents. On steamship no coal would be re-
1uired. and the space now used for coal and
machinery could be used for cargo. The stub
born resistance of electricity to mechanical use
heretofore has, it is believed, been overcome
A continuous battery has been secured and
other difficulties removed, principally through
the coil of the magnet. If the invention works
as we'll on the large scale as 1t does on the ma
chlnery to which it is now applied, steamships
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