The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Gold closed in New York, yesterday, at
1s4al3a.
e Cotton was dull and heavy; middling up
lands 2lgc.; sales 1s5 bales.
in Liverpool cotton closed quiet and STEADY;
uplands lO5d, Orleans lO!alld; sales 10000
bales. r.
George Augustus Sala is said, BY the New
York World, to 'sexempfy his Initials In a
Book on England in the Nineteenth Century.
The dreadful Roumania massacre has final
" tapered down to reported quarrel among
some school boys, involving the breaking OF
some window glass.
During the late war the aggregate deaths
from all causes averaged one out OF every nine
officers, one out Of every eight and mali
white soldiers, and one out Of every i've and
half colored soldiers:
.-On May oath there was gathering of 45Oo
.Sunday-school children at Jackson, Tennessee,
all the schools in the nelghborhood joining in
a celebration. jefferson Davis, Jacob Thomp-
son and Bishop Quintard made addresses.
~ The London Times has lost its old afec-
Sstion for Louis Napoleon; and publishes In full
Victor Hugo's famous letter against the Pie
.3lscite, which winds up with the cool proposal
to transfer the Emperor to Vincennes as
prisoner of State.
"A bill has been introduced into Congress
to provide for survey to determine The boun-
daries of Arizona Territory, rendered necessa-
.,ry by encroachments OF the Mormons and the
want of knowledge as to where the new silver
mines belong.
Recommendations of friends or Of high
officials for the removal Of political disabilities
will not be respected by the Reconstruction
Committee. A personal petition, with proper
: submission, will alone be considered, and that
upon It's merits.
The colored cooks and chambermaids in
; ,,r,-town and aristocratc families of New York,
i have been arrested for series of robberies, by
!; which s5O,O0O worth Of diamonds and dresses
have been Systematically bagged The Dinahs
.Will go to States prison.
When the sum fixed upon for the salary Of
the new Episcopal Bishop Of New Hampshire
: was announced, a great white rooster flew
= upon the fence around the church In which the
:. convention was sitting, and gave q lusty and
6 vigorous crow. This was considered by The
people inside as good omen.
: The Marseillaise, of Paris, states that us
former editors, Rochefort and Grousset, now
imprisoned in sainte Pelagie, have been notified
by the warden, that unless the articles signed
.ssDanserville" and sNo. 444" do not cease to
appear In their paper, they will be put in soil
-tary confinement.
:, The Massachusetts, doctors held a pow-wow
: In Boston last week oversa very good dinner
without restrictions as to diet. In the course
of the evening the outgivinss were decidedly
Against 'sover-medcation," and 1t was pro-
claimed that mercury had lost Its once potent
7 sceptre.:n Dr. Wellington, of Cambridge, de-
J clared that decentralization is the besetting
sin of the profession" DR.. Holmes read
. poem, in two cantos, full Of hits at profes-
: sional follies.
" The first of two free baths in New York
); CITY was launched on Thursday last. The bath
?! - resembles huge box, with platform about
eight feet wide surrounding and overhanging
the upper edge. Under this platform are eight
), pontoons, four on each side, each of which Is
2tsixteen feet long and six feet wide, for sup
!, porting the weight of the craft In the water
The depth to which the bath is sunk is regu-
lated by means of patent valve in each pom
toon, by means of which a sufficient weight OF
water may be admitted to the pontoons to sink
the bath to such depth as will best accommo-
date the bathers The bath is ninety feet
~, faat fho
forty feet by ninety in the inside. The sides
. are of solid planking down to the waters
. edge, and below that they are formed
of stout stats to allow FREQ ingress
and egress of the water. Over the
platform surrounding the edge is to be
erected structure completely inclosing the
bath, and containing about eighty dressing
rooms, each five by four and q half feet, open
ing toward the centre Of the bath, and with
door in each connecting with passage run
ming round the whole. Over the centre Of
the south side Of the bath this structure will
be two stories high, forming the entrance to
the bath, and aGordlng apartments for the
keeper in the second story twenty -four feet
long by twelve wide. The baths will be ready
for use within month. The other bath is
destined for the north side Of the city. The
building of the baths was commenced about
nine days ago. They will cost about s2O,OOO
Greeley, who. has been sojournng for q
short time in the Bahamas, writes column Of
his ''ideas" to the Tribune upon matters and
Ehings in that health-glvlns section Of the
West Indies. s,After calculating and succlnct-
ly describing the geographical and agricultu-
raj features OF the Bahamas, he touches upon
the 'Tdol" which for years has been the priE-