The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-02
NEWS OF TIE D4Y.

Cold closed in New York yesterday al lag
Cotton was dull and heavy; uplands 22t;
Orleans % cents; sales HOO bales.
In Liverpool cotton was steady; upanGs
losal0ld; Orleans l0;alld; sales 10000 bales.
The Democratic majority at the recent
judicial election in New York State will reach
sc, 600. That will do for O quiet contest.
Wallace, the South Carolina Congressman,
who was smuggled into his seat under peculiar
circumstances, celebrated the unparalleled
outrage, by giving the Committee on Elections
: q champagne supper on Saturday night.
1t appears from recent investigations that
the Southern Methodist Church is rapidly
losing its colored membership, there being but
about nineteen thousand members this year,
aga nst thirtytwo thousand last year.
One hundred and twenty Swiss emigrants,
rec ,ntly arrived at New York, passed through
Lyachburg, Va, a few days ago en- route for
Water Valley, Mississippi, where they propose
to locate.
Actual famine exists among the poorer
classes in the Counties of Appomattox, Prince
Edward and Nottoway, Va, which were ruth
lessly sacked by Grants army in 1865, from
the effects of which even the richest citizens
/ have never recovered:
If the House bill making civil and military
! positions incompatible passes the Senate,
Generals Sickles, Parker, Porter, babcock,
Dent and Badeau will be obliged to decide
.straightway which of these branches of service
they will discard.
Washington correspondents say the noto-
rious Whittemore threatens when he gets
seat again in the House to make war upon
many of the members who were prominent in
his expulsion. He says that he can prove that
some of these gentleman are as bad as he ever
was. Whoever doubted it?
"A "Eion Queen" at the Bowery Theatre,
New York, while performing with couple
of puma lions, on Saturday night, was attack
eddy one of them and terribly bitten on the
throat, shoulder and arm. She was rescued
from the cage by the stage attendants, who
beat the enraged ioness of With iron bars.
Many of the audience tainted during the eX-
element.
The president Of the National Labor
Union" las issued call for session of this as
sociation to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, on
August 9TH. Delegates will be present from
all trade unions cooperative associations, and
labor or 5an:zations Of every kind Interua-
t:onal o. national organizations are entitled
each to three representatives, State organiza-
tons TO two, and. trade unions and all other
unions to one. The call invites to member
ship of the labor union Of every person who
lives by mechanical or intellectual labor.
TIE State department has received official
adyices that the long-pending naturalization
treaty between England and the United States
has at last been signed by the two govern
ments, and will soon be laid before the Sen
ate fer ratification. By this the British Gov
ernEent recognizes the citizenship Of an
adopted citizen Of the United States the same
as citizen born on the soil, and thus yields
the doctrine maintained for so many years
that no citizen of Great Britain can transfer
his allegiance. Should an occasion arise, it
will have an important bearing on all future
arrests of citizens of the United States on Bri-
tish soil charged with Fenianism, and may yet
apply to those now in prison.
old Jesse Grant, the father OF the admins
tration and the postmaster at Covinston, KY,
who is also father-in-law of one Kramer, who
is now United States Consul to Leipsic, came
oa to Washington some three months ago to
effect the advancement Of the latter. He re-
. porteG bis Intellectual effort in this wise: 81
told sLysses that he must appoint Kramer to
one of them seventy-hvc hundred dollar mis-
Sims, but 'Lysses he told me he didn't like to
do it,. because the papers made so much talk
about his 'pinting his relations to Office. Then
Iuss and tells Lysses," said the venerable
PM, "Ive got about $4,000 salted down,
which expect to leave behind me, and if you
don't give Kramer one Of them seventy.five
hundred dollar missions, I'll leave the whole
of to Kramers wife, and won't leave you
any."
In London and New York, both, special ar
raugements are being secured for the adVan-
tage ofthe masses of working people in going
to and from their employments morning anu
evening. Lately the first two miles and half
ola street railway was opened in London, be-
tween Whitechapel and Bow Churches, Great.
ing quite sensation. According to the char
ter of the company workmen are to be con-
veyed at the fare of one penny on particular
Journeys, morning and evening, and it was of
this class of passengers that the first load ''i.S
composed. At other times the fare is two
pennies. In New York the commissioners
have Just renewed the leases Of the Union
Ferry Company, which controls all the prom!-
neat ferries to Brooklyn, at the nominal sum
OF one dollar instead of fifty thousand dollars