The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-03-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold at New York, yesterday, .closed a
l2s.
The New York cotton market was lower
at 23c; sales 1900 bales.
At Liverpool cotton was quiet: uplands
liz, Orleans llSd; sales 10000 bales. q
2Harper's Ferry is to be converted into
watering place, and q mammoth hotel is to bt
built there.
Hamlet was tall, blonde and attired il
chain armor, according to an authentic por
trait in Copenhagen.
"A Missourian who lost his wife by rail
road accident asks 100000 damages. The
company offer s2OOO
-Carlotta Pattiwill 60 to California in May
and in the fall she intends to make profes
sional visit TO South America.
The Richmond Whig fears the new Chi
nese laborers won't spend much money, they
not possessing the negroes love for circnses
New Orleans pickpockets send up a host
of India rubber balloons, and while the crowd
sazes heavenward, so through their pockets.
"A son of General Santa Anna is initiating
his father by getting up revolutions in Mexico,
and in imitation of his father, has got himself
defeated and in disgrace.
Mr.. Gulian C. verplanck, well known
author, politician and philanthropist, died at
his residence in New York last week, in the
eighty-fourth year of his age.
-Millard Fillmore, William G. Fargo and
other prominent citizens of Buffalo, have
signed protest against repeating the law for
the prevention of cruelty to animals.
The reason Beecher declined to receive
$40, 900 instead of $4,000 salary per annum
from Plymouth Church, was that his congrega-
tion, in the event Of accepting, would put
stop to his lectures, newspaper and novel
writing. ,,,,..,g ...- 81
The Havana Prenza and Diacio intimate
that II, the American government would send
commissioners there they are positive that
such commissioners would disprove the asser-
tions lately made by Quesada about the condi-
ton OF the rebellion and other matters, and
America would discard forever the question of
the recognition of belligerent right to the In
surgents. ..i..
--AWyoming jury, composed of equal num-
.bers OF men and women, has been locked up
for four nights and days in order to force an
agreement. A question of some interest Is
as to how the husbands of these women like
their being locked up with other men. The
thing may be fun for the male jurors, and, pos
.sibIy, the female ones, but it can't, be very
funny for The relatives Of the latter, and some
IRE talking of new causes for divorce.
The ink-erasive forgerles that have been
perpetrated In New York within few days
have been quite extensive, and it is rumored
that the successful forger has bagged and es-
caped with over q hundred thousand dollars.
The individuals and banks that have been Bit
ten are very reticent, however, and refuse to
give any particulars about their losses. There
really seems to be no end to the frauds upon
business men nowadays, each more ingeni-
ous than the last, but so dlssimilar that the
most careful and skilfui are entrapped before
they have even the suspicion of danger. !
in Florida there are many lakes which
have holes in the bottom and underground
communication, so that they will sometimes
shrink away to mere cuptul, leaving many
square miles of surface uncovered, and then
again fill up from below and spread out over
their former area. Some Of them have outlets
IN the ocean far from shore, bursting up per-
petual spring of fresh water in the very midst
of the briny saltness Of the sea. In times of
low water, during long, exhaustive dry sea-
son, men have gone underground in one of
these subterranean rivers, from lake TO lake, a
distance Of eight miles.
The women sec n to be in earnest with
their progressive ideas, as the following will
show Mrs. Stanton. Miss Anthony and Miss
Dickinson are lecturing to crowded audiences
all over the country, Caroline Hooper, colored,
is lecturing in South Carolina on ''The Work
Before U.s.. women have sat on grand jury
in Wyoming Territory; woman has been adj
mitted to the bar in Chicago; three others are
studying law and one medicine In Michigan;
women are successful practicng physicians in
almost every city in the country; the anniver-
sary of the National Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation is to be held in New York on the llth
of May.
The Macon (Ga.) Journal and Messenger
says that, with one exception. there is not a
railroad in Georgia that has been in actual op-
Grafton throughout its whole line for three
years past, that has not earned and paid out to
its stockholders during that time dividend
on an average, of eight per cent. Last year
the dividends OF all the Georgia roads, with
the exception above referred TO, ranged from
eight to ten per cent, and to-day their stock
is held at from s93 to sl2O share The West
ern and Atlantic Railroad, extending from At
lanta to Chattanooga, the property of the
State, has been paying into the Georgia treas
ury monthly, for the past two years up to last
October, from s25, 900 to 100000.
The events in the cotton trade have been
unusually important during the past week.
The New York, Express says: "The bears in
the Liverpool market became frightened, not
wthstanding the increased arrival of Ameri-
can cotton and the large amount afoat for
England. and commenced to cover their short
contracts on a large scale. This started the
Liverpool market on the upward turn, and our